No Tears In Summer

Grandmother Nadia is a strict Russian woman who refuses to accept the fact that her grand-daughter suffers from mental illness. She decides to take the matter into her own hands and tries to cure her the only way she knows how, the Soviet way. >>

Taboo: Amos Guttman

While alive, Amos Guttman was a red flag for Israel’s conservative film establishment. A Romanian migrant, he never found a place in his new home. As a gay filmmaker, he created the nation’s first films on the subject. Guttman aimed to make films for the few, yet he also wanted global connections — films that […] >>

Pickles

This is the story of eight Israeli Arab widows forced to enter the workforce for the first time with no vocational training. As widows with no income, they are condemned to stay at home and raise their children on a meager social security allowance. The film tracks the progress and development of the unconventional pickle […] >>

Naomi’s Questions

Naomi’s Questions is an intimate and poetic documentary about Naomi, a 34-year-old woman with Williams syndrome. Filmed by her father over more than thirty years—mainly in their family home in Old Jaffa—the film explores Naomi’s journey toward independence after leaving home at 21. Blending archival footage, present scenes, and poetic re-enactments, the film becomes a […] >>

God’s Messengers

This film contains rare documentation of the Hilltop Youth of Gilad Farm, the most radical Jewish outpost in all the West Bank. Due to American and European pressure, the threat of evacuation hangs over their heads. They confront the Israeli government, its security forces, and the Palestinians, and pose a rebellious, sometimes violent and lawless […] >>

A Night With No Dawn

Five Darfurian refugees must attend Holot detention center. When they arrive they discover that they are late and that they will have to spend the night outside. When the darkness surrounds them, the desert becomes a mirror of their souls, accompanying them on a spiritual journey in search for answers.   >>

Don’t Touch My Holocaust

This  cinematic adaptation of the award-winning play, “Arbeit Macht  Frei”,  accompanies the Acre Theater Group as it probes the innermost  recesses  of the Israeli psyche in the generation after the Holocaust.  The film  takes the viewer along the most difficult collective journey  faced by  Israeli society – the Holocaust – with an impact so sweeping  […] >>

Messiah

Shalom is a lost and lonely soul. He spends his nights collecting empty bottles. One night, Tikva, a street girl gets into his car, and from that moment Shalom’s world is turned upside down. A complex father-and-daughter-like relationship develops between the two. >>

Like Our Bodies’ Imprint

A poem about love that has died. Banished without leaving a mark. But we saw it as a requiem for life. “The world closes behind us, the sand straightens itself”, these words we felt in our bodies, and not with our brains. From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems […] >>

Frozen

A frozen memory raises a journey of longing for a present-absent father. >>

Aunt Dina

In Grandma’s old living room, Michael, a religious young man escorts his father to mourn their aunt Dina. He is exposed to his father’s traditional family, who are fervently guarding a dark truth from the past. >>

Three Times Divorced

Khitam, A Gaza Band born Palestinian woman, was married off in an arranged match to an Israeli Arab, followed him to Israel and bore him six children. When her husband divorced her – in absentia – in the Sharia (Muslim) court he gained custody of the children and Khitam was left with nothing. She cannot […] >>

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 […] >>

Innocence

“Innocence” tells the story of soldiers who enlisted in the army despite their discomfort with the military world and contradicting conscientious values. Their story is told through narration based on writings found after they died during their military service. >>

Hard Change

Yichia (14) and Hamam (8) come from a village in the area of Tul Karem, in the Palestinian Authority. While their parents and elder siblings cannot cross checkpoints to enter the state of Israel, the two brothers work as child beggars. The young children find themselves serving as the sole providers for their family of […] >>