In the days leading up to the 1936 Olympics, the fate of high jumper Gretel Bergmann hangs in the balance. She is among the world’s finest athletes—but she is also Jewish, undermining the German belief that the Aryan race is superior. The Germans scheme to replace her with another woman, not knowing that “she” holds an even worse secret that could humiliate the Nazis.
The saw mill owner Habermann is the biggest employer in his village and married to Jana, a young and beautiful Czech woman, who is half Jewish. Although Habermann is not interested in politics or ideology, he and his family will be steamrolled by the insanity of World War II. As he tries to save his wife, daughter, and Czech workers from Nazi terror, he find himself facing his own tragedy in an unexpected way.
Based on real events surrounding the expulsion of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia in 1945.
One fence, four fans, and the game of their lives. This short film is a story about four men and a radio.
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A couple’s day at the beach is complicated when an uninvited third joins them for the afternoon.
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A real estate agent and his wife upset with his wife’s newest pregnancy, throwing their marriage into turmoil. A suspicious businessman returns to Israel to care for his ailing father. A single mother tries to stay afloat after losing her job. A radio technician produces a program that could shed light on his past. What happens when the lives of these residents of Tel Aviv become intertwined?
Ya’ara, a blind twenty-four-year-old woman, is attractive, independent, confident, and intelligent. She has just begun her PhD in Mathematics at Princeton University when she hears of her cousin Talia’s suicide and rushes back to Israel. They were best of friends and twin spirits. Talia saw for both of them and was always the one who believed, and led Ya’ara to believe, that in spite of Ya’ara’s blindness, that she could see everything. Ya’ara joins Talia’s family for the traditional seven-day mourning period, and there she discovers the secrets of Talia’s life. She embarks on an investigation trying to discover the reason that led Talia to commit suicide, uncovering lies, secrets and surprises.
Through the streets of Jerusalem, two teenagers’ stories will unite to tell the summer adventure of their lives.
Tamar is an amazingly talented but very quiet and insecure girl, who leaves behind her home and all she knows, changing herself unrecognizably–from her looks to her attitude–to brace herself for a dangerous mission to help a loved one.
Asaf, a clumsy, naive, and very shy boy working a boring summer job at City Hall, is given quite a mission himself: to take an uncontrollable stray dog from the pound, put it on a leash, and let it lead him back to its owners to be fined. The dog, Dinkah, leads Asaf through the city to the people and places that will tell him about Dinka’s owner, Tamar, and her sudden disappearance. The more stories Asaf hears about this extraordinary girl, the more he falls for her, and as he and Dinkah continue their journey Asaf becomes aware that Tamar is in grave danger. Feeling as if he knows her, and knowing he loves her, Asaf is determined to find Tamar and rescue her from her own rescue mission.
70 year old Yaakov Fidelman (Sasson Gabai) hangs on with all his might to the antique restoration workshop which has been his life’s work. After his long-time business partner passes away, Fidelman rejects his son Noah’s idea to close the business and build an apartment complex on the site. He believes that with the help of his new apprentice Anton, he’ll find a way to save his workshop, his world and his solitary way of life. When Anton falls in love with Hava, Noah’s pregnant wife, the two young men compete not only over a father, but also over a woman and the baby she carries.
And they were both naked, the man and the woman, and were not ashamed – Book of Genesis 2:25
A modern-day Adam and Eve story that explores what happens during the moment of intimacy–and what gets lost after it ends.
A group of obese people from the Israeli city of Ramla is fed up with their strict diet regime. But when one of them, Herzl, starts working as a dish washer in a Japanese restaurant, he is exposed to the world of Sumo through Kitano, the restaurant manager and a former Sumo coach in Japan. Herzl falls in love with the Sumo world and persuades Kitano to coach him and his obese friends in a sport and culture where their size is to their advantage. One by one, Herzl’s friends leave their dieting club and discover the world of Sumo, where fat people like them are honored and appreciated. Through Sumo, they connect to themselves and their fat bodies, each one in his or her individual way.
