Apples from the Desert
Unhappy with her restrictive religious home, Rebecca secretly breaks taboos, joining a dance class where she meets a secular kibbutznik.
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Unhappy with her restrictive religious home, Rebecca secretly breaks taboos, joining a dance class where she meets a secular kibbutznik.
Three sisters return to their childhood home in Israel to confront their life choices. Set during the final days of Yitzhak Rabin’s reign.
In the midst of large-scale protests in Israel, we are bringing you this documentary as a reminder of the power of hope and solidarity. A look back on the 2011 social justice protests.
The great-grandaughter of the original owners of the crown of 1920s Berlin café culture travels to Berlin to find out the truth of the family narrative.
Coinciding with the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, this hilarious, politically incorrect comedy is the perfect satire on the beloved but bonkers TV spectacle and Muslim-Jewish relations.
Best Film at the 2018 Docaviv Festival. The story of a family whose lives change completely after the father tells them she’s a transgender woman.
Winner of an Israeli Academy Award in 2015. An 80-year-old man's body is found with three stab wounds to the chest and a mysterious tattoo.
When Anat, the scion of a distinguished musical family, learns that her new born baby might become deaf, she decides to do the unthinkable.
A box-office comic sensation in Israel about a bourgeois Jerusalem family who bring new meaning to the word dysfunctional.
Follow Chef Michael Solomonov as he investigates whether there is such a thing as Israeli cuisine through meeting different chefs.
A boxing club located in a bomb shelter in a parking lot in Jerusalem weaves a tapestry of the city's different cultures and people.
Little Simiko, who works in a hummus bar, wants to make a film about strippers after taking a photography class.
In this comical feature film, 65-year-old Peter decides to run for office in order to get a governmental pension.
Based on rare archival materials, including off-the-record interviews, this is a nuanced and detailed study of an influential statesman, whose life – and death – have come to define a nation.
A retired Mossad agent is drawn back into service to protect a Lebanese collaborator brought to a safe house in Hamburg.
In this hilarious Israeli comedy, the writer on an Arab speaking soap strikes an unlikely friendship with an Israeli checkpoint officer whose wife is a huge fan of the show.
During one of his many business trips to Berlin, Israeli Oren visits a café and falls instantly in love – both with its cakes and with Thomas, the baker who makes them.
New hilarious Israeli TV series following a group of Haredi youth studying at a yeshiva in Jerusalem who prefer their Talmud study with a side of goofing off.
Despite saving the lives of thousands of Jews and taking an integral role in the Kindertransport, Wilfrid Israel is, for the most part, a forgotten hero.
In this life-affirming film, Jewish and Arab clients sit together in candid conversations in an Arab-owned hair salon in Haifa.