Amat Escalante – Heli Amat Escalante Amat Escalante, International Cinema Feature Heli is a young man working at a car factory, who doesn’t know that his 12-year-old sister Estela is in love with Beto, her cadet 17-year old boyfriend. The two decide to elope, and Beto gives...
Amat Escalante – Los Bastardos Amat Escalante Amat Escalante, International Cinema Feature A sharp and heart-rending view of the lives of illegal Mexican workers in the USA, who reach the pick-up point everyday in Los Angeles for yet another day of ill-paid labor. Jesus and Fausto are two...
Amat Escalante – Revolucion / The Hanging Priest Amat Escalante Amat Escalante, International Cinema Feature Revolucion is a cinema project created in honor of 100 years of the Mexican revolution. Ten directors joined together for the project, among them Escalante and Reygadas, and directed each a short...
Amat Escalante – Sangre (Blood) Amat Escalante Amat Escalante, International Cinema Feature The daily life of Diego and Blanca, described in great detail and precision, includes sitting together on the couch watching soap operas, having sex and Diego’s silence in view of Blanca’s...
Amat Escalante – The Untamed Amat Escalante Amat Escalante, International Cinema Feature Alexandra and Angel have a family with two children, but their relationship hides a secret. They take their son, who is suffering from allergy to chocolate, for treatment at Fabian’s, an uncle...
Dyana Gaye – Saint Louis Blues Dyana Gaye Dyana Gaye, International Cinema Feature A surprising cinema musical that became a hit world-wide. A battered cab makes its way on a journey that crosses Senegal from Dakar to Saint Louis, its passengers singing their life stories....
Dyana Gaye – Short Films Collection Dyana Gaye, International Cinema Feature Dyana Gaye’s short films have won great acclaim around the world, and several have been commercially distributed - unprecedented for short films. Each film deals with her main cinematic themes of...
Dyana Gaye – Under The Starry Sky Dyana Gaye Dyana Gaye, International Cinema Feature Between Turin, Dakar, and New York - Sophie, Abdoulaye and Thierno’s three destinies cross paths and echo one another, delineating a contemporary picture of life in exile. Sophie, 24 years old,...
Graduate Films – Absorption Center Jonathan Grynkraut Sapir Graduate Films Feature Alvaro an Argentinean immigrant, arrives to an Absorption Center in the city of Kiryat Yam. While there, he gets into a journey of identity to build a new life in...
Graduate Films – Asa Turns 13 Sali Elimelech Sapir Graduate Films Feature In a small town with a central spiritual institution, Asa awakens to the day before the ceremony that turns him from a boy to a man. His father's expectations and the pressures from his surrounding...
Graduate Films – Ben David Evyatar Rosenberg Sapir Graduate Films Feature Eran is a religious ISA (Shabak) officer who is transferred to the Jewish Department in order to thwart "price tag" attacks. He Soon realizes that he have to deal with the 'Hilltop Youth', his...
Graduate Films – Campfire Michael Schwartz Sapir Graduate Films Feature The traditional initiation ceremony for the 13 year olds of "Brosh" group turns into a night of cruelty. Dov, a stubborn and timid child, asks to go...
Graduate Films – Do It For You David Eduard Sapir Graduate Films Feature After unsuccessful suicide attempts Ethan sign on an agreement with a company that says they will do the job for him. Everything changes when Ethan meet Yael and want to cancel...
Graduate Films – Fuad Guy Wasserman Sapir Graduate Films Feature At the age of 60, Fuad's wife, Aliza, decides to travel abroad on a prolonged vacation without him. Hurt and upset, Fuad is only left with the plants, the boxes of food she had prepared for him and...
Graduate Films – Ganga Yona Leshed-Rubinstein Sapir Graduate Films Feature Dorit, in her sixties, wants to get out of her routine life, where she experienced an emotional wilderness, and wants to learn Indian classical dance, in India. Gidi, her partner, confronts her and...
Graduate Films – Hope Etamar Kadusheviz Sapir Graduate Films Feature Daniel, a gay right wing extremist want to meet with his lover and goes through a violent night on the way to...
Graduate Films – Katharsis Niv Samban Sapir Graduate Films Feature Gili cracked what many tried and failed: translating human consciousness into visual content. To his invention he called "Katharsis". The security forces examine the program before its launch, which...
Graduate Films – Machul Naama Dayan Sapir Graduate Films Feature Alona insists on spending her time trying to get the money she needs in order to start a video production business with a school friend than to deal with her feelings toward her father, who preferred...
Graduate Films – Nala Brit Barkat Sapir Graduate Films Feature A female couple is celebrating their anniversary in the nature, along with their dog "Nala". They find themselves in a hidden grove on the edge of a beautiful lake. Slowly they give themselves up to...
Graduate Films – Nameless Tamar Guttman Sapir Graduate Films Feature From the bus stop near Azrieli Towers, a girl healing from anorexia begins a personal journey. She will meet Ana, who will try to help her, but the girl is determined to regain control of her life...
Graduate Films – Nur Einya Mriam BenGigi Sapir Graduate Films Feature Nur, a blind young woman who comes from a Religious French-Moroccan family, demands her independence, the eve of Sukkot. Nur, must decide between her freedom and femininity, and her family...
Graduate Films – Personal Monologue Omri David Sapir Graduate Films Feature Erez, a failed and reclusive actor who makes a living as a clown, represses his reality through his obsession with voyeurism. A task in an acting workshop, in which he takes part, forces him to look...
Graduate Films – Rachel Jordan Boutboul Sapir Graduate Films Feature Rachel, a 55-year-old woman, denies the loss of her son who was killed in the war. Hubble affects the whole family, creating an atmosphere of tension and frustration, Rachel finds a memory left her...
Graduate Films – Searching for Ben Fiona Ziegler Sapir Graduate Films Feature Searching for Ben - who vanished without a word after his call back to the army - Alice enters a foreign world, revealing her initial naivety in light of an uncompromising...
Graduate Films – Silent Skies Lee Cohen Sapir Graduate Films Feature Miriam (33), leaves her family home heavily pregnant, and moves in with Nevo (31), her terminally ill brother, in a village in the south of Israel. Their connection creates a charged, emotional...
Graduate Films – The Great Masturbator Ran Helfgot Sapir Graduate Films Feature Rami a wheelchair-bound disabled person, leaves home after his girlfriend Miri left him in the middle of a sexual act. On his way he meets a taxi driver who is an old from from the military. Together...
Graduate Films – The Update Mor Hanay Sapir Graduate Films Feature Adam has the perfect girlfriend, Alex, which was custom-made for him. Alex is separated from him for 24 hours during the annual 'update day' and he finds himself spending the time with Yuli, a human...
Graduate Films – Until We Meet Again Eden Spandy Sapir Graduate Films Feature Solly, an immigrant from Iran, makes daily phone calls to her mother. She shares her daily routine, her feelings and her thoughts. These actions start to affect her unstable relationship with her...
Graduate Films – Westward Tomer Katri Sapir Graduate Films Feature Ilana and Yiftach, neighbors, are packing Ilana's apartment, before she moves away and leaves the building. Their last shard night together confronts them with their individual choice to live...
Lisandro Alonso – Fantasma Lisandro Alonso International Cinema, Lisandro Alonso Feature Fantasma offers a refreshing interpretation of the strict theatricality of premieres in the cinema itself. Vargas, the protagonist of Alonso's previous film, Los Muertos (2004), stars in this film as...
Lisandro Alonso – Freedom Lisandro Alonso International Cinema, Lisandro Alonso Feature This film closely follows the daily routine of Misael, a woodchopper living in the remote Pampas region of Argentina. The movie plays out as a kind of poetic meditation pondering Michael’s...
Lisandro Alonso – Jauja Lisandro Alonso International Cinema, Lisandro Alonso Feature A remote military outpost in Patagonia, 1882, the "Desert Conquest" war - a heroic term for the genocidal campaign against the region’s native population. Captain Gunnar Dinesen (played by Viggo...
Lisandro Alonso – Liverpool Lisandro Alonso International Cinema, Lisandro Alonso Feature Farrell, an ascetic sailor who has lived on cargo ships for twenty years, asks the ship's captain to go ashore to visit his mother. Like Ulysses, Farrell returns to his homeland after many years at...
Lisandro Alonso – Los Muertos Lisandro Alonso International Cinema, Lisandro Alonso Feature Vargas, a 50-something man, leaves prison in Corrientes, Argentina. Once he is freed, he is determined to find his daughter, now a grown woman, who lives in a remote area surrounded by swamps. To get...
Middle East Now – Between Two Deaths Amir Fakhereldin Israeli Cinema, Middle East Now Feature Kameel and Zenab are two Syrian peasants living under Israeli occupation in the Golan Heights. Listening to the Syrian news radio station, the two are torn between the echoes of the constant shelling...
Middle East Now – The Forgotten Ehab Tarabieh Israeli Cinema, Middle East Now Feature Mustafa steals across the Israeli border with the help of a local smuggler. This is a one-way trip for Mustafa as he contemplates the end of his life. Forty-five years ago, he was forced from his...
Middle East Now – Voicemail Amir Fakhreddin Israeli Cinema, Middle East Now Feature Akram left his native Arab village to work as a construction worker in Tel Aviv. Secretly he is in love with an Israeli actress living downstairs in his building. The film deals with the cultural...
New Israeli Cinema – And Then She Came Israeli Cinema, The New Israeli Cinema Feature Dan Freilich (30) works at this father low firm in Haifa and is getting married to Tamar, his long lasting girlfriend. A random meeting with Merav Levi (27), a Kurdish waitress, makes him examine his...
New Israeli Cinema – Ewa – Festival’s Opening Film Haim Tabakman Israeli Cinema, The New Israeli Cinema Feature Yoel has been married to Ewa. When they met Ewa was a young refugee; In fact, Yoel doesn’t understand and wouldn’t dare ask how she survived the Holocaust. They share a great love, and a great...
New Israeli Cinema – Fuck You Jessica Blair Karni Haneman Israeli Cinema, The New Israeli Cinema Feature Karni feels detached. Detached from the world, detached from her country, detached from her language and even her own body. That is, until she meets Jessica, who happens to be on a much- needed break...
New Israeli Cinema – Low Tide Daniel Mann Israeli Cinema, The New Israeli Cinema Feature Abandoning his daily routine, Yoel (39) finds a position from which he can seek answers. Where are his desires and hopes to live a life in this place? Were they lost? But from his indetermination, a...
Ronit Elkabetz International Focus – Ashes and Blood Fanny Ardant International Cinema, Ronit Elkabetz International Cinema Focus Feature Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with her three children. After having refused to see her family for years, Judith, in spite of her...
Ronit Elkabetz International Focus – Free Hands Brigitte Sy International Cinema, Ronit Elkabetz International Cinema Focus Feature Barbara is a filmmaker who has been working in the prison environment for a few years now. She is preparing a film written and directed by long-term inmates in a prison in the projects around Paris....
Ronit Elkabetz International Focus – Turk’s Head Pascal Elbé International Cinema, Ronit Elkabetz International Cinema Focus Feature Several lives are changed after a teenager from a rough suburb throws a Molotov cocktail on a car, sending the doctor who was in it in a...
Savi Gabizon – Lost and Found Savi Gabizon Israeli Cinema, Israeli Focus - Savi Gabizon Feature מיה שבה מניו יורק שבארה"ב לסעוד את אביה החולה ועוברת לגור אצל אחותה, תמרה, עמה הייתה בנתק לאורך שנים. מיה...
Savi Gabizon – Lovesick on Nana Street Savi Gabizon Israeli Cinema, Israeli Focus - Savi Gabizon Feature The touching story of Victor, who lives with his mother in the bad part of town and runs an illegal TV cable station. One day he sees the beautiful Michaela and falls madly in love with her. So...
Savi Gabizon – Nina’s Tragedies Savi Gabizon Israeli Cinema, Israeli Focus - Savi Gabizon Feature The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and...
Savi Gabizon – Shuroo Savi Gabizon Israeli Cinema, Israeli Focus - Savi Gabizon Feature אשר ישורון (משה איבגי), איש עסקים כושל, חסר יושרה אך כריזמטי, מנסה לקדם את מכירות ספרו "לגרש את העורב". חייו...
Special Screenings – Ana Min Al Yahud + Ya Lahmama Meetings and Workshops, Special Screenings Documentary, Feature Ana Min Al Yahud: A young teachers identity, who’s about to be a father, becomes possessed by his dead grandfather, forcing him to choose between his Iraqi Arabic Jewish family identity, or...
Special Screenings – Asghar Farhadi – The Salesman Asghar Farhadi International Cinema, Special Screenings Feature While both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized...
טרום בכורות – כמעט מפורסמת מרקו כרמל Israeli Cinema, The New Israeli Cinema Feature "כמעט מפורסמת" היא דרמת נעורים עכשווית המתארת בחדות ורגישות את מה שחשוב לבני העשרה ומה משפיע עליהם בחברה שבה...
