Hebrew

A father and son try to freeze time through cinema, but the father’s illness threatens to cut their quest short.Read More »

A musical, semi-documentary motion picture considering the making of “Shablul”, a rock album by Arik Einstein and Shalom Hanoch. The film demonstrates fragments of being, a few funny sketches and musical numbers, much affected by The Beatles’ flicks. “Shablul” reminds its viewers the taste of 60s, showing them the Israeli pop/rock scene of these jolly years.Read More »

Gote and Eli are two aging friends who don’t want to age. Gote is a lifeguard who’s fighting peepers on the Tel-Aviv beach. Eli is a guitar player who dreams of building a night club in Altman’s restaurant.Read More »

Follows the lives of 20 characters who live in a massive social housing project in the Negev desert.Read More »

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Tala, a desperate single mother of an unplanned baby, goes to work in a human dairy, where new mothers express breast milk for wealthy mothers who can’t or don’t want to nurse.Read More »

Is today’s fanaticism tomorrow’s policy? In a West Bank settlement, Rabbi Meltzer has a grand design: he’s building a movement “to pray at the Temple Mount.” His yeshiva has scholars, and the settlement is getting its own military company to be commanded by Menachem, a disciple of the rabbi. He also wants his daughter, Michal, to marry Pini, the yeshiva’s best scholar. Michal has no interest in Pini, but she is attracted to Menachem. When she rebuffs Pini, he hatches a bold and secret plan. Is jealousy the motivation or something else? Meanwhile, the army and Mossad are closely watching the rabbi’s activities and Menachem’s military training. Who is trustworthy?Read More »

Original Title in Japanese: パレスチナ1948 NAKBA
The year 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the foundation of Israel. It marks also the beginning of 60 years of the suffering for the Palestinian people. This tragedy is referred to as the “Nakba,” meaning catastrophe in Arabic.
Since 1948 at least 420 Palestinian villages have vanished. The photo journalist Ryuichi Hirokawa has filmed over 1,000 hours of footage and has taken thousands of photographs of the Palestinian people and their vanished villages. This film is a distillation of this footage.Read More »

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The movie is a romantic comedy which takes place in Israel during the Austerity period of the 1950s. The movie’s hero is Alex, a 13 year old boy who is about to attend his Bar Mitzvah. Alex has a typical Polish mother and father that suffers quietly. On account of the difficult economic situation they are compelled to share their apartment with a Persian tenant named Faruk that tries to fight his baldness by means of different creams. Alex falls in love with the new girl in his class, Mimi. Everything changes when his aunt Lola arrives in Israel from Poland to search for lost love.Read More »

Synopsis: Yona follows the dramatic life story of legendary Israeli poet Yona Wallach. A young woman from the countryside, orphaned by her father, making her first steps in the realm of Hebrew poetry. It’s the early sixties and Wallach’s battle for recognition takes place in a male-dominated environment. With her breakthrough and the inevitable transition to the big city, Yona – constantly testing her own boundaries – suffers from a mental breakdown. Her struggle to resume writing and attain immortality in the canon of Hebrew poetry – the price she was willing to pay for that immortality – is the film’s main plotline.Read More »