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1991, the start of the Jewish immigration wave from the USSR to Israel. 12-year old Misha films his family's journey. The traumatic immigration experience turns absurd when their old aunt dies on the plane just before they land. Now, the family must to go through various levels of bureaucracy with an immigrating corpse.

Barren (short)

Naomi, a young and married ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman is expected to fulfill her life's purpose and become a mother. But her true wishes go against the grain of traditional society.

The Love Letter

When Noa finds a special love letter in her locker, she struggles to reconcile her safe, restrained world and her urge to feel at least for a brief moment, loved.

Jerusalem ER

Hadassah Hospital is located in the ethnically charged buffer zone of Mount Scopus. This is the story of the ER as through the eyes of 2 female doctors, one a Jewish immigrant from Chile, and the other a Palestinian Israeli from the north of Israel.

Ten Buildings Away

A four-story building in the midst of a city. A bridge runs above it, busy with heavy traffic and passing trucks. Behind the leftmost window on the fourth floor is the residence of two brothers, a mother and a father. A family, who perhaps, have never had the right to exist.

Siberia

Avram Danino, the mayor of a small orthodox town in Israel, decides to locate a new building in "Siberia" - the Russian immigrant neighborhood. Soon enough, he discovers that the immigrants, misunderstood the purpose of the building in a tragic, comic - and extremely problematic - way.

Pinchas

A nine year old boy, son of Russian immigrants, is becoming religious.

Dear God

Dear God depicts romantic Jerusalem as seen through the eyes of Aaron, a simple man who guards the Wailing Wall. One day a beautiful, mysterious woman puts a note between the holy stones and Aaron decides to fulfill her deepest wish, while learning that love is all about communication.

An Average Story

When Avi Cohen is told by the Central Bureau of Statistics that he is the most average man who ever lived, his life is turned upside down.

Joe’s Violin

A 91-year-old Holocaust survivor donates his violin to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old school girl from America’s poorest congressional district, and unexpectedly, his own.

Women in Sink

In an Arab hair-salon in Israel, the director installs a camera over the washing-basin. As she washes their hair, she converses candidly with the salon’s clients –Arabs and Jews - on Israeli politics, life and love

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 teach him a lesson in communication, friendship, and love.

Home (1994)

David Ofek tells the story of his immigrant family from Iraq, sitting in the sealed room of their Israeli home during the Gulf War, looking at bombed-out Baghdad on their television. They realize that the ruin on the screen were once their home.