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- When a former prison wardress who dominates the lives of her three adult stepchildren and her daughter is found dead at an archaeological dig near the Dead Sea, there are a great many suspects.
- A drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sides of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer.
- A playboy criminal contacts his dad after stealing a Faberge egg. Later it seems his dad has gone missing in Israel so he heads there. His disappearance is linked to the religious sect: The Order. Lots of fight and chase scenes.
- Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male-written love letters that undermine his sexual identity and interfere with his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.
- A New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.
- A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
- A married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.
- Israel's second successful sitcom, Shemesh centers around the title character and his restaurant "The Empire of the Sun", as well as his friends and workers.
- Basic training (in Hebrew: "tiroonot") in the Israeli Army's Giv'ati infantry brigade brings together all kinds of people, from a wide variety of backgrounds, as well as some problems.
- After suffering an emotional breakdown in a public place, a young man vows never to leave his apartment. He quickly discovers that in today's world all his needs can be easily met: sex via the Internet, food by telephone delivery and entertainment by television. Four years later, his idyllic existence comes under attack when Daniela, a free spirited girl comes into his life while Grumps, the building's real estate agent, informs him that the apartment is about to be sold. Our hero refuses to leave his kingdom and decides to fight till the bitter end.
- Renowned ball-room dancer Pierre Dulaine takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa, to teach Jewish and Palestinian Israelis to dance and compete together.
- Loosely inspired by Dostoevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, 'DISSOLUTION' combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence which permeates contemporary Israeli society. Shot in Jaffa-the predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv- the movie follows the moral collapse and first glimmer of redemption of a young Israeli Jew, played brilliantly by non-actor, Didi Fire. This is a deeply personal work about one man's inner journey, but can also be read as an allegory about Israel's moral responsibility...as well as a portrayal of male violence towards a devalued feminine.
- Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse, finds out that her lover, Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army have been reporting on their relationship. Yasmine's sister arrives for a visit from the West Bank, not knowing that she is going to meet the occupying enemy at her own sister's house.
- A look into the lives of teenage male prostitutes working the area known as the "Electricity Garden" in Tel Aviv.
- A pregnant woman struggles with frightening illusions brought on by birth pangs as she makes a pot of soup.
- Two men in suits shoot at the frightened crowd in a popular Tel Aviv cafe. No one escapes unharmed. All caught on security cameras, Closed Circuit deconstructs this event to give insight into the complex Israeli reality and the lasting trauma caused to those involved.
- The Dealers tells the story of Rami and Avishay, 27 years old friends that share an apartment in a small Jerusalem neighborhood. They spend their days smoking and playing in a soccer team with other losers, which its coach Zvika is determined to take the "Jerusalem neighborhood cup" with. In need for money they get entangled in a drug deal with Sagi, a local gangster, which forces them to learn the hard way about taking responsibility, loyalty, and friendship. The movie is a humorous view of the colorful, multi culture, unique and somehow funny Israeli society.
- Chico takes his unconditional love for his son Ben to the next level in the second installment of Avi Cohen's adventure trilogy, which picks up on a positive note -- soon after Chico won a hard-fought custody battle for Ben. But everything crumbles when the government tries to take Ben away from him and his new girlfriend can't stay faithful. Good thing Ben has a plan.
- An intimate portrait of reclusive poet/musician David Berman and his band the Silver Jews. In the midst of their first ever world tour in the summer of 2006, David, his wife Cassie, and the rest of the band--Tony Crow (keyboards), Brian Kotzur (drums), Peyton Pinkerton (guitar), and William Tyler (guitar)--stopped off in Israel to play two shows in Tel Aviv and visit Jerusalem.
- Psychological thriller of a young woman fleeing a murderer.
- If you're partner invites you to a sex party, would you go? Following a young couple on their first time to a swingers party, 'Swing for Me' is a documentary that doesn't shy away from infiltrating the sex culture in Israel.
- The documentary is about the story of the Egyptian Jews between 1948 and 1956. The story is told by 20 witnesses who narrate their own experience. The film covers personal memories, through interviews, historical events and footages.
- Move over Madame Bovary and Don Quixote: here comes Estherka. Moving, hilarious, and infuriating, Esther Gorintin became a star at 85, having survived the harrowing 20th century, from her native Poland to the Rue de Rivoli in Paris. Between Cannes to the local fast food joint, with a taste for Ted Lapidus designs and a thing about plastic bags, Estherka is the heroine of this comic documentary, the portrait of a woman in the twilight of her life and at the dawn of her career As well as recording the incredible career of this 85 year-old débutant, I wanted to tell the story of her entire life. I had started filming Esther Gorintin before she started acting: her journey through the past century, her memories, her storytelling style, her unique relationship with the world around her, and her very special relationship with her son Armand. Here are the reasons why I followed her for more than ten years.
- An Israeli family (father and son) is forced to take refuge in the underground shelter upon realizing that Israel is under missile attack.
- In Paris they were called "Jews", in Israel they are the "French": Marouane who was circumcised at the age of 18, dreams of becoming a shepherd in Jerusalem; Isabelle who follows her husband to Netanya, leaves her son behind; and Valerie, the television star, lives in Tel Aviv and misses a Paris that has long gone. Terror attacks in France, Terror attacks in Israel. Wandering Jews, arriving in Israel to discover its reality - tougher than they knew, beautiful and struggling, disintegrating. Five years of continuous cinematic observation of the French immigration, 100,000 people and one question left open: Why?
- World famous Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein, takes on the contentious role of Production Designer for a never before seen opera in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2010.
- Award winning director Moniere travels with Marcus Patrick to remote and distant places through out the world to find answers to questions that many have sought after for millenniums on how to attain higher levels of consciousness.
- Day to day life of the not-so-ordinairy Israeli Family.
- Omri and Amit are a gay couple in an open relationship who live together in Jaffa. On the day between Israeli memorial day and the evening of the Israeli independence day, they will confront their relationship status.
- A boy, a girl, a space-alien and fried chicken.
- One of several Israeli shows made for the purposes of teaching English, The Sheriff of Hollywood Hills is a farcical educational show portraying the filming of a low budget Western.
- 13 year-old Alex pulls a cruel trick on an old woman in order to be accepted to the group of children. This leads to an unusual bond between the young man and the woman.
- Whenever there is a problem, Scooterman and his loyal assistant Kickstand arrive on their scooter and save the day. They often have to help their friend, the absent-minded Dr. Halfbaked, whose crazy inventions get him into trouble.
- Irv Kaplan has been with the Israeli educational tv since its foundation 30 years ago as "trust for educational tv". Over the years he has written, starred in, directed, and produced a few of the stations landmark shows. In this film, his retirement project, he reviews the stations work and the changes it has undergone. Having been into comedy throughout his professional life, this "documentary" has more then a touch of humour in it as well.
- A relationship in a single-parent family between a young mother and her teenage daughter takes a turn when the mother reveals some secrets related to her own family.
- Through the perspective of a man obsessed with ancient history, the film portraits a world in which past and present converge, creating a distortion of reality in the mind of the protagonist.
- A chapter in the life of two friends in Tel Aviv. This peeking into their homes begins when Shir, Noy's younger sister, comes to visit him from the Kibbutz, when he'd rather throw her onto Mike - the perfect host. At his apartment, she is introduced to his anonymous blog on the Internet - an ongoing story in the first person, about a special air-hostess who lives in the shadows of the city, a bit like the author who invented her. Shir suggests giving her face to the storyteller, thus forcing Mike out of his self-afflicted anonymity.
- Dina is a young urban girl that shares her grandfathers' apartment with his Filipino caretaker, Noel. Together, they live in a world full of transparent people, where none cares to see, or show anything beyond a masquerade. On the Eve of Purim, everyone in the city is tending to their costumes, shaping the masks they hide behind all year round. It is on this evening that Dina and Noel face a tragedy that removes all of the defense mechanisms, uncovering a glimpse .glimmer of truth. In their own lives, and in their eccentric relationship.
- Amir is trying to live in total denial of memories from his past, but he cannot run away from the past forever.