A secular young concert pianist Naomi (Ania Bukstein, Game of Thrones), moves to present-day Jerusalem and finds herself persecuted by groups of local religious fanatics. Faced with escalating isolation and violence, she must learn to use music as a bridge over towering religious barriers.

Grand...

In this feature-length drama from director Mushon Salmona, a young man named Ra-ed is discharged from the Israeli Army and makes plans to save his family's herd of sheep by opening a roadside restaurant in the middle of the Bedouin desert.

A film by Mushon Salmona
Israel, 2014
Drama, Israeli Cul...

Forty-year old Roberto is learning the hard way that when it rains – it pours. Divorced with a failing business, Roberto spontaneously sets out with his spoiled young son Itai and his father Samuel, an enthusiastic soccer fan in his seventies, to the World Cup Games in Brazil. Their unplanned tri...

A maverick prosecutor finds himself dragged into the investigation of a string of ritual killings rooted in Poland’s anti-Semitic past in the suspenseful detective thriller A GRAIN OF TRUTH. Based on the bestselling novel by Polish author Zygmunt Miłoszewski, this masterfully constructed whodunit...

The legendary Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire, Downfall) stars as Sigmund Freud in this tender, heart-breaking story about one young man and his friendship with Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna. Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler!

Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to...

In this riveting historical drama, 10 political activists (including Nelson Mandela and his inner circle of Black and Jewish supporters) face a possible death sentence for conspiracy to commit sabotage after they are arrested by the apartheid South African government during a raid in the town of ...

Avner suspects his wife Ella (Yaël Abecassis, LIVE AND BECOME) of having an affair. Secretly recording her telephone conversations, he turns into a spy in his own home, listening to them again and again. But while searching for one thing, he discovers another - the woman he listens to is a strang...

Saviors in the Night (Unter Bauern) is based on the memories of Marga Spiegel. In her narrative, published in 1965, she describes how courageous farmers in southern Münsterland hid her, her husband Siegfried {named Menne} and their little daughter Karin from 1943 until 1945, thus saving them from...

A powerhouse Israeli cast lead this story of three friends torn apart by love, crime and betrayal. Debbie (Meital Dohan, Showtime's "Weeds") is a belly dancer in Goldy’s club, dating Yacki (Yuval Segal, "Fauda"), a dangerous and charming criminal and Goldy’s partner in crime. During one of their ...

Meir Cohen is a decorated Israeli police officer who barely earns a living. His new assignment of deporting African migrant workers from Israel "of their own free will," teaches him foreigners aren't the only ones who have no future in his country. Filmmaker Noam Kaplan also delicately sketches t...

Forty-something Saul (Ori Pfeffer, "The Testament") is a melancholic dreamer, with a tendency to run whenever things go wrong. He returns to Haifa one day for a reckoning with the father he has not seen in 5 years. However, getting along with an airy-fairy mother-in-law with a penchant for new ag...

A 12-year old's obsession with filmmaking brings his Ethiopian immigrant family's struggles to life in the powerful Israeli drama ZRUBAVEL, the award-winning debut film from director Shmuel Beru.

Gite Zrubavel, a proud Ethiopian Jew, struggles to hang onto his traditions and control of his fami...

Benny’s hair is as red as the fur of her devout father’s treasured calf – which he believes will bring salvation. But the 17-year-old feels as lonely and trapped as the calf in its enclosure. Benny’s mother died giving birth to her, and she grew up alone with her caring yet patriarchal father. He...

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.

Directed by Asaf Saban
Starring Noa Koler, Udi Razzin
Israel, 2017
Drama
Hebrew (...

July 16th, 1942. French authorities carry out an extensive raid of Jews in greater Paris, resulting in the arrest of more than 13,000 people — including 4,000 children. After spending several miserable days in the Vélodrome d’Hiver stadium at the apex of summer with little food or water, familie...

Winner of the Camera d’Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, this Israeli classic follows down-on her-luck prostitute Ruthie (Ronit Elkabetz, "The Band’s Visit") and her 18-year-old daughter Or (Dana Ivgy). Or has tried many times to convince her mother to quit working the street, without success....

This award-winning Latvian feature film offers a gripping account of Žanis Lipke, a blue-collar worker honored as one of the 'Righteous Among the Nations' for his heroic deeds during World War II. Despite his family’s hardship under successive Soviet and German occupations, Lipke embarked on a co...

Menachem, a former frontman for a rock band, is now religious, and a father to a six-year-old. When his daughter is diagnosed with cancer, he must find a creative solution to fund the expensive treatments. He reunites his band for one last tour. The journey to save his daughter exposes old wounds...

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, legendary Israeli actress Ronit Elkabetz (The Band's Visit) and her brother Shlomi direct and star in TO TAKE A WIFE, a story of tradition, love and fear of the future which takes place in Israel of the late 70’s.

One night, Vivian’...

Yoel, a meticulous historian leading a significant debate against holocaust deniers, discovers that his mother carries a false identity. A mystery about a man who is willing to risk everything to discover the truth.

Winner - Best Film | Haifa International Film Festival

A Film by Amichai Green...

On the day Adolf Hitler comes to power, the German-Jewish family Glickstein comes together for a family dinner. Most of them however (like so many other Germans at that time) don´t take the Nazis seriously. When young Leah reveals her plans to emigrate from Berlin to Palestine, her family starts ...

Michal is a 30-year-old Israeli accountant, juggling the life of a wife, mother and career woman – while also cheating on her husband. One day, her life is shattered when she learns of the unexpected and tragic death of her lover.

"Sensitive, edgy and totally original...this worthy, moving, and...

Summer of 1943. The Jews of Greater Bulgaria must adhere to the laws of Germany. Two 17-year olds; Moni: a Jewish youngster from Sofia; and Giogio, the son of the commissar for Jewish affairs' driver, meet Shelly, a Jewish girl from Kavala (Greece). The two face the values and limits of friendshi...