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Filtered By: Israel Clear All
Blue Marks
Blue Marks
A young Israeli woman moves to Paris to study fashion. After a chance encounter turns into rape, she faces an unwanted child and seeks revenge against the man who killed her dreams.
Cuz You're Ugly
Cuz You're Ugly
Avigail returns home from army service to the Jerusalem apartment she shares with her dysfunctional mother and her younger sister. She hopes to untie the chains of childhood and lose her virginity over the weekend, but things take a sharp turn.
The Day After
The Day After
Amid rising tensions and the outbreak of war, a group of Israelis and Palestinians travel to Northern Ireland to hear and to try to tell an impossible story: how bitter enemies finally make peace.
Estate
Estate
Assaf inherits a house from a father he never knew. When he invites Miriam—a homeless woman living in the backyard—inside, a quiet battle begins that will change both him and the house forever.
Looking for Yadida
Looking for Yadida
Memory, loss, and the quest for truth are central to this hidden story of Mizrahi babies who vanished from Israeli hospitals in the 1950s, explored through rare testimonies and revelations.
Nandauri
Nandauri
A strange woman arrives in a forgotten village in northern Georgia. Marina, an Israeli lawyer who has spent her life in denial about her past and identity, returns to Georgia to bring back to Israel an 11-year-old boy who was abandoned by his mother, Nino, as a baby.
Necropolis
Necropolis
Beneath Jerusalem’s main cemetery where ancient Jewish rituals unfold, Palestinian workers carve a hidden city of tunnels for the dead, revealing the stark divide between the sacred realm above and the invisible labor below.
Noga
Noga
Fearless alternative pop singer Noga Erez is on the brink of superstardom, with a unique, captivating sound and a major studio album on the way. But when war erupts and cracks appear in her relationship, Noga must redefine her role as an artist on the global stage.
Director Spotlight: Oxygen
Director Spotlight: Oxygen
Anat, a schoolteacher, awaits her son Ido’s army discharge. When a new war erupts and she learns he has volunteered to fight, their bond fractures. Caught between a father destroyed by war and a son rushing toward it, Anat makes a radical choice just before Ido crosses into Lebanon.
Sada
Sada
An Arab-Israeli kindergarten teacher defies expectations after her husband’s death by taking over the family coffee factory. Facing a conservative family, patriarchy, racism, and crime, she is determined to succeed and carve a new path.
Director Spotlight: Shooting
Director Spotlight: Shooting
Through three gripping true stories—a military reenactment that displaces an entire village, a staged police raid on a Palestinian family, and a tormented military props supplier—Netalie Braun probes the dangerous intersection of storytelling, propaganda, and state power in Israeli society.
Sun Bay
Sun Bay
Shadowed by the grand hotels of Eilat lies a hidden trailer park known as Sun Bay. Against the uncertainty surrounding the site, its residents attempt to reconcile the tension between their present loneliness and the lives they left behind.

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