Itai Tamir

An Israeli swimming tutor living in Chicago returns to Israel after 10 years of absence to bury his father. An encounter with a beloved childhood friend and his newly engaged girlfriend will set a series of events that will affect everyone's lives. A story set between a flower shop and an ancient monastery, between a swimming pool and the Mediterranean sea, between life and death - and somewhere in the middle.

Under a very strict military curfew Salah, a grieving father, sets out on the road to cross the Israeli border carrying his dead son Omar in a duffel bag. Miri, a pregnant single woman, decides to help him out at all costs while fending off the terrible heat.

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.

The film Announcements paints the portraits of seven women reflecting on the same theme. Their starting point is the announcement to Hagar, Sarah and Mary as in the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran. Their thoughts spread out and weave a new web, drawing strands from their associations and interpretations of these texts. And by talking about their own history, their personal myths, they work up to subjects such as the birth of image in the Christian world or that of poetry in ancient Greece. Announcements is a film about the movement of thought, the power of words, the secret of the voice, and the seduction of the image.

After being estranged from his Druze village and family for 17 years, Yoseph returns with his two Israeli, teenage children. His marriage to a Jewish Israeli woman has just ended and he plans to settle down there. His arrival causes friction inside the closed, conservative Druze community and also with his mother Afifa, who accepts him and his children as part of her family again.

1942 - Fritz and Emma are hiding Albert, a Jewish refugee, at their remote farm. Since their marriage has remained childless, Fritz asks Albert to sleep with Emma and conceive a child on his behalf.

Yaron é um policial do esquadrão de elite de combate ao terrorismo em Israel, uma arma comandada pelo governo para exterminar seus inimigos árabes. Guiado por um nacionalismo fanático, ele se orgulha de seu país, de sua tropa, e de seu papel na sociedade, que parece cada vez mais importante com a gravidez de sua esposa. Os rebeldes Nathanel e Shira, por sua vez, integram um grupo terrorista cujo plano é invadir o casamento da herdeira de um célebre bilionário. Yaron vai enfrentar o grupo de rebeldes, ficando cara a cara com uma questão inesperada: a luta de classes em seu país.

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.

Vasermil tells the story of three teenagers who live in the same tough neighborhood, growing up in an unforgiving environment, pinning their hopes on football as a way out. Shlomi lives with his widowed mother, little sister, and step-father and works as a pizza delivery boy. Adiel, of Ethiopian descent, has to look after his young brother and sick mother. Dima, a new immigrant from Russia, has a father who is unemployed and a mother who works as a cleaning lady. The three teens are recruited by the coach of the local football team. Learning to work together as a team is the key to success in the tournament and success in the tournament means getting noticed by the scouts of the local football empire. In order to win the tournament they will have to play as a team, overcome their differences, get over their sense of inferiority and prejudice.

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.

Michale is a thirty year old woman. She works with her father in a Tel Aviv accounting office providing services to important religious institutions. She divides her time between her child, her husband, her work and the man with whom she is having an affair. When Michale learns of the tragic death of her lover, her life is shattered.

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.

The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.

A look into the complex and contradictory personality of Yossef Nachmani, the man largely responsible for the first Zionist settlements in the Galilee. As director of the Jewish National Fund office in the Galilee, Nachmani acquired as much land from Arabs as possible to establish Jewish settlements upon it. The film focuses on events in Tiberius, Nachmani's hometown, a mixed community where Arabs and Jews coexisted harmoniously. Nachmani left behind a fascinating series of diaries that shed new light upon events in the Galilee during those years. Through these diaries, the film examines the critical early years of Zionism and the beginning of the Jewish-Arab conflict from his unique perspective. This provocative historical documentary is sure to become a significant document in the ongoing debate about the basic foundation myth of Israel.