Fire Birds
An eighty-year-old man’s body is found with three stab wounds to the chest and a number tattooed along his forearm. Amnon (Amnon Wolf), a police detective and second generation Holocaust survivor, reluctantly accepts the case and struggles to bring it…
The Kind Words
Three siblings (Rotem Zissman-Cohen, Roy Assaf and Assaf Ben-Shimon) , joined by the death of their mother, discover that their entire family identity is based on a lie. The secret that their mother (Levana Finkelstein) kept from them leads to a revelation about the identity…
The Farewell Party
This dark comedy follows the story of an elderly man named Yehezkel (Ze’ev Revach) and his friends who construct an euthanasia machine to help a dying friend. Once word gets around the retirement community that one can die quickly, painlessly,…
Hill Start
Israeli comic-genius Shlomo Bar-Aba leads a star-studded cast in this outrageous dramedy as the head of a bourgeois family about to implode under the weight of a tough father , a comatose mother, a passive son, an unmarried daughter, a…
Cupcakes
Award-winning filmmaker Eytan Fox (Yossi & Jagger, Walk On Water) returns with a stylized, gossamer-light musical comedy about life, love and friendship. When heartbroken Tel Aviv baker Anat (Anat Waxman) gets together with her friends to watch a Eurovision-style song…
The Wonders
Inspired by a true story, Avi Nesher’s new film The Wonders combines genres, moods and influences to create a unique and compelling movie that mixes mystery, comedy, psychological thriller, political intrigue and romance. The story focuses on a graffiti artist (Ori…
Peeping Toms
This screening is in memory of Arik Einstein. This Israeli comedy affectionately follows an aging hippie as he goes about the business of day-to-day living. Beach-goers near Tel Aviv have many needs, and the hippie (Uri Zohar) serves as many…
Hunting Elephants
Sir Patrick Stewart joins Israeli acting veterans Sasson Gabai and Moni Moshonov in this crowd-pleasing crime comedy, involving three elderly men and a young teenager who decide to rob a Jerusalem bank. The teen, Yonatan, is a boy genius and…
The World is Funny
Zafi, a charming young housekeeper and aspiring writer in Tiberias, seems to be the only thing connecting three estranged siblings: Yardena (Assi Levy), Meron (Danny Steg) and Golan (Eli Finish). Prompted by her writing teacher, Zafi begins to dig up…
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