Idolatry 2018
Naama is confident her partner, who unsuccessfully tries to conceive, wants a dick. When their relationship starts to crumble, Naama goes out to ask a radical and unrealistic solution.
Naama is confident her partner, who unsuccessfully tries to conceive, wants a dick. When their relationship starts to crumble, Naama goes out to ask a radical and unrealistic solution.
A woman who has lived in Vienna for more than fifty years leaves home and immigrates to Israel. In her last week there, she has to pack up, break up, come to terms with the loss of her husband, and examine her relationship with her son.
Nivi, a teenage girl, tries to re-navigate her life after casual meetings with acquaintances.
In this total creation, the artist takes upon himself all roles of filmmaking, to create a personal retrospective view of the traumatic scenes he went through during his military service. The artist raises questions about gender, masculinity, sexuality and violence while reconstructing and intensifying his military experience as a homosexual.
"Matzpen," the Israeli socialist organization, has never had more than a few dozen active members. Still, at the end of the sixties and beginning of the seventies, it was considered a real threat to the Israeli political and social consensus. Most of Matzpen's members were Israeli born, coming from the deep core of Israeli society. Their fight against Zionism and against the occupation, as well as their contacts with Palestinian and European left-wing activists, were the cause of threats, slander, as well as political and social isolation. The film touches on the main issues of the Zionist-Palestinian struggle, through the eyes of some of the organization's prominent figures, their ideas, opinions and activities, then and today.
Three graffiti artists from Israel and their daily lives as artists in the street scene.
At the age of nine, the director was subjected to a physical trauma that resulted in heavy bleeding, an experience that felt like an abortion. His parents sent him to a specialist and it was taken care of. After all these years, the memory of this event still haunts him as he tries to investigate the case by reexamining past medical records. Did this really happen?
Nitzan (16) is an introverted teenager that has always felt invisible to society. One day Neomi (20) the girlfriend of Nitzan’s brother Erez (20), invites her to join them for an overnight trip, an invitation that leads Nitzan down a path of self-discovery.
Roni surprises Ellie on her birthday at the Dead Sea with her friends. The attempts to make Ellie happy only deepen the gaps, and just before the lowest place on earth she’ll have to decide.
Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula.
The story of a family who become a surrogate family for a couple that has lost all hope of having children. The surrogate couple aim the camera at themselves from the moment they make the decision.
The story of Taliya's quest for finding love in the estranged world of Internet dating, based on a mouse, a keyboard and Photoshop tricks. In this comic-tragic voyage with the guidance of her flat-mate (extravagantly & cynically gay), she wanders from hope to humiliation.
A Ladino lament song becomes a journey down memory lane, and a poetic farewell to a lost world.
The film follows a dialogue between the filmmaker and his Saba (Hebrew for Grandpa) at the last chapter of his life. Saba Beno tells his life story in his own words while trying to find the meaning of it all.
The world of backgammon collapses before the eyes of the observer-player. This leads to a storm of emotions and fears, blurring the line between reality and fantasy.
At a family dinner, pressure builds up as Omer refuses to say "Well done" to his Reality TV winning cousin.