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Two young men come running out of a dark alley, leaving behind another young man with his neck stabbed. The moment Danny received the message about the murder of Itzik, his only son, his life would never again be the same. Ten years of legal proceedings and new disclosures made during that time have slowly crumbled his faith in gaining justice. Along with the pain of his loss, he realizes that only he can find the truth of what happened that night. His journey in search of the truth reveals his complex identity for the first time: a spy who worked for the security services, an Arab who converted and became a practicing Jew, a man who felt pride, respect and sympathy for a country that has absurdly and horrifyingly betrayed him.

In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris' first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythic bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner.

The works of the Ukrainian born artist, Zoya Cherkassky, sell for tens of thousands of dollars, but their bright colors tell a story of immigration, survival, and alienation. "Soviet Life" accompanies her on an intimate journey from the studio in the immigrant Tel Aviv neighborhood where she has met her husband, a migrant worker from Nigeria, to her childhood in Kyiv, in search of her lost Ukrainian-Soviet childhood, in hope to find the one place in which she would feel at home. This film is part of "The Artists from Kyiv" duo.

The year is 1994. A government-built immigrant caravan site is set to be dismantled. Nine-year-old Ilya decides to guard his grandfather's caravan as he refuses to be evacuated.

An immigrant teenage girl with feathers on her body, is torn between the need to belong and her own identity.

Nina has been treating her son's psoriasis in the Dead Sea for a few weeks. During the long hours of treatment, Nina is left by herself. Slowly, she drifts into a hazy voyage, daydreaming of a different life.

Rotem fights persistently to save the relationship with her fiancé Nadav. She dismisses the warning signs and covers up his behavior. This weekend, she realizes she is on the path to losing Nadav, their relationship, and mainly herself.

A phone call between a woman whose home was bombed during the war and a customer service representative who demands that she return two converter boxes. Inspired by real events.

Karin, an Israeli human rights lawyer, finds herself babysitting Nasrin, the 12-year-old daughter of her Palestinian client, for a day. While Karin is busy dealing with bureaucracy, she doesn't notice that Nasrin is in distress. In order to help Nasrin, Karin will have to find maternal empathy she didn't know she has inside her.

An absurd existential parody.

The film presents fascist ideologies since the beginning of the 20th Century. The actor/presenter of Maurice Barrés argues against foreign labor on the Tel Aviv beach. Mussolini in a gym. Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera in a bookshop. Carl Schmitt at court. Abba Ahimeir and Itamar Ben-Avi in a public library. Gudrun Streiter recalls her love affair with an SA Stormtrooper with Hitler and Himmler on a bench in a park. Three Rabbis from the Yitzhar Settlement on the West Bank: Shapira, Ginzburg and Elitzur have recently ruled that "there is a reason to kill a child if it is clear that it will grow to harm us" (Torat Hamelekh, 2009, pg. 207). They too appear and discuss their interpretation of Divine commands on a park bench.

Chancela fled home at the age of six. As a young charismatic African-Israeli, he abandons the community for fame and success in the big city. Coming of age, his origins emerge making him fight for his identity and face his violent refugee father. Now comes the inner conflict, tearing him Inside-Out almost like a REBIRTH. The Birth of his 'NEW BLACK'.