Seven Blessings

Seven Blessings

In Israelโ€™s official entry for the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film, Ayelet Menahemiโ€™s Seven Blessings revolves around an eventful Jewish Moroccan family wedding and the traditional blessings that are pronounced during the ceremony, again at the reception, and…

Running On Sand

Running On Sand

Aumari, a young Eritrean refugee who lives in Israel washing dishes for a living, is caught by the immigration police, and deported to his country. At the last moment he manages to escape at the airport and runs straight into…

Home

Home

In this explosive true-crime drama, a newly married young man’s ambition to open a computer store in his ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood begets a shocking clash of tradition versus modernity. Devout yeshiva student Yair (Roy Nik) tries to support his family…

Silent

Silent

Director Shemi Zarhin (“Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi”, “Noodle”, “The World is Funny” – all festival favorites), brings the riveting story of a man gradually surrounded by an all-encompassing silence. Join us at our closing night in the must-watch cinematic experience.

Exodus 91

Exodus 91

A hybrid docudrama film that follows Israeli diplomat, Asher Naim, on a seemingly insurmountable mission to bring 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. As Asher learns more about these African Jews, he finds himself between worlds and facing a crisis of faith in himself and his country. The docudrama follows the behind-the-scenes politics leading up to Operation Solomon โ€“ the two day airlift in May 1991 pulled off in climactic chaos of the Ethiopian Civil War.

Cinema Sabaya

Cinema Sabaya

An award-winning debut which swept the Israeli audience, Cinema Sabaya brings the story of a unique multi-cultural film workshop. It was nominated to eight categories in the Israeli Film Academy Awards, winning three including best film and best director. The movie was also Israelโ€™s official entry to the 2023 Academy Awards.

Barren

Barren

A graceful, compelling look at a young ultra-orthodox couple in Safed, as they suffer and work through a family trauma. Beautifully photographed and acted, it presents the orthodox society in which the couple lives as complex and multifaceted, in contrast to the often-used approach that portrays religious life as uniformly repressive and the secular world as unironically positive.

Image of Victory

Image of Victory

When an Egyptian propaganda filmmaker sets out to write a news story about the task force that liberates Palestinian farmers, he ends up playing a more prominent role in the conflict than he initially bargained for. Tensions rise as he…

Chained

Chained

Rashi is a police officer who deals with some of the most difficult aspects of a society he is sworn to protect. With each blow, he is a man only reinforced in his ideals of right and wrong. But he…

Greener Pastures

Greener Pastures

Months of miserable living in the prison-like nursing home and the loss of a pension force 75-year-old widower Dov to think outside of the box to move back into his old home. When he decides to sell the state-sponsored cannabis…