Long Distances 2023
During quarantine, a long-distance couple tries to save their relationship by inviting "proxies" for a foursome over video-call. Instead of getting closer, loneliness and jealousy brings them further apart.
During quarantine, a long-distance couple tries to save their relationship by inviting "proxies" for a foursome over video-call. Instead of getting closer, loneliness and jealousy brings them further apart.
382 Arab citizens have been murdered in Israel since 2019. The incompetence of the authorities in the face of violence in Arab society in Israel and his inability to provide his young family with basic security lead the director to consider moving to Jenin in the occupied territories, ater his attempts to live in nearby Jewish communities failed. The city is located not far from his native village, Deboria in the Lower Galilee, and it seems that life in the territories of the Palestinian Authority is much safer.
Pickleball, a racket sport similar to tennis, has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon throughout the last couple of decades. This documentary follows professional and amateur pickleballers in Haifa from different backgrounds--Muslim, Christian and Jewish--as they discuss how they put their differences aside to come together as a community.
The story of several young Slovakian women who were taken in the first transports to Auschwitz in April 1942. The three survived three years of hell, torture, starvation, and daily fear of death. This is a story of heroism, astounding strength of survival, hope, faith in life, and above all, heaps of luck.
The film portrays the renowned illustrator of Ukrainian origin, David Polonsky, during his work on a new children's book. Along with his masterpieces: "Waltz with Bashir" (Winner of the Golden Globe) "The Congress" (Winner of the European Film Awards) and "Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation" (Which was published all over the world) the film also depicts Polonsky's own intimate world as a child who immigrated to Israel from Kyiv and as an artist who's art explores identity and roots. This film is part of "The Artists from Kyiv" duo.
Twenty-five years after the death of actress Talia Shapira, her son begins a journey to retrace her life. He combs through the vast belongings his mother left behind – diaries, stories, films, audio tapes – as he peels his memories layer by layer, finally arriving at the most significant moment in their relationship: Talia’s last days. Seventeen chapters of observation constitute an abstract and emotional mosaic, an intense investigation into the essence and meaning of a dialogue between mother and son – a dialogue that transcends words and time. The unique way in which the director has chosen to describe this process of deciphering his mother’s life poignantly conveys both the need as well as the inherent difficulities to connect incidental moments of our lives into meaningful stories.
The Kiryat Moshe neighborhood on the outskirts of Rehovot is home to a large Jewish Ethiopian community. Nowadays a national priority construction evacuation project guarantees the residents a safe exit from the neglected and poor ghetto. Hana, a single mother who is worries about her teenage son, jumps at the opportunity for a change that will keep him away from drug dealers in the neighborhood. She joins Kevret, a young and idealistic, head of the tenants' committee, in leading the neighborhood residents. They embark on an 8-year wish for change, through the bureaucratic paths of politicians and real estate sharks.
Bundaim explores the personal journey and opinion of the Israeli director Eran Torbiner, who examines the Bund alternative, why it was forgotten following the Holocaust, and how necessary it is today. Torbiner follows the last surviving comrades in Israel of the socialist and anti-Zionist Bund movement, the strongest Jewish movement in Poland and the main opponent of the Zionists before WWII.
Stories of Caspion the curious little silver fish from the books of "Paul Kor"
The wild rock band Giraffes is fulfilling an old dream and going on a magical musical journey in India that crosses the subcontinent and the planned culmination is a performance in Goa in front of the thousands of Israeli travelers there. However, a series of murderous terrorist attacks in the city of Mumbai destroy the cards and send the band on a journey in search of its audience - the Israelis who fled Goa in fear of another attack. A musical, personal and inspiring portrait of the Giraffe band and the charismatic lead singer Gilad Kahana - a rock star, a gifted poet, a drinker, a hypochondriac and a compulsive workaholic - who leads the band in an attempt to change the fate of the journey. Or as a barefoot and dusty Indian asked them at the beginning of the journey: "What is karma?"
At the age of 73, Benjamin Netanyahu embarked on the 11th election campaign of his political career, which was also the fateful one of his life. With three charges pending against him in court, there was only one option for him: a landslide victory. Netanyahu went out into the field and brought himself to the voters in person on a transparent truck called the "Bibiba". The director, Itai Asher ("Dukotime"), closely follows this journey and documents a historic campaign, one that has hardly been covered by the media.
Omer (21yo) is peer pressured to lose his virginity. When his encounter with a girl from Tinder ends in shame, he is motivated to confront his fears and meet a guy. The meeting is intense, but gives him a sense of belonging.
Marva (27) finds that on every item in her home there’s a note that reads “Belongs to Anat”. understanding that Anat has left her and that she is on her own, she goes on a journey asking people for guidance. That fails, so in a desperate attempt she sings Anat a love song in the lobby of her office building.
A young actress embarks on a turbulent journey with an autistic girl, breaching limitations of right and wrong, and discovering new aspects of her personality.
Two lovers go on a date where they meet a friend of the guy. Soon enough, things get tangled between the three of them...