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- Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
- A young British girl travels to Palestine, retracing the steps of her grandfather - a British soldier stationed there in the 1940s.
- Romance blooms between two soldiers (Knoller, Levi) stationed in an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border.
- Following the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal.
- A stop-motion animated story about people living in a Sydney apartment complex looking for meaning in their lives.
- Salam is a consultant on a popular Palestinian TV series filmed in Ramallah who rather stupidly runs afoul of an Israeli checkpoint commander who uses his military influence to begin to manipulate Salam and the writing of the show.
- Life at work becomes unbearable for Orna. Her boss appreciates and promotes her, while making inappropriate advances. Her husband struggles to keep his new restaurant afloat, and Orna becomes the main breadwinner for their three children. When her world is finally shattered, she must pull herself together to fight, in her own way, for her job and a sense of self-worth.
- Ella, 34 a theatre dresser and mistress, experiences the sudden death of her lover. She begins to frequent his Shiva and observes the life that was forbidden to her. eventually she demands her legitimate right to mourn.
- Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn't speak any Hebrew (she communicates mainly in English), and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.
- Tal is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not of their choosing at an age where young people are falling in love and taking their place in adult life. A bottle thrown in the sea and a correspondence by email nurture the slender hope that their relationship might give them the strength to confront this harsh reality to grapple with it, and thereby ever so slightly change it. Only 60 miles separate them but how many bombings, check-points, sleepless nights and bloodstained days stand between them?
- A musical drama set in small-town Iowa, SAINTS REST tells the story of two estranged sisters, who over the course of one summer, form a connection through their shared love of music, as they grieve the recent death of their mother.
- An israeli man, who recently broke up with his girlfriend, gets to Paris and starts to follow a soon-to-be retired detective for a mysterious reason.
- Autumn 1947: Elisha, a young Jew, learns that he has been chosen to kill the hostage John Dawson, a captain in the British Army occupying Palestine. Will Elisha, himself a survivor of the holocaust, be able to commit this irrevocable act?
- Two Ukrainian sisters, Valeria and Christina decide to marry Israeli men through online-arranged marriages. One already did it and is now living in Israel and the another is considering moving to Israel too and doing the same thing.
- A documentary collage depicting the life and art of the "Israel Museum".
- A young French couple deals with ramifications of world events on their relationship as Saddam Hussein threatens to launch SCUD missiles on Israel.
- The extraordinary story of three Hungarian-Jewish sisters who were raised in communist Budapest of the 1970s to be chess masters.
- Children who were brought up in a social experiment in the only community in the world where Palestinians and Israelis chose to live together in co-existence. "Oasis of peace" is a dream that shattered into realty.
- During his journey to Jerusalem young James learns the meaning of being Israeli.
- A year after the death of his baby, Nachum, a 31-year-old religious man, wants to become an undertaker. His struggle between the dead and the living becomes the core of this story.
- Israeli society is marked by a taboo. That of the systematic discrimination against Jews from Arab countries on arriving in the Promised Land, a wound that has not healed to this day. In the 1970's, a movement inspired by the American Black Panthers emerged in the poor Musrara neighbourhood of Jerusalem, demanding basic rights for the so-called Mizrahim, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East. As she mourns her father, a member of this movement, Michale Boganim, a French-Israeli filmmaker, confronts her personal questions with History, setting off with her daughter to explore the past and meet several generations of Mizrahim. The film is a road movie in the forgotten lands of Israel's periphery and questions the notions of exile and inheritance.
- Gan HaShlosha, better known as the "Sakhne", is one of the largest, most famous and most visited parks in Israel. Director Ran Tal expresses with exceptional cinematic measures the abundance of conflicted elements of the Israeli soul.
- In ha-Argazim, a neighborhood that time forgot, the one-year anniversary of Morris Mandabon's death is approaching, and his youngest son, Nissim has had a dream in which his father orders him to re-open the old neighborhood movie theater, thus breaking the vow that Morris had made years before never to screen movies again. Nissim and his brother George, together with Aharon Gabardine, who was the projectionist back in the old days, are determined to fulfill Morris' request. The same day Nissim has his dream, Avram Mandabon, Morris' brother, returns for his brother's memorial after a 25-year absence. His reappearance causes old family feuds to resurface. Seniora Mandabon, late Morris' wife, won't even speak to Avram. Following the advice of Yisrael "the Indian", considered the neighborhood authority on films, the brothers decide to screen the Indian-made local hit from years before, "Sangam", to which Seniora objects ("Nobody cares to watch old Indian movies!") and tries to convince them to screen another movie, but they insist. They eventually find out that the only print of "Sangam" is in the hands of Avram, their uncle, who refuses to give it to them. And so, as the time for Morris' memorial approaches, as well as the screening date, it seems that a clash is inevitable. In the tense days that follow, the past resurfaces and the brothers learn the secrets of their family history and the real reason why their father closed down the theater.
- A documentary on the life and career of Yiddish actor Pesach Burstein and his family.
- About the emotional upheaval of a Palestinian couple's last moments before leaving voluntarily Jerusalem, their native city, to forge a brighter future in France.
- Can a leader succeed in influencing the world? Or is he, as any other human being, only a nutshell tossed to the waves of history with no ability to affect it? Tolstoy pondered this question in War and Peace. Ehud Barak, controversial former prime minister and a decorated commander on the battlefield, contemplates it in this film. Twenty years after he was forced to resign from the premiership due to the failure of the 2000 Camp David summit, 78-year-old Barak observes his own history and the history of the State of Israel with disillusioned clarity, while trying to figure it all out - "What if?"
- An intimate portrait of the children who were part of Israel's first kibbutzim.
- Kibbutz volunteering began in an eclipse. The idealistic and rebellious 1960s generation was charmed by the old communist ideology as it came to life in the Israeli Kibbutz. The 1967 Six-Day War attracted a wave of support for Israel that the Kibbutz Movement saw as a miracle. When travel agencies started selling "Kibbutz Volunteering" packages, it was clear that volunteering also became a profitable business. The Kibbutz found itself facing unfamiliar phenomenon - drugs, alcohol and marriage with non-Jewish volunteers. During the 1980s, unemployment across Europe secured a steady number of volunteers, but now Israel was no longer the same country. The war in Lebanon and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict forced the volunteers to face a new question - does supporting the Kibbutz mean supporting the state of Israel?
- "I decided to start sending letters - until my long-awaited release". Ami wrote these words at the age of 18, before he was killed in the 1967 War. Through stories, Memorial Day ceremonies, and his letters, Ami was always a present absence for his nephew Shaked, the film's director. Following his grandmother's declining health, Shaked applies to the Defense Ministry for nursing care. His claim is rejected. Their refusal leaves him confused. Fifty years after Ami's death, a shocking truth is unveiled.
- A cinematic portrait of Lia van Leer. Having developed her passion for cinema early on in the 1950s, she and her husband Wim began several film clubs and in 1960 founded the Israel Film Archive. These were followed by cinematheques in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as well as many other initiatives.
- Joy Levine lives in an old apartment that, in complete contrast to her, is shabby and worn-out on the outside while well-kept and filled with joy on the inside. Her life changes when she auditions for a TV show called "Gotta Be Happy". To her astonishment, she is chosen, and her mission is to throw a surprise party for her parents on the upcoming show. However, there is a price to pay for all this: she has to let the viewers into her private inner world and share with them an event that has been overshadowing her family's life and hers for the past 22 years; an event that made a tight-knit bunch of friends shun her parents, Chaya and Yitzhak Levine. The show is to be aired right after Yom Kippur, and the theme is forgiveness. Joy must get all her parents' friends to the party in order to conduct the reconciliation. However, reality keeps obstructing her efforts. The idyll expected from such a show is jeopardized by a string of events that threaten to shatter the already fractured family cell. But Joy takes the lead, and for once in a long time, someone is leading the Levines to a better place.
- Wassim Razzouk, the sole heir of 500-year lineage of Coptic Christians tattoo artists from Jerusalem, sets out to complete his collection of ancient wooden stencils before they are lost forever. during his journey he discovers that his family is hiding not only stencils, but haunting secrets.
- In March 2002 an IDF tank ran over an explosive device in Gaza. Matan Berman, the dog handler that accompanied the unit became shell-shocked following the event. Weeks later he started to complain of horrendous pain in his leg, not triggered by any physical injury. The film reveals the soul of a man who fights for his life and keeps coming up against inner demons that give him no peace.
- The story of the junk collectors from both sides of the border, Israelis and Palestinians, who salvage these items and sell them to the people who can't afford the "real thing." Through the tales of people who live off the collection, repair and resale of these objects we discover the fierce competition for Israel's discards and the little known journey of items dumped in Israel and given new life across the border.
- Waiting for Godik, a musical documentary, tells the story of the rise and fall of the Israeli King of Musicals, legendary producer and impresario Giora Godik. The tragic story of the man, who touched the dream and crashed, is also the story of an unforgettable era and the tale of the local version of the musical genre. Godik, one of the prominent symbols of Israel's happy 60s, endeavored, in his way, to bring the American dream to Tel Aviv. However, the dream was shattered when Godik skyrocketed to the top and plummeted to the lowest depths. Godik fled unexpectedly to Germany, on the eve of his last premiere. Utterly destitute, he sold hot-dogs for a living, at the central railway station in Frankfurt. He believed he would soon resume his position as King of Musicals. But Godik stayed far away from the theater, never to return. Combined with archival segments and songs from Godik's musicals, the film focuses the spotlight on the corner that remained in the darkness, Godik's family. His widow and two children relive the moments of despair on the eve of his sudden flight from the country. The film glimpses into the gap between glittering lights and a life in the shadows. It brings back to life the story of a man who believed that life was a musical.
- In 2005 gap year student Erin and her mother are clearing out the belongings of Erin's dying grandfather Len when Erin discovers his diary. Having accompanied Jewish friend Eliza to Israel Erin begins to read it,starting with the horrifying liberation of Belsen,which gives Len empathy with the Jews. A professional soldier he is involved in the dispute in Palestine between the liberated Jews seeking their promised land and resentful Arabs.He falls for a Jewish girl,Clara,and reluctantly agrees to spy on her father Leo,a suspected Jewish dissident. His loyalties are torn when he sees comrades massacred in an ambush by insurgents. Erin finds Eliza's family also have divided loyalties,her brother Paul having Palestinian sympathies. He takes her to a cafe where a suicide bomber strikes.
- Erin and Paul survive the blast,Paul's parents commenting on the irony of his falling victim to the Palestinians,whose cause he supports. His great-grandfather was one of the bombers of the King David Hotel,in which Len is injured.Len suspects involvement by Clara,who tried to prevent him from going to the hotel but she denies it. As the British begin Operation Bulldog,to flush out terrorists in Tel Aviv,Len is dismayed by the brutality shown to the locals. He also steps in to prevent Mohammed,the Arab who provides the company with tea,from being bullied and befriends Mohammed's family,who resent the Jewish settlers. He has his photo taken with them and Erin finds it,setting out to trace any surviving members. Len ends up in hospital after gunmen attack him and his colleagues.
- Len survives the attack and is visited in hospital by Mohammed,to whose son he teaches Maths whilst recuperating. He is asked to persuade convicted terrorist Avram Klein to appeal against his execution to buy time as the army fears reprisals if he is hung. Len visits him and Klein warns him there is a spy in the British camp. After Clara is tarred and feathered for collaborating with the British Len and two colleagues are captured by the Jews who want Len to join them. He refuses and is released but his friends are murdered since Klein is hanged. Erin gets close to Paul's friend Omar but the Meyers disapprove of her bringing him home. This induces her epilepsy and she notes that Len also suffered from fits. She travels to Hebron to see Mohammed's house but walks straight into conflict and is arrested.
- Erin is arrested by Israeli soldiers but freed after Paul intervenes. They stay overnight in the army camp,which is shelled by Palestinians and next day, having told Paul about the diary and how she wants to locate Mohammed's family out of respect to Len,she learns that they have moved into the war zone of Gaza. She gets Omar to drive her there,ending up in the house of the cafe bomber,to which Israeli soldiers,including Eliza,come with the intention of blowing it up.Erin,echoing her grandfather's courage,chooses to stay to comfort the little girl of the house and meets an elderly lady,Jawda,who is Mohammed's daughter. In 1947 the state of Israel is officially recognized and the British prepare to withdraw.Len is horrified to witness the massacre of an Arab village by Jews,including Clara,who nonetheless claims to still love him and does his best to take Mohammed and his children to the docks and safety as the exodus of Arabs from Tel Aviv begins. However the family members are separated and Mohammed's son Hassan killed. As he dies he gives Len a house key to give to his father but Len is arrested for deserting his post to help the Arabs and never gets to see Mohammed again. Erin now has that key and gives it to Jawda before going back to England,Paul commending her for her bravery.On her return home she tells the dying Len that she has returned the key to the family. He seems to understand.