Israel Movies

After twenty years of screening films about courageous individuals, the Festival finally gets an opportunity to honour a local hero! For 28 years, sh...

This experimental animated short tells the story of the Dead Sea and its commodification within Israeli history.

Director Tal Haim Yoffe (The Green Dumpster Mystery) joins asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan, along with their supporters, as they set out for an...

Sixty-five years later, five Holocaust survivors tell their amazing story, about the secret journal VEDEM created by a group of teenage boys right ben...

“Powerful and profound.” (London International Student Film Festival) A cinematic love letter to the filmmaker’s grandmother who didn’t follow generat...

Mika's boyfriend Nati puts an end to the relationship when Mika proposes marriage. Mika moves back home and becomes addicted to the ATARI video game s...

The creators of Ancestral Sin (TJFF 2018) continue their exploration of discriminatory policies through which Mizrahi immigrants were systemically sid...

Naomi and Marwan are a couple that communicate in Hebrew. When they decide to speak solely in Arabic on Fridays, their new routine leads to miscommuni...

The captivating story of a Russian Jewish filmmaker working during the height and collapse of the Soviet Union. In this autobiographical documentary,...

A stunning animated film depicting the inner dialogue of a woman converting to Judaism as she first undergoes the mikvah process.

Abed A-Salim is the Mukhtar of the Gypsy community in East Jerusalem. His family has been typing requests for visitors at the Israel Ministry of Inter...

The story of Lebanon is one of ongoing tragedy. A march of follies orchestrated by heads of state, sects, and militias. The Palestinians, French, Brit...

An intimate couple’s portrait, Empty Handed follows Moriya and Ophir before, during and after they struggle to make the hardest decision in their life...

An old man finds the act of simply sitting on the toilet is fraught with peril.

After several months of not seeing his son, Eran decides to visit him at his ex-wife's house for the first time, knowing he will have to face her new...

After dropping out of college and losing his job, Tom's relationship with Shahar is all he got. When she leaves him for an old friend, Tom gradually b...

The Angel of History deals with the troubling presence of unsolved past events in actual and imagined realities. It takes place in various public and...