Shadya

Shadya Zoabi, a 17-year-old Muslim girl from a small Arab village in northern Israel and a World Champion in Karate, lives according to her own distinct principles and does not want to be like other Muslim women. Shadya’s brothers disapprove of her practicing Karate. In their view, a Muslim woman has a specific path in […] >>

This is My Land

The film follows several Israeli and Palestinian teachers during a school year and the way they teach their national history. Through dialogues and challenges with their students, debates with the ministries curriculum and its restrictions, the viewers obtain the long lasting and profound effect that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict transmits onto the next generation. >>

The Cemetery Club

Every Saturday a group of elderly women and men carry plastic lawn chairs across the Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem. In the shade of an old pine tree, they sit in a circle and discuss various matters. For over two decades, the “Mt. Herzl Academy” has held its weekly meeting at this cemetery. Seated […] >>

The Green Line

Judith Kahana grew up on the Samaria hills. She was considered a classic “Hill Top” girl: she participated in the resistance movement against the evacuation of Gush Katif, took part in the settlement efforts and was part of a movement of young people, for whom this land was sacred and priceless. But as she matured, […] >>

Lice

Dalia gives her little daughter Ela a head lice treatment in the bathroom. When Ela’s father surprisingly arrives to pick her up for a Saturday hangout, the intimate lice treatment becomes a divorce fight >>

Kheira’s Smile

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: Kheira Abu Hassan lost her baby while waiting at an IDF roadblock. Now she cannot control her smile. Her smile is used as a barrier that the occupied can place before the occupier. >>

Not Today. Not Now.

Jerome, a failed farmer, finds his eldest son’s dead body in the family’s shed. He struggles to tell his wife Aliza and his young son Tomer about the tragedy but the blame and tension lead him to a violent burst. >>

Murky Skies

In 1992 a Boeing 747 cargo flight from JFK to Tel Aviv, on a stop off in Amsterdam, crashed into an apartment block in the Bijlmer, an immigrants’ neighborhood, shortly after take-off, claiming dozens of lives and injuring many others. The official story is that a technical failure occurred after take-off. But in the weeks […] >>

Raging Souls

Twenty years after the Israeli rock group “Minimal Compact” was founded, the filmmaker, a lifetime fan, sets out on a journey to uncover the extraordinary story of the band which was popular in Europe in the 1980s, whose members are now scattered around Europe and Israel. Through interviews with former band members Rami Fortis, Berry […] >>

Layers

Gali works as a mine clearer at a mine clearance site in the south of Israel, the only female in the team. The crew members, different types of people who escape from their world, live together and become each other’s family, and Gali feels like she belongs there. >>

Coastal Road Killer

A chain of unsolved murders of women along the Israeli coastal road, raises suspicions of a serial killer who had never been caught. >>

Arava

In 2000s Jerusalem, Arava reluctantly goes on a trip with her best friend, Tzipi. The two hitchhike through small-town Israel, on their way to visit the mystical gravesites of the northern city Safed. Along the way, they’re confronted with the intricacies of their individual identities, hopes, losses, and their relationship to one another. >>

King Khat

An Israeli chemist becomes the 21st century’s most notorious drug baron after inventing a legal psychoactive drug from Cathinone. As his empire grows, he must constantly navigate legal and ethical challenges while maintaining his power and influence. >>

Scratch That

Since his boyfriend left him, Yotam hasn’t slept one night alone. Obsessed by dating apps, he spends his nights in the arms of strangers, until he discovers that he has been infected by an intolerable skin disease. >>

Letter to a Pig

A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature. >>