Sarit Vino-Elad

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She's just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Or's emotions roil further when the mother of the youth she's in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Or's choices narrow.

After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened. They expect sympathy and cooperation from the Israeli authorities, but are instead met with an official explanation that fails to tally with any eye-witness accounts, and a wall of silence. When an Israeli army report attempts to whitewash the incident, the Hurndalls decide the only way to establish the truth is to launch their own investigation into the shooting, a process which brings them face to face with both the Open-Fire regulations of the Israeli army in Gaza, and the soldier who pulled the trigger.

Hostes olarak çalışan 37 yaşındaki dul Miri (Mili Avital), bir gün uçuştan geri döner. Evinde çalışan Çinli genç kadın, kısa sürede dönmek üzere dışarı çıkıp, küçük oğlunu Miri’ye bırakırsa da bir daha geri dönmez. Küçük çocuk İbranice konuşamadığı için Miri onunla arasında bir iletişim kuramaz. Kız kardeşi ile birlikte çocuğa ‘Noodle’ adını verirler. Daha sonra Noodle’ın annesinin Çin’e geri yollandığını ve çocuğun Israil’de doğduğu için pasaportu olmadığını öğrenirler. Miri, kız kardeşi ve çevrsinin de yardımıyla küçük çocuğu Çin’e, annesinin yanına götürmeye karar verir…Yasa dışı göçmenler sorununu arkada kalan küçük bir çocuğun açısından irdeleyen, 10. İsrail Akademi Ödülüne aday gösterilmiş ve aynı zamanda 2007 Montreal World Film Festivalin de Grand Jury (Büyük Jüri) ödülünü almış özel bir film...

A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, grating song about "amour." Realizing that Anat is distraught over the crisis in her marriage, they decide to compose a song to cheer her up. As a lark, they enters their cellphone video of it in next year's contest, and it becomes Israel's entry.

Tel Aviv’de veterinerlik yapan 50 yaşındaki Yoram, kızının intihar teşebbüsünden sonra ilişkilerini gözden geçirmek zorunda kalır. Kızının anne tarafından akrabalarını ziyaretleri, Lut Gölü’nün kuşattığı kadim çöl topraklarında kendilerini ve birbirlerini keşfettikleri bir yolculuğa dönüşür.

An eighty-year-old man's body is found with three stab wounds to the chest and a number tattooed along his forearm. Amnon, a police detective and second generation Holocaust survivor, is reluctantly assigned to the case. As the plot weaves between the past and present, their stories unfold.

On the day he is released from prison, Yisarael appears on the doorstep of the woman whose life he had changed. A weird relationship develops between the two.

'Shoelaces' tells the story of a complicated relationship between an aging father and his special-needs son, whom he abandoned while he was still a young boy. Reuben's (60) kidney's are failing and his son Gadi (35), wants to donate one of his own kidney's to help save his father's life. However, the transplant committee objects to the procedure claiming that Rueben, acting as Gadi's sole legal guardian, does not have the right to authorize such an invasive procedure. Gadi, who recently lost his mother, is afraid of losing his father as well. He feels he finally has the chance to do something meaningful; to become a man and stand on his own. He's furious with the committee's decision and sets out to fight for his right to save his father's life. Through the film's portrayal of a relationship full of love, rejection and co-dependency, it manages to shed some light and question the importance of human life, human connection and if life is even possible without it either one of them.

Uri and Anna, Holocaust survivors, start a new life in Israel, concealing their traumatic past. After 25 years, Mossad compels Uri to infiltrate a Nazi group in Germany to locate the escaped war criminal Mengele.

From the ambush at an open-air music festival to a family's last stand inside their home, ordinary people face life-or-death situations as a terrorist invasion turns southern Israel into a war zone.

Sagit, a cynical 33-year-old security screener at Ben Gurion Airport, still lives with her father, with whom she shares a complicated and deeply codependent relationship. When he leaves to perform with a famous band, Sagit is forced to face life on her own for the first time. As she slowly ventures beyond her comfort zone, she unexpectedly finds romance, reconnects with her estranged mother, and discovers the courage to pursue her dream of becoming a writer.