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- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A soldier on active duty, Shai returns home determined to celebrate Passover with his family and rejects his friends invitation to go out during the Seder.
- 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.
- A popular radio show helps Nissim to win his girlfriend's heart again.
- 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.
- 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.
- Eighteen-year-old Maor wants to make his mother happy. When she returns from the hospital again, he takes her to the neighborhood's hair salon. However, meeting with the locals brings up anxiety and awakens old fears.
- Alma, a young director, seeks an actor and actress for a violent key scene which she has written. Not one of those auditioning can breathe emotion into the scene. In a moment of crisis, Alma decides to play the female lead herself. The scene comes alive, yet Alma loses control on reality.
- 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.
- Aya misses her last bus home and is stuck in Jerusalem for the weekend. Her plans of staying home, watching Master Chef and munching on dry Cornflakes change when she gets a surprising call from a fellow student, Itamar.
- The day Pasqual, a Peruvian migrant worker, decides to distance himself from his wife and move to Jerusalem, is the day before the ninth birthday of their son Luca. Pasqual sets out on a journey across the new city to find a birthday present for his son. The failed attempts of the helpless father in the difficult reality of immigrant life lead Pasqual to understand that he must make a painful concession in order to bring happiness to his son on the most important day of the year.
- 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.
- When her adult daughter moves back home after a crisis of the heart, homemaker Flora tries to awaken her own diminishing love life.
- Zohara is the daughter everyone takes for granted in her big, Moroccan family, while her sister, Oshrit, is a beauty about to get married. On the day of her younger sister's traditional henna ceremony, Zohara steals her sister's blessing, which is given to all brides before their wedding day. The mystical power of this blessing transforms Zohara, bringing her love and changing the dynamic of her relationship with her sister.
- It's Sabbath eve. Rachel sneaks out of her religious parents' house to go out with her secular friends. On their way to the party an accident happens and Rachel must face the consequences of her decisions.
- As ALS ravages Michal's body, she holds onto her motherhood. With time running out, she strives to make lasting memories for her son Naveh, who tries on his own to understand what no one dares to explain.
- Sixteen year old Maher and his younger brother Eid set out with their grandfathers old cart to peddle lupini beans ,tormus, through the village streets. As the amount of shoppers begins to thin, Maher desperately turns to the nearest Jewish citys mall. When they arrive their luck seems to change, until the City Inspector shows up.
- When an intelligence unit soldier starts to spy on a gay couple, he is lead to confront his own sexual identity.
- The delicate street life of a group of Russian homeless emigrants is shattered when the "Korean", a violent drug addict, comes along and fights his way into the group. This is the chronicle of the tragic events that followed.
- 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.
- 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.
- A concerned father tries to prevent his son from joining the Israeli army
- 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.
- 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 seemingly innocent chat may be a threat to our National Security and possibly even our freedom.
- 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.
- Mentally handicapped Maurice is enthusiastically preparing for his brother's wedding. The family, however, dreads that Maurice's unpredictable behavior will spoil the occasion.
- 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.
- Maya is unwilling to come to terms with the fact that her relationship with Tamar has ended, and will do anything to stop her from leaving the country, even at the risk of life itself.
- Effi wakes up in a club's toilet and finds out that the worst day of her life is just beginning.
- 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.