Marie-Jose Sanselme

The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind.

Amos Gitai's beautiful new film is a quietly sweeping movie about intersected lives in transit. (New Yorker Films)

"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of flesh, and finally of the accidental freeing of one girl who most fight for her freedom. (imdb)

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)

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)

On 4 November 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is shot down at a rally in Tel-Aviv. His killer turns out to be a 25-year-old Jewish observant. Investigation into this brutal murder reveals a dark and frightening world that made this tragic deed possible. A subculture of hate fuelled by hysterical rhetoric, paranoia and political intrigue. The extremist rabbis and militant Israeli settlers for whom peace meant betrayal. And the security agents who saw what was coming and failed to prevent it. (liffe.si)

Is the story of Samantha and Dov Ernst, American Zionists who emigrated to Palestine. Kalkofsky, a German Jew and bookseller, left behind his family in Europe. He accommodates Silvia, a young revolutionary against British rule.

Daily life is seen in Jerusalem as seen by a tram.