The Gate of the Sun (2004)

An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- to make his dreams come true.

ミュンヘン・オリンピックの最中、イスラエル選手団が何者かに襲われた。イスラエル側はテロリストの犯行とみなし、復讐を計画する。暗殺チームのリーダーに任命されたアヴナーは、11人の標的を次々に消していくが……。＜スティーヴン・スピルバーグ監督が、1972年のミュンヘン・オリンピックで実際に起きた事件の真相を、事件に関わった人々のコメントや、史実に基づいて映画化した衝撃の問題作。主演にエリック・バナやダニエル・クレイグら実力派俳優が名を連ねるほか、製作陣にはピューリツァー賞やオスカー受賞者などが顔を揃え、作品の質を高めている。国家への忠誠心や家族への愛を描きつつ、世界平和の真意を問うストーリー展開が見事。＞

タイベリアス皇帝治下のローマ。キリストを処刑したローマの護民官マーセラスは、その後良心の呵責から恐怖に脅え、深い苦しみに溺れる。が、かつて奴隷として使いキリスト処刑後、姿を消したギリシア人デメテリオの導きにより神の心に触れ、宣教を志すようになる。

1976年6月27日、イスラエルからフランスへ向けて飛び立った民間旅客機を、武装した4人の男女がハイジャックする非常事態が発生。4人のうちの2人は、パレスチナ解放人民戦線のメンバー。残る2人は、彼らのシンパであるドイツ極左組織のメンバー、ヴィルフリードとブリギッテ。彼らは、エンテベ空港に旅客機を緊急着陸させると、大勢の乗客乗員を人質に取り、イスラエル政府に対して厳しい政治的要求を突きつける。

イスラエル人監督、アリ・フォルマンが自らの戦争体験を描き、2009年のアカデミー賞で外国語映画賞に選出されたドキュメンタリーアニメ。アリは旧友と再会を果たすが、会話の途中でふと自分の記憶が一時期だけ抜け落ちていることに気付き…。

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse... Lighthorseman Frank is wounded in a skirmish with Bedouin. He is replaced by a young soldier, Dave, who proves to be a crack shot, but reluctant to fire at the enemy. Dave proves himself during a German biplane attack. Recuperating in hospital, he meets a sympathetic nurse, Anne... The regiment is called upon for a bold flanking attack on Beersheba. But how do you convince the Turks the main attack will come at Gaza? And how do you attack across a desert without water?

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?

Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.

An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.

Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he becomes the peaceful archivist of an escalating struggle as olive trees are bulldozed, lives are lost, and a wall is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli settlements.

A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.

Documentarians Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg traveled to Israel to interview Palestinian and Israeli kids ages 11 to 13, assembling their views on living in a society afflicted with violence, separatism and religious and political extremism. This 2002 Oscar nominee for Best Feature Documentary culminates in an astonishing day in which two Israeli children meet Palestinian youngsters at a refugee camp.

Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.

An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.

Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, but separated by the wall. Their unusual living situation is starting to affect their otherwise happy marriage, but the couple does what they can to make it work. Every night, Mustafa flashes a light from his balcony to wish his children on the other side a goodnight, and they signal him back. One day Mustafa gets a call that every parent dreads: his son has been in an accident. He rushes to the checkpoint where he must agonisingly wait in line only to find out there is a problem with his fingerprints and is denied entry. Desperate, Mustafa resorts to hiring a smuggler to bring him across. His once 200-meter journey becomes a 200-kilometer odyssey joined by other travellers determined to cross.

Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.