Open Heart

Ami Shinfeld was a young boy from an ultra-Orthodox family in Bnei Brak who managed to fulfill his dream and become a top cardiac surgeon at Sheba Hospital. A few years ago, when the town of Sderot came under missile fire, Dr. Shinfeld decided to help its residents. Since then, he’s volunteered as a community […] >>

The Film Class

Filmmaker Uri Rosenwaks arrives to Rahat, a Bedouin town down in Israel’s Negev Dssert, to teach a group of Black Bedouin women a class in filmmaking. Rahat, partially populated by Black Bedouins who were originally brought to the Negev as slaves, is afflicted with pessimism, unemployment, poverty and violence. Kidnapped in Africa by Arab slave […] >>

Checkpoint

The West Bank and Gaza Strip have been under Israeli military authority since 1967, forcing over three million Palestinians to live under Israeli occupation. When traveling from one village or city to another to go to work, visit relatives, or seek medical care, they must pass through Israeli checkpoints. These checkpoints, acting as the first […] >>

Onion Rings

Ben is a bar owner and Moran is the waitress. They have a non-binding affair. A quarrel between the two leads them to different places, in which they separately go through a night neither of them will soon forget. They meet the day after, but everything is forever changed. >>

Near Far (Qorbeh Ghorbe)

Near Far is a six-part documentary series focusing on the Y and X generations of the 1948 Palestinians. We follow seven charismatic and opinionated young people, who are debating about where to live: should they stay where they grew up, move to a mixed city or one with a Jewish majority, or return home? The […] >>

Eva

After making an impossible decision to support the man she loves, Eva, a Yugoslavian war hero and human rights activist, is forced to desert her only daughter Tiana when she is sentenced to time in the infamous women’s prison “Goli Otok.” Deserted by her mother, Tiana grew up on the rough streets. After being released […] >>

Nissim

Hadassah and Arye Cohen are a couple of immigrants from post-war Europe. Arye, a police officer in his position, came to the help of his friends on a stormy night, saving babies from a maternity home whose roof had collapsed. Arye and Hadassah, childless, are asked to look after a baby of Yemeni origin named […] >>

Exile

In his journeys to save Yiddish libraries and cultural treasures from destruction, Mandy Kahan visits the homes of the last Yiddish speakers, and gives their favorite books a home in the center he established at the central bus station in Tel Aviv. The film will tell the story of a dying culture through the hopeless […] >>

Issac

The film was produced in the framework of the “Souvenirs” program – a film lab for Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Film follows Isaac, a third generation to 144-year-old family that runs a  tahini mill. Every night at 3 AM, Isaac gets up to prepare the tahini for the […] >>

Necro-Men

Two con-artists, a Haredi Jew and a Muslim, perform (false) exorcisms and rituals for naive God-fearing people, until one day they are confronted by a real live Dybbuk that exposes their most private sins. >>

Six Million and One

Past present and future mix in this eloquent and intense portrait of documentary filmmaker David Fisher and his siblings, as they retrace the footsteps of their late father—a Holocaust survivor who was interned in Gusen and Gunskirchen, Austria.  David’s journey takes him to the U.S., where he meets American WWII veterans who participated in the […] >>

Crisis

From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva Yoav and Rommy are passed the “honeymoon” phase of their relationship. They are both unemployed and stuck together in a one-bedroom apartment. To make matters worse, Rommy’s period is late. >>

Tantura

When the State of Israel was established in 1948, war broke out and hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated in its aftermath. Israelis know this as the War of Independence while Palestinians call it “Al Nakba” (the Catastrophe). This is a story about one such village: Tantura. The film examines why the Nakba is taboo […] >>

No Tears In Summer

Grandmother Nadia is a strict Russian woman who refuses to accept the fact that her grand-daughter suffers from mental illness. She decides to take the matter into her own hands and tries to cure her the only way she knows how, the Soviet way. >>

Stagnant Water

Dvora is a 17-year-old girl who refuses to leave her job at the fish farm on her Kibbutz, even though she promised to return to school. Her last day at work intensifies her fear of life outside the water. >>