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During the summer of 1944, thirteen-year-old Maya is placed into a foster home. The director of the foster home falls in love with her, which conjures memories of a tortured love affair from his past. Meanwhile, Maya falls in love with a member of the underground who is engaged to one of the workers at the home.

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The viewers meet David Ben-Gurion in his desert home in Sde-Boker as his guests and hear his animated character, describing the main events in his life, from his childhood in Plonsk through the stages of his leadership, until his move to the Negev desert. All with special connection and passion to the Negev and his hopes he had for the Jewish people revival trough the development of the desert.

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Playoff tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Max Stoller. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel’s first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team – of all people! – into European winners. Max always maintains that Germany – where he was born before the war – means nothing to him, and that training their national team is just another job on his path to NBA glory. But things aren’t as simple as he refuses to speak German to the young players. The only person he seems to be able to relate to is a Turkish immigrant woman Deniz, and her cheeky teenage daughter Sema. Max just about falls in love with Deniz – and does succeed in reinventing the Germans as European champions. When he discovers what happened to his own family in the 1940s – it is not what he had expected. And he will realize that one cannot run away forever from one’s own past and demons. Playoff is inspired by the life of Ralph Klein, Israel’s most famous basketball coach, ever.

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An adaptation of Aharon Appelfeld’s novel Night after Night. In the sixties, a group of Holocaust survivors live together in a hostel in Jerusalem and struggle to revive the Yiddish language.

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The filmmaker’s journey to Lviv, Ukraine-her family’s hometown before WW II-brings together past and present, painful memories and dramatic insights.

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Based on a civil/historical/visual research, the film documents a group of Arabs and Jews who gather around a map of Mandatory Palestine to raised demands, seek compromises, formulate agreements, make efforts to reconcile and compensate, and do everything possible not to let violence take over their lives.

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In the early 1930s, Hitler began forcing Jewish musicians out of orchestras, leaving some of Europe’s most talented musicians jobless. This film tells of a brilliant young musician’s coming of age, and how he came together with some of the most famous Jews in the world to create the Palestine Orchestra (now the Israel Philharmonic).

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Gisi Fleischmann believed she could stop the Holocaust if only she succeeded to raise enough money. She led a resistance group in Slovakia which tried to stop the deportations of Jews from Slovakia and later from all over Europe by bribing Nazi officials. Recently, the Slovak National Theater staged a play about her. The film follows the theater ensemble during the creative process of putting on the play, interweaving it with Gisi’s letters, insights of historians and memories of her relatives. Through the dialogue between film and theater, past and present, facts and imagination, “Gisi” tells the tragic, yet inspiring story of a woman who helped to save thousands but couldn’t save herself. 

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