After Midnight, The City’s Darkest Secret

Alon Kastiel, a convicted sex offender, operated in Tel Aviv for a whole decade, unhindered. One Facebook post changed everything, opening up the floodgates. 17 women filed official complaints and for a moment it seemed like justice would be served, but Kastiel was convicted of lesser offenses in a plea bargain. He was sentenced to […] >>

The Queen has no Crown

The Queen Has No Crown is a documentary film of Tomer Heymann’s that navigates the intimate lives of five brothers and their mother, as they experience the pains of exile and the joys of family bonding. Three of the Heymann sons take their families and leave Israel, one after the other, for “better” lives in […] >>

Out of Reach

Hagar works at a photo store where she converts old video tapes to new digital files. A lonely, quiet young woman, she finds herself fascinated by watching the videotapes people have forgotten to pick up. A young man she sees in one of these tapes haunts her, and when she tries to find him, the […] >>

Purity

Purity tells the story of a subtle female rebellion within the religious world, expressed through the personal viewpoint of the director Anat Zuria and three of her friends. Their openness to the camera breaks a profound taboo of silence rooted in two thousand-year-old laws and contemporary social pressures and provides a rare and special look […] >>

The City

In a dark city, in a fictional world, during an unknown time, on an exceptionally stormy night, Sarah Bennett (Moriah Akons) arrives at the office of Detective Joe (Amit Ullman). She asks him to find her missing sister. Though he knows nothing good will come of it, Joe agrees to open an investigation. The investigation […] >>

Covered up

Rachel, a graduate of Beit Ya’akov, entered an ‘arranged’ marriage, wishing only to be ‘a kosher woman doing the will of her husband’. Finding herself in a marriage that did not succeed, she divorced, after which she asked permission to remove her wig– an unusual move in Ultra-Orthodox society. The opposition of her parents, Halakha, […] >>

Carried Away

On a wild island live four women in harmony. A bra from different times, washed ashore on a stormy night, violates the balance of life on the island, causing chaos and destruction. The new object becomes the focus of a quarrel. “Carried away” is a parable of the immense power inherent in the female collective […] >>

Mothers Do Cry

Usually, Or is Ossi’s daughter, but now, when Ossi has broken up with her partner Arad again. Or is forced to take on the role of the parent in their relationship. >>

A Place of Her Own

For four years, the director documented Reut, a girl who was in an out of shelters, and ended up on the street. At the age of 17 Reut had her first son, who was taken away from her by social services. During filming, while fighting the State for custody of her son, she meets a […] >>

Bad Nazi. Good Nazi

The film tells the story of Wilm Hosenfeld, a Nazi officer best remembered today for having saved “the Pianist” (Władysław Szpilman) in Roman Polanski’s remarkable film. Recent findings have revealed that over the course of the war he actually saved about sixty people, Jewish and Polish alike. Before joining the Wehrmacht, Hosenfeld was principal of […] >>

To Die in Jerusalem

Ever since 17-year-old Rachel Levy, an Israeli, was killed four years ago in Jerusalem by a Palestinian suicide bomber, her mother, Abigail, has hardly found a moment’s peace. Levy’s killer was Ayat al-Akhras, also 17, a schoolgirl from a Palestinian refugee camp several miles away. The two young women looked remarkably alike. Through the personal […] >>

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. >>

Underdogs – A War Story

The battle between rich and poor takes place on a grassy field. The town of Beit Shean’s soccer team is fighting for its life to stay in the National League. While grappling for control of the ball, the players are really engaged in a bitter class struggle. Beit Shean versus Tel Aviv, versus Haifa, and […] >>

Frequency

After leaving the ultra-Orthodox world, Dasi defies a court order to see her son. Their secret reunion in a quiet park stirs old love and new tensions. When faith and fear collide, Dasi is left behind—hoping one day to hear her son call her MOM again. >>

The Kozalchik Affair

When the son of the Kapo of the death block in Auschwitz arrives to the place his father ruled unrestricted, bribed the Nazis to save the prisoners from certain death, he meets, in the very same dark rooms, the lives of those saved by his father, but also listens in pain to those willing to […] >>