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The life of the brilliant judge Micha Alkoby is on a promising path, with a promotion soon to be promoted. Everything changes after his teenage son, Shay, is involved in a hit-and-run, in which he is the culprit.

Three parallel strories of immigrants in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War and about coming together while sealed in a room during the Scud attacks.

With the invasion of Germany into the territory of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, a new stage in the history of the Shoah began, characterized by the massacres of Jews, exemplified in the Ukraine. "The road to Babi Yar" shows the events of the first 100 days of the occupation of Ukraine, during which the Nazis, with the participation of local residents, began killing Jews directly in their places of residence, as well as the evolution of the mass murder system in hundreds of killing sites, symbolized by Babi Yar. Conversations with historians, local residents - eyewitnesses to those events and Jewish survivors of the Shoah, presented in the film, allow us to recreate a comprehensive and painful picture of the fate of the Jews of Ukraine during the Shoah.

Tel-Aviv 2020. A 2nd Covid lockdown is impending. After writing yet another article against prime minister Netanyahu, a journalist is flooded with hateful messages from right wing extremists. Meanwhile he tries in vain to get to his autistic son who lives in a hostel, while his daughter, who is at a protest turned violent, won't answer the phone, sending him and his wife to Jerusalem to find her.

The tumultuous historical story of the establishment of the Histadrut, which accompanies the history of the State of Israel in general and the story of the collapse of the labor movement in particular. The film marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Histadrut.

1948 War . Lolek,a young Holocaust survivor arrives in Israel and thrown in the middle of the desert. A stranger to the language and the new identity he is given, he is assigned in an isolated post under a brutal commander and the burning sun. Afflicted by homesickness and the heat, he sets out to look for some shade. "Homeland offers not only a revisionist account of Israeli history, but of Israeli cinema as well. More than any other Israeli director, Dani Rosenberg explores the price paid by the individual for the demands put on them by the Zionist endeavor. Other Israeli filmmakers, no matter how critical of the Zionist project and of Israeli society, tended to mitigate the stress of this demand by placing their protagonists within the context of a collective-commonly represented by a small group of people or a family-and in doing so, submitted their anguish to its impersonal logic. By placing this community outside of the film's frame and by rendering the significance of the struggle against its demands uncertain, Homeland turns that anguish into a challenge to talk about Israeli history.." Prof. Shai Ginsburg/Duke University "Through the story of two Jewish Holocaust survivors, who roast out in the hot dessert sun as the War of Independence rages, Rosenberg tackles issues such as the artificial construct of the "Sabra", and the connection between Jewish and Arab refugees. One of the characters (Itay Tiran) is a most recent immigrant who is actually trying to get to Haifa to find his girlfriend, and finds himself on a lonely hilltop in the middle of the dessert. The other (Mikki Leon) is waiting for him on that hilltop and has already become the Sabra. He is mustached, tan and muscular yet underneath that he is hiding the Diaspora Jew that Zionism tried to exorcise. This surrealistic situation, which recalls Rafi Bukai's film "Avanti Popolo", becomes even more strange and encumbered by the fact that all the dialogue is in Yiddish. The erotic, sadomasochistic relationship between the two- the pale weak Diaspora Jew and the tanned macho commander, express a concrete question about the ways in which, the Jew is attracted, in an almost Fascistic way, to power. The "discovery" of an abandoned Palestinian village by the character portrayed by Itay Tiran, who stumbles upon the body of a local boy, supplies the film with one of its most powerful moments and expresses the Holocaust survivor's attraction to death. The element of violence that the new immigrant identifies with on his way to becoming a "new Jew" leads to a surrealistic departure scene in which the character says good bye to the old Diaspora world. All of a sudden, the timeless discussion of Jewish victimhood is seen in a different light. This is an issue that has been already presented by new historiography of Zionism, but not yet by the contemporary cinema..." The History of Violence, Yair Raveh, Cinemascope

The film depicts some Holocaust events that occurred during the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet territories controlled by Romania. It is the story of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish victims of the "Romanian" Holocaust.

A comedy set in Ashdod, Israel. Grisha, has almost given up on his dream of opening his own restaurant and serving his specialty dishes. The sudden death of a rich uncle in Russia changes all that. The uncle bequeaths all his money to his only and beloved nephew, so that he may open a restaurant. The problem is that all his life, the uncle was a sworn Communist, and his condition for granting the inheritance is that the restaurant be dedicated the values of Communism. Grisha is indifferent to these values but accepts the condition- he wants to make his dream come true at any price and he's prepares to dedicate the restaurant to any ideology they tell him to - it really doesn't matter. This leads to conflict between Grisha and his father, a failed poet who blames everything on the Soviet regime back in the Old Country. Grisha can't find a bust of Lenin to adorn the dining area, a necessary condition for opening the restaurant. The search for the statue leads to a series of bizarre events and encounters with strange people. In the end, the heroes of the film will have to choose between their ideological beliefs and their values as human beings.

A woman who is supposed to be going home to her partner to celebrate her 50th birthday prepares to leave the restaurant where she works. But in the end she stays a little longer and spends the evening with two strangers. A film about the alternative life that resides in each of us.

30 years after the death of Lieutenant General David Elazar (Dado), his son, Yair, takes a journey in his footsteps. His aim is to penetrate the web of myths shrouding his father's memory; He wants to stop living in his shadow, and to overcome his anger at him, for always putting the Army first. As the journey advances, Yair comes to understand that his father did not differentiate the private from the public; The military was his life: a course of meteoric ascent ending with a painful downfall. After spending many months with his father in the editing room, Yair grows to understand his choices, and is finally able to say goodbye.

A group of Russian Jewish actors who fled their disintegrating "motherland" arrive in Israel in 1990. In a circus tent in Tel Aviv they perform a bizarre cabaret about a group of German Jewish actors, led by the famous clown Adam Stein, who came to Israel straight from the death camps. As the dividing line between their true identities and the characters they play blurs, the creative process explodes boundaries between reality and fantasy; gas masks become theater masks and Holocaust becomes carnival. An extraordinary inquiry into the riddle of the Holocaust, the complex reality of modern Israel, the enigma of faith, and the interchangeability of art and life, mask and face. With magnificent performances by members of the Gesher Theater and gorgeous art direction.

Based on the TV series "Ha-Mone Dofek" ("Night Fare"). Danny lives in a one bedroom apartment in Shabazi, a run down neighborhood crumbling over the heads of its inhabitants - dirt poor day laborers, junkies and the homeless, who find refuge in abandoned buildings. One rainy evening Danny almost runs over Gideon, an army comrade, who is now a homeless junkie. Gideon tries to tell Danny about some sinister scam that is going on around in the 'hood, but he's too high, too scared and too confused. The next day Gideon is found murdered, but the police have no real interest in another dead junkie. Danny decides to track down the killer himself. What appears at first to be a drug war soon reveals itself as a vast cooperation between outlaws and men of law. Danny manages to expose the big shots behind the scene, the scumbags who murdered his once brother in arms. Danny's crusade is over; He removes his temporary armor and goes back to his one bedroom apartment in Shabazi - a glorious knight...

Yona, a nurse in the internal medicine department, arrives to work for the last time before retiring. The solemn farewell takes place differently than she expected.

Decades after WWII, the Holocaust of the USSR Jews remained a mystery. It was only after the dismantling of the USSR that efforts were made to document and commemorate these victims. Boris Maftsir sets out on a journey to restore the memory of a Holocaust that was all but forgotten.

In October 1947, the "Black Book" was to be published in Moscow - a collection of testimonies and articles about the murder of two million and seven hundred thousand Jews under Nazi occupation in the Soviet Union. The book was shelved by the authorities. As if the Holocaust of Soviet Jews had never occurred at all. Why did Stalin decide to hide the solid and documented evidence of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.

S. Ansky's The Dibuk, one of the most famous Jewish plays ever written, has been adapted countless times for the stage and screen. This film follows the process of the latest and most daring stage adaptation, written by Roee Chen and directed by Yevgeny Arye at the Gesher Theater in Jaffa. Dibukim follows the stormy rehearsals, the joy of discovery and the growing tensions as the premiere approaches. It follows the mysterious way by which a work of art emerges out of chaos.

The film tells the story of Christian African Women from Sudan and Eritrea, who fled persecution at the hand of Muslims in their countries and are seeking asylum in Israel. The film follows their attempt to build a new life over a period of 5 years - in Israel and Uganda - while living under constant threat of deportation. They know that their journey is far from being over.

Four women in their 60s speak about their charged relationships with their late mothers. Their stories also involve the power relations in the family and with their children.

At the age of 55, Shmulik Leshed decided to become a street player and a clown. Since then and to this day, at the age of 100, he goes around Israel and the world playing and making people happy. For the past 15 years, Shmulik is accompanied by Mira, a Russian immigrant and his faithful caregiver. This unpredictable film exposes the demanding, humoristic and compassionate relationship between Shmulik and Mira, breaking stereotypes surrounding the issues of aging.

Krizel, a six years old blind Philippine girl who was born in Israel, doesn't want to go to the Philippines. Israel is her homeland. Janet, her adoptive mother who is a Philippine foreign worker, feels here as a stranger. Janet needs to explain her daughter about an operation which might save one of her eyes and increase their chances to stay in Israel. This film is about a mother and a daughter bonded by their destiny. Will Krizel be able to see one day, and will they stay both together in Israel?

We allow you to die - The story of the starvation camp Pechora on the border between Transnistria and the German occupied Vinnytsia district in the Ukraine. A "model" camp that illustrates the murderous policy of the Romanians towards the Jews: death by starvation and disease.

A Five Episode Docu-Soap, depicting the day to day life of the staff and guests of the 'Herods' - A fancy Theme-Hotel in Eilat. Though the story line and events are purely documentary the way it is constructed constitute a comet about the thin line between life and drama, cliches and habits. Paradoxically the screening of series in Israel turned the characters appearing on each episode to hero-for-a day, thus realizing the creators vision.