Haim Zanati

Acting

Haim Zanati

Born

1967-08-11 (59)

Place of birth

Ashdod, Israel

Known for

Acting

Credits

23 titles

Known for

Manayek poster
6.4

Izzy Bachar, a police internal affairs investigator, discovers just before retirement that his long time friend Barak, a senior police officer, is accused to be corrupt. Life as he knows it breaks into pieces.

Manayek

2020

Ramzor poster
5.8

3 middle aged men in constant conflict with life about their wives, friends, children and everyday situations.

Ramzor

2008

Kicking Out Shoshana poster
4.9

Ami Shoshan is the star of the "Sons of Jerusalem" football club, a team known for its violent, racist and homophobic fans. One unfortunate evening Shoshan flirts with a beautiful woman not knowing that she is the mistress of a local Mafia boss, “Blackie” Bokovza. The punishment for this offence is that Ami must summon a press conference and announce that he is gay.

Kicking Out Shoshana

2014

Eyes Wide Open poster
6.5

A middle-aged Orthodox Jew, Aaron, living and working in Jerusalem with his wife and children, meets a homeless 19-year-old student. Aaron offers to give Ezri work as his assistant at his family's butcher shop. The two men grow close and their attraction becomes sexual. Aaron must now confront his own sexuality, his feelings for Ezri, and his obligations to his family and faith.

Eyes Wide Open

2009

Yaffa poster
8.0

A suspenseful drama set in the city of Jaffa, told from the perspectives of several characters—Jews and Arabs whose fates intersect in a single tragic moment that seals their fate and changes their lives.

Yaffa

2025

Border Guard poster
8.5

The story follows Avi (Ben Sultan), a young man from the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam, who finds himself embroiled in affairs with local Arabs from Jaffa. He joins the Israeli Border Police to settle scores with them, and quickly becomes an effective and respected police officer, while also falling in love with a border policewoman, who is a pacifist. But his past is constantly catching up with him to remind him that he will never change.

Border Guard

2023

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 8 titles

Kicking Out Shoshana poster
4.9

Ami Shoshan is the star of the "Sons of Jerusalem" football club, a team known for its violent, racist and homophobic fans. One unfortunate evening Shoshan flirts with a beautiful woman not knowing that she is the mistress of a local Mafia boss, “Blackie” Bokovza. The punishment for this offence is that Ami must summon a press conference and announce that he is gay.

Kicking Out Shoshana

2014

The Women's Balcony poster
7.2

An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gendered rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.

The Women's Balcony

2016

Suicide poster
6.1

A failed businessman must kill himself to pay off a loan shark or his family will die, but a detective discovers the case turns on a shocking secret.

Suicide

2014

God's Neighbors poster
6.4

Rules must be followed. For the "supervisors" of the Bat Yam neighbourhood in Israel, this means ensuring that women are dressed appropriately, that people respect Shabbat, or that Arabs from Jaffa don't enter the neighbourhood with music blaring from their cars. Avi, Kobi and Yaniv are young and know how to fight. They want to force their neighbours to become religious, without hesitating to be violent in the name of God. The inhabitants admire the gang and are afraid of them at the same time. One day a new girl, Miri, arrives. She is not familiar with the strict rules of modesty. The gang's leader Avi is going to be torn between his feelings for Miri and his dedication to the gang.

God's Neighbors

2012

Kidon poster
5.0

"Kidon" begins in the morning of the 18th of February 2010 in Tel-Aviv when the whole world wakes up discovering, on the front page of all the newspapers, pictures of the Mossad agents caught while killing Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai a month earlier. It was the first time that simple security cameras of a hotel caught secret agents red-handed, what's more Israeli agents. But without doubt, the most surprised of all were the Mossad leaders who were the only ones to know for sure that the 3 men and the woman, whose faces were in all the newsrooms of the world, had nothing to do with them. From then on, a race against time is undertaken hoping to understand why everything is aiming at them.

Kidon

2013

Alice poster
5.2

Thirty-eight-year-old Alice spends her days sleeping. Working nights at a rehabilitation center provides her with an excuse for her fatigue and emotional apathy. Yigal, Alice’s husband, feels lonely and tormented by her chilly attitude, while his anger gradually heightens. Eli, her nine-year-old-son, is desperate for her love. The rehabilitation center houses thirty young women who have suffered emotional crisis. Alice prefers as little communication as possible with the girls and performs only the basic demands of her job: handing out medication, supervising meals, and overseeing shower time. After the lights go out, Alice meets with Yoel, her lover. On the narrow single bed, a passion for another kind of life, or for what might have been, is aroused.

Alice

2012

Our Father poster
6.8

Ovadia Rachmim is the strongest and most violent doorman of Tel Aviv night clubs. He and his wife Rachel are trying to get pregnant for 5 years. A small time gangster named Shalom, offers Ovadia a job, to be a debts collector, offering him a lot of money. Ovadia sees this as great opportunity to start an expensive private treatment for his wife. As soon as Rachel gets pregnant, he decides to stop working for Shalom. Shalom wants him for the most important mission. The mission in which Ovadia has to betray all his best friends. Now it's the time to pay the price of becoming a father.

Our Father

2016

Southern Winds poster
9.0

A short drama that takes place on the beach of Israel. It’s about big dreams, small waves, and one father who tries to save the one real thing he has left, his son, but ends up proving once again, all he cares about is himself.

Southern Winds

2018

2000s · 7 titles

Eyes Wide Open poster
6.5

A middle-aged Orthodox Jew, Aaron, living and working in Jerusalem with his wife and children, meets a homeless 19-year-old student. Aaron offers to give Ezri work as his assistant at his family's butcher shop. The two men grow close and their attraction becomes sexual. Aaron must now confront his own sexuality, his feelings for Ezri, and his obligations to his family and faith.

Eyes Wide Open

2009

Pippi Longstocking - The Musical poster
NR

Israeli musical adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's "Pippi Longstocking"

Pippi Longstocking - The Musical

2005

Julia Mia poster
5.0

Johnny is a B movies director. He meets Mia, a young Julia Roberts look-alike. Johnny decides to create an Israeli version of "Pretty Woman" with Mia. As he falls in love with the fantasy, his film turns into reality.

Julia Mia

2007

ג'אנם ג'אנם poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ג'אנם ג'אנם

2006

Blind Date poster
5.0

A Israeli diplomat from France begins sending flowers and romantic love letters anonymously to a romantic comedy translator who dreams of love whose business card he found by chance. After a few weeks of letters, he sends her a plane ticket to Paris and she goes to meet him at his apartment which changes everything.

Blind Date

2003

Black Jack poster
6.5

Black Jack is the coming-of-age story of Jacky, a young, frivolous adventurer, searching for an identity and thirsty for love. As he is swept into the world of crime, he falls in love with a beautiful casino dealer and learns from her that in order to survive he must remain true to himself, and take responsibility for his own life.

Black Jack

2004

Distortion poster
4.2

Everyday life in Israel during the "Intifada": suicide-attacks, distresses, tensions. A director must present a new theater play but he just can't write a line. His partner, a documentary filmmaker, is preparing the portrait of a former soldier who opened a trade but went into bankruptcy. This man is ruined, his wife has left home, his son got exiled to Australia. The director, desperate, believes that hiring a private detective to follow his wife is gonna put some salt in his life. Without knowing it, the detective becomes the real director of the play which is getting written step by step.

Distortion

2005

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