Cut to the Chase

A cinematic puzzle made up of hundreds of Israeli feature films from the 1960’s till this day. Fragments of shots, pieces of scenes, and short clips from different periods, styles, and colors, are assembled together to create a new narrative: the story of the Israeli man, as seen on screen, searching for love; between wars, […] >>

Father Tongue

A relationship between Dror, a deaf child, and his father, Moshik, who finds it difficult to accept his deafness. Moshik insists Dror goes to a school for hearing children, but Dror feels rejected and experiences bullying. Moshik doesn’t read the signals, even when Dror angrily breaks his precious hearing implant in protest. The rift between […] >>

Francesca

In 1945, an SS officer was shot by a Jewish woman near the gas chamber in Auschwitz. It is said that the act of heroism was done by Francesca Mann, a Jewish dancer from Warsaw. This act of heroism did not receive the resonance it deserved, perhaps because of the rumours that Francesca was an […] >>

Children of Peace

Arabs and Jews have lived in ongoing conflict for over a century. A group of dreamers decided to challenge everything they know about their nationalities and histories and founded a village in 1970s Israel as a social experiment. The film follows the many children who were brought up in this unique environment. In this bold […] >>

I Hate My Friends

In the small and historic town of Mazkeret Batya, Ron Glaser (Tuval Shafir) and Tal Dreifuss (Leah Lev), two rebellious and sarcastic teenagers, dream of escaping their stifling, monotonous reality through their rock band, “Kill the Hipster” – their ticket to changing the world. But when their bandmate, the disloyal Tomer Weinstein, unexpectedly quits, the […] >>

How to Say Silence

A photo found by the filmmaker in her grandmother’s house after her death seems strange. She has a pregnant belly. But she had told the story of adopting the director’s father because she was not able to conceive. Her old friends explain that the kibbutz decided state-building efforts preclude giving birth, and she had an […] >>

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. >>

Once Upon a Time There Was a King

Nissim Aloni was a king of the Hebrew theater. The magical realm he created onstage brimmed with imagination and poetry, giving voice and vision to the loftiest dreams. But in a world dominated by a mundane, populist democracy and controlled by functionaries, Aloni found he was a king in exile, without a kingdom, without an […] >>

The Accident

Omri reunites his family for a drive to the desert. He asks them to recollect and talk about the fatal car accident they had on the way to his Bar Mitzvah 15 years earlier, an accident that led to his parent’s divorce. >>

Dimona Twist

Seven women arrive in Israel by ship in the 1950s and 1960s and are sent straight to Dimona, a town recently established in the desert. They now open up and share their life stories that have never before been told from their perspectives. What happened during the first fifteen years to the girls and women […] >>

Israel Mon Amour

The October war starts and Annabel, a new immigrant from Germany, finds herself torn between two identities. She is stuck now with Israelis and afraid of reaching out to her old German friends. Israel, formerly a strange country to her, suddenly turns out to be a new home. Waiting for her soldier boyfriend to return […] >>

Inta Omri

From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to Avanti Popolo – 1986. It’s a little known fact that within the already conflicted reality of Israel, Arab soldiers also serve in the Israeli army. On the memorial day of Yom Kippur, a small unit is sent to reinforce a remote army post alongside […] >>

Out at Six

A young girl from a good home starts dating a slightly older man, and it is not long before she starts falling out of her other connections and relationships, swallowed up by a closed world that only has two people (and a few big dogs tied to the front door). Although she hasn’t experience violence […] >>

Mitapolis – or Romy, Dasi and Abigail’s Great Adventure

Romy, along with her two younger sisters, embarks on a maritime quest aboard a floating bed. While looking for a treasure, they come across different components of their house: the living room has turned into a siren-filled lagoon, and their dad into a giant. >>

The Queen has no Crown

The Queen Has No Crown is a documentary film of Tomer Heymann’s that navigates the intimate lives of five brothers and their mother, as they experience the pains of exile and the joys of family bonding. Three of the Heymann sons take their families and leave Israel, one after the other, for “better” lives in […] >>