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Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.

Israel, 1967. Sacha and Laura have been living in a kibbutz near the Syrian border for two years. They are visited by Simon, Michel and Paul, three friends from Paris who have come to celebrate Laura's twentieth birthday. Simon is obsessed by the death of the girl he loved and during the birthday evening, attempts to find someone to blame amongst his friends. Laura alone knows that the young girl died of a broken heart. She also loved Sacha. War is declared in Israel.

Mina Sohn is a Christian, Korean woman living in Los Angeles. She runs a flower shop for a living and ministers to those around as her calling. When a young, Jewish lawyer shows up in need of a florist, the two sense an immediate connection. After a series of dinners and in-depth conversations about Christianity and Judaism, they eventually travel to Israel together where they both explore questions of faith, love, duty, and religion.

Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to Oded, an accomplished novelist. Immediately recognizing Aviva's talent, Oded takes her under his wing, promising to help her achieve greatness. But the journey to greatness effects her life and the lives of her family - her unemployed husband, her trouble children, her unstable mother, and primarily her sister, a funny and sensitive woman who have her own dreams. When Aviva discovers that Oded has other plans for her work, her world collapses.

Shoshana, a rich young woman from Tiberias loves Moshe, a poor truck driver from Tel Aviv. They intend to marry, but Nissim, her father, forbids it. They intend to take advantage of Nissim's business trip to Argentina to fulfill their romantic wishes. But an unfortunate mishap happens when Shoshana hears on the radio that Moshe has been involved in an accident and she thinks he was killed. She travels to the Sea of Galilee wishing to commit suicide like her mother did years ago. At the last minute she changes her mind. She is hit by a car driven by three strange man and is blinded. The three men take care of her and Nurit, her young baby from Moshe. They become a street entertainment group: the three men play music, Shoshana sings and Nurit dances. After eight years, Moshe changes his name to Mike and becomes a famous singer, while Shoshana has eye surgery and regains her eyesight, and then Mike marries Shoshana.

A film director is out to get what he wants at any cost, even if it means murder, oblivious to the fact the woman he trusts is actually working against him.

Simple people struggle through extraordinary circumstances. Sometimes the only answer to any problem is 'The world is funny so we have to laugh.'

Chico takes his unconditional love for his son Ben to the next level in the second installment of Avi Cohen's adventure trilogy, which picks up on a positive note -- soon after Chico won a hard-fought custody battle for Ben. But everything crumbles when the government tries to take Ben away from him and his new girlfriend can't stay faithful. Good thing Ben has a plan.

Respectable single father and tour boat captain Chico fights tooth and nail to maintain custody of his dear son Ben while developing a romantic relationship with beautiful lawyer Galia.

Deal with the struggles for Tiberias, a city that in its glorious days was the northern and tourism capital of Israel, and today is a poor and neglected housing town, it is not always clear if it is a struggle for a city? About a country? A political or religious struggle? Or that everything is personal in the war between the new mayor, Ron Kobi, nicknamed "the Trump of the North" and Shimon Cohen, an ultra-Orthodox social activist and a Shas representative.

In the 1990's a million former USSR Jews arrived in Israel. The immigrants were despised by the local population who feared their 'invasion'. While many embraced the Israeli lifestyle, others chose to live in self-made Russian ghettos. These ghettos were a fertile ground for the creation of self-hating Jewish skinheads. 'White Panther' is the story of Alex, a young Russian immigrant who joins a skinheads' gang, led by his older brother. An unexpected meeting with David, a religious Moroccan Jew, gives Alex a chance to pursue his longtime dream of becoming a boxer like his father. Alex finds himself torn between his two father figures - his violent older brother and his new Jewish trainer, only to find out the truth about those he so admires.

A journey along road 90, the lowest highway in the world and the longest in Israel.

"If I saw someone else screaming like my mother, I would be sure that person was mentally disturbed, if it wasn't 100% authentic..." This is what Israel Meir says about his mother, Rabbanit Lea Kook, whose discourse, according to him, stems from absolutely authentic belief. The ultra orthodox community in general & its women in particular are extremely wary of media exposure. The film therefore provides a rare look into the lives of ultra orthodox women, their activities & their grasp of their identities. Tikkun portrays the phenomenon of the Rabbanit (the wife of a Rabbi) of Tiberius, Leah Kook, an orthodox leader followed by many Israeli women. This film is a vivid picture of the routines and customs of life in an ultra-orthodox household and introduces a very charismatic,yet highly controversial main character. Rabbanit Kook, a staunch believer in a prophecy the world refuses to hear, such an extrovert enthusiast that the filmmaker documented her intensively for two entire years. As the maker of the film disguised herself and became one of the members of the house she could explore the backyard of the scene. The surprising cooperation demonstrated by the rabbanit in making this film, and her agreement to such intimate exposure of her physical & spiritual world for two years were a form of "Tikkun" for her. By watching the Rabanit from almost no distance at all, one could reach a conclusion to the controversial attitude of the Israeli society towards Lea Kook: is she genuine or a fraud?

The final chapter in the extraordinary life of movie mogul, producer and director Menahem Golan, as he looks back over a glorious career and looks forward to an Oscar.

Mitaliz and Tuli have an adventure on their way to a kid's birthday.

When delving into the world of Maimonides, the greatest Jewish adjudicator and philosopher in history, one thing becomes clear: if he were to suddenly awake and appear in the State of Israel of 2017, he would most certainly be baffled. Like every myth, and especially one created 800 years ago, everyone today has his own Maimonides, right wing or left wing, intellectuals or rabbis, whether orthodox, religious nationals, or secular. But "The Great Eagle" himself remains partly as mystery; what were his influences? In what language did he speak and think? What were the events that shaped his life? Above all, what remains of his perceptions in Israel and present-day Judaism?

Students from Missouri, Yale and the University of Texas at Dallas compete.