Sarit Vino-Elad

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She's just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Or's emotions roil further when the mother of the youth she's in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Or's choices narrow. (imdb)

Tzviya, a leading Israeli stage-star loses her husband, her only daughter -- who was pregnant at the time, and her son-in-law to a terrible accident when a truck goes out of control and hits their car. Three years after the tragedy the truck driver, Israel, gets out of jail and appears at Tzviya's house asking for forgiveness. The meeting of the two is highly charged with conflicting emotions and soon develops into a tearing and manipulative relationship. Tzviya refuses to forgive him. (www.israel-catalog.com)

A former Secret Service agent turned fixer negotiates shady real estate deals between Arab residents of East Jerusalem and powerful Jewish groups trying to take control of the area. (imdb)