Assaf Amir

Películas

Blue Box
Producer
The Jewish National Fund's Blue Boxes were a global fundraiser to purchase land in Israel. Weaving a co-founder's diary entries with his descendants' memories, Blue Box investigates the myths that constructed a national icon.
W. - What remains of the lie
Producer
A documentary about a biography that covers an entire century: the delusion of Bruno Wilkomirski, who wrote a celebrated book about his childhood as a concentration camp victim and was later revealed. How this deception came about, how the person concerned reflects on it from the distance of almost 20 years and what it says about our country and our time.
Epilogue
Producer
Hayuta and Berl, an elderly couple, find it hard to adjust to today's Israel and to the social changes surrounding them. After years of struggle, the two refuse to let go of their communal dreams, and of their revolutionary plans to build a welfare state in Israel. During a night of painful disillusionment, the two decide to leave their apartment for a last journey.
Llenar el vacío
Producer
Primer largometraje profesional que realiza una mujer judía ortodoxa, La Esposa Prometida es una invitación a la vida privada de una familia que vive aislada en un movimiento religioso ortodoxo y místico dentro del judaísmo, en Tel Aviv, Israel. La historia muestra los deseos, aspiraciones y secretos de Shira, una joven próxima a contraer nupcias con el chico de sus sueños. La inesperada muerte de su hermana mayor al dar a luz, cambia radicalmente sus planes, pues su familia propone casarla con su cuñado viudo
The Cemetery Club
Producer
10 o'clock, Saturday morning. A group of elderly women and men carry plastic lawn chairs across the Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem. In the shade of an old pine tree, they sit down, in a circle and discuss matters sublime and elevated. For over two decades, the "Mt. Herzl Academy has held its weekly meeting at this cemetery. Seated between the graves of the nation's dignitaries, they debate the history of modern philosophy, read poetry, eat lunch and determine the fate of the Jewish nation. Director Tali Shemesh has been following the "Academy" for the last 5 years, focusing on two members: Minia, the director's grandmother, and Lena, her great aunt. The film unravels the jagged, intense, almost impossible relationship between these two extremely different women, who each bereaved of the man she loved remain bound together by history and Fate.
Broken Wings
Producer
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.