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- 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.
- Love Letters to Cinema is a collection of ten "letters" in the form of short films (4 minutes each), written and directed by ten outstanding Israeli directors. The films and the directors conduct a dialogue, whereas the directors create a short film with their unique voice, bringing to the audience a group of work that reflects on cinema. Love Letters to Cinema is a true collaborative effort. Alongside the directors, over 300 industry professionals and students from the Sam Spiegel school volunteered to take part in the project, whereas their mutual love of cinema creates a colorful and powerful project.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two sets of parents; one Arab the other Jewish, are on a stakeout to find out who is writing graffiti on the walls of their Arab-Jewish school.
- 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.
- 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
- Eitan Kalish is a fictitious character of a student documentary film. A small -time friendly ecstasy deal he sets up unexpectedly goes to distance, when the Israeli Defense Forces are re-occupying Palestinian land, causing 1000 pills to fall into his lap. He sets up the ultimate poetic statement: selling the pills in the coming "Anti Occupation Rave" in Tel Aviv.
- When twenty-three-year-old Ee Ya'aran's parents lose all hope of winning the legal battle for their family ranch, they decide to dismantle the place and move to Portugal.
- Fifty years after Slow Down by Avraham Heffner won a prize at Venice Film Festival, top alumni of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School challenge the 1968 legendary black and white thirteeen-minute short, which penetrates the essence of a quarrel and reconciliation between an elderly couple in Tel Aviv of 1967. The voice over stream of consciousness of the heroine's poignant self-examination serves as the launching pad for six modern-day interpretations of couplehood, laced together in contemporary Israel.
- Maya is unwilling to come to terms with the fact that her relationship with Tamar has ended, and will do anything to stop her from leaving the country, even at the risk of life itself.
- Amnon goes up and down the hill in search of fresh milk. After obtaining it, he notices he left his wallet at the convenience store. This leads to his unexpected declaration, and to a dramatic explanation behind his wish to obtain milk.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Eitan works security in the Dead Sea Works factory. On his way to a night shift he is sexually assaulted by his bus driver, thus begins a dream-like journey on the silent beaches of the Dead Sea.
- Aya is young, sensitive and very much in love. Love, in fact, is her essence. When she realizes that her boyfriend is about to break up with her, she runs away in a desperate attempt to hide from the inevitable.
- 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.
- Between autobiography and fiction, curiosity and despair, 'In Praise of the Day' is a bold homosexual film, taking place at the Independence Park in Jerusalem. Director Oren Adaf plays the lead role of a young man wondering around the park and looking for a phone. He meets the usual characters of the park and is willing to do anything to be able to call his traditional mother before Shabbat.
- The delicate street life of a group of Russian homeless emigrants is shattered when the "Korean", a violent drug addict, comes along and fights his way into the group. This is the chronicle of the tragic events that followed.
- Every day is a perfect day for revolution. Every evening while watching television, we resolve to act. Every morning we realize that we did nothing. Can individual's actions influence reality? Five stories from both sides of the separation fence.
- 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.