Edan Sasson

Filmmaker and professor Pearl Gluck’s provocative latest dramatic short film centers on Malke, a Holocaust survivor and sex-ed teacher who has been leading a secret life for decades: performing slam poetry on the Lower East Side. Castles in the Sky features commanding performances from actor Lynn Cohen, who died in 2020, and poet Venus Thrash, who died in 2021.

Sixteen-year-old Maya loves sailing, which she was taught to do by her captain father. She misses her father very much, and runs away on a sailboat in order to reach Cyprus and meet him. But in Cyprus, she misses the cargo ship where her father is supposedly working.

A fascinating journey with Israel’s notorious provocateur, Prof. Amir Hetsroni, into the depth of his romantic and interpersonal relationships, alienated childhood, and public persona versus his self-identity.

Mira Segal wakes up screaming one morning to discover that her husband has disappeared. The police open a Missing Person file and advise her to wait. As weeks turn into months, Mira continues to search for him while exploring her own desires and the guilt of not wanting him back.

A boy, a girl, a space-alien and fried chicken.

After a long night, Bashir returns home from work to find his Jewish girlfriend Karin with an unexpected baby in her arms. “We’re a family now,” she tells him, "and we'll never be apart". Bashir is torn between his will to devotionally support his girlfriend and doing the right thing by returning the baby to his mother, a foreign worker who left her child under the threat of being deported from Israel. A decision is made and the couple sets-out on a runaway journey with the baby wrapped in a blanket. As they escape the police, Bashir does his best to look after and protect both Karin and the baby, but he knows the end is near and every solution will have dire consequence. Being an Arab-Israeli with a Jewish girlfriend makes him the “usual suspect”. In the background of social and political topics such as Arabs, Jews and foreign workers, a tender love story is revealed and a delicate family is formed…

A young, idealistic female Israeli military investigator confronts an elite commander with accusations of unnecessary violence in the Occupied Territories. Her integrity and determination are put to the test as the case proves less black-and-white than it originally seemed.

Three interwoven stories of women on the verge of a mental breakdown, seeking a way out of their misery, while confronting secrets that will change them forever. All three women are named the same - Naama. A man who longs to be a woman A painter revealing a portrait of a married woman A university graduate desperate to have a decent life All three women are a part of a bigger picture; a picture that is worth unveiling...

Gur is in love with the beautiful, almost famous, and unreachable Ariel. For Ariel, Gur is nothing but an amusement pet that basically takes care of Rufus, her dog. Though this is one-sided love, Gur is happy. His gloomy calmness interrupted when Shila, the next-door salute girl losing Rufus by mistake. Gur and Shila ask for some help from Gur's muscular friend who is just recovering from plastic surgery. The trio goes out for an urban journey, to find Rufus the lost dog. The journey takes place in the surrealistic corner of the big city and slowly gets into the characters inner world through underground rave parties in the downtown to the wealthy houses in the uptown