Stork of Hope

Alexander Franskevich-Leie Director

Maria Mucha as

Dmitriy Pustilnik as

Aleksandr Podobed as

Viktor Rybchinskiy as

In the early days of World War II, two Jewish brothers lost their parents during the Nazi invasion of Belarus. The boys were imprisoned in a German hospital and found many of their peers there. They were kept in inhuman conditions - hunger, cold, lack of sleep and rest. The only thing the boys had, their treasure - was a family portrait with mom and dad. Before the fascists separated brothers, each of them got half of it.

Urban Tale

2012

Hebrew

♡ 1

Drama

Eliav Lilti Director

Noa Fridman as Karima

Zohar Wagner as Self

Esti Yerushalmi as The Actress

Alexander Peleg as Yoram

A boy and a girl wake up in bed one morning, naked. The children's mother died a few weeks earlier. Before she died she asked her children to find their birth father who left them when they were still babies. Their quest in search of their father leads them to hospitals, nursing homes and holding cells. In the course of the quest the brother and sister meet people who provide them - like in parallel quantum universes - a glance into what their future lives may hold for them.

Tikkun

2015

Hebrew

♡ 2

95%

Avishai Sivan Director

Aharon Trietel as Haim-Aaron

Khalifa Natour as Haim-Aaron's Father

Gaya Von Schwarze as Kiosk Salesgirl

Avishai Sivan as Slaughterhouse Worker

Haim-Aaron is a bright, ultra-orthodox religious scholar living in Jerusalem. His talents and devotion are envied by all. One evening, following a self-imposed fast, Haim-Aaron collapses and loses consciousness. The paramedics announce his death, but his father takes over resuscitation efforts and, beyond all expectations, Haim-Aaron comes back to life. After the accident, try as he might, Haim-Aaron remains apathetic to his studies. He feels overwhelmed by a sudden awakening of his body and suspects this is God testing him. He wonders if he should stray from the prescribed path and find a way to rekindle his faith... The title means "Rectify" in Hebrew; nevertheless the movie is called Tikkun in the English-speaking world.

The Women's Balcony

2016

Hebrew

6.6

♡ 9

96%

Emil Ben-Shimon Director

Itzik Cohen as Aaron

Sharon Elimelech as Ora

Yair Parash as Osher

Igal Naor as Zion

An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gendered rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.

A.K.A Nadia

6.3

Tova Ascher Director

John Hurt as 347

Taj Atwal as Fayza

Ali Suliman as Nimer

Firas Nassar as Rifaat

Maya is a happily married mother of two. She is a successful choreographer and everything seems to be perfect...but this life is a lie. Unbeknownst to her family and everyone around her, she has a hidden past.

The Farewell Party

2014

Hebrew

7.0

♡ 2

94%

Tal Granit Director

Ruth Farhi as

Jamil Khoury as Hospital Doctor

Levana Finkelstein as Levana

Raffi Tavor as Raffi Segal

A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of the machine begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with an emotional dilemma

Snails in the Rain

2013

Hebrew

6.3

♡ 4

46%

Yariv Mozer Director

Moran Rosenblatt as Noa

Ori Yaniv as Ori

Yariv Mozer as Prof. Richlin

Eyal Cohen as The mechanic

Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male written love letters, that undermine his sexual identity and interfere on his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.

One Week and a Day

2016

Hebrew

6.7

♡ 2

90%

Asaph Polonsky Director

Shai Avivi as Eyal Spivak

Uri Gavriel as Refael

Sharon Alexander as Shmulik Zooler

Tomer Capon as Zooler

When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.

Freak Out

5.1

Boaz Armoni Director

Eran Peretz as Ishay

Itay Zvolon as Matan

Kye Korabelnikov as Stas

Assaf Ben-Shimon as Uzi

Matan, a soldier in the IDF, sets off for a week of patrolling in a remote base. Overwhelmed with homesickness, he becomes an easy target for the other soldiers who make it their business to make his life hell. However, it is not long before strange things begin to happen to all of them.

Rock the Casbah

2012

Hebrew

6.5

♡ 2

64%

Yariv Horowitz Director Roy Nik

Roy Nik as Aki

Ofer Ruthenberg as Guard

Lavi Zitner as Izac

Yon Tumarkin as Tomer

A unit of new recruits sent to patrol Gaza during the First Intifada in 1989. A washing machine is deliberately pushed from the roof of a building as the patrol moves past, killing one of the soldiers. The perpetrator cannot be found. Four of the young soldiers are assigned to uncomfortable, boring, surveillance duty atop the roof, interacting with the Arab family that lives in the building.

The 1957 Transcripts

2024

Hebrew

6.1

♡ 2

Ayelet Heller Director

Eldad Ben Tora as

Arnon Rosenthal as

Doron Tavory as

Noa Yarkony as

The film delves into an almost forgotten event that took place in Kfar Qasim in October 1956, when 47 innocent civilians were shot and killed by Israeli Border Police soldiers. Through a gripping narrative structure, like a suspenseful legal drama, the film unfolds the historical, political, and psychological reality that shaped and triggered the event. A cinematic montage created by the intertwined plotlines, emphasizes immense gaps, conflicting narratives, and deep divides between Jews and Arabs who are destined to live together on the same land. If we begin to recognize these gaps, will there be hope for reconciliation?

The Gatekeepers

2012

Hebrew

7.6

♡ 12

94%

israeli–palestinian conflict

palestinian-israeli conflict

War

Dror Moreh Director

Ami Ayalon as Himself

Avi Dichter as Himself

Yuval Diskin as Himself

Carmi Gillon as Himself

In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak about their role in Israel's decades-long counterterrorism campaign, discussing their controversial methods and whether the ends ultimately justify the means.

Ajami

2009

Hebrew

7.2

♡ 2

97%

Scandar Copti Director

Hilal Kaboub as Anan

Ranin Karim as Hadir

Ibrahim Frege as Malek

Abu George Shibli as Sido

Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: Hadir. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to find his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians.

The Matchmaker

2010

Hebrew

7.3

♡ 6

88%

Avi Nesher Director

Maya Dagan as Clara Epstein

Guy Shefa Pesso as Gideon

Adir Miller as Yankele Bride

Dov Navon as Yozi Burstein

During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.

Gett

2014

Hebrew

7.7

♡ 13

Ronit Elkabetz Director

Menashe Noy as Carmel Ben Tovim

Simon Abkarian as Elisha Amsalem

Keren Mor as Galia

Gabi Amrani as Haim

The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.

Footnote

2011

Hebrew

7.1

♡ 6

88%

Joseph Cedar Director

Albert Iluz as Committee Member

Gad Kaynar as Committee Member

Yuval Scharf as Noa newspaper reporter

Lior Ashkenazi as Uriel Shkolnik

Jerusalem, Israel. Professors Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik, father and son, have dedicated their lives to the study of the Jewish scriptures. Eliezer is a stubborn and methodical scholar who has never been recognized for his work; Uriel is a rising star, someone admired and praised by his colleagues. The fragile balance that has kept their personal relationship almost intact is broken in an unexpected way by a simple phone call.

Kidon

2013

Hebrew

5.1

♡ 5

40%

Action

Comedy

Emmanuel Naccache Director

Liron Levo as

Menashe Noy as

Tomer Sisley as Daniel

Kev Adams as Facebook

"Kidon" begins in the morning of the 18th of February 2010 in Tel-Aviv when the whole world wakes up discovering, on the front page of all the newspapers, pictures of the Mossad agents caught while killing Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai a month earlier. It was the first time that simple security cameras of a hotel caught secret agents red-handed, what's more Israeli agents. But without doubt, the most surprised of all were the Mossad leaders who were the only ones to know for sure that the 3 men and the woman, whose faces were in all the newsrooms of the world, had nothing to do with them. From then on, a race against time is undertaken hoping to understand why everything is aiming at them.

The Day After I'm Gone

2019

Hebrew

6.5

♡ 4

75%

Nimrod Eldar Director

Eran Naim as Policeman

Maayan Eliasi as Police woman

Ziv Peleg as Ranger

Menashe Noy as Yoram

Yoram, a 50-year-old veterinarian living in Tel-Aviv, is forced to re-examine his relationship with his adolescent daughter Roni, after she wishes to end her life. He decides to take her on a journey to visit her mother’s family, a process of self and mutual discovery in a primordial desert land enveloping the Dead Sea.

The Testament

2017

Hebrew

7.1

♡ 7

80%

100%

Action

Drama

Amichai Greenberg Director

Leah Koenig as Lea

Izhak Heskia as Rabbi

Miriam Gavrieli as Shoshana

Ori Pfeffer as Yoel

Yoel, a meticulous historian leading a significant debate against holocaust deniers, discovers that his mother carries a false identity. A mystery about a man who is willing to risk everything to discover the truth.

A Tale of Love and Darkness

2015

Hebrew

6.0

♡ 16

72%

Natalie Portman Director

Makram Khoury as Al Hilwani

Natalie Portman as Fania

Shira Haas as Kira

Tomer Capon as The Pioneer

The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.

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Stork of Hope

Urban Tale

Tikkun

The Women's Balcony

A.K.A Nadia

The Farewell Party

Snails in the Rain

One Week and a Day

Freak Out

Rock the Casbah

The 1957 Transcripts

The Gatekeepers

Ajami

The Matchmaker

Gett

Footnote

Kidon

The Day After I'm Gone

The Testament

A Tale of Love and Darkness