Quality Time

A stoner teenager before army recruit and his ex-military career father are forced to stay together alone for the first time when the mother goes on vacation. The tension between them reaches an explosion – but not the kind they expected >>

Tikra

Yanesh (40) conducts the “buna” (coffee) ceremony at her home, an Ethiopian communal custom and she does it alone. As soon as Yosef (12) her son, intends to go out, she starts the regular sequence of actions to prevent him from going out, the reason this time being so that she won’t have to drink […] >>

During my Tenure

For the first time since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the then head of the Shin Bet, Carmi Gillon, breaks thirty years of silence. In a personal, unflinching, and unapologetic film, he reveals what he never dared to say out loud: how he foresaw the assassination yet failed to prevent it; how he became a […] >>

Flight 1812: Rediscovering Mom

On October 4, 2001, Oksana Zelser, aged 38, boarded a flight from Israel to Russia for a family visit. A long-range missile fired at the plane caused it to crash into the Black Sea, claiming the lives of everyone on board, including 51 Israeli citizens. Oksana’s son, Iliya, was only 13 years old when he […] >>

Absent Presence

Ruthy returns to Argentina to clear out her late parents’ apartment with her twin sister Judy. Using various objects and private archive materials, the film is both a nostalgic look at the past and a very personal portrait. It deals with the complexity of the immigrant’s identity, sibling relationships, and the function of objects as […] >>

I See You

After 25 years of blindness, Dan gets a chance to see his wife and children for the very first time. It may also be his last. >>

Morning Moon

After a scholar’s immense investment in his life’s work, he is shaken to discover that another creator preceded him. The film focuses on the emotional upheaval experienced by the creator, and touches on existential questions, about value and uniqueness, by interweaving the story of the creator, with an ancient legend about the diminishment of the […] >>

Blush

Naama Barash is 17 and her hobbies include alcohol, drugs and useless friends. When her sister goes missing and the whole family is busy looking for her, Naama meets a new girl from school and falls head over heels in love. >>

Naseej (Fabric of Life)

Spring time. The desert sheds its winter foliage, obeying summer’s reign. The local Awassi sheep shearing season has arrived. Khadra Al Sana steps into her pickup truck on her way to oversee the sheep shearing process in the Negev. Shepherd after shepherd, flock after flock. Six months later, Khadra will return to the heart of […] >>

Nira and Sausan – Mothers

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: “It has been a woman’s task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. lf we are united, we may be able to produce a world in which our children and other people’s children will be safe.” (Margaret Mead) >>

I Said I

Suleiman El-Abid was sentenced to 27 years in jail for the rape and murder of Hanit Kikos, based on his confession alone. A few days after reenacting the crime he retracted his confession and has been claiming innocence ever since. Did he receive a fair trial or did the justice system incriminate him to whitewash […] >>

Al Jisr

A rare glimpse into the life of the residents of the village Jisr E-Zarqa, who cope with daily poverty, deprivation, discrimination and alienation. The film focuses on the stubborn struggle of a group of young, single women, trying to lead the village to a better place. These women struggle with tradition, family hierarchy and often […] >>

Lens

Shiri, 33, a conservative-bourgeois woman, planned her perfect maternity photo shoot, but her photographer is Lidor, 35, a liberal trans woman. When Shiri’s husband leaves the photo shoot in the middle, the meeting between the two different women raises demons and questions about their changing bodies and their identity in the world. >>

Buried Alive

The film documents the struggle of a middle-aged woman from Yavneh who sets out in search of her husband, Danny Sa’il, who was a member of the Israeli Black Panthers organization, and disappeared twenty years earlier under mysterious political circumstances. His wife, Mazal Sa’il, is considered an agunah under Jewish law and is forbidden from […] >>

The Last Battle of the “Teheran Children”

Avraham, Ziggy, Schreiber and Robinson form the uncrowned governing council of the “Teheran Children.” The four represent 217 Holocaust orphans who are now bringing legal action against the State of Israel for funds received from Germany for their rehabilitation. In their old age, they have set out to battle the State of Israel, a state which […] >>