
Set in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. Read More »
Tag Archives: Israel
To Take a Wife / Ve’Lakhta Lehe Isha (2004) Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Gilbert Melki

The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. Read More »
Lemon Popsicle VI / Harimu Ogen (1985) Dan Wolman, Yftach Katzur, Zachi Noy, Ronen Shilon

It’s hi-jinks on the high seas when Benji, Bobby and Huey set sail on the cruise of a lifetime. Read More »
Wadi Grand Canyon 2001 (2001) Amos Gitai

Twenty years after his first Wadi, Amos Gitai returns for the third time to Wadi Rushmia. Read More »
The Debt (2007) Assaf Bernstein

The year is 1965. Rachel Brener is one of 3 young Mossad agents teem who caught Read More »
A Film Unfinished / Shtikat haarchion (2010) Yael Hersonski, Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Avrutzki

Yael Hersonski’s powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating Read More »
Wadi 1981-1991 (1992) Amos Gitai

Gitai visits a valley outside Haifa in 1981 to document Arab and Jewish squatters on the margins Read More »
A House in Jerusalem / Bait be Yerushalayim (1998) Amos Gitai

Can a house be a metaphor for Arab-Jewish relations in Israel? Amos Gitai returns to the house Read More »
Lemon Popsicle V / Roman Za’ir (1983) Dan Wolman, Yftach Katzur, Zachi Noy, Jonathan Sagall

Benny falls in love with his best friend’s little sister. Read More »
Farewell Baghdad / Mafriah ha-yonim (2013) Nissim Dayan, Daniel Gad, Yasmin Ayun, Tawfeek Barhom

Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist. Read More »