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- 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.
- Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos, and insuppressible lust.
- An untold side of the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict: gay Palestinians - Louie, Abdu and Fares - are hiding in Tel Aviv, and until they escape, they must remain 'the invisible men'.
- When many people think of Israel, it is often in terms of modern war or ancient religion. But there is much more to the Jewish state than missiles and prayers. In his debut as a documentary filmmaker, adult-film entrepreneur and political columnist Michael Lucas examines a side of Israel that is too often overlooked: its thriving gay community. Undressing Israel features interviews with a diverse range of local men, including a gay member of Israel's parliament, a trainer who served openly in the army, a young Arab-Israeli journalist, and a pair of dads raising their kids. Lucas also visits Tel Aviv's vibrant nightlife scene and a same-sex wedding in this guided tour to a country that emerged as a pioneer for gay integration and equality.
- Based 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.
- An Israeli Detective investigating a Russian mob in Israel, falls into trouble
- In the 1990's a million former USSR Jews arrived in Israel. The immigrants were despised by the local population who feared their 'invasion'. While many embraced the Israeli lifestyle, others chose to live in self-made Russian ghettos. These ghettos were a fertile ground for the creation of self-hating Jewish skinheads. 'White Panther' is the story of Alex, a young Russian immigrant who joins a skinheads' gang, led by his older brother. An unexpected meeting with David, a religious Moroccan Jew, gives Alex a chance to pursue his longtime dream of becoming a boxer like his father. Alex finds himself torn between his two father figures - his violent older brother and his new Jewish trainer, only to find out the truth about those he so admires.
- Michal's (Maya Bachowski) dream about fitting perfectly in her freshman year of high school becomes a nightmare when her younger and very nerdy sister Roni (Bar Miniely) skips two grades to join her in high school.
- Gili and Yaara decide to leave the city and have a fresh start, building a house in the countryside of the Galilee. But while their dream house is being built, the foundations of their relationship slowly collapse.
- Three children from the West Bank are smuggled into Israel, arriving at the doorstep of George and Rita's house in Jaffa. Their mother is dead, and their father has been sentenced for life. As Israeli Palestinians, George is afraid that hiding illegal aliens will endanger Rita and himself, while Rita believes the arrival of these children could give meaning to her life. Nearby, a foreign film is being shot. Jerry, an English director, is making a movie about his parents' love affair in 1947, when they served in the British army in Palestine. George is invited to play a part. When the two stories intertwine, tensions erupt.
- 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.
- Did Yigal Amir know that during the Security Agency's initial interrogation, on the night he assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, he was almost killed by the "Shabak" agent charged with protecting him? Neither Amir nor any of the other Security Agency ("Shabak") agents knew that Dvir, the young "Shabak" agent charged with protecting Amir in the interrogation facility, was in possession of a loaded gun. This is the first time this story has been told. Dvir conveys the failure of the "Jewish Unit" to prevent Rabin's murder; a failure that he tried to erase with his quest to kill Yigal Amir.
- A random trance party in a living room is fairly common when it comes to young people. But what happens when the young people are Israeli soldiers, when the living room is owned by a Palestinian family that is locked up in one on the rooms of the house? 18 years after serving in the army, Eran Paz finds a box of videotapes with rare footage of himself and his squad mates, invading Palestinian homes in the occupied territories. Now Eran sets out on a journey in the footsteps of the people, the memories and the places that inundate him and give him no peace.
- A four-part documentary series about a diverse group of retirees who exemplify in their own unique ways a saying attributed to George Bernard Shaw: Youth is wasted on the young. The inspiring life stories of the participants and their candid views about retirement and the effects of age on their bodies, love life and dreams are often surprising, humorous and hopeful.
- The documentation of families in the Itamar settlement outside Nablus, living in constant danger. The observation is focused on children, the way they go to bed, confront the wave of terrorism, and the myths and stories they are told. The film also depicts the "adult world" which ensures their safety.
- Pinhas "Pini" Zanzouri lives in Yavne, a town in central Israel, with his wife and two children. Zanzouri is an average Israeli citizen with an average job, who comes home and passes his evenings watching TV . On his 40th birthday, Zanzouri's life changes forever when his father comes to him with two revelations: that all the men in his family have died in their 40th year, and that he is adopted. Accepting that he has a year to live, Zanzouri decides to fulfill all his dreams.
- IDC Herzliya has finally been granted authorization to award Ph.D.'s, thereby becoming Israel's first private university. This marked another accomplishment for Prof. Uriel Reichman, who realized his vision of establishing a different kind of Israeli academy - one that nurtures individual entrepreneurship alongside social responsibility and doesn't accept any public funding.
- Two Jewish orthodox women refuse to participate in the cover-up of pedophilia in their community. Both women find themselves paying a heavy price for 'washing dirty laundry in public' and taking the story to the secular authorities. Shana, who works for an organization that promotes change and awareness, tries to help them.
- Nico is eighty, lonely and stubborn. He needs to make a decision which will affect the future of his family.
- A film that brings to light, for the first time, the Holocaust of the Jewry of former Yugoslavia. The Holocaust in Yugoslavia resulted in the slaying of 84% of the members of its Jewish community, who previously did not suffer any form of discrimination. Stella, the film's protagonist and a young Israeli born in Yugoslavia, researches the nature of the extermination of Jews in each region of Yugoslavia, the part played in it by the Germans, and the part played by the various nationalities that constitute Yugoslavia. In parallel, Stella explores the fate of her Muslim great-grandfather who saved Jews during the Holocaust and was therefore nominated as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. The voyage crisscrosses all the provinces of the former Yugoslavia, with the route shown in animation on a map to orient the viewer.
- S. Ansky's The Dibuk, one of the most famous Jewish plays ever written, has been adapted countless times for the stage and screen. This film follows the process of the latest and most daring stage adaptation, written by Roee Chen and directed by Yevgeny Arye at the Gesher Theater in Jaffa. Dibukim follows the stormy rehearsals, the joy of discovery and the growing tensions as the premiere approaches. It follows the mysterious way by which a work of art emerges out of chaos.
- We documented the work of the Forensic Investigation Unit, the men and women in white coats who walk around crime scenes like ghosts. This is the first documentation of the unit's work in the field over an extended period of time, where the stories of our protagonists and the scenes they encounter form a profound testament to the emotional processes they undergo.
- Noy Pillora, once a Filipino rock legend, now lives in the slums of Tel-Aviv and works as a cleaner. At the age of 61, he picks up his old guitar and dares to dream of a new future.
- The Muranow neighborhood in Warsaw was once a flourishing and important center of Jewish life. During World War II the neighborhood was turned into the Warsaw Ghetto. When the war ended, the neighborhood was rebuilt with the rubble of its own destruction. Today, thousands of Poles live in the green and spacious Muranow, yet its' dark past keeps haunting it. Polish residents claim that Jewish ghosts live in the neighborhood. At night they shake off the dust and ashes that cover them, and wander the streets they once lived in. Other residents think the ghosts are a metaphor for the life, culture, and memories of the Jewish people buried beneath the ground.
- Osher, Michelle, and Eitan were taken out of their homes as children and transferred to foster families. Their biological families are dysfunctional and absent. The foster families are supportive and stable, but this guardianship ends at age 18. The film follows the three over the last year of foster care and the first year of independence. The threat of the loss of familial support affects all aspects of their lives. Past trauma and dislocation erupt from time to time affecting the relationship of the three friends.
- Sima Vaknin wants to expand her home but one of her neighbors resists. She curses him and the curse comes true. Following this incident she starts a business for curses and blessings.
- The story of eight Israeli Arab widows forced to enter the workforce for the first time with no vocational training.
- The series follows five Israelis of Ethiopian descent, who encounter racism, overt or implied, on a daily basis. In each episode, the velocity and depth of this tough racism is exposed, in every aspect of their lives: on the street, on the bus, at work, at the education system, in the media, on television, in dealing with government offices and within the Hebrew university facilities.
- Avi's and Yuval's relationship were solid, until their son Nadav, a soldier in the Israeli army, was killed. Their individual pain slowly drove them apart. Then Yuval (47) announced: "I want another child".
- A rare look into life in Bnei Brak, Israel amid the corona virus outbreak, which completely engulfed and paralyzed this ultra-Orthodox city, is the focus of a new feature documentary called, By the Grace of Heaven. Less than 20 minutes from Tel Aviv, the city of Bnei Brak is Israel's ninth largest, with a quarter-million residents and, in effect, the capital of Israel's ultra-Orthodox community. When the virus erupted in Bnei Brak in April 2020, a complete closure was imposed on the city. The mayor, Rabbi Avraham Rubinstein, went into solitary confinement after his wife was infected with corona virus, while setting up a dedicated emergency headquarters under the command of IDF Retired Major General, Roni Numa, who, together with other reserve officers, took control over the blockaded city. All of this happened just days before Passover, requiring the ultra-Orthodox community - with its diverse Hasidic, Lithuanian, and Sephardic sects - to immediately adapt to the realities of holiday life, in the shadow of corona virus and the subsequent city closure, isolation, and curfew. Suddenly, as only in Israel can happen, the ultra-Orthodox religious community joined forces with soldiers and army commanders to meet the challenges imposed upon them.