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- Like all young ultra-orthodox girls, Ruchi, the favorite daughter of a Jerusalem family, dreams of becoming a wife and mother. But the young man who has been chosen for her is not in any sense her equal. Ruchi's younger sister, who has Down's syndrome, asks searching and uncomfortable questions about the match, underlining for Ruchi the extreme limitations on her freedom.
- After being raped by a stranger, a young ultra-orthodox woman awaits a Rabbinical decision about whether or not her husband should divorce her. Jewish law states that "If the wife of a Cohen (descendant of a priest) is raped, she is forbidden to her husband." Cohen's Wife is a provocative modern day portrait of a couple torn between religious law and marital devotion.
- Ohad, a young orthodox Jew, is torn between the man he loves and god. Who will he choose?
- Ultra-Orthodox young Leah works in her mother's store. She has come of age and would like to marry, but her widowed mother won't let go. When the two women light Hanukkah candles together, a small miracle begins to unfold.
- Newly engaged Rachel is embarrassed to introduce her fiancé to her working class father, who runs a stall in Jerusalem's Machne Yehuda market.
- Aaron decides to stay behind at the Yeshiva one weekend, when all his friends have left to go home. He is surprised by the arrival of his father, with whom he has had no contact for some time. The prayers and meals which they share together over the Sabbath, are shadowed by tension and the embarrassing silences between them. The ice begins to break eventually, but too late, it turns out, for both of them.
- A revealing portrait of the head of an orthodox family still searching for religious identity and of his daughter, the director who is rediscovering him.
- It's not easy living in the shadow of a public figure. Everyone expects us to behave according to the involuntary title of "The Rabbi's Daughter". To dress modestly, to express humility, to know all the answers to religious questions, to never stumble, never breakdown, to always keep the good name of you father, an educator and community leader. I went looking for how to stop blushing every time my "lineage" was exposed. How to leave my conscience behind. How did other girls do it before me.
- Emuna, a twenty-year-old religious bride, comes home with her new husband on their wedding night. Emuna is full of trepidation and expectations about their first night together, but it turns out quite differently from what she imagines. Their lack of experience coupled with feelings of embarrassment and a gap between reality and imagination burden the newly married couple.
- Kobi (19), is about to get an excellence award in his Training Completion ceremony at the Army. His Family live in a Settlement near Nablus, and oppose serving in the IDF. During his weekend visit, Kobi invites his family to the Ceremony. To his surprise, he finds out that his family will be evacuated and his house is intended for destruction, as the army will come to dismantle the settlement as part of the peace process. Kobi must choose between his family and his ideal of serving in the army.
- The bite of a small, fat mongrel dog led to a series of events that resulted in uncovering the story, identity and family of a British soldier killed in the First World War. Although Jewish, he had mistakenly been buried under a tombstone marked with a cross. Who was Private Finklestein? How and where was he killed? And why was he buried under a cross? Together with my father, I undertook a search for the answers to these questions -- a search that lasted ten years and ranged over three continents. We left no stone unturned until we solved this 70-year-old riddle.
- Ben is a 35 year old divorcee and failing comic book artist who works in an office. He and his 8 year old daughter Maya go on quest into the Dream Factory to find his broken dream and fix it.
- A Jerusalem romantic comedy about a moderately orthodox young man who pretends to be more religious than he is in order to impress a girl. The two begin dating, the chemistry is great but the young man has to tell more and more lies to keep the relationship going. What will happen when she discovers the truth?
- During the Sabbath, 12-year-old Noa discovers that her parents are planning to divorce. In order to try and prevent this, and to protect her younger brother, Noa takes dramatic action which in the end will alter the fabric of their family life forever.
- Mika, a penniless illegal immigrant from the FSU, is living with her baby daughter in a bomb shelter near the Machaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem. She speaks no Hebrew, and cleans stairwells in order to live. For food, she forages among the market leftovers. When the baby gets sick, Mika has no choice but to make contact with others and to solicit help from the men around her. Instead of kindness, Mika encounters only cynical exploitation.
- The warm relationship between Mendel, an elderly Holocaust survivor, and his Filipino caretaker, Jose, is tested when Jose does not have a work permit and the police begin searching the neighborhood for illegal foreign workers.
- 17 year old Neta, born and raised on a kibbutz, receives the bitter news that her brother, who is in the army, has been killed in action. Neta is torn between her family's grief and a dark secret that if revealed, will stain her brother's memory for ever.
- In yeshiva when you're hungry eat. When your tired sleep. If you're not hungry or tired, sit and learn. If you're not learning, What are you doing here? What happens when you are stuck between success and failure, between faith and doubt? What happens along the edges of the Study Hall.
- A divorce ceremony raises some important questions for one couple.
- Noa, a young girl trying to protect herself from the predator who roams freely around her home, tries to keep up appearances and seem happy in order not to undermine the innocence of her mother and younger sister. One night, when Noa relaxes her guard and finds herself exposed to danger, she manages at the last minute to escape from her house and seek refuge outside. Only then does she realize that her actions have transferred the danger to her younger sister.
- On the eve of his bar mitzva while busying himself with last-minute errands and fitting in a final practice of his Torah reading, Daniel goes out on his bike and is attacked by another child. When Daniel returns home it seems as if his father, who is blind, cannot perceive his distress, but this is not so. Daniel learns from his father that observation is a matter of the heart and not just of the eyes.
- A young director raises crucial questions about the care of her special needs parents.
- Shirley, a 23 year old blogger, spends months in hospital waiting for a new heart. While she waits, she learns about the meaning of getting and giving.
- After the funerals are done, in the quiet, Jerusalem's Har haMenuchot cemetery comes to life with the people whose grief and loneliness has turned them into daily visitors there. This documentary film follows the life of 2 elderly widowed men, one who comes to visit, one who works as a carver of tombstones, through the seasons of the year.
- Chava, an ultra-orthodox young woman, called off her engagement a year ago. Now a new match has been suggested for her. The introduction is made, but Chava experiences a sharp disappointment. Can she put aside her prejudices to give love a chance to grow?