Two Jewish boys and two Muslim boys are sharing a room at a boarding school in Jerusalem. All are 16 years old . David, from an orthodox Jewish home, wants to give up religion. Mohammad, a...
My cousin Yifat, her husband Yedidia and their three little boys live on a remote mountain, 782 meters above sea level, in the West Bank. The nearest Jewish settlement, Itamar, is 15 minutes away...
Lazer and Baila Hirsch, an older orthodox couple who have emigrated to Israel from America, struggle with financial hardship and general misfortune. Lazer, a Bretzlav Hassid, finds that his capacity...
Chava, an ultra-orthodox young woman, called off her engagement a year ago. Now a new match has been suggested for her. The introduction is made, but Chava experiences a sharp disappointment. Can she...
Efrat, a religious woman who grew up in the secular world, is married to a young rabbi and raising three small daughters. Curiosity draws her to the walled garden of the St. Clare monastery in...
Tali, a student and substitute mother to her little brother, has an exceptionally beautiful voice, and a talent for performing. In the religious world however, singing in public by women is...
The renovations of a 100-year-old Jerusalem synagogue on the occasion of its upcoming centennial celebrations ignite a conflict over old and new, identity and obliteration of memory, the living and...
*Adult Subject Matter Ohad, who is studying in the special "Hesder" program for orthodox soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, experiences profound loneliness while he conceals from others that he...
Shirley, a 23 year old blogger, spends months in hospital waiting for a new heart. While she waits, she learns about the meaning of getting and giving.
Ohad was murdered by terrorists at Wadi Qelt, a nature reserve of exceptional beauty and home to a nubmer of Christian monasteries, not far from Jerusalem. Five years later, the director Bilha...
Life has changed beyond recognition for Aviva and Avram Herzlich after the murder of their daughter, Talia, and her husband Binyamin Ze'ev Kahana. They have left their beautiful home in the North and...
*Adult Subject Matter After being raped by a stranger, a young ultra-orthodox woman awaits a Rabbinical decision about whether or not her husband should divorce her. Jewish law states that "If the...
In yeshiva, when you’re hungry eat. When you’re tired sleep. If you’re not hungry or tired, you sit and study Talmud. If you’re not studying, what are you doing here? What happens when you get stuck...
A multiple prizewinner and directed by "Srugim" creator Laizy Shapira, "Eicha" is the story of religious girl whose unusual name, Eicha, (the Hebrew title of the Biblical scroll of Lamentations)...
Eyal returns home from a trip to India. While traveling he has made the decision to become religiously observant. Initially he delays revealing this to his family but soon he can no longer hide it...
Four men, one experience and a fate already known. One cast a look and died, one looked and was hurt, one turned his back on his roots, and only one entered well and came out well. An experimental...
"Fragments of a Dream” is a futuristic drama about a religious family living in Judea-Samaria in a period when the fate of the settlements is uncertain. The film expresses the changes occurring in...
In a neglected house, a boy whose mother is coping with mental illness demands a cure from God. But the depression has its own divine source, and the boy struggles to keep his balance and his faith...
Hanna, a special needs 37-year-old who shows a moving and philosophical insight into her situation, lives in protective housing, following her daily routine and hoping for love. Earning well below...
"In the Spring I bought myself a camera. The whole of our settlement was in bloom right then, so I filmed butterflies and flowers. But then everything changed, and there were other things to film."...
Liat, a young woman from a traditional home, seeks independence and a new identity while she fixes up her rooftop apartment in Jerusalem. Liat has left home partly to distance herself from the heavy...
Matan's Bar Mitzva is two days away, the day he will become a man. For the past few months he was been disturbed by erotic dreams. Matters are made worse when Matan turns to a website for advice.
Everyday, at about 11 o’clock in the morning, next to Shlomo’s Felafel stand in the Bukharim neighborhood, a queue forms. Almost everyone here knows everyone, and everyone knows Hanna. This is the...
Odelle, a girl who belongs to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish “Burqa” sect in Jerusalem, encounters Oz - a secular guy riding a scooter who almost runs her over. This leads to an interaction between the...
30 year old Kobi is married to Rachel, who's been in a coma for 4 years following an accident. Kobi uses a little known loophole in Jewish Law - the signatures of 100 Rabbis - in order to marry again...
Dafna, the 40-year old single mother of a newborn boy, arrives at her parents’ home a few days before her baby’s brit (circumcision). Her father, an elderly Persian Jew, repeatedly snubs Dafna,...
In the Israel of the nineties, Sami is the young son of Jewish Tunisian immigrants. Sami feels belittled by the attention lavished on his younger brother, Yudeh. One day the father insists that Sami...
Hemi, a 60 year old Jewish sudies teacher, discovers that the punk band his wife used to play in when she was young is getting back together. As the band reunion approaches, echoes of the wild past...
Avigdor is a tap dancer. In Auschwitz-Birkenau his dancing saved his life. Today, he is 88 and lives in a retirement home. When Avigdor dances on the parquet floor of his room, he laughs until he's...
One day Sarah decides to stimulate Abraham’s love for her, and instigates a shared night for him and Hagar, the maidservant. The results of this night apparently were not taken into account. Sarah...
Who would believe that the bite of a small dog would lead to the unfolding of a chain of events resulting in the discovery of Private Finkelstien's grave in a British War Ceremony in Israel? Who is...
During the Sabbath, 12-year-old Noa discovers that her parents are planning to divorce. In order to try and prevent this, and to protect her younger brother, Noa takes dramatic action which in the...
Shira, the mother of five children, lives in a religious community. Her husband's expectation is that she will continue to bring children into the world. Shira begins to collapse under the stress of...
In the light of the political events of 2000, Shira and Yehoshafat (Fatti), together with their one year old son, find themselves evicted from their settlement farm. This non-political film attempts...
Children's TV star Shmelky the Jewish Puppet comes to the realization that he wants to make a change and become a serious, respected theater actor. After his dream doesn't go as planned he embarks on...
A group of English-speaking women from Gush Etzion decide to take a novel approach to the numerous Intifada attacks in the area: they will cope by writing a bibilical musical - the story of Esther...
Like all young ultra-orthodox girls, Ruchi, the favorite daughter of a Jerusalem family, dreams of becoming a wife and mother. But the fact that Ruchi's younger sister has Down's syndrome makes Ruchi...
Eighteen-year-old Noah is religious and torn between two worlds: his militaristic group of friends in the settlement where he lives and the rock band in which he is a drummer. When he gets a callup...
A revealing portrait of the head of an orthodox family still searching for religious identity and of his daughter, the director who is rediscovering him.
Esther and Rachel are living in a shelter for ultra-orthodox women who have gotten pregnant before marriage. A special bond is forged between the two women, one of whom is extrovert and one of whom...
This experimental film delves into the emotional world of a woman about to undergo a hysterectomy. In this time of stress and uncertainty her thoughts flow back to the safety she felt as a small...
A window into the world of four ultra-Orthodox Jewish women: the conflicts, the dilemmas, the dreams and the dangerous balancing act on a knife edge between God and art, between the demands of the...
Adult Subject Matter 20 year old Emunah, an orthodox bride, accompanies her new husband to their new home on the night of the wedding. Emunah awaits the wedding night with hesitations and...
Esther's father was a gravedigger who in his last will and testament left only one significant request: that one of his sons continue with his profession. None of his sons has the slightest interest...
Einav, a band musician whose wife has left him and who is about to get fired for being unreliable, must get to a certain wedding venue by sunset, if he wants to keep his job. After his car breaks...
The story of three daughters of rabbis, directed by the daughter of a rabbi. The four women have chosen a different path than that of their parents. Now they face inner dilemmas, communal censure and...
After the funerals are done, in the quiet, Jerusalem's Har haMenuchot cemetery comes to life with the people whose grief and loneliness has turned them into daily visitors there. This documentary...
The director, a new mother herself, seeks out motherhood in its different forms. She meets Shelley, who got pregnant in high school and refused to give up her baby for adoption. Shelley, now in her...
It's the summer of 2005 and in their little house in Homesh Yael and Nitay sing, cry and shout. Shortly, soldiers will come and evict them from their home as part of the Disengagement Plan. Two years...
Eyal, who is religious, lives with his non-religious girlfriend Tal, but hides the fact from his parents. When they find out, Eyal's mother, a fierce activist in the National Religious Party, is...
A lyrical, poetic look at the women’s section of the Western Wall. Judaism, Christianity, piety and secularism appear at the wall night and day, rain or shine. With a hypnotic and stylized...
Benny Haneman the director takes up his camera to explore the triangle of love, hope, despair, jealousy, loyalty and trust that exists between him, his father and his older brother Gidi, who has a...
Yoni and Michal, who have been married for only a year, arrive at the Rabbinate to formalize their divorce. The two expereince different emotions while wating in line, and the ceremony has an outcome...
Yisrael was born into a loving American ultra-Orthodox Jewish family from Jerusalem. As he grew up and discovered that he was attracted to both men and women, everything changed. Yisrael’s parents...
A young couple from Tekoa establishes a Jewish home in India for backpackers. The camera follows the dramatic turns in their relationship that result their work. It is an intense film about ideology...