Israeli films - 2010s
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- DirectorYuval AdlerStarsTsahi HaleviShadi Mar'iHitham OmariTells the story of the complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant. Shuttling back and forth between conflicting points of view, the film is a raw portrayal of characters torn apart by competing loyalties and impossible moral dilemmas, giving an unparalleled glimpse into the dark and fascinating world of human intelligence.
- DirectorNadav LapidStarsYiftach KleinYaara PelzigMichael MoshonovA member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.
- 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.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsMark IvanirGuri AlfiNoah SilverA tragi-comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
- DirectorRama BurshteinStarsHadas YaronYiftach KleinIrit ShelegWhen the older sister of Shira, an 18-year-old Hasidic Israeli, dies suddenly in childbirth, Shira must decide if she can and should marry her widowed brother-in-law, which also generates tensions within her extended family.
- DirectorYossi MadmoniStarsAlon AboutboulTom GrazianiRotem Zissman-CohenA young officer returns to his base after a daring mission. The cook's assistant, a religious Holocaust survivor, is envious of him. He believes that there is a place in heaven reserved for the brave officer who endangers his life for the sake of his Jewish brethren. The officer, in the spirit of the Zionist ethos, is secular and a non-believer. At the moment, he is so hungry that, for a plate of shaksuka, he is prepared to sign a contract transferring his secured place in heaven to the cook. Some forty years later, the present time of the movie, the tables have turned - the officer, now a retired general, is on his death bed in the hospital. His son who, to his father's horror, has found religion, is in a race against time. Before his father dies, he has to find that cook's assistant who, forty years earlier, bought his place in heaven. If and when he finds him, the son has to nullify the contract. If he doesn't, his father will go to hell.
- DirectorAsaf KormanStarsLiron Ben-ShlushDana IvgyYaakov Zada-DanielCheli, 27, is raising her mentally challenged 24yo sister, Gaby, alone. When the social worker finds out that Cheli leaves Gaby alone in the house while Cheli is at work, Cheli is compelled to place Gaby in a day program. For the first time in her life, Cheli shares Gaby's care with someone else; her daily routine collapses and the huge void left by Gaby's absence makes room for a man in Cheli's life in the shape of Zohar, who inadvertently creates a chink in the sisters' symbiotic relationship. While Cheli hangs on to Zohar's love for all she's worth, her inability to have a normal, intimate, and emotional relationship with anyone but her sister forces them into a twisted threesome, where boundaries between love, sacrifice, nurturing, and torturing are crossed.
- 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.
- DirectorRonit ElkabetzShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzSimon AbkarianGabi AmraniAfter a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.
- DirectorDoron EranStarsHen YanniYonatan BarakLimor GoldsteinBased on a song by Yaakov Gilad, film inspired by a 2009 murder at LGBT Bar in Tel Aviv. Song and film tell of Assaf whose father banishes him in the rain. Assaf transforms to Anna, a nurse. Intricate plot, bitter sweet.
- 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.
- 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 NattivStarsRonit ElkabetzTzahi GradMichael MoshonovEverything is complicated in Yoni's life. He's almost 13, real gifted, but physically undeveloped and struggles daily to grow up before his threatening up-coming Bar Mitzva.
- DirectorTal GranitSharon MaymonStarsZe'ev RevachLevana FinkelsteinAliza RosenResidents of a retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, though they are faced with a series of dilemmas when rumors of the machine begin to spread.
- DirectorNissim DayanStarsDaniel GadYasmin AyunTawfeek BarhomBetween the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorYossi MadmoniStarsHenry DavidNevo KimchiRuti BornsteinA drama about a family's effort to save their antique restoration business.
- DirectorDover KoshashviliStarsGuy AdlerOz ZehaviMichael AloniThe 1956, a few years after the War of Independence and the establishment of the State of Israel. Immigration is at its peak, transit camps are scattered throughout the country. This is the story of one platoon at Training Base 4, a three-month boot camp boot comprised of conscripts from Ashkenazi Jews, new immigrants from North Africa and Europe, Holocaust survivors, as well as both secular and religious individuals. All the platoon members are physically unfit or mentally disabled. They find themselves on the extreme margins of society, at the bottom of the social ladder, and dream of ascending to the top. Common precepts such as "melting pot," "team spirit," and "one for all and all for one," remain unfulfilled. This is a battle for the individual's survival, a war for status, identity, and independence. A battle to attain the loftiest dreams, a war waged by individuals against their destiny.
- DirectorAmikam KovnerStarsOshri CohenLana EttingerDanny IsserlesDuring the Second Lebanon War, Motti and Keren, a young orthodox couple from the North of Israel, looks for a place to stay to escape the bombings and stress of their hometown near the border. They end up at the heart of suburbia, in Tel Aviv, at the bourgeois apartment Yali and Boaz. The spacious apartment suddenly seems crowded and small when tensions between the couples begin to mount. The situation is further complicated as Keren's obvious pregnancy adds to the pain of Boaz and Yali, who cannot have children of their own. The shifting relationships between the four serve to examine the tensions and complexities of Israeli society today.
- 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.
- DirectorJoseph PitchhadzeStarsSarah AdlerAyal BeeriDvir BenedekSalah, an Israeli-Arab enterpriser, strives to bring happiness for the children of the Arab sector in Israel by opening a new chain of candy stores. 'The Firm', an Israeli corporation headed by Klausner , that controls Israeli candy market, resent Salah on his former business move - taking control over the Israeli market of Turkish coffee. Klausner sees the new business initiative of Salah as a real threat, not only a business one but also a cultural and a political one, even a real challenge against Zionism itself. In a disguise of a Business struggle the story reveals moral dilemmas and a cultural struggle: the Arab businessman trying to integrate in Modern Israel against the dominant Zionist culture.
- DirectorAviv TalmorStarsAviv TalmorDavid DaninoYadin ElamAviv Talmor, a poet and literature teacher is informed that his father that he has never known, has died, bequeathing him one Israeli Lira (less than one penny). Aviv embarks upon a legal battle over his inheritance, during which he discovers that his grand father was the illegimate son of the Israeli national poet Haim Nahman Bialik. Aviv is excited by the prospect that he could be the great grand son of the legendary poet. Israeli's literary community, however, is shocked by his claim and goes to war with him to clear the national poet's good name. In this film, the poet fights, get injured and bleed, both literally and figuratively. Aviv loses his job and his grasp on reality in an obsessive attempt to prove his bloodline to Bialik. In his mind, he envisions Bialik, Ira Yan, his dead father and additional spirits that continue to haunt him.
- 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.
- DirectorReshef LeviStarsSasson GabayMoni MoshonovPatrick StewartIn Jerusalem, a bullied teen befriends his grandfather and long lost uncle and soon they decide to solve their financial problems by robbing a bank.
- DirectorNoam KaplanStarsSamuel CalderonGal FriedmanLiat GorenImmigration police officer Meir, returns from a tour to Buchenwald concentration camp,a prize for decorated policemen, to a brutal deportation of African labor immigrants. A story of manhood in crisis, Manpower is an ironic yet compassionate film about belonging and upheaval, exile and immigration, home and family.
- DirectorDan WolmanStarsTamar AlkanZion AshkenaziLupo BerkowitchA love story between Fania, a young Russian immigrant and Yechiel, a native Jew, interweaves with the story of the first wave of European migration to Palestine at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the realization of the Zionist dream.
- DirectorAmi LivneStarsEdnan Abu WadiMaisa Abd ElhadiEdnan Abu MuhrabNobody really respects Camel Najer, the young Bedouin who works as a security guard at the central bus station. Neither his family, nor his colleagues. When the Israeli government threatens to tear down his settlement, he decides to act. Camel comes up with the plan to stage a bomb attack, which he will then prevent from happening, making him the hero of the day, hopefully saving his settlement and earning him the respect he's so desperately yearning for.
- DirectorErez TadmorStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiMoshe AshkenaziRoy AssafA brutal terror attack causes an intense chain of events in one night
- DirectorBenny ToratyStarsUri GavrielYigal AdikaLirit BalabanJossef Tawila, the legendary tar player of the band Ensemble Tourqouise along with Avram Mufradi composed the Crying Spring Symphony. In the debut evening of the symphony's playing a car accident occurred, as Tawila fell during driving, killing two of the orchestra's members. Surviving the accident, Tawila, Avram Mufradi and Margaret (Tawila's spouse, being the band's singer), who turned to a wheel chair invalid. Tawila is judges and sentences for a few imprisonment years. After his release from jail he abandons his beloved one and music, opens a pub and sinks into a depression. The movie describes the happenings twenty years after the accident. One day on Tawila's threshold appears Amram, Avram Mufradi's son, telling him his father is dying of cancer and asking him to complete assemble an ensemble that will play The Crying Spring Symphony. Tawila decides to make his old friend's last wish come true and goes out to extract the best players for an ensemble to play the piece before his perish
- 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.
- DirectorMichal AviadStarsEvgenia DodinaRonit ElkabetzSivan LevyTwo women meet by chance and discover they were both raped by the same rapist. Individually and together they must confront the past and finally integrate the long repressed trauma into their lives.
- 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.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsSarah AdlerMeshi OlinskiLeah Koenig
- 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.
- DirectorMoshe IvgyStarsHila FeldmanSharon AlexanderEfrat Ben-ZurThis film describes Israel as a country already far beyond identity crises in which anarchy is everywhere, violence is the norm and life is ruled by the world view of "the stupid, the evil and the corrupt".
- DirectorAner PremingerStarsHagit DasbergAlma DishiAlma DrozdAn Israeli mother desperate to defend her family during the Second Intifada, Locks them in the house for one long weekend.
- DirectorAdam SandersonStarsHilla VidorMatan AbarbuchMatan AberbachA young housewife yearns for human contact in a small, closed-off village.
- DirectorMohammad BakriAhmad BargouthiMohammad FuadStarsMohamed Abo-LilAmitai AshkenaziMohammad BakriA unique Israeli/Palestinian cooperation.
- 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.
- DirectorShirel AmitayStarsGéraldine NakacheJudith ChemlaYaël AbecassisIn October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise between elders Darel and Cali when Darel proves unwilling to sell. That's when the sisters start seeing apparitions of their dead parents.
- 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.
- DirectorEvgeny RumanStarsTamar AlkanTom AntopolskyShlomi AvrahamOne night. One apartment. One missing person. Rami takes his dog on a walk and does not return. He disappeared. His wife, Shir, is clueless as to his whereabouts. Different people come in and out of the apartment during that night - each for their own reasons. Could one of them hold the key to the mystery?
- DirectorSharon Bar-ZivStarsAsia NaifeldOhad HallGuy KapulnikA beautiful, determined Israeli military investigator fights for justice when she interrogates ruthless young officers accused of brutalizing Arab civilians. Her only escape is a torrid affair with a fellow officer.
- DirectorAvraham KushnirStarsYehoram GaonBaruch BrenerDaniella KerteszThrough the eyes of the scientist in charge of the operation, we see the events leading to Israel developing her nuclear option in the 1960's.
- DirectorRon NinioStarsBoris AhnovYaron BrovinskyMaya CohenGony's father lost his reputation, his pride and his desire to live after serving a short prison sentence twenty years ago. A little later he lost his wife, Gony's mother, to cancer. Since then, at age seven, Gony, an only child, has served as her father's emotional crutch, living through his terror and loss. Now, at twenty-five, Gony is about to make her first steps into the world. But before being allowed to begin her life, she must overcome the grip of her father's desperate loneliness and sense of loss.
- DirectorIdan HubelStarsMoshe IvgyYoval RahavNa'ama ShapiraThe life of an aging man who earns a living by cutting off water lines for citizens in dept, and he's the relationship with his older son.
- DirectorAvishai SivanStarsOmri FuhrerAli Al NassarAli NassarIsaac, a young yeshiva student, is an only child to born again orthodox parents. Trapped in a dysfunctional family and a failing body, Isaac finds refuge in wandering. Tormented by his newfound infertility, Isaac looks for answers in his father dubious past. Wandering through the backstreets of the city, he seeks deliverance.
- DirectorMushon SalmonaStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiEdnan Abu WadiBilal AlassadNewly discharged from the Israeli Army, Ra'ed, a Bedouin from an unrecognized village in the Negev desert, is determined to save his family's failing herd of sheep, about to be sold. He plans to live off the herd by starting a roadside Bedouin hospitality restaurant.
- DirectorAssi DayanStarsGavri BanaiShlomo Bar-ShavitShmil Ben AriDoctor Yoel Pomerantz is a washed-up, self-loathing psychologist who lives on the 12th floor of a high-rise with his Aspberger's son, Yoav, who spends his days pretending to be a traffic cop and proudly giving out parking tickets. Dr. Pomerantz sees a few patients a week, barely enough to keep he and Yoav in ramen noodles and with a roof over their heads. In addition, he works shifts at a suicide hotline. When he gets desperate financially, he recruits hotline callers to see him privately, which is discovered and results in his getting unceremoniously fired. (Meanwhile Yoav is getting a blow job from a would-be parking offender, Bracha Nachmias.) Except that the former hotline callers keep coming, and begin offering Pomerantz cash to jump from his balcony to their deaths. One such jumper is followed by her niece, who comes looking for her aunt moments after Pomerantz decides himself to jump, as he realizes he has hit bottom with his new "business". Meanwhile Yoav has come home from "work" and ends up preventing the niece from jumping onto her aunt, then comforting her on the loss of her aunt, and finally telling her he loves her and will look after her.
- 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.
- DirectorSameh ZoabiStarsAli SulimanDirar SuleimanMahmoud Abu JaziPalestinian and Israeli businessmen co-found solar energy company amid community opposition. Utilize social media to garner support for their venture and Israel-Palestine peace process.
- DirectorShunit AharoniRoni OronGudis SchneiderStarsRiki BlichOshri SaharAmiel ShapiraAn experimental fiction-documentary about a crew shooting a movie inspired by Israeli cult singer Meir Ariel's experimental album Rishumey Pecham (Charcoal Drawings).
- DirectorRiki Shelach NissimoffStarsOfira AlpenbaumMichal AmdurskiEfrat Arnon48women: Comediennes, stand-up artists, celebrities, singers and actresses, each tells the filthiest chauvinistic joke she knows, it develops into a talk about men, sex, relations and humor. The result, apart from being extremely funny, enables the women to develop theories, thesis, and insights regarding life, intimacy, men and more. All in extreme openness. The last scene of the film consists of all of the women singing 'I will survive', each sings, one line from the song in a very animated manner.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsAdir MillerOri HizkiahYehuda LeviThe complex relationship between a Jerusalem street artist and a mysterious, modern-day prophet being held prisoner in an abandoned apartment across the alleyway.
- DirectorLee GilatStarsLior AshkenaziNoa AstanjeloveFlorence BlochWhen thirteen year old Aharon,is selected for the great honor of carrying the big Torah book around the neighborhood in 'Simchat Torah' celebrations, he feels life is finally about to change for the better. But his selection causes age-old tensions between his parents to surface, and the symbolic happy ritual becomes a life-threatening struggle.
- DirectorMatti HarariArik LubetzkiStarsMoran RosenblattReymonde AmsellemShlomi KoriatRebecca Abarnabel, a single daughter born into an Orthodox Jewish family, is tired of the lifestyle that her father, Reuven, has forced upon her. She and her mother, Victoria, go on a life-changing journey between worlds.
- DirectorAlon ZingmanStarsReymonde AmsellemOrly SilbersatzShmil Ben AriDusk presents several interlinked stories of Israeli reality, all occurring on the same day and all dealing with a crucial moment in the relationship between parents and children.
- DirectorNony GeffenStarsNony GeffenRomi AboulafiaYaara PelzigWhen a repressed high-school teacher loses his job, he decides to pull his entire life down with it. Within the span of a few days, he will kidnap a teenage student, reconnect with his old high-school crush, forgive an old friend, kill his mother, take on a rabid group of feminists, a movie star, the police and the stifling conventions of his boring small town. A drama, a dark comedy, a love triangle, a crime story and much, much more. An adventure like this could only happen to people who are NOT IN TEL AVIV...
- DirectorShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzMenashe NoyDiklaPalestinian testimonies collected after the second Intifada revealed a harsh daily life reality that, for Israelis, had always belonged to the "others" - the Palestinians - and hence was denied. A few years later, trespassing what had been taboo until then, Israeli officers who served during the Intifada told of their memories. Memories of violence, of suffering, of humiliation. The stories from both sides matched. Against the backdrop of local empty landscapes, an Israeli officer remembers... a Palestinian civilian remembers as well. A journey into the collective memory of Palestine and Israel takes place.
- DirectorDina Zvi-RiklisStarsAmit MoshkovitzYehezkel LazarovAlena YivMaya, a beautiful, 13, arrives to an orphanage towards the end of World War II. She discovers who her true father is and has a forbidden relationships with an orphanage worker.
- DirectorDover KoshashviliStarsYael TokerRuby Porat ShovalMiki LeonA woman who can't stand being alone, but also can't stand living with a man.
- DirectorDani MenkinStarsAlon AboutboulNaruna Kaplan de MacedoRani BlairIs That You? Is an Israeli Academy Award Wining film. Staring the renown Alon Aboutboul (London Has Fallen, Dark Knight Rises) as Ronnie, a 60 years old man looking for his old time ex girl friend from 40 years ago.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsYuval ScharfYussuf Abu-WardaSarah AdlerA story about the life of Sagi Dash, a legendery guitar player.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsIschac HiskiyaYitzhak HizkiyaPini MittelmanItzhak Rabin's murder ended all efforts of peace, and with him the whole left wing of Israel died. The movie shows the last of his days as prime minister, and what led to his murder.
- DirectorHaim BouzagloStarsJuli FàbregasAmos LaviLiron Levo
- DirectorAmir WolfStarsGila AlmagorRoni DotanRami HeubergerAn eighty-year-old man's body is found with three stab wounds to the chest and a number tattooed along his forearm. Amnon, a police detective and second generation Holocaust survivor, is reluctantly assigned to the case. As the plot weaves between the past and present, their stories unfold.
- DirectorDaniel DarRotem BaruchinStarsNir KitaroRoni WeissmanUri LifshitzAmit is your run of the mill geek, a computer programmer who leads a perfectly ordinary life with the exception of repeating nightmares. To cheer him up his best friend Maya convince him to skip work and head together to the beach. The short trip turns into a wild adventure as they nearly run over an eccentric old man who leads them in a journey following the ancient treasures throughout the land of Israel. During their adventure they must escape shadowy government agents, ruthless business tycoons and evil forces, all plotting to take over the world.
- DirectorAdam KalderonStarsNuli OmerEfrat AvivSharon FridmanMarzipan Flowers tells the story of Hadas, 48, a woman living in a southern Israeli kibbutz. After her husband is killed in a freakish accident, she is scrutinized by fellow kibbutz members threatened by her status as a beautiful widow. Lost and vulnerable, Hadas moves to the big city. She finds unexpected help and support from her roommate Petel, a colorful transgender, with a mysterious past. They form an alliance of friendship and support and which is put to the test earlier than they had imagined.
- DirectorLior Har-LevStarsIris AbramovichTal Ben-BinaEfrat Ben-YaakovEddie is a lonesome young man who works as a security guard at a big shopping mall. Eddie strongly believes in an old prophecy predicting the very near end of all human civilization. Just as he is getting ready to embark on a carefully planned escape journey, Eddie meets May, a very intelligent yet anti-social young woman, with a dubious past. As the last days before the fateful date go by, May gradually insert herself into Eddie's life and heart until finally Eddie must choose whether to stay and abandon his hope to escape the upcoming apocalypse, or leave and lose his chance for intimacy and real love.
- DirectorElad KeidanStarsItay TiranUri KlauznerMichaela EshetA story of two men in the old part of Haifa. Both are walking up and down the mountain in opposing directions. This setting provides a philosophical panorama on the condition of the individual, society, loyalty, identity, and life in general.
- DirectorBenny FredmanStarsInna BakelmanErez Ben-EzraDanny GevaThis action thriller follows a young, successful lawyer, that in a course of a one day has to commit the perfect crime in order to save her family from a psychotic loan-shark
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsDanny HustonAmira CasarMark WaschkePlayoff tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Ralph Klein. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel's first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team - of all people! - into European winners. Max always maintains that Germany - where he was born before the war - means nothing to him, and that training their national team is just another job on his path to NBA glory. But things aren't as simple as he refuses to speak German to the young players. The only person he seems to be able to relate to is a Turkish immigrant woman Deniz, and her cheeky teenage daughter Sema. Max just about falls in love with Deniz - and does succeed in reinventing the Germans as European champions. When he discovers what happened to his own family in the 1940s - it is not what he had expected. And he will realize that one cannot run away forever from one's own past and demons. Playoff is inspired by the life of Ralph Klein, Israel's most famous basketball coach, ever.
- DirectorYariv MozerStarsYoav ReuveniYehuda Nahari HaleviYariv MozerTel 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.
- DirectorAri FolmanStarsRobin WrightHarvey KeitelJon HammAn aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
- DirectorAdam SandersonMuli SegevDror ShohetStarsOrna BanaiAssi CohenMaor CohenWhen ancient Sodom is doomed to destruction due to its people's corrupt ways, Lot is the only righteous man destined to be spared.
- DirectorEliav LiltiStarsBarak FriedmanNoa FridmanEsti YerushalmiA boy and a girl wake up in bed one morning, naked. The children's mother died a few weeks earlier. Before she died she asked her children to find their birth father who left them when they were still babies. Their quest in search of their father leads them to hospitals, nursing homes and holding cells. In the course of the quest the brother and sister meet people who provide them - like in parallel quantum universes - a glance into what their future lives may hold for them. Is this a world suitable for these two young souls? Will they change their nature in order to survive? Based on a true story, this independent film is unique in its cinematic storytelling, provocative and sometimes non politically correct, yet on the other hand thought provoking and soul penetrating.
- DirectorTom ShovalStarsEitan CunioDavid CunioMoshe IvgyTwo brothers kidnap a schoolmate to contribute to the family's income.
- DirectorMichal Bat-AdamStarsLiron Ben-ShlushGil FrankShiri GadniThis sensitive Israeli drama from director Michael Bat-Adam pays homage to the acting process. Maya (Liron Ben-Shlush) is a struggling theater actress who scores a part playing a girl who suffers a mental breakdown. She spends time in a mental ward to research the part, but when reality conflicts with the dramatic paradigm, her methods create problems within the intimate relationship she shares with her director.
- DirectorEran KolirinStarsRotem KeinanSharon TalDov NavonA family man becomes obsessed with looking at his own life out of context.
- DirectorAlon SharvitStarsAmos TamamLiraz CharhiYaacov Cohen
- DirectorShemi ZarhinStarsAssi LevyEli FinishDanny StegSimple people struggle through extraordinary circumstances. Sometimes the only answer to any problem is 'The world is funny so we have to laugh.'
- DirectorAdi AdwanStarsEyad SheetyZuhaira SabbaghLucy AharishYoseph is a Druze who returns to his native village after having been estranged from it for 17 years. He arrives with his son and daughter, whose Jewish mother he has just divorced.
- 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.
- DirectorEmmanuel NaccacheStarsTomer SisleyLionel AbelanskiKev AdamsA surprising and twisted spy comedy about the Mossad's attempts to find out who killed Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh.
- DirectorNissim NotrikaStarsReymonde AmsellemYehezkel LazarovEdna BliliousThe 1960's, a Sephardic old neighborhood in Jerusalem. Micha, 6, timid and silent tells the story of his broken family. Sami, the father, a reckless "easy go lucky" womanizer spends his days in total idleness. Malka, his wife, carries all the family responsibilities on her own. She is aware of her husband's affairs but her love for him is deep and she represses the situation with total forgiveness. She will do anything to keep her family together. Malka turns to the aid of Rabbis, amulets and so called witches to bring Sami back to her but nothing helps, on the contrary. Sami leaves his family after his lover, Dina, bails him out of jail. When Malka and the children learn that Dina is pregnant they ban their father completely and end all contact with him until his death 36 years later.
- DirectorNoa AharoniStarsAdi BityOrian DaymondIshai GolanIt is the summer of '78, a month to go until the Camp David peace accords, but Michal is not worried by world affairs. Her 7-year-old daughter Maya has yet to learn how to read and write and her teacher wants to hold her back a year. Michal rises to the occasion and vows that by the end of the summer Maya will read, write and move on to the next grade. But this summer is set to be full of surprises for the family. Michal's father, Chaim, who's been missing for 20 years, suddenly returns, and brings with him the family's dark past and hidden secrets. By summer's end Michal and her sister Naomi will have to deal with the past they have tried so hard to bury and the painful - yet liberating - process will eventually lead them onto a new path.
- DirectorOded DavidoffStarsAlon AboutboulMoshe AshkenaziRami DavidoffThe 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.
- DirectorYiftach ChozevStarsShlomo Bar-AbaMichael HanegbiNoa WolmanTells the story of the theft of an Israeli national hero's forgotten statue, and the adventures of the hero's loser grandson, Alik, a 60-year-old avocado farmer, and his good-for-nothing son, to retrieve it.
- DirectorDana GoldbergStarsIlanit Ben-YaakovKathleen FortéRazia IsraeliThe rehabilitation center houses and treats thirty young women who have suffered emotional crisis. Alice prefers as little communication as possible with the girls and performs only the basic demands of her job: Handing out medication, supervising meals and overseeing shower time.
- DirectorYariv HorowitzStarsYon TumarkinRoy NikHenry DavidThe year is 1989. In an era of Palestinian demands for independence, the State of Israel sends young soldiers to oversee the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories. After one of them is killed, the common fate of four young soldiers and one Palestinian family is sealed. The film describes the extraordinary journey of a young soldier trying to find his place in the chaos surrounding him.
- 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.
- DirectorOmer ReisStarsIzeck AharonRoni WeissmanTom ArmonyThe murder of a mysterious woman unfolds the brutal story of an Israeli radical group, the tycoon they are hunting for and the crooked cops that are stuck in between.
- DirectorEytan FoxStarsDana IvgyKeren BergerYael Bar-ZoharIn Tel Aviv, six friends who are appalled by the Israeli entry in the UniverSong competition record their own song on a mobile phone, then are shocked to learn their recording is selected as Israel's entry for next year's competition.
- DirectorHadar FriedlichStarsBatia BarGili Ben-OzilioHadar AvigadThe world of Hanna Mendelssohn, an 80 year old widow, disintegrates as the Kibbutz which she helped to found undergoes privatization.
- DirectorDror SaboStarsTirza ArielNoa BarkaiAdva BollaAlienated from society, two ex-soldiers begin a vigilante campaign following the senseless death of a woman from their past.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRoi WernerStarsYaron BrovinskyKeren BergerOmer BarneaIn a city where everything is possible, a guy and a girl are looking for the impossible - a parking place. the story of an hour and a half of two strangers who met in a bar and want to spend the night together but cant find a parking place and thus become 'victims' of the situation and have to deal each with the other, the situation and himself.
- DirectorRani Sa'arStarsEhud BarakHagay BarelRozeen BisharatCreator and Producer: Nati Dinnar.