Magic Men
An estranged father and son – a 78-year-old Greek Holocaust survivor (Makram Khoury) and a newly Orthodox Hasidic rapper (Zohar Shtrauss) – find themselves together on a road trip to locate a life-saving magician from the father’s past. The occasionally…
Apples from the Desert
Inspired by the award-winning play of the same name, this poignant drama centers around Rivka (Moran Rosenblatt), the only child of Ultra Orthodox Jewish parents from Jerusalem, who begins to secretly explore the secular world. She befriends Dubi (Elisha Banai),…
Orange People
Set in the Israel’s dwindling Moroccan community, three generations of women grapple with issues of family, femininity, folklore, and food. Clairvoyant grandmother Zohara (Rita Shukrun) predicts the future by cradling her client’s possessions while she sleeps. She wants her similarly-gifted…
Sacred Sperm
A fascinating, eye-opening documentary exploring the concept of sacred sperm within the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community which considers new life pure if born of “sacred sperm” and the spilling of sperm murder. In this documentary Director/Narrator Ori Gruder shares his journey…
The Polgar Variant
The extraordinary story of three Hungarian-Jewish sisters who were raised in Communist Budapest of the 1970s to be chess masters. The Polgar sisters did not choose to become the heroines of this story. It was their father, who, driven by…
A Borrowed Identity
Set in the late 1980’s, Eyad (Tawfeek Barhom), a young Arab, tries to fit in with his Jewish classmates in a prestigious Jerusalem boarding school. He’s isolated until the lovable Naomi (Danielle Kitsis) and the wheelchair-bound Yonatan (Michael Moshonov) befriend him….
Intimate Grammar
A dysfunctional family and delayed puberty make life miserable for a pre-adolescent growing up in Jerusalem in the 1960’s. The film, an adaptation of David Grossman’s “The Book of Intimate Grammar”, shows our hero, Aharon Kleinfeld (Roee Elsberg), striving to…
Dusk
In the tradition of 21 Grams and Crash, writer-director Alon Zingman skillfully interweaves four stories. Three of them begin at dawn: a young woman (Rotem Zussman) returning from Peru is met by her father (Shmil Ben Ari) at Ben Gurion…
Dolphin Boy
Morad lived in an Arab village in the north of Israel. He was socially popular, loved by his family, an athlete and a good student. One night, in the fall of 2006, he is beaten cruelly by his classmates, who…
Restoration
When his business partner of many years dies suddenly, Yaakov Fidelman (Sasson Gabai) realizes his antique furniture restoration shop is on the verge of bankruptcy. Fidelman’s son (Nevo Kimhi), who doesn’t get along with his father, wants to close the…
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