Crownless Queen of the Garden

Alon, the film’s director, returns to a traumticexperience during their nights as a sex worker in Jerusalem. Through the power of cinema, they seek to reclaim control over a painful memory — and to retell the story that left a lasting scar. >>

The European Dream

I never knew about my great-grandparent’s art collection. One day in 2016 I received an email from my aunt’s German attorney, Mr. Fritz Enderlein, who informed me that such a collection existed. This new information sent me on a quest that took me back in time to the cultural and artistic world of the Jews […] >>

Matissa

Orit Adar Bechar’s Matissa is an adaptation of Henri Matisse’s painting Harmony in Red (1908). The artist resurrects Matisse’s painting and recharges it with her own interpretation. She leaves intact the painterly and plastic components of the original work, and therefore the world in which the maid is moving about is actually a painting. Adar […] >>

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. >>

A Working Mom

In  1990, 22-year-old Marisa Villozial left her two small children with  her parents in Bolivia and traveled overseas to look for a job in the  West. She spent fifteen years doing hard menial labor in Israel, sending  her pay home. In 2005, Marisa returned to Bolivia to reunite with her  children and family, but was […] >>

Wild City

After a historical shift of power in Haifa’s city hall, the relationship between the city’s residents and the local wild boars becomes more intense than ever. In the streets of this sleepy port city, a primal struggle erupts over the fate of the new guests. Through several points of view, five years and two election […] >>

The Ashram Children: I Am No Body, I Have No Body

For 20 years, Jonathan, the filmmaker grew up in Jerusalem and in an Ashram in India, which he had to keep secret. In the Ashram he was taught to dedicate his life to the Guru, to always think of him. That way, Jonathan could finally reach his goal in life, awaken from the illusion, realize […] >>

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 […] >>

The Source of All Beauty

Yaeli is a 20-year-old Ultra-Orthodox woman, who dreams of love. Her heart is beating for David, a handsome and smart yeshiva boy, but Yaeli is also a barren woman. Yaeli’s father, a charismatic and strong man, is looking for a man with children for her, and is not willing to introduce his daughter to a […] >>

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. >>

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. >>

Counting Sheep

Keren Gueller’s work, Counting Sheep, corresponds with one of Israeli children’s constitutive albums, Ha’Keves Ha’shisha Asar(The 16th Sheep). The work alluds to the gap between the idyllic superficial picture we have of childhood and the cracks that are formed within the image and reveal a reality that is usually censored and deemed unfit for children’s […] >>

Yemima’s Journey

Yamima, an elderly woman, sets on a journey from one side of her town, Beit Shehan, to the other. To visit her ill husband and feed him with her cooking. Along the journey that takes a whole day she makes peace with the nearing parting with her husband and forgives him for abandoning her. >>

Indal

A group of young Ethiopians in a neighborhood in Ashdod, go to war against the local police who control terror in the neighborhood. They kidnap a policeman who deliberately caused the death of one of their friends in order to change the rules of the game against the establishment. The group is led by two […] >>

Have No Fear of Walking Alone into that Dark Night

From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva My grandmother contracted the coronavirus. She lives alone. She’s in a risk group. These are difficult days. I am in a tower at one end of town, and she’s at the other end. Communication between us is done over the phone. It’s hard to be apart, […] >>