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- Salam is a consultant on a popular Palestinian TV series filmed in Ramallah who rather stupidly runs afoul of an Israeli checkpoint commander who uses his military influence to begin to manipulate Salam and the writing of the show.
- In Jerusalem during the Six Day War, a young civilian woman leaves her family to serve her country; a man who abhors war must fight within sight of his home; while paratroopers are dispatched to the city for a battle they never trained for.
- When their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.
- Through the Admor of Sanz-Klausenburg's heroic story, a man who experienced personal desolation and succeeded in rehabilitating his and his community's life, the film exposed the Holocaust stories as they're told in the ultra-orthodox community. It present the complex relations between the ultra-orthodox Jews and the memory of the Holocaust and the ways they experience the revival and the spiritual victory over the Nazis.
- 17-year- old ASHER has always been the impulsive troublemaker, from primary school, all through junior high and high school. It's hard for him to concentrate in class, and he is compelled by a lot of rage and violence; yet he is also endowed with a considerable amount of charm and street wisdom. While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to the family's scaffolding business, Asher finds a different masculine role model in his gentle literature teacher Rami and forges a special connection with him. Torn between the two worlds, Asher looks for a chance for a new life and new identity. When a sudden tragedy occurs, he has to take the ultimate test of maturity.
- Based on archive material, the film reveals the final years of Israel's founder, David Ben-Gurion. Excluded from leadership, he allowed himself a hindsight perspective on the Zionist enterprise.
- Nebsu tells the story of a mixed family navigating the prejudices and tensions involved in raising their five-year old daughter. What ensues is a clash of modern day cultures.
- Assi, a screenwriter and poet, is stuck in his personal life. He is full of doubt, disturbing thoughts, and existential restlessness. He is sentenced to community service due to a drunken-driving motorcycle accident in which he was involved. For his community service, he is sent to work with juvenile delinquents in Beersheba - the desert city in southern Israel - who are under house arrest and must attend sessions with Assi in the neighborhood shelter as a condition for their parole. Their extreme personalities, their riotous energy, and their charm awaken in him curiosity and attraction; together, they break through the boundaries of the rehabilitative framework.
- A man recreates, with poor means, a lost memory. A memory of the last day with his Mom. Objects comes to life, in a desperate struggle, to produce one moment that was gone.
- Deadline is a black comedy Stop-motion short that explores the power balance between Bureaucracy, Death and Feline devotion of the elderly.
- Ali, a young Palestinian, comes to Israel for a home visit after a long absence. Following a cold welcome, he decides to seek peace for a few days in the desert of Sinai, Egypt, before he will have to deal with the harsh return to the place he has left behind. After telling one little lie on the way, Ali finds himself embroiled in an unexpected identity crisis on the beautiful beaches of Sinai.
- Tamara wants to be a singer, but meanwhile, she's a babysitter. When she takes a child from his kindergarten she discovers that one of the children's father is a famous singer. She invited him for a playdate in the 'Elephant Statue' in the local mall, hoping to play him songs that she wrote. The plan doesn't go through. Who wants to listen to a babysitter's songs in a play-zone.
- Rona lost her voice & body balance in a car accident, and yet she always dreams to be able to move to the rhythm of music. In her mind she never lost her freedom, but can her body follow her mind?
- Masha, a young woman dealing with a life-altering crisis, seeks out her mother, Vera, at a quarrywhereshe's employed. Instead of finding comfort, she discovers Vera's new life alongside agroup of homeless quarry workers.
- Naomi is accompanying her terminally ill mother to undergo euthanasia in Switzerland. As their final moments together approach, Naomi's hidden hesitations and fears surface.
- It's 1973 and all that SHERRY, a 15 year old Israeli girl, wants is a boyfriend. A letter exchange with an unknown soldier makes her believe that it's going to be her first love. But what will happen when the imaginary soldier becomes real?
- Kingdoms presents an intimate look at the Hassidic world, from history to the present day. The third episode of this series, A Suitable Helper, presents the daily lives of the male and female members of Israel's Hassidic community. How do they meet the challenges of raising children, income, education, gender, and equality? And how are these matters approached from a Hassidic point of view?
- Old fisher prepares for his wife's funeral. But first, he must deal with his eldest son, a newborn Jew, who discovers her unusual funeral wishes and demands a Jewish burial.
- Galina, a foreign worker from Moldova, is anxiously awaiting her Novy God date, that she hopes will turn into her first sexual encounter in years. But her 85 year old employer is beset by jealousy, jeopardizing her chance for one night of pleasure.
- A dark family secret from the past is revealed unexpectedly and opens an abyss between two old friends. The movie is an animated documentary, Ispired by true events.
- Unusual film intimately and meticulously documents the work of undertaker Gabi Shaynin, of the Jerusalem Hevra Kadishaorganization for the burial of the dead.Death is a constant companion in Gabi's life. The daily proximity of the dead forces him to adapt to a lifestyle overshadowed by death. He neither eats,drinks or smokes near the dead bodies; but afterwards, he is like everybody else - driven by a need to live.The film examines the disparity between the significance Gabi infuses his work with, and the mental price that he and his family must pay in dealing with the profession he has chosen. The film describes a very narrow line between the pain and turmoil that accompanies each encounter with death,and the resulting need to embody death with meaning, and between death'sarbitrariness and vagueness, which leave us totally helpless.
- A unique Israeli/Palestinian cooperation.
- Confined by the walls of their home, Evie and her mother Rose, struggle with the inevitable presence of an uninvited tenant.
- Eli is 13. His coach, Eran, offers him a ride home after practice, and along the way, decides to share some secrets with Eli.
- A non-functional relationship between a deaf child and his hard-working father, who struggles to accept his son's deafness.