Ariel, a well-off, childless man gets a phone call from his college girlfriend. She needs to tell him a couple of very surprising things: first, when they broke up twenty years ago, she was pregnant and went on to have a lovely boy. The second thing will make Ariel explore the hidden aspects of p...

Moshe and Tami are a couple, Moshe is in his fifties and Tami is in her early twenties. They live together in a cruel and violent relationship, from which Tami seems unable to set herself free. Tami and Moshe are father and daughter.

Official Selection (Un Certain Regard) - Cannes Film Festival ...

Three young childhood friends wish to escape their alienated life in the Israeli kibbutz and become London’s hottest rock band. The lack of audience, the cultural differences and the lifestyle of illegal immigrants will all force them to reevaluate their choices.

"A unique and authentic musical ...

A powerful exploration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six Days' War. The film documents the lives and encounters of two young men. About to begin his military service, Tal, an eighteen-year-old Israeli, is torn be...

The year is 1962, and Holocaust survivor Menachem Goldfarb (Arie Muskuna) now lives in Israel with his family. Because tensions between Israel and Palestine are growing worse, Menachem wants to get his family out of the country. However, money is tight. But when an old friend, Morris (Moti Giladi...

Shadowed by a strict, military father who inflicts severe methods of punishment as a form of discipline, seventeen-year-old Ariella (Shira Haas, Unorthodox, Shtisel, Asia) commits a grave error that her father (Yiftach Klein, 7 Days in Entebbe, Fill the Void) isn't willing to punish her for. Seek...

A short film from Israeli director Noam Stolerman. After ten years in the firm, Yehoshua is getting fired out of the blue. Shocked and frustrated, he tries to think of a way to break the news to his wife and wonders if there's still a chance to get his job back.

Directed by Noam Stolerman
Israel...

This animated short from Sheldon Cohen (The Sweater) tells the true story of a "nice Jewish boy with Buddhist inclinations" who suffers a heart attack. At the crossroads of documentary and animation, the film combines wry humour and philosophical musings to show that, sometimes, what feels like t...

Michael Aloni (Shtisel) stars in the story of one platoon at an Israeli army training base as they struggle through a 3-month boot camp for non-combatants during the hot summer days. Comprised of veterans from cooperative settlements, kibbutzes and towns, Ashkenaz Jerusalemites, new immigrants fr...

*Parental Advisory: This film includes sensitive scenes including portrayals of violence and sex*

In this bold, stunning film, 12-year-old Adar (Shira Haas, "Unorthodox", "Shtisel") and her stepfather (Ori Pfeffer, "The Testament") push their role-playing games into dangerous territory while he...

With her provocative debut music video, “Eshet Chayil of Hip Hop,” Lea Kalisch presents a transgressive 21st-century update on the traditional Jewish song Eshet Chayil (Woman of Valor). As she clashes together the seemingly unrelated worlds of hip hop and hasidism, Kalisch reveals that these male...

This documentary follows a Holocaust survivor in 1965 on an emotional pilgrimage to Bergen Belsen, the last of 11 concentration camps where he was held by the Nazis. He and 30 other former Jewish inmates travel through the new Germany. Scenes still vivid in his mind are recalled in flashback. The...

A man and a woman meet in a hotel to live out their sexual fantasies. The pair are celebrating their tenth anniversary, and such no-holds-barred meetings have become a tradition - the role-playing breaks up the routine of their marriage. This year however, things go differently: more and more lie...

Based on a true story, Extra Innings is a beautiful, powerful family drama that will have you laughing one minute and crying the next! Set against the enchanting backdrop of 1960's Brooklyn, Extra Innings tells the story of David Sabah who is caught between pursing his dream of playing baseball a...

A group of airport porters are planning on stealing 2 sacks of rough diamonds. The diamonds arrive on schedule on commercial flights to the airport. Being that the porters are the first to come in contact with the sacks from the moment they land in the airport, it goes without saying that they wi...

Amsterdam, summer 1942. Walter Suskind can count himself lucky that he's found a job with the Jewish Council, which offers him and his family protection from deportation to Germany. It is Süskind's task to arrange for the detainees to be sent to "work" in Germany. But when he discovers what is re...

In this short film set in 1933 England, runaway siblings Kitty (Bella Ramsey, "Game of Thrones") and David's game of soldiers takes a surprising turn when they find their clifftop hideout occupied by Jewish refugee Albert Einstein.

Directed by Luke Rodgers
United Kingdom, 2018
Shorts, Drama, His...

Yiddish live theater, a formerly lively theatrical form, is barely sustained by a few aging aficionados and its loyal but aged audience. Laura Adler is a big star of one of these troupes. She is attractive, middle-aged and quite content to spend her days performing obscure theater in her backwate...

Ovadia is the strongest doorman of all the night clubs in Tel Aviv. His biggest dream is to become a father, but he and his wife Rachel have been struggling to get pregnant for almost five years. One day, small time gangster named Shalom Rozental offers Ovadia a job, which Ovadia sees as a great ...

Zaza (Lior Louie Ashkenazi) is an eligible 31-year-old bachelor who has done his best to remain unattached. His traditional Georgian-Jewish family is growing impatient, however, and they aggressively join forces to choose a young bride for him, with the stipulation that she be a virgin. Zaza play...

In this popular and award-winning feature from director Eyal Halfon, residents of a West Bank community are in an uproar over an aging lion that escaped from a Russian circus.

Ophir Award - Best Film
Ophir Award - Best Actor (Yoram Hattab)
Ophir Award - Best Actor (Amos Lavi)
Ophir Award - Best ...

Two generations after the Holocaust, its aftermath has faded, but the small, seemingly banal moments of everyday life are still present. Through interviews with strangers and intimates, as well as views of contemporary Berlin, filmmaker Alexa Karolinski investigates how history reverberates throu...

The film follows the research of historian Sidney Aguilar, beginning with the discovery of bricks marked with Nazi swastikas on a farm in the countryside of São Paulo. It reveals something really frightening: during the 1930's, fifty black boys were taken from an orphanage in Rio de Janeiro and l...

After her family moves from Russia to Israel, 13-year-old Clara (Lucy Dubnichek) finds herself in the unenviable position of being the new girl at Golda Meir Junior High School. Thanks to her psychic powers, however, she quickly becomes a popular friend to have. Why study when Clara knows what's ...