Gewild Van Israel

A rare look at the interactions between women inmates and wardens over a period of two years. Ethnic diversity is explored within the confines of tiny prison cells.

Chancela fled home at the age of six. As a young charismatic African-Israeli, he abandons the community for fame and success in the big city. Coming of age, his origins emerge making him fight for his identity and face his violent refugee father. Now comes the inner conflict, tearing him Inside-Out almost like a REBIRTH. The Birth of his 'NEW BLACK'.

Two and a half years after the sudden death of Moti Kirschenbaum, his grandson Liri and his son Knaan went to the Okavango Delta, an amazing natural land, to photograph and tell experiences from another journey. 12 days in field conditions, far from civilization, sleeping in the bedroom of the zebra and the elephant. This is the story of a "Kirschenbaum" journey in Africa. A story about difficult roads, rains, winds and thoughts in the Land of Nature in Genesis.

A Comic Documentary That Follows The 2001 Cannabis Cup Competition In Amsterdam, Right After 9/11.

Through the story of the late Shulamit Aloni the film traces the history and current situation of the two extremes at which she chose to position herself – feminism in gender issues and the left in Israeli politics. The film asks how and why Aloni chose these extremes rather than yielding to the warm embrace of the consensus where in fact she grew up and developed. Did she leave the consensus behind or did she reach its outer limits and remained within them?

Naama, a woman in her late 20s, wants a serious relationship with Guy. But Naama doesn't understand that she's the "third wheel" - Guy is in love with his lesbian girlfriend Yael. The film depicts how each of them has a different view on relationships.

finale student film in film studies by Emanuel Verses, at the "camera obscure."

Lior and his mom are sitting in a cafe and bored while mom is on the phone. The girl asks her mother for juice supplements and promises that she will not want to go to the toilet. She tells her mom that she has guards in her stomach who will help fulfill the promise. And then the wild fun begins.

The story of Yoni and Nadav - two friends with trust issues, Boom and Ghetto - two soldiers in a criminal organization, and Zomer and Teichner - a pair of corrupt policemen. The six enter a vortex of violence, lies, and drugs - due to a dramatic poker night where all the cards are revealed. The three duos lead us through the dark colors and shadows of an underground city, a crime neighborhood controlled by the Georgian Ido.

Tysir is 15 when released from prison on parole. The only one waiting for him is Yonatan, a social worker from the Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority. Yonatan tries to help Tysir to beat the statistics where 3 out of 4 teens return to prison. The deal, which seemed attractive behind bars, becomes a rocky journey in an impossible reality.

Molètai is a small town in Lithuania with a dark past. On Aug. 29, 1941, Molètai residents, in partnership with Nazi officers, massacred the Jewish townspeople. These victims had been rounded up a few days earlier and locked inside the local synagogue without food or water. Around 2,000 Jews were then marched to the edge of the town and murdered. Locals dumped their bodies into a pit.

Nurit walks us through her journey into motherhood, which begins with a silent birth, continues to fertility treatments, and ends up with fixing the Eilat cemetery, where she finds closure.

The agents of the Jewish General Security Services (SHABAK) are known as "Moses' Spies". This film addresses recruiting undercover agents to infiltrate and assimilate into outposts suspected of hostile subversion.

Binyamin Haneman's graduation project is dedicated to his homeland — the Israeli settlement of Psagot, situated on the border with Ramallah and Palestinian villages. Using a camera, old photographs, and conversations with two other individuals from Psagot — poet and writer Yonatan Berg and artist Yifat Steinmetz — the director reconstructs the history of the place where, during their childhood, there were no fences with barbed wire and armed militants on the border between the two countries. He remembers how in 2000, at the start of the Second Intifada (escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), the town rapidly transformed into a site of deadly conflict between two nations, ideologies, and religions.

Meitar Libi Flam's student work is a lyrical self-portrait of the 26-year-old filmmaker, woven from dreams and fantasies, words, music, and visual images. Flam believes that art helps formulate and convey the most hidden feelings that otherwise remain unreflected, causing restlessness and anxiety. In this sense, the artistic form serves as a way to delve deep within oneself and holds a therapeutic function. The film by Flam reached the semi-final stage of the Student Oscars (2021) and was also honored with a special mention by the jury at the Bordeaux Short Film Festival (2022).

Maya Mcmanus Ronen's debut film focuses on exploring life in the kibbutz of Neot Smadar. This kibbutz was reestablished by a group of like-minded individuals who left Jerusalem and decided to build a cooperative and horizontally structured community. Every couple of years, a significant event takes place here — residents swap houses with each other. What's unique is that no one knows in advance which house they will receive. Maya Ronen's film is an attempt to peer into the unconventional life of this community, understand the rules it lives by, and delve into the intricacies of the regular ritual of house swapping.