Rafi
Kamel, a Palestinian man in his 50s, suffers from autism and travels with his paralyzed sister to the Dead Sea to receive medical treatment in seawater in the hope that it will help him treat psoriasis that has spread through his body.
A miserable man, unhappy with his dull married life, descends into a world of dark hallucinations, and meets an entity that might give him a chance to experience pleasure.
Chico
A Mossad agent competes with a CIA agent in a war with a terrorist organization that threatens to blow up the world with cell phones. If they fail in their mission, the head of the Mossad will not be able to light a torch on Independence Day on live television, which is forbidden.
שף
The 40-year-old director Yoav was asked by the editor of “Cahiers du Cinéma” to write about the potency of a specific cinematographic image. Yoav recalls his first encounter with Pasolini’s Teorema, back when he was still a soldier in the Israeli army. Nadav Lapid has created an alter ego director. In just a few scenes, Lapid condenses the moments that have ultimately altered the director’s life. Lama? is an extremely personal film that tangibly illuminates the vast potential inherent in cinema.
The film tells the story of a sensitive and complex relationship between a mother and her ailing son. Like in Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale "The Loveliest Rose in the World" where a prince must search for a rose to save his mother, who is dying in bed, "Tied Hands" sees a reversal of roles as a desperate mother goes out to find marijuana, to ease her son's pain. In her, turbulent journey in the streets of Tel-Aviv, old truths from her past come back to life and threaten to break down a wall of denials behind which, she's been hiding all her life.
A soldier (Ami Smolartchik) is told by his girlfriend (Ravit Rozen) that he has impregnated her. She asks him to visit her. His commanders reject his request for an R&R vacation, so, he takes over a tank and threatens to launch a misslie straight into their office if his request is not granted.
Guy Baum
Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But suddenly he is forced to reexamine his life after a doctor tells him that he has an 'aggressive' brain tumor and will die in 90 minutes.