Uri, an easy-going handsome 50 year-old man, left the kibutz 20 years ago and moved to Tel Aviv, but still insists to live his life in his apartment building as if it was a sharing community. His small garden in the entrance of the building is perfectly groomed, and his relationship with the neighbors is warm. Menachem, a lawyer who owns a few apartments in the building, yearns for years to destroy the garden and make it into a parking space. Today is “Tu Be Shvat” (an Israeli holiday which celebrates agriculture), and Uri succeeds in spreading a little holiday spirit amongst the neighbors.
Across from the municipal music hall in Bat-Yam, there is a large, run-down concrete building. It was built as part of the public housing project in the 50s, and most of the tenants have been living there since. The gap between the two buildings is so much larger than the actual distance.
Two guards meet during the night shift on Purim’s eve in the Jerusalem Central Station, and embark on an intoxicating and daring nocturnal journey trying to fall in love with life again.
Binyamin Wasserman teaches his daughter Didi the secrets of the radio and shows her how to receive distant signals. When the tracks of INS Dakar where lost, the radio fell silent. Binyamin Wasserman was among the missing of INS Dakar.
An almost ordinary winter day in the life of 62-year-old Doron, director of a municipal elderly citizens’ home in Jerusalem – rain; someone takes his reserved parking spot, and Bela Schorr, the occupant of room 212, passed away this morning.
Hananel, a young religious Jew, is hurrying home for Shabbat. An unexpected encounter with Mundir, an unwanted and stubborn Palestinian hitchhiker, leads Hananel on a series of mix-ups that eventually teach him a lesson in communication, friendship, and love.
In a pastoral house on the Israeli countryside live the filmmaker’s grandfather, grandmother, and a big crystal mirror that was taken from a Palestinian house during the Nakba – the depopulation of hundreds of thousand of Palestinians during and after the establishment of the state of Israel in the 1948 war. The story of the mirror is not a secret, but it remains untold. The filmmaker asks why is it that Jewish Israelis cannot address the mirror and others remnants of the Nakba, even when they are placed in the center of their lives? In this short conversation, the filmmaker and her grandparents negotiate the ways to tell the untold, staging an allegory for the position the Nakba takes in the realities of Israeli Jews.
Dirty Business follows the traditional coal industry scattered around Israel and the West Bank and sheds light on economic relations between the two sides.
Two strangers unexpectedly meet at an airport. He mistakenly assumes her to be his assigned driver. She, enchanted by the random encounter, does not hurry to prove him wrong.
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