After Counting All Votes

A young filmmaker is trying to make choices about his future while his country is in turmoil. As the political climate grows more volatile and right-wing activism gains traction, he questions his future in a country headed in a dangerous direction. Armed with a camera, he is concerned that he is documenting the end of […] >>

Children of Peace

Arabs and Jews have lived in ongoing conflict for over a century. A group of dreamers decided to challenge everything they know about their nationalities and histories and founded a village in 1970s Israel as a social experiment. The film follows the many children who were brought up in this unique environment. In this bold […] >>

Desert Tested

The Susita is well known: for many years it was considered a groundbreaking Israeli invention in the world of industry that had put Israel on the map. Its fiberglass shell, made it an international vehicle. The young State of Israel was convinced it had started a revolution. The Golden Age of the first Israeli automobile […] >>

The Champagne Spy

Paris 1962. Oded is 12 years old when his father reveals to him he’s a secret agent for the Israeli Mossad and makes him swear to secrecy because his life depends on it. When his father leaves on his mission to Cairo assuming the identity of Wolfgang Lotz – a German millionaire, ex Nazi, playboy […] >>

A Safe Place

Angelo is a 12-year-old Filipino boy who studies at “Hayarden,” a school for refugee and immigrant children in south Tel Aviv. While fellow foreign and immigrant workers and families are being expulsed from his neighborhood, his class is chosen to participate in a unique cinematic project. They are asked to create a short drama film […] >>

Counting Sheep

Keren Gueller’s work, Counting Sheep, corresponds with one of Israeli children’s constitutive albums, Ha’Keves Ha’shisha Asar(The 16th Sheep). The work alluds to the gap between the idyllic superficial picture we have of childhood and the cracks that are formed within the image and reveal a reality that is usually censored and deemed unfit for children’s […] >>

A Visit to the Parents

My small and once close-knit has fallen apart. My father became religious, my mother converted to Christianity, my sister married a non-Jewish man and now my father hates her and won’t have anything to do with her or her daughters; I escaped all this and fled to Israel. After my divorce, I decided to return […] >>

Stefan Braun

More than 16 years have passed since furrier Stefan Braun passed away, but for Eliezer Rath, his lover and life-partner for 39 years, Stefan’s heart is still beating. Day in and day out he sits in Stefan’s room which hasn’t been touched since Stefan passed away, recording himself talking to him. Eliezer has recorded hundreds […] >>

On This Happy Note

Anat Gov, one of the most influential playwrights in Israeli theatre, is preparing for her death. She asks Arik Kneller, an artists’ agent, to be the executor of her will. Arik struggles to accept the humor and serenity with which she faces her upcoming end. Anat, consciously accepting her nearing end, wishes to leave a […] >>

The Guardians of Remembrance

The Holocaust of the Jews in the former Soviet Union has remained a mystery even many decades after the war has ended. Due to ideological and political reasons, the Soviet regime did not recognize the unique and tragic nature of the extermination of Jews by the Nazis. It was only after the dismantling of the […] >>

The Green Line

Judith Kahana grew up on the Samaria hills. She was considered a classic “Hill Top” girl: she participated in the resistance movement against the evacuation of Gush Katif, took part in the settlement efforts and was part of a movement of young people, for whom this land was sacred and priceless. But as she matured, […] >>

Quality Time

A stoner teenager before army recruit and his ex-military career father are forced to stay together alone for the first time when the mother goes on vacation. The tension between them reaches an explosion – but not the kind they expected >>

Longing For Tomorrow

Following the fall of the Soviet Union, Jewish Russian immigrants began arriving to Israel daily by the hundreds.  Alice Neiman arrived in Israel on October 26th, 1990, at the age of twenty with 750 others seeking a new life. A decade later, she  examines to what extent the hopes and fears of some of those […] >>

Elevation

From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to Lovesick on Nana Street – 1995. The Sabbath is a few hours away. Victor, a confirmed ultra-Orthodox Jew, is stuck in cosmopolitan Tel Aviv after missing the last bus home. Seeking to find his way out, he encounters a different everyday reality that evokes […] >>

Family Matters

The film tells the story of how, 30 years ago, the divorce of a woman who went on to become a renowned author, and her husband, an esteemed rabbi, shook the religious city of Bnei Braq and affected the lives of their seven children. It follows a family divided between the two conflicting worlds of the […] >>