Editor
En el Israel de nuestros días, un matrimonio con problemas recibe la noticia de que el hijo ha muerto en el frente. Tras el luto, la mala nueva se descubre que es falsa. Una confusión de nombres...
Editor
David is discharged from the army after serving for 27 years. He returns to his home and family after being distanced from them for years, and tries to find himself in his new civilian life. He believes that, like his friends who retired from the military before him, he too will find his way in some managerial position in the private sector, but he has difficulties adapting to the pace of the “new Israel”, a competitive culture obsessed with success and money.
Editor
The director embarks on a journey to reveal the story behind the legendary Café Nagler, owned by her family during the 1920s in Berlin, and finds that historical truths can be overrated.
Editor
Twelve-year-old Mussa won't speak and no one knows why. He is an African refugee living in Tel Aviv, and for the past five years he's been bussed from his troubled neighborhood to an upscale private school. Moussa's Israeli classmates are his best friends, but he chooses to communicate with them only through gestures.
Editor
Haifa on a sunny day. Moshe is a crumbling man walking up the Carmel Mountain on yet another work day. Will this day mark his collapse? Uri walks down the mountain to board a ship and leave behind all the things he loves and despises. His sense of belonging is losing ground. He is likely to miss his military reserve service-call, thus risking jail. Will the two collide or pass through one another? An existential comedy, where the overbearing mountain with its endless stairs takes control over destinies in this unique panorama of the Mediterranean port city.
Editor
Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their time pushing paper, battling for the top score in Minesweeper, and counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment—from friendship to love and country—are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit.
Editor
Film sobre el recientemente descubierto documental, rodado en 1945 por el director Alfred Hitchcock y Sidney Bernstein -que luego sería fundador de Granada Television-, sobre los campos de concentración nazis liberados por las fuerzas aliadas. Con imágenes de archivo rodadas entre otros por el ejército británico, soviético y norteamericano, un documento con el fin último de mostrar las evidencias de los terribles crímenes de los nazis en los campos de exterminio. A pesar del apoyo inicial al proyecto de los gobiernos de Estados Unidos e Inglaterra, el film fue archivado y olvidado hasta que, 70 años después, fue restaurado y completado por iniciativa del Museo Imperial War. Un documental dirigido por André Singer, productor ejecutivo del aclamado documental “The Act of Killing”.
Editor
Una reinterpretación en clave realista del cine de adolescentes, una profunda inmersión en la zona oscura del abuso sexual a través de la historia de Gili, una chica que para subir en la escala social empieza a citarse con los compañeros de su nuevo colegio. El primer largometraje de Jonathan Gurfinkel, un realizador en activo en el campo de la publicidad, el documental y la televisión desde 1994.
Editor
En junio de 1982, durante la primera guerra en Líbano, un tanque, tripulado por jóvenes inexpertos en el arte de la guerra, es enviado para una misión aparentemente sencilla. El grupo de chicos debe dirigirse hacia un poblado supuestamente diezmado por el ejercito y completar su tarea en poco tiempo. Repentinamente, los soldados se ven envueltos en una situación fuera de control, cuando la misión que les han asignado falla. Motivados por el miedo y el instinto de supervivencia, ellos tratan de salir del poblado donde viven una pesadilla a cualquier costo.
Editor
Una banda compuesta por miembros de la policía egipcia se dirige a Israel para tocar en la ceremonia inaugural de un centro de artes árabe, sólo para encontrarse perdidos en la ciudad equivocada.
A comic and episodic satire, the film uses improvisation to illustrate the clash between fantasy and reality in real life. Although conceived in the style of Mekas’ “Hallelujah the hills” (1962), it’s an authentically Israeli satire, an openly rebellious and individualistic expression that poked fun at the sacred myths of earlier zionist films. The technique of film within the film is used to portray cinema as reflection of the imagination, a miracle based on dreams and fantasies that take on concrete characteristics – parallel to the miracle of Israel, the dream that has become reality. Although not a commercial success, its importance is beyond any measure, though it remains a unique experiment, boldly uncommercial and subversive, out of any context in that patriotic, ideological epoch.
