Working from a script by Noa Grinberg, Shahar Rosen’s Round Trip stars Anat Waxman as Nurit, a bus driver who becomes so dissatisfied with her dead-end marriage that she takes her two children and moves to Tel Aviv. She soon learns that even though she has gotten away from her husband, her life is no more fulfilling. One day, Nurit hires Nigerian Mushidi (Nthati Moshesh) as a maid. Soon the pair become friends — and then something more. Their new relationship causes problems between Nurit and her family.

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Achmed Hamdoon, a young Arab Bedouin, was raised in the family tin hut, a few meters away from the locked gate of Kibbutz “Lotem” in West Galilee, Northern Israel. Having longed for the kibbutz life most of his youth, he finally pulls out and moves to “Lotem”, changing his name to the typically Israeli name Meidan Sade. The clan is outraged and sees him as a “traitor”. But Meidan, no longer Achmed, feels he cannot access better opportunities in the Israeli society as a Bedouin. Indeed, he becomes “the first Hamdoon” to carry ammunition while guarding the Kibbutz, completes his high school degree, and finds a new Jewish “cultural” mother. The price, however, is high. Meidan is lonely, unable to find a Jewish girl who will accept him as he is, nor a Bedouin girl who will not frown on his extreme crossing of ways.

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The culture of oranges, a prism that reflects the fabric of the socio-economic relationships between the Israeli and the Palestinians.

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A dream about the possibility of meeting his grandfather in front of their house in Damascus in 1920 leads Avi Mograbi into a collaboration with his Arabic teacher, Ali al-Azhari, an internal refugee who has lived most of his adult life in Tel Aviv with his Jewish wife and daughter Yasmin.

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