A short film that portrays a Russian family arriving in Israel, looking for their new house as the sirens signaling a missile attack go off. Since they do not speak the language, and do not know what the sirens mean, the family tries to find safety with an Israeli family, but have trouble communicating.
Two women, Arab and Jew meet at a bus stop in Jerusalem after a trip to the market. When their bags of tomatoes get confused they begin to understand the similarities and differences of their worlds.
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A man and his donkey are separated at a checkpoint; the man doesn’t have the right to pass through. Funnily enough, the donkey does.
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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.
Efrat, a religious woman who grew up in the secular world, is married to a young rabbi and raising three small daughters. Curiosity draws her to the walled garden of the St. Clare monastery in Jerusalem, where befriends a number of the nuns there and tries to get a sense of the women they are under their severe black and white dress, their faith and their life’s mission. Then, a dramatic and unforeseen event changes Efrat’s life irreversibly. After a year of absence she returns to the monastery, hungry for the spiritual calm she sought there in the first place. A gentle story of women reaching out to one another across an almost unbridgeable gap of age, history, culture and religion.
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.
At “Fifi’s,” a small hair salon located in the heart of Haifa’s Arab community, director Iris Zaki installs a mini film set over the washing basin. While she shampoos their hair, Zaki speaks candidly with the salon’s Arab and Jewish clients, discussing their views on politics, history, and love. Within the space of this hair salon, the women of the neighborhood achieve a temporary freedom, examining their differences and friendships within a community that many consider a model of Israeli coexistence. What emerges from these conversations is an honest and nuanced portrait of contemporary Israel.
In a world without rain, a couple discovers that they have the power to create water. This ability increases the man’s status in the world and creates distance between him and his wife.
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.
