The story is about two twin brothers, Azriel and Gavriel. Azriel is a shy, religious Jew who works in a fruit shop in Jaffa. Gavriel is a hoodlum and a good-for-nothing hustler who runs a snooker bar. Gavriel and his friend Hanuka make easy money by swindling people into gambling on snooker games. One day Gavriel is forced to renew contact with his brother because he is in trouble with a gangster.
Charlie gets by through fleecing suckers with a three-card Monte. He passes himself off as a rich businessman. Miko is a street kid who spends his time with Charlie instead of going to school. The plot follows Charlie's attempt to conquer the heart of Gila, a rich girl whose parents try to matchmake her to an American millionaire somewhat against her will.
Jerusalem, Israel. Professors Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik, father and son, have dedicated their lives to the study of the Jewish scriptures. Eliezer is a stubborn and methodical scholar who has never been recognized for his work; Uriel is a rising star, someone admired and praised by his colleagues. The fragile balance that has kept their personal relationship almost intact is broken in an unexpected way by a simple phone call.
A poetic and metaphysical view on a daily life routine in a distant nursing home, on a top of the mountain in Uzice, Serbia – the closest place to heaven. This is the last station on earth for old people that called “clients”. While they’re waiting for the end of their lives, prisoned in a desolate nursing home and their old-dying body, they are fighting for the freedom of their soul, the only place they can feel young and alive. A fight between light and darkness, suffering and acceptance, life and death.
Based on a short story by Abraham B. Jehoshua, the movie follows Eli (Oded Kotler) taking care of an old girlfriend's child for three days. He wants him to get hurt, he worries about him. Will the child survive the three days? Will Eli?
Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in British Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old wants nothing more than for the occupying British to get the hell out of his land.
Guy is a young man who efficiently aims his camera both in Israel and in the occupied territories of Palestine.
Moshe and Tami are a couple, Moshe is in his fifties and Tami is in her early twenties. They live together in a cruel and violent relationship, from which Tami seems unable to set herself free. Tami and Moshe are father and daughter...
A short film that follows the adventures of Eli an Israeli high school kid who tries to find his place in society during Israels Memorial Week for the victims of the Holocaust and the Fallen Soldiers.
This mythic love story set in a timeless, lavishly colorful and mystical Jerusalem incorporates hard rock, striking set design, computer-generated imagery and modern-day tensions between the secular and the Orthodox worlds. Hanan, a handsome young traveler - who has pierced ears and wears grungy flannel shirts - falls in love with Lea, the beautiful daughter of a leader in the religious community. Unbeknownst to the couple, a deal was struck, years earlier, in which they were promised to each other by their fathers. When Hanan consults with a master of Kabbala, a set of mysteriously forbidden eleventh-century texts unleashes untold powers, merging the erotic with the divine and affirming love's infinite potential to transcend all obstacles. The lovers are played by Yehezkel Lazarov (Waltz with Bashir) and Ayelet Z'urer (Angels & Demons; Vantage Point). (from sfjff.org)
Tells the incredible true story of Alon Shamiriz, Yotam Haim and Samer Tallaka, three Israelis taken hostage by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel.
The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.
When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.
A once successful novelist tries to revive his fading career by launching a highly inventive scam. He recruits a reckless actress and trains her to assume the somber identity of a lit Masters student. Their lives will alter forever.
In this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank robbery in order to seek revenge on the institution for cheating the youngster after the death of his father.
On a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem's neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds are brought together.
A masseur has very capable "electrical" hands for the women who come to him. He begins to take a special interest in three of his clients to whom he offers treatment in a more intimate setting, his mother in-law's apartment. A series of misunderstandings, intrigues and some wrong timings lead him to be falsely accused of rape.
Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag and two were sentenced to death; they never got on a plane. 45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents, leaders of the group, "heroes" in the West but "terrorists" in Russia, even today.
The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and lows.
An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gendered rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.
Israeli satire show investigating the historical, social and political heritage of the jewish people and the state of Israel, from biblical days to this day, killing sacred cows and questioning Jewish myths and Israeli ethos.
An Israeli youth drama series that aired between 1999 and 2002. The series revolves around the story of adolescent boys of middle-lower social class from Rishon Lezion, during their studies at Amit Amal High School. The main plot revolves around the story of Asi - a high school student, and Golan - a released criminal. Asi and Golan are two brothers of a poor family, their father abandoned them. Their story connects to the personal stories of Asi's high school and neighborhood friends. The series follows difficulties, overcoming age crises, loves, ethnicity and prejudice, drugs and friction between the protagonists of the series and those around them.
Natalie, a small-town girl with big ambitions, and an equally big attitude, gets her first break in fashion, only to discover that her dreams come with a price to pay — in love, in her career and in her values — in this romantic comedy-drama set in the glamorous world of style and celebrities.
A sketch program that takes place in Grape Prison and brings the experiences of the guards, prisoners, and visitors.
Amjad is an Arab-Israeli journalist whose problems with cultural identity drive himself and all around him crazy especially his wife, Bushra.
Following on the Zaguri Family from Beer Sheva. After 8 years when his father disowned him and made him move out, Aviel returns home after his Granpa's death, his Granpa left a will that rips the family (even more) apart.
While spending a summer-long family vacation by the lake, siblings Tommy, Nikki, and Daniel Fisher discover that their seemingly boring parents are actually daring undercover spies, who are chasing a devious villain aiming to dry up the country's water supply. When the siblings realize their parents' mission is in jeopardy, they form a secret task force called THE SPYDERS in order to help them out. Tommy, 12, a cute, irresistible goofball; Nikki, 15, a well-meaning but impetuous leader, and Daniel, 16, a sedentary, anxiety-ridden computer nerd, use their brains, charm, audacity and unbridled enthusiasm to outsmart the villain, who has so far eluded their parents. Will the untrained, blundering Spyders succeed where mom and dad failed?
Amir is a police officer in the cosmopolite district of the old town of Jerusalem, handling day-to-day conflicts between the different confessions to maintain a semblance of status quo. But, when two holy days in the Muslim and Jewish calendars fall on the same day, it seems that, for some, this could be the perfect time to spark a war.
Israel's favorite comedians sit on a couch and share the funniest, most embarrassing and strange experiences of their lives, which all viewers at home also know from their lives. A 10-episode series that deals with topics that are closest to man. The stories focus on experiences about love, money, faith, parenting, adolescence careers and more.
Eleven years after falling out, four friends, war veterans of a Special Forces unit, reunite for one final mission: to find Yaeli, a former lover of one of them and sister of another. Their journey will take them deep into the Colombian jungle but, as to succeed, first they must confront the trauma that tore them apart.
A suspenseful spy drama inspired by real events, focusing on Israeli Mossad agents following the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The series follows their efforts to locate and eliminate members of the Black September organization, while dealing with moral and personal consequences. The mega-production features many Israeli actors: Dror Keren, Maor Shweizer, Oz Zehavi, Amir Butros, Hisham Suliman (Fauda, Tahrir), Daniel Gal, Ohad Knoller, Diana Golbi, Louis Nufi, and more.
Naor's Friends is an Israeli television sitcom created by Naor Zion for the Israeli Channel 10. The series premiered on November 14, 2006 and series 3 started airing on April 5, 2011. The Israeli comedian Naor Zion completely wrote and directed the series and also stars in the series as a fictionalized version of himself. The series which is set in Tel Aviv revolves around Naor's eccentric friends and acquaintances, including Weisman, Dedi, Mika and Omri The series focuses on four single friends in their thirties, who live in the center of Tel Aviv - Naor, Weisman, Dedi, Mika, Omri. Dafi is introduced in the third series as the closest female friend to the main male cast after Tamar Keinan quit her role as Mika. The opening theme song of the series, "לא נרדמת תל אביב" was written, composed Danny Robas, and is performed in the series by Adi Cohen.
A police forensics officer, traumatized by the horrors he has seen and processed, leaves his job, wife and son and lives on the streets as a homeless wanderer. Try as he does he is unable to completely forget the past and finds himself in a struggle to unlock its secrets and see that justice is done.
The series focused on stories of high school students in Tel Aviv, and talked about issues of adolescents such as school, adolescence, love, drafting to the army, social gaps, rape, violence and more. The series would focus in each episode on various secondary characters and show their world and their problems, in addition to the central plot which evolved around the main characters.
A rogue detective with unorthodox means leads an investigation into a massacre committed by unicorn mask-wearing assassins at an Israeli high school.
