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.
3 stories revolving the Usher family. An elderly man seeks redemption by returning a dead friend's watch. A straight arrow, fights her brothers' desire to give their dying sister a falsified Ph.D. A Rabbi struggles with a congregant's secret or losing the woman he loves.
In a town where the adults live on ground level and children refuse to come down from the treetops, a series of interviews sets out to discover - what is it exactly that the generations misunderstand about each other? This animated documentary highlights the absurdity of childhood, adult-ness, the internet, and generational gaps.
A day in the life of a Jerusalem taxi driver, on which he buried his son who committed suicide while in the army. Having no family, he finds himself at work as usual. He meets with blunt reality as it exists in Israel and with grief.
Kibbutz Maoz Chaim children's house, 1943. A gunshot rings out, followed by silence.11-year-old Dvor'aleh is orphaned. She was told that her mother was killed by a stray bullet during weapons training, but soon begins hearing the word "suicide" whispered among the kibbutz members. Dvora is deeply troubled: was it an accident or was it suicide? If it was suicide, how could her mother leave her alone in the world like that? Only years later does Dvora discover the truth. Journeying to the past, her son, the filmmaker, revisits the childhood of a mother with "rain in her eyes", as she described herself - a mother whose tormented life story shaped her writing and her relationship with her children and family.
Naama is confident her partner, who unsuccessfully tries to conceive, wants a dick. When their relationship starts to crumble, Naama goes out to ask a radical and unrealistic solution.
A woman who has lived in Vienna for more than fifty years leaves home and immigrates to Israel. In her last week there, she has to pack up, break up, come to terms with the loss of her husband, and examine her relationship with her son.
Nivi, a teenage girl, tries to re-navigate her life after casual meetings with acquaintances.
In this total creation, the artist takes upon himself all roles of filmmaking, to create a personal retrospective view of the traumatic scenes he went through during his military service. The artist raises questions about gender, masculinity, sexuality and violence while reconstructing and intensifying his military experience as a homosexual.
"Matzpen," the Israeli socialist organization, has never had more than a few dozen active members. Still, at the end of the sixties and beginning of the seventies, it was considered a real threat to the Israeli political and social consensus. Most of Matzpen's members were Israeli born, coming from the deep core of Israeli society. Their fight against Zionism and against the occupation, as well as their contacts with Palestinian and European left-wing activists, were the cause of threats, slander, as well as political and social isolation. The film touches on the main issues of the Zionist-Palestinian struggle, through the eyes of some of the organization's prominent figures, their ideas, opinions and activities, then and today.
Three graffiti artists from Israel and their daily lives as artists in the street scene.
Roni surprises Ellie on her birthday at the Dead Sea with her friends. The attempts to make Ellie happy only deepen the gaps, and just before the lowest place on earth she’ll have to decide.
Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula.
The story of a family who become a surrogate family for a couple that has lost all hope of having children. The surrogate couple aim the camera at themselves from the moment they make the decision.
