Celebrating their 60th Anniversary and now in their 80s, Hana and Nahum are facing a common dilemma: should they stay at their current home of nearly 50 years or downsize and move to a senior housing?
Aya is young, sensitive and very much in love. Love, in fact, is her essence. When she realizes that her boyfriend is about to break up with her, she runs away in a desperate attempt to hide from the inevitable.
Aya misses the last bus and is stuck in Jerusalem for the weekend. Her plans to watch Master Chef and eat cornflakes go awry when she receives a surprising phone call from Itamar, a student who studies with her.
Shay-Lee and Yahav spend a night of love and memories between worlds together. A young widow meets the ghost of her dead husband when she needs him the most. The filmmaker, Yahav Winner, was murdered by Hamas terrorists on the October 7th massacare after attempting to stall them in order to allow Shaylee Atary, his wife, to escape with their newly born daughter Shaya.
"Salma" is a young ambitious Palestinian woman who is trying to find her way towards independence, live her life and break free from her abusive brother "Walid" and her conservative family. "Salma" moves out from her family's house and starts studying at the university. Alas, she experiences contradictions between her way of life and her family's mentality and faces opposition. The film is based on a true story and attempts to demonstrate the issue of domestic violence that many women suffer from through the eyes of "Salma".
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.
We were a group of children, growing up in Jerusalem, during the British Mandate in the 40s, before and during the founding of the State of Israel. In the midst of the war-torn city and during the 1948 War, our neighborhood experiences intense sniping and bombings. We especially recall living through the months of siege on the city, with a scarcity of water and food. Now, seventy years on, we recollect our adventures, with humor as well as with pain concerning our personal tragedies. Can the home-movies, photos, dairies and letters documenting our parents' daily activity, feelings and thoughts - found and uncovered during the making of the film - provide us now with closure to the pain and suffering experienced and which our parents, silent as always, hid from us?
Ohad Milstein’s documentary follows four narratives of voluntary loneliness which traverse distant, cooler orbits around the warm Israeli sun. A butterfly collector, a man with a bionic hand, a self-sufficient family living in the outer reaches of a desolate forest, and a pet taxidermist. All of these individuals inhabit their own respective spaces and are wholly devoted to their world and nowhere else. Between them is one man with his camera who, via the people and the places explores the emotional, artistic, and technological conditions that allow and sustain the very existence of his own filmmaking.
A cabaret -documentary following the unique off-beat Israeli musician Yehu Yaron, On his way to his second album . His songs deal with his Illness, Love and Birth- everything he wouldn't talk about in real life. in the process of making the album his pains and doubts will transform into honest and powerful songs. An intimate portrait of an artist whose personal life invade his musical creation process.
A moving and thought provoking film about Eve, a teenager studying filmmaking at 'Hadash High school' in the prosperous northern part of Tel Aviv while living in Kfar Shalem, a poor neighborhood on the southern side of town. Eve and director Amir Har-Gil set out on a journey in which they document her family's life including her mother Nava who after being abandoned by her husband keeps a day job in a kindergarten and a night job as a cleaner; her brother Itzik who serves in an elite combat unit of the IDF; her sister Sari who begins to recognize the socio-economic gap between herself and her classmates at her new junior high school.
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.
