The Film Class

Filmmaker Uri Rosenwaks arrives to Rahat, a Bedouin town down in Israel’s Negev Dssert, to teach a group of Black Bedouin women a class in filmmaking. Rahat, partially populated by Black Bedouins who were originally brought to the Negev as slaves, is afflicted with pessimism, unemployment, poverty and violence. Kidnapped in Africa by Arab slave […] >>

On The Way Back

Elyasaf Kowner’s work, On The Way Back, deals with one of the central fears and experiences of childhood- those getting lost. Kowner constructs the work alphabetically. Alphabet is a system that introduces the child into language. On the other hand, it enables and teaches him or her to orientate in the world. Yet, on the […] >>

Brave Girls

The Story of the Israeli women’s national football team. In the first game of the season Noam is injured. Her ADHD and losses on the football field discourage her. Opal, her team mate, realizes that expectations from her religious family may interrupt her professional  aspirations. An important upcoming tournament in Russia prompts the girls to […] >>

Elevation

From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to Lovesick on Nana Street – 1995. The Sabbath is a few hours away. Victor, a confirmed ultra-Orthodox Jew, is stuck in cosmopolitan Tel Aviv after missing the last bus home. Seeking to find his way out, he encounters a different everyday reality that evokes […] >>

Watermarks

Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Hakoah (”Strength” in Hebrew) was founded in 1909, in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which most Austrian sports clubs adopted forbidding the acceptance of Jewish athletes as their members. Its founders were eager to popularize sport among […] >>

Revised Diary 1990-1999

Revised Diary: 1990 – 1999, is a continuation of the director’s series Diary: 1973-1983, which deals with the director’s family, Israel, and his country of origin, Brazil. Part One: Sheltered Childhood The director’s grandchildren – Alma, Nadia, Lia, and Hillel – from the time they were born until today. Part Two: Day-to-Day and Rituals The director […] >>

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 >>

Women Cook a Story

Mom’s food, the touch of her hands, Taste of her stories. Six women from Yeruham take the stage with the spotlight on them. Cutting tomatoes, frying garlic and hot peppers, with the smells filling up the nostrils and the mouth salivating. They cook and tell each other of themselves. The music rises and so does […] >>

Home

Yair, a Yeshiva student, opens an electronics shop in “Geula”, a neighborhood that is the shopping epicenter for the entire Ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem. The religious character of the neighborhood is enforced by the “Geula Committee” and Yair strictly adheres to their rules. His shop is introducing a world of advanced technology that overnight becomes […] >>

Escape from Heaven

in Kibbutz Mafalsim, 4 kilometers from the Gaza border, inside a small apartment, through a window overlooking a big tree, we see A frame within a frame of the changing landscape of reality, before and after October 7th. While the exterior view remains untouched, the overwhelming feelings of uncertainty and fear are flooding these four […] >>

Dolphin Boy

Morad lived in an Arab village in the north of Israel. He was socially popular, loved by his family, an athlete, and a good student. One night, during the fall of 2006, he was cruelly beaten by his classmates, who mistakenly accused him of having an affair with their engaged cousin. Physically, he recovered within […] >>

Buried Alive

The film documents the struggle of a middle-aged woman from Yavneh who sets out in search of her husband, Danny Sa’il, who was a member of the Israeli Black Panthers organization, and disappeared twenty years earlier under mysterious political circumstances. His wife, Mazal Sa’il, is considered an agunah under Jewish law and is forbidden from […] >>

Revived

At the end of a night out at a Jerusalem gay bar, Aaron can’t find his bag. Without the bag he cannot return home. Sefi, the bartender, tries to help him. Their fates will be linked tonight. >>

Shadow Puppets

Based on Amir Gutfreund’s short story A story of a friendship taking place in Israel in the mid 1980s between Uncle Nathan, a Holocaust survivor who communicates only through his shadow puppets, and his day-dreaming nephew. As Nathan’s shadow puppets act become less childish and more eccentric, his last connection to the world and rescue […] >>

The Accident

Omri reunites his family for a drive to the desert. He asks them to recollect and talk about the fatal car accident they had on the way to his Bar Mitzvah 15 years earlier, an accident that led to his parent’s divorce. >>