Menashe Noy

Mali Azulai (38), a bus inspector in Ashkelon, is on the verge of losing her job after a violent altercation with a teenage passenger. When she returns to an empty bus to retrieve the body camera she left behind, she finds an abandoned baby on the floor and decides to take him home. Her brother Shimon (32), a prison guard struggling through a marital crisis, joins her, and the two shut themselves away with the child. His presence stirs the siblings’ shared wound of abandonment, as long-buried secrets come to light. When the baby falls ill and a hospital visit becomes unavoidable, Mali is forced to choose, hold on or let go and face the cost.

With this two-part feature documentary, Shlomi Elkabetz shares a poignant love letter to his sister, the late actress and director Ronit Elkabetz, and delivers a rare cinematic experience.

The film documents Amos Gitai's play "Golem" at the ancient theater in Pompeii, combined with fictional scenes. Within the historical narrative, themes resonating with the contemporary world emerge.

A man returns to the burnt forest where he last saw his brother.

A diverse cross-section of Israeli society converges in a single multi-use building, the Shikun. As people of different languages, origins and generations come together in highly theatrical encounters, they grapple with the current state of affairs. In a poignant metaphor inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s famous play “Rhinoceros”, some begin to turn into rhinoceroses, while others resist.

Yoram, a 50-year-old veterinarian living in Tel-Aviv, is forced to re-examine his relationship with his adolescent daughter Roni, after she wishes to end her life. He decides to take her on a journey to visit her mother’s family, a process of self and mutual discovery in a primordial desert land enveloping the Dead Sea.

Libby, wild and enigmatic, wanders like a possessed woman among the corners of the streets of South Tel Aviv as she carries an explosive secret in her heart. Libby escaped from “Or La’banot" a religious care institution and she is on the run. Libby is desperately looking for Ezra, a mysterious relative of hers, who was appointed as her legal guardian, after she was declared "mentally ill" and then disappeared from her life. With vague details on his whereabouts, she encounters other people that Ezra knew or met, penetrates their loneliness while gathering more clues to the fate of the man who holds her keys to freedom.

A satirical crime, comedy of errors that involves three trailers that have been smuggled into Israel. A mistake in the harbor brings together Arabs, Orthodox Jews and a gay couple that must join forces in order to solve the mishap.

An Israeli film set in a Bedouin village in the desert turns into an ego struggle between languages, cultures and classes, when the director of the film insists on filming a certain frame she imagined. Sounds heavy but it's a comedy.

The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.

The twisted paths of three very different men brutally collide due to a chain of unspeakable murders: a grieving father who has been doomed to seek vengeance and a police detective who boldly crosses the narrow boundary between law and crime meet a religion teacher suspected of being the murderer.

A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.

A camel's body lies in the middle of a desert road, exactly on the 147th kilometer, on the border between two settlements. None of them agrees to take responsibility for it.

An estranged father and son are brought together by a young crane named Karl as they trace a family of the birds on their migratory journey from Russia to Africa.

A brother and sister who run away from home find sanctuary in a deserted nature reserve. When the sister falls into the trap of a psychopathic killer, the brother sets out on a race against time to find help. In a twist of fate the rescue of the sister becomes inadvertently intertwined with the lives of a group of young tennis players, a ranger and his dog, as well as a team of policemen.

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The final part of a family trilogy by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz. It follows Viviane Amsalem's grueling legal marathon to obtain a divorce.

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Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.

While her husband struggles to keep his restaurant in business, a mother of three lands a job as an assistant to a powerful, but sexually harrassive realtor and brings herself to fight back.

Salah, an Israeli-Arab enterpriser, strives to bring happiness for the children of the Arab sector in Israel by opening a new chain of candy stores. 'The Firm', an Israeli corporation headed by Klausner , that controls Israeli candy market, resent Salah on his former business move - taking control over the Israeli market of Turkish coffee. Klausner sees the new business initiative of Salah as a real threat, not only a business one but also a cultural and a political one, even a real challenge against Zionism itself. In a disguise of a Business struggle the story reveals moral dilemmas and a cultural struggle: the Arab businessman trying to integrate in Modern Israel against the dominant Zionist culture.

Heading out to a stressful day at work, Mori, a devoted family man, is completely unaware of the tragic mistake he has just made. We Had a Forest touches on an unfathomable and horrifying human failing.

Ido hates working at the local Falafel shop. He stays there because of his shift manager, Hadas, but he doesn't have the guts to tell her that he loves her. Will Sassi Keshet, a Game show host for the past 20 years, help him overcome his fears?

A married couple at their forties sit in their living room. Together they recalls their first meeting, but while he remembers the lights on the dark river, she remembers the wind that blew through the sunny field.

55-year-old Noah, has a passion for classical music, a job that wears him down, and an old piano in his living room. Although Noah gave up on his dream of becoming a pianist in his youth, his youngest son 13-year-old Nir, is set to audition for the Music Academy. Noah's ambition resurfaces and his obsession threatens to disrupt both his and his son's lives.

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled "Israeli-Arabs," living as a minority in their own homeland.

Tali and Ori are a young Israeli couple. After attending their best friends' wedding, which ended in disaster, they have a big fight, which leads to Ori proposing. But there is trouble in paradise when Ori's conservative father meets Tali, and all hell breaks loose...

A story with a bit of despair: six or seven families who live in the same blocks that surround a parking lot. And they are all involved in each other’s lives.

Two pairs of assassins are sent by a holocaust survivor's son to bring the last Nazi for a show trial in Israel.

Cohen takes an elliptical approach in telling the story of Pinchas Rutenberg, a visionary, complex, and larger-than-life figure, who, amongst other things, brought electricity to Jewish Palestine in the early 20th century by building a hydroelectric power station in Nahararyim.

Through a mosaic of stories intertwined and created a current picture of the sad social and economic situation in Israel. Mother forced into prostitution to support her son; Blind man must survive after losing his dog; Son is looking for his rocker father's; Apartment owner complicates his life while entering the underworld...

This is a story about a really troubled man who is out of work, his marriage is falling apart, overbearing mother doesn't let him to live, his father recently died, etc...

Henry, an equipment manager in a film school, makes up his mind to make a movie, now or never. For the starring role he selects his own 13-year-old boy, Ami. Ami is a talented mimic, who excels especially in imitating animals and machine sounds. Making the movie becomes a meaningful process in the father-son relationship. Eitan Green: "I wanted to make a film about the process of making a film... to write about the process of coming back to one's own family... about the fact that it is a painful process for people at a certain age to realize that they will never again be what they used to be, even when it involves a certain amount of success

This is a film about the lifes of a few people, living in south Tel-Aviv, and slightly connected to the life of crime. Each of'em has his dreams his complections, his.. beauty. So they form this beautiful idea to steal an icon from a heavy Mafia guy they knew for years, sell it in Paris, and begin a new flashing life of dream-fulfillment.

The year is 1999 and the storyline is actually a number of sub-plots all revolving around the 13-year old Clara, a girl that can predict the future and has telekinetic powers. The sub-plots include a boy in her class who has a crush on her, his family, her family and her principal that keeps talking French for some strange reason.

Hahamishia Hakamerit (Hebrew: החמישייה הקאמרית, The Kameri Quintet‎‎) was a weekly Israeli satirical sketch comedy television program created by Asaf Tzipor, who was also the main writer of the show, and Eitan Tzur, who directed the entire run of the show. Hahamishia Hakamerit was broadcast on Israeli Channel 2 and Channel 1 between the years 1993-1997. Later on, reruns of the show were broadcast on the cable channel Bip (channel). The show's often surreal skits were characterized by a satirical point of view which did not spare the audience sensitive subjects such as politics, national security, the Holocaust and sex.

The touching story of Victor, who lives with his mother in the really bad part of town and runs an illegal TV cable station. One day he sees the beautiful Michaela and falls madly in love with her. So desperate to make her love him back he finally snaps, and sits in the rain, all night, waiting for her. Placed in a mental institution for his own sake he meets several colorful characters, such as the mysterious Levanah with whom he becomes sexually involved. Finally, one day, Michaela comes to visit him...

Hahamishia Hakamerit (Hebrew: החמישייה הקאמרית, The Kameri Quintet‎‎) was a weekly Israeli satirical sketch comedy television program created by Asaf Tzipor, who was also the main writer of the show, and Eitan Tzur, who directed the entire run of the show. Hahamishia Hakamerit was broadcast on Israeli Channel 2 and Channel 1 between the years 1993-1997. Later on, reruns of the show were broadcast on the cable channel Bip (channel). The show's often surreal skits were characterized by a satirical point of view which did not spare the audience sensitive subjects such as politics, national security, the Holocaust and sex.

A couple finds themselves in a ransacked apartment after a robbery that sends them on a bizarre nighttime journey. The wife embarks on a passionate sexual adventure with a rude cop, and the husband meets a prostitute and her violent pimp. And that's just the beginning. A film in which several plot lines intersect, featuring cops and robbers, prostitutes and reformed criminals, sports fans, and dogs that... don't bark in green.

Dudu Peled has a secret. In a military action during reserve duty he accidentally shot and killed his commander, Amnon Rifkin. The official investigation absolved him of responsibility, but since the incident he is tormented by an overpowering sense of guilt. Fifteen years later, the delicate balance that he created to pull his life together suddenly falls apart, when his wife Naomi meets Amnon’s widow Ruthie. As the two women become close friends, Dudu has to free himself from the tangled web he’s caught in, and he has to do it fast …

Hahamishia Hakamerit (Hebrew: החמישייה הקאמרית, The Kameri Quintet‎‎) was a weekly Israeli satirical sketch comedy television program created by Asaf Tzipor, who was also the main writer of the show, and Eitan Tzur, who directed the entire run of the show. Hahamishia Hakamerit was broadcast on Israeli Channel 2 and Channel 1 between the years 1993-1997. Later on, reruns of the show were broadcast on the cable channel Bip (channel). The show's often surreal skits were characterized by a satirical point of view which did not spare the audience sensitive subjects such as politics, national security, the Holocaust and sex.

Filmmaker Amir Zait directed this short during his time as a student at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television Studies, and for which he won a Wolgin Prize for Best Short at the Jerusalem Film Festival. In the film, two men cross paths in Yael’s flat one morning. The former, in his dressing gown, has just spent the night with Yael, whilst the latter is her ex-partner. The ex gives the new guy the third degree and, in the process, the pair get to know each other and learn how to define themselves in terms of their relationship with Yael.