Rivka Michaeli

Seven years after his death, Motti Kirschenbaum’s eldest son Canaan decids to open the great archive left behind by his father. The archive clips, old films and photos paint a picture of one of the most important and busy television producers in Israel. The son traces Motti’s long career, along the way he meets journalists and actors who worked with Kirschenbaum over the years and reveals the lesser-known sides of his personality, his function as a spouse, father and friend.

Israeli cultural icon Rivka Michaeli travels to America. Between the US where her family put down roots and the homeland she loves and hurts for – Rivka is walking a thin line, trying to find balance and hope within.

Las aventuras y desventuras de un amor que traspasa fronteras, culturas y prejuicios son las protagonistas de esta tierna y divertida comedia germanoisraelí en la que dos mujeres de la misma familia, pero de dos generaciones diferentes, tienen que enfrentarse a todo tipo de obstáculos para defender el amor por sus parejas.Una de ellas es Shira, una alocada joven israelí que decide presentarle a su familia, a la que está muy unida, a su novia María. La otra es la abuela de Shira, una mujer de ideas tan abiertas como para tener un novio palestino... pero no para aceptar que su nieta sea lesbiana.

Nearly a decade after he passed, the daughter of one of Israel's most celebrated performers, Aric Lavie, sets out in search of the secret he tried to hide his whole life. His childhood and escape from ww2 Germany alone as a child. With her mother and sister they set out to Berlin in search of answers no one can really ever answer rather realise that love saved him and them throughout his life.

Adventure, comic and musical film about a group of children following a treasure map for a summer camp to save their beloved library that is about to be destroyed.

En las sesiones con su terapeuta, Yvan comparte historias sobre antisemitismo y cómo es la vida de un judío en la Francia actual.

Five short movies, linked by an animation, inspired by the life and work of Amos Guttman, the director from Transylvania who was a pioneer in Israeli gay cinema and died from AIDS in 1993. Produced by Tel Aviv Film Festival, it is a mixture of different styles and genres and is directed by six film-makers. In the last moving episode Kati Guttman celebrates his son, who passed away twenty years ago, and also recalls for the first time his own deportation to the Nazi death camps.

Una serie de brutales asesinatos provocan la inestabilidad en un pueblo alejado de la metrópoli. Estos duros acontecimientos provocarán que la vida de tres hombres quede entrelazada entre sí para siempre. El padre de la primera víctima cuya sed de venganza es insostenible viendo la ineficacia policial a la hora de resolver el caso, un detective de policía que a la hora de resolver un conflicto decide actuar en el margen de la ley y un profesor de religión, máximo sospechoso de los asesinatos debido a su relación directa con las víctimas, es detenido aunque al final es liberado debido a una negligencia policial.

Doctor Yoel Pomerantz is a washed-up, self-loathing psychologist who lives on the 12th floor of a high-rise with his Aspberger's son, Yoav, who spends his days pretending to be a traffic cop and proudly giving out parking tickets. Dr. Pomerantz sees a few patients a week, barely enough to keep he and Yoav in ramen noodles and with a roof over their heads. In addition, he works shifts at a suicide hotline. When he gets desperate financially, he recruits hotline callers to see him privately, which is discovered and results in his getting unceremoniously fired.

Naomi, la estudiosa hija de un importante y devoto rabino, convence a su padre para posponer su matrimonio un año con el fin de ir a Safed, una de las cuatro ciudades santas de Israel, a hacer un curso de mística judía. La mentalidad de Naomi experimenta un cambio radical cuando se hace amiga de Michelle, una estudiante de espíritu libre. Cuando las amigas conocen a Anouk, una frágil extranjera con un inquietante pasado, emprenden un arriesgado viaje al reino de lo prohibido.

Michael Klienhouse (Gal Zaid) es el típico vecino modélico, casado y con un hijo. Un día, en la mañana del Día del Holocausto, Michael choca con el coche de Dreyfus (Asher Tsarfati). Tamar (Keren Mor), la mujer de Michael, le hace un gesto obsceno a Dreyfus y éste acelera su vehículo y choca contra la puerta abierta del de Michael, estando a punto de golpear a Tamar.

Joy Levine lives in an old apartment that, in complete contrast to her, is shabby and worn-out on the outside while well-kept and filled with joy on the inside. Her life changes when she auditions for a TV show called "Gotta Be Happy". To her astonishment, she is chosen, and her mission is to throw a surprise party for her parents on the upcoming show. However, there is a price to pay for all this: she has to let the viewers into her private inner world and share with them an event that has been overshadowing her family's life and hers for the past 22 years; an event that made a tight-knit bunch of friends shun her parents, Chaya and Yitzhak Levine.

From 1977 to his untimely death in 1993, Amos Guttman directed six films, all of them deeply personal reflections of his own life. Interviews with lovers, family and friends--including some of the most important people in Israeli cinema--tell the gripping story of a strikingly handsome, charismatic and deeply passionate gay man who has become a revered cult figure in Israeli cinema.Interviews with the late filmmaker and fascinating footage of him on the set convey the same passion that comes through in scenes from his films, lovingly selected by documentarian Ran Kotzer. Like Fellini, Guttman transformed his dreams and everyday conversations with friends and family into integral parts of his pictures. He is most remarkable for his striking and original use of the frame. Every shot is a treasure. Amos Guttman dared to portray subjects that were taboo in his society, and his search for the right of individual expression is the connecting link of his works.

Two sisters have lost their father during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. When they learn that there are chances he might be still alive, they travel to Turkey to search for him.

A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as a musician in New York: Thomas is ill, detached, in search of hard drugs. Jonathan tries to connect with him. Meanwhile, Thomas's grandmother, facing old age, has become bitter, particularly toward her hard-working daughter. They worry about Thomas. A few blocks away, Jonathan's mother, brother and sister maintain their sometimes bickering relationships, watching Jonathan brave adulthood.

A comedy about a postal worker Samson who suddenly discovered his talent for basketball.

A movie about a last summer in the life of four friends just before they go to the army during early 1980's Tel-Aviv summer before the war in Lebanon.

A hotel porter, who a long time ago divorced his wife and his daughter with her in America, is alarmed when a beautiful girl arrives at his hotel looking for her supposedly rich father. The porter had been sending back money and describing himself as a well-to-do businessman. With the help of his hotel friends, he becomes the guest of honor and takes her on a tour of Israel, all the time trying to avoid revealing his true work.

A funny romantic comedy about the 25 years of marriage of the couple Zion and Ziona who emigrated to Israel from Yemen.

The story of Salomonico who works in the Tel Aviv Port and tries to defend his house and his life.