16 years old Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care of most household chores. One day, the school's principal finds out Shlomi is actually a genius and tries to get him into a more suitable curriculum. However, Shlomi is more interested in taking care of his family and his new love interest, the beautiful girl next door.
A documentary film about the Israeli metal band "Orphaned Land", which includes personal interviews with the band, artists like Steven Wilson & Marty Friedman, Israeli Rabbi, the first ever interview with the band's lyrics writer, Israeli fans, and Arab fans from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, & Turkey, who discuss how their opinions on Israel have changed thanks to Orphaned Land. Also includes rare archive materials like the band's first show (from 1991), rehearsal, and the first home-made interview the band made in high school. The film deals with music, texts, the band's history from the first day until today, politics, religion, middle east problems and many more. It's a film about metal, peace and music.
Yair, an ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva student, opens an electronics shop in "Geula", a neighborhood that is the shopping epicenter for the entire ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem. The religious character of the neighborhood is enforced by the "Geula Committee" and Yair strictly adheres to their rules. His shop is introducing a world of advanced technology that overnight becomes a magnet for every ultra-Orthodox household, but the increasing intrusion of modernity is an affront to the committee, leading to an inevitable conflict that forces Yair into a desperate struggle for survival.
Innocence tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service. Through a narration based on their haunting diaries, the film depicts their inner turmoil. It interweaves first-hand military images, key moments from childhood until enlistment and home videos of the deceased soldiers whose stories are silenced and seen as a national threat.
The vegetables seller from the market falls in love with the university student.
A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Omri reunites his family for a drive to the desert. Facing his camcorder, he'll ask them to recollect the drive and fatal car accident they had on the way to his Bar Mitzvah. An accident that led to his parent’s divorce.
This short film centers around a high school student whose declaration of love to another boy leads to hostile reactions from his classmates.
A comical exploration of the 50's in the Israeli Kibutz movement, when socialist values were reexamined following the death of Stalin. With their mentor and iconic leader gone, the members of the Kibutz have to face a political and social reality without a leader to encourage and unite them.
The story of three men living in Tel Aviv. They set off to attend a funeral. Unfortunately, they cannot find the right cemetery. Later the story shifts to their complex love lives.
An American reporter and his girl-friend are visiting Israel to get a "sense of the people", in the process he meets many Israelis and some Arabs as well, particularly becoming friends with an Israeli Army reserve officer as well as an idealistic young man who is a pacifist.
Inspired by the unfortunate event of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin we are proud to bring you the dramatic feature of Haim Bouzaglo, Blank Bullet. Amos Snir, the head of the Shin Bet, has just 60 hours during which time he must prevent the next political assassination. The year is 2004 and the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has recently announced his intention for Israel to disengage from the Gaza Strip. In the wake of the announcement Sharon has received numerous death threats and Snir has been trying to cancel all Sharon's public appearances. However, Sharon is determined to appear at the Yad VaShem Museum for the Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony where he is to be the key speaker. The ceremony is due to take place in three days.
In a small agricultural village in northern Israel, on the day of the middle-sister's wedding, Maya, the youngest of the three sisters, arrives to the celebration with Alon, a sharp Israeli businessman living in London. Alon's enchantment with the close-knit family, the simplicity of village life and serene landscape, opens his heart to an almost unattainable closeness with Tamar, the oldest sister, and re-acquaintance with his alienated father.
Rafi and Yossi are brothers who know how to enjoy life! They are students in Israel, living off the money their Argentinian aunt sends them. The Iraqi father of their girlfriends is happy to lend them money until their aunt visits, and has his eye on the boys as future sons in law. when the aunt does not arrive, Rafi and Yossi ask their actor friend Emanuel, to play the part of the aunt. all goes well until the real aunt appears without warning!
A family is waiting for Shuli's fiancé to come and propose to her. But instead of him they're getting a very different guest.
Ruth and Shmuel, a young couple from the ultra-Orthodox world, thought they knew everything about love. She, a sensitive young mother, constantly tests boundaries—but with grace. He, a brilliant yeshiva student, has a promising future in the yeshiva world. But when tragedy hits them, everything they believed about family, community, parenting—and even God—is put to the test. RUTH is a moving, intimate drama with surreal moments. A story about two people trying not to lose each other, yet speaking different languages that widen the emotional and religious gap between them, in a world where asking questions—especially the hard ones—is forbidden.
A rude loud-mouthed Israeli tricks "Comedy Central" into giving him a movie budget which in return ruins the lives of everyone around him and descends into chaos. An indie Israeli satire.
Abraham, an old man, has a fruit garden in Jerusalem that is threatened by a number of people who want to buy him out or chase him off. One day, the old man finds a mute young woman (Melanie Griffith), confused after being attacked by thugs, wandering in his garden and he thinks she is actually an angel.
Two losers men in their thirties are having the worst night in their life when they discover that they will soon be millionaires. The only thing that they haven't thought about is that the way to the million will lead them to a journey in which they will meet some of the worst surreal and crazy people, that will try to take their money in any cost.
17-year-old Asher is split between his charismatic teacher and his brash father, who wants him to take over his scaffolding business.
The misadventures of a conductor, his valet, and the members of his orchestra.
Shira (Adi Ezroni, "Prisoners of War") is a successful art director in an advertising agency. She is blonde, beautiful, intelligent and complicated like the rest of us. She just wants someone normal to share her life with. Yuval (Lior Ashkenazi, "Valley of Tears") is a florist with a fascinating past and a lot of money. He also wants to find that special one, so they go on a date together - a date that starts very badly but evolves in a completely different direction. Suzie (Yael Sharoni, "Srugim") is a beautician at a laser institute and married to Mickey (Lior Raz, "Fauda") - a businessman who mostly gives the impression of a busy person, but all that keeps him busy are his side stories.
Shel Mi HaShura HaZot? is an Israeli version of the British improvisational comedy TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, which aired from 2000 to 2001 on Channel 2 and from 2006 to 2007 on Channel 10. It was hosted by Shlomo Baraba in the first two seasons and by Idan Alterman in the third and fourth. The show consisted of a panel of four performers who create scenes on the spot.
Follows three generations of a matriarchal family dealing with curses and emotional trauma.
The Commune
A brief televised guide to the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A succinct, lucid summary and concise presentation of its basic concepts and decisive events, while laying them out on a timeline and a spatial map, related from a variety of viewpoints and positions concerning the conflicted parties.
At a private oil factory on the outskirts of Jerusalem, dozens of workers labor under poor conditions and face humiliating treatment. Beneath the surface, tensions are simmering and a protest is brewing. Under the auspices of the Histadrut labor federation, the workers are demanding the establishment of a committee to represent them faithfully. The organization threatens the factory management, and its aggressive and contemptuous attitude toward the workers escalates. Their legitimate demands are rejected outright and their dignity is trampled upon. The workers' helplessness in the face of management's insensitivity leads to the outbreak of a violent strike at the factory gates, from which there is no turning back.
Vered is in a 40-year-old crisis - her marriage is boring, work is boring and the house is suffocating. One evening Naomi, her aging mother, declares that she has lost the purpose of life and asks Vered to kill her. Vered does not agree and goes on a wild journey in order to find meaning in both of their lives.
