During the holidays, when the ice cream truck come to the neighborhood, 11 years old Yair come down to buy one, but everyday he got humiliated by the other boys in the neighborhood. One after-noon - the ice cream seller will teach Yair how to hit back. From this moment - everything is going to change.
While he was alive, Amos Guttman remained a red flag for the notoriously conservative Israeli film establishment. A Romanian migrant, he, never truly found his place in his new home. He was gay and made the nation's first movies on the subject. He was an artist who wanted to make films not for the masses but for the few. Conversely, he wanted to make movies that connected with the rest of the world and not only Israel – works that maybe Derek Jarman or Pedro Almodóvar could watch by chance and feel understood.
Two men, brought together virtually, grapple with the challenges of forging a deeper connection within the confines of an implausible, predetermined reality.
Yigal Mosinzon is an integral part of Israeli culture; all are familiar with his timeless books, plays, and films such as Hasamba and Kazablan. Mosinzon is a cultural icon who remains mysterious, always managing to surprise his audiences with innovations that contrast mundane reality with unfamiliar, never-before-seen perspectives. His unconventional personal story comes to life through his work, revealing colorful episodes inspired by a myriad of relationships, marriages, and more than one unbelievable romance, including with Marilyn Monroe. The fictional realities he created never stray far from his unique personal experiences. Mosinzon's character is unraveled in this film, a man who was not afraid to discover, change and turn imagination into reality in a life that was an absolute secret.
The film by Ido Sela, who recorded with his camera Meir Ariel's special concert tour throughout the country in October 1987. This is a concert tour structured like an American election campaign: Meir Ariel and his band land without prior notice in various places throughout the country - Tiberias Beach, the Acre Theater Festival, Kibbutz Mishmaret that Ariel was A member of it, Pituach towns - build a temporary stage and sell their musical "merchandise" and their illusory sleep to the curious locals. Sela uses wisely and is completely unconcerned with the differences that exist between the people of Tel Aviv and the people of the suburbs.
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.
Haim Hatuel started piercing his kids at the age of 5. Today, they are Israeli fencing champions. It all started a day after his release from the army, when he saw an ad that changed his life. He was accepted into a fencing academy, a social sport initiative aimed at turning street kids into law abiding citizens who would go on to pursue a career. Over the next 45 years, Haim has built a fencing empire in Acre. Just before the Rio Olympic Games in 2016, the family empire is about to crash.
This is the story of two brothers. Giora, the most talked about MIA of the Yom Kippur war, and Gili, who has been searching for him and for himself ever since.
A group of young people with Down syndrome embark on a demanding trek through the Himalayas with their siblings. As they deal with physical and emotional challenges, unresolved conflicts come to surface and heartwarming friendships develop.
The Israeli sensation of the 'Macho' presented in the documentary film by Aron Petinkin, caused a public uproar as it aired on the inaugural broadcast day of Channel 2. The film delves into the life of Avi Ben-Eliyahu, a carefree Gigolo from Eilat, as he strolls along the shore, pursuing romantic encounters with tourists. Throughout his meanderings, Avi candidly explores topics of love, sex, women, money, and the earring he wears on a specific part of his body.
Bushkida is a documentary film about Judeo-Spanish, also called Ladino. Ladino was the language of the Sephardic Jews, who were expelled from Spain in 1492. It is a miracle that this language is still spoken, despite the many tragedies throughout the ages. With our film we try to understand this miracle by searching for Ladino-speakers and their culture.
A cold night. A winter’s wind unrelenting at the beginning of a connection between Peter and Lily. In the narrow, mysterious streets of Neve Tzedek, in homes built over a century ago, a mere stone’s throw from the sea and Jaffa, Lily and Peter meet, after much pressure from Neli, a 31-year-old architect. Dating in her golden years, 60-year-old Lily, Neli’s mother, is finally ready to meet 76-year-old Peter, a barely known theater actor. Lily has a 31-year-old secret. It will be revealed in the final line of the film.
A cinematic investigative journey to a story hidden by the IDF for 50 years - a brutal massacre of 17 Israeli prisoners by Syrian soldiers in two tragic events on the Golan Heights front. An event shrouded in secrets and lies that is a metaphor for the first days of that terrible war that caught the State of Israel in its weakness and disgrace .
The third stand up special of the comedian Yonatan Barak
An intense twenty-minute drama by the young director Lotan Serur. Twenty-year-old Yoni returns from India to his hometown kibbutz, where he is greeted by his older brother Raz. The brothers warmly welcome each other, but Yoni begins to behave strangely: he calls for peace worldwide, hijacks a tractor, and drives it towards the Syrian border... Will this «peculiar person», whom the entire community urges to be restrained and sent for treatment, manage to cross to the other side — and if so, what happens next?
At first glance, Enya Aharoni seems like an ordinary teenager: she rides her bike, goes on dates, posts selfies on social media, and loves shopping. However, there's one catch — since the age of 15, Enya has been battling a cancerous condition — thyroid cancer. The film by Reuven Yamrom and Haim Eliyahu is a restrained and honest first-person account of how the young protagonist confronted the need for lifelong therapy, endured a complex surgery and post-operative radiation with numerous side effects, and had to grapple with the fear of death and societal ostracism in a culture where it's not common for the young to be ill.
Maya Mcmanus Ronen's debut film focuses on exploring life in the kibbutz of Neot Smadar. This kibbutz was reestablished by a group of like-minded individuals who left Jerusalem and decided to build a cooperative and horizontally structured community. Every couple of years, a significant event takes place here — residents swap houses with each other. What's unique is that no one knows in advance which house they will receive. Maya Ronen's film is an attempt to peer into the unconventional life of this community, understand the rules it lives by, and delve into the intricacies of the regular ritual of house swapping.
Lali is sexually assaulted on a dark road in a Tel Aviv parking lot. Awake, yet unable to move an eye, she stares at a single streetlight. The next morning, Lali wakes up to a reality which she refuses to accept.
