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Sabrine, 32, hides her sexual identity from her mother, Souad. In the neighborhood hair salon, a casual conversation with a customer reveals her mother’s homophobic views, leaving Sabrine facing the painful possibility that this gap between them may be impossible to bridge >>

No Heroes

In an ongoing war, Dede and the artillery soldiers find themselves in the midst of “Harvot Barzel” deep in a dugout, surrounded by hundreds of shells and constantly on edge. On one hand, Dede understands the importance of his role in protecting the combat forces, but on the other, he fears the moment when they’ll […] >>

My Lover, the Clock Thief

It all started with a watch, or more precisely, with over 106 rare European timepieces. One piece alone, made especially for ill-fated French queen Marie Antoinette, was valued at a whopping $30 million. On a quiet Friday evening in 1983, the collection disappeared from Jerusalem’s Museum of Islamic Art. It wasn’t seen again for a […] >>

Family Matters

Two men, one woman and a baby constitute the formula for the alternative family documented in this film. Dafna, a single straight musician, is fed up with waiting for her prince charming. Her solution: teaming up with Itamar, a homosexual lawyer and actor, in order to have a baby. The third side of this dramatic […] >>

Cinema Sabaya

Nine women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, a young film director, who teaches them how to document their lives. With each raw homemade footage shot by the women and shared with the others, the group dynamic forces them to challenge their views and beliefs as they get to […] >>

WhatsApp, Garin Gilboa?

With the passage of over 50 years, the director chooses to look back at his days in the “Garin Gilboa”, a religious Nahal military platoon where he did his military service after the Six Day War. Towards the age of 70, his friends from the “Garin” opened a WhatsApp group and renewed the ties between […] >>

Lost Angeles – Musical Documentary

In the past 30 years, Yosef Hurriye has worked in the chaotic watchmaker’s shop he inherited from his father. Yosef was the town genius, but his hometown was no place for genius children; Today he is 60, with mounting debts and looming local elections he decides it’s time. Against all odds he decides to run […] >>

1 Out of Three

Ricki divorced her husband three years ago. Together with her daughter Noor, she moved in with her elder brother Yakir and his partner Ran. That temporary living arrangement became an especially alternative family when Ricki, her brother and his partner decide to have a child together and become a parenting trio. They face many challenges […] >>

10% – What Makes a Hero?

What makes a hero? What is heroism? Against all odds, what compels someone to maintain his/her integrity, go against the grain and fight for what is just? In this documentary, director Yoav Shamir sets out on an entertaining and insightful international travelogue, exploring the notion of heroism. In a journey spanning three years, Yoav travels […] >>

Holiday Flowers

After losing their former business, Gila and Motti resort to selling flowers and strawberries on the roadside to make a living. Motti is a 51-year-old man of honor with a checkered past and Gila is 39-year-old fiery red head divorcee with two kids. She is neurotic, sarcastic, a workaholic and toothless. The couple hopes to […] >>

On Parole

Tysir is 15 years-old and is released from prison on parole. The only one waiting for him is Yonatan, a social worker from the Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority. Yonatan tries to help Tysir overcome the sad statistics that say that 3 out of 4 teens end up back in prison. The deal, which seems attractive behind […] >>

Medical Autobiography

From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva As the world contends with the Covid-19 pandemic, a young man suffers a cardiac-arrest-like episode that no medical test seems to be able to explain. A tongue-in-cheek investigation into his own medical history helps him interpret the scientific language and rekindle his faith in the modern […] >>

The Interrogation

In 1946, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, the longest serving commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, is awaiting trial in a Polish prison. Albert, a young and successful Polish investigation judge, is appointed to interrogate Höss and get a perfect confession out of him. The encounter between the two men will unveil the frightening routine and banalization […] >>

On The Way Back

Elyasaf Kowner’s work, On The Way Back, deals with one of the central fears and experiences of childhood- those getting lost. Kowner constructs the work alphabetically. Alphabet is a system that introduces the child into language. On the other hand, it enables and teaches him or her to orientate in the world. Yet, on the […] >>

Orphans of the Revolution

“A family’s story is the starting point for a discussion of the moral and political ideas (and clichés) that shook Europe and the Middle East throughout the 20th Century and still reverberate today. The story begins in the 1930s in the Warsaw Pawiak Prison where Igal Bursztyn’s mother was incarcerated for illegal Communist activities. It […] >>