Maya Dagan

An homosexual teenager is trying to find his mother, and his identity.

During the summer of 1968 in Haifa, a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust. (imdb)

Saul, fortyish, a melancholic dreamer, decides to visit his father whom he hasn't seen in five years, and whom he blames for all his ills. (imdb)

Strong female protagonists have been the mainstay of many Avi Nesher films. In 'The Other Story', two rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom-cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences. (imdb)