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- DirectorNadav LevitanStarsChava AlbersteinGilat AnkoriPeter FreistadtReveals at close range the two levels of emotions existing in individual lives in a kibbutz. An atmosphere of warmth and concern is expressed as Leah's repeated miscarriages cause the breakdown of her marriage. But the deeper, unspoken reasons unfold, and the close, scrutinizing aspect of the kibbutz community offers no privacy. She and her husband blames the other wordlessly, while individually beset with feelings of self-doubt and blame.
- DirectorRonit ElkabetzShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzSimon AbkarianGabi AmraniAfter a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.
- DirectorTalya LavieStarsDana IvgyNelly TagarShani KleinA unit of female Israeli soldiers at a remote desert base bide their time as they count down the minutes until they can return to civilian life.
- DirectorAsaf KormanStarsLiron Ben-ShlushDana IvgyYaakov Zada-DanielCheli, 27, is raising her mentally challenged 24yo sister, Gaby, alone. When the social worker finds out that Cheli leaves Gaby alone in the house while Cheli is at work, Cheli is compelled to place Gaby in a day program. For the first time in her life, Cheli shares Gaby's care with someone else; her daily routine collapses and the huge void left by Gaby's absence makes room for a man in Cheli's life in the shape of Zohar, who inadvertently creates a chink in the sisters' symbiotic relationship. While Cheli hangs on to Zohar's love for all she's worth, her inability to have a normal, intimate, and emotional relationship with anyone but her sister forces them into a twisted threesome, where boundaries between love, sacrifice, nurturing, and torturing are crossed.
- DirectorKeren YedayaStarsMaayan TurjemanTzahi GradYaël AbecassisMoshe 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.
- DirectorAharon KeshalesNavot PapushadoStarsLior AshkenaziRotem KeinanTzahi GradAfter a little girl is brutally murdered, a suspect avoids arrest due to lack of evidence. Working separately, her father and a cop decide to do something about it.
- DirectorDan WolmanStarsGila AlmagorIdo TadmorNelly TagarThe film tells the story of a sensitive and complex relationship between a mother and her ailing son. Like in Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale "The Loveliest Rose in the World" where a prince must search for a rose to save his mother, who is dying in bed, "Tied Hands" sees a reversal of roles as a desperate mother goes out to find marijuana, to ease her son's pain. In her, turbulent journey in the streets of Tel-Aviv, old truths from her past come back to life and threaten to break down a wall of denials behind which, she's been hiding all her life.
- DirectorShira GeffenEtgar KeretStarsSarah AdlerNikol LeidmanGera SandlerMeduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn't speak any Hebrew (she communicates mainly in English), and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsHiam AbbassMakram KhouryClara KhouryIn Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsMark IvanirGuri AlfiNoah SilverA tragi-comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsTawfeek BarhomRazi GabareenYaël AbecassisA Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.
- DirectorJessica HabieStarsAli SulimanGuy ElhananHaale GaforiMars At Sunrise is the story of a war waged on imagination.
- DirectorVeronica KedarStarsSivan LevyVeronica KedarRomi AboulafiaA dark comedy about two girls who fall in love with their country and with each other en route from Tel Aviv to Sderot (the ongoing target of Qassam rocket attacks).
- DirectorRonit ElkabetzShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzMoshe IvgyYaël AbecassisWhen one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large family with a lot of problems and conflicts between them.
- DirectorAnaïs Barbeau-LavaletteStarsOmri IlanLionel CalniquerGil DesianoA Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
- DirectorEmad BurnatGuy DavidiStarsEmad BurnatSoraya BurnatMohammed BurnatA documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
- DirectorShlomi Ben-YairStarsArturo CastroRachel ClaireNoam HararyAfter being smuggled into Israel for a suicide bombing, a Palestinian girl must convince her handler that, although she is a woman she is prepared to do it. Once on the team, strapped with a bomb, she realizes she might not be ready to die.
- DirectorNir BergmanStarsOrly SilbersatzMaya MaronNitai GvirtzDaphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
- DirectorEric RochantStarsYvan AttalRichard MasurAllen GarfieldAt 18, Ariel Brenner leaves Paris and his family to live in Israel. He secretly joins the Mossad, the Isreali secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist. We will assist to the methods, the manipulations, the abuses, the machiavellism, the doubts of secret agents.
- DirectorTali Shalom-EzerStarsAmir WolfLana EttingerRozina CambosEli is a 32 year old man who has problems with relationships with women. Hagar is a surrogate, an alternative partner for practical, sexual therapy. They meet once a week and practice a relationship and intimacy in laboratory conditions. The fictitious relationship between them exposes them both physically and emotionally and brings to surface repressed fears from the real world. The changes Eli goes through during the therapy, along with the secrets revealed, not only shake his own life, but also the life of his family. Between clinic walls, due to an "artificial" process, Eli learns how to love for the first time.
- DirectorMichel KhleifiStarsMohamad Ali El AkiliBushra KaramanMakram KhouryA Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Palestinian youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Palestinian women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Palestinians must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?
- DirectorShay KanotStarsOshri CohenGal GadotEli FinishAfter falling for a dangerous mobster's girlfriend, a famous athlete puts in motion a wild and comical ruse that will open his eyes to a reality to which stardom had previously blinded him.
- DirectorNissim DayanStarsDaniel GadYasmin AyunTawfeek BarhomBetween the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
- DirectorYariv HorowitzStarsYon TumarkinRoy NikHenry DavidThe year is 1989. In an era of Palestinian demands for independence, the State of Israel sends young soldiers to oversee the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories. After one of them is killed, the common fate of four young soldiers and one Palestinian family is sealed. The film describes the extraordinary journey of a young soldier trying to find his place in the chaos surrounding him.
- DirectorSharon Bar-ZivStarsAsia NaifeldOhad HallGuy KapulnikA beautiful, determined Israeli military investigator fights for justice when she interrogates ruthless young officers accused of brutalizing Arab civilians. Her only escape is a torrid affair with a fellow officer.
- DirectorMaya KenigStarsGur BentwichElya InbarTzahi GradA father and his daughter, during the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsAdir MillerMaya DaganDror KerenDuring the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
- DirectorDina Zvi-RiklisStarsMiri MesikaGila AlmagorRivka RazRose, Flora and Yasmin were born as a triplet sixty something years ago in Alexandria, Egypt. Their well-off parents gave them names of flowers, and King Farouk of Egypt gave them his blessing. Today, in Israel, they live together in an apartment without men and without children. Flora has just retired from her work as a midwife, Yasmin awaits a kidney transplant, and Rose, once a successful singer, is wrapped in silence since the death of her husband. One after the other, the three sisters come to "This is your life," a place where people recount their memoirs, in order to tell their life story to Rucha (Rachel), Rose's only daughter, and talk about their symbiotic relationship. They are also searching for the long lost son of one of them who was given away for adoption under mysterious circumstances. During this period their lives and that of Rucha will change dramatically. Hidden ghosts will slowly appear, forcing the three sisters to confront the secrets and lies, and seek forgiveness. At the end of the journey into the past, after they redeem themselves, the sisters will embark on a new journey, to Alexandria, where Yasmin will undergo her kidney transplant and Rucha, who regained her own memories, will be able to start a new life.
- DirectorDror ShaulStarsTomer SteinhofRonit YudkevitzShai AviviSet in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.
- DirectorAdam SandersonStarsHilla VidorMatan AbarbuchMatan AberbachA young housewife yearns for human contact in a small, closed-off village.
- DirectorJohnathan GurfinkelStarsSivan LevyEviatar MorRoy NikGili changes schools and hooks up with the most popular guy to improve her social status. He passes her off to friend after friend and the lines of consent begin to blur.
- DirectorGuy NattivErez TadmorStarsAriane LabedMakram KhouryVangelis MourikisAn elderly Greek man and his Hassidic rapper son embark on a journey with absurd encounters, which ultimately leads them to a final confrontation of father and son.
- DirectorGuy NattivStarsRonit ElkabetzTzahi GradMichael MoshonovEverything is complicated in Yoni's life. He's almost 13, real gifted, but physically undeveloped and struggles daily to grow up before his threatening up-coming Bar Mitzva.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsGidi GovGali AtariAnat AtzmonIn the easy-going, sexually-liberated 1970's Tel Aviv, three young friends, struggling filmmaker Nati, his impressionable girlfriend Ossi and his geeky friend Mushon, move in together in a small apartment in Dizengoff Street number 99. By day, they work a boring desk office job but by night the city is their playground. Their overall goal is to make their way into the commercial movie making business, but harsh realities and romances often sidetrack them. Their fourth friend and Nati's older other girlfriend is aspiring musician, Miri.
- DirectorTali Shalom-EzerStarsShira HaasKeren MorOri PfefferWhile her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar's role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan-an ethereal boy who joins her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.
- DirectorNadav LapidStarsSarit LarryAvi ShnaidmanLior RazA kindergarten teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
- DirectorShlomi EldarWith the help of a prominent Israeli journalist, Precious Life chronicles the struggle of an Israeli pediatrician and a Palestinian mother to get treatment for her baby, who suffers from an incurable genetic disease. Each must face their most profound biases as they inch towards a possible friendship in an impossible reality.
- CreatorAvi IssacharoffLior RazStarsLior RazItzik CohenNeta GartyThe human stories on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
- CreatorAssi AzarStarsAvraham Aviv AlushMark IvanirHila SaadaAmos, a baker, lives an unhappy life after he breaks all relations with his girlfriend of nine years. Things change when he meets Noa, a beautiful megastar.
- DirectorShemi ZarhinStarsRotem Zissman-CohenRoy AssafRassabn AbesFollows three siblings who are going to discover the greatest secret of their late mother. This trip is going to change their lives.
- DirectorAvishai SivanStarsAharon TrietelKhalifa NatourRiki BlichAn ultra-orthodox scholar is revived after dying for 40 minutes. After coming back to life, he suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him.
- DirectorNitzan GiladyStarsMoran RosenblattAssi LevyRoy AssafHagit, a young woman with mild mental deficiency, works in a toilet-paper factory. She lives with her mother Sarah, a divorcée who gave up her life for her daughter. Hagit strives for independence and Sarah is torn between her desire to protect her, and her own will to live. When a relationship develops between her and the son of the factory owner, Hagit hides it from her mother. The announcement of the closing of the factory shakes Hagit and Sarah's life and jeopardizes Hagit's love story.
- DirectorDoron PazYoav PazStarsYael GrobglasYon TumarkinDanielle JadelynWhen a couple of American young adults fly to Israel to visit the city of Jerusalem, a biblical nightmare falls upon them.
- DirectorSilvina LandesmanHotline gets to the heart of a small NGO based in Tel Aviv: The Hotline for Refugees and Migrants. In exactly inverse proportion to the small-scale of this human rights organization, the issues they deal with are enormous, as are the numbers of those seeking help.
- DirectorYuval DelshadStarsNavid NegahbanAsher AvrahamiDavid DiaanThe son of a family of Iranian farmers in Israel rebels against his strong-willed father.
- DirectorRonit ElkabetzShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzSimon AbkarianGilbert MelkiThe story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.
- DirectorAri FolmanOri SivanStarsLucy DubinchikHalil ElohevJohnny PetersonThe year is 1999 and the storyline is actually a number of subplots all revolving around the 13-year old Clara, a girl who can predict the future and has telekinetic powers. The subplots include a boy in her class who has a crush on her, his family, her family, and her principal who keeps talking French for some strange reason.
- DirectorSylvain BiegeleisenAn intimate chat with a dying mother.
- DirectorYossi AviramStarsNiels ArestrupLior AshkenaziGuy MarchandAn israeli man, who recently broke up with his girlfriend, gets to Paris and starts to follow a soon-to-be retired detective for a mysterious reason.
- DirectorHadar MoragStarsMuhammad DaasYuval GurevichHila AlpertMuhammad, a rejected boy from the fringe of society, floats through the streets of a filthy city, exposed and desolated, until he meets Gurevich; a lone rover who rides his motorcycle into the bowels of the city, through the shadows of the back alleys, sharpening the knives of butcher shops and gourmet restaurants. Stubborn and tenacious, the boy forces his way under the man's wing. Within this hypnotic urban hell, what starts as an unstable and hesitant apprenticeship evolves into a struggle for self-control.
- DirectorMatti HarariArik LubetzkiStarsMoran RosenblattReymonde AmsellemShlomi KoriatRebecca Abarnabel, a single daughter born into an Orthodox Jewish family, is tired of the lifestyle that her father, Reuven, has forced upon her. She and her mother, Victoria, go on a life-changing journey between worlds.
- DirectorErez TadmorStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiMoshe AshkenaziRoy AssafA brutal terror attack causes an intense chain of events in one night
- DirectorErez TadmorStarsSharon AlexanderDalia BegerShmil Ben AriAfter years at sea, Aaron returns to the port of Ashdod in the hopes of winning back his family, but he soon realizes that life on land is more complicated than he thought.
- DirectorGuy NattivErez TadmorStarsLiron LevoLubna AzabalAbdallah El AkalSix days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
- DirectorSharon MaymonErez TadmorStarsItzik CohenIrit KaplanDvir BenedekA comedy about a 'coming out' of a different kind - overweight people learning to accept themselves.
- DirectorUdi AloniStarsTamer NafarSamar QuptySalwa NakkaraSet against a backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music in their crime-ridden ghetto and Tel Aviv's hip-hop club scene.
- DirectorAsaph PolonskyStarsSharon AlexanderShai AviviTomer CaponeAs Eyal finishes the traditional Jewish week of mourning for his late son, his wife Vicky urges him to return to their routine -- but just because the shiva has ended doesn't mean it's life as usual.
- DirectorEran KolirinStarsAlon PdutShiree Nadav-NaorMili EshetReturning to civilian life after twenty-seven years in the army isn't as easy as David had hoped. It's hard to re-establish daily contact with his family, with the dimension of his home and, above all, with the new Israel, an ultra-competitive society obsessed with success. Thus, the opportunity to join a company which produces nutritional supplements seems like a possible escape to be seized without hesitation. But David doesn't know how much his country has changed.
- DirectorMaysaloun HamoudStarsMouna HawaSana JammeliehShaden KanbouraThree Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsNelly TagarJoy RiegerDoron TavoryPast Life tracks the daring late 1970s odyssey of two sisters - an introverted classical musician and a rambunctious scandal sheet journalist - as they unravel a shocking wartime mystery that has cast a dark shadow on their entire lives.
- DirectorEmil Ben-ShimonStarsEvelin HagoelIgal NaorOrna BanaiA bar mitzvah mishap causes a major rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem.
- DirectorArik RothsteinStarsGila AlmagorMichael AloniAlex Ansky80-year-old Holocaust survivor Joshua discovers, one morning, that a cellular antenna has been installed on his roof. It turns out that his neighbor rented his part of their rooftop to a cellular company. Joshua finds this a terrible injustice and starts to believe that all his diseases and pains are caused by the antenna's radiation. He finds himself feeling the radiation everywhere and develops a life-threatening persecution complex. He goes to war against his neighbor, dragging his wife Sarah and their three adult sons into this vortex against their will. The crisis reveals the personal problems of each of his sons, and they are forced to deal with their father's dark shadow.
- DirectorRenen SchorrStarsDor ZweigenboimYoav TzafirShahar SegalA group of close friends celebrate the bittersweet changes coming to their lives during the summer of their high-school graduation: adult responsibilities, adult romance -- and the soberingly adult fact that some of their number are being drafted into the Israeli army. This has very much the feel of a high-school beach-party movie -- with music, and in Hebrew -- until a sudden and disturbingly realistic reminder of their own mortality finally slashes through the kids' cheerful, close-knit obliviousness.
- DirectorMeni YaishStarsMoris CohenRotem Zissman-CohenHaim ZanatiThis is a story of fatherhood. Ovadia is the strongest and most violent doorman of Tel Aviv night clubs. He has no fear of anything and he never lost a fight . His biggest dream is to become a father, he and his wife Rachel are trying to get pregnant for almost five years. A small time gangster named Shalom Shalom Rozental sees a great potential in Ovadia. Ovadia sees this as great option to start an expensive treatment for his wife. As soon as Rachel gets pregnant, he decides to stop working for Shalom. It's not that easy.
- DirectorRama BurshteinStarsNoa KolerAmos TamamOz ZehaviWhen her fiancé bows out on the eve of her wedding, Michal refuses to cancel the wedding arrangements. An Orthodox Jew, she insists that God will supply her a husband. As the clock ticks down.
- DirectorElite ZexerStarsLamis AmmarRuba BlalHitham OmariWhen their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsAdir MillerOri HizkiahYehuda LeviThe complex relationship between a Jerusalem street artist and a mysterious, modern-day prophet being held prisoner in an abandoned apartment across the alleyway.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsFanny ArdantAnia BuksteinMichal ShtamlerTwo brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out.
- DirectorDover KoshashviliStarsYuval SegalRami HeubergerMoni MoshonovA group of people live like a closed tribe on the same block. The most exciting happening there is the operation they're plotting, step by step, for stealing cargoes of diamonds from the airplanes.
- StarsAlma ZackYossi MarshekMichael Zapfamily that raises an autistic child in a rural village lacking any therapeutic resources.
- DirectorEitan AnnerStarsGilat AnkoriLudi BokenAnia BuksteinIn present day Jerusalem, a city increasingly dominated by religious fanaticism, Naomi, a secular young woman seeks refuge from the pressure of her life as a concert pianist. Overwhelmed by the expectations of her parents and her colleagues in Tel Aviv, Naomi seeks anonymity and solitude in the ancient city. Despite her intentions to stay alone, however, Naomi quickly makes two unexpected connections- one with a musically gifted Ultra-Orthodox young boy who lives in her building and the other, with Fabrizio, a charismatic Italian monk and organist. While these relationships allow Naomi to reconnect with her love of music and sense of meaning, they also make her a target in her new community. Faced with escalating isolation and violence, Naomi must learn to use music as a bridge to overcome towering religious barriers.
- DirectorEitan GreenStarsOsnat FishmanYiftach KaminerJameel KhouryAvraham is a small-time contractor who's trying to make it into the big-time, and therefor gambles on projects that exceed his capabilities. His family lives in the shadow of his career ambitions, until one of these projects finds him drowning in debts he cannot pay back. Under the threat of the father's financial difficulties they rediscover the strength of their family ties.
- DirectorEitan GreenStarsYonathan AlsterIlanit Ben-YaakovJonathan CherchiThree scenes in Udi's life, from his childhood to adolescence, all of which related to death.
- CreatorTzion BaruchStarsTzion BaruchAmos TamamMoris CohenJuda Ben Haim is a showy little thug, on his way to the biggest gambling in Romania with the money of a dangerous French mobster. A mysterious and beautiful woman shows up and changes all the picture.
- DirectorDover KoshashviliStarsTal TalmonAsaf GoldstienRoni DotanA couple, Tamara and Alon meet each other in a hotel suite for a day full of fantasy, they are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary and this is their routine celebration. But this year is different. Through this day secrets, lies, will be coming out while they are both living their sexual fantasy. As they go along through the revelation of secrets, infidelities and untold desires the experience becomes more and more painful for both of them.
- DirectorNir BergmanStarsRotem AbuhabBenny AvniNaama ArlakyDirected by multi-award winner Nir Bergman (BROKEN WINGS), SAVING NETA tells the stories of four women whose lives change after their brief encounter with a man called Neta. Humour, drama, love and hope, a powerful and moving portrait of family relationships and parenthood in modern life.