Awakening

Fearing the consequences a married couple try to conceal a fatal accident. The father, a poultry farmer from the Galilee, is repressing all feelings and looking at the death of his son as a way of nature, but finely is being expelled by his wife, who cannot stand the absence of the loved one and […] >>

My Own Telenovela

An immigrant from Argentina, Jorge Weller has built a life for himself in Ra’anana, Israel but constantly yearns for the family he left behind in South America —  His aging father, his older sister Graciela, and his younger sister Clarisa, a zestful, mentally challenged woman of 30. Clarisa’s genuine wisdom shines through her clinically defined […] >>

Le Grand Akshan

Grisha Starosta was 21 years old when he left his wealthy bourgeois home and followed his dream to become a pioneer in Palestine, but he had to leave the orange groves of Kfar Saba and return to Romania just a few months later when he learned he had a daughter. Many years would pass until […] >>

Turn Over the Stones

Long after he was locked in jail, isolated from society, Sami won his freedom, but he still had a hard time forgiving himself. Sami lives his life in a small container in the middle of the desert, while the big house he built for his wife Kohava, stands empty. Sami suffers from manic-depressive psychosis that […] >>

Ungrateful

After her estrangement from her family, Asia comes to find a dilapidated childhood home. During her visit, Asia realizes her siblings are suffering from the same neglect that she had suffered from as a child. Now, she’s torn between escaping the anguish caused by her abusive mother, to her duty to her siblings. >>

One Street in Silwan

One Street in Silwan tells the story of “Batan al-Hawa” Street (East Jerusalem), which overlooks the Temple Mount and serves as a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On one side of the street, live Israeli settlers in a house that once belonged to an evicted Palestinian family. On the other side, a Palestinian family faces […] >>

Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive

A dark romantic comedy following the life of Ronen Matalon who starts conducting tours of famous terror attack sites along Jerusalem’s Jaffa Street. >>

Moon Hill

Precocious eleven-year-old Yoav and his family must leave their familiar neighborhood in Tel Aviv for new opportunties in the northern city of Nazrat Elit. Malka, his mother, finds a job in a hotel and with it, new confidence and assertiveness. His older sister Anat falls in love with a romantic would-be rock star whose own […] >>

Wild West Hebron

Like all good Westerns, Wild West Hebron challenges the ideas of hero and villain. In the often-violent area of Mt. Hebron, a conflict between Palestinians, Israeli settlers, and anti-occupation activists may seem clear-cut, but the journey of one settler defies common preconceptions. Yochanan Sharet, born to a Protestant family in Bavaria, visited Israel as a […] >>

Esther

Esther Ofarim was once the voice of Israel. Now 85, she lives a quiet life in Hamburg, far from the Middle East. After achieving global stardom, her move to Germany in the 1960s brought European acclaim but growing rejection in Israel, rendering her both iconic and invisible. Through intimate phone conversations and rare archival footage, […] >>

Underdogs – A War Story

The battle between rich and poor takes place on a grassy field. The town of Beit Shean’s soccer team is fighting for its life to stay in the National League. While grappling for control of the ball, the players are really engaged in a bitter class struggle. Beit Shean versus Tel Aviv, versus Haifa, and […] >>

Rashbi’s Secret

We’ve all heard about the national catastrophe that took place in 2021 at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yohai in Meiron; but many of us are not familiar with the site and do not understand the essence of the faith that causes hundreds of thousands of people to visit the tomb every year. Rashbi’s Secret […] >>

Mirror Image

When Naomi duplicates a key for her boyfriend without asking her roommate, a war of attrition ensues. They spare no means to destroy everything in the battle to win over the apartment. >>

Shadow of Truth: The Verdict

In the winter of 2006 13-year-old Tair Rada was found dead inside a locked toilet stall at her school on the northern tip of Israel. A week later the police arrested Roman Zdorov, a Ukrainian Immigrant, who had worked there as a temp, and eventually he confessed to the murder. But many still believed he […] >>

1,2,3,4 Adolf Hitler At My Door

Tami, an Israeli Journalist, travels to Germany to interview Israelis who have chosen to live there: Dr. Ruth Hertz, a judge in Colonge, Dr. Yoram Levi, a plastic surgeon in Garmisch, Naomi Tereza Salmon, a photographer in Weimar, and Prof. Michael Wolffsohn, a history lecturer at the German army Officers’ Academy in Munich. While Tami […] >>