Shaul Mizrahi

Director Gidi Dar's film, Ushpizin (roughly translated as "holy guests"), is a revelatory and humorous look at the daily lives of ultra-orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel. (Picturehouse)

Soldier attempts to rescue daughter of CIA director from a terrorist. (imdb)

A thirtysomething Israeli wife and mother balances an affair and pressures of working at her father's accounting firm in the bleak, claustrophobic drama "Avanim." Though markedly superior in all departments to French-American helmer Raphael Nadjari's previous New York-set trio of films, pic demands much of auds, with little in the way of emotional payoff. Fest dates feel most appropriate, with some theatrical action possible before low-keyed ancillary afterlife.

A young Marine is kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon. His twin brother, frustrated at his inability to get any kind of information from the government about his brother's plight, travels to Lebanon with a plan for his own rescue operation. (imdb)

Yaron is one of an elite group of police officers working in an anti-terrorist unit in the Israeli police force. He and his fellow officers are the ultimate defense against the "Arab enemy". Yaron loves the unit and its male camaraderie. He also loves his wife, who is soon to give birth. His encounter with a radical, violent group turns his life upside down, confronting him not only with the Israeli class war but also his own inner conflicts (mubi.com)

Based on real life story of Israely oriental singer Zohar Argov, who grew up in a poor family, became rich & famous but the drugs brought him down. (imdb)