Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-44 of 44
- Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.
- Uri makes a mistake in his interview for the army - he tells the truth. He says he's been sharing a room with his mother, his father is about to leave them, and he doesn't think he'll fit in in the army. In his last year of high school, Uri will have to find his path in life and a room of his own.
- Sea, sun, island, a family on vacation. And all Yuval wants is to get the heck out of there.
- Tala, 33, an Israeli offbeat musician, just had her first baby. Desperate to make a living and support her kid with no father in the picture, she takes up a job at the "Milky Way". In this dairy for breast milk, you can get the best newly mothers can offer: vegan, high-rate of protein, with top-quality essential nutrients milk. In this dystopic dark comedy, Tala embarks on a journey navigating the complexities of motherhood, while taking a glimpse into the wealthy lives she is supplying.
- Eight women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, young filmmaker. With each camera take, the group dynamic forces the women to challenge their beliefs as they get to know one other.
- Shuli and his friends go on an adventure. They discover new ability's they each have.
- 17-year- old ASHER has always been the impulsive troublemaker, from primary school, all through junior high and high school. It's hard for him to concentrate in class, and he is compelled by a lot of rage and violence; yet he is also endowed with a considerable amount of charm and street wisdom. While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to the family's scaffolding business, Asher finds a different masculine role model in his gentle literature teacher Rami and forges a special connection with him. Torn between the two worlds, Asher looks for a chance for a new life and new identity. When a sudden tragedy occurs, he has to take the ultimate test of maturity.
- Aya, who's waiting for her husband at the airport, picks up a complete stranger instead and drives him to his hotel. The stranger disappears, but leaves Aya with the key to his room, and the question how far she'll go to recreate intimacy.
- A young Israeli woman from a wealthy family volunteers at a soup kitchen in Tel Aviv.
- 28-year-old Motti works as a private home tutor, visiting the homes of a lively host of struggling students, all the while carrying a deep emotional wound, which he will have to mend and find his way back to living life once again.
- Two brothers kidnap a schoolmate to contribute to the family's income.
- Grandma Zohara occupies a special role within the Moroccan community within Israel. By cradling an object brought to her by her clients, Grandma Zohara gains access to the family's past through her dreams. This allows her to advise families on future decisions. Lately, however, Grandma Zohara is tiring and begins searching for someone to take over this role. She discovers that the only other person endowed with the power of dreaming is her daughter, Simone, who has different plans for her future. With support of Simone's sister, Fanny, who arrives unexpectedly from Paris, Simon gathers the strength to resist her mother's pressure and to pursue her own desire. Together the sisters wage battle for Simone's independence and creativity.
- In present day Jerusalem, a city increasingly dominated by religious fanaticism, Naomi, a secular young woman seeks refuge from the pressure of her life as a concert pianist. Overwhelmed by the expectations of her parents and her colleagues in Tel Aviv, Naomi seeks anonymity and solitude in the ancient city. Despite her intentions to stay alone, however, Naomi quickly makes two unexpected connections- one with a musically gifted Ultra-Orthodox young boy who lives in her building and the other, with Fabrizio, a charismatic Italian monk and organist. While these relationships allow Naomi to reconnect with her love of music and sense of meaning, they also make her a target in her new community. Faced with escalating isolation and violence, Naomi must learn to use music as a bridge to overcome towering religious barriers.
- "Ha'rutz Ha'Kibud" is Israel's best Pop group, but one of them speaks out against the IDF, and everything changes. They needs to draft in order to be popular again and by doing so they will need to understand the power they have together.
- A soldier sets off for a week of patrolling with his unit. It is not long before strange and frightening things begin to happen to all the soldiers, and they start question whether they will come out of this experience alive.
- When divorced Israeli dad Roberto finds himself on a spontaneous family trip from Israel to Brazil for the World Cup, with his Brazilian father, a soccer fanatic possibly, and his disinterested 12-year old son, what could possibly go wrong?
- After spending eight years in the farthest reaches of South America, 30-year-old Herzl returns home to Israel. With no ambitions or prospects for the future, he finds a job hanging posters across the country. Driving his a 1985 Volvo, with a pile of dusty Israeli folk tapes on the dashboard and a worn copy of Robinson Crusoe by his side, a young man journeys across the Israeli landscape, coming to terms with the memories of what he left behind.
- The Electrifiers won the 1984 Best New Artist Award for a smash hit which no one remembers, and have been stuck in traffic on the fast track to international stardom ever since. Thirty years later, the band members continue to drag themselves between gigs at nursing houses and cheap B&Bs while their lead singer still believes he is a 20-year-old rocker. But just as everyone is about to become completely fed up with him, a surprising opportunity presents itself, which could propel the Electrifiers straight to the top.
- Tamara, a young Tel Avivian is sitting in a coffee shop, preoccupied with her own thoughts when she is approached by a complete stranger with an urgent request. This encounter will lead Tamra on a mysterious voyage, in search of the truth
- Fifty years after Slow Down by Avraham Heffner won a prize at Venice Film Festival, top alumni of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School challenge the 1968 legendary black and white thirteeen-minute short, which penetrates the essence of a quarrel and reconciliation between an elderly couple in Tel Aviv of 1967. The voice over stream of consciousness of the heroine's poignant self-examination serves as the launching pad for six modern-day interpretations of couplehood, laced together in contemporary Israel.
- A man recreates, with poor means, a lost memory. A memory of the last day with his Mom. Objects comes to life, in a desperate struggle, to produce one moment that was gone.
- Minkush, a young ultra-Orthodox Hasidic woman, struggles to reconcile conflicting desires, hoping to win her husband's physical affection in a battle of love versus religious law.
- During the Second Lebanon War, Motti and Keren, a young orthodox couple from the North of Israel, looks for a place to stay to escape the bombings and stress of their hometown near the border. They end up at the heart of suburbia, in Tel Aviv, at the bourgeois apartment Yali and Boaz. The spacious apartment suddenly seems crowded and small when tensions between the couples begin to mount. The situation is further complicated as Keren's obvious pregnancy adds to the pain of Boaz and Yali, who cannot have children of their own. The shifting relationships between the four serve to examine the tensions and complexities of Israeli society today.
- HaMavdil, narrates the daily life of Jerusalem's marketplace, Mahane Yehuda. In this short documentary we get to experience it's magical distinction, from day to night.
- Gabriela is thrilled when she finds a baby alien in the forest- she always dreamed of having a daughter. She calls the baby Revital. As Revital grows and develops into a little alien girl, she finds it harder and harder to exist in a world so different from her. Gabriela does everything she can to put her daughter at ease and make her happy. But Revital remains sad. When an opportunity for a different life comes along, their love is put to the test.
- Matan is a young and idealistic teacher, but his students are not convinced. He wanted his lessons to be different, but he cannot seem to find the right path. Matan insists on preparing his students for life and to resolve an open chapter in his personal life.
- An inside look at the life of Israeli Doctor Irit Kafka, as she tries to balance her personal life and relationship with her own daughter, with her professional life, being a pioneer of IVF in Israel.
- In 2008, 60 cubic meters of snow were couriered from the Hermon mountain in the north of the country, to a city square in the centre of Tel Aviv. This stunt was orchestrated by the Municipality of Tel Aviv as a 'White Surprise' for its residents and as a tribute to the winter Olympics in Torino. That same morning, the Dahan family, who resided in front of the city square and had fallen on difficult times, were facing an eviction notice, effective immediately.
- Yonatan, a young rascal, needs fifteen Shekels. Everything else is not important right now.
- Canaan kills a bee. It is not the last thing he will kill today. How far would you go to defend the world you build for yourself? A tragicomic reflection about life, friendship and the power of fear.
- Forty years after he gave up on the love of his life in a cheap hotel room, Daniel returns there in a desperate attempt to relive the experience he denied. To his surprise, he discovers there Danny- a part of his younger self, left behind and stuck in the room all these years. The clash between them forces Daniel to face his suppressed feelings and find hope.
- Motti Maabari runs the greatest falafel shop in Jerusalem, and he's held this crown for over forty years. 'Homemade' offers us a glimpse into this man's life as he reconciles doing what he loves most with his inevitable retirement.
- A young woman, Zohara, has escaped the religious world of her famlily to live a secluded life in the desert. As she returns to see her family to participate in her sister's wedding, she encounters a young Bedouin Woman who is fleeing from an arranged marriage with her cousin. The two young women's paths cross and as they encounter each other, each individuals struggle with self definition is reflected as each one fights to express them self in a predetermined world.
- In order to go home for the weekend with the rest of the platoon, a fresh IDF soldier has to complete a one final task in 7 minutes.
- A magician and his assistant have found the perfect way to perform the 'Sawing a Woman in Half' trick by actually splitting a person in half.
- For Ze'ev, loneliness has never been this tangible. In his sixties, his wife leaves him for another man, and he remains alone with his thoughts, mistakes, jealousy and a faint lust for life and love. Straight from the heart of this restless life, a sudden birth might arrive, to which there was no preceding pregnancy; and perhaps, it won't arrive at all...
- Alegba family trying to get away from their life in a downtrodden neighborhood which is dominated by criminals
- A lonely apartment block occupied by solitary tenants. A woman lingering by her window; a man feeding some nocturnal cats; a married couple fighting endlessly; a little boy who has seen too much and a war that threatens their entire existence. Tonight their doors will open.