Tapes of Revolution

The story of Yamin Masika, the “Don Quixote” of Israeli cinema — a director, social activist, and cultural entrepreneur who played a pivotal role in transforming Mizrahi culture from the margins to the mainstream. In the 1990s, after repeated rejections by the Israeli film industry, Masika began creating underground, low-budget films and music videos featuring […] >>

Bird’s Flight

Tzipporah longs to stretch her wings and fly but knows that without solid ground to return to, she will be lost. Caught between two seemingly incompatible worlds, the stable orthodox Judaic lifestyle that she lives and the soaring thrill of Aerial Acrobatics, she feels incomplete in either place and struggles to find her true identity. […] >>

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 […] >>

One Last Visit

The last three weeks in Lena’s (99) life cast light on her complicated relationship with her daughter, Miri (75). Miri came to Israel to say goodbye, after learning that her mother disinherited her. Will this last visit be able to mend their relationship, with the shadows of more than 70 years looming behind? >>

Lions Awake in Summer

Cousins Gabriel and Omer spend the end of their summer break working in a packing warehouse owned by Omer’s dad, Elisha. The film follows the two teenagers, during another routine day at the warehouse from Gabriel’s perspective. Gabriel is a bit of an outsider. He is a slim boy, who likes to observe what’s happening […] >>

Black to Back

Black to Back deals with  replication and imitation, as they are manifested in Youtube video comments. It is a 5 channel video installation, showing 5 women making an “Amy Winehouse Hairdo”. Together they keep spreading Winehouse’s figure through the internet, long after her 2011 physical death in. The women are “taken” out of the internet […] >>

Menelik – Black Jewish Prince

Gadi Abaje is a 23-year-old Ethiopian immigrant, whose Christian mother was forced to stay in Ethiopia. He lives on the margins of Israeli society – in Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station, supporting himself by petty thefts, and has a dream of turning the bus station’s P.A. system into a radio station that will serve as both […] >>

Tale of 5 Israeli Poets

Five prominent Israeli poets present their POV on poetry, culture and life in a way never before seen. >>

In Her Footsteps وَراءكِ

In the dead of night, my parents left the house my father had built in the Bedouin village, Tal-a-Sabeh, and moved, perhaps “fled,” to Omer, a Jewish town, very bourgeois, located only 5 km away. For 10 years of dealing with breast cancer, my mother’s only wish was to be buried in Omer. The town […] >>

Ramleh

Sima and Orly have recently turned their backs on secular life and joined the ultra orthodox “Shas” party. Svetlana is a recent Jewish immigrant from Uzbekistan desperately trying to adopt an Israeli identity and establish an independent life for herself and her two daughters. Jihad is a Palestinian Muslim, born to a family of refugees, […] >>

Nothing Expect 34 Paintings

In 1955, a collection of contemporary artworks, including some made by the world’s leading artists of the time, was donated to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Thousands flocked to the museum to see the new collection; but how was it exactly that Eugen Kolb, then the museum’s director, managed to obtain such an impressive […] >>

We Need to Talk

Aya is young, sensitive and very much in love. Love, in fact, is her essence. When she realizes that her boyfriend is about to break up with her, she runs away in a desperate attempt to hide from the inevitable. >>

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 […] >>

The Jerusalem Dream

In the late 1970’s, after thousands of years of praying and longing for Jerusalem, the first Ethiopian Jews arrived in Israel. “Was it worth it?” their children now ask, for the first time. They are brave and direct and their words pierce through the heart. Words shifting between the great happiness of village life and […] >>

Scorpion Ascent

80-year-old Tzvi tries to educate his rebellious grandson and takes him on a trip to the desert, only to find that the generation gap between them is as wide as the extreme sceneries surrounding them. The impossible journey comes to its end in the only imaginable way. >>