Backwards

On the morning of his daughter’s birthday, Natan (73) decides to throw a big party. He wakes Hagar (69) and expects her to get up and help organize. They start the morning organizing the house for a party, hanging balloons and baking a cake. When hagar can’t find any strawberries for the cake, Natan volunteers […] >>

Muranow

Beneath the Muranow neighbourhood in Warsaw lay the ruins of houses once teeming with Jewish life and culture. While Muranow lives in the present, it seems that its buried past is swarming beneath. >>

After Mondrian Kandinsky & Klee

Ori Drumer’s three films, After Mondrian, After Kandinsky and After Klee present adaptations of three abstract artworks: Transverse Line (1923) by Wassily Kandinsky, Fugue in Red (1921) by Paul Klee, and Composition in Lines (1917) by Piet Mondrian. Drumer breathes motion into these paintings using 3D animation. Already in the original work, the painters attempted […] >>

Uri Avnery: A Warrior for Peace

This biography of veteran peace activist Uri Avneri follows both his personal and political life in a detailed account combining new, revealing interviews with original archival footage. At 79, Uri Avneri is still a complex, respected figure of the Israeli radical left who is a lifetime proponent of Israeli-Palestianian peace.He is a controversial figure who […] >>

Fata Morgana

A couple drives in the desert in a reality show, while filming themselves with head cameras. A Fata Morgana (mirage) on the road causes an accident. To avoid consequences, they hide the evidence and re-shoot everything the footage. But like the mirage they saw, nothing is as it seems. >>

Women of Freedom

Women of Freedom follows the stories of women who were murdered in the name of ‘honor killing,’ women whose lives are under threat, women who survived murder attempts, even that of a killer expressing remorse. The documentary tries to unravel the social and political circumstances that have led to this custom. The murder of a […] >>

A Place To Be

Hybrid film, combining both fiction and documentary. The story of three good friends, homelessness, from the suburbs of Israel, that decided to go to a trip to The big city Tel-Aviv in order to fulfill their dreams. >>

The Raven – Ze’ev Jabotinsky

Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky? Most people don’t know much about him. Most people know he was the father of Herut movement, a revisionist. And who really knows what revisionism really means. A few people know that he translated Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee; even fewer read his historical novel, Samson. The Raven tries to fathom Jabotinsky’s deceptive […] >>

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 […] >>

Under a Blue Sun

When Bashir, a 75-year-old artist, watches the film Rambo III, he sees much more than Sylvester Stallone fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan. In the mute and grainy desert background, Bashir sees the Negev Desert in the south of Israel and a document of his dispossessed tribal land. In the 80s, he was hired to […] >>

The Man in the Wall

One night, one apartment and one mystery. A psychological drama set entirely during one night in one apartment in Tel Aviv. The apartment belongs to young couple Shir and Rami. Shir is woken up one evening by the doorbell. An angry neighbor hands over the dog Rami had taken out earlier in the evening. Rami […] >>

I am Bialik

The following story of Aviv Talmor, a frustrated poet and literature teacher from Tel Aviv, is true…mostly. Aviv is informed that his father whom he had never known, has died, bequeathing him one Israeli lira (less than one penny). Aviv embarks upon a legal battle over his inheritance as part of his brave and painful […] >>

Blend

Jewish Settlers, with the help of American Christian Evangelicals, are trying to appropriate lands in the West Bank through vine roots to fulfill an old Biblical prophecy. A blend of wine, boycott, and conquest in a complex terroir. >>

Till Life Do Us Part

Rona and Amnon (30), young parents, are trying to break through their economic and social status with an improvised business for cooking and distributing lunch to the elderly in the area. The daily encounter with the sights of the old age and her elderly clientele, brings Rona together with unfamiliar and repressed places within her, […] >>

Sila

In the heart of a bustling intersection, a Palestinian girl named Sila finds herself begging within the borders of Israel to support her family. There, she encounters Yusuf, whose presence threatens her livelihood. Despite her attempts to drive him away, an unexpected bond forms between them, rooted in their shared struggles. >>