At the edge of a silent religious town, Avigail tiptoes between duty and desire. Days before her arranged marriage, she spends her nights in the echoing synagogue halls, sweeping dust beside Hodaya, a girl whose gaze lingers too long. In the glow of candlelight and quiet prayers, a forbidden intimacy blooms.
Adi wakes up to find that his girlfriend, Rona, has turned into an oversized bug overnight.
A father tricks his son into a late-night trip to search for their "lost" cat in the forest.
Neri Aluma, Hanan’s mother, is determined to reignite her son’s passion for life as he struggles with mental illness. Neri is a writer. Hanan, a musician, has been writing and singing since the age of 13. Through their creative work, they break down the walls of silence and concealment that separate the outside world from the storm within their home. Art allows them to engage in dialogue and create meaning and beauty within the chaos the entire family endures. Neri’s prose and Hanan’s music guide the film, giving voice to the pain of a family’s long struggle with mental illness.
The story of the Druze community in the Golan Heights—conquered in 1967 and annexed by Israel in 1981—is told through two characters from Majdal Shams: 19-year-old Aya, who dreams of joining Israel’s national hockey team and is willing to accept Israeli citizenship to achieve her goal, and her older uncle Ayoub, a journalist and farmer who identifies as Syrian and firmly rejects Israeli citizenship. Filmed overthe course of three years, the documentary explores the deep identity crisis of a lost community striving for a peaceful life on its ancestral land while caught in the grip of a turbulent fate.
A film adaptation of the story “The Green Man” by Yehonatan Geffen.
The news reports of Moti Kirschenbaum, whose immeasurable contribution to Israeli media still resonates to the present day, were broadcast over four decades on Israeli television. Over the years, many journalists considered him a beacon and followed in his footsteps. One such journalist, Ben Shani, proposed that he and Kirschenbaum set out on a journey in the footsteps of those mythological reports. Moti immediately agreed. No-one knew then that his days were numbered and that he would die suddenly, just before shooting was to start. The journey planned for two became one man's journey through the many stages in Kirschenbaum's life
Documentary on the life of Hebrew poet Rachel Bluwstein, known simply as Rachel, considered a national poet of Israel. Includes interviews with literary researchers, poets, historians, and biographers.
Chaya (30) returns to her parents' home, and together with her mother Larisa, tries to work through a traumatic childhood memory.
Shadowed by the grand hotels of Eilat lies a hidden trailer park known as “Sun Bay.” Against the site's uncertainty, three of its residents attempt to settle the tension between their current loneliness and the lives they left behind.
A student mockumentary film about an analogy between pigeons and the politican stance in Israel.
A young Podcaster in his room meets provocative and extreme friends who will slowly change his view on the world.
A Prime Minister’s Office’s Minhal Ha’hasbara documentary about Israel’s fishing industry. Twenty three fishing trawlers leave Israel’s ports every day, and many fish ponds operate inland, but some fishermen still use primitive fishing methods. To increase the total quantity of fish farmed and caught in Israel, the Ministry of Agriculture researches fishing methods and trains new fishermen. The film’s camera moves from the Fisheries Research Institute’s labs in Haifa to the classrooms of the fishing school in Mikhmoret, sails aboard the trawler Nakdimon, and eventually returns to the canning factories and fish markets in Israel.
Across from the municipal music hall in Bat-Yam, there is a large, run-down concrete building. It was built as part of the public housing project in the 50s, and most of the tenants have been living there since. The gap between the two buildings is so much larger than the actual distance.
