Three Mothers

Three Mothers

“Three Mothers” is a poignant tale of the lives of triplet sisters (, born in Alexandria to the palace midwife but raised in Israel. This is a film that challenges the meaning of marital loyalties and sibling relationships. Stars: Miri…

Shelter

Shelter

Eran Riklis, director of Lemon Trees, Syrian Bride and Dancing Arabs, has created a wonderful spy thriller. Set in Germany and Israel the film deals with a Mossad agent (Neta Riskin) who is sent on a mission to protect a…

Muhi

Muhi

Muhi is a brave and spirited 7 year old Palestinian boy, caught between two homes and two peoples and the inevitable politics of an age-old conflict. A team of filmmakers spent the last six years chronicling his childhood “trapped” in…

Voices from El-Sayed

Voices from El-Sayed

The Bedouin village of El-Sayed in the picturesque Israeli Negev desert is home to the largest percentage of deaf people in the world. In this community, deafness is seen as the norm rather than as a disability and the members…

Lebanon

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…

Precious Life

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 Milk Trial

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…

Hill Start

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…

A Borrowed Identity

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….

Dolphin Boy

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…