A woman has an affair with a man in a sculptor’s studio and is found dead.
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And Thou Shalt Love
Ohad, a young orthodox Jew, tries to extinguish his homosexual tendencies. But when his boyfriend returns from the army, he finds he can no longer evade his feelings and questions within himself, and between himself and God.
A Brief History of Love
Shaul and Rami are best friends, 40 years old. Both are in unhappy marriages, but Rami has found comfort in the arms of a Russian immigrant with whom he’s having an affair. Shaul is jealous of his friend’s happiness until the day he comes home to find his wife in the arms of a stranger. As old secrets and forgotten histories come pouring out, relationships will have to change.
A Hebrew Lesson
A Hebrew Lesson is a humorous, smart and exciting mosaic of a mixture of immigrants of various nationalities and their teacher. It is a film that gets under the skin of its participants as well as that of the audience. One of those whose characters won’t let you go even days after having seen it – and actually you don’t want them to leave. Chin left her daughter in China and came to Israel to make a living there. She cleaned Ehud’s house, and they fell in love. Sasha never considered immigrating to Israel. But four years after his wife left Russia with their daughter, he understood that life without his child would be worthless. He abandoned a thriving business, only to find himself in Tel Aviv’s worst neighborhood. Marisol grew up as a Jewish princess in Lima, Peru and came to Israel to learn something about life. An unplanned pregnancy alters her plans. These and other characters meet in a Hebrew language Ulpan, where their personal stories melt with the complexities of Israeli reality. The immense effort of learning a new language is revealed through their encounter with a strange culture and an unfamiliar environment. Israeli society is revealed through the foreigner’s eyes. This gaze – at times funny, at times sad – paints daily reality with irony. But beyond the obvious differences, the human common denominator of longing and love triumphs time and again.
A Thousand and One Wives
A widowed merchant, whose first two wives died in mysterious circumstances, desperately wants an heir and is persuaded to marry again. However, because the merchant suffers from sexual malfunctions, this marriage is barren too. Things take a turn for the worst when his wife is raped by a salesman. When her pregnancy is visible, her husband has to protect…
Adam
Shmulik Kraus is a wealthy doctor who decides to go against his psychologist, and disprove his theory on the origins of human violence.
A Touch Away
This drama series reveals a hopeless love story between an orthodox religious young woman and a Russian immigrant. The lives of two families interconnect in an apartment complex in the orthodox neighborhood of Bnei Brak, just outside Tel Aviv. The Bermans are a strictly religious family, whose daughter Rochale is about to enter into an arranged marriage with a wealthy young bridegroom. But sparks fly when a thoroughly secular family from Russia moves into a neighboring apartment. The forbidden love that soon blossoms between the two young neighbors, and the secrets that each family must hide, threaten the families deeply rooted traditions and challenge individual family member’s beliefs.
A Five Minute Walk
An abundance of characters with much to do and little to lose, go out into the Tel Aviv night aiming to return home safely with what they need: 20 kilos of coke, a black and white film, or love. They will meet much more quickly than they imagined. A five minute walk separates police from criminals, enemies from lovers, a happy ending from an inevitable tragedy. A story on new beginnings and endings all in a period of 24 hours.
All Happy Mornings
A personal journey into bisexuality. Facing presure from his surroundings, Yefman tries to find a way to feel complete without having to explain.
Alice
Alice, 38, spends her days sleeping. Working nights at a rehabilitation center provides her an accessible excuse that conceals fatigue and emotional apathy. Yigal, Alice’s husband, feels lonely and tormented by her chilly attitude, while his pent up anger gradually heightens. Eli, her 9 year old son, is desperate for her love.The rehabilitation center houses and treats thirty young women who have suffered emotional crises. Alice prefers as little communication as possible with the girls and performs only the basic demands of her job: handing out medication, supervising meals and overseeing shower time. After lights out, in her small room in the staff area, Alice meets Yoel, her lover. On the narrow single bed, a passion for another kind of life — for what might have been — is born. The girls’ volcanic emotional world reflects how desolate Alice’s life is in contrast. Thus, she cannot remain on the sidelines for too long. The confrontations of a dominant young woman on the one hand and the dependence of another, hurl her into a power triangle that will have devastating consequences.
