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- A childless young ultra-orthodox couple faces a crisis after a traumatic treatment for barrenness. When the difference between good and bad is unclear, the family must deal with unresolved secrets that raise fundamental questions about religion and faith.
- After an American tech-billionaire is kidnapped in Israel, the Mossad rushes to save him while the CIA send their best agent to help out.
- The first ever Hebrew rap musicalinspired by black music, film noir, and detective films, the plot focuses on the character of Joe, a cynical and bitter detective working in a corrupt, decaying city. One stormy night, a young woman named Sarah Bennett comes to Joe's office and tells him about the mysterious disappearance of her sister. Joe decides to take the case, a decision that could cost him his life.
- In 1946, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, the longest serving commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, is awaiting trial in a Polish prison. Albert, a young and successful Polish investigation judge, is appointed to interrogate Höss and get a perfect confession out of him. The encounter between the two men will unveil the frightening routine and banalization of evil that took place in the camp. By introducing the use of Zyklon B in Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss carried out the most efficient mass killing process ever known, which claimed the lives of approximately 1.1 million people. The film is based on the memoirs Höss wrote before his execution.
- On the hot summer days in the old city of Acre, a tradition connects the generations - children and teens jump from the old city walls into the sea waters below, a test of courage on the path to masculine maturity. Among the black coastal rocks and ancient stone ramparts, each leap is absolute freedom and a breath of fresh air amid the boredom of the long summer vacation. During the endless sweltering days, everlasting friendships are forged around this defining tradition, as the ranks of youth are replenished from generation to generation. The film unveils a nostalgic and stirring world of friendships, dangers and displays of bravery - all anchored in the experience of youthful masculinity atop the ancient city walls.
- Israeli chemist becomes the 21st century's most notorious drug baron after inventing a legal psychoactive drug from Cathinone. As his empire grows, he must navigate legal and ethical challenges while maintaining his power and influence.
- A film teacher had to teach in Sderot and change the lives of his students.
- A mother arrives at a hospital after her son is injured in a stabbing attack and meets a young woman who is waiting for news of a loved one.
- An Ethiopian immigrant, sets out on a journey through his children's homes after losing his wife. Coming to know some of life's harsh new realities, he tries to survive in his own way.
- In 1982, Itzik and other young pioneers established Ein Tamar in the southern Dead Sea region. They dreamed of a community life and thriving agriculture that would fulfill the Zionist dream. Over the years, the fields of Ein Tamar began to empty of Zionist settlers and fill up with Thai workers who dreamed of leaving behind lives of poverty and mere survival, progressing toward a better future for themselves and their families. The mutual dependence that developed between Itzik and his Thai workers creates surprising human bonds but also tensions and disappointments. With the future of the moshav hanging in the balance, Ning, Pisha, and Tom - Itzik's workers who left behind home, family, language, venturing into the unknown - are the ones breathing some life into the agricultural settlement.
- Nora built a shelter in a rural village, where she lives with 500 fruit bats, a gang of turkeys all named Hertzel, a mayna bird named Itzik and her beloved dog Koper. Isolated from society, she is helping the bats and every other animal that crosses her path. She soon discovers that there is no shelter far enough or secluded enough to protect them from the pain, loss and love that life brings.
- When Csilla was 22, she was kidnapped from a pub in Hungary and sold to a group of Israelis who trafficked for prostitution. Today, twenty years later, Csilla is a different woman, one who has managed to get out of the drug abuse cycle, celebrating 10 years of sobriety, and volunteering at the Levinsky Clinic to try and help women on the street. When the Ministry of Interior in Israel refuses to give Csilla a resident certificate and to believe that she is a victim of trafficking in women, she goes looking for her kidnapper to obtain proof. The journey to the past forces Csilla to return to the scene of prostitution, only this time with a little more power and a camera in hand. Csilla begins to document and work through the trauma, but can you go back to your most painful place and stay alive?
- Twenty six Israeli women directors of narrative features are sharing their personal experiences of sitting in the director's chair. From Ellida Geyra - Israel's first female fiction filmmaker, to contemporary female directors, the film weaves together a conglomerate of women's voices, as they echo each other, clash, and come apart, then culminate in a fiery speech by Ronit Elkabetz. Their stories create a diverse and cinematic patchwork quilt of female directors, providing us with a multifaceted reflection of any woman who wishes for her story to be heard. This is a moving documentary, that will motivate you to get up and do something about the glass ceiling, both the real one, as well as the imagined.
- After being kicked out from every available youth-at-risk framework, and after facing criminal charges for drug trafficking and violence, Kiki is about to enter a youth prison by court order. Gal, his sister, manages to convince the authorities to give Kiki one last chance. Gal is a caregiver for youth-at-risk in a framework that takes youth on experiential, therapeutic field trips through the desert. Gal and her co-workers take Kiki on a field trip to the desert. She is determined to succeed where everyone else has failed. Will the journey enable Kiki to grow and to take responsibility for his own fate?
- Ohad is an animal-rights activist. After years of being cut off from his family, he tries to heal the wounds and go home, but their decision to eat meat still stands in his way. Will the family manage to reconnect?
- Mira Segal wakes up screaming one morning to discover that her husband has disappeared. The police open a Missing Person file and advise her to wait. As weeks turn into months, Mira continues to search for him while exploring her own desires and the guilt of not wanting him back.
- A bunch of Israeli fathers for children with cancer are going on a journey in Romania. The disease of their children exposes the whole male disease. The difficulty of being connected to their feelings, the difficulty of exposing and being exposed, the difficulty of crying. For the first time in their lives they are forced to admit their vulnerability.
- In the past 30 years, Yosef Hurriye has worked in the chaotic watchmaker's shop he inherited from his father. Yosef was the town genius, but his hometown was no place for genius children; Today he is 60, with mounting debts and looming local elections he decides it's time. Against all odds he decides to run for office as a one-man party, to right wrongs and give Kiryat Malachi a future. But there is still one more obstacle: receiving his father's Victor blessing. Yosef's journey is accompanied by singers, musicians, and dancers - a "Greek Chorus" They give Yosef and the town a musical identity, waking it from it's coma, turning it momentarily into its twin city - Los Angeles. Maybe Yosef will one day make that a reality.
- "Der Nister" (The Hidden), that's how Colleen Shabtai called the house where she dreamed of a happy family. Together with poet Aaron Shabtai, she raised six children in a Jerusalem house, until they got divorced. As a teenager, their son, Nahar, began documenting his family. He filmed 20 years of family life, from a house full of children, until it turned empty and old. Only his mother and brother Lemuel remained there. He is unable to lead an independent life while she refuses to part with her role as mother. The grandfather's inheritance runs out, forcing them to leave the house, a departure which is a critical moment for his mother, his brother and Nahar himself.