Mitapolis – or Romy, Dasi and Abigail’s Great Adventure

Romy, along with her two younger sisters, embarks on a maritime quest aboard a floating bed. While looking for a treasure, they come across different components of their house: the living room has turned into a siren-filled lagoon, and their dad into a giant. >>

How to be Alone

Listen to me: there is life without love. Loneliness is the soul’s forgotten desire. You don’t need anyone. Don’t search, don’t hope, don’t dream; and only then, perhaps, you too will learn how to be alone.” Based on Screenplay adapted from the short story” How To Be Alone”  by Orna Coussin. >>

Noise

Mira (60) takes her daughter Or to see a therapist. Or blames herself that she didn’t scream loud enough for help when the assault happened at the public bathroom at the beach. Instead of going to the meeting Or sits at the side of a swimming pool near the therapist building. At the middle of […] >>

Father’s Son

Yotam Regev, a teenage boy and the son of the Mayor, is waiting alone in a room at the local police station. A youth interrogator enters and Yotam starts describing the incidents leading to his arrest, all revolving around his attempt to court a girl, following his father’s somewhat militant teachings. When Yotam’s father abruptly […] >>

Tattoos of Tomorrow

In his interpretation to Ben Marcus’ story, director Nir Bergman brings a disturbing apocalyptic world in which the individual no longer exits. This description of what our world might look like in the near future, deals with the authorities’ control, with the invisible marginalized people in a society, and the suppression of the ‘other’. This […] >>

In My Room

Hidden among the viral videos of YouTube are the most private teenage diaries, which slowly and gently follow them growing up. For years, the camera is pointed towards them allowing us to be with them during their most fragile, painful, confusing and amusing phases of growing up, trying to become the person they dream of […] >>

Fadia

In the name of FAMILY HONOR, the conservative al-Hawi family buries their daughter, Fadia, alive. The neighboring liberal Snour family rescues and hides her in their home, where she attempts to make sense of her life after the crime. A suspenseful dramatic thriller that explores the attitudes toward women, the psychology behind the heinous act […] >>

Week 23

For the first time, director Ohad Milstein points his camera at his own home. His partner Rahel, the daughter of a Swiss bishop, is pregnant with identical twins. In her 23rd week, she learns that one of the fetuses died in utero. Doctors say that in those rare cases when the other fetus doesn’t die […] >>

Mr. Universe

Ilan is a drunk taxi driver On Valentine’s Day he decides to surprise his former lover with a bouquet of flowers but this time his lover will surprises him. >>

Honorable Men

The film tells the story of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s unexpected rise to power and his dramatic fall from grace, from the highest office in the land to Ward 10 at Maasiyahu Prison. Set as a political thriller, it follows the incredible events that elevated him to power and set the stage for […] >>

Gila and Baruch

My grandparents, Gila (84) and Baruch (95) lived and worked together for 65 years. Although Baruch suffers from Dementia, Gila lets him go to their architects office every morning. While Baruch sits in the office coloring in children’s coloring books, Gila experiences the process of mental separation from her partner and the emotional turmoil that […] >>

Capsula

Alice is a young woman dealing with a mysterious chronic pain disease and isolating herself in her deceased grandmother’s apartment. On the day that a piano tuner arrives to fix the old piano in the house, she embarks on a journey between reality and fiction in the different spaces of the apartment to find peace […] >>

My Terrorist

This is the story of a girl who dreamt of being an officer in the IDF, who was a great patriot and who was shot and wounded in a 1978 terrorist attack on an El Al flight crew in London. Now a grown woman with daughters of her own, this mother does not allow them […] >>

From Now to Now

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: The well-known saying that “when the canons roar, the muses should be silent” should be put differently. When the situation is really bad, the muses should take shelter. The true muses will know when to be quiet and about what. >>

Tongue Behind Teeth

In 1993 Israel, 15-year-old Bukharan immigrant Natasha spends her days selling balloons on the beach. Determined to break free from her socio-economic status and patriarchal family, she finds herself drawn to her co-worker Arthur, a 21-year-old Russian immigrant. Natasha sees Arthur as her ticket to a higher status in Israeli society. However, as the night […] >>