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From October 6 to October 7

Spanning from the Yom Kippur War to the horrors of October 7th, Major General Doron Almog’s life is a timeline of Israeli tragedy. Yet, surrounded by five decades of bereavement, this Israel Prize laureate refuses to despair. A profound portrait of a leader transforming relentless personal grief into a legacy of national hope.

For the Love of a Woman

Esther, an American woman (Mili Avital), travels to Jerusalem to search for a missing part of her family history. With the help of an Israeli professor (Ori Pfeffer), Esther discovers a shocking truth about herself and how it all connects to the era of early settlers in the 30’s. This surprising English-language romantic drama, uniting the past and the present, is based on the novel “The Loves of Judith” by the beloved author Meir Shalev.

Mama

Spending 15 years apart from her family in order to build their future, Mila has become comfortable in the wealthy landscape of her employer. When an accident sends her unexpectedly back home to rural Poland, Mila has to face a new truth: her husband and daughter’s lives have been moving on without her.

Lost in Territories

Set in the charged landscape of the West Bank, Lost in Territories offers a darkly comic and deeply human glimpse at life beyond the headlines, finding moments of connection and absurdity where division seems absolute.

The Big League

Eliran Ben-Tovim, a star soccer coach on the verge of national glory, loses everything after a violent outburst during a crucial match. Banned from professional soccer, he reluctantly accepts coaching a failing middle-school team of misfit kids.

Cuz You’re Ugly

Avigail (19), a wild and insecure midshipwoman, returns home to the stuffy apartment in Jerusalem that she shares with her dysfunctional mother and her 15-year-old sister. Avigail hopes to untie the last remaining chains of her childhood and lose her virginity before the weekend is over and she’s back on duty. But to her amazement, upon arriving home, she learns that her young, angelic sister got knocked up. Now, instead of getting rid of her virginity, Avigail must get rid of a baby.

Dead Language

While waiting at the airport for her husband, Aya is mistaken for someone else. Rather than correct the error, she follows an impulse to pick up a complete stranger, leading to an unexpected intimacy that unsettles Aya’s carefully ordered life. Nominated for 12 Israeli Academy Awards, Dead Language is a tender and quietly arresting portrait of yearning, connection, and the fragile space between hope and desire.

Oxygen

Anat, a schoolteacher shaped by language and imagination, awaits her son Ido’s army discharge. When a new war erupts, and she learns he has volunteered to fight, their bond fractures. Caught between a father destroyed by war and a son rushing toward it, Anat makes a radical maternal choice just before Ido crosses into Lebanon.