Yussuf Abu-Warda

The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain childless. The yeshiva's rabbi, who is Meir's father, wants Meir to divorce Rivka: "a barren woman is no woman." Rivka's sister, Malka, is in love with Yakov, a Jew shunned by the yeshiva as too secular.

Set seven days before the creation of the state of Israel in May 1948, a small rusted ship, with a group of concentration camp survivors from Shoah, is received at the new territory with open hostility. They are met by British troops, who are shooting at them, and are trying to forbid them from disembarking. As well, the survivors are met with guns blasts being shot by the Jewish secret army, who has come to help them.

A slice of life - day after day - in Haifa, where Moshe and Didi's marriage is on the rocks, affairs are casual, and Moshe's angst about health, his parents, sex, communication, and business are pervasive and existential. Moshe's mother is Jewish, his father an Arab; his father may or may not sell ancestral land; his wife and mistress have lovers, one is a close friend; much of Moshe's surroundings seem under construction or in renovation. A cousin watches a security monitor without comment.

A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin (Binoche) returns to the West Bank. (imdb)

An Israeli soldier is taken hostage by a small PLO squad in lebanon. The soldier planned to go on vacation and to fly to the world final soccer cup (mondial), he and his capturers share the love to soccer and toward the (not so happy) end a relationship is made. (imdb)

A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. (imdb)

Shot in a single plane-sequence of 81 minutes, the film shows the life of a small community of exiles, Jews and Arabs, who live in an enclave forgotten on the border between Jaffa and Bat Yam in Israel. One day, Yael, a young journalist, visits them. Among the stalls in ruins, full of lemon trees in the orchard, surrounded by several houses, she discovers a series of characters that do not correspond to the clichés of the region. (37.mostra.org)

Rueven, a real estate agent, is upset with his wife's pregnancy. Through a chain of events, his life becomes connected and intertwined with the lives of others in Tel Aviv. (israelfilmcenter.org)

An IDF officer falls in love with a Palestinian widow in the West Bank of the 1980's. Tensions rise as their peers begin to react to their budding relationship.

The series tells the story of Nadav Feldman a young social worker who discovers that he is adopted. (imdb)