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- Like all young ultra-orthodox girls, Ruchi, the favorite daughter of a Jerusalem family, dreams of becoming a wife and mother. But the young man who has been chosen for her is not in any sense her equal. Ruchi's younger sister, who has Down's syndrome, asks searching and uncomfortable questions about the match, underlining for Ruchi the extreme limitations on her freedom.
- A young girl finds her Grandmother's secret Holocaust diary while staying at her Grandparents' apartment.
- It's not easy living in the shadow of a public figure. Everyone expects us to behave according to the involuntary title of "The Rabbi's Daughter". To dress modestly, to express humility, to know all the answers to religious questions, to never stumble, never breakdown, to always keep the good name of you father, an educator and community leader. I went looking for how to stop blushing every time my "lineage" was exposed. How to leave my conscience behind. How did other girls do it before me.
- Ohad, a young orthodox Jew, is torn between the man he loves and god. Who will he choose?
- In the empty mess hall of Ein Tzurim Kibbutz, a number of the kibbutz's veterans gather every morning. In a place where everything has been privatized, they run a parliament that seriously discusses matters of inner politics, gossip, agriculture and the kibbutz's 60th anniversary. When the secretariat and the kibbutz committee decide to stop the breakfasts, parliament members begin an uncompromising struggle to preserve the last pillar of kibbutz life they have left.
- After being raped by a stranger, a young ultra-orthodox woman awaits a Rabbinical decision about whether or not her husband should divorce her. Jewish law states that "If the wife of a Cohen (descendant of a priest) is raped, she is forbidden to her husband." Cohen's Wife is a provocative modern day portrait of a couple torn between religious law and marital devotion.
- Ultra-Orthodox young Leah works in her mother's store. She has come of age and would like to marry, but her widowed mother won't let go. When the two women light Hanukkah candles together, a small miracle begins to unfold.
- Liat wants to study music at the famous Julliard school in New York. Her father is against the idea and does everything in his power to prevent it - even after he has died.
- Michael, a dreamy, sensitive 13-year-old, is named after his uncle who fell in the Yom Kippur War. On the morning of Memorial Day, he travels with his father and elder brother to Jerusalem, to participate in a formal ceremony for his uncle at Mt. Herzl. On the way, they are due to drop off a stray dog that Michael has become attached to, at the animal shelter. There are unexpected complications on the journey, and Michael must, as usual, make the choice between being true to himself and being a stranger to the world that surrounds him.
- Traumatized Emily has difficulty communicating with other human beings and has no desire to do so. Until Emma appears.
- A divorce ceremony raises some important questions for one couple.
- Three sisters - a radio broadcaster who has abandoned her traditional roots, a religious woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, and the film's heroine, who is struggling to conceive a child-gather at their widowed mother's house for the Jewish Sabbath.
- Chava, an ultra-orthodox young woman, called off her engagement a year ago. Now a new match has been suggested for her. The introduction is made, but Chava experiences a sharp disappointment. Can she put aside her prejudices to give love a chance to grow?
- Ben is a 35 year old divorcee and failing comic book artist who works in an office. He and his 8 year old daughter Maya go on quest into the Dream Factory to find his broken dream and fix it.
- Before leaving for Germany where he will undergo irreversible surgery, Liam reflects on his previous female identity.
- Based in a low income neighborhood, Eli can't get out of the day to day hardship. His only comfort is Fuxy (Lucky in Hebrew) his dog. Eli needs to choose between family obligations and his dog. Working hard to help his brother paying off a gambling debt as well as saving Fuxy from being a part of dog fights.
- While searching for the father who abandoned her as a child, a young woman steps through the looking glass into a world that is completely unknown to her.
- A teenage boxer training for the European championships fights for her title and her honor
- Eli, who is single, goes out on a blind date to please his aunt. But everything that could possibly go wrong, does, and Eli and his date spend a bizarre evening driving around the streets of Jerusalem. A romantic comedy about dating the orthodox way.
- Tomer is 8 years old. His father, Eli, is an air-force pilot in the Israeli army. Eli and his friends know to fly airplanes, to navigate by the stars, and to fight in the air. Tomer knows all this from Eli's bedtime stories and legends that he tells him at night. One day Eli comes home and never flies again. He just sits at home and silently watches television. His wife, Michal, gradually loses communication with him. Tomer alone discovers Eli's great secret: His father is to fly like a bird, without any airplane. A new legend is about to begin, and only Tomer can be part of it.
- Saar and Maya's home life is rattled at its very foundations. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder slowly seeps in, threatening to unravel the couple's delicate texture of life.
- A Jerusalem romantic comedy about a moderately orthodox young man who pretends to be more religious than he is in order to impress a girl. The two begin dating, the chemistry is great but the young man has to tell more and more lies to keep the relationship going. What will happen when she discovers the truth?
- On the eve of his bar mitzva while busying himself with last-minute errands and fitting in a final practice of his Torah reading, Daniel goes out on his bike and is attacked by another child. When Daniel returns home it seems as if his father, who is blind, cannot perceive his distress, but this is not so. Daniel learns from his father that observation is a matter of the heart and not just of the eyes.
- 17 year old Neta, born and raised on a kibbutz, receives the bitter news that her brother, who is in the army, has been killed in action. Neta is torn between her family's grief and a dark secret that if revealed, will stain her brother's memory for ever.
- A young Israeli couple with two small children establishes a Jewish hospitality center for backpackers in India. The camera follows the dramatic developments in their relationship as, against a deceptively idyllic background, the couple begins to discover the immense differences between them in temperament and outlook. Will these differences, and India, break them apart forever or make them stronger? An intense film about young marriage, ideology and growing into life.