A journey through Kabbalah, heroin, chaos & redemption. The director’s mother married one of the greatest Kabbalists of our time, Rabbi Ashlag, 40 years her senior. He taught her the secrets of Kabbalah and passed away. Since then, she dreams of her son becoming a Messiah, but he ran away at the ...

Nyosha is a ten year old girl. She dreams of buying a pair of shoes during the reality of a pitiless war. She believes that because of her shoes, she will stay alive. A range of animation techniques brings together the dream and the reality and tells Nyosha’s story, based on the true story of Hol...

A woman joins a guided tour of an exhibition by a famous painter. The man in the self-portraits is her father, but only a few people know that. She contacts the artist for the first time in a decade and shares her idea of making a film about their relationship, rekindled by his artwork. Excited, ...

Lous, the mother of filmmaker Oeke Hoogendijk, hasn’t left the house for decades. She has a recurring nightmare in which she doesn’t know how to get home, just like the day when as a Jewish girl she was deported. Scenes which at first sight seem very ordinary—an elderly woman in a living room wat...

Shortly after his father’s death, Bobby returns to his native England and discovers a suitcase full of documents, letters and photos, documenting the story of his family who perished in the Holocaust – the story his father never told him. He turns to Manuel, his German-born childhood friend, to t...

David, a sensitive, creative teenager, lives in Southern Israel with his ill mother, his father who gave up his dreams, and his young brother. He discovers an online writing forum and starts publishing his family stories under the fake identity of the rich kid “Nadav”. As he gets entangled in his...

Academy Award nominee Elliott Gould stars in this animated adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel by Michel Kichka. In 1960’s Belgium, Michel and Charly enjoy a happy childhood - but their mysterious father refuses to speak about his past. The two brothers imagine him as a great adventurer, pi...

The acclaimed director of THE CAKEMAKER, Ofir Raul Graizer, presents his award-winning film, AMERICA! When a swimming coach from Chicago returns to Israel after ten years away, a visit to a childhood friend and his fiancée will set a series of events in motion that will change everyone's lives fo...

Paris, 1941. When the Nazis invade France, a Jewish jeweler (Daniel Auteuil, Caché) is forced to make a false agreement to sell his shop and home to his assistant to save his business. Unable to escape with the rest of his family, he is forced to hide in the basement of his own house, with dire c...

Shlomo Slutzky, an Argentinean immigrant to Israel, follows the traces of his cousin Samuel who was murdered by the 1970’s Argentinian dictatorship. Shlomo’s journey takes a sharp turn when he discovers that one of the suspected murderers – Interpol fugitive, Aníbal Teodoro Gauto – has found shel...

It is September 13, 1993 – the Oslo Accord has just been signed in DC, Rabin and Arafat shook hands. Enter Noam Wax, the former leader of the Nahal Settlement (the Israeli Army’s communal living experiment) who gathers his old friends together for one night. Noam feels betrayed by them since the ...

One Friday afternoon, while everyone is asleep, an Israeli mother barricades her home. Ruthy is unable to deal with the stress and anxiety she suffers as a result of the continuous political situation. She decides to protect her family: her 20-year-old soldier son Ofer, her 16-year-old daughter N...

In this moving documentary, the discovery of records from WWII sparks a family’s quest for answers as two brothers separated as babies reunite with each other and their elderly mother, who hid more from them than just each other.Izak Szewelwicz was born in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp...

An intimate, and yet unfathomable, love story about two young people in Tel Aviv. Tom's eating disorder and desire to disappear forever have confined her to an institution. Neil, himself mentally unstable, roams the streets with a tuba, under the mistaken impression that he will leave in a few da...

Celebrate Sukkot with WHERE LIFE BEGINS, a stunning and emotional romantic drama set against the lush backdrop of the annual Etrog (Citron) harvest in southern Italy, featuring Italian star Riccardo Scamarcio (John Wick 2, A Haunting in Venice) and rising French actress Lou de Laâge (Coup de Chan...

At 20, Viv (Shaina Silver-Baird) was a promising young singer. At 30, her failing music career has forced her back into her mother's basement. But when this self proclaimed "bad Jew" lands ass-backwards into a job as a Cantor at her family's synagogue, she’s thrown into a wild ride of illicit aff...

Moran Rosenblatt ("Fauda") and John Carroll Lynch ("Fargo") star in KISS ME KOSHER, a romantic misadventure crossing all borders. When two generations of Israeli women - one of whom falls for a German woman and the other a Palestinian man, chaos follows. What happens with lovers who don’t fit but...

A playful yet heartfelt take on the rom-com genre, THE FILM CRITIC follows Victor Tellez, a world-weary Buenos Aires film critic who prefers to think in French and eschews romantic clichés…until he finds himself living one. Riddled with ennui and the maladie du cinema, Tellez drifts from screenin...

After becoming the sole heir of a 700-year old of a dynasty of Christian tattoo artists from the Old City of Jerusalem who has tattooed pilgrims for hundreds of years, Wassim Razzouk sets out to complete the family’s collection of historic wooden stencils before they are lost forever. On his jour...