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Rachel from Ofakim 2024
On the morning of the October 7 attack, Rachel and David Edri were held hostage in their home in Ofakim by a terrorist squad. For 20 hours the couple survived alone with the terrorists until they were rescued by the security forces. During the hours, Rachel offered the terrorists food and drinks, talked with them and took care of one of the wounded.

Strange Birds 2024
A phone call wakes me up early in the morning. My older brother got into trouble. Again. After another entanglement, I realize that I can no longer ignore the problems that follow him around, and which seem to be taking over my life. I use the camera to get answers from my family and a wall of silence melts away. Through a mix of amusing, intense, and eye-opening encounters, I begin to understand how relations in my family, especially with my mother, were influenced by an unspoken expression. Strange Birds is an intimate film that reveals an unspoken story about special parenting and the children who grow up in its shadow.

The Village Leagues 2024
2023. Tahsin Mansour lives across the Palestinian village of Azzoun. Once its mayor, he hasn't entered the village for years, fearing for his life. When the war broke out, a roadblock was installed, turning his house into an enclave - neither Palestinian nor Israeli. Tahsin reminisces on his days as a former leader of the Village Leagues: As Palestinian nationalism unites around the PLO in the 70s, the Israeli defense ministry offers incentives to a moderate leadership which will lay the ground for a diplomatic pact. The project draws fire from the Arab world and Israeli entities, declaring the Leagues members traitors. When this project fails, they become persecuted in their own homes.

?לאן נעלם ג'ורג' חליל 2024 star_border 6

Beyond October 7th 2024
Three generations of the Gad family physically survived the devastating assault by Hamas on October 7th. This intimate documentation begins just two days after their rescue from the massacre, capturing the family’s painful struggle with shock, trauma, and grief at both personal and communal levels. Every family member copes differently with the aftermath. Their closest friends were either murdered or abducted, their homes lost, yet they continue to fight for the survival of Be’eri’s community while struggling to avoid despair. Despite their fears and anguish, a sliver of hope glimmers in the eyes of each member, from grandparents to grandchildren. As they muster the will to restore the once lush, green Kibbutz they fled from under fire, one question remains: Will they ever return to Be’eri?

Full Support 2024
In a Jaffa bra shop's fitting room, women's love-hate affair with their bosom buddies unfolds. As each heroine struggles to find the perfect bra, she bares not just her chest, but her soul, sharing tales of triumph, tribulation, and the occasional wardrobe malfunction. For breasts aren't just fleshy accessories-they're the protagonists of our life's epic. From the awkward moment they first break out, to the sobering reality checks of mammograms, our relationship with our "girls" is a bouncy roller-coaster of ups and downs because life, much like a poorly fitted bra, is full of surprises. This film unravels the mystery, myth, and full support between women and their breasts. It's a story that's written on our bodies, in every curve, contour, and stretch mark.

Acre Wall Jumpers 2024
On the hot summer days in the old city of Acre, a tradition connects the generations – children and teens jump from the old city walls into the sea waters below, a test of courage on the path to masculine maturity. Among the black coastal rocks and ancient stone ramparts, each leap is absolute freedom and a breath of fresh air amid the boredom of the long summer vacation. During the endless sweltering days, everlasting friendships are forged around this defining tradition, as the ranks of youth are replenished from generation to generation. The film unveils a nostalgic and stirring world of friendships, dangers and displays of bravery – all anchored in the experience of youthful masculinity atop the ancient city walls.

It Happened on Our Ground 2024
A journey of three generations of women living on one farm that Wendi, the (grand)mother, inherited from her uncle, Hitler’s first foreign minister and senior SS officer. The film is a feminine personal portrait of a German aristocratic family who used their privileged position to save Jews from a concentration camp that was erected on their land. The three women are not afraid to confront the difficult past of their family in an attempt to safeguard a peaceful future.

Something Spicy 2024
A documentary about the complex character of Moshe Badash, the man who brought industrial salads to Israel and founded the "Picanti" retail chain, all the while fighting the elites, food monopolies, and the Israeli IRS. Was he a righteous fighter or an opportunist?

Six Thirty 2024
A documentary film that brings testimonies taken just one week after the attack, from 7 different areas that were attacked in the events of Saturday, 10/7/23. The film is told from the point of view of the survivors. The evidence is unusually presented in the movie with the help of miniature models and animations that reinforce the hard evidence. The survivors share the survival experience they experienced during the long hours of the murderous terrorist attack. Those who ran away from the party, the houses they hid in, those who fought against the terrorists, and those who saved lives in the field. All with the choices they had to make in real-time, and saved their lives.

The Shoshani Riddle 2023 star_border 6
No one knows his real name; he is only known as Mr. Shoshani. He was an eternal nomad, a mad genius, who attracted disciples such as Nobel Prize winner Eli Weisel and renowned philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Mr. Shoshani is one of the unsolved riddles of the 20th century, he is among the 10 most mysterious people of all time.

Stronghold 2023 star_border 8
Based on real events that took place in the "Mazakh" bastion, the Yom Kippur war, the Sinai front. After a surprise Egyptian attack, 42 soldiers under the command of a young lieutenant from the Seder yeshiva, struggle to repel the enemy attacks during which many of the fighters are injured or killed. At the same time in the TAGD bunker, the Tel Avivian reserve doctor is fighting for the lives of the wounded fighters and calls for urgent evacuations that do not come. After a week of siege and fighting, the soldiers will have to choose whether to continue fighting under the orders of their commander, or to follow the plan of the reserve doctor - a plan that may save their lives. Will they decide to give up the values they were raised on and surrender, or will they fight to the last bullet?

The Three of Us 2023
A young couple is torn between their place in the Israeli Haredi (Ultra - orthodox) community and their desire to give their autistic son the chance to win independence and be integrated into society.

1948 - Remember, Remember Not 2023
Two films that create one work about the 1948 War of Independence unfold along two axes. One in the past, retelling the events of the war through journals and letters that were written in real time – an ensemble of voices, Jewish and Arab, that create a human story about that dramatic war and allow a glimpse into the way the perception of this war was constructed on both sides. They’re accompanied by breathtaking original footage, a great part of it being shown for the first time. In the present, the characters are battling over the war’s memory – researchers, archivists, members of the unit for detecting missing soldiers. Some are charges with maintaining the ethos, other with its deconstruction. Each one of them believes that how memory of this crucial war will be embedded is critical to the future of our lives here in Israel.

Lies I Told Myself 2023
While investigating the destructive relationship of his parents, Efim, the filmmaker, stumbles upon a dark secret concealed from him. This revelation rocks his world and he sets out on a cinematic journey to heal his wounded soul.

MY PROJECT X 2023 star_border 8
Michal Ben Horin reveals her childhood secrets. Through a personal film archive in which she holds private conversations with the world’s most psychopathic criminals, including Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez – The Night Stalker who murdered 18 people, Lynette Fromme – a member of the Manson family and the woman who tried to assassinate President Ford, and more. Michal asks them questions she couldn’t ask her stepfather, Motke Keddar, a Mossad agent who murdered his informant and became known as prisoner X, but for Michal he is the man who hurt her, and the biggest psychopath of all. The filmmaker embarks on a 30 -year journey in which she wants to understand the dangerous madness behind the stamp of genius and logical proficiency of her stepfather.

Once Upon a School 2023
This is the story of the "Midrashia", the flagship of Religious Zionism in Israel, "the mother of the high-school yeshivas." This is a story about an educational start-up that was founded before the establishment of the state, and trained thousands of high-quality students who worked in all the centers of power in the State of Israel. This is a story about a school that, in a complex and surprising process, changed its face, and became an elitist and luxurious high school that produced successful and dedicated students - to an anarchic and disordered place. It is a chilling and unbelievable story about a sublime educational vision that has collapsed, about brotherhood, loss of control and maturation, and about the nature of the human soul, in which good and evil, cruelty and kindness, are mixed up.

Quitting Boussiers 2022
The story of Novardok Yeshiva in Boussiers

The Echo of Your Voice 2021
Ari Shemer was the greatest singer Israel knew in the 1970's, and a legend in his own lifetime. Decades later, Lenny Shemer, his grandson, turns out to be a musical prodigy and signs up for a famous reality-TV singing competition that may turn him into a pop sensation. So why is his father, Kobi, Ari's son, so underappreciated by his peers? How is it that the great talent seems to have skipped over him with such cruel nonchalance? This is a musical drama about the strange nature of talent, three generations of musicians and the echoes left between them.

Disgrace 2021
In a wintry day of January 1977, Israel's minister of construction commited sucide on Tel Baruch beach in Tel Aviv. In the preceeding months a corruption affair involving two Mapai seniors. Asher Yadlin who was the designated governor of the Bank of Israel, and his good friend Avraham Offer were suspected to have accepted bribe in real estate deals. The affair, that broke out after an investigation by Yigal Laviv, a determined and persistent journalist, was taken care of by police officer Biniamin Ziggel, and Israel's young attorney genral, Aharon Barack. The two, who wanted to eradicate government corruption, initiated an investigation. The results had serious implications: Offer lost his life, Yadlin ended up behind bars, and Mapai had to hand over their power after three decades of governing Israel. The movie Disgrace raises questions about government corruption, that is as relevant as ever.

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The Endless Day 2024
A bold documentary series which deals comprehensively with the events of the October 7 surprise attack on Israel through interviews and reconstructions. Over 100 interviewees from the various events that took place that day were interviewed for the series. From survivors of the Nova party to military personnel and pilots, the interviewees tell their story while recreating the events in the places where Hamas has infiltrated.

The Truth 2024 star_border 6.4
Ten years after Israel's most controversial homicide case, convicted murderer Ruby Deloya is set to receive the verdict on his appeal. Then an eerily similar murder takes place, casting the original investigation into doubt. Young detective Racheli Zabatani must revisit the traumas of her past to figure out the mysteries of the present.

The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything 2024 star_border 6.5
Two investigators on the tracks of a mysterious investigator who demands to know everything.

אתגר היצירה 2023

Aviram Katz 2023
Follows a successful author of thriller books, who has been in a writing barrier for a long time and also an offer to publish a story in sequels in a newspaper fails to rescue him from the barrier. Salvation comes from the neighbor, Dr. Victor Guetta. Guetta asks Aviram to give his opinion on a story he wrote. Aviram, who hates requests of this kind, approaches the reading reluctantly and is amazed: this is the most beautiful story anyone has ever written. Aviram decides to steal the story. He sends the story to the system, not knowing what a whirlwind his life is about to enter as a result of the act.

Carthago 2022 star_border 5
Elijah Levi, a successful comedian in 1942 Palestine, is deported by the British authorities to Carthago, a detainee camp, in which he is held with Jewish underground warriors and Nazi criminals.

Meshulam's Riddle 2022

Pollard 2022
A documentary miniseries about the affair that marks even today the biggest and most significant trauma in US-Israel relations, that since the 60s were warm and close.

Caramel 2022 star_border 7

The Echo of Your Voice 2021

Motek Bool BaEmtza 2021 star_border 8.5
A satirical comedy about the Knesset.

Rehearsals 2020 star_border 8.5
Two theater writers are forced to work together just when they're going through a breakup in their relationship. They are joined by two egotistical TV stars.

Tehran 2020 star_border 7.5
Tamar is a Mossad hacker-agent who infiltrates Tehran under a false identity to help destroy Iran's nuclear reactor. But when her mission fails, Tamar must plan an operation that will place everyone dear to her in jeopardy.

The Pocket Games 2020
Kan's daily program o0n economics

Dad is trying 2019 star_border 8

Mouna 2019
Mouna is a Palestinian photographer living in Tel Aviv, moments before her big professional break. When a military operation in Gaza goes out of hand, she is faced with the realities of both worlds she lives in, and with the close relationships with the two men in her life.

PMTA 2018 star_border 9.5
Marcel Ben David is a former police officer that joins PMTA (initials in Hebrew for: Tel Aviv District Attorney), and herself in the middle of an entangled corruption story. A suspenseful legal drama with Chen Amsalem, Shlomo Bar-Aba and Oshri Cohen.

Stockholm 2018 star_border 9
The black comedy starts with the death of Avishai Sar-Shalom, a renowned economist and leading Nobel prize candidate. His body is found by his four close old friends, and moments before calling an ambulance, one of them brings up with an idea. Only a few days separate between an economy professor that would be forgotten and a Nobel Prize winner.

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A look back at this week's events

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Kan's saturday evening news

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