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- An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
- Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male-written love letters that undermine his sexual identity and interfere with his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.
- After 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.
- Tells the story of the complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant. Shuttling back and forth between conflicting points of view, the film is a raw portrayal of characters torn apart by competing loyalties and impossible moral dilemmas, giving an unparalleled glimpse into the dark and fascinating world of human intelligence.
- In Jerusalem, a bullied teen befriends his grandfather and long lost uncle and soon they decide to solve their financial problems by robbing a bank.
- Seventy short films about cinema and its future.
- An investigative documentary revealing how the Israeli military occupation in Palestine has become a business rather than a burden.
- Renowned ball-room dancer Pierre Dulaine takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa, to teach Jewish and Palestinian Israelis to dance and compete together.
- In Tel Aviv, six friends who are appalled by the Israeli entry in the UniverSong competition record their own song on a mobile phone, then are shocked to learn their recording is selected as Israel's entry for next year's competition.
- At sixteen, Anna Wexler had broken away from her Orthodox Jewish community in New Jersey, rejecting its religious doctrine and social restrictions, and severing ties to her family. This led to her running away from home, sleeping on the streets, and experimenting with sex and drugs with friends who had also left the Orthodox world. However, after studying in Israel, her friends had a change of heart and returned to the fold. Feeling betrayed, Anna launches a quest to understand their transformation by following three rebellious Jewish teenagers in their yearlong rite-of-passage journey from high school to Israel. Along the way, Anna is forced back to the roots of her own struggle to understand the meaning of faith and the essence of religion and identity.
- An 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.
- A surprising and twisted spy comedy about the Mossad's attempts to find out who killed Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh.
- A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.
- One woman's quest to turn personal tragedy into global awareness.
- An impossible love story between Yossi, a former IDF soldier, and Dora, a mysterious French photographer visiting Israel, as they both struggle in vain to leave their pasts behind
- A documentary thriller describing the last days of the Israeli community in Tehran, on the eve of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The director, whose family was in Tehran at the time, uses rare archive materials to illustrate how thousands of Israelis, who enjoyed unusual affinity with the Shah's regime, wake up one morning to find their paradise vanished.
- This is the story of Magdalena and Rosa Kopp, wife and daughter of arch-terrorist Carlos, known as "The Jackal". From the depths of ostracism and regret they are going on a sobering journey into the painful and exciting centers of international terrorism.
- Victor "Young" Perez , tells the astonishing, harrowing and incredible moving story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. Perez started training as a boxer at age 14 along with his older brother Benjamin "Kid" Perez Perez rose to great fame via the help and guidance of Leon Bellier and had a brief relationship with French-Italian actress Mireille Balin. The 5'1", 110-pound Perez won the International Boxing Union's version of the World Flyweight crown with a 2nd-round knockout of American champion Frankie Genaro, ergo becoming the youngest world champion in boxing history ! Perez was arrested in Paris on September 21, 1943 and detained in the Drancy internment camp France, before being transported to Auschwitz where he was assigned to the Monowitz to serve as a slave laborer Victor Perez arrived at Auschwitz on October 10, 1943, as part of "Transport 60" a group of 1,000. He was held in AuschwitzIII/Monowitz. Whilst there he was forced to participate in boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazis. By 1945. Victor had survived 140 bouts in 15 months and won 139 !! Perez was one of the prisoners on the "Death March that left the camp on January 18, 1945.
- A German girl travels to Israel to help people with disabilities, where she learns a lot about the role of her grandparents in WWII and meets a man who wants to move to Berlin.
- Experience the pain of Egyptian slavery through the eyes of Moses' mother as she sets down her baby in to the Nile, the loyalty of Ruth as she pledges herself to Naomi and her God, and the turmoil of the Jews in Babylonian exile. Face the challenge with Esther as she risks her life to plead for her people, and see the suffering of the Jews in Jerusalem under Roman occupation. In the dark centuries following, The Covenant brings you to Shabbat tables of the persecuted Jewish families in Diaspora, ending in the Warsaw ghetto, and culminating in the Holocaust and the promised rebirth of the Jewish State in 1948.
- A story about the life of Sagi Dash, a legendery guitar player.
- Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
- TRANSIT explores the intersecting stories of Filipinos in Tel Aviv when the threat of a law deporting the children of migrant workers looms their precarious lives.
- An heir to a shipping fortune wakes up with amnesia. He discovers that his sister has been kidnapped, his father is unwilling to pay the ransom, and Interpol and the Russian mob after him.
- A sexually frustrated Palestinian-American agrees to marry an Israeli woman for a Green Card, triggering a war at home with his parents, who will stop at nothing to divorce him from his new wife.
- This uniquely telling film takes an entertaining and unsettling look into Chinese rehabilitation centers treating internet addiction, which the Chinese government has classified as a serious clinical disorder.
- Palestinian and Israeli businessmen co-found solar energy company amid community opposition. Utilize social media to garner support for their venture and Israel-Palestine peace process.
- Doron, a security operative, who takes on one last mission: to capture, number 3 in the terrorist organization of Hezbollah, in Lebanon. With an elite force, Doron enters Lebanon to complete his last mission. Very soon he discovers that reality is not so simple, and that a new and unknown enemy is to be dealt with - and Hezbollah are the last thing on his mind. Doron has to deal with a ticking clock in the form of extensive I.D.F attack and a bloodthirsty enemy, Now that their enemy has changed its face, it's up to him and his unit to wage a new war, a different war, to find an antidote, get back across the border, before the middle east conflict is changed forever.
- At the end of a lengthy relationship, Michal, 33, returns to her parents' small, cramped apartment in Herzliya, a sleepy, bourgeois suburb. Michal is a young, promising director, who should be devoting her time to writing a screenplay, but instead shuts herself up in her room, frustrated, and spends most of her time sleeping. Things change when Michal meets Zeev - the principal of the local high school, a 50 year old married man, and falls in love. The forbidden passion and stormy emotions that develop between Michal and Zeev reminiscent of first love. Unaware, Michal becomes a teenager all over again. But this time, contrary to her earlier adolescence, Michal rebels. The apartment, too small to contain two parents and a 30 year old teenager, is transformed into a pressure cooker teeming with conflict. Can Michal commit, give her all and fulfill her love and passion? Or is she too attached to the fantasy youth that she has created to break away? Perhaps she is just too busy rebelling?
- A portrait of one of the hot-spots of the Westbank. You will never get as close to the main obstacle of the Palestinian-Israeli contemporary peace process.
- Eyal has been in love with Hila for 3 years. They accidentally met online. He is a filmmaker; she studies to be an actress. He knew he fell in love with her from the moment he saw her. On set, he is relaxed and natural, but when they are alone...he becomes shy and is lost for words. He decides to go on a surreal and crazy trip to the Balkans to learn about free spirit and Joie de Vivre from his admired director, Emir Kusturica. Despite the difficulties, he manages to find Kusturica and ask him to play a role in a film he's directing; perhaps this will help him to summon the courage to tell Hila how he felt.
- A young officer returns to his base after a daring mission. The cook's assistant, a religious Holocaust survivor, is envious of him. He believes that there is a place in heaven reserved for the brave officer who endangers his life for the sake of his Jewish brethren. The officer, in the spirit of the Zionist ethos, is secular and a non-believer. At the moment, he is so hungry that, for a plate of shaksuka, he is prepared to sign a contract transferring his secured place in heaven to the cook. Some forty years later, the present time of the movie, the tables have turned - the officer, now a retired general, is on his death bed in the hospital. His son who, to his father's horror, has found religion, is in a race against time. Before his father dies, he has to find that cook's assistant who, forty years earlier, bought his place in heaven. If and when he finds him, the son has to nullify the contract. If he doesn't, his father will go to hell.
- Grandma Zohara occupies a special role within the Moroccan community within Israel. By cradling an object brought to her by her clients, Grandma Zohara gains access to the family's past through her dreams. This allows her to advise families on future decisions. Lately, however, Grandma Zohara is tiring and begins searching for someone to take over this role. She discovers that the only other person endowed with the power of dreaming is her daughter, Simone, who has different plans for her future. With support of Simone's sister, Fanny, who arrives unexpectedly from Paris, Simon gathers the strength to resist her mother's pressure and to pursue her own desire. Together the sisters wage battle for Simone's independence and creativity.
- The life story of Ogg, a male wolf living in the northern mountains of Israel. From his innocent childhood through his maturing to adulthood, struggling to survive in a delicate habitat sabotaged by mankind.
- Two brothers kidnap a schoolmate to contribute to the family's income.
- Like all good Westerns, Wild West Hebron challenges the ideas of hero and villain. In the often-violent area of Mt. Hebron, a conflict between Palestinians, Israeli settlers, and anti-occupation activists may seem clear-cut, but the journey of one settler defies common preconceptions.
- The complex relationship between a Jerusalem street artist and a mysterious, modern-day prophet being held prisoner in an abandoned apartment across the alleyway.
- In the 1990's a million former USSR Jews arrived in Israel. The immigrants were despised by the local population who feared their 'invasion'. While many embraced the Israeli lifestyle, others chose to live in self-made Russian ghettos. These ghettos were a fertile ground for the creation of self-hating Jewish skinheads. 'White Panther' is the story of Alex, a young Russian immigrant who joins a skinheads' gang, led by his older brother. An unexpected meeting with David, a religious Moroccan Jew, gives Alex a chance to pursue his longtime dream of becoming a boxer like his father. Alex finds himself torn between his two father figures - his violent older brother and his new Jewish trainer, only to find out the truth about those he so admires.
- 70 years after the Holocaust, filmmaker Dina Kadisha Aspen begins her quest to understand what's left of Jewish Poland today. In interviews with survivors, their children, and even the hidden and displaced children of the Holocaust, Aspen discovers a vivacious reemerging community whose next generation's Jewish existence still lies in the balance. The Revival of Jewish Poland reminds us that while we are unable to change the past, the present equips us with the power to redeem the future.
- The film follows the journey of a delegation of women, led by Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams, as they travel through Israel and Palestine and meet with diverse groups of Israeli and Palestinian women leaders that are working towards peace at the grassroots level on both sides of the on-going conflict.
- At 80 years of age, Colonel David Rokni is preparing to command the national ceremony of Israel's Independence Day. Just like in each of the last 30 years, he goes through an arduous series of training, routine formation and foot drills for the traditional military parade - a job no other person is capable of. A week before the ceremony, disaster strikes unexpectedly. For the first time, Rokni has to cope with an unfamiliar situation during a ceremony that would transform his life.
- Sigalit and Noga, diametrically opposed sisters, are forcefully reunited for their mother's SHIVA in the house Sigalit has never left and Noga never wished to return to. The sisters wish to formally abide by the ceremonial protocol and peacefully complete the mourning period will not shield them from their personal histories - combustible and lurking in the shadows of their childhood house. As the days of mourning pass in efforts to maintain their normal lives, the sisters will discover their past to be unavoidable and the painful truth that no one can expunge her first image of the world - her family.
- Style Wars is a legendary documentary, filmed in 1983, which helped the graffiti movement from New York to spread around the world. 30 years later, Veli and Amos, two Style Wars fans from Europe, trip through today's graffiti and street art scene. The journey takes them from Europe to New York and ends in the Middle East. Style Wars 2 features encounters with graffiti artists and presents different artistic views. Along the way, Veli and Amos also happen to attend boxing fights in New York and visit hair dressers in the West Bank. Even though the movie's main focus is on graffiti, it also raises topics like art, politics and lifestyle.
- They Were Promised the Sea is the story of a people whose identity as Arab Jews challenges the very notion of enemy. Informed by the director's family history, the film investigates the exodus that virtually emptied Morocco of its Jewish population, many believing they were no longer safe in their Arab homeland. Intimate interviews, poetry, recordings of Judeo-Andalusian music performed in Arabic, Hebrew, Ladino, thread the subjects' storylines and reveal a little-known history of a land and a people that resisted the separation of Arab and Jew and a country that sees itself as reincarnating the spirit of Al Andalus. Stunningly shot in former Jewish Berber villages, They Were Promised the Sea is a lyrical meditation on loss and longing, on hope and the possibilities of coexistence.
- Mimack City, the city where the naughty, brave Max lives, sophisticated Zoe, Reckless Jimbo and Sunny the Genius.The fifth rib of their gang is their pet -- Elvis, a little Mini-Mik.The story begins on the morning of the most important day in Mikmak City, the annual Mini-Mik day when the new Mini-Mik eggs arrive and everyone waits excitedly for the moment of egg-hatching and adoption. During the festivities they also meet a childhood friend of theirs, Kip, who comes by spaceship from the Mini-Mik planet to accompany the eggs.Kip and his grandmother live on the planet and are responsible for the safety of the eggs, until it's time to hatch.The annual Mini-Mik Day is a holiday for every Mikmak, except for one Mikmak who can't stand the Mini-Mik: Ms. Mikyaweli, the rich and powerful woman in Mikmak City. She's a potion brewer that makes happy day the day Mikmak City is in danger. From this, the gang is caught up in an extraordinary adventure.
- Red Reign exposes forced organ harvesting in China of prisoners of conscience, Falun Gong, who's tenets are truth compassion and tolerance as told by Nobel Prize nominee, David Matas. The film explores the involvement of the Western World , and the courageous doctors, politicians and lawyers around the world combating this atrocity which effects us all in ways we cant imagine.
- Saul, fortyish, a melancholic dreamer, decides to visit his father whom he hasn't seen in five years, and whom he blames for all his ills. He discovers a possible new life...
- When the Israeli government tries to silence a history, a light was shed on the nation's biggest taboo. This is the story of those who fought to erase Palestine and created an Israeli landscape of denial and those who are fighting to uncover it.
- The Makers of this film have spent the past 3 years and traveled to 14 countries interviewing Politicians, Clinical Psychologists from the United Nations, Spiritual Missionaries and have spoken to ordinary people who have faced extreme adversity. And the questions is posed... Where do we obtain our strength and inner power in a time of crisis? Personal stories of ordinary people from Kenya (Post Election Violence), USA (9/11 Attacks), Israel / Palestine (Political Conflict) and UK (Political Assassination) have been projected in this film in an animated form. The final message that goes in the film is: 'No matter how critical the situation of the world may be, but still there is HOPE for Peace...
- Yoseph is a Druze who returns to his native village after having been estranged from it for 17 years. He arrives with his son and daughter, whose Jewish mother he has just divorced.