Irit Kaplan

Quatre amis obèses, originaires de la ville de Ramlé, en Israël, ne supportent plus le régime alimentaire qu'on leur impose. L'un d'eux, Herzl, alors qu'il fait la plonge dans un restaurant japonais, découvre la culture Sumo par l'intermédiaire du gérant Kitano, ancien entraîneur exhilé en Israël après ses déboires avec les Yakusas. Herzl, qui tombe littéralement amoureux de ce sport, propose à Kitano de l'entraîner lui et sa bande de copains...

An entertaining and good-hearted romantic comedy that gives a light Orthodox twist to "Romeo and Juliet".

In present day Jerusalem, a city increasingly dominated by religious fanaticism, Naomi, a secular young woman seeks refuge from the pressure of her life as a concert pianist. Despite her intentions to stay alone, however, Naomi quickly makes two unexpected connections- one with a musically gifted Ultra-Orthodox young boy who lives in her building and the other, with Fabrizio, a charismatic Italian monk and organist. While these relationships allow Naomi to reconnect with her love of music and sense of meaning, they also make her a target in her new community. Faced with escalating isolation and violence, Naomi must learn to use music as a bridge to overcome towering religious barriers.

Directed by multi-award winner Nir Bergman (Broken Wings), Saving Neta tells the stories of four women whose lives change after their brief encounter with a man called Neta. Humour, drama, love and hope, a powerful and moving portrait of family relationships and parenthood in modern life.

Based on the award-winning play and popular Israeli short story, this poignant family drama follows Rivka, 19-years-old and strong-willed, who struggles to follow the conservative lifestyle of her ultra-orthodox parents in Jerusalem. Determined to break free from her parents’ rigid worldview, she runs away to a secular farming community in the desert. The decision pushes the two generations to confront the chasm between their stringent views of tradition and modernity.

Israélienne, Shira a grandi au sein d’une famille juive pratiquante aussi aimante qu’envahissante. Maria est allemande, et ne sait rien de ses grands-parents ni de leurs positions sous le régime hitlérien – ce que la famille de Shira ne manquera pas de lui demander. Lorsque les deux femmes emménagent ensemble à Jérusalem et décident de se marier, la joie est très vite ternie par les complications familiales. Si l’orientation sexuelle de Shira ne pose aucun problème, son entourage peine à accepter qu’elle ait choisi une femme non juive – et allemande de surcroît. Survivante de la Shoah, Berta, l’impitoyable grand-mère adorée de Shira, montre son hostilité à ce mariage de façon particulièrement virulente. Allusions au passé nazi de l’Allemagne, remarques cinglantes et tentatives de sabotage ne manquent pas de fuser. Sur ce tableau déjà bien complexe, les parents de Maria décident de se rendre à Jérusalem afin de faire la connaissance de la future belle-famille de leur fille…

Les amours, le chagrin, la jalousie et la douleur des trois sœurs Armoza - Luna, Rachelika et Becky - les parents, grands-parents et enfants, se déroulent au début du milieu du XXe siècle à Jérusalem.

In a sleepy high school in Kfar Sava, in a Citizenship class, 12th-grader Lianne and her teacher Amir get into a heated political confrontation that gets out of hand and soon reaches personal and painful places.

Pinhas "Pini" Zanzouri lives in Yavne, a town in central Israel, with his wife and two children. Zanzouri is an average Israeli citizen with an average job, who comes home and passes his evenings watching TV . On his 40th birthday, Zanzouri's life changes forever when his father comes to him with two revelations: that all the men in his family have died in their 40th year, and that he is adopted. Accepting that he has a year to live, Zanzouri decides to fulfill all his dreams.