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- About the forbidden attraction of a father towards his daughter.
- Alvaro, Argentinean immigrant, came to an absorption center in the city of Kiryat Yam, Israel. During the absorption and Hebrew studies, he knows Vera, a Russian girl, who shares the same feelings of uncommonness. He begins a journey of absorption with the desire to find a place and identity, and hopefully, build a new life in Israel.
- Manar got locked up in a shack by her family. Her days are spent being nursed by her captors and attempting to escape and regain her freedom back.
- Eran is a religious Shin Bet officer who is transferred to the Jewish Department in order to thwart "price tag" attacks. He Soon realizes that he have to deal with the 'Hilltop Youth', his contemporaries when he was young.
- During the Seventies, a large population of Soviet Union Jews moved to Jerusalem, where they founded a community that didn't open up readily to its new context. Very little of this community still remains: many people have died, others no longer live in the neighborhood. A man returns to those streets in search of pieces of his childhood in the faces and the habits that are impressed in his memory. But time has run its course and the social fabric, once so closely-knit, has unraveled and the old community has dispersed.
- ShortRoma is running a struggling family garage. Tired and worn down by his daily routine, he hopes to maintain a close bond with his son, Anton, who works with him. A phone call from a customer who got stuck on the road sets off a tense night drive. This journey forces Roma to confront the dynamics of their relationship.
- The story of Gil, a philandering husband, who grew up in a family where infidelity was an integral part of conjugal relations. Gil sets off on a documentary journey into the depths of his family's history in a search for a solution to break the pattern that seems to have been passed on from one generation to the next.
- Solly (54) makes daily phone calls to her deceased mother. These actions start to affect her unstable relationship with her only daughter, Tamar (25).
- Wild Sea, tells the story of Marcelle and Leon a Jewish orthodox married couple from France, who have returned to Israel to an empty apartment overlooking the sea. Their first night turns a moment of possible redemption into a threatening moment in the shadow of Leon's Sexual identity.
- Director Gal Dor was ordered by the court to be her father's guarantor during his 48 hours prison furloughs. She is determined to use these "imprisonments" to try and get to really know her father.
- Assi, a gay sailor, returns for a one-day visit in his conservative hometown. While trying to meet the child he once abandoned, Assi must face his estranged relatives
- An Israeli soldier commits an act that will make him doubt all the values and ideas on which he was brought up.
- When the publishing director throws Ravik his book back at him and tells him "only when you really fall in love, you could write it!" it takes him on a journey to find love and getting his book published
- Under her despondent father's nose, 16 year-old bold Lea is having an affair with a Sudanese refugee, unexpected turn of events brings her to mentally transferring in to a world of deceiving illusions.
- This is Hanan, Or and Neta's last night in Israel. They are scheduled to fly to America at the break of dawn due to an experimental treatment which is expected to help Neta, who is suffering from severe autism. But Or does not return home from the farewell party her friends did for her, and Hanan is left with no choice but to start roaming the streets with Neta in search of Or. The night search puts Hanan and Neta in all sorts of surprising situations until eventually Hanan realizes how far he was from understanding the truth of things and how close the truth was to him.
- It is a short animated film about two friends who watch as acid rain washes over the city. The stormy weather outside reflects the feelings of Ariel, who realizes that this is her last chance to confess her feelings to Sophie. Before Sophie leaves the apartment, Ariel gathers courage and the two kiss to the background of the brightening landscape outside the window.
- Adir, a seventeen year old fanatic director from Israel, receives an official letter from the army telling him that he is about to be recruited by the armored corps of the Israeli defense force. For Adir movies are his life, but he has another plan - he will film his masterpiece 'Arthur the IV' in order to prove to the army that he has much more talent than the ordinary tank soldier. As we follow Adir, who insists on doing all of the filming process on his own: filming, directing, acting and composing, we encounter his beautiful and naive world.
- Twenty four hours in the lives of eleven people living in Sderot and Gaza, whose fates are bound together by one day in 2007.
- Whilst the towns shiny big theater attracts a crowd of people, a marionette puppet performs at the street corner and barely catches the interest of one spectator. His master, an old man in his last years, cannot keep up with the marionette pace and give his the support he need to succeed. Desperation turns to hope when he discovers that the big theater is conduction a talent show that could bring him his long awaited fame. But the way over is quite complicated when you are a puppet with feelings.
- An experimental legend that expresses, without dialogue, a journey of separation and maturation between the mother and daughter living in a detached cave in the forest. The symbiotic relationship between the two falls out of balance when there is a turnaround, and the daughter gets her period for the first time.
- Abigail, a young rebel who is 22, is sent to a residential facility to perform community service instead of prison, and horrified to discover "living graveyard". Among the elderly is particularly intrigued Jew, an old loner who likes to sit in front of a panoramic window and look at the sea. One weekend, there is a small window of opportunity in which the relationship between the two women could close the circle of their lives.
- In 2009, soccer player Leo Messi and his Barcelona team won the European Champions League Tournament. That same year, 11 year old Omer battled leukemia. Omer's dream was to be the best soccer player in the world, just like Messi. In his youth, Messi suffered from a growth impediment that threatened to cut short his career as a soccer player. Omer draws his strength from Messi's story and when he goes back to school he puts on a play with his classmates about the story of his life. The play is only the start of his journey to fulfill the dream. Omer regards Messi's story as proof that any dream can be realized with willpower and faith.
- 1994, Amit returns home one year after the death of his twin brother Yoni of AIDS. He's surprised to find that Daniel, Yoni's former partner, and his own family are going to a drag show in his memory.
- A Young religious guy must comes to terms with his sexual orientation and with his mother who is trying fix him up with girls, hoping that he will be cured.
- Every month Michal, immerses in a Mikveh as part of the religious ritual before she and her husband can resume marital relations. When the long-awaited night arrives, nothing happens between the two. Her husband's absence, as well as the deterioration in the intimacy between them, makes her suspect on her husband's true identity Longing portrays a human portrait of an introverted woman, who is losing her female image and is burning in her own desires.
- A battle between man and his deepest passions. Duel of Man vs. Ego.
- The first flight in my life to a friend's wedding when I was 31 was for me a multifaceted release experience, an encounter with new landscapes, people and patterns. My closest partner on the exciting journey was the camera with which I was amazed and together we turned anxiety into pleasure. I am honored to invite you to join me on the 'Mission of the Mitzvah' flight, to Weizmann's wedding, 12 hours away from Israel, and to return with me with a new look and thoughts.
- Naomi is accompanying her terminally ill mother to undergo euthanasia in Switzerland. As their final moments together approach, Naomi's hidden hesitations and fears surface.
- Jews of Marrakech now and then. 6 short documentary films. Co-production Project Initiators: Taha Balafrej. connect Institute, Morocco/ Prof. Sami Shalom Chetrit Sapir College, Israel.
- When the inner world of Layla meets reality, her fantasy, of being accepted as a woman is being shaken by Jaffa's night.
- On a spring day, a boy finds a bear tied to a tree in the forest - and sets it free. The changing seasons follow the developing relation between civilized child and untamed beast, and their naive desire to coexist.
- What happens in a small, protected space of three students in Sderot during a war, when a fateful question arises; to stay in the line of fire or to return to their safe hometown?
- Roni's brother died during the army service and her mother is in deepening depression. Roni draws and her drawings come alive out of the pages. Seeing her mother's sorrow Roni decides that through her drawings she will bring her brother to life, and by that, she will bring her mother back to her.
- Young Noa tries to escape from her family's house grim reality; being abused by her father and being denied by her mother. She has an affair with her neighbor Haim- a failed writer, forty years her senior. Being isolated in a remote Village, she spends most of her time with Haim, and learns well his hateful violent eruptions, but also comes to love his tender, caring side. When she understands that only violence gives him inspiration to write again, it changes her perspective upon his behavior; When Haim manages to write, he replies by loving her. When even hurting Noa doesn't motivate him anymore, Noa faces a shocking decision. The film is dedicated to Noa Sahan and based on a true story.
- Sashka is a sweet 13 year-old-boy. His family emigrated from Russia to Sderot, a small town in southern Israel, next to Gaza strip. Though they struggled to adjust, Sashka's unique perception of reality kept him going. But at some point the ground beneath him starts to shake and confront his childish optimism with the confusing reality. We follow Sashka's sudden and rapid maturation while he is trying to figure his own way around.
- Tomer meets Maya, his beautiful next door neighbor. His view of the relationship between his elderly neighbors is fueling his fear of intimacy and shapes the way he is experiencing his love story with Maya. Every time he even thinks about leaving, an unknown power shows him a dead end through a dream-like reality originating in his deepest inner world, until eventually his biggest fear comes true.
- On a lonely slanted roof, a hunched figure plays the fiddle. His soulful music finds its way into the simple homes of the people of Anatevka. But this fiddler did not always sit on the roof. Come to think of it, he didn't always have a fiddle to play either. Based on Sholem Aleichem's short story "The Fiddle", this is the story of Sholom, the boy that was destined to become the fiddler on the roof.
- In first days of winter, Omer finds herself in between. with a bag on her back she is forced to decide between her mother and her boyfriend.
- In a gray world in a small cemetery, an unusual colorful meeting between an orphaned clown and a widow, a soulful conversation develops that helps both of them deal with the loss they carry.