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- In Tel Aviv, Yoav receives a visit from Delphine, the girlfriend of Emile, his boyfriend from Paris. Their day together in the city confronts their mutual expectations in the face of a complex Israeli society.
- Since the death of her mother, Lisa has been the mother of her three brothers. At night, the only time she has to herself, she writes. When she wins a student scholarship in Jerusalem, she has to face the difficult dilemma: to leave or to remain at home taking care of the problematic family.
- Two friends go on a hike to the desert. In the desolate wilderness something hidden comes out in their friendship. From then on, the only way they manage to communicate is sexually and violently. While one of them wants more than the other is able to give, he expresses his frustration by making sure they get lost and have no water - anything to escape from awaiting reality.
- 18-year-old Anton hangs out with thugs who steal cell phones and blackmail their owners. But when Anton gets a hold of Meitar's phone, he becomes obsessed with the world she has compulsively recorded.
- Between autobiography and fiction, curiosity and despair, 'In Praise of the Day' is a bold homosexual film, taking place at the Independence Park in Jerusalem. Director Oren Adaf plays the lead role of a young man wondering around the park and looking for a phone. He meets the usual characters of the park and is willing to do anything to be able to call his traditional mother before Shabbat.
- When an intelligence unit soldier starts to spy on a gay couple, he is lead to confront his own sexual identity.
- Omri is trying to direct a scene recreating the day his dog died. The attempt at restoration gets complicated when Omri discovers that his father remembers the events differently.
- Hussein wakes up on the morning of his father's funeral. In the courtyard, his deer, Widian, is running amok. The Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, where they live, is under lock-down after a recent suicide attack. Hussein's concern for the deer escalates as the funeral procession is stuck at a checkpoint. He sets out on a search for her - as well as for anourishment for his soul.
- 55-year-old Noah, has a passion for classical music, a job that wears him down, and an old piano in his living room. Although Noah gave up on his dream of becoming a pianist in his youth, his youngest son 13-year-old Nir, is set to audition for the Music Academy. Noah's ambition resurfaces and his obsession threatens to disrupt both his and his son's lives.
- 1948 War . Lolek,a young Holocaust survivor arrives in Israel and thrown in the middle of the desert. A stranger to the language and the new identity he is given, he is assigned in an isolated post under a brutal commander and the burning sun. Afflicted by homesickness and the heat, he sets out to look for some shade. "Homeland offers not only a revisionist account of Israeli history, but of Israeli cinema as well. More than any other Israeli director, Dani Rosenberg explores the price paid by the individual for the demands put on them by the Zionist endeavor. Other Israeli filmmakers, no matter how critical of the Zionist project and of Israeli society, tended to mitigate the stress of this demand by placing their protagonists within the context of a collective-commonly represented by a small group of people or a family-and in doing so, submitted their anguish to its impersonal logic. By placing this community outside of the film's frame and by rendering the significance of the struggle against its demands uncertain, Homeland turns that anguish into a challenge to talk about Israeli history.." Prof. Shai Ginsburg/Duke University "Through the story of two Jewish Holocaust survivors, who roast out in the hot dessert sun as the War of Independence rages, Rosenberg tackles issues such as the artificial construct of the "Sabra", and the connection between Jewish and Arab refugees. One of the characters (Itay Tiran) is a most recent immigrant who is actually trying to get to Haifa to find his girlfriend, and finds himself on a lonely hilltop in the middle of the dessert. The other (Mikki Leon) is waiting for him on that hilltop and has already become the Sabra. He is mustached, tan and muscular yet underneath that he is hiding the Diaspora Jew that Zionism tried to exorcise. This surrealistic situation, which recalls Rafi Bukai's film "Avanti Popolo", becomes even more strange and encumbered by the fact that all the dialogue is in Yiddish. The erotic, sadomasochistic relationship between the two- the pale weak Diaspora Jew and the tanned macho commander, express a concrete question about the ways in which, the Jew is attracted, in an almost Fascistic way, to power. The "discovery" of an abandoned Palestinian village by the character portrayed by Itay Tiran, who stumbles upon the body of a local boy, supplies the film with one of its most powerful moments and expresses the Holocaust survivor's attraction to death. The element of violence that the new immigrant identifies with on his way to becoming a "new Jew" leads to a surrealistic departure scene in which the character says good bye to the old Diaspora world. All of a sudden, the timeless discussion of Jewish victimhood is seen in a different light. This is an issue that has been already presented by new historiography of Zionism, but not yet by the contemporary cinema..." The History of Violence, Yair Raveh, Cinemascope
- When the physics teacher dies, Leon arrives to replace him. He is full of good intentions, but time and time again he finds himself teaching an empty classroom and his secret is about to be revealed. In high school where every action produces a response. Every comment has a price.
- Although Nuni has been selected to play the lead (King David) in his Jerusalem grade school play, he'd secretly rather play the princess role instead.
- A forbidden journey across the border heightens the tension between Eran, an Israeli musician, an Ali, a young Palestinian. Eran's naivety and Ali's fears meet along their journey to a wedding in Jericho as nothing is sure that they will even reach their destination.
- At the age of 15 I was involved in a severe car accident; a curious redheaded girl. After the accident, I am still redheaded and still curious, but with disabilities. In this film I pursued the challenge of finding love and sex even though I'm disabled. I was in for some surprises.
- Gali's family has a long-lasting tradition. Every woman, engaged to be married, has to prepare Gefilte Fish for the wedding party as a virtue for the success of the marriage. Gali, who is engaged to Yaron, has received from her mother and grandmother, a living carp to be cooked. But oh dear, the poor creature seems human in her eyes, practically begging for its life. Gali is torn between the pity she feels towards the fish and the need to abide by her family tradition.
- Every day is a perfect day for revolution. Every evening while watching television, we resolve to act. Every morning we realize that we did nothing. Can individual's actions influence reality? Five stories from both sides of the separation fence.
- Amnon goes up and down the hill in search of fresh milk. After obtaining it, he notices he left his wallet at the convenience store. This leads to his unexpected declaration, and to a dramatic explanation behind his wish to obtain milk.
- Zohara has been waiting to go home ever since she was first stationed at a distant military base, but when the day arrives her hopes evaporate. The soldier sent to replace her appears to be suicidal. Instead of leaving, Zohara is ordered to guard the new girl.
- The 40-year-old director Yoav was asked by the editor of "Cahiers du Cinéma" to write about the potency of a specific cinematographic image. Yoav recalls his first encounter with Pasolini's Teorema, back when he was still a soldier in the Israeli army.
- Fifty years after Slow Down by Avraham Heffner won a prize at Venice Film Festival, top alumni of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School challenge the 1968 legendary black and white thirteeen-minute short, which penetrates the essence of a quarrel and reconciliation between an elderly couple in Tel Aviv of 1967. The voice over stream of consciousness of the heroine's poignant self-examination serves as the launching pad for six modern-day interpretations of couplehood, laced together in contemporary Israel.
- Vika, 12, returns home from her dormitory, to find out that her mother's new baby is being neglected, as was she. In both noble and desperate act, she takes the baby and leave.
- Thursday morning. Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague. Five people. Getting up. Going to work. In five cities-hives, like bees. Looking for the sweeter life then the one they are living now.
- A building in Israeli Hebron, which has been deserted by its Palestinian occupants, is called 'The Mute's House' by the Israeli soldiers stationed there and by the tour guides who pass by daily. The building's only occupants are a deaf woman, Sahar, and her 8-year-old son, Yousef. The family's unique story, in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, unfolds through the eyes of the young and charismatic Yousef, as he goes through his daily routine on both sides of the torn city.
- In an effort to protect his 6-year-old daughter from the pain of loss, a father takes her into the woods to bury their beloved dog. But as fear drives her to vanish, he faces the gap between his intentions and reality.
- Meni, a member of a Haredi sect, lives between two worlds. He takes Rona, his secular girlfriend, on a romantic weekend to a cabin in the hills. An unexpected phone call puts their relationship to a renewed test.
- After secretly getting a driver's license, Israel returns home from his yeshiva. While preparing for Shabbat, he discovers his strict father doesn't intend to let him hit the road.
- Two sets of parents; one Arab the other Jewish, are on a stakeout to find out who is writing graffiti on the walls of their Arab-Jewish school.
- Ron, at 22, still lives with his parents. He barely knows the daylight hours and his nights are divided between his job as editor of wedding videos, chats on the Internet and futuristic fantasies. One night all the elements he toys with converge and, for the first time in his life, Ron is willing to risk an in-person human interaction.
- The excited anticipation of her pregnancy is cut short after Ellie's ultrasound reveals that there is no heartbeat. Shocked and in a daze, she wanders around the mall and into a nail salon where she finds both confusion and comfort.
- A Darfurian asylum seeker embarks on a farewell journey from Israel to reunite with his wife and daughter in Canada. In a remote Canadian town, a new family is born, yet something is missing. A journey of a man who is constantly on his way home.
- Eitan works security in the Dead Sea Works factory. On his way to a night shift he is sexually assaulted by his bus driver, thus begins a dream-like journey on the silent beaches of the Dead Sea.
- Occupation and creation; a story deconstructing reality, telling a tale about a different Middle East. In an alternative reality the Palestinian army is the occupier, and Palestinian directors make films to deal with their own trauma.
- Flora was born in the field, that's what she keeps telling everyone, that is. She is a waitress in a coffee shop that requires complex acrobatic skills. Flora cannot take it anymore. But she still hasn't lost her dramatic talent...
- The first ever Israeli documentary film to feature an Arab protagonist is revisited 50 years later by top graduates of the Sam Spiegel Film School.
- Babaga, a strange and wild woman, lives in the forest. Wandering around, she finds the body of a handsome young man. She brings him back to life and nurses him and in time they grow close. Before exposing his blind eyes, she will try to make herself worthy of love.
- 97-year-old Tirza Hodes, the high-priestess of Israeli folk dancing, has been jetting between Israel and her home in Germany, where she continues to teach Israeli folk dancing, for years. A phone call to her grandson Guy, as she returns from Germany, sets them on a journey following the loss of her "Israeli Dream".
- Don Quixote and Sancho Pancha arrive in Israel in the year 2005. They reach a hill on the Jerusalem by-pass road overlooking the wall, which divides Israel and the Palestinian Authority. They inspect their target. The two men are already in their 70's. Quixote is having difficulties mounting his horse and Sancho struggles with his tools. But Don Quixote is determined to attack.
- 26-year-old Neta embarks on a moonstruck journey through the streets of Jerusalem, in search of a different identity.
- Love Letters to Cinema is a collection of ten "letters" in the form of short films (4 minutes each), written and directed by ten outstanding Israeli directors. The films and the directors conduct a dialogue, whereas the directors create a short film with their unique voice, bringing to the audience a group of work that reflects on cinema. Love Letters to Cinema is a true collaborative effort. Alongside the directors, over 300 industry professionals and students from the Sam Spiegel school volunteered to take part in the project, whereas their mutual love of cinema creates a colorful and powerful project.
- A missed meeting in 1945 splits a family into two. The director's grandmother decides to drift away from the place of her catastrophe to a new Jewish state while her brother Feiv'ke chooses to change his name and stay in the place where he was once a prisoner . Following the choices made by a brother and sister, the director finds herself on a journey between Israel and Eastern Germany, between past and present, victims and victimizers. Which questions can be answered after their death, 63 years after that missed meeting?
- Dalia gives her young daughter Ella a head lice treatment in the bathroom. When Ella's father arrives unexpectedly to pick her up for his Saturday visit, the intimate lice treatment turns into a divorce battle fought over little Ella's wet head.
- Working at a family connection center, Aya, a social worker watching through the glass window observes meetings between children and their estranged parents. One unusual child causes her to cross over to the other side of the window.
- In Haifa, Noam and his older and younger sisters live in a flat with their mom during her trial separation from their dad. Noam longs for his father's return, ritually walking the parapet along the balcony high above the ground, or hanging upside down over the side remembering life with his father. That morning, his mother has taken extra care to dress, and she's called to say she'll be home late with a surprise, so clean the house. Noam is sure that his parents have reconciled. Is he right?
- A popular radio show helps Nissim to win his girlfriend's heart again.