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- #Schoolyard: An Untold Story is the anatomy of a murder -- the step by step, blow by blow, memory by memory chronicle of a horrible moment in Israeli military history.
- A documentary composed entirely of YouTube clips.
- An in-depth look into the unique bond between Evangelical Christianity and the Jewish State.
- Ziv Koren's photographs have become instantly recognizable icons that have helped shape our perception of the conflict in the Middle East. In "More Than 1000 Words" director Solo Avital followed Ziv over a two-year period, shooting in the heart of riots, terror attack scenes, secret meetings with wanted militants, all the way to Israel's pullout from Gaza. This movie, however, is not solely about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict; it is merely set in it. It is a movie about a man's struggle with a history in which he is involved, and the place he finds for himself in it. Like Ziv, it seeks the universal through the most personal; it asks how and why this man gets up in the morning to leave his wife and daughter for a war zone. The movie does not only seek history through the photographer's lens but also the photographer through the lens of history.
- Across from the municipal music hall in Bat-Yam, there is a large, run-down concrete building. It was built as part of the public housing project in the 50s, and most of the tenants have been living there since. The gap between the two buildings is so much larger than the actual distance.
- Franny is 7 years old. Franny's mother's new boyfriend is 26 year old Nico.To be with Franny's Mom, Nico has to win Franny's heart. Nico is trying to be a film maker but couldn't even finish his graduation film. The first time they meet, Franny finds Nico in her mother's bed. From that moment on, Nico and Franny need to find a way to get along, love and hate each other. Mostly they do all three in the same frame.
- From Baruch Goldstein's massacre in Hebron, March 1994 (where 119 bullets were fired) to the fatal 3 bullets that killed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995, this documentary examines the right-wing extremists in Israel and their ideology.
- The career of Israeli photo reporter Micha Bar-Am, born in Berlin in 1930, thus becomes an assembly of iconic snapshots, enlargements and contact sheets which serve as the score for two voices.
- Yoav's demons start haunting him after his best friend becomes pregnant without telling him, and after his boyfriend of 15 years starts talking about children too. His life unravels, and self-destruction seems inevitable.
- Through seventeen decisively varying styles of observation, director Yoni Bentovim delves into the essence and meaning of discourse between mother and son.
- An intimate coming of age drama documents four teenagers, outstanding athletes living in a prestigious sports academy, where the intense daily routine forces them to sacrifice youth in favor of success.
- Twenty four hours in the lives of eleven people living in Sderot and Gaza, whose fates are bound together by one day in 2007.
- A travelogue and a search of the third and second generation following of Buches Popik family native from Shtatel Bolshibtzi (Bolshevtzi) numbered approximately 2000 Jews, 1914 of them were killed. Through his personal story began documenting the life story of the Jews of Galicia and the common fate of more than 600 000 Jews who lived in Galicia until 1942.
- Two films that create one work about the 1948 War of Independence unfold along two axes. One in the past, retelling the events of the war through journals and letters that were written in real time - an ensemble of voices, Jewish and Arab, that create a human story about that dramatic war and allow a glimpse into the way the perception of this war was constructed on both sides. They're accompanied by breathtaking original footage, a great part of it being shown for the first time. In the present, the characters are battling over the war's memory - researchers, archivists, members of the unit for detecting missing soldiers. Some are charges with maintaining the ethos, other with its deconstruction. Each one of them believes that how memory of this crucial war will be embedded is critical to the future of our lives here in Israel.
- In 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.
- A body of a two-year-old toddler is found in the well of a Bedouin village located in the Negev Desert. His mother is arrested the very same day, suspected of committing murder. During 21 days of detention and interrogation, police officers exploit her weaknesses in order to make her confess to the crime. The film is comprised of police archive materials and original reenactments techniques, thus recounting the horrific life story of a traditional Bedouin woman.
- This is the compelling and controversial story, of the international '269Life' movement. Watch as their underdog struggle, to liberate the animals unfolds, in this one of a kind movie drama.
- Three boys are growing up in Israel and the Palestinian territories, right next to each other, in completely different worlds. We follow them over the course of a year, through adolescence. We watch as they experience life in promiscuous Tel Aviv, in the religious ideology of a Jewish settlement and in the occupied city of Hebron, where Israeli soldiers are in control. One year of trials and tribulations of three sixteen year old boys. They try to fulfill their teenage dreams in an environment of violence and sometimes war.
- After reading a note that he wrote 10 years prior, 29 year old Tzafrir realizes that he didn't fulfill any of the dreams he had for himself when he was young. Just before his 30th birthday he decides to fulfill his childhood dream and drive through Israel on an electric toy car. With the hope of understanding what he wants to do with his life, he goes on the journey across the country and meets people that give their perspective on what it means to grow up.
- The hanged body of an old man in the middle of a small kibbutz in the north of Israel leads Albert, a war veteran, to make a drunken bet. Along with Ben, his grumpy unemployed son, the feisty odd couple will cross the entire country on an old tractor, in one week. This spontaneous 35 km\h, bitter-sweet and sour journey towards forgiveness take them through Israel's neglected backyard, where stereotypes and prejudices meet broken dreams of a better life. The trip will enable Ben to discover his fascinating father, and will give Albert the chance to be the father he never was.
- The Tel Aviv municipality has founded "My Neighborhood" elementary school in its southern region. It will have pupils from all walks of life - including refugee's children. In an outrageous move, they have cleared half of the buildings associated with the longstanding religious school "Roots". This partnership was forced upon two principles, Shachar Feinshtein and Elior Tourgeman. They must arrange for living in the same compound where non-Jewish refugee children learn just 40 steps away from orthodox children, while working in an extremely challenging neighborhood where gentrification, secularization, and the demand to expel refugees tear its community apart.
- Excerpts from six hours of interviews with Ben Gurion, his friends, family, and also detractors, reconstructing important landmarks from his life.
- Gil Avni found himself in a Kafkaesque situation. He lies dying in the ICU, anesthetized and ventilated, diagnosed with cerebral edema. From the medical team fighting for his life and his closest relatives coming to say their goodbyes, Gil learns about his final hours. These 44 hours are told through his testimony and of those who were around him.
- BlackSmile Challenging Himself To Create A 49 Minutes Movie Full Of YouTube Content
- A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
- A squad of tired soldiers is getting ready for a vacation after training; they accept the gracious invitation of a nearby village to spend their time there, while the village boys are away and the girls are all alone... Soon it becomes clear that the hidden agenda was to put them to work in the fields. The irate soldiers hatch a revenge plan: Their friends back in camp invite the village elders, and proceed to put them through "training", freeing the soldiers back in the village to frolic and dance with the girls. When the tired elders return, all hell breaks loose... The remorseful soldiers and gals decide to work through the night, to complete the urgent field work, to the utter surprise and delight of the elders.
- An intimate portrait of an Air-Force pilot who lost comrades-in-arms and a veteran soldier experience guilt for not preventing a terror-attack, on a mutual journey, trying to deal with the ghosts that haunt them.
- An hour in a prison in Baer Sheva, Israel. The documentary follows the departure of the prison manager and the coming of a new one, and the stir the change makes for the prisoners. The movie also takes us through the high walls and cells and day-to-day prison life; with stories of some of the prisoners: a father and son together in one cell, another who wants to get married eyeing for a parole, a 30- year-old that spent most of his life in prison.
- The personal journey of the director who leaves her Arab - Muslim village and moves to Tel-Aviv, where she meets her neighbor Jonathan, a Jewish-Canadian man who immigrated to Israel. A love story evolves.
- When Raffael Lomas, Israeli artist and TED Fellow, travels to Uganda to make art with South Sudanese children raised in Israel and deported back to Africa, he forges unexpected connections and wrestles with the question - what is the real value of art?
- Danielle, a Jew who grew up as a Muslim in Morocco, struggles for the right to bring up her son, Nasser. Nine years after she was forced to leave him and moved to live in Jerusalem, she returns to Morocco to fight for custody.
- The firm of Green, Greenberg and Greenbaum is in trouble: large quantities of jam are missing from the storage. Worse, two of the senior partners are murdered. The incompetent inspector Klein (Avner Hizkiyahu) is trying to solve the case, without much success, while the cleaning woman Aliza Mizrahi (Edna Fliedel) conducts an investigation of her own and finds the culprit.
- August 2005, Israel is about to withdraw from Gaza. This year is also a turning point for Daniel and Elad. Both are joining the army. They are only 18, yet they are convinced that they chose the right way. Daniel is willing to sacrifice his freedom and Elad his life. Will they succeed to achieve their goals? And who will be accountable if they fail? The film deals with choices that never before confronted the young Israelis. This is a story of a divided country and its children who are searching for a way, of big dreams and small dreams, of people and land, and parents who are afraid for their sons.
- A BOMB IN THE BASEMENT is the first documentary film that tells the story of the development of the Israeli nuclear option. It focuses at the French-Israeli nuclear connection and describes the American administration unsuccessful effort to stop Israel from building the bomb. The development of the nuclear project was the most complex, costly and secret project ever carried out by Israel. David Ben-Gurion, Israel's creator, began to contemplate the Israeli ultimate deterrent in the early years of statehood. The lesson of the Holocaust and fears for Israel's survival persuaded Ben-Gurion that the state must have a defensive measure in the form of an ultimate deterrent, "life insurance" for the country. Foreign sources, quoted in the documentary reveal that Israel has declared a nuclear alert on three occasions in the past. The documentary describes under what circumstances Israel would be forced to use nuclear weapons.
- The story of an old Palestinian Village in the heart of Jerusalem, that was turned into a Mental Health "Village" Center treating Palestinians and Jews side by side.
- Tal is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not of their choosing at an age where young people are falling in love and taking their place in adult life. A bottle thrown in the sea and a correspondence by email nurture the slender hope that their relationship might give them the strength to confront this harsh reality to grapple with it, and thereby ever so slightly change it. Only 60 miles separate them but how many bombings, check-points, sleepless nights and bloodstained days stand between them?
- Shaul and Rami are best friends, 40 years old. Both are in unhappy marriages, but Rami has found comfort in the arms of a Russian immigrant with whom he's having an affair.
- A hardworking Israeli auto garage owner wants his two sons to get a college education, but the one supposedly studying medicine in New York returns home as a hippie freak and with a girl friend. The other student son lives in Tel Aviv and is plagued by his obsessive wife. The father one day mistakes his son's L.S.D for his daily pills and winds up in a hippie camp with his secretary and his son's girlfriend, and then the garage workers go on strike.
- This film tells the story of playwright Hanoch Levin by visiting the key moments in his life and meeting with the people closest to him: his three wives, four children, and siblings. The complex personality of an artist committed first and foremost to his work is expressed in each of these complicated relationships, so brimming with love.
- Joseph, a young handsome unemployed from a small town in the South, spends his nights at the local dance-bar. He's the best Latino dancer in town - all the girls fall for him, charmed by his sex appeal - especially Tom, the hottest girl and best dancer in town. In the meantime, in the big city, we meet beautiful Annabelle, the daughter of Ernest, a multi millionaire and her stepmother Suzie. The family lives with the memories of Annabelle's deceased mother, a European prima ballerina who committed suicide. Annabelle is obsessed with her mother's dancing against her father's violent resistance, a conflict which brings to recurring confrontations between the two. Annabelle trains for the biggest dance competition the country has ever known. Her partner, Maor, rejects the choreographer's, Pedro, classical style and would rather compete in Latin style. At the dance auditions Annabelle meets Joseph, who becomes her dance partner and the two fall in love. Jealous Maor uses every trick in the book to get rid of Joseph. He even sends his gangster friends to break his legs and tries to bribe the head of the competition's jury. The difference between the two's social stature gives the film its powerful and suspenseful dramatic moments. We reach the climatic ending as our heroes win the Golden Cup against all odds and become the country's dance champions
- A Film about Zen - by Mira Arad 53 min. - Israel 2004 Synopsis Zen is the name I gave a 2-month- old Labrador dog that I raised until he was 18 months old, knowing I would have to part with him at that time. Zen was raised to become a guide dog. Departure time arrives and Zen is moved to the kennels for his training. I find the departure almost unbearable. My soul has grown attached to Zen's. I decided to shoot a film about Zen. I figure that this way I will be able to accompany Zen throughout the training procedure until he leaves for his new home with his blind owner. I begin observing and raising questions about the nature of the relationships between people, dogs and Zen...