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- DirectorSamuel MaozStarsLior AshkenaziSarah AdlerYonatan ShirayA troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son's desolate military post.
- DirectorAsaph PolonskyStarsSharon AlexanderShai AviviTomer CaponeAs Eyal finishes the traditional Jewish week of mourning for his late son, his wife Vicky urges him to return to their routine -- but just because the shiva has ended doesn't mean it's life as usual.
- DirectorMaysaloun HamoudStarsMouna HawaSana JammeliehShaden KanbouraThree Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.
- DirectorElite ZexerStarsLamis AmmarRuba BlalHitham OmariWhen their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.
- DirectorReshef LeviStarsOshri CohenMichael MoshonovShmil Ben AriA family in the 80s with five kids get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
- DirectorJoseph CedarStarsShlomo Bar-AbaLior AshkenaziAliza RosenEliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak.
- DirectorTalya LavieStarsDana IvgyNelly TagarShani KleinA unit of female Israeli soldiers at a remote desert base bide their time as they count down the minutes until they can return to civilian life.
- DirectorSavi GabizonStarsElla ArmonyShai AviviShmil Ben AriA middle-aged Israeli bachelor is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son 20 years before, in this affecting drama from writer director Savi Gabizon.
- DirectorTali Shalom-EzerStarsShira HaasKeren MorOri PfefferWhile her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar's role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan-an ethereal boy who joins her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsStephen DorffAbdallah El AkalAlice TaglioniBeirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee helps an Israeli fighter pilot escape from PLO captivity because he wants to visit his ancestral family home. En route through war-torn Lebanon their relationship develops into a close bond.
- DirectorBen BacharItzik KricheliStarsOfer HayounOri LaizerouvichOfer ShechterA comedy about three military band reservists who wake to discover that the Israeli army has withdrawn from Lebanon and left them behind.
- DirectorRama BurshteinStarsNoa KolerAmos TamamOz ZehaviWhen her fiancé bows out on the eve of her wedding, Michal refuses to cancel the wedding arrangements. An Orthodox Jew, she insists that God will supply her a husband. As the clock ticks down.
- DirectorMeni YaishStarsMoris CohenRotem Zissman-CohenHaim ZanatiThis is a story of fatherhood. Ovadia is the strongest and most violent doorman of Tel Aviv night clubs. He has no fear of anything and he never lost a fight . His biggest dream is to become a father, he and his wife Rachel are trying to get pregnant for almost five years. A small time gangster named Shalom Shalom Rozental sees a great potential in Ovadia. Ovadia sees this as great option to start an expensive treatment for his wife. As soon as Rachel gets pregnant, he decides to stop working for Shalom. It's not that easy.
- DirectorAtara FrishHelli HardyShira PajurskiStarsGili Beit-HalahmiHila ShalevAlena YivFIVE PROFESSIONS, FIVE WOMEN. A feature film comprising five short stories, written and directed by five women directors. The titles of each episode are the professions of the main characters: The Officer, The Babysitter, The Nurse, The Stripper and The Director. This profession does not serve as an ornament, but is at the heart of this film, inseparable from life, from the woman herself. We aspire to present a singular mosaic, unique and timely, of women and their choices in Israel in the 21st century.
- DirectorBazi GeteStarsRuti AsarsaiMeir DesehDebebe EshetuAn Ethiopian immigrant, sets out on a journey through his children's homes after losing his wife. Coming to know some of life's harsh new realities, he tries to survive in his own way.
- DirectorMeni YaishStarsRoy AssafGal FriedmanItzik GolanRules must be followed. For the "supervisors" of the Bat Yam neighbourhood in Israel, this means ensuring that women are dressed appropriately, that people respect Shabbat, or that Arabs from Jaffa don't enter the neighbourhood with music blaring from their cars. Avi, Kobi and Yaniv are young and know how to fight. They want to force their neighbours to become religious, without hesitating to be violent in the name of God. The inhabitants admire the gang and are afraid of them at the same time. One day a new girl, Miri, arrives. She is not familiar with the strict rules of modesty. The gang's leader Avi is going to be torn between his feelings for Miri and his dedication to the gang.
- DirectorJonathan SagallStarsClara KhouryNataly AttiyaDaniel CaltagironeTwo women reunite in London, where they go over the details of a life-changing event which occurred when they were teenagers in Jerusalem.
- DirectorMarco CarmelStarsMoshe IvgyEvelin HagoelReymonde AmsellemA love story between Rahma, her husband Robert, and the ghost of Rahma's beautiful sister Mary. Mary died from the pain of banishment, because she chose an Arab.
- DirectorEvgeny RumanStarsItai ShcherbackTomasz SobczakOla Schur SelektarAn estranged father and son are brought together by a young crane named Karl as they trace a family of the birds on their migratory journey from Russia to Africa.
- DirectorAssaf BernsteinStarsGila AlmagorNeta GartyEdgar SelgeIn 1965, Rachel Brener is one of 3 young Mossad agents who caught "The Surgeon of Birkenau" - a Nazi monster who was never brought to trial in Israel and is presumed dead, when in reality he has managed to escape after a botched kidnapping. 35 years later, a small article appears in a local paper in a Kyiv, Ukraine, revealing that the the Surgeon is alive. The 3 older Mossad agents have to decide whether to complete the old assignment and eliminate their target or let the truth come out (and their reputation be destroyed).
- DirectorBoaz ArmoniStarsItay ZvolonKye KorabelnikovAssaf Ben-ShimonA soldier sets off for a week of patrolling with his unit. It is not long before strange and frightening things begin to happen to all the soldiers, and they start question whether they will come out of this experience alive.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsNeta GartyLiraz CharhiAure AtikaAs a family from India moves in to a desert neighborhood in Southern Israel in the 1960's, the family's eldest, beautiful daughter discovers friendship and romance with the lovely local French girl. The film also explores the hardships and surprises that come with the integration of multiple families from different ethnic backgrounds (from the diaspora) and their struggle with immigration and prejudice.
- DirectorJohnathan GurfinkelStarsSivan LevyEviatar MorRoy NikGili changes schools and hooks up with the most popular guy to improve her social status. He passes her off to friend after friend and the lines of consent begin to blur.
- DirectorSophie ArtusStarsRotem AbuhabRoy NikShlomi OhayonIn a small town in the North of Israel, three teenagers deal with violence at home and at school. Valley is a story of friendship, love and hate, where the desire to die, to kill and to live will seal the fate of the three heroes.
- DirectorArnon ZadokStarsLior AshkenaziAyelet ZurerAlon AboutboulA successful lawyer (Ashkenazi), who has traumatic memories from his army service, is testifying against his best friend from his unit. His wife, a social-worker (Zorer), is trying to save a poor family named Siton (Garti and Adika). The couple's life collapses when the wife get raped by a gang (lead by Abutbul).
- DirectorAharon KeshalesNavot PapushadoStarsLior AshkenaziRotem KeinanTzahi GradAfter a little girl is brutally murdered, a suspect avoids arrest due to lack of evidence. Working separately, her father and a cop decide to do something about it.
- DirectorMoran Ifergan'You lack inner peace, I can see it in your eyes...' With this abrupt remark thrown at her by a woman visiting Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, filmmaker Moran Ifergan is reminded of the religion she left in her late teens, when she used to frequent this holy site. While her marriage falls apart, Moran takes us on an around-the-clock journey to the women's side of the Wall; mixing between private and public, sound and image, God and His absence.
- DirectorAmichai GreenbergStarsOri PfefferRivka GurHagit DasbergYoel, a meticulous historian leading a significant debate against holocaust deniers, discovers that his mother carries a false identity. A mystery about a man who is willing to risk everything to discover the truth.
- DirectorAdam SandersonStarsHilla VidorMatan AbarbuchMatan AberbachA young housewife yearns for human contact in a small, closed-off village.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsNelly TagarJoy RiegerDoron TavoryPast Life tracks the daring late 1970s odyssey of two sisters - an introverted classical musician and a rambunctious scandal sheet journalist - as they unravel a shocking wartime mystery that has cast a dark shadow on their entire lives.
- DirectorShemi ZarhinStarsAssi LevyRotem AbuhabLevana FinkelsteinAviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to Oded, an accomplished novelist. Immediately recognizing Aviva's talent, Oded takes her under his wing, promising to help her achieve greatness. But the journey to greatness effects her life and the lives of her family - her unemployed husband, her trouble children, her unstable mother, and primarily her sister, a funny and sensitive woman who have her own dreams. When Aviva discovers that Oded has other plans for her work, her world collapses.
- DirectorEran KolirinStarsSasson GabayRonit ElkabetzSaleh BakriA band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
- DirectorNatalie PortmanStarsNatalie PortmanGilad KahanaAmir TesslerThe story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.
- DirectorKeren YedayaStarsDana IvgyMoni MoshonovRonit ElkabetzIn the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives.
- DirectorNir BergmanStarsOrly SilbersatzYehuda AlmagorRoee ElsbergA young boy with growth disorders lives through his daily life's tragedies and comedies, while struggling to come to terms with his own personal problems.
- DirectorKeren YedayaStarsDana IvgyRonit ElkabetzMeshar CohenOr shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She's just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Or's emotions roil further when the mother of the youth she's in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Or's choices narrow.
- DirectorVardit BiluStarsReymonde AmsellemYael Ben-DorAna DubrovitzkiJerusalem, 1966. In a crumbling old building in the center of the city, lives a small family. Eli, the father, is at work all day. His wife Ruthy is locked up inside her own world and spends her days in bed, reading the thick novels her husband brings her from the library. Michal, their 11-year-old daughter, is lonely and bored and seeks attention from the other tenants and attractions around the building. One day, when Ruthy decides to get out of bed, the apparent peace and serenity of the house is violated.
- DirectorShemi ZarhinStarsOshri CohenArieh EliasEsti ZakheimThe new math teacher and new school principal discover the 16-year-old underachiever failing classes is really a genius, and the kid's own family's too busy relying on him to mend family fences to notice his brilliance either.
- DirectorShimon DotanAn intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
- DirectorGuy NattivErez TadmorStarsLiron LevoLubna AzabalAbdallah El AkalSix days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
- DirectorYaelle KayamStarsShani KleinAvshalom PollakHitham OmariA young Orthodox Jewish woman becomes ensconced in a nocturnal community of prostitutes and drug dealers that congregates in the ancient cemetery atop Jerusalem's Mount of Olives.
- DirectorRonit ElkabetzShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzSimon AbkarianGilbert MelkiThe story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.
- DirectorDover KoshashviliStarsLior AshkenaziRonit ElkabetzMoni MoshonovZaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.
- DirectorHadar MoragStarsMuhammad DaasYuval GurevichHila AlpertMuhammad, a rejected boy from the fringe of society, floats through the streets of a filthy city, exposed and desolated, until he meets Gurevich; a lone rover who rides his motorcycle into the bowels of the city, through the shadows of the back alleys, sharpening the knives of butcher shops and gourmet restaurants. Stubborn and tenacious, the boy forces his way under the man's wing. Within this hypnotic urban hell, what starts as an unstable and hesitant apprenticeship evolves into a struggle for self-control.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsAdam BakriLeem LubanyEyad HouraniA young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsKais NashifAli SulimanLubna AzabalTwo childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsTawfeek BarhomQais AttaallahHiba AttalahMohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsClara KhouryKhalifa NatourIsmael DabbagAbout a Palestinian girl of 17 who wants to get married to the man of her own choosing. Rana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum delivered by her father: she must either choose a husband from a preselected list of men, or she must leave Palestine for Egypt with her father by 4:00 that afternoon. With ten hours to find her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem, she sneaks out of her father's house at daybreak to find her forbidden love Khalil (Natour).
- DirectorMichael MayerStarsNicholas JacobMichael AloniJameel KhouryA 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.
- DirectorBasil KhalilStarsMaria ZreikHuda Al ImamShady SrourThe silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsYaël AbecassisHana LasloUri KlauznerSlice-of-life look at the lives of twelve people who live or work in the same apartment complex in Tel Aviv.
- DirectorJoseph CedarStarsMichaela EshetHani FurstenbergMoshe IvgyThe story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
- DirectorOded BinnunMihal BrezisStarsSarah AdlerUlrich ThomsenTwo strangers unexpectedly meet at an airport. He mistakenly assumes her to be his assigned driver. She, enchanted by the random encounter, does not hurry to prove him wrong.
- DirectorRadu MihaileanuStarsYaël AbecassisRoschdy ZemMoshe AgazaiA Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.
- DirectorRadu MihaileanuStarsLionel AbelanskiRufusClément HarariIn 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
- DirectorJoseph CedarStarsOshri CohenItay TiranEli EltonyoThe story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.
- DirectorArab NasserTarzan NasserStarsHiam AbbassVictoria BalitskaManal AwadIn Gaza, two hairdressers and ten customers of various ages and backgrounds spend the day trapped in a beauty salon while Hamas police fight a gang in the street.
- DirectorNadav LapidStarsSarit LarryAvi ShnaidmanLior RazA kindergarten teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
- DirectorGuy NattivErez TadmorStarsAriane LabedMakram KhouryVangelis MourikisAn elderly Greek man and his Hassidic rapper son embark on a journey with absurd encounters, which ultimately leads them to a final confrontation of father and son.
- DirectorDror MorehStarsAmi AyalonAvraham ShalomAvi DichterA documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.
- DirectorEmad BurnatGuy DavidiStarsEmad BurnatSoraya BurnatMohammed BurnatA documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
- DirectorShira GeffenEtgar KeretStarsSarah AdlerNikol LeidmanGera SandlerMeduzot (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.
- DirectorEmil Ben-ShimonStarsEvelin HagoelIgal NaorOrna BanaiA bar mitzvah mishap causes a major rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem.
- DirectorEytan FoxStarsLior AshkenaziKnut BergerCaroline PetersFollowing the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal.
- DirectorAsaph PolonskyStarsCarlos BergerIlan DarAliza RosenRachel and Motti, both in their 70s, are in bed at 10 PM. But when Motti's wife rings twice, Rachel discovers a new rule - when the phone rings twice, it's urgent.
- DirectorGuy RazStarsMeital AvniLana EttingerEyal Heyne GalliHeading out to a stressful day at work, Mori, a devoted family man, is completely unaware of the tragic mistake he has just made. We Had a Forest touches on an unfathomable and horrifying human failing.
- DirectorYair LevStarsChava LevYair LevEran WagnerYair Lev, a Israeli documentary filmmaker turns a detective and sets on a journey to uncover the true identity behind the man who stole his grandfather's identity and later on became the president of a Jewish community in Austria.
- DirectorAnnemarie JacirStarsMohammad BakriSaleh BakriTarik KoptyA father and his estranged son must come together to hand deliver his daughter's wedding invitations to each guest as per local Palestinian custom, in this rousing family drama from Annemarie Jacir (When I Saw You).
- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsMenashe NoyElia SuleimanBaher AgbariyaAn examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.
- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsElia SuleimanNazira SuleimanFuad SuleimanA Palestinian expatriate filmmaker (Elia Suleiman) documents the loss of national identity in Israel's Arab population.
- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsElia SuleimanManal KhaderGeorge IbrahimSeparated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.
- DirectorJoseph CedarStarsAki AvniTinkerbellIdan AltermanIs today's fanaticism tomorrow's policy? In a West Bank settlement, Rabbi Meltzer has a grand design: he's building a movement "to pray at the Temple Mount." His yeshiva has scholars, and the settlement is getting its own military company to be commanded by Menachem, a disciple of the rabbi. He also wants his daughter, Michal, to marry Pini, the yeshiva's best scholar. Michal has no interest in Pini, but she is attracted to Menachem. When she rebuffs Pini, he hatches a bold and secret plan. Is jealousy the motivation or something else? Meanwhile, the army and Mossad are closely watching the rabbi's activities and Menachem's military training. Who is trustworthy?
- DirectorYair KoifmanAmit RussStarsTomer Ben DavidItay TurgemanAfter completing their army service, two Israeli friends take a trip to India . One of them, a former officer, becomes deeply involved with tripping on LSD. Along with his sober friend, their trip quickly turns into a psychotic journey.
- DirectorAndy De EmmonyStarsJoseph MuirJosef AltinAshley ArtusAwaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering.
- DirectorMoshe ZimermanStarsDanny ChanochMiri ChanochSagi ChanochDanny Chanoch (74), survivor of several concentration camps, convinces his reluctant children to retrace his steps through the holocaust, eventually spending a night in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- DirectorGidi DarStarsShuli RandMichal Bat-Sheva RandShaul MizrahiAn Orthodox Jewish couple's faith is tested after praying to the Lord for a child on the Succoth holiday.
- DirectorHaim TabakmanStarsZohar StraussRan Khalil DankerTinkerbellA 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.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsHiam AbbassMakram KhouryClara KhouryIn Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsFanny ArdantAnia BuksteinMichal ShtamlerTwo brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsAdir MillerMaya DaganDror KerenDuring the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
- DirectorVardit BiluDalia HagerStarsSmadar SayarNaama SchendarDanny GevaRebellious and outgoing Smadar can't stand types like Mirit. Mirit, introverted and frightened, keeps away from the likes of Smadar. But the two are thrown together as they are assigned to a patrol in Jerusalem as part of their compulsory military service. Their job is to stop Palestinian passersby, to ask for their identity cards, and to write down their details on special forms. You don't move from this place, don't sit down, don't smoke, don't eat, don't talk on your cell phones, says their commander, leaving them alone on the street with their patrol forms. What will they do now? This is the story of two 18-year-old girls who are busy with their own worlds--falling in love, break-ups, and the volatile relationship between the two--in an attempt to ignore the political reality in a city that slowly makes its way into their lives. As women, this film is our own way of soul searching, about our army service and the occupation
- DirectorMichael AlaluBaram begins to lose faith in the possibility of a two-state solution, he decides to travel throughout the West Bank to speak with both the Palestinians and the Israeli settlers living there.
- DirectorShlomi EldarStarsGhassan AbbasShlomi EldarAs Israeli society slips into extremism, an Arab actor and a Jewish journalist search for a place, where they can belong.
- DirectorMatan YairStarsAsher LaxAmi SmolartchikYaacov Cohen17-year- old ASHER has always been the impulsive troublemaker, from primary school, all through junior high and high school. It's hard for him to concentrate in class, and he is compelled by a lot of rage and violence; yet he is also endowed with a considerable amount of charm and street wisdom. While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to the family's scaffolding business, Asher finds a different masculine role model in his gentle literature teacher Rami and forges a special connection with him. Torn between the two worlds, Asher looks for a chance for a new life and new identity. When a sudden tragedy occurs, he has to take the ultimate test of maturity.
- DirectorHagar Ben-AsherStarsLihi KornowskiRonald ZehrfeldShlomi AvrahamAlex, a young woman aged 18, lives with her mother in Arad, a small town in the middle of the desert near the Dead Sea. One day her mother disappears without a word of explanation. Abandoned, Alex must now get by alone. But when she creeps into the houses at night, it's not so much to steal money but to appropriate the intimacy of others and their lives.
- DirectorHagar Ben-AsherStarsHagar Ben-AsherIshai GolanStav YanaiTamar, a beautiful young woman, lives alone with her two daughters. She can't restrain her sexual appetite and gives herself to several men of the village.
- DirectorMaya ZinshteinStarsEli CohenArcadi GaydamakAriel HarushOne season and one football team in crisis, as power, money and politics fuel a club spiralling out of control.
- DirectorEran KolirinStarsAlon PdutShiree Nadav-NaorMili EshetReturning to civilian life after twenty-seven years in the army isn't as easy as David had hoped. It's hard to re-establish daily contact with his family, with the dimension of his home and, above all, with the new Israel, an ultra-competitive society obsessed with success. Thus, the opportunity to join a company which produces nutritional supplements seems like a possible escape to be seized without hesitation. But David doesn't know how much his country has changed.
- DirectorEitan AnnerStarsGilat AnkoriLudi BokenAnia BuksteinIn present day Jerusalem, a city increasingly dominated by religious fanaticism, Naomi, a secular young woman seeks refuge from the pressure of her life as a concert pianist. Overwhelmed by the expectations of her parents and her colleagues in Tel Aviv, Naomi seeks anonymity and solitude in the ancient city. Despite her intentions to stay alone, however, Naomi quickly makes two unexpected connections- one with a musically gifted Ultra-Orthodox young boy who lives in her building and the other, with Fabrizio, a charismatic Italian monk and organist. While these relationships allow Naomi to reconnect with her love of music and sense of meaning, they also make her a target in her new community. Faced with escalating isolation and violence, Naomi must learn to use music as a bridge to overcome towering religious barriers.
- DirectorAvishai SivanStarsAharon TrietelKhalifa NatourRiki BlichAn ultra-orthodox scholar is revived after dying for 40 minutes. After coming back to life, he suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him.
- DirectorTova AscherStarsNetta ShpigelmanOded LeopoldAli SulimanMaya (Netta Shpigelman) is a happily married mother of two. She is a successful choreographer, and everything seems to be perfect, but this life is a lie. Unbeknownst to her family, and everyone around her, she has a hidden past.
- DirectorEitan GreenStarsOsnat FishmanYiftach KaminerJameel KhouryAvraham is a small-time contractor who's trying to make it into the big-time, and therefor gambles on projects that exceed his capabilities. His family lives in the shadow of his career ambitions, until one of these projects finds him drowning in debts he cannot pay back. Under the threat of the father's financial difficulties they rediscover the strength of their family ties.
- DirectorShlomi EldarWith the help of a prominent Israeli journalist, Precious Life chronicles the struggle of an Israeli pediatrician and a Palestinian mother to get treatment for her baby, who suffers from an incurable genetic disease. Each must face their most profound biases as they inch towards a possible friendship in an impossible reality.
- DirectorSylvain EstibalStarsSasson GabayBaya BelalMyriam TekaïaAfter a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting : imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar....
- DirectorNir BergmanStarsRotem AbuhabBenny AvniNaama ArlakyDirected by multi-award winner Nir Bergman (BROKEN WINGS), SAVING NETA tells the stories of four women whose lives change after their brief encounter with a man called Neta. Humour, drama, love and hope, a powerful and moving portrait of family relationships and parenthood in modern life.
- StarsNoa KolerYossi MarshekOla Schur SelektarWhen dark secrets written in her phycologists journals are exposed and threaten to destroy her closest relationships, high school teacher Hadas must decide who she can trust as she is drawn into a complex and deeply personal search for the truth.
- DirectorMaha HajStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiZiad BakriJihan DermelkonianIn Nazareth, an old couple lives wearily to the rhythm of the daily routine. On the other side of the border, in Ramallah, their son Tarek wishes to remain an eternal bachelor, their daughter is about to give birth while her husband lands a movie role and the grandmother loses her head ... Between check-points and dreams, frivolity and politics, some want to leave, others want to stay but all have personal affairs to resolve.
- DirectorRenen SchorrStarsDor ZweigenboimYoav TzafirShahar Segal"Blues for the Big Vacation" follows 7 teens during a pivotal time between exams and IDF recruitment in 1970. They navigate identity, dreams, and activism amidst the backdrop of war. Key figures are Yossi, Arle, Musi, and Margo.
- DirectorYariv MozerStarsDavid Ben-GurionBased on archive material, the film reveals the final years of Israel's founder, David Ben-Gurion. Excluded from leadership, he allowed himself a hindsight perspective on the Zionist enterprise.
- DirectorEliran ElyaStarsYaakov AderetOsher AmaraLiron Ben-ShlushAssi, a screenwriter and poet, is stuck in his personal life. He is full of doubt, disturbing thoughts, and existential restlessness. He is sentenced to community service due to a drunken-driving motorcycle accident in which he was involved. For his community service, he is sent to work with juvenile delinquents in Beersheba - the desert city in southern Israel - who are under house arrest and must attend sessions with Assi in the neighborhood shelter as a condition for their parole. Their extreme personalities, their riotous energy, and their charm awaken in him curiosity and attraction; together, they break through the boundaries of the rehabilitative framework.