Son of a Dog 2011
When a normal citizen wants to protect a dog that has been abused by his master, his good will got out of control and became a bloody killing spree.
When a normal citizen wants to protect a dog that has been abused by his master, his good will got out of control and became a bloody killing spree.
A film adaptation of the story “The Green Man” by Yehonatan Geffen.
In the sweltering heat of northern Israel's Beit Shean Valley, a group of young activists leads a protest with a simple goal: demanding kibbutz Nir David to allow access to the river that flows through the kibbutz, as the law permits but its members deny. The director of The Waterfront joins them as their protest evolves and intensifies, raising questions about social inequalities, accumulation by dispossession, and the rule of law that extends far beyond the valley's borders.
A documentary portrait of Gabriel Moked, who moved from Warsaw to Israel after World War II, quickly learned Hebrew, and published a literary magazine while still in high school. It was his first step toward becoming an editor and publisher who would shock the young Israeli establishment. A professor of philosophy and enfant terrible of the world of Israeli literature, he was the first to discover and publish works by Yona Wallach, David Avidan, Aharon Appelfeld and others. Today, at the age of 85, after 60 years as publisher of the literary magazine Achshav ("Now"), he has no plans to retire. He draws his sword for another round of battle, with a new generation of Israeli poets.
"Der Nister" (The Hidden), that's how Colleen Shabtai called the house where she dreamed of a happy family. Together with poet Aaron Shabtai, she raised six children in a Jerusalem house, until they got divorced. As a teenager, their son, Nahar, began documenting his family. He filmed 20 years of family life, from a house full of children, until it turned empty and old. Only his mother and brother Lemuel remained there. He is unable to lead an independent life while she refuses to part with her role as mother. The grandfather's inheritance runs out, forcing them to leave the house, a departure which is a critical moment for his mother, his brother and Nahar himself.
The late Renen Schorr (Late Summer Blues) turns his camera on the 25-year exchange of letters between himself and his grandfather Rabbi Avraham Heller, hero of the 1948 Battle of Safed. Their correspondence reveals a generational and ideological rift, articulating the contradictions of Schorr’s generation of Israelis.
This comprehensive documentary on Yiddish comedy duo Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher combines their biographies with a look at the changing status of Yiddish culture in Israel. Featuring rare footage, film clips, and recreations of their Polish and Israeli performances, along with interviews from Shumacher’s daughter and writers, actors and comedians like Hana Laszlo and Mike Burstyn.
In the process of demolishing a Bedouin village, two people are killed: a Bedouin villager and an Israeli policeman. The police declare it a terror attack, but subsequent investigations point to a very different story. Constructing a documentary that feels like a detective thriller, filmmaker Doron Djerassi thoroughly lays out the course of events through interviews, archival materials and security camera footage.
A student mockumentary film about an analogy between pigeons and the politican stance in Israel.
A young transgender girl returns home from a night out with a friend and notices that a mysterious man is following her.
A short film based on Nunu's album of the same name
Tom takes Gaya on a romantic date to celebrate their one year anniversary. Meanwhile, Gaya struggles to love him back and has her own plans.
A film produced by the Israeli Film Service, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit and the Navy Headquarters, documenting a training routine of soldiers at the Israeli Navy who serve on submarines and missile boats. The film documents various military exercises such as diving and planting enemy ships with mines, a land raid of the Israeli naval commando unit, and more.
A short documentary, produced by the Israeli Film Service about the laying of the Trans Israel Pipeline. The film was produced under the auspices of the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company and TAHAL. After 18 months of work, one of the most important engineering projects in the history of Israel comes to a close: the laying of a 254 kilometer long pipeline between the Port of Eilat and the oil port in Ashkelon. The purpose: creating a landbridge to transport oil from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean – independently of the Suez Canal. This film follows the complex undertaking, which took place both in the desert and at sea.
Ariel Dukeman is a teenage boy on his way to fight his first thai boxing tournament. With a lot of hard training and the help of his friends, he just might become... Ramat Yishai's Tiger.