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After 80 years, a crowd of animals and people gather in a majestic scene to mourn a dog, who lost his life during the Battle of Haifa in the Al-Kafrayn village by the Occupation forces.

After twenty years of screening films about courageous individuals, the Festival finally gets an opportunity to honour a local hero! For 28 years, she was the best-kept secret in the Jewish world. Even though Syrian Jews were denied the right to emigrate, they had heard that there was a mysterious woman called "Mrs. Judy" who was working secretly to help them. To the world around her, Judy Feld Carr was a mother of six, a musicologist, and a synagogue president in Toronto, Canada. Clandestinely, she was a one-woman secret organization, who succeeded in enabling 3,228 Jews to be brought to freedom. Most of those rescued had no idea who was responsible for their release. Her amazing story is told for the first time on film.

Director Tal Haim Yoffe (The Green Dumpster Mystery) joins asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan, along with their supporters, as they set out for an orderly march through Tel Aviv. Along the way, Yoffe looks at how the city’s streets and monuments reflect the diverse cultures that were welcomed by the ‘White City.’ As the demonstration grows, the call builds for the city to welcome its newest residents. An expertly-crafted documentary that looks at how a demonstration for tolerance of Tel Aviv’s most recent arrivals fits with the history of the city, as shaped by Jewish immigrants from around the world.

Mika's boyfriend Nati puts an end to the relationship when Mika proposes marriage. Mika moves back home and becomes addicted to the ATARI video game still sitting in her childhood room. But going back to the past doesn't heal Mika's heartache. She will have to find another way of moving on.

A stunning animated film depicting the inner dialogue of a woman converting to Judaism as she first undergoes the mikvah process.

Night, a shared apartment. Art and sexuality intersect in the lives of Geffen and Amit, and the two cross the lines no roommate would want to cross. Or would they?

On a wild island live four women in harmony. A bra from different times, washed ashore on a stormy night, violates the balance of life on the island and causing chaos and destruction. The new object becomes the focus of a quarrel. "Carried away" is a parable of the immense power inherent in the female collective and its destructive potential.

This experimental film is an attempt to convey the hobo's thoughts as he wanders through the various spaces. Observing space is intriguing and raises questions - what is similar to what? Does the bicycle have a soul? What is the difference between nature and the city?

Chaya and Shoshana, two Orthodox Jewish women who are close friends, are forced to face up to reality when they meet as bride and bridesmaid on Chaya’s wedding day.

Through lines of poetry and psychological dance, Hagar tries to persuade her partner out of the closet.

The untold story about the rise and fall of Israel's most famous magic duo - Chico and Diko, who were huge stars in Israel in the 80's.

This beat must be on the spectrum.

Yotams is a guitar teacher who loves Science but one day his students get kidnap and he needs to save them with his big guitar

The Angel of History deals with the troubling presence of unsolved past events in actual and imagined realities. It takes place in various public and private arenas like the artist's studio, the arena of murder, the photographic frame, the museum, the body or the cemetery. The Angel of History offers new perspectives for understanding the complex relations which are spun around the museal space. The movie probes beyond the standard and limited museal relationships between artist and work or viewer and work, exposing the fragile, troubled and intimate relations between the various protagonists who participate in the becoming-public of the work of art: between a daughter and her mother, between an analyst and his patient, between father and son, between photographer and photographic subject, between a ghost from the past and contemporary figures, and between hangman and victim.

A coming out story shot during the gay pride parade in Tel-Aviv, June 2010.

Anastasia is trapped in an abusive relationship with Noam – a talented pianist haunted by his past. At the steps of the Rape Crisis center, Anastasia meets the pop-star Libby. Their encounter helps her to break free from the constraints of Noam, but also results in her adopting aggressive patterns of her own.

Director Amir Stolar tries to recall the event of the day when his father abandoned him and fled the country, 12 years ago. His digging into this old wound blends with the inter-continental relationship he has with Victor, his Swedish partner. Gradually, things turn into a bureaucratic struggle intended to get Amir’s father to attend the wedding of Amir’s brother, Roni.

On a regular date between a girl and a boy an unexpected natural twist raises questions about the desires and the urges of modern day people.