Riding With a Spy

After being convicted of espionage, ostracized by her people, and marked as a traitor, Israeli whistleblower Anat Kamm tried to rebuild her life in NYC. She goes and graduates from Columbia University, but her past still haunts her. Unable to find employment and extend her visa, she is forced to return to Israel. In her […] >>

Raging Souls

Twenty years after the Israeli rock group “Minimal Compact” was founded, the filmmaker, a lifetime fan, sets out on a journey to uncover the extraordinary story of the band which was popular in Europe in the 1980s, whose members are now scattered around Europe and Israel. Through interviews with former band members Rami Fortis, Berry […] >>

Her Name Was Zehava

Zehava, a young trans woman, was denied asylum by Israel and repeatedly imprisoned due to her “second-class” status as a Palestinian. She fled from the West Bank to Israel after surviving sex trafficking and attempted murder—only to face new obstacles as an undocumented, homeless Palestinian, with the constant threat of deportation. In her perilous journey […] >>

Another Meaning Of Love

After many attempts to restore her marriage, Kati is facing her second divorce. Together with her son, the filmmaker, she tries to understand what really led to it. Past traumas float to the surface as one question constantly echoes in the background – what keeps people together and what separates them? >>

Home

Two women are cleaning up the dirty and run down house, in which one of them lives with her 12 cats. The house’s condition is the result of years of neglect. One woman’s wish to help the other  is met with her friend’s inability to cope with her own neglect, which in turn creates a […] >>

Check Point

The yellow gate, which stands at the entrance to every kibbutz, was in the past a symbol of security and protection. Through conversations with the guards at the gate, we are exposed to thoughts about the unstable reality and the feeling that at any moment something might happen. Will the gate be able to protect […] >>

Evening Train

In an isolated desert village, an abandoned train station becomes a daily meeting point between its residents and a world that has left them behind. Ziva, a young woman raised alongside passing, indifferent trains, begins to question the ritual and the quiet acceptance of her reality. A restrained, tense connection with Yush, the station worker, […] >>

Menelik – Black Jewish Prince

Gadi Abaje is a 23-year-old Ethiopian immigrant, whose Christian mother was forced to stay in Ethiopia. He lives on the margins of Israeli society – in Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station, supporting himself by petty thefts, and has a dream of turning the bus station’s P.A. system into a radio station that will serve as both […] >>

Moments in Isolation Israel 2020

Nine filmmakers, confined to their homes during the Covid-19 lockdown, share fragments of their isolation experience: Manya is on the phone, speaking in Russian to lonely elderly people; Omer is on the phone to his Grandmother, infected with Covid-19. On the other side of town – Danny is smoking alone on her balcony and Reuven […] >>

A Group Portrait with A Woman

After being forced by tragic circumstances to put her only daughter, fathered by a Muslim Bedouin man, up for adoption, an Israeli woman returns to Israel many years later to find her lost child. She soon finds herself along with her director friend in an unusual cinematic creation of her life, a voyage that covers […] >>

The Secrets of War

A cinematic journey investigating the brutal massacre of 17 Israeli prisoners by Syrian Soldiers in the Golan Heights. The two tragic events depicted in this film, clouded in secrecy and lies by the Israeli Defense Forces for over 50 years, serve as a metaphor for Israel’s weakness and blind arrogance during the early days of […] >>

Out of Frame

The film tells the story of the world of Israeli journalism – an industry now in deep crisis – from a unique point of view. Through the stories of two photojournalists, Eli Hershkovitz (Haaretz) and Eddie Israel (Maariv). Both reside in the south of Israel. Hershkovitz and Israel are both trying to survive their dying […] >>

#Schoolyard: An Untold Story

In 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, an Israeli paratroop company was ordered to guard hundreds of Lebanese war prisoners for 10 hours. #Schoolyard: An Untold Story is the anatomy of a murder – the step by step, blow by blow, memory by memory chronicle of a horrible moment in Israeli military history. >>

The Material That Love Is Made Of

In the winter of 1992, a New York scientist isolated the material that love is made of: it is an unbelievable hormonal matter composed of three chemical elements. Ten years after that discovery, director Ari Folman goes out on a two-year journey in an attempt to investigate the material love is made of, as it […] >>

The Governor

Zvi Elpeleg, the director’s grandfather, was a military governor of the Arab citizens of Israel after the establishment of the State. The positive image Zvi presented slowly crumbles when the director reveals his true actions as a ruler in both his military and family life. As she uncovers a family secret, the personal and political […] >>