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- The 1992 crash of an Israeli Boeing 747 into an apartment building in Amsterdam remains a three decades mystery, fueled by unexplained illnesses, lost evidence, mysterious cargo, and one missing black box. An international thriller that chronicles how narratives are conceived and uncovers the hidden threads between business, politics, the military and us: the people.
- "Budapest Diaries" depicts the events of the final year of WWII and the Holocaust of the local Jews as documented in personal diaries written in real time by the Jews, their persecutors and bystanders. The private diaries, written by "ordinary people" and never designed for publication, document the various perspectives of the persecution of the Jews, the battles that almost destroyed the city and the sobering up at the end of the war. They chronicle the rumors, the hopes, the bitter news and intimately detail without filters the feelings of the authors, their worldviews and often their darkest secrets.
- One season and one football team in crisis, as power, money and politics fuel a club spiralling out of control.
- In November '77, after years of war, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat landed in Israel with a message of peace and a promise to take back the occupied Sinai soil. Nelson, who feared losing his holiday village on the Sinai border, went to war to preserve his bohemian holiday village. He harnessed his comrades at the top of the government to protect the small country he had built. The affair, which lasted nearly a decade, is a web of political intrigue that forced Israel into an entanglement that endangered peace with Egypt. Nelson's Last Battle is an absurd look at the conflict in the Middle East through a square kilometer of passion.
- The personal journey of Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox film director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and family life. Rachel unveils the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice, for the first time, to their concealed inner world through the wig that covers up women's' hair.
- The story of lion trophy hunters in Africa. KING OF BEASTS offers a close-up on the world of the controversial 'sport" of lion hunting.
- After 30 years of failed efforts, Tahel (Rachel at birth) finally persuades her sister Tzipora to leave Abarbanel Psychiatric Hospital and move in with her. Together, the two sisters, challenge and dismantle the language - both verbal and cinematic - until once again it becomes a tool they can use to speak the silence, the oblivion, the dissociation: the black abyss of trauma, what it is they cannot remember and therefore, unable to forget. It is an encounter which takes its participants, if they are willing to join this harrowing journey, back to the starting point; to uncharted, and therefore, terrifying territories of the psyche. A 16-year documentation of a struggle with the existence of a raw traumatic excess which cannot be spoken or mediated verbally.
- A boy and an adult witch live in the same building in Tel Aviv. The boy falls in love with the new girl who came to the neighborhood, a retired witch. The connection between the two teaches both that in love there is no magic.
- The director has a series of encounters with Palestinian men and women who confront issues between the sexes after the murder of a 16-year-old girl by her older brother: the problem of relationships between brother and sister, man and woman, and all that these relationships encompass.
- The film journeys after the observation diaries written by Amit Geffen - a young bird-watcher. The diaries beautifully and elaborately describe the observations he conducted from his childhood until his death at 21 from a rare disease. Why would a young boy, who knows that his days are numbered, choose to dedicate his time to birds? Why would he want to document all the birds he saw? By following the diaries, the film explores the need to observe and document the world around us, and the way in which it fills our lives with meaning.
- A young man observes Israeli society from his balcony. This deep and painful reflection opens past wounds. On the week between Israel's Memorial and Independence Day he needs to focus on himself.
- The Journey of author Eli Amir and Filmmaker Boris Mafstir in search of identity and memory. Boris Maftsir sets out to trace the memories and personal identity of his friend Eli, and in the process encounters his own buried memories from the distant past in the Former Soviet Union. TARAB is a heightened spiritual and sensual state induced by Arabic music. TARAB is the music that 'Fuad Elias' heard as a young boy in Baghdad before becoming the renowned and respected Israeli author, Eli Amir. And TARAB is also the way in which Maftsir gains entry into the inner world of his eldest daughter Orit, one of the world's most well known belly dancers. It all started with the idea of putting on an evening in honor of the Egyptian diva Uhm Kultum. The writer Eli Amir decides to set up a meeting with the well know belly-dancer Orit Maftsir, who is the daughter of his friend Boris. The story could have ended at this point, but Eli Amir takes the initiative to prove to the Israeli public that without knowing, and adopting Arab culture, we have no place in this part of the world.
- Osher, Michelle, and Eitan were taken out of their homes as children and transferred to foster families. Their biological families are dysfunctional and absent. The foster families are supportive and stable, but this guardianship ends at age 18. The film follows the three over the last year of foster care and the first year of independence. The threat of the loss of familial support affects all aspects of their lives. Past trauma and dislocation erupt from time to time affecting the relationship of the three friends.
- The solar system is shaking, a girl sheds a tear, and a monster is drinking blood. Childhood drawings and stories assemble the filmmaker's personal diary. Phone calls with her grandmother raise questions about hereditary melancholy.
- An immigrant teenage girl with feathers on her body, is torn between the need to belong and her own identity.
- Behind the international success story of Amos Oz, a symbol of the Israeli conscience and a writer translated into 45 languages, lurked a double tragedy. When he was 12-years-old his mother committed suicide, and a few years before his death his daughter accused him of being physically and mentally violent, ending all communication with him. A series of conversations with his latest biographer presented in the film, weaves biographical passages, literature and conversations with the main people in his life, as Amos Oz tells his last story.
- This is the story of Sami El-Aziz, one of Acre's veteran fishermen. For many years, Sami has struggled to provide for his family, and every night he comes home from the sea empty-handed. One night, after another unsuccessful day of fishing, Sami is giving up hope. He decides to sink his own ship. At that very moment, Sami is given one last opportunity to regain his lost dignity when suddenly; a talking mullet appears on the boat and offers to make his wish come true.
- A tragic portrait of a trauma surgeon, who does everything in his power to release his patients from the cycle of violence, in which he himself is trapped.
- The film follows a season of the Hope Lions, a boy's soccer team from a famous lower class Tel Aviv neighborhood. They are pushed by their parents and coach to become professional players since the regular education system has failed them miserably. The coach sees himself as their educator, yet struggles with the idea of whether to allow more fortunate and intelligent children on the team. He wonders about a society that places greater emphasis on a sport profession rather than on education. He has yet to question whether girls should also be allowed on the team.