Me vs. the Pigeons 1970
A student mockumentary film about an analogy between pigeons and the politican stance in Israel.
A student mockumentary film about an analogy between pigeons and the politican stance in Israel.
A comedy skit about a matchmaking show where 3 men compete over the heart of "Marylin Monroe".
A has been director decides to make one more movie, to try to overcome a traumatic event from his army service. He approaches Yiftach, a young man who has recently finished his mandatory service, asking him to write a song for his movie. Since his release from the army, Yftach finds himself going from one odd job to another, struggling, like so many of his peers, to find his path in life after the service. Yiftach is passionate about writing, so an opportunity to write for a movie is very appealing but when he realizes that the movie is actually about an event that happened to him and his army mates, it brings back his own repressed memories he is not yet ready to deal with. And there is this girl…who’s dating the wrong guy… It’s a movie about friendship, giving a chance and trying to figure out what’s important in life.
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.
A lady enters the ladies room and gets carried away into an endless choreography of self criticism in front of the mirror following the other ladies. The film tries to present the absurdity of the society's impact on the individual, and it is an allegory for the internal need of liberation standing against the desire to get closer to the ideal of beauty.
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.
Created by Aviya Hanina, this is one of the two animated short films depicting her relationship with her family growing up.
Documentary that follows three people on their journey to leave the ultra-orthodox world.
As it says on the tin.
Six friends reunite under the full moon to eat steak, drink beer, and smoke, an ongoing tradition captured on a camcorder. A raw, unfiltered look at friendship, ritual, and time passing.
"I'm so generic it makes me sick" Follows Haya Moshka Modbuk, a 19-year-old Haredi from Haifa who serves in the IDF, discovers that she is a lesbian and, by the way, a professional rainstick player. Haya Moshka lives with her mother, Ravshake Modbuk, a divorced woman in a Haredi society who is trying to survive and confronts her daughter after an incident with the rainstick. Modbuk goes through a journey of adulthood and struggles with her complex Israeli identities in front of her family and Israeli society. A parody of Israeli and high school films.
a film that tells a story about paranoia during a war
Eric smokes a cigarette and suddenly his father confiscates it. But when Eric returns to school he catches his father smoking. Will the disbelief between them get solved?
This cruel yet poetic experimental documentary examines the poetics of cruelty, as it describes the routine operation of a poultry slaughterhouse. The movie draws a comparison between the chickens and the other, the different, as it depicts the butchers and their cruelty. Although the movie is influenced by documentary classic Blood of the Beasts (1949) by Georges Franju, it differs in being devoid of any narration or text. The film also focuses on the cinematic form – color, editing and composition – as never before seen in Israel.
On the night of her break-up with her girlfriend, Shai is cursed to read people's minds - except the opposite. Everyone can read her mind. Including her one true ex.
TLVFest called for members of the LGBT community to document themselves on 11.11.2011. These materials construct this film and portray a rich mosaic of voices and experiences in the LGBT community in Israel. The objective of this project was to enable its participants to present their points of view showcasing the different meanings of lesbian, gay, trans, or bi identity in Israel.
Blindly trapped in an abusive relationship, Maya has to face the reality she’s trying to repress. When she is exposed to her hidden depths she becomes violent herself.