Longing
At first glance, middle-aged Ariel (Shai Avivi) has it made: established, well-to-do, single and with no apparent worries. One day, after decades without contact, his college girlfriend Ronit (Assi Levy) invites him to lunch. She drops a bomb: when they…
A Quiet Heart
A young classically trained pianist (Ania Bukstein) who moves to Jerusalem to escape the pressure of her life in Tel Aviv. The story tells of two unexpected connections Naomi makes with an Ultra-Orthodox musical prodigy (Lior Lifshitz) and an Italian…
Beneath The Silence
Six years after returning from the Six Day War with PTSD, Menashe (Amos Tamam) realizes he will never be the man he was before the war. He can’t communicate with his surroundings, and spends his days driving around aimlessly in…
Scaffolding
17 year old Asher (Asher Lax) has always been the impulsive trouble maker from primary school all the way through high school. It’s hard for him to concentrate in class and he is fueled by rage and violence; yet he is…
An Israeli Love Story
The year is 1947. 24 year old Eli (Avraham Aviv Alush) lives on a kibbutz where he works all day, every day. After a chance encounter, Margalit (Adi Bielski) pursues Eli and discovers that he’s clandestinely helping the Palmach smuggle…
The Human Resources Manager
In this touching tragi-comedy, the Human Resources manager at Israel’s largest bakery is blamed for not noticing that one of his employees is missing. After discovering that she is a victim of a suicide bombing, he finds himself the unlikely…
Lebanon
Taking place during the first Lebanon War in 1982, a novice crew of Israeli soldiers enters a Lebanese town previously bombed by the air force. Young men who have never fought before find themselves trapped within a tank as they…
Gei Oni
Based on the classic novel by Shulamit Lapid, Fania (Tamar Alkan), having escaped the pogroms of Russia seeks a new life in late 18th century Palestine. She meets Yechiel (Zion Ashkenazi), a widower with two young children. Agreeing to marriage…
Precious Life
After losing two infants to an inherited immunological disease, a Palestinian woman turns to Israeli physicians in the hope that they can save her third sick child through a bone-marrow transplant. The film-maker finds himself drawn deeper into this complex…
The Matchmaker
A mysterious matchmaker takes a teenage boy on a dangerous coming of age ride into the deepest and darkest underbelly of Haifa – where love assumes surprising shapes and forms, and history is transformed into myth. Cast – Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror…
