With No Land 2021
Firsthand testimonies and unique archival footage tell the history of the Jewish Ethiopian community and the efforts made to bring them to Israel.
Firsthand testimonies and unique archival footage tell the history of the Jewish Ethiopian community and the efforts made to bring them to Israel.
The heritage of a never-opened suitcase reveals for the children the secret history of their parents. The Boers were one of the many Jewish families who managed to escape the holocaust by crossing the Pyrenees. Although there are many stories that have been written about it, there has never been one so well documented. The Jewish Wedding tells the emotional legacy of the Holocaust for second-generation Jews, and how they cope with the silence about a story they are afraid to remember.
#Schoolyard: An Untold Story is the anatomy of a murder – the step by step, blow by blow, memory by memory chronicle of a horrible moment in Israeli military history.
After the passing of his girlfriend, unwilling to move on, Daniel is left with recollection of his past memories, his last dance.
A girl’s home falls apart as a result of her parents’ divorce. Her buried memories are revealed through a sea of grains of sand.
The relations between a mother and son are tested during the preparations for the Passover cleaning ritual when the son decides to burn down the house to set them both free.
A man and a woman have an intimate conversation about birds and everything between them.
The filmmakers gather to sing in a unique position, in which the mouth of one envelops the nostrils of the other, as all three voices vibrate potently throughout the body cavities.
Workers from different jobs in Tel Aviv taking their lunch breaks
When Israeli-born Tomer moves to Hawaii in search for a better life, he expects to start a family with his friend Mataia. He could never have known that Mataia's mother, Trina would interrupt their plans with a suicide attempt. Living with bipolar disorder, Trina's struggles exacerbate after the loss of her son and life is never the same again. Waking up from a 70-day coma, Trina is compelled to re-evaluate her own life - and her own death. Following her post-attempt life, thoughts and feelings, Another Day in Paradise poses important questions about mortality, morality, mental-health and the conscience to remain in this world or not.
Two con-artists, a Haredi Jew and a Muslim, perform (false) exorcisms and rituals for naive God-fearing people, until one day they are confronted by a real live Dybbuk that exposes their most private sins.
Cleo fulfilled his dream: to leave the big city with his wife and fifteen children, to establish a family commune on a farm in Brazil. Exploring their family-roots leads the children to discover their surprising heritage, which undermines the existence of the communal paradise.
A photo found by the filmmaker at her grandmother’s house after her death seemed strange. She has a pregnant belly. But she had told the story of adopting the director’s father because she was not able to conceive. Her old friends explained the kibbutz decided state-building efforts preclude giving birth, and she had an abortion that damaged her womb. This set the director’s curiosity about her biological grandmother. The adoption file told of Shoshana, 16, an Iraqi immigrant who got pregnant out of wedlock. Her sister revealed that the family abused her but she refused to give up the baby, who was eventually taken from her. Both suffered patriarchal oppression and remained silent. The grandmothers’ stories led the filmmaker to confront her parents about her own silence on sexual abuse in the family. For the sake of the three, she must break silence.
To the occasional onlooker, my childhood yard may appear like another shabby parking space in a Jerusalem ultra-orthodox neighborhood. To me, it is the first "outside" I encountered, the landscape of the only home I have ever known. I have been living in this yard for thirty-four years. As an adult, it continues to fascinate me with its ever-changing mood. It had embraced secular, religious, and ultra-orthodox atmospheres, but today, we are one of the last non-Ultra orthodox families living here. A film by Yochay Rosenberg
"Cosmos" is the story of cosmonaut Mark, whose spaceship on the way to Earth collided with a school of giant electric fish. The fish de-energized the ship, and there was a crash. Throughout the cartoon, Mark tries to fix the ship, balancing between despair and hope. He really wants to go home to his son.
Today is Assaf's day off, but his wife Michal drags him to a museum. Over the course of their visit to a place that never changes, Assaf wonders how he and Michal have changed since they met. A chance encounter with a lovely tourist prompts Assaf to choose between a perfect stranger and the wife he knows.
2014. Israel is at war in Gaza again. Inside an Israeli hospital, hundreds gather to boost national morale, and Uri, a wounded Israeli soldier, finds himself unwillingly turned into a war hero. A private family hardship turned public spectacle, offers an inside critical look into Israeli society and the way war as a state of mind is shaping it as a nation.