The Chaos Within

“A journey through Kabbalah, heroin, chaos and redemption. For 10 years I’ve filmed my mother’s and my own life change dramatically. Mom, a holocaust survivor, married Rabbi Ashlag when she was 45 and he 40 years older. He taught her the secrets of Kabbalah and then passed away. Since then mom, Rebbetizin Faiga, has been […] >>

9 Star Hotel

This film intimately documents the life of Palestinian men living in hiding in the hills surrounding the Israeli city of Modi’in.  With unprecedented access, the film portrays life in the hideout of these young men, focusing on Ahmad (19) and Muhammad (20), as they provide for their families. The harsh conditions of being “illegal” workers […] >>

Old Decorations

Christmas is coming and Nour starts organizing a party for his students, although his mother Sahar, doesn’t like it. For any other family, Christmas is the happiest time of the year, but not for this one. Soon the relationship between the two will reach a boiling point, during which Nour’s true intentions become clear, intentions […] >>

The House on Fin Street

Dina falls in love with Avinoam. She decides to abandon her mother, leave her job and relocate from the southern town of Be’er Sheba to Tel Aviv, to live with him. However, underneath the veil of what seems to be a love story, reality slowly reveals itself as a horrific play in which she must […] >>

Just This

Achinoam, 29, arrives at a meditation center with lots of self-hatred and doubt, feeling too tall for this life. Through an encounter with a woman who is suffering from cancer , she allows herself to grow and stand tall in her own life. >>

Flight 1812: Rediscovering Mom

On October 4, 2001, Oksana Zelser, aged 38, boarded a flight from Israel to Russia for a family visit. A long-range missile fired at the plane caused it to crash into the Black Sea, claiming the lives of everyone on board, including 51 Israeli citizens. Oksana’s son, Iliya, was only 13 years old when he […] >>

The Last Transfer

Decades after the Holocaust, many survivors still bear vivid memories of the trauma they experienced. This film follows the lives of a group of survivors who have stayed long-term in the Psycho-Geriatric Ward of the Abarbanel Mental Health Center. G. is like a robot, unable to stop working; H. continues to clean the bathrooms and […] >>

Honor thy Father and thy Mother, Damn It!

Ever since they can remember, Dasha (22) and Natasha (21), have felt unrelated, not belonging to anyone or any place. The difficult relationship between their parents in the Ukraine tore up the family. One day, without warning, their father decided to take them to Israel, along with his new wife. The girls were separated from […] >>

Mama

Mila finally returns home to see her daughter Kasia in person, not just through her phone screen. She is temporarily leaving the seaside villa where she works in upscale Caesarea, Israel, and also says goodbye to her thrilling, secret love affair. For years, Mila has worked tirelessly to build a better future for her family, […] >>

Mirrors – A portrait of the town of Yeruham 2015

Four stories intertwine in the small town of Yeruham. Abraham the fisherman; Debi the hiardresser and a part time matchmaker; Boris and the teenagers from Mahsan 52; and Theila the blind singer.     >>

Kindergarten

The intolerable ease with which people can ruin a person’s life with one hasty accusation and the dilemmas that this creates. Ramat Hasharon, 1992: A well-known kindergarten teacher is accused of severely abusing the children in her care. An ambitious police officer obtains incriminating testimony from the parents. The kindergarten teacher is thrown into a […] >>

Menachem and Fred

This is the story of two brothers who for decades feared to meet. Attempting to repress their past and build new lives, the brothers buried dark secrets in their hearts. Only when rare letters were found, letters from their parents who were in a concentration camp at the time, to the orphanage where the brothers […] >>

Mr. Universe

Ilan is a drunk taxi driver On Valentine’s Day he decides to surprise his former lover with a bouquet of flowers but this time his lover will surprises him. >>

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 […] >>

How I Learned to Overcome my fear And Love Arik Sharon

As the elections approach, director Avi Mograbi sets out to make a  documentary film about Israel’s most maligned politician, Arik Sharon.  Sharon, a figure admired by many, is a legendary warrior and officer.  Mograbi, who was a conscientious objector to the Lebanon War, has  personal issues with Sharon, the mastermind of that war. Nevertheless,  while […] >>