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Keren Gueller’s work, Counting Sheep, corresponds with one of Israeli children’s constitutive albums, Ha’Keves Ha’shisha Asar(The 16th Sheep). The work alluds to the gap between the idyllic superficial picture we have of childhood and the cracks that are formed within the image and reveal a reality that is usually censored and deemed unfit for children’s […] >>
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Mindy, A shy nerdy young girl, is trying to catch a star. While she looks at the sky, her neighbor watches her. From here on starts a competition between the two that will make the main character learn an important lesson about friendship. >>
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In 1990, 22-year-old Marisa Villozial left her two small children with her parents in Bolivia and traveled overseas to look for a job in the West. She spent fifteen years doing hard menial labor in Israel, sending her pay home. In 2005, Marisa returned to Bolivia to reunite with her children and family, but was […] >>
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A man learns from a Moroccan fortune-teller that his sister is about to die. Together, they embark upon a fictional journey in an attempt to alter the prediction, revisiting the past and the present to defy an implacable future. But the prophecy still shadows them – as in life, so in cinema. Black Notebooks – […] >>
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Debbie Lasri celebrates her 51st birthday in a psychiatric ward. Riva, her partner, arrives at the ward with Michal, her video-therapy student, hired to make a personal video with Debbie. Michal is drawn into Debbie’s world, but her story is full of gaps. As curiosity and over-motivation become an obsession, Michal crosses the lines looking […] >>
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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 […] >>
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Grandma Rivka is forced to leave her home and memories to move in with her children and grandchildren. She finds the transition unbearable, but her family shows her love and sensitivity as they lead her toward a new life, where there is room for memories as well. >>
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One neighborhood, one cop, one night. The Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of Rehovot is undoubtedly the most homogeneous neighborhood in Israel, always was. It was never officially defined, but when you look at the history of the neighborhood, you discover that virtually every decade there has been a population turnover in Kiryat Moshe and it has […] >>
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Since Israel’s decisive victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens have made their homes in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank. With unprecedented access to pioneers of the settlement movement and a diverse group of modern-day settlers, religious and secular alike, The Settlers is a comprehensive exploration of the […] >>
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Fox and Crow are pushed into the same landscape. The two fight for their territory in a video game that plays itself. A wildlife computer generated simulation with an open-ended narrative. >>
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Yaffa (80) lives in a care home. She relives her childhood through postcards sent by her father from all over the world. >>
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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? >>
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In Ae’bleen, an Arab village in the Galilee, Rageb and Ward are best friends, and their Christian families enjoy excellent neighborly relations. One night, during an argument, Ward’s brother, provokes Rageb, cursing his sister. Rageb pulls a gun and kills him. Now the victim’s family must avenge. It’s a cultural norm. Their honor is at […] >>
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A Palestinian in Ramallah, Mosab Hassan Yousef grows up angry and ready to fight Israel. Arrested for smuggling guns at the age of 17, he’s interrogated by the Shin Bet, Israel’s security service, and sent to prison. But shocked by Hamas’s ruthless tactics in the prison and the organization’s escalating campaign of suicide bombings outside, […] >>
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A literary-documentary journey into Block 461 in Ma’alot. The film presents cooperation and confrontation between documentary expression and the literary text written by the novelist Sara Shilo. The Neighborhood – “This is a tolerant neighborhood, like the seashore. Wave after wave of immigrant families have broken on it for decades.” Snow-White – “Snow fell in […] >>