A Dog's Funeral 2022
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 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.
Waiting for Godik chronicles the rise and fall of larger-than-life Israeli musical theatre impresario Giora Godik, one of the prominent icons of the country’s happy ’60s. Godik sought to bring the American dream to Israel through glamorous, first-rate productions of My Fair Lady, Hello, Dolly!, The King and I and the original smash hit Kazablan, among other musicals. Boasting archival recordings of these sensational productions as well as recent interviews with many Israeli theatre icons, Waiting for Godik offers a nostalgic trip through a time when Israel’s cultural boundaries were just beginning to open to the outside world.
How to cope with a horrific event? In Still Static, filmmaker and visual artist Adam Kaplan presents two people who have experienced something ghastly. One is a cameraman who says he was “at the wrong place at the wrong time.” He was filming at a gathering, probably a party, when suddenly something happened that caused all hell to break loose. The cameraman describes in detail the human misery he witnessed. The images, flashes and visions were burnt into his retina, and the impact on his life has been huge. He has become someone else, and has never left home since.
This experimental animated short tells the story of the Dead Sea and its commodification within Israeli history.
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.
Dina Malul is a cashier at the local supermarket and a single mother who is struggling to make ends meet. After another salary cut, she decides on a quiet but brave way to fight the system.
Abed A-Salim is the Mukhtar of the Gypsy community in East Jerusalem. His family has been typing requests for visitors at the Israel Ministry of Interior Affairs for three generations.
A Private Death tells of the great love story between Haya Schreiber, a sixth-generation Jaffa-born Jew and Tewfic Hanania, a Christian Orthodox Jerusalem-born Arab that began in 1930s Jerusalem. Tewfic Hanania was a wealthy man who came from Jerusalem's Arab aristocracy. Haya was a kindergarten teacher from an orthodox Jewish family. Making use of rare archival footage alongside excerpts from films made by Hanania during the 1930s and interviews with historians and family members, the film portrays life in Jerusalem during the British Mandate. The wealth of materials and this intimate story show how history can ultimately impact a private story and private death.
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?
A story about five lone wolves who do not find their place in the forest, unite for one reason - their wish to fly. A poetic and allegorical story about parting.
Evyatar, a teenager with a tendency to curse (a lot), falls in love with Shani, the new girl in class, and finds redemption through her. Will love make Evya change his behavior?
A journey to the backstage of the Declaration of the State of Israel: The last living witnesses to this historic event and the creators of the legend reveal what really happened during the 32 minutes of the ceremony and reflect on the place of the past in Israel today.
A love-story between the iconic Gordon Pool located on the coastal shore of Tel-Aviv and the people who freguent it. For over 4 years, | tracked and recorded the musings of some of the eccentric characters, their thoughts, their feelings, their individual stories, and their obsessions, revealing how the pool and the rituals around bathing are a temple for their souls.
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
Following an illegal foreclosure order issued against his partner, Attorney Barak Cohen started a fight against the heads of the banking system, and created a new model of civil resistance demanding personal responsibility from the decision makers. The public uproar caused by the campaign led the heads of the banks, the attorney's office and the police to try to stop the activity of Barak and his friends in any way possible. The culmination of this attempted silencing was the "trial of the bankers" which included serious charges, as if taken from the world of organized crime. Barak and his friends did not panic and turned the trial into a serious indictment against the heads of the banking system, a move that was hailed as a resounding success and has since inspired all civil struggles in Israel.
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.
A young drag queen named Ramona Star has big dreams: to become a great and famous drag queen and to make the world a more tolerant place. A decade after making aliya from brazil, Ramon hopes that he can finally be himself without fear.