The Season of Wild Plums

Grandma Ketino lives alone in rural Georgia, surrounded by other grandmothers. In summer, the village fills with grandchildren who come to visit from the city and abroad, all busy with one thing—making wild plum sauce. >>

The Arena

A group of citizens set out to change the municipal plan to demolish and reconstruct Rabin Square. This film seamlessly connects venue with emotion, exploring the personal stories, national dramas, and every day life of a space which can see, absorb, and experience, but can only tell its story through the people who visit it. >>

Check Point

The yellow gate, which stands at the entrance to every kibbutz, was in the past a symbol of security and protection. Through conversations with the guards at the gate, we are exposed to thoughts about the unstable reality and the feeling that at any moment something might happen. Will the gate be able to protect […] >>

Screams Before Silence

Screams Before Silence is a documentary film led by American businesswoman Sheryl Sandberg, that explores the sexual violence by Hamas during the Hamas-led attack on Israel, on 7 October 2023, including events at the massacre at the Nova Festival and abductions to the Gaza Strip. >>

Adaptation to Darkness

A biographical and psychological portrait of Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, a man of extraordinary abilities but very little conscience: a brilliant physician and a pioneer of psychiatric research, but also an elusive con artist who became the only Jew in history convicted of Nazi war crimes. The film traces his journey from a small town in […] >>

The Other City

In 2007 Livi, a photography student, moves into an empty building in downtown Haifa. Just before her loneliness urges her to leave, Shahar, Zvi, Iddo and Talia move into that very building – young artists themselves. The friendship ignites in an instant and when Zvi can’t pay his rent, they decide to rent a space […] >>

La Femme Qui Cherche

The film evolves as a mysterious journey revealing a hidden matriarchal figure, inspired by my late grandmother and her memories of Oran, her native city on the northwestern Mediterranean coast of Algeria. The viewer experiences the journey through the perspective of a seeking figure, by passing along four miniature domestic spaces: the workplace, the shower, […] >>

Golden Margarite

The film follows a day in the life of three young teens living in a neglected ghost town in post-Soviet Europe. >>

Life Hacks for Lovers

When it comes to love, Roberta knows what she wants – and it’s not what she’s getting. One night she takes matters into her own hands. A comic fantasy starring two of the dance world’s most exciting performers. >>

In Case You’re Still Around

Not everyone has time to die. Yael did. The director met her ten years after their first encounter, after which they drifted apart. Now, as a new, scared patient in the Oncology ward, Yael, an old hand, showed her a way through the darkness. Yael didn’t use her time for ‘bigger than life’ experiences. Rather, […] >>

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 […] >>

Shadows

For the first time on screen, second-generation children of Holocaust Survivors open up about their abused childhood suffering. Only now, decades later, they dare confront the memory of both physical and mental abuse. Their parents, who had survived the Holocaust, had inadvertently turned from abused Nazi victims into the abusers of their own children. The […] >>

“Write Down, I am an Arab”

“Write Down, I Am an Arab” tells the fascinating story of the Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish. His poetry molded Palestinian identity and helped shape entire generations on its behalf. Darwish grew up under a military government, which denied him freedom of movement and left him confined to the city of Haifa. In 1964 he […] >>

Otherwise

When a Tel Aviv family decides to evict a tenant, a single mother Sudanese, after a year of evading her pay, the family’s liberal ideology cracks. Noga (17) confronts her mother Dalia (52) to prevent the eviction but finds an overwhelming reality. >>

On Parole

Tysir is 15 years-old and is released from prison on parole. The only one waiting for him is Yonatan, a social worker from the Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority. Yonatan tries to help Tysir overcome the sad statistics that say that 3 out of 4 teens end up back in prison. The deal, which seems attractive behind […] >>