FEATURE FILMS
OF DOGS AND MEN
Director: Dani Rosenberg
Israel/Italy
Production Year: 2024
Duration: 82 minutes
16-year-old Dar returns to her kibbutz seeking her lost dog amid a terror spree, navigating horrors while encountering the unfolding disaster beyond the fence, caught between those seeking revenge and those keeping faith in humanity.
UNDER A BLUE SUN
Director: Daniel Mann
Israel.
Production Year: 2024
Duration: 120 minutes
Co-production with La Bête (France)
When Bashir, a 75-year-old artist, watches the film Rambo III, he sees much more than Sylvester Stallone fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan. In the mute and grainy desert background, Bashir sees the Negev Desert in the south of Israel and a document of his dispossessed tribal land. In the 1980s, he was hired to make the special effects for Rambo III. Today, Bashir returns to the desert film locations, where he finds material remnants and ruins left behind in the sand. Under a Blue Sun tells how desert lands were converted into military training zones and adopted as locations for big-budget action films. It is about the imaginaries projected onto the surface of the desert land and the possibility of finding a Rambo for the Bedouins.
REAL ESTATE
Director: Anat Maltz
Israel.
Production Year: 2023
Duration: 96 minutes
Co-production with The French Connection (France)
Tamara and Adam, a wild unstable couple, are about to become parents and their life is a mess. Just before being evacuated from their apartment in Tel Aviv, Tamara decides to search for their new home in Adam's home town Haifa. During one unforgettable day of apartment hunting, the journey to find a home turns into a journey to the heart of their passionate yet impossible relationship.
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SAND FLAKES
Directors: Gitit Kabiri, Yahel Kabiri
Israel.
Production Year: 2022
Duration: 90 minutes
Co-production with Norma productions (Israel)
David is a sensitive and creative boy who lives in Dimona with his MS sick mother and his father. He comes across an online writing forum, fakes his identity, and under a fictitious name publishes his short stories.
FLOWERS GATE -
BAB EL WARD
Director: Haim Bouzaglo
Production Year: 2021
Israel
Duration:111 min.
Spoken Languages: Moroccan, Hebrew, English.
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
Co-production with United King Films (Israel)
A dramatic, neo-realist Moroccan-speaking comedy, centered on the life of the Vaknin family, a Moroccan immigrant family in a picturesque town on the outskirts, with moments of laughter alongside moments of crying and a daily existential war. Although they live in the country, their hearts are still in the beloved and distant Morocco.
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AMERICA
Director: Ofir Raul Graizer
Production Year: 2021
Israel, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 127 min.
Spoken Languages: Hebrew, English
Subtitles: Hebrew, English, German.
Co-Production with Schiwago Films (Germany),
Mimesis Films (Czech Republic)
An Israeli man returns to Israel after 10 years of absence. An encounter with a childhood friend and his future-wife will change everyone’s lives. A story set between a flower shop and an ancient monastery, a swimming pool and the Mediterranean Sea, life and death - and somewhere in the middle.
ABU OMAR
Director: Roy Krispel
Israel, France
Production Year: 2020
Duration: 110 min
Spoken language: Hebrew & Arabic
Subtitles: Hebrew, English, French.
Co-production with Da Prod (France)
Salah faces the closed Israeli border crossing. He’s holding a large yellow duffel bag, inside the bag is his son Omar. The grieving father wants to bring his dead son back home but due to a strict curfew, No one can get out and no one can get in.
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THE DEAD OF JAFFA
Director: Ram Loevy
Israel
Production Year: 2019
Duration: 97 min
Spoken language: Hebrew & Arabic
Subtitles: Hebrew, English, Arabic.
Producer: Itai Tamir
Co-Producers: Tony Copti, Ami Livne, Yair Rotlevi, Ligad Rotlevy, Zipora Loevy, Gabriela Gutman, Danny Barnea, Ram Loevy.
Screenplay: Gilad Evron, Ala Hlehel.
Three children from the West Bank are smuggled to Israel. They arrive at the home of an Israeli Palestinians couple who live in Jaffa. A foreign film is being shot nearby. A big storm is approaching.
HERE AND NOW
(Kan VeAchshav)
Israel
Director: Roman Shumonov
Production Year: 2019
Duration: 92 min
Spoken language: Hebrew & Russian.
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
A social drama told through the eyes of Andrey, a young immigrant living in the slums of the city of Ashdod and struggling to assimilate into Israeli society, who forms a hip-hop band with his three best friends. They believe that music will allow them to make their voices heard, to influence their harsh reality.
This coming-of-age story takes place in a settlement in East Jerusalem and follows Benny, 17, motherless since birth, and the only daughter of Joshua, a 'Temple loyalist', on her departure from her extremist father, a journey that will shape her own religious, political and sexual consciousness.
Director: Tsivia Barkay Yaacov
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 92 min
Spoken language: Hebrew.
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
RED COW
(PARA ADUMA)
Israel
THE CAKEMAKER
Director: Ofir Raul Graizer
Production Year: 2017
Israel, Germany
Duration:105 min.
Spoken Languages: Hebrew, English, German
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
Co-production with Film Base Berlin (Germany)
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
Everything is Broken up and Dances
Director: Nony Geffen
Production Year: 2016
Israel, Kosovo.
Duration: 90min.
Spoken Languages: Hebrew
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
Nony, a shy college student, suffers severe shell shock in the Third Lebanon War. In an experimental treatment, the psychiatrist instructs his friends and family to play along with Nony's delusion that he is now a rock star named Amnon.
LOW TIDE
Director: Daniel Mann
Production Year: 2016
Israel, France.
Duration:72 min.
Spoken Languages: Hebrew, English
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
Co-production with Arsam International (France)
Yoel defected from military service. Avoiding the military police, he escapes his routine to find a place from which he can start a new life.
AWAKENING
Director: Guy Meirson
Production Year: 2015
Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Spoken Languages: Hebrew
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
A Pickup truck runs down a road in rural Galilee. A cow crosses the road. The driver hits the brakes. Just in time. Or maybe too late. Nothing will be the same again. He tries to return to his old life, his home, and his wife; but all that was hidden beneath the surface is now out in the open. Death is everywhere, in his chicken coop, in his marriage, and inside of him. With three chickens on his shoulder and a forged Louis Vuitton suitcase, he leaves for the outdoors, in order to find either his life or his death.
BEN ZAKEN
Director: Efrat Corem
Production Year: 2014
Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Spoken Languages: Hebrew
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
Shlomi Ben Zaken a 34 years old single parent has been raising his only daughter, Ruchi, age 11, since she was born. Shlomi recognizes his inability to function as a father and to provide his only daughter with an opportunity and a better life like the one he would want for himself.
Will he succeed in setting his daughter free, and enabling her to be graced with what he never gained?
ARABANI
Director: Adi Adwan
Production Year: 2013
Israel
Duration:82 min.
Spoken Languages: Hebrew, Arabic
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
Yoseph is a Druze who returns to his native village after having been estranged from it for 17 years. He arrives with his son and daughter, whose Jewish mother he has just divorced.
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A STRANGE COURSE OF EVENTS
Director: Rafael Nadjari
Production Year: 2013
Israel
Duration: 138 min.
Spoken Languages: Hebrew.
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
Saul, fortyish, a melancholic dreamer, decides to visit his father whom he hasn't seen in five years, and whom he blames for all his ills. He discovers a possible new life.
CLOSED SEASON
Director: Franziska Schlotterer
Production Year: 2012
Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Spoken Languages: German
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
1942 Fritz and Emma hide Albert, a Jew on the run, at their remote farm in the Black forest. Fritz and Emma’s dream of a son and heir casts dark shadows on their marriage. Fritz takes a liking to the young man and proposes that he father a child for him.
ALICE
Director: Dana Goldberg
Production Year: 2012
Israel
Duration: 77 min.
Spoken Languages: Hebrew.
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
The rehabilitation center houses and treats thirty young women who have suffered emotional crises. Alice prefers as little communication as possible with the girls and performs only the basic demands of her job: Handing out medication, supervising meals, and overseeing shower time.
NOT IN TEL AVIV
Director: Nony Geffen
Production Year: 2012
Israel
Duration:78 min.
Spoken Languages: Hebrew
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
When a repressed high-school teacher loses his job, he decides to pull his entire life down with it. Within the span of a few days, he will kidnap a teenage student, reconnect with his old high-school crush, forgive an old friend, kill his mother, take on a rabid group of feminists, a movie star, the police, and the stifling conventions of his boring small town. A drama, a dark comedy, a love triangle, a crime story, and much, much more. An adventure like this could only happen to people who are NOT IN TEL AVIV...
SHARQIYA
Director: Ami Livne
Production Year: 2012
Israel, Germany, France.
Duration: 83 min.
Spoken Languages: Hebrew, Arabic
Subtitles: Hebrew, English, German.
Co-production with Golden Cinema (Israel), EZ Films (France), and Detail Films (Germany).
Nobody really respects Camel Najer, the young Bedouin who works as a security guard at the central bus station. Neither his family nor his colleagues. When the Israeli government threatens to tear down his settlement, he decides to act. Camel comes up with the plan to stage a bomb attack, which he will then prevent from happening, making him the hero of the day, hopefully saving his settlement and earning him the respect he's so desperately yearning for.
POLICEMAN
Director: Nadav Lapid
Production Year: 2011
Israel
Duration: 108 min.
Spoken Languages: Hebrew.
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
The policeman, Yaron, stands in the center of a group of elite policemen, belonging to the Israeli Anti-Terrorist unit. He and his fellow unit members are the weapons; the gun the state
is pointing at its opponents, the 'Arab enemy'. Yaron worships his unit, the male comradery, his muscular body, and his beauty.
Yaron is excited, his wife is expecting their baby very soon; he could become a father any minute. An encounter with a radical, violent, extraordinary group, will confront him with the
Israeli class war as well as with the war within his own soul.
