The story of the special relationship between a grandfather and his grandchild as their family falls apart. Set in the Jewish Diaspora in Tunisia in the 1950s.

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Bentzi, Momo, and Yuda’leh are three teenage boys growing up in 1950’s Israel, which is not much different from 1950’s America if you believe what you see in the film. Of course they are obsessed with one thing – sex. Bentzi is interested in the beautiful Nili, but she prefers his friend Momo. Meanwhile, while Bentzi is working delivering ice to people he comes across a voluptous nympho. For some reason he leaves his job and gets his friends, who are promptly invited inside and divested of their virginity in an explicit softcore sex scene. Momo goes first, then the obese Yuda’leh. Before Bentzi can have his turn the nypho’s sailor boyfriend suddenly returns from the sea and chases the boys away, Yuda’leh being forced to run away naked. The boys next visit a prostitute and are serviced by her in turn, the experience causing Bentzi to vomit. With all this experience under his belt Momo seduces Nili and impregnates her. He disowns her when she makes this known to him, leaving it to Bentzi to borrow money and sell his bicycle to get money for an abortion.

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Archaeologist, Professor Trude Dothan was born in Vienna in 1922. Her son decides to launch an “archaelogical” excavation in her Jerusalem house.

He finds the death mask of poet Elsa Lasker-Schuler and marionettes in a wooden chest. Secrets unravel as he gets deeper into the layers of her home and heart.

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Set in 1950, The Heart That Sings tells the poignant story of a brokenhearted orphan from the Holocaust trying to begin life again when she is hired as the music and drama counselor at an elite Jewish girl’s summer camp.

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Based on Gila Almagor’s autobiographical book, Under the Dommim Tree follows a group of teenagers who survived the Holocaust in a boarding school in the the early 50’s. During the day they are like all other adolescents, but at night they struggle with their painful memories. The place where they feel secure is under the Dommim tree. A number of stories are woven in this powerful and agonizing story of this very special group of young people.

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Over the years, Naomi Shemer has earned the title of “national poet.” For most of her creative life, she was the ultimate decoder of Israeli society, succeeding in both describing and influencing its everyday and national reality. Whether on her native Kibbutz Kinneret, in Tel Aviv, or looking over the Jerusalem Hills, Shemer masterfully expressed in word and song the feelings of Israelis about their country.

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This film was the first ever to be shot in Israel and deals with the outbreak of hostility and war that occurred during the Israeli War for independence. The night before a cease-fire in the Arab-Israeli conflict to be imposed by the United Nations, a group of volunteer soldiers set out to hold their position on Hill 24 to claim it as Israel’s territory and recount stories of their very different lives along the way. 

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In the 1950s, in a small Israeli settlement near an abandoned Arab village now used as an IDF training ground, a young, bored, childless housewife forms a curious bond with her neighbor’s 10 year old son.

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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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