Uri Gavriel

A brass band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in a foreign city. (imdb)

Four men whose combined intellect does not reach into the triple digits decide to steal a safe full of foreign currency - not from a local bank, but from the police station. Based on a real-life incident, the screenplay for this slapstick comedy-drama was co-written by a policeman... (imdb)

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)

An ex-Marine who was hired to train Iraqi soldiers to fight Iran returns to Iraq as a CIA agent to free his brother, who has been imprisoned there by a renegade general. (imdb)

Mazzoli (Gale Hansen) and Hammer(Rob Lowe) become best friends during the intense training to become Navy SEALs (BUD/S). But after a woman comes between them, it takes a war to bring them back together again. (imdb)

After the nuclear war people are sterile and ruled by the artifical intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a child has to take the child through the dangerous city to the ship to save it. She is followed by an immortal killer robot through all the dangers, and only one guy tries to help her survive and protect her from the killing machine. (imdb)

A chicken breeder is stopped at an Israeli-Palestinian border crossing during a hot day in Israel.

An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East, but his efforts are hampered when his wife has an affair with a PLO leader. (imdb)

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.

With the story of the Israel/Palestine-conflict as a contextual backdrop, we are shown and told the story of four palestinian women. It's all centered around Dar Al-Tifl - a school and home for palestinian orphans in Israel. Miral - one of the girls - has to carry the weight of her people, her history and her family on her shoulders, as she grows up with terrorism, Intifada, civil war and political conflict. Can she maintain a individual ambition in all this?

An eccentric man's romantic devotion lands him in an insane asylum, where he somehow finds new love, in this offbeat comedy from Israel. (movies.nytimes.com)

A comedy based on the well-known tail.

An Israeli-Palestinian surgeon, shocked to discover that his wife was involved in a suicide-bomb attack, ventures into Palestinian territory to confront the people who recruited her in this gripping adaptation of Yasmina Khadra's international best seller. (tiff.net)

A pair of female vampires (Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton) wreaks havoc on an unsuspecting English seaside community in this deliciously depraved supernatural drama from Academy Award® winner Neil Jordan. (tiff.net)

Tells the story of a Jewish family in Iraq during the last days of that community, in 1950, through the eyes of the young son, Cabi.

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.

A story of love, passion, and betrayal which begins in Morocco and moves on to a quarry in Israel where all of the characters work. (israelfilmcenter.org)

When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for. (imdb)

Amos, a baker, lives an unhappy life after he breaks all relations with his girlfriend of nine years. Things change when he meets Noa, a beautiful megastar. (imdb)