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- As ALS ravages Michal's body, she holds onto her motherhood. With time running out, she strives to make lasting memories for her son Naveh, who tries on his own to understand what no one dares to explain.
- Two sisters, who are very different from one another, share a common family secret. Their relationship is tested when a past trauma surfaces. They will do whatever it takes to keep their connection strong and solid.
- Two friends go on a hike to the desert. In the desolate wilderness something hidden comes out in their friendship. From then on, the only way they manage to communicate is sexually and violently. While one of them wants more than the other is able to give, he expresses his frustration by making sure they get lost and have no water - anything to escape from awaiting reality.
- The excited anticipation of her pregnancy is cut short after Ellie's ultrasound reveals that there is no heartbeat. Shocked and in a daze, she wanders around the mall and into a nail salon where she finds both confusion and comfort.
- The mother of 22-year-old Zora left the house above a year ago and abandoned him and his father. Since then, Zora's father suffers from depression and drowns his sorrows in alcohol.
- Dalia gives her young daughter Ella a head lice treatment in the bathroom. When Ella's father arrives unexpectedly to pick her up for his Saturday visit, the intimate lice treatment turns into a divorce battle fought over little Ella's wet head.
- The day Pasqual, a Peruvian migrant worker, decides to distance himself from his wife and move to Jerusalem, is the day before the ninth birthday of their son Luca. Pasqual sets out on a journey across the new city to find a birthday present for his son. The failed attempts of the helpless father in the difficult reality of immigrant life lead Pasqual to understand that he must make a painful concession in order to bring happiness to his son on the most important day of the year.
- 1948 War . Lolek,a young Holocaust survivor arrives in Israel and thrown in the middle of the desert. A stranger to the language and the new identity he is given, he is assigned in an isolated post under a brutal commander and the burning sun. Afflicted by homesickness and the heat, he sets out to look for some shade. "Homeland offers not only a revisionist account of Israeli history, but of Israeli cinema as well. More than any other Israeli director, Dani Rosenberg explores the price paid by the individual for the demands put on them by the Zionist endeavor. Other Israeli filmmakers, no matter how critical of the Zionist project and of Israeli society, tended to mitigate the stress of this demand by placing their protagonists within the context of a collective-commonly represented by a small group of people or a family-and in doing so, submitted their anguish to its impersonal logic. By placing this community outside of the film's frame and by rendering the significance of the struggle against its demands uncertain, Homeland turns that anguish into a challenge to talk about Israeli history.." Prof. Shai Ginsburg/Duke University "Through the story of two Jewish Holocaust survivors, who roast out in the hot dessert sun as the War of Independence rages, Rosenberg tackles issues such as the artificial construct of the "Sabra", and the connection between Jewish and Arab refugees. One of the characters (Itay Tiran) is a most recent immigrant who is actually trying to get to Haifa to find his girlfriend, and finds himself on a lonely hilltop in the middle of the dessert. The other (Mikki Leon) is waiting for him on that hilltop and has already become the Sabra. He is mustached, tan and muscular yet underneath that he is hiding the Diaspora Jew that Zionism tried to exorcise. This surrealistic situation, which recalls Rafi Bukai's film "Avanti Popolo", becomes even more strange and encumbered by the fact that all the dialogue is in Yiddish. The erotic, sadomasochistic relationship between the two- the pale weak Diaspora Jew and the tanned macho commander, express a concrete question about the ways in which, the Jew is attracted, in an almost Fascistic way, to power. The "discovery" of an abandoned Palestinian village by the character portrayed by Itay Tiran, who stumbles upon the body of a local boy, supplies the film with one of its most powerful moments and expresses the Holocaust survivor's attraction to death. The element of violence that the new immigrant identifies with on his way to becoming a "new Jew" leads to a surrealistic departure scene in which the character says good bye to the old Diaspora world. All of a sudden, the timeless discussion of Jewish victimhood is seen in a different light. This is an issue that has been already presented by new historiography of Zionism, but not yet by the contemporary cinema..." The History of Violence, Yair Raveh, Cinemascope
- Tamara is unable to have sexual relations with her partner Ariel. Any sexual physical contact is extremely painful for her. As she is told that an operation will not help, Tamara has an unusual suggestion for Ariel.
- In Haifa, Noam and his older and younger sisters live in a flat with their mom during her trial separation from their dad. Noam longs for his father's return, ritually walking the parapet along the balcony high above the ground, or hanging upside down over the side remembering life with his father. That morning, his mother has taken extra care to dress, and she's called to say she'll be home late with a surprise, so clean the house. Noam is sure that his parents have reconciled. Is he right?
- When the physics teacher dies, Leon arrives to replace him. He is full of good intentions, but time and time again he finds himself teaching an empty classroom and his secret is about to be revealed. In high school where every action produces a response. Every comment has a price.
- Don Quixote and Sancho Pancha arrive in Israel in the year 2005. They reach a hill on the Jerusalem by-pass road overlooking the wall, which divides Israel and the Palestinian Authority. They inspect their target. The two men are already in their 70's. Quixote is having difficulties mounting his horse and Sancho struggles with his tools. But Don Quixote is determined to attack.
- 97-year-old Tirza Hodes, the high-priestess of Israeli folk dancing, has been jetting between Israel and her home in Germany, where she continues to teach Israeli folk dancing, for years. A phone call to her grandson Guy, as she returns from Germany, sets them on a journey following the loss of her "Israeli Dream".
- 18-year-old Anton hangs out with thugs who steal cell phones and blackmail their owners. But when Anton gets a hold of Meitar's phone, he becomes obsessed with the world she has compulsively recorded.
- 55-year-old Noah, has a passion for classical music, a job that wears him down, and an old piano in his living room. Although Noah gave up on his dream of becoming a pianist in his youth, his youngest son 13-year-old Nir, is set to audition for the Music Academy. Noah's ambition resurfaces and his obsession threatens to disrupt both his and his son's lives.
- Opera singer Timor never imagined that at age 37 he would come live with his parents, or more correctly, that his parents would come live with him. For the first time ever, Timor decides to confront his mother, an esteemed Georgian opera critic with no faith in her son's abilities. Together with his voice teacher Ela, they present the show of his dreams.
- Aya misses her last bus home and is stuck in Jerusalem for the weekend. Her plans of staying home, watching Master Chef and munching on dry Cornflakes change when she gets a surprising call from a fellow student, Itamar.
- Alma, a young director, seeks an actor and actress for a violent key scene which she has written. Not one of those auditioning can breathe emotion into the scene. In a moment of crisis, Alma decides to play the female lead herself. The scene comes alive, yet Alma loses control on reality.
- In a dump he walks through on his way to school, an Arab lad in Jerusalem finds a small, red electronic game. He picks it up and plays with it as he walks. Security cameras follow him. Near the school entrance, one of his teachers confiscates it, and the teacher, in turn, has it taken from him by two Israeli soldiers. We follow the toy, as do the omnipresent security cameras, into the hands of a café owner, and then to a Japanese tourist, a nun, an Orthodox boy, and more. Its very presence, with its lights and beeps, causes suspicion and sometimes alarm. Is this a world in which it's unsafe to carry a toy?
- Meni, a member of a Haredi sect, lives between two worlds. He takes Rona, his secular girlfriend, on a romantic weekend to a cabin in the hills. An unexpected phone call puts their relationship to a renewed test.
- In Tel Aviv, Yoav receives a visit from Delphine, the girlfriend of Emile, his boyfriend from Paris. Their day together in the city confronts their mutual expectations in the face of a complex Israeli society.
- Michael is a charismatic and much-admired Rabbi at a Jerusalem Yeshiva. A revealing confession by Gadi, his favorite student, will shake the rabbi's familiar and secure world.
- It's Sabbath eve. Rachel sneaks out of her religious parents' house to go out with her secular friends. On their way to the party an accident happens and Rachel must face the consequences of her decisions.
- It is the night of the Jewish settlement masquerade party. Fifteen-year-old Samer insists on taking his older sister Ayat to collect her diploma from the Palestinian University. Walking through the city's rooftops and narrow alleys, they must avoid the settlers, and the Israeli army.