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1. Return from India (2002)
96 min | Drama, Romance
This beautiful love story that starts in Israel and goes through all scenes of India, its cultural, beauty and religions traditions, brings us to the question: "What is this love?"
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Aki Avni, Riki Gal, Assi Dayan, Orli Perl
Votes: 114
2. Love Letter to Cinema (2014)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Love Letters to Cinema is a collection of ten "letters" in the form of short films (4 minutes each), written and directed by ten outstanding Israeli directors. The films and the directors ... See full summary »
Directors: Tawfik Abu Wael, Michael Alalu, Hagar Ben-Asher, Dana Goldberg, Tomer Heymann, Nadav Lapid, Avi Nesher, Eran Riklis, Dror Shaul, Osi Wald | Stars: Gila Almagor, Gilat Ankori, Shaul Azar, Erez Biton
Votes: 34
3. In the Director's Chair Sits a Woman (2020)
58 min | Documentary
Twenty six Israeli women directors of narrative features are sharing their personal experiences of sitting in the director's chair. From Ellida Geyra - Israel's first female fiction ... See full summary »
Director: Smadar Zamir | Stars: Esti Almo, Tova Ascher, Michal Aviad, Hanna Azoulay Hasfari
Votes: 7
4. HAGIGA: The Story of Israeli Cinema (2015)
54 min | Documentary
Documentary series about the history of Israeli cinema, featuring hundreds of interviews and a wealth of rare archival footage.
Stars: Itay Tiran, Menahem Golan, Nira Gal, Topol
Votes: 9
5. Disappeared (I) (2018)
46 min | Documentary
The Disappeared is an experimental documentary unraveling the story of an action-drama feature film produced by the Israeli Army in the year 2000 and censored just a few weeks before its release.
Directors: Gilad Baram, Adam Kaplan | Stars: Noa Aharoni, Lior Ashkenazi, Roy Assaf, Nataly Attiya
Votes: 13
6. A Standard Love Song: Arik Einstein (2017)
50 min | Documentary, Biography
A musical biography of one of the most influential and iconic figures in the history of Israeli culture. "A Standard Love Song" is a musical biography of Arik Einstein, the artist whose ... See full summary »
Stars: Miki Gabrielov, Shalom Hanoch, Moni Moshonov, Rivka Michaeli
Votes: 10
7. Woman (I) (2019)
60 min | Documentary
Composed entirely out of pre-existing footage, Woman constructs a single narrative out of hundreds of film-fragments from the history of Israeli Women's cinema.
Director: Israela Shaer-Meoded | Star: Reymonde Amsallem
8. Medea (I) (2018)
11 min | Short, Drama
A tragic actress loses her identity in a character, what then turns her life into tragedy.
Director: Matan Tal | Stars: Eldad Ben Tora, Kama Berman, Yonatan Horen
9. The Acting Teacher (2010)
70 min | Documentary, Biography
A Cinematic Biography of Nissan Nativ Nissan Nativ, winner of the Israel Prize for Theater, passed away in April 2008, at the age of 86, with no relatives, three weeks before receiving the ... See full summary »
Director: Shlomi Hayun | Star: Nissan Nativ
10. Lia (2011)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary, Biography
A cinematic portrait of Lia van Leer. Having developed her passion for cinema early on in the 1950s, she and her husband Wim began several film clubs and in 1960 founded the Israel Film ... See full summary »
Director: Tali Goldenberg | Star: Lia van Leer
11. Black White Film - History of the Bourekas Film in Israel (2011)
60 min | Documentary
A critical review of the history of the Israeli "Burekas" films.
Stars: Topol, Menahem Golan, Anat Atzmon, Reuven Bar-Yotam
12. Kishon His Name Precedes Him (2017)
60 min | Documentary, Biography
'I was brought up and destroyed in a hell called Nazism. I was educated and raised by the Holocaust.'(Ephraim Kishon)
Stars: Yaron London, Shmuel Vilozni, Ephraim Kishon
Votes: 8
13. No Shame: How Candid Camera Took Over Israeli Cinema (2014 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
Director: Oren Shai | Stars: Mushon Alboher, Roy Arad, Yehuda Barkan, Boaz Davidson
14. Hope I'm in the Frame (2017)
57 min | Documentary, Biography
A portrait of Michal Bat-Adam the first and only woman director in Israel to regularly create films since the 70s. The film intimately documents her and her husband director Moshe Mizrahi sharing the struggle to make films despite aging.
Director: Netalie Braun | Stars: Michal Bat-Adam, Moshé Mizrahi
Votes: 12
15. Back to Casablanca (2012)
50 min | Documentary
Israeli actor and director Ze'ev Revach was born in Morocco in 1940. He sets out on a journey back to Casablanca, in search of a Moroccan actor to star alongside him in his next film, which... See full summary »
Director: Sigalit Banai | Star: Ze'ev Revach
16. Nazareth Cinema Lady (2015)
53 min | Documentary
The story of Safaa Dabour, an observant Muslim woman from Nazareth, struggling to take charge of her own fate and freedom and to establish the first and only Arab cinematheque in Israel.
Director: Nurit Jacob-Yinon | Star: Safa Dabour
17. What a Drama (2016– )
30 min | Talk-Show
A series which forms a special tribute to the original dramas and series of the Broadcasting Authority. The series depicts the unique programs, the way they reflected Israeli society, how ... See full summary »
Stars: Emmanuel Halpérin, Gila Almagor, Uri Barbash, Merav Batito
18. A History of Israeli Cinema (2009)
Not Rated | 208 min | Documentary
The first 1933 - 1978 starts with the Zionist movement and ends with the first re-visitation of that history. The second 1978 - 2005 starts at the beginning of the political wave until the ... See full summary »
Director: Raphaël Nadjari | Stars: Naftali Alter, Mohammad Bakri, Haim Bouzaglo, Joseph Cedar
Votes: 44
19. Rafi Bukai, My Father (2012)
63 min | Documentary
Guy Bukaee was two years and four months old when his father Rafi died in December 2003. When he turned 10 he decided to get to know his father before his memories fade and disappear. Rafi ... See full summary »
Director: Mika Adler | Stars: Rafi Bukai, Samuel Calderon, Gidi Dar, Ilan Dar
20. Looking for Moshe Guez (2011)
75 min | Documentary
A personal documentary that focuses on the filmmaker's search for the Israeli director Moshe Guez and his rarely seen feature film, The Angel was a Devil.
Director: Avida Livny | Stars: Miri Ben-David, Karin Dadon, Shalom Damari, Zehava Damari
21. Saga of a Photo (2013)
82 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
My grandmother loved patiently, she could move mountains, but raised her children in a Kibbutz. She established the first Israeli film studios. However, eventually she was alone. 38 years ... See full summary »
Director: Mooly Landsman | Star: Alena Yiv
22. Cut to the Chase (2017)
60 min | Documentary
A cinematic puzzle made up of hundreds of Israeli feature films from the 1960's till this day.
Director: Noit Geva
23. Telecinema (2000–2017)
30 min | News
Israeli Channel 1 Cinema Magazine Program.
Stars: Lion Rosenberg, Lior Ashkenazi, Liron Vaisman, Ron Jacobsohn
24. Eden's Empire (2022)
17 min | Short, Drama
After she loses control, and pushes her mom in an argument, a lonely girl runs away to the woods, where she finds a dog that helps her deal with her guilt and anger at her parent's separation.
Director: Joshua J.R. Trachtman | Stars: Libi Adam, Nova Doval, Nitzan Sitzer, Tal Sompo
25. Agadati: Screen of an Artist (1997)
37 min | Documentary, Short
Baruch Agadati - one of the pioneers of cinema in Israel.
Director: Hillel Tryster
26. Girsat HaBamay (2010)
53 min | Documentary
The life story of Menachem Golan.
Directors: Doron Eran, Gilad Melzer | Star: Menahem Golan