A documentary about the work and personality of Meir Ariel, as never revealed. A film trying to crack the enigma called Meir Ariel and understand how the abundance of the creation that was caused by him expressed his stormy soul.
The life of Guy changes when a stranger approaches him on Skype. Soon he realizes how much this stranger knows about him and becomes the victim of an on-line revenge for stealing the strangers lover.
The rarely heard story of 300 Jews from pre-Israel Palestine who departed to fight fascism and joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War from 1936–1939. Their bravery is displayed in this documentary that features archival photographs and interviews with surviving members of this elite group.
A Different point from the eyss of Yuval Shamshins's life, in the modern days of the Covid-19. The movie is built upon the small moments of life, full of Metaphors and Images in order to built a cinemathic perspective.
A musical, motoric mockumentary, telling the story of Yeled Ochel Mipach, the well known band, in its journey to reunite - with themselves as well
Two men are walking down the street holding each others hands. Using interviews held by the director with men of his hometown Tel Aviv, this animated short investigates an intimate yet very public gesture. Who's into it? Who avoid at all costs? And how come a public admission of your sexual nature can mean a whole different thing in another culture.
A personal video dairy: a coming of age story about being a teenager and figuring out your sexual identity.
The Loser Takes it All tells the story of Israeli band Ping Pong. Their song "Be happy" (Sameach) was chosen to the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden. The band insists to raise Israeli and Syrian flags on stage in their song as a symbol to the peace Israeli and Syrians are wishing for. Head of the delegation and Israeli broadcast association threaten that the band will not perform.
When an intelligence unit soldier starts to spy on a gay couple, he is lead to confront his own sexual identity.
Tal and Yossi are exclusively dating for two months now. An afternoon hot sex interferes with their plans when Yossi's condom disappeared deep in Tal's ass. Now they must deal with an HIV test, a test Tal has never taken yet, and the lost condom that must be found. Nurse Nona comes their aid illuminates the situation in her own special way.
When the inner world of Layla meets reality, her fantasy, of being accepted as a woman is being shaken by Jaffa's night.
Weeks after Shachar, a Jerusalem-based Yeshiva student, gets married his wife falls pregnant. The wife soon discovers that Shachar is in fact gay and throws him out before he ever gets to meet his daughter. Now at 40, Shachar volunteers at a LGBTQ hot-line and at nights, transforms himself into his drag alter ego - Rabbi Falsch. After years of keeping his distance, Shachar decides to step back into the ultra-orthodox world for a long overdue confrontation and first-time reunion with his daughter.
Three funerals, three generations, two wars and one boyfriend waiting in Tel Aviv. A troubling portrait of the filmmaker, a son to one of the founding families of Metula (a town on the northernmost Israeli border). Against the backdrop of a family dealing with illness and death, the film's protagonist is repeatedly called for reserve duty as a Tank Commander in the Israeli army. Through use of archive footage of events filmed over the course of a decade, the tragic-comic clash between the filmmaker and the habit of obedience unfolds.
In this experimental documentary about the filmmaker’s childhood home, a three-story apartment building in Jerusalem, past and current tenants recall their lives there and what they have witnessed and endured in a turbulent Israel.
Halit is very overweight. Still, she is a happy woman who has achieved professional success, has good friends and a loving life partner. At the age of 40 she begins to fear the future. The film follows the process of change Halit is going through and enables us to see her confronting her open wounds with courage in front of the camera. In a world where everyone wants to be thin, what will be Halit's choice? Her journey will change her world.
Monologues of homeless people translated into short animated films, together they try to build the experience of those who live in the streets.
Yidel, an Israeli businessman, is flying for a meeting overseas. The plane, mid-flight, encounters technical difficulties, and the pilot prepares for an emergency landing. Unsuccessful in the attempt, the plane crashes into a remote valley, far removed from civilization. Three passengers, Yidel included, survive the ordeal, yet the tragedy is far from over. They must now contend with inhumane conditions in addition to the lack of food and water. Yidel's hope is what keeps him going, as he sincerely believes that Hashem will rescue him from this terrible calamity. THE FILM CONVEYS THE POWER OF HAVING EMUNAH IN HASHEM, EVEN WHEN THE OUTCOME LOOKS BLEAK.
Rachel, a religious and single woman in her forties, gets a lift from Haim - a secular and married farmer, and father of six. This encounter leads to the birth of Yair. Thirty years later, hoping to understand the secret affair that brought him to this world, Yair takes two separate trips with his parents: his dad takes him on a pleasure cruise, during the Israel-Gaza 2014 conflict, while his mother flies with him to the Ukraine, following the lives of "Great Hebrew Authors." Yair is now exposed to two completely conflicting narratives, which make up one story - funny, whacky, full of lies, grandeur, wretchedness - and love.
The director's mother's last wish was to be buried as a Muslim in Omer, her Jewish hometown, where she lived for 20 years. During the process of separation from the mother, the film reveals the family intimacy, secrets, and dilemmas, raises serious questions about women's identity, nationality, and the meaning of home.
Liad, a lefty human rights defender dominatrix, re-educates her right-wing-leaning obedient submissive slaves to follow upstanding leftist ethos and morals by using consensual domination practices.
