The Return of A Star

Israel Bar-On, a past winner of the Israeli version of “American Idol”, sets out on a journey back to the music industry and the limelight. >>

The Milky Way

Tala (33) is a quirky musician and a newly single mother. To support her baby daughter, she is forced to take a job at the Milky Way, a repository for mother’s milk where women can pump and sell their breast milk. It’s an awkward set up, but everything could work out fine if only Tala […] >>

Menelik – Black Jewish Prince

Gadi Abaje is a 23-year-old Ethiopian immigrant, whose Christian mother was forced to stay in Ethiopia. He lives on the margins of Israeli society – in Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station, supporting himself by petty thefts, and has a dream of turning the bus station’s P.A. system into a radio station that will serve as both […] >>

Noise

This seemingly innocent bittersweet comedy tells the story of a man who suffers from hyper-acoustic sensitivity. His life in Tel Aviv, one of the noisiest urban locations on earth, becomes a living hell. In light of his revelation that according to science noise can kill en masse and that Nazis were secretly developing mass-destruction acoustic […] >>

A Natural Disaster

Based on a story by Lydia Davis, the film depicts a surreal symbolic deconstruction of the society through the eyes of a little girl. This short film is a part of a new cultural venture called ‘StoryVid’, combining a short story reading with visual videography. >>

Ancient Winds – Moroccan Chronicle

A new angle on the inner conflicts that plagued the Moroccan Jews in Israel throughout their efforts to assimilate, “Ancient Winds – Moroccan Chronicle” explores the historical identity of Moroccan Jews with an emphasis on questions of belonging, denial and animosity. Told through six fascinating characters from the second generation of immigrants, they tell the […] >>

The Soldier’s Opinion

Over the span of fifty years, the Israeli military censorship secretly copied soldiers’ personal letters, extracting their views on the most contentious issues facing Israeli society. The findings were presented to leaders in a top-secret report identified as “The Soldier’s Opinion.” >>

The Garden

From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to Drifting – 1983. Robie, a gay film director, is asked by the Gay Association to direct a vampire musical in Independence Park (an old cruising site in Tel Aviv). When betrayal and lust on the set takes over, Robie’s attempt to direct the musical […] >>

Pink Lady

In an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, Bati has a seemingly perfect life. She is happily married to Lazer and the young couple have three children. But their world starts to crumble when Lazer is blackmailed and Bati discovers his secret affair with his male study partner. Desperate to protect her family and keep the […] >>

The Waterfront

In the sweltering heat of northern Israel’s Beit Shean Valley, a group of young activists leads a protest with a simple goal: demanding kibbutz Nir David to allow access to the river that flows through the kibbutz, as the law permits, but its members deny. The director of The Waterfront joins them as their protest […] >>

Dirty Business

Short documentary “Dirty Business” follows the traditional coal industry scattered around Israel and the West Bank, and sheds light on economic relations between two sides, exploring distorted processes and situations in which people are caught up. >>

Messiah

Shalom is a lost and lonely soul. He spends his nights collecting empty bottles. One night, Tikva, a street girl gets into his car, and from that moment Shalom’s world is turned upside down. A complex father-and-daughter-like relationship develops between the two. >>

Yemima’s Journey

Yamima, an elderly woman, sets on a journey from one side of her town, Beit Shehan, to the other. To visit her ill husband and feed him with her cooking. Along the journey that takes a whole day she makes peace with the nearing parting with her husband and forgives him for abandoning her. >>

The Woman in White

Who was Tamar Golan, and why does she not appear in the history books? Was she a Mossad agent, or the lover of an Egyptian general or an African ruler? How did she influence the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt? The woman who dressed in white and pulled the strings behind the scenes of […] >>

A Waste of Space

Osher, Michelle, and Eitan were taken out of their homes as children and transferred to foster families. Their biological families are dysfunctional and absent. The foster families are supportive and stable, but this guardianship ends at age 18. The film follows the three over the last year of foster care and the first year of […] >>