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- After being raped by a stranger, a young ultra-orthodox woman awaits a Rabbinical decision about whether or not her husband should divorce her. Jewish law states that "If the wife of a Cohen (descendant of a priest) is raped, she is forbidden to her husband." Cohen's Wife is a provocative modern day portrait of a couple torn between religious law and marital devotion.
- Like all young ultra-orthodox girls, Ruchi, the favorite daughter of a Jerusalem family, dreams of becoming a wife and mother. But the young man who has been chosen for her is not in any sense her equal. Ruchi's younger sister, who has Down's syndrome, asks searching and uncomfortable questions about the match, underlining for Ruchi the extreme limitations on her freedom.
- Ohad, a young orthodox Jew, is torn between the man he loves and god. Who will he choose?
- 17 year old Neta, born and raised on a kibbutz, receives the bitter news that her brother, who is in the army, has been killed in action. Neta is torn between her family's grief and a dark secret that if revealed, will stain her brother's memory for ever.
- Kobi (19), is about to get an excellence award in his Training Completion ceremony at the Army. His Family live in a Settlement near Nablus, and oppose serving in the IDF. During his weekend visit, Kobi invites his family to the Ceremony. To his surprise, he finds out that his family will be evacuated and his house is intended for destruction, as the army will come to dismantle the settlement as part of the peace process. Kobi must choose between his family and his ideal of serving in the army.
- Elyokim, who is ultra-orthodox and a brilliant Talmudic student, is in love with Rachel, the daughter of his Rabbi. The social conventions which govern Elyokim's world means he will never be formally introduced to Rachel. Elyokim takes matters into his own hands...
- A divorce ceremony raises some important questions for one couple.
- In the empty mess hall of Ein Tzurim Kibbutz, a number of the kibbutz's veterans gather every morning. In a place where everything has been privatized, they run a parliament that seriously discusses matters of inner politics, gossip, agriculture and the kibbutz's 60th anniversary. When the secretariat and the kibbutz committee decide to stop the breakfasts, parliament members begin an uncompromising struggle to preserve the last pillar of kibbutz life they have left.
- Saar and Maya's home life is rattled at its very foundations. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder slowly seeps in, threatening to unravel the couple's delicate texture of life.
- A young couple, Stav and Avi, are preparing for their dream honeymoon through Central Asia. When Stav fractures her foot a week before the flight, the two of them embark on an alternative journey that complicates matters even further.
- Mika, a penniless illegal immigrant from the FSU, is living with her baby daughter in a bomb shelter near the Machaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem. She speaks no Hebrew, and cleans stairwells in order to live. For food, she forages among the market leftovers. When the baby gets sick, Mika has no choice but to make contact with others and to solicit help from the men around her. Instead of kindness, Mika encounters only cynical exploitation.
- A revealing portrait of the head of an orthodox family still searching for religious identity and of his daughter, the director who is rediscovering him.
- Ultra-Orthodox young Leah works in her mother's store. She has come of age and would like to marry, but her widowed mother won't let go. When the two women light Hanukkah candles together, a small miracle begins to unfold.
- The charismatic leader of a punk rock band, Ido is a talented musician, and suddenly - devoutly religious. Following Ido for a year, this film expresses his inner growth and the reactions of those in the secular world he has left behind.
- Shaya is literally attached at the hip to his handgun. As a result of the need to renew his firearms license, Shaya embarks on a journey of clarification regarding his fears and their effects, in the hope of unchaining himself from them.
- A teenage boxer training for the European championships fights for her title and her honor
- Three sisters - a radio broadcaster who has abandoned her traditional roots, a religious woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, and the film's heroine, who is struggling to conceive a child-gather at their widowed mother's house for the Jewish Sabbath.
- Dafna, the 40-year old single mother of a newborn boy, arrives at her parents' home a few days before her baby's brit (circumcision). Her father, an elderly Persian, repeatedly snubs Dafna, noting coldly that "a baby needs a father." In the week leading up to the brit, past conflicts between Dafna and her father are revisited, and new tensions are heightened.
- The special relationship between an elderly father and his Down's syndrome son breaks down when the father's memory begins to fail due to the onset of Alzheimer's disease. The collapse of their stable and happy routine force upon the two a painful resolution of their problems.
- Noa, a young girl trying to protect herself from the predator who roams freely around her home, tries to keep up appearances and seem happy in order not to undermine the innocence of her mother and younger sister. One night, when Noa relaxes her guard and finds herself exposed to danger, she manages at the last minute to escape from her house and seek refuge outside. Only then does she realize that her actions have transferred the danger to her younger sister.
- From an apartment block in the "Nahalat Shiva" neighborhood in Jerusalem, the director brings to the screen the many different stories of the residents, of whom she herself is one. The residents come from all walks of life and represent a vivid cross-section of Israeli society: - a young orthodox bride anticipates her wedding while the elderly lady upstairs ruminates on widowhood; three students work out their differences while a young Russian man fights loneliness; a Filipino woman describes her love for Israel and hopes to extend her resident's permit, but without success. All bring to the film their individual interpretations of love, disappointment and hope.
- A young Israeli couple with two small children establishes a Jewish hospitality center for backpackers in India. The camera follows the dramatic developments in their relationship as, against a deceptively idyllic background, the couple begins to discover the immense differences between them in temperament and outlook. Will these differences, and India, break them apart forever or make them stronger? An intense film about young marriage, ideology and growing into life.
- Olivia is a 12 year old immigrant from New York. She is trying to find her place in the new world she just landed in, Israeli society. Instantly she connects with Alem, an Ethiopian boy who sits next to her in class. It doesn't take long for her to realize that their friendship is social suicide. This is a story about alienation, friendship and home.
- Hemi, a 60 year old Bible teacher, discovers that the punk band his wife belonged to 30 years ago is getting back together.These echoes of the wild past, and the threat of its return, shake up Hemi's marriage and force him to reassess the prejudices of the religious community.
- A philosophy student trying to finish a paper for his professor has difficulty processing the realities of his every day life.
- Ben is a 35 year old divorcee and failing comic book artist who works in an office. He and his 8 year old daughter Maya go on quest into the Dream Factory to find his broken dream and fix it.
- In a world without rain, a couple discovers that they have the power to create water. This ability increases the man's status in the world and creates distance between him and his wife
- A young woman befriends an elderly man on a bus, with unexpected consequences.
- A young Ultra-Orthodox woman is summoned by her autistic son's school. She comes, determined to fight for his place and her own.
- Eyal returns home from a trip to India. While traveling he has made the decision to become religiously observant. Initially he delays revealing this to his family but soon he can no longer hide it from them. His secular parents are scared and shocked by the change in him. The transformation is hardest for Eyal's father, who has long planned that his son will join him as a partner in his successful law firm. No longer able to bear conflict and pain at home Eyal leaves to take refuge in a Breslov Hassidic community. It is in this totally unfamiliar environment that he must somehow build the bridge that will lead him back to his family.
- While searching for the father who abandoned her as a child, a young woman steps through the looking glass into a world that is completely unknown to her.
- A young girl finds her Grandmother's secret Holocaust diary while staying at her Grandparents' apartment.
- The renovations of a 100-year-old Jerusalem synagogue on the occasion of its upcoming centennial celebrations ignite a conflict over old and new, identity and obliteration of memory, the living and the dead.
- Bebi, Neta' grandmother, has Alzheimer's disease. The woman Neta most loves in the world is disappearing, and Neta must cope with this new reality. Neta also has to cope with her mother Chana, and that was never a simple matter. Now that Chana is the one taking care of Bebi, the situation has become unbearable. A film about mothers and daughters, on getting old and learning to grow up.
- On the exact date Gideon, a tough young Army officer, needs to prepare his recruits for a parade, his wife decides to bring their 6-year-old son to the base and leave him there. The clash between this naughty little boy and the military life of the army results in a number of comic and dramatic situations which force Gideon to bridge the gap that has existed for years between his family life and his army career.
- Lazer and Baila Hirsch, an older orthodox couple who have emigrated to Israel from America, struggle with financial hardship and general misfortune. Lazer, a Bretzlav Hassid, finds that his capacity for simcha (joy) is put to the test. The couple prays for a miracle, but miracles come in unexpected guises.
- In yeshiva when you're hungry eat. When your tired sleep. If you're not hungry or tired, sit and learn. If you're not learning, What are you doing here? What happens when you are stuck between success and failure, between faith and doubt? What happens along the edges of the Study Hall.
- Husband Uri is fighting in the second Lebanon war. Ruth is glued the radio, listening to the names of soldiers who have been killed. When Uri comes home on leave, the couple must delay their first embrace until after Ruth has immersed herself.
- Before leaving for Germany where he will undergo irreversible surgery, Liam reflects on his previous female identity.
- Ariel, a veteran combat medic, lives in his car and spends his days driving aimlessly around the country.
- Vladimir, a Russian immigrant to Israel, begins to explore his Jewish roots. But his attempts to forge a Jewish identity prove to be painful and difficult.
- Or is a film about the hardship of caring for a special needs patient, set in a special home. What happen when a young new employee need to care for the person, without any help.
- Three men, two ropes and a dry, barren desert. Every year, Yanai and Amir traditionally mark their deceased mother's birthday by a rappelling trip. This year, much to Yanai's chagrin, their father decides to join them, . The father's presence at the brother's special time together breaches the delicate balance between the father and his sons. With the boys hanging between heaven and earth, their father waits, worried, at the foot of the the cliff, the situation gets out of control and the balance of power is completely reversed.
- A cloudy future, flowering balls a reality as the basis of dreaming; in one moment of poetry a young girl floats between heaven and earth.
- Aunt Diya takes her nephew to an unforgettable journey to her birthplace.
- Alex dreams of being a professional photographer but meanwhile, he photographs walls in the street. After accidently snapping a shot of a crime he becomes the prey of a mafia assassin.
- "In the Spring I bought myself a camera. The whole of our settlement was in bloom right then, so I filmed butterflies and flowers. But then everything changed, and there were other things to film." In "It Happened After the Spring", Menora Katsover, the daughter of a scion settler family who founded the Elon Moreh settlement in Samaria, documents the life of the settlement in 2001 in the shadow of the Al-Aksa Intifada.
- Lisa adopted Luz from Cambodia when she was three months old. At the age of 18, Luz begins the process of opening her adoption file, while at the same time Lisa is building a house and a family with her new husband. When Lisa gets pregnant and has a baby girl, she and Luz face new challenges; issues always just under the surface now compellingly rise: what is true motherhood? What is the significance of blood relation? And what is home?
- A group of English-speaking women from Gush Etzion decide to take a novel approach to the numerous Intifada attacks in the area: they will cope by writing a biblical musical - the story of Esther. In the midst of death and tragedy, the women, write, compose and choreograph a stage musical which eventually will be performed all over Israel.
- On a little hilltop in the Samarian hills, a pretty young settler lives alone in her caravan. A man and woman soldier are sent to inform her that the caravan is illegal and is being dismantled. The man soldier alls in love with the settler, and the story becomes complicated.