Facing the Wall

Surni, 14, wakes up to the first day without her love, Eli. She is in an Israeli absorption center. She keeps her eyes and ears closed, she won’t leave her bed, she just tries to shut out her new reality and pretend she never left Ethiopia. Her family attempts to get her out of bed. […] >>

Cheer Me Up

Gili dreams of becoming an independent woman. Noam, her husband, cannot possibly think of releasing his hold of her, he loves her to death. The film ‘Cheer Me Up’ reveals a 48-hour glimpse in the life of a family living in the shadow of domestic violence. >>

Souvenirs

Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers took part in a 10-day film lab in the Old City of Jerusalem, and the resulting anthology of four films breaths energy and life into the stories of the city, opening a window into the lives of the locals, who are regularly overlooked by tour guides: a 144 year old family […] >>

Caught

The tale of a giant spider living with an abusive partner is pushed to her limits. >>

Abu Omar

Salah faces the closed Israeli border crossing. He’s holding a large yellow duffel bag, inside the bag is his son Omar. The grieving father wants to bring his dead son back home, but due to a strict curfew, no one can come in or get out. >>

Shadow Puppets

Based on Amir Gutfreund’s short story A story of a friendship taking place in Israel in the mid 1980s between Uncle Nathan, a Holocaust survivor who communicates only through his shadow puppets, and his day-dreaming nephew. As Nathan’s shadow puppets act become less childish and more eccentric, his last connection to the world and rescue […] >>

Digital Diary

18-year-old Anton hangs out with thugs who steal cell phones in order to blackmail their owners. But when Anton pinches Meitar’s phone, he becomes obsessed with the world she has compulsively been recording on her phone. >>

At the Edge of My Window

Anat, a young woman, looks outside her bedroom window, Her grandfather, who passed away, appears outside the window and the city disappears. >>

Revived

At the end of a night out at a Jerusalem gay bar, Aaron can’t find his bag. Without the bag he cannot return home. Sefi, the bartender, tries to help him. Their fates will be linked tonight. >>

Eclipse

Two teenage brothers play outside on a sunny day until, suddenly, they witness a mysterious supernatural phenomenon. When they try to get closer, their game becomes very dangerous. >>

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 […] >>

Layers

Gali works as a mine clearer at a mine clearance site in the south of Israel, the only female in the team. The crew members, different types of people who escape from their world, live together and become each other’s family, and Gali feels like she belongs there. >>

The Patriarch’s Room

“Jaffa Gate Is Ours!” screamed the headlines in 2005. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos was accused of selling church property to Jewish settlers. He denied all the accusations. But for the first time in the church’s 2000-year history, its leader was ousted. For 11 long years, Irineos was imprisoned in his chambers. In this first-person account, […] >>

#uploading_holocaust

Thousands of young Israelis join “The journey to Poland” each year to learn about the Holocaust. Looking into the journey through the videos they upload on YouTube reveals a moving and troubling image of the Israeli narrative and the way collective memory is formed in the web age. >>

Two Kids a Day

About 700 Palestinian minors are arrested and jailed every year by the Israeli security forces in the West Bank. They are taken from their homes at night and interrogated, with mental and physical pressure, which violate international law. Almost all of them are convicted and sent to prison. The most common offence is stone throwing; […] >>