Israel

Adam is a Christian Arab living in Nazareth – member of a vanishing minority within a minority in the Holy Land and the Middle East. His wife Lamia is a strong, beautiful and progressive Arab woman, who runs a foundation for women’s rights. When Adam hears that Lamia is pregnant and his father falls very ill, he evaluates his life and realizes that he has not achieved much. Despite all his business ideas failing so far, he gives one last try to make it big. And what’s better to sell in the Holy Land other than the very air that Virgin Mary breathed during her annunciation?Read More »

One night. One apartment. One missing person. Rami takes his dog on a walk and does not return. He disappeared. His wife, Shir, is clueless as to his whereabouts. Different people come in and out of the apartment during that night – each for their own reasons. Could one of them hold the key to the mystery?Read More »

A high-school girl dreams of being a writer and writes a story about her soldier boyfriend.Read More »

In this poignant drama, a young woman’s life is shattered when her beloved younger brother dies in a tragic accident. Consumed by grief, Eden takes increasingly desperate measures to fill the void left by her brother’s absence. Her journey takes a passionate and dangerous turn when she discovers her brother had a secret girlfriend.Read More »

Synopsis
A boy and a girl wake up in bed one morning, naked. The children’s mother died a few weeks earlier. Before she died she asked her children to find their birth father who left them when they were still babies. Their quest in search of their father leads them to hospitals, nursing homes and holding cells. In the course of the quest the brother and sister meet people who provide them – like in parallel quantum universes – a glance into what their future lives may hold for them. Is this a world suitable for these two young souls? Will they change their nature in order to survive? Based on a true story, this independent film is unique in its cinematic storytelling, provocative and sometimes non politically correct, yet on the other hand thought provoking and soul penetrating.Read More »

“Boy” is growing up, questioning what becoming a man is all about. On the one hand, he can’t wait to leave his traumatic childhood behind, and on the other hand, he is growing up in a far off village with no real friends his age.Read More »

A brother and sister who run away from home find sanctuary in a deserted nature reserve. When the sister falls into the trap of a psychopathic killer, the brother sets out on a race against time to find help. In a twist of fate the rescue of the sister becomes inadvertently intertwined with the lives of a group of young tennis players, a ranger and his dog, as well as a team of policemen.Read More »

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Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her among maidens in a kingdom stretching from India to Ethiopia. Esther, using information from Mordecai, her uncle and patron, saves the king from assassination. Haman, the king’s favorite, is miffed when Mordecai won’t bow to him, so he orders death to all Jews in the kingdom, under the seal of the king. Esther pleads for her people, and Mordecai is in turn given license to make his own edict under the king’s seal. Mordecai loses sight of his original intention, and bloody murder ensues. Purim annually celebrates the story. At the end of the film, the actors comment.Read More »

On a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem’s neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds are brought together.Read More »