Spotting Yossi

Thirteen years after his death, the great actor Yossi Banai comes to life for one final encore, with a cinematic memoir led by his own deep iconic voice. Pieced together from numerous archival sources – films, plays, radio, songs, and comedy shows – Banai directs the spotlight on to his own image. >>

Cherries

From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to Lemon popsicle – 1978.  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 long forgotten […] >>

Where Is Anne Frank

A year from today, Kitty, the imaginary friend that Anne Frank wrote to in her famous diary, comes to life in Amsterdam, in the Anne Frank house – once the Secret Annex. Unaware that 75 years have gone by, Kitty is convinced that if she is alive, then Anne must be alive too. WHERE IS ANNE […] >>

Awakening

Fearing the consequences a married couple try to conceal a fatal accident. The father, a poultry farmer from the Galilee, is repressing all feelings and looking at the death of his son as a way of nature, but finely is being expelled by his wife, who cannot stand the absence of the loved one and […] >>

Sack of Talents

The film follows Elroei and Dafna, a couple with cerebral palsy from birth, who have raised four beautiful healthy children. Through the publishing of Elroei’s book, his fulfillment of a lifelong dream and ten years of work, a courageous story spanning generations is revealed. One man’s “Sack of Talents”, and how he copes with life’s […] >>

We Will Dance Again

Friendship, love, and freedom—these ideals drew young hearts from around the globe to Nova’s EDM music festival in the south of Israel. But as the sun rose on October 7th the fantasy shattered. Rockets sliced through the sky, and the music cut off. Confusion morphed into terror as gunfire erupted amidst the chaos. Hamas terrorists […] >>

Times are Bad

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: Times are pretty bad, right? So they tell us day and night! The radio and television do not stop chanting, and with each bombing the reporter is a poet. >>

Lens

Shiri, 33, a conservative-bourgeois woman, planned her perfect maternity photo shoot, but her photographer is Lidor, 35, a liberal trans woman. When Shiri’s husband leaves the photo shoot in the middle, the meeting between the two different women raises demons and questions about their changing bodies and their identity in the world. >>

Carried Away

On a wild island live four women in harmony. A bra from different times, washed ashore on a stormy night, violates the balance of life on the island, causing chaos and destruction. The new object becomes the focus of a quarrel. “Carried away” is a parable of the immense power inherent in the female collective […] >>

Dirty Business

Short documentary “Dirty Business” follows the traditional coal industry scattered around Israel and the West Bank, and sheds light on economic relations between two sides, exploring distorted processes and situations in which people are caught up. >>

Beyond Hitler’s Grasp

Beyond Hitler’s Grasp tells the story of Bulgaria, one of the smallest European nations, and how the country managed to save and protect its Jewish population while under German rule during World War II. A hopeful and inspring story amidst the horrors of the Holocaust, Bulgaria protected its Jewish minority from the death camps despite […] >>

The French Revolution

Noni and Tamar live a quiet life with their little girl. One evening, they hear screams in the street and Noni opens the window and asks for silence. After a brief moment, they hear someone knocking at their door. Two young men, drunk and nervous, enter the room. >>

Scattegories

Esther, Emmanuel and Michal were born in Israel to migrant parents from Nigeria. In a moment of despair, they were torn away from their Israeli existence to a Nigerian reality, unable to continue their studies, living for a time on the streets. When Esther celebrated her eighteenth birthday she managed to return to Israel on […] >>

Little Victories

“Little Victories” is a dramatic-comic film that tells the story of Tamar and Michal, two Tel-Avivian mothers and members of a catch-ball team, and of “Coach Moodie”, a charismatic and somewhat odd man, who is determined to release them from their net of daily battles and make them fall in love with a completely different […] >>

Mike Brant – Laisse Moi t’Aimer

Mike Brant’s body was found on the sidewalk on Arlanz’e St. in the 16th quarter of Paris, on the morning of Friday, April 25th, 1975. He was lying on his back, facing the sky, in a blue shirt and barefoot. Seemingly intact on the outside, but shattered to bits on the inside, he was 28 […] >>