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When the older sister of Shira, an 18-year-old Hasidic Israeli, dies suddenly in childbirth, Shira must decide if she can and should marry her widowed brother-in-law, which also generates tensions within her extended family.

Lorsque son fiancé la quitte un mois avant son mariage, Michal refuse d'annuler les préparatifs de la noce. Juive orthodoxe, elle est persuadée que Dieu lui donnera un mari. Mais la date approche.

At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching comic-drama in which two human beings -- as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing -- accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.

Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.

Two theater writers are forced to work together just when they're going through a breakup in their relationship. They are joined by two egotistical TV stars.

The JNF's Blue Boxes were part of a successful fund raising campaign to support the purchase of land in Palestine. Joseph Weitz was the man who orchestrated the acquisition and expropriation of Palestinian lands.

This human drama centers around two loner Russian soldiers who are caught smuggling arms and consequently arrested. The two characters do not want to lose their honor as soldiers even though they have committed a crime considered unforgivable in military society and want go through an honorable military trial. The military is not at all concerned with their wishes, and pushes to get them tried as civilians. This causes conflicts that send the story towards an unexpected direction.

Zion, aged 14 and his brother Meir, 17, are facing a crisis in their relationship after a terrible accident. They keep the secret to themselves and it haunts them until, finally, Zion re-examines his loyalty towards his older brother and decides that he is ready to take responsibility for his own life.

A young boy with growth disorders lives through his daily life's tragedies and comedies, while struggling to come to terms with his own personal problems.

A musical biography of one of the most influential and iconic figures in the history of Israeli culture. "A Standard Love Song" is a musical biography of Arik Einstein, the artist whose voice was an anchor of Israeli culture, and whose story is the story of Tel Aviv and of Israel and Israelis: dreamers, warriors, artists and lovers.

Hayuta and Berl, an elderly couple, find it hard to adjust to today's Israel and to the social changes surrounding them.

David is a garage electrician, who dreamt all of his life of becoming a magician, but had no luck in it. His girlfriend Batya wants an ordinary life, but David is still looking for his dream, so he links up with Romanian immigrant Shimon, who is an expert magician.

What will Riki do after Asher, her fiancé, tells her that he got second thoughts regarding their wedding?

David, a sensitive, creative teenager, lives in Southern Israel with his ill mother, his father who gave up his dreams, and his young brother. He discovers an online writing forum and starts publishing his family stories under the fake identity of the rich kid "Nadav". As he gets entangled in his lies, he is afraid of losing his new forum friends, and being exposed by his family. The situation undermines the delicate fabric of the family.

Sergey works for Franko and is responsible for the girls, Franko pays him to watch the girls. Sergey does not treat them very well.

The film follows the preparations for the Bar Mitzvah of Guy, the director's younger autistic brother, from the moment his parents decide to have Guy do the ceremony in the synagogue up to the day of the Bar Mitzvah itself. During the course of preparations for this unusual event, the daily and complex reality the family must cope with is revealed, paved with difficulties and humor, and Guy's unique view of the world is discovered.

Omar, Muhammad and Yazan are three 12-year-olds from Lod. The boys are in their last year of elementary school, beginning to confront the challenges of life: Omar will deal with his father's illness, Yazan will need to overcome the consequences of his violent behavior and Muhammad will prepare to leave Lod and the friends he loves so much. When Ella, a Jewish woman who emigrated from the former Soviet Union founds a choir in their school, she invites them to a safe and fantastic environment that will challenge the stark reality awaiting beyond the classroom walls and the real journey which occurs in the souls of the children.

The Journalists is a documentary series that follows, in real time, what may be the death of print journalism as Israel enters the Age of Digitalization. As television and the internet become center stage in today's media world and the forces of the global economic crisis set the tone, the stature of the Israeli printed press seem to slowly deteriorate.

10 oclock, Saturday morning. A group of elderly women and men carry plastic lawn chairs across the Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem. In the shade of an old pine tree, they sit down, in a circle and discuss matters sublime and elevated. For over two decades, the "Mt. Herzl Academy has held its weekly meeting at this cemetery. Seated between the graves of the nation's dignitaries, they debate the history of modern philosophy, read poetry, eat lunch and determine the fate of the Jewish nation. Director Tali Shemesh has been following the "Academy" for the last 5 years, focusing on two members: Minia, the director's grandmother, and Lena, her great aunt. The film unravels the jagged, intense, almost impossible relationship between these two extremely different women, who each bereaved of the man she loved remain bound together by history and Fate. As death decimates the group that has given meaning to their lives, the film explores the conflicts between Lena and Minia, and the family secrets that haunt them. The result is a poignant, intimate, sometimes hilarious portrait of the Holocaust generation like youve never seen it before.

Let's Dance est un documentaire sur le succès phénoménal de la danse moderne israélienne au 20e siècle.

In 1985, there were three gays who were out of the closet in Israel. By 1998, there were 3,000. In this short, intensive and dramatic period, Israel came out of the closet in one of the quickest and most colorful revolutions of the end of the 20th century. There was no bloodshed in this revolution, but a rare cooperation between academics, prostitutes, transsexuals, singers, hairdressers and military officers. The director, Yair Qedar, documented this revolution in he's newspaper, The Pink Times. Using rare archival materials, personal stories and touching scenes, and via his own personal diary, the film tells the untold story of the GLBT revolution in Israel in an energetic, bittersweet musical collage.

In the midst of the bloody war between Israel and the Palestinians, Tali Fahima, a young Israeli woman from Kiryat Gat, reads an interview in the newspaper with one of the most wanted Palestinians in the West Bank - Zakaria Zbeidi. Something about Zbeidi captures her imagination and she obtains his phone number. The conversation between the two goes into the night and changes her life forever. Following a number of visits to Jenin, Fahima declares she will serve as a human shield for Zbeidi against IDF forces. Shortly after, she is arrested by the Israeli Secret Service. Tali is defined a terrorist, and the state of Israel begins an aggressive battle against her. The film documents Tali Fahima's legal struggle to prove her innocence, the complex relationship between her and Zbeidi, the social isolation that was forced upon her and the media uproar surrounding her trial, which would become one of the most fascinating trials in the history of the State of Israel.

Dusk presents several interlinked stories of Israeli reality, all occurring on the same day and all dealing with a crucial moment in the relationship between parents and children.