Bumbling private detective Schwartz and his equally inept part Simcha are hired by a man to find out if the man's wife is cheating on him with the family doctor. The blundering duo run afoul of mobsters and experience other mishaps during their investigation.
A coming-of-age story combined with a love interest between a boy and girl from different social stratum told during the years of teenage turmoil after high school the barriers of upbringing and taboos disintegrate. Each finds true love just before the party breaks up and will eventually learn to resolve the inner conflicts of values, proportion, and priorities.
Maya is a happily married mother of two. She is a successful choreographer and everything seems to be perfect...but this life is a lie. Unbeknownst to her family and everyone around her, she has a hidden past.
A comic and episodic satire, the film uses improvisation to illustrate the clash between fantasy and reality in real life. Although conceived in the style of Mekas’ “Hallelujah the hills” (1962), it’s an authentically Israeli satire, an openly rebellious and individualistic expression that poked fun at the sacred myths of earlier zionist films. The technique of film within the film is used to portray cinema as reflection of the imagination, a miracle based on dreams and fantasies that take on concrete characteristics – parallel to the miracle of Israel, the dream that has become reality. Although not a commercial success, its importance is beyond any measure, though it remains a unique experiment, boldly uncommercial and subversive, out of any context in that patriotic, ideological epoch.
Sharon, a dedicated and ambitious Tel Aviv art house producer who is on the verge of bankruptcy, gets a chance to save her professional future and self-esteem: to collaborate with Uzi Silver, a revered past director, who has repented And became a rabbi, and now wants to make his comeback film - an adaptation of King Saul's biblical tragedy. But working with Silver is more like a war than a production,
A young woman returns to her hometown following the death of her grandfather and begins an affair with a married teacher in the debut feature from Israeli filmmaker Limor Shmila. Powerful and intimate, she must confront the secrets of her past as she tours the town of her youth.
2020. Corona era. A journalist with an opinion column who receives hateful messages and threats on his cell phone tries in vain to reach his autistic son who lives in a hostel. His daughter went to protest in Balfour and is not answering the phone. He and his wife go to look for her at the demonstration and try to repair their relationship.
"Boy" is growing up, questioning what becoming a man is all about. On the one hand, he can't wait to leave his traumatic childhood behind, and on the other hand, he is growing up in a far off village with no real friends his age.
The movie, set in the Israeli 1969 War of Attrition, tells the story of a prestigious military band, and the tensions and ego crises new band members cause when joining the band. Will the band survive?
Sarah, 40, is a nurse at the Children’s Health Center in Halissa, a multi-ethnic and poverty neighborhood. For two years, Sarah tries to get pregnant. Her desire for a child is intertwined with the difficulties of a young mother until they reach an illusionary solution– the impossible gift of a baby.
In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed robbery, and Issan, in for 50 years for PLO violence, command the respect of their cells. When the Arabs are framed for the murder of a Jewish prisoner and a young inmate commits suicide rather than lie about what happened, Uri and Issan form an unlikely partnership, leading the security block on a strike. Prison officials try to break it. In the background are Uri's daughter and Issan's wife, women of beauty and passion who embody the distance from inside a cell to the outside.
In ha-Argazim, a neighborhood that time forgot, the one-year anniversary of Morris Mandabon's death is approaching, and his youngest son, Nissim has had a dream in which his father orders him to re-open the old neighborhood movie theater, thus breaking the vow that Morris had made years before never to screen movies again. Nissim and his brother George, together with Aharon Gabardine, who was the projectionist back in the old days, are determined to fulfill Morris' request. The same day Nissim has his dream, Avram Mandabon, Morris' brother, returns for his brother's memorial after a 25-year absence. His reappearance causes old family feuds to resurface.
When, in the late 1990s, Israeli student Teddy Katz exposed the massacre of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in the village of Tantura, in May 1948, during the first Arab-Israeli war, he was initially praised for his pioneering work; but he was soon infamous and branded a traitor. Decades later, incendiary new evidence emerges that corroborates Teddy's findings.
Seven years after completing an Israeli Defense Course for female combat soldiers, director Hen Lasker returns to take a deeper look at the place where she first fell in love with a woman. Over the course of 66 days and nights, Lasker shoots a fly-on-the-wall documentary that allows unprecedented intimacy into the lives of the trainees and commanders of the Israeli army. The dichotomy of the innocence of these baby-faced trainees with the heavy burden of military service is a central theme of the film, illustrated in a scene where they discuss losing their virginity while waiting their turn to fire a machine gun. But it is the director’s relationship with Smadar, a breathtaking commander struggling to mask her gentle soul with a strict military persona, which makes the film truly enchanting. The intersection of love, duty, and personal growth thrive through to the film’s surprisingly moving finish.
A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.
(Pilot for unaired series) Three strangers from the ends of Israeli society - two men and a woman - meet due to an extremist attack during a pride parade, and they have a revolutionary night of new sexual openness. The three become heroes of the hour, fall in love and riot over their right to marry as three.
Fifty years after Slow Down by Avraham Heffner won a prize at Venice Film Festival, top alumni of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School challenge the 1968 legendary black and white
The film tells the story of a sensitive and complex relationship between a mother and her ailing son. Like in Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale "The Loveliest Rose in the World" where a prince must search for a rose to save his mother, who is dying in bed, "Tied Hands" sees a reversal of roles as a desperate mother goes out to find marijuana, to ease her son's pain. In her, turbulent journey in the streets of Tel-Aviv, old truths from her past come back to life and threaten to break down a wall of denials behind which, she's been hiding all her life.
Christina is a Ukrainian woman who moved to Israel through a ‘bride-to-order’ kind of deal. Compared to her life back in Ukraine, life in Israel is great for Christina. She works in a beauty salon, earns her own money, and loves Israel. Her Israeli husband Michael is also satisfied with this marriage. He is happy that he found a woman who can live with him. In fact, he is so satisfied that he starts his own little business scouting for Ukrainian brides for other Israeli men. Michael’s recent matchmaking is a special one—the bride’s name is Valeria, and she’s Christina’s younger sister. Michael went out of his way and found the best man he could get for her. His name is Eitan, and while he may not be the most handsome guy in the country, he is a good-hearted, generous man. However, Valeria is different to her older sister. And the whole delicate balance is at risk.
At the center of the plot are Assi (Zahavi) and Nivi (Yuval Sharaf), divorced parents of a girl with a rare form of epilepsy (Emmanuel Pepper, the real daughter of Uri Viyal). No medicine can control this epilepsy except for special cannabis oil, which she receives as part of a clinical study and prevents her from brain damage (in the role of researcher: Alma Dishi). A frightening event in the premiere episode leads to the termination of the research, and the cannabis strain in question is confiscated and sent to be destroyed in a truck. This truck, and what is waiting for it, are the key to the continuation of the affair.
Hezi Yehezkel is a strict Iraqi who runs a garage called "Hezi and Sons" and father of four daughters When Eli, the youngest daughter, accidentally ruins her sister's wedding, she and her sisters are informed of a family curse - until Eli gets married, none of her sisters will. The four sisters (Riki, Eti, Miri and Eli), the granddaughter Royal and two elderly and crazy sisters-in-law, who live with Hezi in the family home, embark on a journey in order to remove the curse - and along the way, they reveal a family secret that was supposed to go with the deceased's mother to the grave.
A drama series about the conflict between past and future, tradition and progress, self-fulfillment and family values. In a Bukharan community we see the struggles between the older generation that wants a traditional life in Bukhara, Uzbekistan and the new generation that wants to build a new life in a new country. The series takes place precisely at the crisis point between the old generation and ancient traditions and the new generation and the 21st century. The series includes biographical elements of the two lead actors--the grandmother in the series is played by their actual grandmother.
A comedy series about a failed Magen David Adom team of paramedics in the Dead Sea area
A musical sitcom about people, desires and everything in between. The Store That Has Everything, as it is called - an upgraded and disturbed department store, where you can get everything! From elephants to time machines, from lost lovers to the moon. Everything. The sales team is colorful, silly, funny, human, and touching. Occasionally they sing, simple, everyday texts: of shop assistants, of people reading a newspaper, of friends gossiping.
Powerful superheroes with real disabilities
Echad Ha'am 101 tells the story of Miri Paskal, an edgy, a bit insane parking inspector in Tel Aviv. After her husband, Ruben, was killed in an accident during rehearsal for Germany war victims' ceremony, Miri gets a very large amount of money, from Ruben's inheritance, and decides to move from her small tenement in Ramat Gan to a luxury tower in Tel Aviv.
The series is about two boys, Avi Golda and Meir Levinson, who accidentally become undercover agents. The future of the world is in their hands and they are forced to infiltrate a summer camp.
A docu-reality series offering a first-ever glimpse into the world of matchmaking in the ultra-Orthodox community, where each week a council of matchmakers attempts to find the perfect match.
Reunion of childhood friends leads to a succeeding gigolo business in the north of Israel.
