Yoav is een jonge Israëliër die trekt naar Parijs. Hij wil zijn nationaliteit ontvluchten. Hij hoopt dat Frankrijk en de taal daar hem zullen redden van de waanzin van zijn land. De enige hulp die hij heeft is een betrouwbaar Frans-Israëlisch woordenboek.
Hoogleraar Leda is op vakantie aan zee wanneer ze de jongere Nina opmerkt. Ze ontwikkelt een obsessie voor de dame en diens dochter en observeert hun relatie en bezigheden. Op deze manier wordt Leda aan haar trauma rond het eigen moederschap herinnerd. Ze wordt geconfronteerd met de keuzes die ze maakte in het verleden.
A teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
Lisa Spinelli is lerares die op een aparte manier erg toegewijd is aan haar leerlingen. Ze ontdekt dat een vijfjarige uit haar klas een wonderkind is en raakt gefascineerd door hem. In een poging om zijn talent te helpen ontwikkelen riskeert ze haar familie en vrijheid.
Bethlehem tells the story of the unlikely bond between Razi, an Israeli secret service officer, and his Palestinian informant Sanfur, the younger brother of a senior Palestinian militant. Razi recruited Sanfur when he was just 15, and developed a very close, almost fatherly relationship to him. Now 17, Sanfur tries to navigate between Razi’s demands and his loyalty to his brother, living a double life and lying to both men. Co-written by director Yuval Adler and Ali Waked—an Arab journalist who spent years in the West Bank—Bethlehem gives an unparalleled, moving and authentic portrait of the complex reality behind the news.
A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of the machine begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with an emotional dilemma
De bekende actrice Julia Roth heeft vergevorderde kanker en gaat naar een Engelse kliniek voor chemotherapie. Ze wil haar identiteit verborgen houden, maar tot haar afgrijzen belandt ze op een afdeling met drie andere vrouwen. De kameraadschap en de humor van de drie zeer verschillende vrouwen bieden Julia echter al snel grote steun.
An Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom in his country, the other against the death of his mother.
Follows three brothers who are going to discover the greatest secret of their late mother. This trip is going to change their lives.
Stelios Dimitrakopoulos has 32 hours left before he loses everything. From the jazz bar he painstakingly keeps running for years, to his own family. The Romanian gangster who lent him money, now demands the debt to be paid. The middle-man and former friend, makes Stelios take care of illegal errands. His wife is seriously thinking of abandoning him, and a night club owner, not thinking about the consequences, finally starts to stand up for himself. Christmas is coming, the clock is ticking, and the tree in Stelios' house must be decorated.
An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gendered rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.
Israeli director Natalie Assouline chronicles the lives of women, mostly young mothers, in prison for involvement in failed suicide attacks/terrorists attacks in Israel. Filmed over two years, this portrait strives to unearth the motivations behind their crimes. With the women's heads and feelings firmly covered, the film reveals no answers, just the heart-breaking tension between humanity and ideology.
Simple people struggle through extraordinary circumstances. Sometimes the only answer to any problem is 'The world is funny so we have to laugh.
Based on Rupert Isaacson's autobiographical book, the film follows the journey of Emily and Jonatha's son, Noah, an autistic child who rarely talks and isn't improving despite his parents' efforts to connect with him.
An elderly Israeli Jew of Greek origins was sent to Greece to represent his town in a town twinning ceremony, however he went instead to search for his friend from the childhood, who saved him from the Holocaust. In meantime he formed a special relationship with young Greek woman, and dealt with the broken relationship with his devout Hasidic son.