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A group of transgender and gay Filipinos people emigrate to Israel to take care of elderly religious Jewish men. On their one day off per week, they perform as drag performers in a group called the Paper Dolls. On the political level, it explores the perils of global immigration. In this case, after the second Intifada, the Israeli government unofficially opened its doors to illegal workers to replace the Palestinians who were no longer allowed in the country. As tensions with the Palestinians eased, the government changed its policy and began to forcibly deport these foreign guest workers with dramatic consequences for our characters. On the human level, the film is about people who are rejected by their own families for being gay or transgender and who emigrate and end up with jobs taking care of other people's parents who have been rejected by their own children because they are old, difficult, etc. They work grueling hours to send money back to the Philippines to support the families that have rejected them. As unbelievable as it may seem, these very different people (old religious Jews and transgender people from the Philippines) form very deep, quasi familial bonds.

The Palestinian village of Bil'in is about to lose over a half of its territory to Israel. The residents of the village decide to embark on a struggle against the construction of the barrier. The film exposes the extraordinary relationship formed between the villagers and Shai, the director, who arrives with a group of Israeli peace activists and the conflict that arises between him, as a former soldier and the entire military organization.

A documentary film about the Photographer and second holocaust generation - Esaias Baitel and his journey to the darkness of the Neo-Nazis gang in Paris. Description

Geha Junction, one of the busiest in the Tel Aviv area, hundreds of Palestinians live underground. Young and old, they slip into Israel to find work and bring a small wage home. Their hiding place is in the underground parking garage of an abandoned, unfinished shopping mall, hidden from view despite its location. They pass most nights of the week here, six floors below ground. One of the mall's residents is Jalal who puts up with this hell in order to save money for his wedding while Nisrin, his fiancé, is waiting for him to finish the roof of their new house at Salem in the West Bank. From the darkness emerge still darker forms and ghostly voices. Under subhuman conditions, the men try to preserve their humanity. "In the dark", says Jalal, "the only thing left is to think about is love".

While fighting for her daughter's right to receive adequate treatment for her leukemia, Aisha - a Palestinian woman living in the West Bank, undergoes a process of empowerment. Suddenly, this battered woman, is no longer afraid to stand up to her husband, to her occupiers, to the authorities and to anyone's who is in the way of her daughter's path to health.

The story of an old Palestinian Village in the heart of Jerusalem, that was turned into a Mental Health "Village" Center treating Palestinians and Jews side by side.

Life for the El Talalka tribe, a Bedouin family living in the Negev Desert, was always a struggle but recently the government has started demolishing their shacks in an attempt to urbanize and create a government-controlled municipality. DESTINY HILLS documents the everyday life of Muhammad who leads his tribe in the struggle to keep their way of life. Muhammad dreams of progress for his children but fights to keep the rich Bedouin culture alive in the shadow of modernity. The struggle turns fierce and Muhammad is left alone. Disillusioned and torn from his evading identity, he turns to Islam for answers.

Oded Lotan, an Israeli-born film-maker living in Germany, dares to cope with one of the 'holy cows' concepts of the Jewish tradition - the circumcision.