One Day After Peace

Can the means used to resolve the conflict in South Africa be applied to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? As someone who experienced both conflicts firsthand, Robi Damelin wonders about this. Born in South Africa during the apartheid era, she later lost her son, who was serving with the Israeli Army reserve in the Occupied Territories. At […] >>

Summer Nights

How does the world look through a 6 years old child’s eyes? The movie “Summer Nights” offers a window into a child’s world. A window to his fears, his desires, his way of thinking. A journey into the subconscious of an innocent and ingenuous child, while he drifts into the depths of his own mind. >>

A Lullaby for the Valley

Artist Eli Shamir paints the views from his studio balcony – fields stretching to the horizon, ancient oak trees, and a generation of farmers that is disappearing from the vistas of the Jezreel Valley. His large oil paintings are treasured by collectors worldwide. It was director Ben Shani’s encounter with one of Shamir’s works that […] >>

Child Mother

These are the memories of a lost girlhood. When they were only five or six or ten years old, their parents snatched them from the playground and handed them to much older men to be married. They recall the violence and fear they were subjected to, the pregnancies at the age of eleven or twelve, […] >>

Cause of Death

On the night of March 5, 2002, an armed terrorist opened fire on civilians dining in a Tel Aviv restaurant. Druze policeman Salim Barakat quickly arrived on the scene and bravely eliminated him. However, he was killed by the terrorist. For ten years, Jamal, Salim’s brother, has been attending annual police ceremonies in commemoration of […] >>

Life’s Verdict

At birth we are tossed into a complex, demanding reality. This is our verdict. In our lives, do we get the chance to sweeten our sentence? From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>

Karaoke

The world of Meir and Tova, a middle class couple in their 60’s, is shaken up when Itsik – a pleasure seeking bachelor with a fondness for karaoke – moves into their building, causing a stir in their lives. >>

Inside the Mossad

Over the nearly seven decades of its existence, the Mossad has cultivated its image as a daring, all-powerful intelligence agency for which no ‘mission impossible’ exists. This four part documentary brings to the screen for the first time the stories of 24 former spy-chiefs and operatives and with them a first-person perspective of the personal […] >>

Kheira’s Smile

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: Kheira Abu Hassan lost her baby while waiting at an IDF roadblock. Now she cannot control her smile. Her smile is used as a barrier that the occupied can place before the occupier. >>

Rule of Thumb

Guy (21), a bulimic homosexual, decides to leave his parent’s home and set out on a new journey in Tel Aviv but becomes enslaved to his eating disorder. >>

Becoming

Evyatar (28) and Aviv (28) are expecting their first son. This is an amazing time for them. They know that against the whole world they are strong as long as they are together. After Arbel was born, Aviv doesn’t leave the bed. The depression that suddenly emerged in the lives of these new parents leaves […] >>

Incessant Visions

He drew sketches on tiny pieces of paper and sent them, from the trenches, to a young cellist who was waiting for him in Berlin. She thought he was a genius, and after WW1 she helped him become the busiest architect in Germany. When she planned to leave him for a communist poet, he built […] >>

The Patriarch’s Room

“Jaffa Gate Is Ours!” screamed the headlines in 2005. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos was accused of selling church property to Jewish settlers. He denied all the accusations. But for the first time in the church’s 2000-year history, its leader was ousted. For 11 long years, Irineos was imprisoned in his chambers. In this first-person account, […] >>

The Season of Wild Plums

Grandma Ketino lives alone in rural Georgia, surrounded by other grandmothers. In summer, the village fills with grandchildren who come to visit from the city and abroad, all busy with one thing—making wild plum sauce. >>

Frozen

A frozen memory raises a journey of longing for a present-absent father. >>