The year is 1980. The Levis, a large family with a unique lifestyle, live in what was then a rather naive State of Israel. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hebrew
The Ballad of the Weeping Spring AKA Balada le’aviv ha’bohe (2012) Benny Toraty, Uri Gavriel, Yigal Adika, Lirit Balaban
Jossef Tawila, the legendary tar player of the band Ensemble Tourqouise along with Avram Mufradi composed the Crying Spring Symphony. Read More »
The Little Traitor AKA Ha’Boged Hakatan (2007) Lynn Roth, Ido Port, Alfred Molina, Gilya Stern
Based on the novel “Panther in the Basement” by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947 Read More »
The Policeman AKA Ha-Shoter Azulai (1971) Ephraim Kishon, Shaike Ophir, Zaharira Harifai, Avner Hizkiyahu
Azulai is a policeman in Jaffa, whose incompetence is only matched by his soft-heartedness. Read More »
As Tears Go By AKA Zolgot Hadma’ot Me’atzman (1996) Eitan Green, Avi Grainik, Yael Almog, Shir Ben Yunes
Yaakov Tcherniak and his son Yitzhak have a small company that organizes parties and events. Read More »
7 Days (2008) Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz, Moshe Ivgy, Yaël Abecassis
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). Read More »
Life According to Agfa (1992) Assi Dayan, Gila Almagor, Akram Tillawi, Smadar Kilchinsky
The film takes place in Tel Aviv, much of it in a fictitious local pub called Barbie Read More »
Three Mothers (2006) Dina Zvi-Riklis, Miri Mesika, Gila Almagor, Rivka Raz
Rose, Flora and Yasmin were born as a triplet sixty something years ago in Alexandria, Egypt. Read More »
Wisdom of the Pretzel (2002) Ilan Heitner, Benny Avni, Orit Cher, Nir Levy
Known as one of the first Israeli films to gain international acclaim, Wisdom of the Pretzel is pure Tel Aviv Read More »
The Fifth Heaven (2011) Dina Zvi-Riklis, Amit Moshkovitz, Yehezkel Lazarov, Alena Yiv
The story begins in summer and lasts about a year, the Land of Israel during the British Mandate. Read More »
Out of the Blue (2008) Yigal Bursztyn, Alon Aboutboul, Moshe Ivgy, Dorit Bar-Or
This is a little like an extended but half-serious variation on the “Uptown Girl” song video where the working-class guy meets the beautiful model from the billboard. Read More »
Cats on a Pedal Boat (2011) Yuval Mendelson, Nadav Hollander, Nitay Dagan, Dana Frider, Gidi Gov
A high school couple, accompanied by a fat, ginger cat, travel to the Yarkon River to celebrate their six month anniversary with a romantic pedal boat trip. Read More »
Rock the Casbah (2012) Yariv Horowitz, Yon Tumarkin, Roy Nik, Henry David
The year is 1989. In an era of Palestinian demands for independence, the State of Israel sends young soldiers Read More »
Banot (1985) Nadav Levitan, Hanna Azoulay Hasfari, Anat Topol, Chelli Goldenberg
Girls Boot Camp Training Base 12 , which comprises a collection of images from across the social spectrum. Read More »
The Big Dig (1969) Ephraim Kishon, Bomba Tzur, Nissim Azikri, Shraga Friedman
A madman escapes from the asylum in Tel-Aviv, and starts digging a canal right in the middle of one of the main streets. Read More »