Parallel Paths 2025
Two strangers board a train, each engaged in their own phone call - slowly, their conversations reveal that they're not so different after all.
Two strangers board a train, each engaged in their own phone call - slowly, their conversations reveal that they're not so different after all.
A game of pretend between two girls quickly turns into a vicious battle between good and evil
Yoel, a 67-year-old man, discovers his car is missing from the parking lot. Convinced it was stolen for personal reasons, he embarks on a nocturnal revenge mission that quickly spirals out of control. His son, Ori, gets dragged along, desperately trying to stop him—or perhaps to see just how far his father is willing to go.
In the film, viewers will see how the veterans of the city of Arad and its founders, immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Bedouins, Eritrean migrant workers and Sudanese refugees, ultra-Orthodox from the Gur Hasidic community and others live together. The character of a place and the changes it has undergone over decades are revealed through a moving series of encounters with its residents. Zeltzer documents the diversity of the city's population over the course of one summer. She talks to its residents, and sketches a diverse human fabric, an Israeli diversity that makes up the city's demographics today. A microcosm of Israel 2015. Documenting the moments of encounter with the city's people reveals each time another layer of tensions and strangeness, friendships and enemies, racism and the struggle against it, education and culture and politics and past traumas.
Saba Tuvia travels through time with his grandchildren in his magic flying tractor with songs and stories about the founding of the State of Israel and its history.
Today is March 9, which means it is time for Tom’s annual suicide attempt. It is also time for Kobi to process some bad news. The world and a broken car force them together on a surreal road trip—one that is aimed towards ending Tom’s life.
In Words that Remain, six people recall the languages that cradled their childhoods: Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian. These languages, while quite different from one another, have a common Hebrew component, and—especially—a common feature: all of them are written in Hebrew letters. These letters have, with the passage of time, lost their use and their force. Today, the languages themselves are becoming extinct. The resonance of their words, however, of melodies, rhythms, and accents, have left traces that still affect those who heard them as children.
a tragic story about a phone
a film that tells a story about paranoia during a war
On the night of her break-up with her girlfriend, Shai is cursed to read people's minds - except the opposite. Everyone can read her mind. Including her one true ex.
Abortions in Israel of 2024 are still controlled by the political establishment, and women don't have control over their bodies. The Jewish womb is a national-demographic one, serving the growth of the Jewish population in the Holy Land. Through personal stories, surprising archives, and revealing documents, the misogynistic and discriminatory attitude towards women's decisions about their bodies and future is exposed.
Distraught from his recent breakup, Ram storms out of therapy after confronting his therapist Rinat's perceived ineffectiveness. However, an unexpected terror attack nearby forces Ram back. Amidst the city's lockdown, the two realize they're going to spend the next hours together, creating conflict between Ram, who is stuck with the woman he feels bears the responsibility of keeping him sane, and Rinat, who faces the challenge of maintaining her professional facade.
Tamar, an ultra-Orthodox Israeli girl, is examined because she is no longer a virgin. An autobiographical story, a portrait of a community, of a religion, of a shared blindness.
Itay and Bar are in an open relationship. One day, Itay comes home and sees bar sleeping with who is supposed to be their surrogate. Itay is jealous, and tests how much he himself can resemble the woman Bar wants.
Alfred (81) is a colorful street philosopher, loved by women, but it’s Ruth (77) whom he has loved his whole life. After 18 years of separation from Ruth, their daughter sets out with a camera to confront the past and try to reunite the family once again.
“The Inner Truth”, led by Hila Alroi, the health correspondent of Channel 13, and directed by Liran Atzmon, sets out to examine how the transgender issue, while indeed affecting a very small percentage of the population, is at the heart of the media attention, discourse on social networks, a matter of dispute for organizations dealing with the subject (both in terms of community rights and in the struggle against its legitimacy), protests, films, and books.