The Last Card

This film reveals the painful relationship between my 87-year-old mother and me, her son, who has suffered all his life from the silence that dominated our family. My mother’s silence always stood between us. It concealed secrets concerning our family story, during the Holocaust, and created a sense of distance and anger within me. The […] >>

Residual Noise

A young woman’s life is forever changed as a result of a traumatic event. She loses control of her life, and begins to lose distinction between reality and illusion; until she reaches a breaking point, looking down and trying to decide whether to jump or continue living with her scars. >>

#Schoolyard: An Untold Story

In 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, an Israeli paratroop company was ordered to guard hundreds of Lebanese war prisoners for 10 hours. #Schoolyard: An Untold Story is the anatomy of a murder – the step by step, blow by blow, memory by memory chronicle of a horrible moment in Israeli military history. >>

The Three Yossi

This sociological journey back in time began over twenty years ago when several families were evicted from their homes. They got together and squatted in an abandoned building in Jaffa for two years. The children of all ages who lived there grew up around violence and poverty —but also solidarity. They saw the power of […] >>

The Lost Light The First Home

Tamar’s daughters keep trying to tell her of a wonderous land they’ve found, but she is too overworked to hear them. When a strange recurring melody finally forces her to pay attention, she follows her daughters into the depths beneath the film, beyond the story itself. Venturing to the far end of an ancient liminal […] >>

Cast-Offs

What happened to the worn sofa we discarded after our visit to Ikea? What became of the kitchen dishes we left by the dumpster? Cast-Offs depicts the journey of discarded items from the heart of consumerist Israel to the periphery and the Palestinian Authority, where they come back to life. The film exposes an underworld […] >>

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. >>

The Model

The little people “living” inside the model don’t care about the revolution. The House has not yet been built, but they’ve been living in it for many years… From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>

In The Name of The Father

Mohorosh, an admired American Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi, establishes an extreme and segregated cult between Israel and Brooklyn. Going from underage marriages to sexual assaults, through house burndowns to big money flowing into the Rabbi’s pockets. This corruption went on for decades, yet no one ever dared expose the painful truth. When the Rabbi died, an ugly […] >>

Life According to Ohad

Ohad is an animal-rights activist. After years of being cut off from his family, he tries to heal the wounds and go home, but their decision to eat meat still stands in his way. Will the family manage to reconnect? >>

Tzipora And Rachel Are Not Dead

After 30 years of failed efforts, Tahel (Rachel at birth) finally persuades her sister Tzipora to leave Abarbanel Psychiatric Hospital and move in with her. Together, the two sisters challenge and dismantle language – both verbal and cinematic – until once again it becomes a tool they can use to speak the silence, the oblivion, […] >>

UNraveling UNRWA

Following the October 7th massacre and allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the kidnappings, the agency made headlines around the world. Israel enacted legislation to suspend cooperation with UNRWA, despite the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The film presents a historical examination of UNRWA’s role—a temporary agency, initially mandated to resolve the refugee crisis […] >>

Better Late…

Itzik is the proud father of young twins. Conceiving seemed an impossible task, but after fifteen years of trying, his wife Ruthie got pregnant. She was already in her mid-fifties, while he approached 70. Suddenly, their home is flooded with joy. Despite their meager means and late entry into parenthood, they are able to provide […] >>

Matissa

Orit Adar Bechar’s Matissa is an adaptation of Henri Matisse’s painting Harmony in Red (1908). The artist resurrects Matisse’s painting and recharges it with her own interpretation. She leaves intact the painterly and plastic components of the original work, and therefore the world in which the maid is moving about is actually a painting. Adar […] >>

Golden Margarite

The film follows a day in the life of three young teens living in a neglected ghost town in post-Soviet Europe. >>