Three gay Palestinian friends explore the contradictions in their lives with Jewish filmmaker, Witzenfeld. Khader is at ease with his relationship with an Israeli lover as just another dimension of “otherness,” while fervently political Fadi rejects intimate friendship with the enemy until he finds himself falling for one of their number. Naeem, in the closet to his traditional family, endures their increasing pressure to marry and start a family of his own. Together the three embark on a flamboyant form of activism involving video skits. In Arabic, Hebrew, and English with English subtitles.
Memories of moments when immigrants lost their childhood, when they were only five years old, six or ten. How were the playground, and parents handed them over adult men in many of them. From the moments when memories pop up caught in a cycle of violence and fear, as they became pregnant girls aged 11 or 12 and they themselves become mothers childhood. Then buried secret. Apparently an open secret, but one that has not been exposed, that the mere exposure may break up the family unit, the familiar reality and make a commotion and chaos. The memories of childhood have haunted disaster but repressed again and again for the benefit of children, livelihood and husband. No more.
He calls himself TRA. He is a 13 year-old boy. He was always a little different. Tried to tame him, they hit him quite a bit. “I was a fat kid who loved to daydream and draw fairies and not play soccer and children playing did not want to play with me, they abuse me, and then became monsters”. Out of the pain he discovered the power of art and has not stopped painting monsters, then other images. At the age of 10 created, an act of defiance against the world pushes us all to perfection, the character iconic “Botox” and became part of the artistic community that chose the street as a space to create. Armed inner belief that the art can save the world as she saved him from himself, he finds hope and the power it holds.
In the first game of the season Noam is injured. In a conversation with Jean, assistant coach, it turns out that she has lost the motivation to continue another day of training, and the joy of life. Her attention disorder, and losses in recent games, discouraging her. Opel, team member, understands what is expectated of her, as the daughter of a religious family, may interrupt the professional future she dreams about. An upcoming important tournament in Sochi, Russia, approaches, and urges them to deal with the doubts and uncertainties. The moment of truth, on the field, when the adrenaline explodes and expands the heart, there are the answers.
“Between Fences” Theatre Workshop documents of asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan, imprisoned sands facility, initiated by the directors Chen Alon and Avi Mograbi. Using the techniques of the theater are exploring together the status of asylum seekers in Israel. What leads men and women to leave their lives behind and embark on a journey toward the unknown? Why does Israel, a country founded by and for refugees, refuse to consider the status of those exiled from their countries, fleeing from war, genocide and persecution as requiring that the Refugee Convention? Are Israelis capable of working with asylum seekers to step into the shoes and empathize with their situation?
LGBT center in Meir Park in Tel Aviv, in a small room lit by fluorescent lighting, every week a group of 10 gay seniors (60-82) meet. Gays belonging to the community that sanctifies youth, venue intimate is the last refuge where they could face and talk openly about old, from body image and sexuality in the third age to loneliness and to their widowed, divorced and / or grandparents. Instead of borrowing the gay elderly in the life of their company, and instead of recording biographies of each of the characters, the film follows the characters witty and funny dialogue during meetings in the room, and gives a glimpse of the brutal humorous process of aging.
Pine Kahanovich (28), a student at the University of Haifa, chose a different form of living. Instead student apartment with partners, due to home and property taxes, he sets up a tent in the woods in Carmel. For a year and a half Oren conducts his life modern Robinson Crusoe condition until he falls in love with a German girl and then has to choose between eternal childhood and real life. Living in a tent given additional significance in light of the events of social protest and the Carmel fire, occurring at the time.
In the late seventies, after thousands of years of longing and prayer for Jerusalem, The first Ethiopian Jews started to come to Israel. The story of their arrival received extensive media coverage and quickly became a legend, another glorious battle history of the country. All these operations stories, stories of heroes dropped their journey. Stories of loss and pain of those who have died of thirst, hunger and epidemics in refugee camps in Sudan. Omitted these stories left behind a lifetime, only to realize a dream – to go to Jerusalem. Secret Story painful journey is not talking about the Ethiopian Jewish community. This is the first time they tell, stories many open wounds, and the question arises who never dared to touch her: “Was it worth it?”
An animated documentary. Judith, a Jewish girl whose greatest love is dance, is sent to Auschwitz. Mental strength is reflected in the small and mundane. One evening, when a Nazi officer noticed her dancing, he requires Judith to dance for him but she refuses. As punishment he orders her to stand barefoot in the snow overnight. Will she able to escape from her body of consciousness that suffers?
Moishe Sela 90 year-old, goes out with his friend Judd Ne’eman to find a burial place for himself. Years earlier, in light of political debate regarding the evacuation of hundreds of Bedouin families from their land in the Negev desert, which took Moishe part after the evacuation of the Sinai – was created between the two friends disconnect lasted 30 years. Judd heard Moishe mutual friends that a diabetic and that he intends to buy himself a burial plot. In the filmmaker re-awakens the need to know and understand the contradictory character of Moishe, a distant relative of his way of life and his beliefs.