ISRAELI SHORT FILMS

ISRAELI SHORT FILMS

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ISRAELI SHORT FILMS
  • Empty Spaces

    Movie

    In this short feature film, Nati, an IDF officer, heads south with three soldiers to carry out a highly complex mission

    Directed By: Ben Ziv
    Produced By: Dor Levy
    Screenplay: Ben Ziv & Yuval Avigdor
    Cinematographer: Avner Mayer
    Cast: Orna Banai, Amit Weinberg, Billy Barzilay, Ram Gueta, Iftach G...

  • Across the Line

    Hananel, a young religious Jew, is hurrying home for Shabbat. An unexpected encounter with Mundir, an unwanted and stubborn Palestinian hitchhiker, leads Hananel on a series of mix-ups that eventually teaches him a lesson in communication, friendship, and love.

    Year: 2017
    Languages: Hebrew & Ara...

  • I'm From the Jews

    A young teacher becomes possessed by his dead grandfather, who forces him to choose between his Iraqi Arabic Jewish family identity and his life as an Israeli ignoring the past.

    Year: 2017
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Directors: Aharon Shem Tov, Niv Hachlili
    Producer: Yifat Prestelnik

  • An Average Story

    Avi Cohen has just been informed that he is the most average man who ever lived. Overnight, he reluctantly becomes a national icon and instant celebrity. With his wife's enthusiastic urging, they translate the situation into a business venture that goes surprisingly awry.

    Year: 2015
    Languages: H...

  • Siren

    "Siren" follows the adventures of Eli, an Israeli high school kid who tries to find his place in society during Israel's Memorial Week for the victims of the Holocaust and fallen soldiers.

    This program may contain strong language, nudity, and/or violence. Viewer discretion is advised.

    Year: 201...

  • Block 13

    It's the night of Yom Kippur. Keren Hayesod Street lies in sacred silence. But David, a 16-year-old religious Jewish boy, is in turmoil. On the holiest of all night in the Hebrew year, he goes on a journey of sins to restore his waning faith in the creator.

    This program may contain strong langua...

  • Lost & Found

    Rachel returns home to Israel after many years and is extremely excited about meeting her childhood friend, Lia. She enters the Greeters' hall and Lia is nowhere to be found. While waiting, Rachel reminisces about their friendship.

    Year: 2017
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Inbal M...

  • Borderline

    Oded, a worn-out drug dealer who goes for a routine exchange of packages on the Israeli border, realizes that the person across the fence is a frustrated Palestinian soccer player who can't manage to pass him his package.

    This program may contain strong language, nudity, and/or violence. Viewer ...

  • Benched

    Baruch, once a 1970s basketball star who left the big city and became ultra-orthodox, returns to visit his old secular life in the pursuit of one of his mistresses that he left behind, and their son.

    Year: 2012
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Gill Weinstein
    Producer: Gaudeamus Prod...

  • The Two Thieves

    The story of Christ's sacrifice is told from the viewpoint of two people who had a unique perspective.

    This program may contain strong language and/or violence. Viewer discretion is advised.

    Year: 2014
    Language: English, English subtitles
    Director: Dallas Jenkins
    Producers: Peter McDonough, Luk...

  • Boys

    17-year-old Nadav wants to serve in a combat unit in the IDF, even though his mother does not approve. A surprising encounter with his coach changes his perspective.

    Year: 2020
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Lior Soroka
    Producer: Lior Soroka
    Writer: Lior Soroka
    Starring: Eitan Gim...

  • SHHHH

    It was supposed to be just another ordinary evening for the couple who had a cute baby not long ago. The father is just coming from work, the mother will get up to heat the food but most importantly - do not wake up the baby.

    Year: 2018
    Language: no dialogue
    Director: Jonathan Mordechay
    Writer: ...

  • Wake Up Call

    Lior is a 20-year-old soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. One night, while she is the attending officer, Lior is forced to choose whether to remain loyal to the system, or surrender to her desires.

    This program may contain strong language, nudity, and/or violence. Viewer discretion is advised....

  • The Last Fisherman in the Sea of Galilee

    An intimate and spiritual encounter of a Japanese director and a member of the Makuya community, which believes in both the Old and New Testament, as he follows an Israeli fisherman in the Sea of Galilee. The director has had only one question since his childhood: Why did Jesus choose his first d...

  • Something to Live For

    A young woman who has been training to become a suicide bomber must choose between love for her son and her obligation to carry out an attack.

    This program may contain strong language, nudity, and/or violence. Viewer discretion is advised.

    Year: 2019
    Language: Arabic, English subtitles
    Directo...

  • Bon Appétit

    A guy arrives with his girlfriend to an apartment in order to sign a contract to work at a sausage factory. She waits for him outside, but when he doesn’t return, she slowly starts to suspect something terrible is going on in the innocent looking apartment.

    Year: 2020
    Language: Hebrew, English s...

  • Ben David

    Eran is a religious Shin Bet (security agency) officer who is transferred to the Jewish Department in order to thwart "price tag" attacks. He soon realizes that he has to deal with the "Hilltop Youth," his contemporaries when he was young.

    Year: 2017
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director...

  • Morti Vivos Docent

    Night time. A young pathologist is performing an autopsy on the body of a notorious criminal, under the supervision of a senior colleague. As the procedure advances, he's about to learn an important lesson that is not taught in med school.

    This program may contain strong language, nudity, and/or...

  • Disabled

    Lior is a disabled veteran who is grounded to a wheelchair. After over three months in the rehabilitation department, Lior doesn't believe he could walk again. His perception changes when Inbar, a funny and cheeky girl, who came to visit her sister accidentally enters the room.

    Year: 2016
    Langua...

  • Round Three

    Ofira, a recently retired teacher, refuses to become a victim of routine life and decides to revive an old dream - becoming a painter. With no support from her family, Ofira faces the white canvas, when in fact she is facing herself, to paint the rest of her life.

    Year: 2019
    Language: Hebrew, En...

  • Suggestibility

    On his way to his best friend's Bachler party, Adam (28) sees his girlfriend with another man. As he decides to drive away, Adam is torn between his raging feelings and reason.

    Year: 2017
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Shahar Shamay
    Producer: Nelly Feldman
    Starring: David Tetro, A...

  • Wherever You Go

    A young woman, Zohara, has escaped the religious world of her family to live a secluded life in the desert. As she returns to see her family to participate in her sister's wedding, she encounters a young Bedouin Woman who is fleeing from an arranged marriage with her cousin. The two young women's...

  • Summer Vacation

    "Summer Vacation" tells the story of family-man, Yuval, who realizes that the closet he has lived in for so long is starting to fall apart. For how long can he run from himself?

    Year: 2012
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon
    Producers: Gal Greenspan, Roi Kurl...

  • Snow

    In 2008, sixty cubic meters of snow were couriered from the Hermon mountain, in Northern Israel, to a square in the center of Tel Aviv. This stunt was orchestrated by the municipality of Tel Aviv as a "white surprise" for its residents and as a tribute to the winter Olympics in Torino. That same ...