Medical Autobiography

From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva As the world contends with the Covid-19 pandemic, a young man suffers a cardiac-arrest-like episode that no medical test seems to be able to explain. A tongue-in-cheek investigation into his own medical history helps him interpret the scientific language and rekindle his faith in the modern […] >>

The Chaos Within

“A journey through Kabbalah, heroin, chaos and redemption. For 10 years I’ve filmed my mother’s and my own life change dramatically. Mom, a holocaust survivor, married Rabbi Ashlag when she was 45 and he 40 years older. He taught her the secrets of Kabbalah and then passed away. Since then mom, Rebbetizin Faiga, has been […] >>

Why I Didn’t Report

After naming her rapist online, Dana, a crime journalist, is interrogated by a young policewoman who must determine if Dana is a slanderer or a survivor. Once the station chief barges in, the two women realize Dana’s fate will be sealed in the interrogation room. >>

Mini DV

Home videos shot during his childhood send director Shauly Melamed on a downward spiral, inspiring a search for other LGBTQ adults who documented themselves during puberty. Shauly finds many such individuals who, in their youth, exposed their non-conforming identities without understanding the secrets the camera beheld. Tom, transgender, grew up in the Ultra-Orthodox town of […] >>

Youthful Grace

Amir and Eliyahu, two teens living on the outskirts of Jerusalem, try to survive in a world of adult neglect. An unusual encounter on Passover Eve leads them on an unexpected journey. >>

Conversations with My Dead Friends

Claire was my childhood love. I heard Yonatan, a kibbutznik, lecturing on Marx and Tolstoy the day we both enlisted. Jacques was a painter; the sergeant major ordered him to smear the cannons with grease so they would shine in the parade. I met Hanoch after the army; every morning I would wake to the […] >>

Cutlets

The day in the life of Adi, a young woman trying to survive a disastrous day. She’s late for work, a pipe in her flat bursts, the dog pees on the floor and she fights with her manager at work. Her emotional instability leads to chaotic and devastating choices. Exhausted from medication and shrinks, Adi […] >>

Just This

Achinoam, 29, arrives at a meditation center with lots of self-hatred and doubt, feeling too tall for this life. Through an encounter with a woman who is suffering from cancer , she allows herself to grow and stand tall in her own life. >>

All Rights Reserved

A short documentary about a house and characters that cannot be shown. Two israeli tenants create a miniature world of found-objects. On a desk, with changing sceneries, they tell the story of the different narratives colliding in the Palestinian house they rent. >>

Shlomo Bar – a Musical Documentary

Shlomo Bar is one of Israel’s most important and original musical artists. For forty years, together with his band “Natural Gathering” he has created music that expresses the complex heart and soul of the Israeli experience – a stirring blend of East and West that yields compositions of exceptional beauty, while also expressing social protest […] >>

The Komediant

Pesachke Burstein was a singer, a dancer and a comedian born in a Jewish town in Poland at the end of the nineteenth century. When he was 14-years-old he ran away from home to join an itinerant group of entertainers. He went on to live a life of theater, and was famous for his incredible […] >>

How I Learned to Overcome my fear And Love Arik Sharon

As the elections approach, director Avi Mograbi sets out to make a  documentary film about Israel’s most maligned politician, Arik Sharon.  Sharon, a figure admired by many, is a legendary warrior and officer.  Mograbi, who was a conscientious objector to the Lebanon War, has  personal issues with Sharon, the mastermind of that war. Nevertheless,  while […] >>

The Dream Factory

Ben (35), a talented animator, dreams of publishing his comic book, titled “The Dream Factory”, but keeps getting rejected. His daughter Maya decides to take him into their own fantasy world and together they journey to The Dream Factory, in order to make his dream come true.  On the way, Ben realizes that his dreams […] >>

The Jerusalem Dream

In the late 1970’s, after thousands of years of praying and longing for Jerusalem, the first Ethiopian Jews arrived in Israel. “Was it worth it?” their children now ask, for the first time. They are brave and direct and their words pierce through the heart. Words shifting between the great happiness of village life and […] >>

Confessions

To the studio in the hotel come women who have been evicted from their homes. Through the women’s ritual, they confess and break down, while outside there is war >>