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 […] >>

A Sonnet for Yuda

A visual cinematic tribute to the poems of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. This project includes a collection of short video clips that vocally and visually illustrate the songs of one of the greatest Israeli poets of all time, Yehuda Amichai, who past away on September 22, 2000. Artists from different fields have joined the project […] >>

Ruso

Ruso, a migrant worker from Georgia, begins another cleaning shift at the University. She keeps her head down, does her job as required, and passes the shift on phone calls with her son. Usually no one notices her. That’s not the case today. >>

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 […] >>

Ungrateful

After her estrangement from her family, Asia comes to find a dilapidated childhood home. During her visit, Asia realizes her siblings are suffering from the same neglect that she had suffered from as a child. Now, she’s torn between escaping the anguish caused by her abusive mother, to her duty to her siblings. >>

Flower

It was a chance encounter, unexpected and jarring for both women. Anna, a photographer, arrives at Tel Aviv Old Central Bus Station as part of an artistic project and offers a ride to Eileen, nicknamed “Flower,” a young homeless woman, drug addict, and sex worker. A deep mutual curiosity leads them to initiate further meetings, […] >>

Channels Of Rage

Subliminal is a proud Zionist rapper who, with fellow artist MC Tamer, a pro-Palestinian Arab, seeks co-existence in the underground Israeli rap scene. Their belief that the language of hip hop can traverse the political tensions of the region to reunite their people is soon shattered as lyrical battles begin to spill onto the streets. […] >>

On Hold

This  film deals with me and my partner’s decision to leave Israel. It is the  physical and emotional journey of a young Arab couple, who decide that  Israel is not the right place for them, caught between rational  considerations and emotional ones. Our story is intertwined with the  stories of other people, similarly disappointed by […] >>

The Autopsy of Sven Svensson

A patholog’s daily routine is being interrupted when he encounters a body in his image. >>

Women Between the Holy and the Profane

They give birth to children year after year. Raising them, carrying on their shoulders ever-growing household and serving their husbands who spend their days praying and learning. Even though the higher purpose of raising an ultra-Orthodox family with multiple children, they remain independent. A documentary four-year in the making reveals the unconventional struggles with unconventional […] >>

Fallen in Time

Dory packs his parents’ house and breaks up from his partner, whilst he still finds it difficult and unsettled, the most magical thing happens to him: his childhood room turn to a time portal, Dory becomes a child again and meet his late brother the night before he fell in battle. This opportunity becomes a turning […] >>

119 Bullets+Three

On Purim 1994, Dr. Baruch Goldstein fired 119 bullets at a group of Arab worshippers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. The horrible massacre motivated Prime Minister Rabin’s government to ban the “Kach” and “Kahane Chai” movements. However, Israel’s extreme right reorganized immediately to oppose the peace process, culminating with Yigal Amir shooting three bullets, […] >>

Ben David

The film “Ben David” tells the story of the complex relationship between a religious Israeli Secret Service officer, and his teenage settler informant. The film present the difficulties in recruiting ISA (‘Shabak’) source from the ‘Hilltop Youth’ for information about ‘price tag’, while presenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a new angle, as an internal conflict […] >>

Yasmin

Yasmin is accused of helping her brothers kill their sister over a forbidden love affair. She and Nizar, the film’s director, set out to find the murdered sister’s grave. The search emerges as a metaphor for the political relationship between men and women, a relationship based mainly on the struggle for power. >>

Reality & Playing No.3 – Looking For Sarah

Michal Heiman’s work, Reality and Playing No. 3- Looking for Sarah – A proposal for a Visual Reconstruction of a D. W Winnicott Cae Study, reflects the artist’s continuous preoccupation with the interface between psychoanalysis and art. Her film refers to psychoanalyst and prediatricain Donald Winnicott’s text, “Interview with an Adolescent: ATherapeutic Consultation,” published in […] >>