Until We’ll Find A Place

Two professional dancers around the age of 30, lose touch with who they are. Their childhood dreams have been fulfilled and now they are left with a sense of emptiness. The film follows their internal journey to find a new anchor that will give them their lost confidence back. >>

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 […] >>

Unmistaken Child

The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most Westerners to grasp. Unmistaken Child follows the 4-year search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk’s devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been […] >>

Orphans of the Revolution

“A family’s story is the starting point for a discussion of the moral and political ideas (and clichés) that shook Europe and the Middle East throughout the 20th Century and still reverberate today. The story begins in the 1930s in the Warsaw Pawiak Prison where Igal Bursztyn’s mother was incarcerated for illegal Communist activities. It […] >>

Border Living

A young family that falls on hard times moves to a community on the Israeli border with Gaza, only to find themselves dealing with a reality that puts them in a constant state of insecurity. How will they face this new challenge and what will they learn about the boundaries of happiness? >>

Under a Narrowing Sky

On the precipice of losing her fertility,Rosa, a filipina migrant worker, tries to conceive a child with a younger man. This sends her on a strange spiritual journey, that brings her to a place where Jerusalem is just out of reach, on the fine line between deliverance and random absurdity. >>

A Perfect Circle

Alma attempts to create a perfect family for herself, on top of the ruins of her broken one. She invites her new boyfriend, who is two decades older than her, to Shabbat dinner at her mother’s house, only to discover that her father intends to destroy everything. >>

Life’s Verdict

At birth we are tossed into a complex, demanding reality. This is our verdict. In our lives, do we get the chance to sweeten our sentence? From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>

Moments, Israel 2002

17 very short films by 17 Israel filmmakers, presenting the different faces of Israel and exploring the complexity and intensity of life in Israel. In the Name of Defensive Shield/Anat Even Kheira’s Smile/Ariella Azoulay Security Groove/Idan Alterman Hatikva/Rafi Bukai Status Quo/Gur Bentvitch, Nir Miterraso 72 Virgins/Uri Bar-On Crazy/Uri Barabash Times are bad/Amos Gitai Mouth of […] >>

Please Hold The Line

Tali, a single mom, finds out her bank account is blocked. The kindergarten payment fell through and her daughter is banned. She is lost between call centers, until she decides to gain back some self-respect. She takes her daughter to the call center of the insurance company that screwed her. >>

No Child Spared

Meni Philip believed the days of teachers physically disciplining students belonged in the past, along with vague memories of abuse he suffered in school years ago. A viral post online proved otherwise, detailing brutality suffered at the hands of teachers in ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools and eliciting hundreds of similar stories. The responses sent Meni on […] >>

My Father Is A Drug Dealer

When my father, Meir Ariel, got into the Medical Cannabis Industry he never realized that after nine years he will be struggling to build the first production logistics factory of medical cannabis in Israel.And so, our family found itself joining my father’s dream and taking key roles in the company.This movie follows my father at […] >>

The Captains (Hakbarnitim)

A six-part series about six Israeli Prime Ministers, who try to look back on and examine the biggest decisions they made in office, how justified they were in real time and whether their outcomes stand the test of time. The series deals with Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, Shimon Peres […] >>

Fallen in Time

Dory packs his parents’ house and breaks up from his partner, whilst he still finds it difficult and unsettled, the most magical thing happens to him: his childhood room turn to a time portal, Dory becomes a child again and meet his late brother the night before he fell in battle. This opportunity becomes a turning […] >>

Backwards

On the morning of his daughter’s birthday, Natan (73) decides to throw a big party. He wakes Hagar (69) and expects her to get up and help organize. They start the morning organizing the house for a party, hanging balloons and baking a cake. When hagar can’t find any strawberries for the cake, Natan volunteers […] >>