Itai Tamir

An Israeli swimming tutor living in Chicago returns to Israel after 10 years of absence to bury his father. An encounter with a beloved childhood friend and his newly engaged girlfriend will set a series of events that will affect everyone's lives. A story set between a flower shop and an ancient monastery, between a swimming pool and the Mediterranean sea, between life and death - and somewhere in the middle.

Under a very strict military curfew Salah, a grieving father, sets out on the road to cross the Israeli border carrying his dead son Omar in a duffel bag. Miri, a pregnant single woman, decides to help him out at all costs while fending off the terrible heat.

En Berlín, Oren, un ingeniero constructor israelí que trabaja periódicamente en un gran proyecto, se encapricha del pastelero Thomas. El romance ni siquiera parece haber empezado propiamente cuando Thomas descubre que Oren ha muerto en un accidente de coche en Jerusalen. Thomas viaja allí sin saber exactamente qué es lo que está buscando. Sí halla, con todo, el café del que es propietaria la mujer de Oren, Anat, quien no tarda en ofrecerle un empleo de lo más básico, consistente en limpiar y fregar cacharros. Thomas no revela su talento hasta el cumpleaños del hijo de Anat, cuando decide preparar una sorpresa bajo la forma de una confección de pastas. Esto no acaba de sentar bien al religioso Motti, el hermano de Oren. A eso hay que sumar un hecho simple: Thomas es alemán, la comida que prepara un goy no es de conformidad con la ley judaica y un café en Jerusalem pierde clientes sin el certificado kosher.

The film Announcements paints the portraits of seven women reflecting on the same theme. Their starting point is the announcement to Hagar, Sarah and Mary as in the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran. Their thoughts spread out and weave a new web, drawing strands from their associations and interpretations of these texts. And by talking about their own history, their personal myths, they work up to subjects such as the birth of image in the Christian world or that of poetry in ancient Greece. Announcements is a film about the movement of thought, the power of words, the secret of the voice, and the seduction of the image.

After being estranged from his Druze village and family for 17 years, Yoseph returns with his two Israeli, teenage children. His marriage to a Jewish Israeli woman has just ended and he plans to settle down there. His arrival causes friction inside the closed, conservative Druze community and also with his mother Afifa, who accepts him and his children as part of her family again.

1942 - Fritz and Emma are hiding Albert, a Jewish refugee, at their remote farm. Since their marriage has remained childless, Fritz asks Albert to sleep with Emma and conceive a child on his behalf.

Yaron es un policia que pertenece a un grupo de elite de la unidad antiterrorista israeli. Los miembros de esta unidad son el arma con la que el Estado apunta a sus oponentes, el enemigo árabe. Yaron adora la unidad, la camaraderia masculina que reina en su seno, los cuerpos musculosos, la estetica de la misma. Tambien esta emocionado porque su esposa va a dar a luz; puede ser padre en cualquier momento. Pero un encuentro con un grupo tan violento como radical y extraordinario le enfrentará a la guerra de clases en Israel y a la guerra que se libra en su interior. (FILMAFFINIY)

Aaron, carnicero y pilar en la comunidad ortodoxa de Jerusalén, es respetado por amigos y familiares. Sin embargo, cuando contrata al apuesto estudiante Ezri para que lo ayude con su negocio, las tensiones sexuales se erizan y la pareja se embarca con cautela en una historia de amor. Mientras tanto, una comerciante vecina persiste en ver a un hombre de su elección, a pesar de que su padre la prometió a otro. A medida que las verdades prohibidas salen a la luz, estos amantes se ven obligados a confrontar o ceder frente a una comunidad religiosa centenaria, con resultados sorprendentes.

Vasermil tells the story of three teenagers who live in the same tough neighborhood, growing up in an unforgiving environment, pinning their hopes on football as a way out. Shlomi lives with his widowed mother, little sister, and step-father and works as a pizza delivery boy. Adiel, of Ethiopian descent, has to look after his young brother and sick mother. Dima, a new immigrant from Russia, has a father who is unemployed and a mother who works as a cleaning lady. The three teens are recruited by the coach of the local football team. Learning to work together as a team is the key to success in the tournament and success in the tournament means getting noticed by the scouts of the local football empire. In order to win the tournament they will have to play as a team, overcome their differences, get over their sense of inferiority and prejudice.

En 1984, miles de africanos procedentes de 26 países afectados por el hambre terminan en campamentos en Sudán. En una iniciativa de Israel y los Estados Unidos, se realiza una misión para llevar a miles de Judios de Etiopía a Israel. Una madre cristiana obliga a su hijo de nueve años a declararse un Judio para salvarle de la hambruna y la muerte. El niño llega a la Tierra Santa, dice que es huérfano, y es adoptado por una familia francesa sefardí de Tel Aviv, aunque crece con el temor de que se descubra su doble secreto: ni es Judio ni es huérfano, sólo es negro. Descubrirá el amor, la cultura occidental, el judaísmo, pero también el racismo y la guerra en los territorios ocupados.

Michale is a thirty year old woman. She works with her father in a Tel Aviv accounting office providing services to important religious institutions. She divides her time between her child, her husband, her work and the man with whom she is having an affair. When Michale learns of the tragic death of her lover, her life is shattered.

Or ("luz" en hebreo) es una joven de diecisiete años que vive con su madre Ruthie en Tel Aviv. Esta última es prostituta, pero no parece tener interés en cambiar de vida ni en asumir la más mínima responsabilidad, por lo que, para sobrevivir, Or debe emplearse en una serie de trabajos de poca monta, recolectar botellas vacías, y asistir esporádicamente a la preparatoria...

En Israel, durante tres días previos al Shabbat. Viviane está a punto de abandonar a Eliahu, su marido. Sus hermanos en cambio le intentan convencer que su puesto está al lado de su esposo y sus hijos.

A look into the complex and contradictory personality of Yossef Nachmani, the man largely responsible for the first Zionist settlements in the Galilee. As director of the Jewish National Fund office in the Galilee, Nachmani acquired as much land from Arabs as possible to establish Jewish settlements upon it. The film focuses on events in Tiberius, Nachmani's hometown, a mixed community where Arabs and Jews coexisted harmoniously. Nachmani left behind a fascinating series of diaries that shed new light upon events in the Galilee during those years. Through these diaries, the film examines the critical early years of Zionism and the beginning of the Jewish-Arab conflict from his unique perspective. This provocative historical documentary is sure to become a significant document in the ongoing debate about the basic foundation myth of Israel.