Feature Films

All I had was Nothingness

Lanzmann’s search among witnesses and those who remained silent, and the making of Shoah.

Bookends

A gay aspiring writer’s journey into his grandparents’ past and an unexpected romance.

Dead Language

A Kubrickian story of desire, alienation, and a strange encounter.

Just an Illusion

Coming of age in the Parisian suburbs of the 1980s.

Noga

Israeli global star Noga Erez caught between success, personal crisis, and war.

Oxygen

A mother torn between her son and his duty to defend his country.

Reward for the Rain

Love, Memory and Farewell in the Shadow of the Holocaust.

Shalom

Boundaries, captivity, and coexistence through the story of a rhinoceros.

Sun Bay

Loneliness, community, and the search for home in a trailer park facing eviction.

The Sea

A Palestinian boy’s journey to the sea.

The Soundman

Love, dreams, and the magic of sound in 1940's Brussels.

The Wedding Entertainer

Two wedding entertainers clash over the perfect hasidic wedding.

Where To?

An unexpected friendship between a Palestinian taxi driver and an Israeli young man in the nights of Berlin.

Short Films

Vital Signs

An immigrant, a trip to buy oranges, and an absurd journey in search of identity.

The Nest Club + The Machine

The story of the legendary Fészek Club, blurring the lines between reality and fiction in two experimental films.

The Eulogy

A postponed funeral, two rival brothers, and a eulogy that could change everything.

Something Wild

A girl preparing for university occasionally turns into a bear.

Snipped

A Jewish convert. A Muslim doctor. One holy snip - and a whole lot of tension.

No Witches in the Valley

A dying grandmother, the shadows of a socialist past, and trauma passed down through generations.

Love Letter to My Brother

The bond between twins is tested when one embraces ultra-Orthodox Judaism.

Come What May

As her mother’s future hangs in uncertainty, Angeli drifts between her mother and the city that raised her.

Beshert

An unlikely friendship between a grumpy old man and a boy preparing for his bar mitzvah.

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