My Special Brother
When your brother has “special needs,” it turns out that your whole family becomes “special.” So says Nadav, whose twin brother was born with disabilities. This documentary film sensitively examines how three extraordinary families not only cope with but ultimately triumph…
Is That You?
Is That You? is the story of Ronnie (Alon Aboutboul), a 60 year old Israeli film projectionist, who has been fired from his job and is going to the U.S. in a search for Rachel (Suzanne Sadler), the love of…
The Milk Trial
Ancient superstition meets one woman’s fight for independence and love among the mountain-dwelling tribes of Morocco. When Zaya secretly gives birth to a child by a non-Jewish Tuareg rider, her Jewish tribe forces her to undergo the “Milk Trial” to…
Wedding Doll
Fixated on romantic fantasies, Hagit (Moran Rosenblatt), a kindly and strong-willed young woman with a mild mental disability, embarks on a relationship- much to the concern of her protective mother (Asi Levi). When Hagit develops a relationship with the factory…
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…
Baba Joon
Set in a Persian immigrant moshav in the Negev during the early 1980’s, three generations of the stubborn Morgian family struggle to manage a ramshackle turkey farm. The film revolves around the tensions between the new immigrants with traditions from the…
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Natalie Portman, in her directorial debut, also writes and stars in this adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Amos Oz. A moving tale of the founding of the state of Israel as recounted through events in Oz’s own life. The story begins…
Passover Fever
A lively comedy about three generations of a modern Israeli family, who convene to celebrate Passover and find themselves feasting on a smorgasbord of dysfunction as they try to cope with their innumerable problems. Stars: Gila Almagor, Joseph Shiloach, Alon Aboutboul, Anat Waxman, Aryeh Moskona and…
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,…
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