A law student makes money by donating sperm, and has a steady relationship with his girlfriend. A plane crash causes him to get injured and lose his potency. He marries his girlfriend, but the feeling of emptiness and the knowledge that he will not have children with his wife lead him on a destructive search for the last woman to whom she donated sperm.
It's the greasy 50's, and girls are still causing problems for the Lemon Popsicle boys! Benji falls head over heels in love with new girl Tammy but manages to ruin the relationship by pushing her to go all the way. Benji is the object of Martha's affections, even though she is dating Huey, and as usual Bobby is finding it hard to stay faithful to just one girl! Going Stead is set against a backdrop of sunlit beaches, moonlit nights... and Rock 'n' Roll!
“All my movies are personal without being autobiographical,” says Avi Nesher, a filmmaker who combines his personal life and the history of Israel in his films. This documentary examines the DNA of Nesher’s cinematic creations , which include musicals, dramas, and comedies, chronicling the homeland in which he started his career at the age of 24 and where he continues to create at 71.
After the death of her father, Ayelet discovers that he had an affair with a man. Ayelet confronts her mother, and discovers that she knew about it. Ayelet decides to invite her father's lover to his grave, despite her mother's opinion.
Rabbi Kuni Lemle has just finished a Torah and is going to donate it to a congregation in Cairo. In exchange for the Torah scroll, the congregation in Cairo will give Kuni's congregation some antique coins valued at a million dollars. Kuni's twin brother's bosses hear about it and they make Muni dress up as Kuni so that he will get the coins instead. Muni gives the coins back to Kuni and the movie ends with a bunch of dancing Hassidim.
After winning the best film award at the Cannes Film Festival, the legendary film producer - Yonatan Harel, is facing bankruptcy due to a chain of anomalies in the film budgets and investors who withdrew their investment due to the Corona virus. Jonathan tries to survive and save his life, with the help of his lawyer and close friend. On the occasion of winning the Cannes Orit festival, his wife throws him a surprise party and invites the entire film industry, and the professionals he worked with: Gadi Harush, the legendary actor and borderline personality, and the stars of his winning film, Eli Gold and Dafna. Jonathan decides to monitor the entire house with cameras and what he discovers will be beyond his wildest imagination.
The Schwartz Dinasty belong to a long tradition of Jewish rabbis. The grandfathers took their faith and turned it into deeds coming to the Land of Israel to start a new life and build a country. Where are their descendants and how are they doing in the Israel of today?
Clara, a polish born Jew, living in Tel Aviv of the 1970's, has her ideas about how people should behave, and runs everybody's life accordingly: her husband, her sisters, their husbands, their children, her brother who lives in London (probably because it was the only way to get away from her...). Whenever something "improper" does happen, Clara's way of handling it is simply to shove it under the carpet and ignore it completely, as if it never happened. 3 basic rules, are, of course: 1. Never marry some one "under" your class (Or the class you think you are). 2. Never become pregnant out of wedlock and 3. No Abortions. As one may expect, everything crumbles when her niece gives her no option, but to break at least one of those rules
The ageless man walks in the apocalyptic streets of Tel Aviv. In the eyes of two restless teenagers he finds his lost youth. They will tease him, they will seduce him, they will surrender.
A group of soldiers is sent to moshav for a few days of vacation. Or, maybe, not so vacation...
A film adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk’s book. An Israeli artist leaves his wife and daughter in New York and returns to Israel after years of absence. He seeks to decipher the meaning of his sense of failure as a person, as a family man, as an artist. His best friends died in the war, his paintings were burned, he abandoned his family. He decides to make a film about himself, his parents, Tel Aviv, about everything that is contained in the puzzle called human life – but in the end he burns his work.
"Life has passed and we have achieved nothing" Thats's what Ester the youngest says. The eldest, Karola, keeps quite. Fruma, who is my mother, tries to write what she remembers. Three sisters in thier 70's, Holocaust survivors. More then 50 years have passed and still they can't talk of thier memories. This is a film about the trauma...
On the day he is released from prison, Yisarael appears on the doorstep of the woman whose life he had changed. A weird relationship develops between the two.
An apartment building in a small village, live human characters and funny puppets. The building moves a new family with their daughter Billie who love to discover the magical corners common building and especially the guava tree. However, there are those who are less like the guava tree, whose fruits fall directly in the territory and is rich mayor who decides to uproot the tree.
Michal is 32 years old. She became religious 12 years ago, and only now is she getting married. A month before the wedding, while checking out the catering for the event, the groom has a change of heart and the wedding is called off. Michal feels she’s unable to go back to ordinary life, to the usual course of matchmaking. She feels this is the moment to change something very basic in her personality. A simple belief that God is good and sweet; that He wants to give and is only waiting for her to wish it. Michal goes on a month-long journey lasting up to the planned wedding day: “I have the venue, the dress, the apartment; God can easily come up with my groom.”
Filmed in one sequence-shot of 1 hour and 25 minutes, Ana Arabia is a moment in the life of a small community of outcasts, Jews and Arabs, who live together in a forgotten enclave at the “border” between Jaffa and Bat Yam, in Israel. One day, Yael, a young journalist, visits them. In these dilapidated shacks, in the orchard filled with lemon trees and surrounded by mass public houses, she discovers a range of characters far removed from the usual clichés offered by the region. Yael has the feeling of having discovered a human goldmine. She no longer thinks of her job. Faces and words of Youssef and Miriam, Sarah and Walid, of their neighbors, their friends tell her about life, its dreams and its hopes, its love affairs, desires and disillusions. Their relation to time is different than that of the city around them. In this tinkered and fragile place, there is a possibility of coexistence. A universal metaphor.
A couple finds themselves in a ransacked apartment after a robbery that sends them on a bizarre nighttime journey. The wife embarks on a passionate sexual adventure with a rude cop, and the husband meets a prostitute and her violent pimp. And that's just the beginning. A film in which several plot lines intersect, featuring cops and robbers, prostitutes and reformed criminals, sports fans, and dogs that... don't bark in green.
When Thomas Overby mistakenly believes Aya is his assigned driver, she spontaneously decides to go along with the charade and drives him to Jerusalem. A stiff and guarded pianist, Overby is intrigued by the impulsive though melancholy Aya. As they slowly begin to connect, the film takes us on a journey we hope will never end.
Kuni Lemel's grandfather, who lives in Brooklyn, says he will give his fortune to the grandson who will move to Israel and marry a Jewish girl. The twin grandsons, Kuni the Orthodox and Moni the secular, compete for the money.
Israeli TV sitcom about a divorced couple trying to live their lives together.
It's about human history, how humans shaped the world we live in. A history through cultures and civilizations - from early Mesopotamia to the industrial revolution. Documentary series from various european production company’s like BBC, SVT, NRK, DR, ARTE, Covering serveral topics of war, Persons Like Cleopatra, Hitler, George Washington, etc
Asfur is an Israeli television series, which is broadcast on the channel HOT3. Its title, which literally means "bird" in Arabic, is the main protagonist's "good luck bird" – his late grandfather believed that its arrival symbolized a positive turn of events. Hot had already started working on two additional seasons even before the television pilot was aired. Season two began airing on October 17, 2011. Savyon and Amir sold the format to John Wells in October 2011. The adaptation, named "Hard Up", will air on FOX.
Rechov Sumsum is an Israeli educational television program for preschoolers, based on the popular U.S. children's show "Sesame Street". The first three series of the show were a joint production of the Israeli educational television and the CTW, a Worldwide American non-profit organization which has been co-producing the original American "Sesame Street" since 1969.
A group of teenagers live in a small neighborhood, everybody know each other and all are good friends. However, behind a wall there is a big city of rich people, that will do anything to make the others feel bad.
The series tells the story of Dana, Dafi, Elinor, and Tamar ,four good friends.
The story of Shemesh, a Simple guy from the suburbs who moves to the big city to fulfill his dreams appealed to the Israeli market as they've also crowned. Shemesh's Struggle to cope with life in the big city, Financial, Social and Romantic wise, provides endless comic moments, and filled with laughs and humor its 6 seasons, Maintaining great popularity and high rating scores. Along with Shemesh, staring in the show and taking part in his life adventure, are his best friends and neighbors
Split is an Israeli supernatural drama series. It is directed by Shai Kapon and airs on the HOT VOD Young channel.It is produced by the Dori Media Group through its subsidiary Dori Media Darset.
Akiva and Shulem Shtisel, father and son, sit on a little balcony overlooking streets of the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem. A year has passed since the mother died. All the other children have left the nest, and only Shulam and Akiva remain - quarreling, making up, and laughing about themselves and the rest of the world. All will change when Akiva meets Elisheva.
Noa is a teenaged- singer, actress and model who navigates the equally complicated worlds of high school and celebrity. With an ex-best friend thinking fame has changed her, a manager who controls her every career move, and anonymous internet blogger Kitty Popper who writes scathing posts about her- Noa is forced to deal with confrontations on all fronts. But what no one knows is that Noa is actually Kitty Popper - she criticizes herself under a pseudonym to pressure her manager to take her career in the direction that she wants it to go. But when an actual stalker threatens Noa – she and her friends are forced into action.
An Israeli telenovela that follows Rona Meiri, a catering business owner from a disadvantaged neighborhood, who gets involved with a criminal named Eli Marco. While trying to escape him, she encounters Doron Kadmi, who helps her out of her predicament. Later, Rona is hired to care for Maya Kadmi, the temporarily disabled daughter of Doron, a senior manager at a prestigious winery. Doron is remarried to Smadar Kadmi, a scheming and manipulative woman who murdered Doron's first wife. With her personal charm and positive personality, Rona wins over Doron and his daughter. Smadar tries to frame Rona by breaking into the family winery, making Rona the prime suspect in the crime. Rona escapes from custody and tries to find out who the real perpetrators are in order to prove her innocence.
The series, loosely based on the true story of the assassination in Dubai of a senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh - the co-founder of military wing of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on 19 January 2010, revolves around five ordinary Israeli citizens who discover one morning via the media that they are the principal suspects of a high-profile kidnapping and are implicated as culprits in the kidnapping.
BeTipul is an Israeli television drama revolving around the personal and professional life of an Israeli psychologist, Reuven Dagan, played by Assi Dayan. The series portrays a psychologist who treats patients at his clinic five days a week and then seeks psychological treatment for himself. Filmmaker Ari Folman served as the head writer of the series.
