An existentialist comedy about a young Israeli man living in Paris.
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CIty of Borders
This excellent documentary follows the lives of five different and totally diverse gay men and women in Israel whose common link is the fact that they all hang out in Shushan, Jerusalem’s only gay bar.
The Current Love of My Life
Villa Touma
A young Palestinian woman from east Jerusalem goes to live with her aunts in Ramallah. The film focuses around the aunts: three, unmarried women in their sixties, part of the city’s Christian bourgeoisie, whose lives came to a standstill on the even of the ’67 war.
Kicking Out Shoshana
In the conservative city of Jerusalem, Ami Shoshan, an Israeli football player, is forced by a mafia boss to pose as a gay man, a punishment for flirting with the criminal’s girlfriend. Shoshan is banned by players and fans of his team, but becomes a hero of the gay community.
Never Turn Your Back on Sparks
As he turns 50, filmmaker Pini Schatz sets out to explore his life-long obsession with the band Sparks (the brothers Ron and Russell Mael). Pini charts the impact of Sparks on his life while meeting with fellow Sparks’ fans, among them famous musicians, in Tel Aviv, London, Berlin, Rotterdam and NYC. Structured as a personal quest of the filmmaker to prove that Sparks are the coolest underrated band in the history of popular music, this docu-comedy explores the universal themes of growing old and being an outsider, the importance of art in daily life and the power of non-conformism.
Fantastisch
The comical and at times sad story of 100-year-old street player, Shmulik Leshed.
HAGIGA – The Story of Israeli Cinema
“HAGIGA – The Story of Israeli Cinema” is a milestone documentary series that challenges the way we think about the history of Israeli cinema. Combining hundreds of interviews captured over two years with rare archival footage from behind the cameras, the series follows Israeli cinema from the sixties up to these days, investigates the key figures of Israeli cinema and their films.
Latchkey Kids
Gur and his sister Daniel have a remarkably close relationship after years of caring for each other in their empty house. Although Daniel is looking outside for a chance to grow up and fall in love, Gur feels safer at home and refuses to let their bond come undone.
Zero Motivation
A smash hit in Israel and winner of the Best Narrative Feature Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, Zero Motivation is a unique, sharply observed, sometimes dark and often hilarious portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female soldiers in a remote Israeli desert outpost. Playing out like M*A*S*H meets Orange is the New Black, Talya Lavie’s brilliant debut details the power struggles of three women with different agendas and very little to do.
Pencil-pushers in the Human Resources Office, best friends Zohar (Dana Ivgy) and Daffi (Nelly Tagar) spend their time playing video games, singing pop songs, jousting with stationery and dreaming of Tel Aviv. The indolent twosome are watched over by their aspiring senior officer, Rama (Shani Klein), who dreams of a higher position and a significant military career, but with a platoon of unskilled, idle, female soldiers without any drive under her charge, her ambitions for promotion are constantly thwarted. With shifts of tone that go from slapstick to satiric to horrifying with fluid ease with a superb supporting cast of characters.
