Haircut

From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva I have never gone to a hairdresser. My mother is one, so I’ve never had to. For 40 years, her soft fingers have caressed, pinched and cut my hair in styles once fashionable in a distant land. During the lockdown, she cuts my hair from afar. >>

Timor’s Show

Timor (37),  an Academy of Music dropout, now washes dishes in the Jerusalem Central Bus Station. After 10 years without performing, Timor decides to put on a solo show. His opera critic mother doesn’t believe in him. Timor’s voice teacher Ella takes things into her own hands. Will Timor perform? >>

Exemplar

Eden, a teenage dancer, is bullied on a daily basis. Her loneliness drives her long for the attention of Neomi, her dance teacher, in the hope of gaining, through her, the sense of closeness and intimacy she so desperately needs. >>

A Silly Song for Lia

16-year-old Jonathan, a daydreaming musician, arrives at his best friend Lia’s house to finally declare his love for her. Instead, he finds her older sister on a bad psychedelic trip caused by a broken heart. >>

Fence Your Best

Haim Hatuel started stabbing his kids at age 5. This is Delila and Maor Hatuel’s family childhood memory. They are now Israeli fencing champions. Haim Hatuel is a native of Morocco who arrived in Acre when he was 15 years old. A day after his release from the Israel Defense Forces, Haim saw an ad […] >>

A Day Out

Yochai, a melancholic bachelor in his 30’s, avoids living life. Beyond taking care of the minimum chores of life, he is busy distracting himself with all available means. But today he is required for another chore. He has to get up in the morning and take his nephew, Ilay, for an annual trip. Yochai sleeps […] >>

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. >>

HotHouse

Almost ten thousand Palestinians, designated by the Israeli government as “Security Prisoners,” are incarcerated in Israel today. Most Israelis consider them murderers and criminals, but most Palestinians regard them as freedom fighters. Granted rare permission to film inside the country’s highest security facilities, Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan shows everyday prison life, including biweekly family visits, […] >>

A Waste of Space

Osher, Michelle, and Eitan were taken out of their homes as children and transferred to foster families. Their biological families are dysfunctional and absent. The foster families are supportive and stable, but this guardianship ends at age 18. The film follows the three over the last year of foster care and the first year of […] >>

The Dream Factory

Ben (35), a talented animator, dreams of publishing his comic book, titled “The Dream Factory”, but keeps getting rejected. His daughter Maya decides to take him into their own fantasy world and together they journey to The Dream Factory, in order to make his dream come true.  On the way, Ben realizes that his dreams […] >>

The Fourth Window

Behind the international success story of Amos Oz, a symbol of the Israeli conscience and a writer translated into 45 languages, lurked a double tragedy. When he was 12-years-old his mother committed suicide, and a few years before his death his daughter accused him of being physically and mentally violent, ending all communication with him. […] >>

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. >>

Winding

Winding is the story of the most infamous river in Israel, the Yarkon. Our film begins with the arrival of the Zionist settlers to the Promised Land at the end of the 19th century and their attempt to build a new society on the banks of the Yarkon. We sail the full length of the […] >>

The Samaritan: A Biblical People

Good Samaritan laws protect do-gooders and Good Samaritan hospitals heal us. Samaritans appear in our holy texts— in the Bible, the Talmud, and the Quran. The Samaritan people today number 850 souls, down from a million in the time of Jesus. They are split between Israelis and Palestinians. The Samaritans may soon go extinct, a […] >>

The Last Righteous Man

The Last Righteous Man portrays the story of the Abuhazira family, a Jewish-Moroccan dynasty that has been leading Jewish-Moroccan and Israeli communities for two centuries. Through the story of Baba Sali and his younger brother Baba Khaki, the film reveals the story of a Moroccan aristocratic rabbinical family and its transformation into a leading family […] >>