Populär Vun Israel

A documentary film of Mandatory Palestine. Showing the construction of modern infrastructure and life in the cities, depicts scenes from the holidays and work in the villages.

What begins as an optimistic 'love story' quickly develops into despair when Yaelle's father ostracized her for her decision to have a lesbian wedding with Aya.

A silent documentary film depicting Jews and Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine.

When Elio is about to be released from prison, he discovers that his brother was murdered during a gang war in southern Tel Aviv. Now he has two missions: to buy a maftir in memory of his brother at the synagogue, and to avenge his death. Elio embarks on a grim journey among underworld figures, corrupt police officers, and treacherous friends.

A deep relationship crisis facing pious couple. Just before detachment, a strange dream brings hidden line.

Yoni Kaplan, a young actor at the beginning of his career, receives a strange job: to read a eulogy at the funeral of Pini Gurevich, a man who wrote his own eulogy before his death. Yoni arrives late, after all the other speeches have already been given and just before the funeral is about to end. He quickly introduces himself, approaches the podium, and begins reading. The eulogy is written with a cynical sense of humor that reflects Pini’s strong personality. As Yoni continues reading, more details about Pini’s intriguing life are revealed. It becomes clear that Pini wrote the eulogy in order to reveal a secret to his family and friends before leaving the world. While reading, Yoni suddenly notices his mother among the mourners. She is shocked to see her son standing at the podium and tries to hide in the crowd, but it is too late. By the end of the eulogy, Pini’s long-hidden secret is revealed, astonishing everyone present.

A man and woman meet on either side of a desolate road. He falls in love and tries to impress her in any way possible. But from the moment they become a couple, it all starts to go downhill.

The world of a young woman explored through a cinematic stream-of-consciousness foray.

A young woman is trapped in her daily routine, across a 24-hour period. After her husband gets out of bed and heads off to work, the woman goes out and embarks on an intimate odyssey.

A woman who has been feeling deeply unhappy in her marriage for a while is having an affair and is unsure how to leave her husband.

Aviel, a painfully sensitive gay guard in an israeli military prison, is secretly in love with his right-hand man, Itzik, the straight prisoner. New intelligence information about drug smuggling into Aviel's company drives him crazy and undermines his position in prison. When Aviel is asked to strip search Itzik, the special relationship between the two is put to the test for the first time.

Dotan Nave's first film explores the unique experience of growing up in the children’s house in the kibbutz. A film about an initiated social encounter between the film's creator and the members of the group with whom he grew up in kibbutz Lehavot Haviva. The initial aim of this encounter was to try and understand why none of them want to go back and live in the kibbutz today. The movie presents visual images of kibbutz life today, archival material taken from childhood and interviews with members of the group and their parents. All of these turn this one time encounter into a journey following the personal childhood story of the movie's creator. It was screened on Yes Docu, in cinematheques, and at international festivals.

Ilan Yagoda’s short which he made as his graduation project from the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts’s film department, is a documentary that follows the story of far-left activist Rami Livneh, who had been a member of numerous Israeli reactionary organisations such as Compass (‘matzpen’), Struggle (ma’avak), and the Revolutionary Socialist Movement. Livenh was handed a prison sentence for liaising with a foreign agent, a Palestinian student affiliated with Fatah. Yaguda spent a full weekend shadowing Livneh and his family, six years after his release from prison and the very next day following the fatal domestic terror attack at a ‘Peace Now’ Jerusalem demonstration where a grenade thrown into the crowd claimed the life of Emil Grünzweig. The [originally Hebrew-rhyming] title of the film is also the name of a children’s story Livenh wrote for his kids whilst behind bars, about a boy who always does as he’s told as opposed to what he really wants to do.

The borders of Israel are fraught with high tension. Since October 7th, uncertainty about the enemy’s next move has left residents in a state of perpetual anxiety. The pressure leads to bizarre situations, with no clear end in sight. Stories oscillate between tangible borders and imagined ones, painting a picture of a society struggling to rise from the ashes.