Rivka Michaeli

Seven years after his death, Motti Kirschenbaum’s eldest son Canaan decids to open the great archive left behind by his father. The archive clips, old films and photos paint a picture of one of the most important and busy television producers in Israel. The son traces Motti’s long career, along the way he meets journalists and actors who worked with Kirschenbaum over the years and reveals the lesser-known sides of his personality, his function as a spouse, father and friend.

Israeli cultural icon Rivka Michaeli travels to America. Between the US where her family put down roots and the homeland she loves and hurts for – Rivka is walking a thin line, trying to find balance and hope within.

Немка Мария прилетает из Берлина к своей возлюбленной Шире, живущей в Тель-Авиве. Девушки знакомы не так много времени, но уже готовы пожениться. Их романтический настрой разбивается о предрассудки, которыми оказываются полны их семьи. Бабушка Ширы, пережившая Холокост, выступает против немецких корней Марии. Ее остроумные и саркастичные комментарии заставляют Ширу засомневаться в том, правильно ли она поступает, связывая свою жизнь с Марией.

Спустя почти десять лет после смерти Арика Лави, одного из самых известных израильских артистов, его дочь пытается разгадать секрет, который он скрывал всю жизнь. Его детство и то, как он ребенком в одиночку бежал из Германии во время Второй мировой войны. Вместе с матерью и сестрой режиссер отправляется в Берлин в поисках ответов, которые никто не может дать, и вместо этого понимает, что всю жизнь Лави и его семью спасала любовь.

Adventure, comic and musical film about a group of children following a treasure map for a summer camp to save their beloved library that is about to be destroyed.

Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust.

Five short movies, linked by an animation, inspired by the life and work of Amos Guttman, the director from Transylvania who was a pioneer in Israeli gay cinema and died from AIDS in 1993. Produced by Tel Aviv Film Festival, it is a mixture of different styles and genres and is directed by six film-makers. In the last moving episode Kati Guttman celebrates his son, who passed away twenty years ago, and also recalls for the first time his own deportation to the Nazi death camps.

Серия жестоких убийств связала в тугой узел судьбы трех людей: отца жертвы, полицейского и главного подозреваемого. Отец жаждет мести. Полицейский действует за рамками закона. А главный подозреваемый — преподаватель теологии — отпущен на свободу по недосмотру полиции.

Doctor Yoel Pomerantz is a washed-up, self-loathing psychologist who lives on the 12th floor of a high-rise with his Aspberger's son, Yoav, who spends his days pretending to be a traffic cop and proudly giving out parking tickets. Dr. Pomerantz sees a few patients a week, barely enough to keep he and Yoav in ramen noodles and with a roof over their heads. In addition, he works shifts at a suicide hotline. When he gets desperate financially, he recruits hotline callers to see him privately, which is discovered and results in his getting unceremoniously fired.

Религиозная школа древнего каббалистического города Цфат. Дочь раввина Наоми делает все возможное, чтобы отсрочить свадьбу и продолжить учиться. Бунтарка Мишель послана в Цфат религиозными родителями из Франции для усмирения характера. Подруги знакомятся с загадочной француженкой Анук, которая ищет в Цфате покой и очищение. Но ортодоксальное общество отвергает ее. Стремясь помочь, девушки погружаются в мир страстей и рискуют своим будущим, чтобы освободить Анук от прошлого. Каждой приходится ответить на вопрос: как не изменить традициям и при этом остаться верной себе? «Секреты» похожи на рубин, меняющий цвет в зависимости от того, под каким углом вы на него смотрите. Ави Нешер справился с дипломатическим искусством сохранения почтительного отношения к предмету исследования. В данном случае это ортодоксальное еврейское сообщество, где роль женщин не сильно изменилась за две тысячи лет.

This is a story about a really troubled man who is out of work, his marriage is falling apart, overbearing mother doesn't let him to live, his father recently died, etc...

Joy Levine lives in an old apartment that, in complete contrast to her, is shabby and worn-out on the outside while well-kept and filled with joy on the inside. Her life changes when she auditions for a TV show called "Gotta Be Happy". To her astonishment, she is chosen, and her mission is to throw a surprise party for her parents on the upcoming show. However, there is a price to pay for all this: she has to let the viewers into her private inner world and share with them an event that has been overshadowing her family's life and hers for the past 22 years; an event that made a tight-knit bunch of friends shun her parents, Chaya and Yitzhak Levine.

From 1977 to his untimely death in 1993, Amos Guttman directed six films, all of them deeply personal reflections of his own life. Interviews with lovers, family and friends--including some of the most important people in Israeli cinema--tell the gripping story of a strikingly handsome, charismatic and deeply passionate gay man who has become a revered cult figure in Israeli cinema.Interviews with the late filmmaker and fascinating footage of him on the set convey the same passion that comes through in scenes from his films, lovingly selected by documentarian Ran Kotzer. Like Fellini, Guttman transformed his dreams and everyday conversations with friends and family into integral parts of his pictures. He is most remarkable for his striking and original use of the frame. Every shot is a treasure. Amos Guttman dared to portray subjects that were taboo in his society, and his search for the right of individual expression is the connecting link of his works.

Two sisters have lost their father during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. When they learn that there are chances he might be still alive, they travel to Turkey to search for him.

A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as a musician in New York: Thomas is ill, detached, in search of hard drugs. Jonathan tries to connect with him. Meanwhile, Thomas's grandmother, facing old age, has become bitter, particularly toward her hard-working daughter. They worry about Thomas. A few blocks away, Jonathan's mother, brother and sister maintain their sometimes bickering relationships, watching Jonathan brave adulthood.

A comedy about a postal worker Samson who suddenly discovered his talent for basketball.

A movie about a last summer in the life of four friends just before they go to the army during early 1980's Tel-Aviv summer before the war in Lebanon.

A hotel porter, who a long time ago divorced his wife and his daughter with her in America, is alarmed when a beautiful girl arrives at his hotel looking for her supposedly rich father. The porter had been sending back money and describing himself as a well-to-do businessman. With the help of his hotel friends, he becomes the guest of honor and takes her on a tour of Israel, all the time trying to avoid revealing his true work.

A funny romantic comedy about the 25 years of marriage of the couple Zion and Ziona who emigrated to Israel from Yemen.

The story of Salomonico who works in the Tel Aviv Port and tries to defend his house and his life.