Country: Israel

Direction David Perlov

Cast David Perlov · Mira Perlov · Neomi Perlov · Yael Perlov

Synopsis Documentary film based on the life of Israeli filmmaker David Perlov (born in 1930 in Rio de Janeiro and died in 2003 in Tel-Aviv, Israel). Perlov is considered to be one of the most prominent filmmakers in Israeli cinema and...

Direction Alon Zingman

Cast Doval'e Glickman · Michael Aloni · Neta Riskin · Shira Haas

Synopsis TV Series (2013-Now). A Haredi family living in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem reckons with love, loss and the doldrums of daily life. Shulem Schtisel is the father of a large family. He is dealing with his younger son, who...

Direction Justine Shapiro · B.Z. Goldberg · Carlos Bolado

Synopsis Several Jewish and Palestinian children are followed for three years and put in touch with each other, in this alternative look at the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. The three filmmakers followed a group of seven local children between 1995 and 1998. They...

Direction Eytan Fox

Cast Ido Rosenberg · Yuval Saragusi · Dana Frider · Tal Kalay

Synopsis Miriam is an adoring fan of Svika Pick; she dreams of being a famous singer, leading her to mysteriously abandon her son Meir on his tenth birthday. Meir never stops searching for his mother, eventually moving from his small town...

Direction Ari Folman

Synopsis Waltz with Bashir (2008) is an animated documentary-style film that follows director Ari Folman's quest to recover his lost memories of the 1982 Lebanon War. Haunted by fragmented nightmares, he interviews fellow veterans to piece together his role in the...

Direction Eyal Sivan

Cast Adolf Eichmann

Synopsis French/Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan has fashioned an unusual documentary about the Holocaust from video footage (originally shot for American television) of the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Using sophisticated editing techniques and digital image manipulation to give...

Direction Rachel Leah Jones · Philippe Bellaiche

Synopsis A look at the life and work of Jewish-Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years. Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent demonstrators to armed militants. As a Jewish-Israeli lawyer who has...

Direction Tomer Heymann

Synopsis Ohad Naharin is one of the most prominent, innovative and productive choreographers in the world. The film follows Naharin between Japan, Holland, Sweden and Israel - through the uncompromising work with dancers and draws a unique portrait of the 60-year...

Direction Gideon Raff

Cast Edna Blilious · Yaël Abecassis · Gal Zaid · Mili Avital

Synopsis When three IDF reservists are captured during active service behind enemy lines in Lebanon their fate initially is unknown. They become symbols to the society from which they came and in their families, they are perceived as something between a...

Direction Yoav Shamir

Synopsis An Israeli director travels the world to find out what anti-Semitism means in the modern world. What is anti-Semitism today, two generations after the Holocaust? In his continuing exploration of modern Israeli life, director Yoav Shamir (Checkpoint, 5 Days, Flipping...

Direction Lior Raz · Avi Issacharoff · Assaf Bernstein · Rotem Shamir

Cast Lior Raz · Hisham Suliman · Shadi Mar'i · Laëtitia Eïdo

Synopsis TV Series (2015-Today). 3 Seasons. "Fauda" (Arabic for 'Chaos') depicts the two-sided story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Doron, a commander of undercover Israeli unit operating inside Palestinian territories, and his team, are hunting down Hamas activist Abu-Ahmed. On the other...

Direction Avi Mograbi

Cast Shredi Jabarin

Synopsis While the Second Palestinian Intifada terrifies Isreaeli people and Palestinian people lives in deprivation and frustration, Avi Mograbi, Isreali filmmaker, believes in the dialogue with the embattled Palestinians as well as the Israeli Army. The director call in the myths...

Direction Dror Moreh

Synopsis In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak about their role in Israel's decades-long counterterrorism campaign, discussing their controversial methods and whether the ends ultimately...

Direction Shemi Zarhin

Cast Oshri Cohen · Esti Zakheim · Arieh Elias · Aya Steinovitz

Synopsis 16 years old Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care of most household chores. One day, the school's principal finds...

Direction Alma Har'el

Synopsis The rusting relic of a failed 1960s development boom, the Salton Sea is a barren Californian landscape often seen as a symbol of the failure of the American Dream. First-time director Alma Har'el revisits this poetically fruitful terrain in her...

Direction Eytan Fox

Cast Ohad Knoller · Yousef 'Joe' Sweid · Daniela Virtzer · Alon Friedman

Synopsis The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from...

Direction Ada Ushpiz

Cast Hannah Arendt

Synopsis A documentary about the life and work of hannah arendt, the prolific and unclassifiable thinker,political theorist, moral philosopher and polemicist, and with her encounter with the trial of Eichmann a high ranking nazi.

Direction Avi Mograbi

Direction Eran Riklis

Cast Hiam Abbass · Ali Suliman · Rona Lipaz-Michael · Doron Tavory

Synopsis A drama based on the true story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down. "Lemon Tree" turns a...

Direction Eytan Fox

Cast Lior Ashkenazi · Knut Berger · Caroline Peters · Gideon Shemer

Synopsis Eyal is an agent with Mossad, the Israeli intelligence and security force. A man capable of making snap moral judgments but unwilling to reveal his emotions, Eyal has been burying himself in his often bloody work since the death of...