Alila (2003)

In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.

Uma série de assassinatos brutais coloca as vidas de três homens em rota de colisão: O pai da vítima mais recente agora em busca de vingança, um detetive da polícia que trabalha fora dos limites da lei, e o principal suspeito dos assassinatos - um professor de estudos religiosos preso e liberado devido a um erro técnico da polícia.

Paul é um veterano da Guerra do Vietnã. Mentalmente perturbado, ele passa o tempo circulando por Los Angeles, investigando pessoas que lhe pareçam suspeitas. Sem confiar no Governo, ele procura, desesperadamente, o novo terrorista que poderá causar uma tragédia igual à de 11 de setembro. Para isso, ele conta somente com a ajuda do mendigo Jimmy.

Mike Anderson, a tough American reporter on a dangerous foreign assignment, finds his own life in jeopardy when he uncovers a deadly labyrinth of political intrigue that threatens the lives of thousands. Dispatched to investigate a mysterious and fatal attack on an overseas US naval base, Anderson, a leading investigative journalist and ex-US marine, finds himself back on familiar ground. Instinct makes him question the official CIA explanation that cites an unknown terrorist group called Black October. Alone, and armed only with his combat training and determination to uncover the truth, he sets out to expose a complex and dangerous political web.

Yossi é um cardiologista que nunca superou a morte de Jagger, sua grande paixão. Apesar de assediado, ele vive solitário e tentando enganar sua melancolia com o vício no trabalho. Um dia, uma mulher misteriosa entra em seu consultório. Este encontro muda o rumo de sua vida e ele decide deixar Tel Aviv.

Nasri é um garoto de 13 anos de idade que enfrenta a passagem para a vida adulta de forma dramática quando seu tio fere imprudentemente um importante membro de um clã, deixando assim sua família exposta à vingança. Omar, irmão mais velho de Nasri, está decidido a salvar a todos. Ele aceita cometer um crime por dinheiro, mas vive o dilema de estar apaixonado por Hadir, justamente a filha do chefe. Num cenário no qual inimigos são todos vizinhos, as vidas desses personagens se entrecruzam em Ajami, um bairro israelense aonde judeus, muçulmanos e cristãos convivem lado a lado, ainda que as diferenças culturais sejam explícitas.

Nos primeiros doze minutos do filme é recheado de cenas sensuais. Como num ritual, o dançarino Boaz aparece algumas vezes levando um homem a cada noite para seu apartamento. Toda manhã, depois que seu companheiro vai embora o rapaz se alonga, toma uma ducha e vai trabalhar.Três anos depois, o foco da trama não é Boaz, mas sim Omer , um jovem bibliotecário gay, que está sempre em busca de um amor e próximo de fazer 30 anos.

Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn't speak any Hebrew (she communicates mainly in English), and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.

Um pai solteiro de meia-idade lida com o desejo de sua filha adolescente de acabar com sua vida.

Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a special bond with the two giraffes in the zoo. He seems to be the only one to communicate with them. After an air raid in the region the male giraffe dies. His mate, Rita, won’t survive unless the veterinarian finds her a new companion. The only zoo that might provide this animal is located in Tel Aviv ...

A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, grating song about "amour." Realizing that Anat is distraught over the crisis in her marriage, they decide to compose a song to cheer her up. As a lark, they enters their cellphone video of it in next year's contest, and it becomes Israel's entry.

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She's just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Or's emotions roil further when the mother of the youth she's in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Or's choices narrow.

Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse, finds out that her lover, Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army has been reporting on their relationship. Yasmine's sister arrives for a visit from the West Bank, not knowing that she is going to meet the occupying enemy at her own sister's house.

The flat on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv was where my grandparents lived since they immigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. Were it not for the view from the windows, one might have thought that the flat was in Berlin. When my grandmother passed away at the age of 98 we were called to the flat to clear out what was left. Objects, pictures, letters and documents awaited us, revealing traces of a troubled and unknown past. The film begins with the emptying out of a flat and develops into a riveting adventure, involving unexpected national interests, a friendship that crosses enemy lines, and deeply repressed family emotions. And even reveals some secrets that should have probably remained untold...

A party in Tel Aviv, Israel. Danny is looking for Max to share that she is pregnant with his child; but Max has just started a new relationship with Avishag whose rough sexual fantasy he is trying to make come true.

Life in a Tel Aviv apartment complex, an urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover Hezi—who's older, balding and married—rent a room to have an affair, while Ezra, a pot bellied divorcee, supervises an illegal construction site next door. All this racket drives Schwartz, a Holocaust survivor, to a mental breakdown. Other characters include illegal Chinese immigrants, a teenage boy who's afraid to serve in the army, and a corrupt police detective.

Through a mosaic of stories intertwined and created a current picture of the sad social and economic situation in Israel. Mother forced into prostitution to support her son; Blind man must survive after loosing his dog; Son is looking for his rocker father's; Apartment owner complicates his life while entering the underworld...

The architects' plans for Central Bus Station to swallow visitors has turned into an endless maze of corridors. Once a gift to the citizens of Tel Aviv now serves to the immigrants. Yonathan has been a guide there for 17 years and is able to show the other side of the station's significance to those who walk with him. Yonathan knows that the purpose of going down to the building is to find not only himself, but also a society that harbours its values, protects its original traditions and wants to defend its home.

The ageless man walks in the apocalyptic streets of Tel Aviv. In the eyes of two restless teenagers he finds his lost youth. They will tease him, they will seduce him, they will surrender.

An existential comedy about a neurotic film director whose fears of failure, death and losing control all surface on the night his new film is released - a hysterical unforgettable night at least for him his band of eccentric friends.