Evelyn Kaplun

Three parallel strories of immigrants in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War and about coming together while sealed in a room during the Scud attacks.

Directed with equal parts humor and humanity by Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis, The Syrian Bride is set on the sun-baked border between Israel and Syria, a no man's land that the eponymous bride must cross in order to meet her anxious groom. (Film Forum)

Israel's 2005 Oscar entry is about the difficulties foreign workers experience in contemporary Israel. Thai laborers, human traffickers, a Filipino couple, an overweight farmer, a depressed old man and an ex-cop who doesn't know how to swim: the common theme connecting their stories is a need for human dignity and contact. (siff.net)

1963 in Israel at a moment of peace. This is the story of Aaron, a boy who has stopped growing up a few years before. Is it to rebel against his loveless family or the times? This film depicts the adolescent mind allegorically and comically. (www.tiff-jp.net)