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- A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
- "Ende der Schonzeit," set in 1942, tells the story of Fritz and Emma, who are hiding Jewish refugee Albert at their remote farm in the Black Forest. Since his marriage with Emma has remained childless, Fritz uses this opportunity to suggest an unorthodox deal: He asks Albert to sleep with his wife and conceive a child on his behalf. Against the background of war and escape an unpredictable drama of jealousy and sexuality unfolds that turns offenders into victims and vice versa.
- An Israeli swimming tutor living in Chicago returns to Israel after 10 years of absence to bury his father. An encounter with a beloved childhood friend and his newly engaged girlfriend will set a series of events in motion that will affect everyone's lives. A story set between a flower shop and an ancient monastery, between a swimming pool in Chicago and the Mediterranean, between life and death - and somewhere in the middle.
- Red Cow is a coming-of-age film that takes place in the days leading up to the assassination of Rabin and depicts the life of Benny, 16, orphaned from mother at birth and the only child of Joshua - a religious, right-wing extremist, in those critical junctures when she is forming her sexual, religious and political awareness.
- A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.
- Here and Now is an authentic social drama told through the eyes of Andrey, a young immigrant living with her little sister in the slums of the city of Ashdod and struggling to assimilate into Israeli society.
- An "all-in-the-family" drama-Comedy. The god-loving and traditional Vaknin Family lives in a remote town in Israel, longing for the good old motherland, Morocco, and trying to make some sense of their lives. One of the sons - Jojo, addicted to gambling, is looking for a "quick-fix" - making loads of money in no time. By that, he drags the family into a financial crisis, which threatens to tear them to pieces. The dramatic and comic story of the Vaknin family is told by Sammy, one of the sons, who dreams to become a filmmaker and his camera.
- 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.
- Three children from the West Bank are smuggled into Israel, arriving at the doorstep of George and Rita's house in Jaffa. Their mother is dead, and their father has been sentenced for life. As Israeli Palestinians, George is afraid that hiding illegal aliens will endanger Rita and himself, while Rita believes the arrival of these children could give meaning to her life. Nearby, a foreign film is being shot. Jerry, an English director, is making a movie about his parents' love affair in 1947, when they served in the British army in Palestine. George is invited to play a part. When the two stories intertwine, tensions erupt.
- The rehabilitation center houses and treats thirty young women who have suffered emotional crisis. 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.
- A single father who shares an apartment with his mother, older brother, and daughter. His challenge is to let go of his daughter in order to protect her from the same destiny.
- Gerushim Meucharim, a min series of three episode, based on A.B.Yehoshua novel A Late Divorce. Director Ram Loevy.
- Under a military curfew, Salah sets out on the road to cross the Israeli border carrying his dead son Omar in a bag. Miri, a pregnant single woman, decides to help him out at all costs.
- Yoel defect from military service. Avoiding the military police, he escapes his routine to find a place from which he can start anew.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- The director Nurith Aviv discusses the little-known deaf culture, that of many sign languages, each of which is different and has its own grammar, its own syntax, complexity and richness.
- In 2007 Livi, a photography student, moves into an empty building in downtown Haifa. Just before her loneliness urges her to leave, Shahar, Zvi, Iddo and Talia move into that very building - young artists themselves. The friendship ignites in an instant and when Zvi can't pay his rent, they decide to rent a space together, half of which will be Zvi's dwelling and half - an art gallery and bar. The joint work thrives and their voice is heard across the distance, but cracks begin to show, the gallery closes and they disperse. For 12 years, Livi follows their journey to fulfill their dreams as they face the reality of livelihood difficulties, manic depression and alcoholism, unfolding both intimately and lovingly, revealing the story of five friends and their maturing process.
- A nightly rendezvous between Salma and Adham in Acre. Salma's Married. Hiding in his house during an eviction next door, they can't be seen together, or there will be blood.
- Seven young people tell their personal stories with the Yiddish language while discussing the life and work of avant-garde Yiddish poets.
- Not everyone has time to die. Yael did. The director met her ten years after their first encounter, after which they drifted apart. Now, as a new, scared patient in the Oncology ward, Yael, an old hand, showed her a way through the darkness. Yael didn't use her time for 'bigger than life' experiences. Rather, she dived head first into the depths of the soul, and took a long, clear look at the fear of death. What she saw there, she passed on to Mia her daughter and Rani her partner, who are left to continue their lives. The film moves between then and now, between life and death, where there is clarity to see what is important.
- A documentary about brain, his capacities and his poetical aspect using testimonials from researchers around the world
- After the death of his son a man tries to learn how to live.
- In the abandoned Arab village of Hoshah bordering the lands of Ramat Yohanan, a bloody battle took place between Druze soldiers and Jewish soldiers during the 1948 war, and each side tells its story about the events. From the secret contacts between the two sides, the Druze soldiers left the area and returned to Lebanon and Syria, a small part of the Druze soldiers crossed the borders and fought with the Jews for the establishment of the State of Israel. This group called the Hurani.
- An elderly woman, who suffers from dementia, visits the Geriatric clinic along with her son.