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Apartment #5C
Apartment 5C follows several individuals trying to survive within the inner cities of New York. Nicky (Tinkerbell) and Uri (Ori Pfeffer), two Israelis with expired U.S. visas, are making ends meet by robbing local stores at gunpoint. The couple becomes a little overexcited with their gun in their Brooklyn apartment one evening, and Nicky is accidentally shot in the leg. Uri leaves in a panic, never to return. Luckily for Nicky, the building’s maintenance person (Richard Epson) takes pity on her, and agrees to care for her while her leg heals. This leads to a relationship between the two; one which Harold’s (Epson) wheelchair bound brother-in-law (Jeff Ware) doesn’t approve of. Max (Ware) is determined to put a stop to the budding romance, which Nicky and Harold predictably do not take lightly, leading to a violent conclusion for the trio.
Alenbi Romance
“All of those romantic movies are always in foreign cities. It’s always Tokyo, Paris, Rome, New York. It’s easier over there. The hardest thing is being romantic in your own city. Your city is always against you, trying to ruin it for you. It’s not easy, all this romance”. Nico and Neta, two lonesome souls, embark on a romantic journey through the moonlit streets of Tel-Aviv, where they will meet all the beauty and vitality of the city, but also all of the hurt and suffering lying beneath its glittering veneer.
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Tal is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She’s Israeli and he’s Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem and he lives in Gaza. They both live their lives until one day a bottle is thrown in the sea.
Inheritance
2 Night
In a city where everything is possible, a guy and a girl are looking for the impossible — a parking space! The night begins when two strangers meet in a bar and want to spend the evening together but can’t find a parking place. This predicament quickly turns into an all night road-trip with various characters and surprising events – a trip in which they must face each other (and confront themselves) as an absurd situation unfolds.
77 Steps
This is the personal journey of the director who leaves her Arab-Muslim village and moves to Tel Aviv. While searching for an apartment, she encounters discrimination by most landlords because of her Arab origins. She finally finds an apartment, and meets her neighbor – Jonathan, a Jewish-Canadian man who immigrated to Israel. A love story ensues. Ibtisam joins a left-wing political party (Meretz) and runs for the Knesset. On New Year’s Eve 2009, Israel invades Gaza. Hundreds are killed. Ibtisam resigns from her party because of its support of the War. She struggles over her Palestinian identity, but does not relinquish her relationship with Jonathan. Yet something has gone sour. Jonathan’s family refuses to meet his girlfriend. Jonathan says: “They can’t forgo their image of their future daughter-in-law – Jewish, white and English-speaking.” Ibtisam is also unable to reveal her relationship to her mother. One day, Jonathan’s grandfather comes from Canada on a nostalgic trip to Kibbutz Ein-Dor, which he helped found in 1948. Ibtisam and Jonathan join him. It becomes an individual journey for each one of them – one that takes them back in time and into the unknown, to memories and dreams, Nakba and independence, love and hate, longing and loss.
Hanna’s Journey
When Hanna moves from Germany to Israel to beef up her resume with community service work, she is confronted with a past she has spent a lifetime denying. Through her job working with individuals with disabilities, she meets brusque social worker Itay, who baits her with Holocaust jokes while openly flirting with her. Between his probing, her new friendship with a German-Jewish Holocaust survivor, and her German roommates, she begins to question her identity, her family history, and her priorities.
10% My Child
Franny is 7 years old. Franny’s mother’s new boyfriend is 26 year old Nico. Nico is trying to be a filmmaker but couldn’t even finish his graduation film. The first time they meet, Franny finds Nico in her mother’s bed. From that moment on, Nico and Franny need to find a way to get along, love and hate each other. Mostly they do all three in the same frame.
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz chronicles his childhood in Jerusalem at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel, and his teenage years on Kibbutz Hulda. As a child, he crossed paths with prominent figures in Israeli society, among them Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Shaul Tchernichovsky, and David Ben-Gurion. One of his teachers was the Israeli poet Zelda. Joseph Klausner was his great-uncle. Told in a non-linear fashion, Oz’s story is interwoven with tales of his family’s Eastern European roots. The family’s name was Klausner. By changing the name to a Hebrew one, Oz rebelled against that European background while affirming loyalty to the land of his birth.
