Zohar Shtrauss
Nascimento : 1972-03-04, חיפה, ישראל
אורן קלירס
John
A história de uma das figuras mais enigmáticas e incompreendidas da história bíblica: Maria Madalena (Rooney Mara). Em busca de uma nova maneira de viver, contrariando a sociedade, sua familia tradicional e o machismo de alguns apóstolos, a jovem junta-se a Jesus de Nazaré (Joaquin Phoenix) em sua incansável missão de propagar a fé.
Moti
Thomas, um jovem confeiteiro alemão, tem um caso com Oren, um israelense casado que vai a Berlim à negócios com frequência. Quando Oren morre em um acidente de carro, Thomas viaja para Jerusalém buscando respostas sobre o amante. Sob uma identidade falsa, Thomas conhece Anat, a viúva de Oren, que é dona de um café na cidade. Aos poucos, o alemão começa a se envolver na vida dela, arrumando um trabalho no café e criando bolos e biscoitos para dar mais vida ao estabelecimento.
Alouette, a raunchy short musical from Israel about love in the psychiatric ward, depicts the story of Ido, a young psychology trainee, and his complicated relationship with one of the patients, The eccentric widower Eliezer, who is in love with Alouette, a magical singing bird.
Two girls from nuclear towns in Israel and Iran spill their countries most valuable secrets on Facebook while trying to prevent a nuclear crisis.
Rabin Zygmunt
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth…
(ep. "The Book of Amos")
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.
Yehuda Kofinas
An elderly Israeli Jew of Greek origins was sent to Greece to represent his town in a town twinning ceremony, however he went instead to search for his friend from the childhood, who saved him from the Holocaust. In meantime he formed a special relationship with young Greek woman, and dealt with the broken relationship with his devout Hasidic son.
Arresting Policeman
Em 1948, Hind Husseini transforma a casa do pai em um orfanato e escola para crianças palestinas. Anos mais tarde, uma adolescente chamada Miral, que cresceu no seio pacífico do instituto, vai para um campo de refugiados trabalhar como professora. Lá, ela se apaixona por um ativista político.
Elinor's Husband
Num prédio antigo no lado errado das ruas, Galia e Eleanor dividem duas coisas: uma parede e uma necessidade de fuga. Galia é uma assassina, forçada contra a sua vontade, a matar para a máfia. Ela anseia por sua liberdade e de voltar a ter a sua filha, que ela deixou na Rússia. Eleanor trabalha na caixa de um mercado, cujo sonho é ganhar na loteria e fugir de seu marido violento. As duas mulheres se unem para agir contra os seus opressores numa luta cheia de ação para a sobrevivência e liberdade.
Gamil
During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
Aaron Fleischman
Aaron, um pilar da comunidade ortodoxa de Jerusalém, é respeitado por amigos e familiares. No entanto, quando ele contrata o bonito aluno fugitivo Ezri para ajudá-lo com seus negócios, as tensões sexuais se agitam e o casal embarca cautelosamente em um caso de amor. Enquanto isso, um comerciante vizinho persiste em ver um homem de sua própria escolha, mesmo que ela tenha sido prometida por seu pai a outro. À medida que as verdades proibidas vêm à tona, esses amantes são forçados a confrontar ou ceder diante de uma comunidade religiosa de séculos de idade, com resultados surpreendentes.
Uma história de amor lindamente afetante que mereceu comparações com Brokeback Mountain, o conto potente e impecavelmente contido de Haim Tabakman ganhou prêmios e elogios em festivais de cinema em todo o mundo.
BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop.
Amit
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own family: his wife, a long suppressed artist whose life's dream is fulfilled that same week; his twenty-seven-year-old son - a "philosopher" still living at home; and his twenty-five-year-old daughter - a tormented lesbian who has had no contact with her family for a long time. Itzhak doesn't realize, though, that his ten year old daughter, Didush, neglected and almost invisible to her family, is secretly visiting her grandfather whom she has never met previously and sets out to discover the old family secret.