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- While investigating the destructive relationship of his parents, Efim, the filmmaker, stumbles upon a dark secret concealed from him. This revelation rocks his world and he sets out on a cinematic journey to heal his wounded soul.
- A young filmmaker meets and follows Raya, a 94-year-old Soviet war heroine who fought in the Siege of Leningrad. As Head of the World War II Disabled Veterans Club in her city, she introduces him to a vanishing generation in Israel. Her own fighting spirit and willpower are still fierce. As Raya faces the loss of her last comrades and her health deteriorates, the two become involved in a spiritual process that awakens the young woman within her; Through her eyes and dreams, they create their own reality in which time and age lose all meaning. Their growing closeness transforms a film about war and loss into a mystical story of love and friendship.
- Mrs. Lea Gottlieb is the legendary designer, founder and owner of the Gottex swimwear empire. The film follows her complex relationships with her two daughters, and her unbridled passion, for which she paid a heavy price.
- A young student, Yariv Nornberg, hears from an elderly vendor in a rundown shop a fantastic story about a Jewish treasure buried in Polish soil. His curiosity is aroused when he learns of the location of the hiding place - next to the infamous Auschwitz extermination camp. During the next 5 years, Yariv pursues these lost religious artifacts, hidden in the grounds of the Great Synagogue in the city of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in 1939. For him, these artifacts embody his own perished family and guide his attempt for a closure and acceptance of the Polish people, usually regarded by Jews as collaborators and anti-Semites. Yariv manages to organize a unique archaeological excavation to unearth the treasure. But as the digging progresses, it becomes apparent that the synagogue's soil conceals a 60-year-old sinister secret and Yariv and his crew begin to lose hope. Until one morning a shovel hits a metallic object in one of the ditches.The search and excavation for the treasure translates within the film to a succession of poignant metaphors - to the Jewish existence in Poland and its annihilation, to the possibility of a dialog between the younger generations, to the capacity of Nazi evilness embodied in the presence of the nearby death camp and above all - to the growing sentiment that only 60 years have gone by and already WW2 and it's greatest nightmare - the Holocaust - is tragically transforming into an archaeological exhibit.
- In revealing moments of grief and humor, filmmaker David Fisher leads his brothers to uncover the family's dark secrets of the past, secrets that his parents were afraid to unearth.
- The special bond that formed between Shlomo Vishinsky, a theater actor, and Hassan Gadir, a Bedoin owner of a herd from the Galilee. Both lost their sons in the "APC carrier disaster" which exploded into pieces in Gaza in 2004.
- The story of two disabled war veterans reveals their intimate relationship with their spouses and children. Through wheelchair dancing, they try to overcome their impaired sexual self-image and handicap
- An unprecedented view of the Abarbanel Mental Health Center in Israel allows a film crew to document its patients' lives.Three of them present their fears and most importantly- their dreams-and for the first time, they might fulfill them.
- Filmmaker Amir Har-Gil is following, with his camera, five Israeli teenagers of completely different backgrounds. Together they represent Israeli society in its diversity.
- Vicki Shiran's story represents the story of the rise, and some say the fall, of the social struggle for equality that characterized Israel in the past forty years.
- One fatal event connects two soldiers in a blood pact. When they return wounded from the battlefield they find a country in turmoil and need to join forces to fight for their survival and dignity.
- Nir Malchi is a world leading Tai-Chi master, born on a Kibbutz but turned to Judaism to become an ultra-orthodox Jew and is now fighting a battle against cancer. It's been three years since his doctor declared he has only a few months to live. As the film progresses Nir's relationship with his first-born son, Gal, is revealed. 28-year-old Gal is the fruit of a youthful affair. Nir met his son only once or twice and the young child learned of his father's fame from newspaper clippings. After the army Gal himself began training in martial arts and their ways crossed again. This touching union is the emotional center of the film as Nir's health deteriorates and improves periodically, forcing the viewer to rethink the traditional definitions of Eastern and Western medicine practices and philosophies.
- 5 Arab High-tech entrepreneurs share their life and recent innovations in a 3 part series that covers the history and challenges of Arab society in the Israeli Hi-tech industry.
- The film is a gripping personal story into the moral codes and rituals of the Bedouins in the Israeli desert. It is a story about the act of Blood Revenge - a dark, ancient Bedouin custom that still, evidently, persists today.
- These are the last days of the shantytown quarter called "the Boxes" in southern Tel Aviv, a poor rundown neighborhood that the municipality is trying to erase.
- At the age of 55, Shmulik Leshed decided to become a street player and a clown. Since then and to this day, at the age of 100, he goes around Israel and the world playing and making people happy. For the past 15 years, Shmulik is accompanied by Mira, a Russian immigrant and his faithful caregiver. This unpredictable film exposes the demanding, humoristic and compassionate relationship between Shmulik and Mira, breaking stereotypes surrounding the issues of aging.
- "A nation in Reserve" is a documentary series following a group of Israelis who once a year make the harsh transitions from civilian to military life and back. The series tells the story of members of an elite reserve unit from the moment they receive their call-ups and until they return home. Through the lives of his protagonists, the series' director tries to trace the disappearing spirit of solidarity that once defined being an Israeli.