Yael Aviv

Movies

7 Days in Entebbe
Casting
In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion.
Inch'Allah
Casting
A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
Miral
Casting
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
Eyes Wide Open
Casting
A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in Jerusalem's Orthodox community is respected by friends and family. However, when he hires handsome runaway student Ezri to assist with his business, sexual tensions bristle and the pair cautiously embark on a love affair. Meanwhile, a neighbouring shopkeeper persists in seeing a man of her own choosing, even though she's been promised by her father to another. As forbidden truths come to the fore, these lovers are forced to either confront or relent in the face of a centuries-old religious community, with startling results.
Hedva Ve'Shlomik
Israeli mini series.
7 fois... par jour
Sex comedy about an architect from Quebec who suffers from guilt feelings over his excessive sex urge. He confesses all this to a beautiful female analyst.
Siege
Story of a war-widow pressured by her friends to behave in the role of the heroic widow, and the journey she takes in a country of people under siege.