Neither Day Nor Night

A Sephardic Baalei Teshuva family tries to integrate within the insular Ashkenazi Haredi community in Bnei Brak. Their son Raphael, a prodigy, is not accepted into a prestigious yeshiva. His mother, Ahuva, tries to handle the situation peacefully, but his father, Shmuel, a handyman with great faith, struggles to accept the situation. Shmuel fights to […] >>

Otherwise

When a Tel Aviv family decides to evict a tenant, a single mother Sudanese, after a year of evading her pay, the family’s liberal ideology cracks. Noga (17) confronts her mother Dalia (52) to prevent the eviction but finds an overwhelming reality. >>

Wild City

After a historical shift of power in Haifa’s city hall, the relationship between the city’s residents and the local wild boars becomes more intense than ever. In the streets of this sleepy port city, a primal struggle erupts over the fate of the new guests. Through several points of view, five years and two election […] >>

The Arena

A group of citizens set out to change the municipal plan to demolish and reconstruct Rabin Square. This film seamlessly connects venue with emotion, exploring the personal stories, national dramas, and every day life of a space which can see, absorb, and experience, but can only tell its story through the people who visit it. >>

Beyond Hitler’s Grasp

Beyond Hitler’s Grasp tells the story of Bulgaria, one of the smallest European nations, and how the country managed to save and protect its Jewish population while under German rule during World War II. A hopeful and inspring story amidst the horrors of the Holocaust, Bulgaria protected its Jewish minority from the death camps despite […] >>

My Lover, the Clock Thief

It all started with a watch, or more precisely, with over 106 rare European timepieces. One piece alone, made especially for ill-fated French queen Marie Antoinette, was valued at a whopping $30 million. On a quiet Friday evening in 1983, the collection disappeared from Jerusalem’s Museum of Islamic Art. It wasn’t seen again for a […] >>

Love Inventory

David Fisher, the director of this film, lost his parents one after the other, leaving him and his four siblings with a 45-year-old mystery. For two years he’s been searching for his sister, who was taken as a day-old infant from his mother’s bed in the maternity hospital. His parents, both Holocaust survivors, arrived in […] >>

A Place To Be

Hybrid film, combining both fiction and documentary. The story of three good friends, homelessness, from the suburbs of Israel, that decided to go to a trip to The big city Tel-Aviv in order to fulfill their dreams. >>

Short:Long – A Tribute to Israeli Cinema

A tribute to Israeli cinema upon reaching its 80th anniversary. A unique artistic project of young, vibrant filmmaking, which stems from Israel’s cinematic past. 9 Young filmmakers showcased 8 short films, inspired by local classics.This homages bring together the next generation of Israeli cinema with past legends such as Uri Zohar, Savi Gabizon, Boaz Davidson, Raffi […] >>

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? >>

Wetland

In 1957, Israel completed the drainage of the Hula wetlands and lake to clear land for agriculture. The Hula drainage project was the “flagship operation” of the young State of Israel. A year before the drainage was complete, three photographers from Jerusalem left their jobs, homes, and families, pooled all their savings, and set out […] >>

Vita Activa, The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

A personal spiritual biography of the Jewish philosopher, Hannah Arendt, who coined the controversial phrase “The Banality of Evil,” in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. The movie tracks the connections between her life story and her thinking, through rare archival footage demonstrating the Banality of Evil. Her Ideas on the nature of Evil, pluralism, Freedom, […] >>

The Last Lapdance

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The Life and Death of Anna Lysis

Anna Lysis is a drag queen who meets different men over the course of one night. Some approach her; Some she flirts with. At the end of the night, all encounters unite and raise questions about trauma, identity, and repression. >>

Love is Blind and Deaf

Adam and Eve move in together. Only this time there’s no Garden of Eden No snake to blame and not much of a god to be afraid of.Just two people struggling to get along together, one apple and some fig leaves. Based on a new story by Jonathan Safran Foer, this short film is a […] >>