TAZOO

TAZOO was originally conceived in order to rediscover the Tel Aviv Zoo, which operated in the heart of Tel Aviv from 1938 to 1980 and is based on the stories of the local community. The Zoo re-creation is developed using location-based Augmented Reality (AR) technology. Through this technology, visitors in the gardens surrounding the mall […] >>

Proud Jewish Boy

They said he started it all. On November 7, 1938, a gentle looking seventeen-year-old Jewish boy, an illegal resident in France, entered the German embassy in Paris and fired three bullets at German diplomat Ernst vom Rath. Two days later, vom Rath died of his wounds. And Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, sent the […] >>

Chilik

From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva For the first time in his life, my brother Chilik (26), a married Yeshiva student, is at home. For a month now, he has had to endure criticism from the secular society in Israel, even though he is studying the Torah on his own. Studying on […] >>

Dimona Twist

Seven women arrive in Israel by ship in the 1950s and 1960s and are sent straight to Dimona, a town recently established in the desert. They now open up and share their life stories that have never before been told from their perspectives. What happened during the first fifteen years to the girls and women […] >>

Megido

Megiddo is the largest security prison in the world, a microcosm of the painful experience of the two nations. The fates of Benny, the tough prison commander, and Abdal Basat, the leader of Hamas, are intertwined in one another, depending on common or conflicting interests, all in order to fulfill the yearnings they have, each […] >>

Salma

The film, which is based on a true story, follows Salma, a young, beautiful and rebellious Arab woman. Salma tries to break the social norms and customs .she lives in conflict between her lifestyle and the conservative mentality of her family. Salma suffers from violence in her family. She tries to achieve independence, therefore she […] >>

Web Junkie

China is one of the first countries in the world to label overuse of the Internet a clinical condition. To combat what authorities deem the greatest social crisis for youth today, the Chinese government has created treatment facilities to detox and cure teenagers of their addictions to online life. But what starts out as an […] >>

Matissa

Orit Adar Bechar’s Matissa is an adaptation of Henri Matisse’s painting Harmony in Red (1908). The artist resurrects Matisse’s painting and recharges it with her own interpretation. She leaves intact the painterly and plastic components of the original work, and therefore the world in which the maid is moving about is actually a painting. Adar […] >>

I’m Tired

“I am tired as an ancient language/ invaded by foreign words…”  video-art interpitation of the poem “I’m Tired”. From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>

One Last Visit

The last three weeks in Lena’s (99) life cast light on her complicated relationship with her daughter, Miri (75). Miri came to Israel to say goodbye, after learning that her mother disinherited her. Will this last visit be able to mend their relationship, with the shadows of more than 70 years looming behind? >>

The Artichoke Season

The film dives into the childhood memories of 10-year-old Rosalie in a Jerusalem slum, when her father leaves home. While Rosalie escapes to the gum trees of the Galapagos islands, her mother, a French immigrant, tries to preserve the delicate ideal of a family. Both try to remain hopeful, while delving into a world of […] >>

Apollonian Story

Forty years ago, while searching for his place in the world, Nissim Kahlon (67) made his home in a limestone cliff under the Apollonia National Park, north of the Herzliya coast. Amidst the sound of the waves and the fragile limestone mountain, he dug a cave to live in, to shield him from the heat […] >>

Across the Line

Hananel, a young religious Jew, is hurrying home for Shabbat. An unexpected encounter with Mundir, a stubborn Palestinian hitchhiker, leads Hananel on a series of mix-ups that eventually teach him a lesson in communication, friendship and love. >>

Inside The Pipelines

Experimental documentary film that combines video and animation. The film documents wandering around Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station. >>

Checkpoint

The West Bank and Gaza Strip have been under Israeli military authority since 1967, forcing over three million Palestinians to live under Israeli occupation. When traveling from one village or city to another to go to work, visit relatives, or seek medical care, they must pass through Israeli checkpoints. These checkpoints, acting as the first […] >>