Alon Abutbul

Alon Abutbul

Nascimento : 1965-05-28, Kiryat Ata, Israel

História

Alon Abutbul is an actor and director.

Perfil

Alon Abutbul

Filmes

Lansky
Yoram Alroy
David Stone (Sam Worthington), um escritor renomado, embora um pouco em decadência, tem a oportunidade de sua vida quando recebe um telefonema surpresa de Meyer Lansky (Harvey Keitel, indicado ao Oscar). Há décadas as autoridades tentam localizar a suposta fortuna de nove dígitos de Lansky e esta é a última chance de capturar o gângster idoso antes que ele morra. Com o FBI em sua cola, o padrinho do crime organizado revela a verdade não contada sobre sua vida como o notório chefe da Murder Inc. e do Sindicato Nacional do Crime.
The Bells are Ringing for Ahuva Ozeri
Self (Archive Footage)
In 1999, after a 23-year absence, gifted musician Ahuva Ozeri is planning a comeback. She's recording a new album - The Bells are Ringing. Ahuva, considered the queen of the Middle Eastern music, sits at home and makes a living as a cook at a meat restaurant. She hopes to break out again with the new album. But at the end of the recording, she is diagnosed with throat cancer and undergoes surgery where her vocal cords are cut. She loses her voice forever, but the album is very successful. It managed to cross audiences and becomes a consensus. This film is based on rare never before-seen materials, sketching her life's course.
Forgiveness
The days are wartime in southern Israel. It is the beginning of the Jewish year, according to Jewish religious law, ten days of repentance are the days of asking forgiveness. Nissan an Orthodox Jew, feels that he will not be able to continue his life unless he receives forgiveness from his friend Shaul.
Peaches & Cream
Uzi
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.
King Bibi
Narrator (voice)
Twenty years before the spectacle of Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu already understood the political benefits of a toxic relationship with the media, and direct communication with the public. King Bibi explores Netanyahu's rise to power, relying solely on archival footage of his media performances over the years: from his days as a popular guest expert on American TV, through his public confession of adultery, and his mastery of the art of social media. From one studio to another, "Bibi" evolved from Israel's great political hope, to a controversial figure whom some perceive as Israel's savior, and others - as a cynical politician who will stop at nothing to retain his power.
Noble Savage
Yom Tov
Eli is a teenager struggling with an eating disorder, and every aspect of his life is on the brink of disaster. He lives in a seedy neighborhood in Southern Tel Aviv with his mother and her new husband, two ex-junkies, while his alcoholic father is an unemployed artist and street philosopher. Eli's desperate efforts to unite his family spin out of control, when a minor family dispute erupts into a cataclysmic tragedy.
Beirute
Roni Niv
Um diplomata americano foge do Líbano em 1972 depois de um trágico acidente em sua casa. Dez anos depois, ele é chamado de volta para a cidade de Beirute para negociar a vida de um amigo que deixou para trás.
Boyka: O Imbatível
Zourab
No quarto capítulo da franquia de luta, Boyka está atirando para as grandes ligas quando uma morte acidental no ringue faz dele questionar tudo o que ele representa. Quando ele descobre que a esposa do homem que ele matou acidentalmente está em apuros, Boyka oferece para lutar em uma série de batalhas impossíveis para libertá-la de uma vida de servidão.
Harmonia
Sarah, a morose harpist in the Jerusalem Philharmonic Orchestra, is married to Abraham, the charismatic conductor of the group. They have no children. When Hagar, a young horn player from East Jerusalem joins the Orchestra, Sarah's world erupts. A unique friendship evolves between the two women. Hagar, feeling Sarah’s pain from not having children, offers to have a baby for Sarah. Ismail, born to Hagar and Abraham, is a wild and gifted pianist whom Sarah raises as her own. When Ismail discovers the true identity of his mother, his world – and that of those around him – falls apart. Harmonia maintains the unique essence of the biblical story from Genesis and adds a personal and human perspective.
Invasão a Londres
Aamir Barkawi
O primeiro-ministro britânico morre sob circunstâncias misteriosas, e o funeral atrai todos os líderes do mundo ocidental. O agente secreto Mike Banning descobre uma conspiração para assassinar todos os líderes mundiais presentes.
Setembro em Shiraz
Mohsen
Uma família judia é pega pela Revolução Islâmica em 1979, no Irã. Agora, eles terão de sobreviver a uma heroica jornada para superar e tentar escapar da tirania que invadiu o país e ameaça extinguir suas vidas.
Is That You?
Ronnie
IS THAT YOU? Is the story of RONNIE, 60 year old Israeli film projectionist, who has been fired from his job and is going now to the U.S. in a search for RACHEL, the love of his youth IS THAT YOU? Is a romantic, road trip journey to 'The Road Not Taken' in life created by Award Winning filmmaker Dani Menkin (HBO Cinemax-39 Pounds of Love, Je Taime, I Love You Terminal, Dolphin Boy).
She's Coming Home
Zeev
At the end of a lengthy relationship, Michal, 33, returns to her parents' small, cramped apartment in Herzliya, a sleepy, bourgeois suburb. Michal is a young, promising director, who should be devoting her time to writing a screenplay, but instead shuts herself up in her room, frustrated, and spends most of her time sleeping. Things change when Michal meets Zeev - the principal of the local high school, a 50 year old married man, and falls in love. The forbidden passion and stormy emotions that develop between Michal and Zeev reminiscent of first love. Unaware, Michal becomes a teenager all over again. But this time, contrary to her earlier adolescence, Michal rebels. The apartment, too small to contain two parents and a 30 year old teenager, is transformed into a pressure cooker teeming with conflict. Can Michal commit, give her all and fulfill her love and passion? Or is she too attached to the fantasy youth that she has created to break away? Perhaps she is just too busy rebelling?
A Place in Heaven
A young officer returns to his base after a daring mission. The cook's assistant, a religious Holocaust survivor, is envious of him. He believes that there is a place in heaven reserved for the brave officer who endangers his life for the sake of his Jewish brethren. The officer, in the spirit of the Zionist ethos, is secular and a non-believer. At the moment, he is so hungry that, for a plate of shaksuka, he is prepared to sign a contract transferring his secured place in heaven to the cook. Some forty years later, the present time of the movie, the tables have turned - the officer, now a retired general, is on his death bed in the hospital. His son who, to his father's horror, has found religion, is in a race against time. Before his father dies, he has to find that cook's assistant who, forty years earlier, bought his place in heaven. If and when he finds him, the son has to nullify the contract. If he doesn't, his father will go to hell.
O Cavaleiro das Trevas Renasce
Leonid Pavel
Passaram-se oito anos desde que Batman desapareceu na noite tornando-se, nesse momento, de herói a fugitivo. Assumindo a culpa pela morte de Harvey Dent, o Cavaleiro das Trevas sacrificou tudo o que para ele e para o Comissário Gordon era um bem maior. Por um momento a mentira funcionou, pois a atividade criminosa em Gotham City foi destruída graças à Lei anticrime de Dent. Mas tudo muda com a chegada de uma gata silenciosa e astuta, com propósitos misteriosos. Muito mais perigoso, no entanto, é o aparecimento de Bane, um terrorista mascarado cujos planos implacáveis para Gotham City vão fazer Bruce sair do seu autoimposto exílio. Mas mesmo a usar a sua máscara e capa novamente, Batman pode não estar à altura de Bane.
The Dealers
Sagi
The Dealers tells the story of Rami and Avishay, 27 years old friends that share an apartment in a small Jerusalem neighborhood. They spend their days smoking and playing in a soccer team with other losers, which its coach Zvika is determined to take the "Jerusalem neighborhood cup" with. In need for money they get entangled in a drug deal with Sagi, a local gangster, which forces them to learn the hard way about taking responsibility, loyalty, and friendship. The movie is a humorous view of the colorful, multi culture, unique and somehow funny Israeli society.
Out of the Blue
Shabtai
A working-class guy meets the beautiful model from the billboard. But a few more people are involved. Here, the guy is married and his daughter has a crush on the weatherman. The weatherman wants to marry the cosmetics queen from the billboards. The cosmetics queen kind of likes the guy's sidekick. The sidekick kind of likes the guy's daughter, although she's in high school and the age difference would raise anyone's eyebrows.
Rede de Mentiras
Al-Saleem
Roger Ferris trabalha para o serviço secreto dos Estados Unidos, realizando serviços em locais perigosos ao redor do planeta. Seu principal contato na CIA é o veterano Ed Hoffman, que costuma realizar seu serviço usando o laptop e o telefone. Hoffman está agora no encalço de um líder terrorista, que planejou a explosão de uma série de bombas. Para desmascará-lo Ferris precisará se embrenhar em um mundo pouco conhecido, onde percebe cada vez mais que a confiança é, ao mesmo tempo, perigosa e o único meio de sair vivo da situação.
Bruriah
A story of Bruriah from Talmud is shown as in present time...
The Seven Days
Itamar
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large family with a lot of problems and conflicts between them.
Only Dogs Run Free
A successful lawyer, who has traumatic memories from his army service, is testifying against his best friend from his unit. His wife, a social-worker, is trying to save a poor family named Siton. The couple's life collapses when the wife get raped by a gang.
Noodle
Izzy Sason
At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching comic-drama in which two human beings -- as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing -- accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.
Beaufort
Brigadier-General Kimchi, division commander
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.
The Belly Dancer
Goldy
Debbie, a young belly dancer, her dangerous yet charming lover, a criminal, and a dance club owner tell the story about love and crimes, friendship and betrayal.
Kululush
Roni Amram
he film tells the story of two brothers from a poor neighbourhood in Tel Aviv where almost all the residents are of Iraqi descent. Avi lives with his domineering and manipulative grandmother. The return of Roni, Avi's elder brother from Europe, awakens old demons as Roni, a compulsive gambler, stakes all on the football games of Avi's beloved team, Bnei Yehuda. Avi has to choose whether to remain pure and risk losing everything, or sully his hands in order to save his world. A charming and at times hilarious look at the Mizrahi subculture of soccer-worship.
Nina's Tragedies
The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and lows.
Adjusting Sights
A Irmandade
Avram
Quando seu pai arqueólogo, que está escrevendo um livro sobre uma seita secreta formada durante as Cruzadas chamada A Irmandade, desaparece, o espião e especialista em artefatos Rudy Cafmeyer vai atrás dele em Israel. Depois que o Professor Finley, amigo de seu pai de longa data, é assassinado, Rudy escapa dos mais variados personagens que o está perseguindo com a ajuda da bela policial israelense Dalia.
Clean Sweep
Reuven Shechter
A stylish Israeli crime comedy, Mars Turkey tells the story of Reuven, a police captain in charge of protecting Shimon, the last remaining witness in a trial against crime-lord Patrick Sarusi. Seeing as how Patrick has managed to get to all the other witnesses, Reuven is so desperate to keep Shimon alive that he assigns himself to watch-duty, with the intention of never letting Shimon out of his sight. But as the trial draws near, events start spinning out of control when, in an act of desperation, Reuven sends his sexually frustrated mistress, Aya, to plant a bug in Patrick's apartment. Encouraged by Patrick's neighbor, Aya decides to confront Reuven about his sexual inadequacy and his vain promises to her about leaving his wife, just as Patrick slips out of house-arrest. Will Reuven be able to keep his mind on the job while his love life melts down in front of his eyes?
Love at Second Sight
Renowned Israeli filmmaker and actress Michal Bat-Adam produced, wrote, and directed this intriguing tale of romantic obsession in present-day Tel Aviv. The beautiful Michal Zuaratz stars as a young female photographer infatuated with a stranger whose image she accidentally captures on film.
Gentila
Shoshana
A drama about four malcontent and oddly matched characters on a three-day journey. Each an outcast: Gadi, a petty criminal on parole seeking to make his way back into mainstream society; Yitzhak, his pensive, naive, and serious younger brother; Shoshana, a serious criminal who insists on tormenting the group; and a young, pregnant, Russian immigrant who has left her husband an meets up with the other three in a coffee shop. The characters together define their obvious marginalization from society and their search for individual dignity.
Short Stories About Love
Israeli short films mini-series.
Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon
Aris
In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned by the inquisition and is charged with heresy.
Planet Blue
Mulli
A hilarious fantasy about "an almost normal guy who almost reached the blue planet," this 1995 cult classic drew sell-out crowds to Israeli movie houses for over six years. It's a cosmic comedy will take you through the wild beyond on an amazing journey to a thoroughly unexpected place!
Passover Fever
נתנאל
On the evening of Passover dinner holiday ,a family gathering reveals the delicate relationships between parents, brothers,sisters, husbands and wives. Secrets and lies force them to understand how fragile everything is.
Resgate Implacável
Patrick
Ex-Navy SEAL Brad Cartowski is injured during an attack at Athens airport by terrorists who kidnap his wife and fly her on a hijacked plane to North Africa. Cartowski goes in pursuit, aided by another ex-SEAL, Cody Grant. Cartowski soon finds the terrorists' hide-out but is captured and electro-tortured before he manages to escape. He soon returns with reinforcements to rescue his wife and to wreak vengeance on Carlos, head of the terrorist ring.
הירושה
מיגל
Sequestro em Beirute
Abdel
A young Marine is kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon. His twin brother, frustrated at his inability to get any kind of information from the government about his brother's plight, travels to Lebanon with a plan for his own rescue operation.
The Cage
Directed by Amit Goren.
Streets of Yesterday
Amin Khalidi
This is a story of a relationship between three men: Amin, a Palestinian nationalist; Joseph, an Israeli peacenik; and Colonel Shalit, a right-wing Israeli intelligence officer.
One of Us
Yotam
A few Palestinian guerilla's break into an Israeli camp in the occupied territories. They kill a few Israeli soldiers before they are killed, apart from one who dies in the camp after being captured alive. The Israeli military dispatch an investigator to the camp to see if there was cold blooded murder (people at the camp had claimed he was shot while trying to escape). It turns out that the investigator dispatched is a friend of the camp commander - the rest of the plot is basically about the position of both of these characters as regards being honest or faithful to ones friends. There is unbearable tension, increased by the fact that they are both very strongly attracted to one of the female soldiers on the camp.
A Place by the Sea
A former prostitute and her reformed convict boyfriend try to make a new start in life. They begin to refurbish a derelict building close to the sea, but people from their past come back to haunt them.
Rambo III
Nissem
O companheiro e superior de John Rambo no Vietnã, o Coronel Samuel Trautman, foi designado para liderar uma missão na qual irá ajudar os rebeldes de Mujahedeen contra os soldados soviéticos que invadiram o Afeganistão. Durante a missão, Trautman é capturado e torturado pelo comandante russo Zaysen. A tensão e a adrenalina aumentam quando Rambo, ajudado por seus aliados rebeldes, botam em prática um plano para resgatar o coronel das mãos do inimigo.
Prom Queen
Enrike, a young Israeli boarding-school student, falls in love with Malka, the most popular girl in his class. Malka tires of their relationship and takes up with Shalom, Enrike's best friend.
Ricochets
Georgie
The story of a platoon of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon of 1986, shortly before Israeli withdrawal, and the dilemmas they face in having to fight against Lebanese guerilla in a hostile but civilian area.
Bar 51
After the death of their mother, Thomas and his sister Mariana leave their hometown for a brighter future in the city. They become patrons of a marginal bar in Tel Aviv, Bar 51, whose regulars serve as a backdrop for Thomas’s obsessive love for his sister, and her desire to break free and make a life of her own.
Morning Star
A story about a young fisherman Avi who doesn't lose his optimism even during the most difficult times.
A Speck on the Eyelash
Husband
Can Fear be a self fulfilling prophecy? A husband, a wife and their best friend return from a ski vacation. The husband suspects that his wife has fallen in love with the friend. He confronts his friend rather than his wife. The friend dismisses the accusation. Is he lying? and if not, how will these doubts affect him, and will he view the wife differently from now on? And the wife: Is she indeed in love? if so, will she do something about it? If not, will she sense the suspicions around her? could she not? And the husband: should he discover that he was wrong, would he be able to stop that which he had begun with mere words? An anxiety that settled in the mind of one, takes over his life and rocks the lives of two