Truth, Nothing, But

In April 2002, following a series of Palestinian terror attacks in Israeli cities, the IDF invaded the West Bank with heavy forces in order to destroy Palestinian terror bases. The operation, known as Defensive Shield, lasted 40 days during which Palestinian sources mislead the world with false Information about thousands of casualties and about a […] >>

The Girl Who Didn’t Know What to Do

The solar system is shaking, a girl sheds a tear, and a monster is drinking blood. Childhood drawings and stories assemble the author’s personal diary. Phone calls with her grandmother raise questions about hereditary melancholy. >>

Wetland

In 1957, Israel completed the drainage of the Hula wetlands and lake to clear land for agriculture. The Hula drainage project was the “flagship operation” of the young State of Israel. A year before the drainage was complete, three photographers from Jerusalem left their jobs, homes, and families, pooled all their savings, and set out […] >>

The Cassandra Prophecy

The untold story of Project Cassandra, launched in 2008 by the Drug Enforcement Administration to investigate how Hezbollah turned cocaine trafficking and money laundering to make billions of dollars to finance its military and terrorist activity, and how the U.S. administration aborted the operation just before its peak moment. >>

H2: The Occupation Lab

H2 is the name given to the eastern part of Hebron – the only Palestinian city with a Jewish settlement in it. Here, along a one-Kilometer road, lies the holy Cave of the Patriarchs, where Jews and Muslims believe their common father, Abraham, is buried. Here the massacre of 1929, known as “year zero” of […] >>

Listen to My Voice

Mother and daughter try to renew a relationship that was broken in the shadow of childhood trauma. Armed with a camera, the director returns to her childhood home in search of recognition. Between bags of clothes that her mother has been collecting for her, the generation and memory gaps are revealed. Despite the mental distance […] >>

The Last Fisherman in the Sea of Galilee

An intimate and spiritual encounter of a Japanese director, a member of the Makuya community, who believe in the Hebrew Bible and in the New Testament, with an Israeli fisherman in the Sea of Galilee. The director has had only one question since his childhood. Why did Jesus choose his first disciples from the fishermen […] >>

Ungrateful

After her estrangement from her family, Asia comes to find a dilapidated childhood home. During her visit, Asia realizes her siblings are suffering from the same neglect that she had suffered from as a child. Now, she’s torn between escaping the anguish caused by her abusive mother, to her duty to her siblings. >>

I’m a Pajama Iraqi

A child immigrant from Iraq succeeds in breaking poetic and geographic boundries through his art. Ronny Someck symbolizes true Israeli poetry. His books have been translated into 44 languages, and his poems embody the essence of Israeli culture, connecting east and west, everyday life and high culture, the private and the public. His poetry tells […] >>

The Crown Shyness

When high school ends and adulthood begins, Benjamin and Joshua Israel, two identical twins of Jewish origin, start feeling burdened and without a future. Being in your twenties and having a sassy attitude is not enough if you have an intellectual disability and the world makes it hard for you to fit in. Joshua would […] >>

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 […] >>

Haltura

The year is 1985. Jackie, a disabled singer, and Yehuda, his guitarist, travel the desert in a search for gigs, money, and appreciation. Jackie is obsessed with performing, while Yehuda just wants to provide for his family. After a failed gig, Jackie will do whatever it takes to win back the audience – but risks […] >>

Distant Constellation

This haunted Tarkovskian reverie drops us inside an Istanbul retirement home, where the battle-scarred residents bask in the camera’s attention. A creaky- voiced woman confides her personal account of the Armenian genocide. A sweetly deluded old Casanova still tries to charm and seduce. A blind photographer fiddles with his flash as he points his own […] >>

The Gun

Shaya (30) is literally attached at the hip to his handgun. As a result of the need to renew his firearms license, Shaya embarks on a journey of clarification regarding his fears and their effects, in the hope of unchaining himself from them. >>

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 […] >>