Posted on September 4, 2018
An eye witness account of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which troops from Egypt and Syria chose one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar to launch Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
A group of close friends celebrate the bittersweet changes coming to their lives during the summer of their high-school graduation: adult responsibilities, adult romance — and the soberingly adult Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
The film begins with Sallah Shabati, a Mizrahi Jewish immigrant, arriving in Israel by plane with his family: a very pregnant wife, an ancient female relative and seven children. Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
In 1946, Uri (Assi Dayan) returns to his kibbutz after 2 years of studying. He begins to feel alienated after discovering that his mother is having an affair with Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
The Wooden Gun takes place in Tel Aviv in the early 1950s. In a clear-eyed fashion that would have been impossible in a film made by “outsiders”, the plot Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
Set during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the conflict that led to the creation of the state of Israel, this landmark Israeli film is among the first features from that Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
In this satirical cult-classic, a Reserves unit in the Israel-controlled Sinai is less than five miles from the Egyptian front lines. However, the Israelis are hardly concerned with the Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
Miki is a yuppie advertising copywriter from Tel Aviv called up to do reserve army duty in Lebanon during the war’s closing days. Miki has strong premonitions of his Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
While traveling to visit their grandfather in Tuscany, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted two hundred years. During Napoleon’s Italian invasion, Elisabetta Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
The life story of Egyptian-born Henriette Ezer, the director’s mother, which is a parable of the complex relationship between East Jewry and Israel. The film includes excerpts from the Read More
