Where Is Anne Frank

A year from today, Kitty, the imaginary friend that Anne Frank wrote to in her famous diary, comes to life in Amsterdam, in the Anne Frank house – once the Secret Annex. Unaware that 75 years have gone by, Kitty is convinced that if she is alive, then Anne must be alive too. WHERE IS ANNE […] >>

Savoy

Kochava Levi, a 31-year-old housewife of Yemeni descent, was taken hostage during an attack on the Savoy hotel in Tel Aviv (March 1975). Over the course of one night, she transformed herself into a fearless heroine. However, by dawn, she was left with nothing but shame. >>

Spotting Yossi

Thirteen years after his death, the great actor Yossi Banai comes to life for one final encore, with a cinematic memoir led by his own deep iconic voice. Pieced together from numerous archival sources – films, plays, radio, songs, and comedy shows – Banai directs the spotlight on to his own image. >>

The Bunker

Pinchas Cohen-Gan is an Israeli artist of Moroccan descent and extensive Western education who chose to live in Israel “because here I am a refugee only once and not twice.” In order to examine his identity and position in Israel as an oriental immigrant, Cohen-Gan plans a journey to Germany and an installation of his […] >>

Black Gold: The Story of Israeli Hip Hop

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Abu Salie

Twenty years after shooting the film Souvenirs, Shahar lives in Amsterdam, raising two Dutch-Yemeni children, just like the grandchildren his late father had longed for. He runs the best falafel food truck in town, employing refugees from all over the world. His son Salie, is a 14-year-old adolescent with a sharp tongue and plenty of […] >>

Ruth

The film takes place during the days of the Israeli withdrawal from the settlements in the Gaza strip, when the residents of the Katif Settlements were uniting to fight for their existence. Ruth, a teenager from one of the settlements, is also searching for excitement. When Ruth meets Erez, a photojournalist sent to cover the […] >>

Poems About Myself

A visual cinematic tribute to the poems of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. “Wonderfull and hard are the days of my life…” From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>

Esther

Esther Ofarim was once the voice of Israel. Now 85, she lives a quiet life in Hamburg, far from the Middle East. After achieving global stardom, her move to Germany in the 1960s brought European acclaim but growing rejection in Israel, rendering her both iconic and invisible. Through intimate phone conversations and rare archival footage, […] >>

And I Was There

A random trance party in a living room is fairly common when it comes to young people. But what happens when the young people are Israeli soldiers, when the living room is owned by a Palestinian family that is locked up in one on the rooms of the house? 18 years after serving in the […] >>

Web Junkie

China is one of the first countries in the world to label overuse of the Internet a clinical condition. To combat what authorities deem the greatest social crisis for youth today, the Chinese government has created treatment facilities to detox and cure teenagers of their addictions to online life. But what starts out as an […] >>

The French Revolution

Noni and Tamar live a quiet life with their little girl. One evening, they hear screams in the street and Noni opens the window and asks for silence. After a brief moment, they hear someone knocking at their door. Two young men, drunk and nervous, enter the room. >>

Concrete

Sand, gravel, water, and cement blend into a fluid that pours over the ground and solidifies. Thus, the neighborhood of Ir Yamim was born. “An amazing combination of modern architecture, beach, and nature. An Israeli, sporty atmosphere in the center of the country.” But what existed here before? An old picture reveals rolling hills, three […] >>

Murky Skies

In 1992 a Boeing 747 cargo flight from JFK to Tel Aviv, on a stop off in Amsterdam, crashed into an apartment block in the Bijlmer, an immigrants’ neighborhood, shortly after take-off, claiming dozens of lives and injuring many others. The official story is that a technical failure occurred after take-off. But in the weeks […] >>

Nothing but a Jar of Oil

Tamara is 52 years old and stuck in a mediocre life. On the first night of Hannukah, she and her husband are helping their daughter prepare for her trip abroad. Throughout the night, Tamara understands just how estranged she is from her daughter and husband, and is forced to confront her menopause and the loss […] >>