Nili’s Battles

Amid her remarkable career as a world champion in Thai boxing, Nili faces the sacrifices of personal dreams such as love and family, along with a journey to shape her identity beyond the ring. Those around her, who in many ways live in the shadow of her success, struggle to see the price she pays […] >>

The Jerusalem Dream

In the late 1970’s, after thousands of years of praying and longing for Jerusalem, the first Ethiopian Jews arrived in Israel. “Was it worth it?” their children now ask, for the first time. They are brave and direct and their words pierce through the heart. Words shifting between the great happiness of village life and […] >>

The Quest for the Missing Piece

Oded Lotan, an Israeli-born film-maker living in Germany, dares to cope with one of the ‘holy cows’ concepts of the Jewish tradition – the circumcision. Lotan embarks on a journey to seek the historic origins of the custom, as well as his own family history. His investigations go in two directions – one is historical […] >>

Home

Two women are cleaning up the dirty and run down house, in which one of them lives with her 12 cats. The house’s condition is the result of years of neglect. One woman’s wish to help the other  is met with her friend’s inability to cope with her own neglect, which in turn creates a […] >>

Mindy’s Star

Mindy, A shy nerdy young girl, is trying to catch a star. While she looks at the sky, her neighbor watches her. From here on starts a competition between the two that will make the main character learn an important lesson about friendship. >>

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 […] >>

3 Kiosso Street

An apartment building in Jaffa is home to both Jews and Arabs, representing opposite extremes of the political spectrum. Haski is head  of the tenants’ committee; Omar, a Muslim, hopes that things will change  for the better; Charlie and Samia are Christian Arabs, trying to impart Christian values to their children; Itzik is Chairman of […] >>

The Journey

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: Many Israelis feel they live in a chaotic nation whose leadership is leading them into the abyss, but most of us continue our lives in the hope that maybe tomorrow morning we will wake up and the world will be different. How many of us are willing to begin today […] >>

Black to Back

Black to Back deals with  replication and imitation, as they are manifested in Youtube video comments. It is a 5 channel video installation, showing 5 women making an “Amy Winehouse Hairdo”. Together they keep spreading Winehouse’s figure through the internet, long after her 2011 physical death in. The women are “taken” out of the internet […] >>

Blue Box

The Jewish National Fund’s Blue Boxes were part of a successful fundraising campaign to support the purchase of land in Palestine. Joseph Weits, the filmmaker’s grandfather, was the man who orchestrated the acquisition and expropriation of Palestinian lands. Weits’s private diaries reveal an uncomfortable truth. >>

Relaying

“Relaying: Testimonies on Motherhood Lost, Meadows Museum of Art, 2014 A Four-Channel Video Installation by Israeli artist Mali De-Kalo”. Confronting the boundaries between the art world and social action, Relaying presents testimonial monologues by mothers whose children refuse to have any contact with them as a result of the breakdown of the family unit .De-Kalo’s […] >>

Paradise Shattered

Fifteen years ago, Ronit Ifargan and her husband Itzik left central Israel with their children to live in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. The early years were documented in “border living” (2013). Since then, Ronit has continued filming the struggle to raise public awareness of the security situation on the Gaza border, while capturing the challenges of […] >>

Choose to Fight

Three generations of fighters .Trained by his father in a method developed by his Holocaust surviving grandfather, Idan had no choice but to become a martial arts champion. But how do you react when your father is your coach, and he in turn was taught by his own father? The film follows an extraordinary childhood […] >>

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. >>

Backwards

On the morning of his daughter’s birthday, Natan (73) decides to throw a big party. He wakes Hagar (69) and expects her to get up and help organize. They start the morning organizing the house for a party, hanging balloons and baking a cake. When hagar can’t find any strawberries for the cake, Natan volunteers […] >>