Tova Ascher

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Al Kise HaBamay Yoshevet Isha
8
Twenty six Israeli women directors of narrative features are sharing their personal experiences of sitting in the director's chair. From Ellida Geyra - Israel's first female fiction filmmaker, to contemporary female directors, the film weaves together a conglomerate of women's voices, as they echo each other, clash, and come apart, then culminate in a fiery speech by Ronit Elkabetz. Their stories create a diverse and cinematic patchwork quilt of female directors, providing us with a multifaceted reflection of any woman who wishes for her story to be heard. This is a moving documentary, that will motivate you to get up and do something about the glass ceiling, both the real one, as well as the imagined.
Documentary
ב-72 לא הייתה מלחמה
4.5
Somewhat autobiographical, the film opens right after the 6 day war, when Israelis euphoric with victory and the kids dress up as the captured Western Wall in Jerusalem. Now it is 1972. The film centers on a young boy, who is failing in school, and grounded from going on Passover trips with his classmates. Instead he must visit private academies (including military school) with his parents, who want him to do better in school. Foreshadowing to the coming war in 1973 and the defeat of euphoria.
Drama
ז'נטילה
1

ז'נטילה

Dec 24, 1998
A drama about four malcontent and oddly matched characters on a three-day journey. Each an outcast: Gadi, a petty criminal on parole seeking to make his way back into mainstream society; Yitzhak, his pensive, naive, and serious younger brother; Shoshana, a serious criminal who insists on tormenting the group; and a young, pregnant, Russian immigrant who has left her husband an meets up with the other three in a coffee shop. The characters together define their obvious marginalization from society and their search for individual dignity.
ב-72 לא הייתה מלחמה
4.5
Somewhat autobiographical, the film opens right after the 6 day war, when Israelis euphoric with victory and the kids dress up as the captured Western Wall in Jerusalem. Now it is 1972. The film centers on a young boy, who is failing in school, and grounded from going on Passover trips with his classmates. Instead he must visit private academies (including military school) with his parents, who want him to do better in school. Foreshadowing to the coming war in 1973 and the defeat of euphoria.
Drama
Beauty and the Beast
6.3

Beauty and the Beast

Apr 01, 1987
To save her father, a girl who always puts others before herself promises to live her life in a lavish castle with a strange beast.
Family
A.K.A Nadia
7.7

A.K.A Nadia

Jul 01, 2015
To save her father, a girl who always puts others before herself promises to live her life in a lavish castle with a strange beast.
Drama
ההסדר
6.8

ההסדר

Nov 30, 2000
Is today's fanaticism tomorrow's policy? In a West Bank settlement, Rabbi Meltzer has a grand design: he's building a movement "to pray at the Temple Mount." His yeshiva has scholars, and the settlement is getting its own military company to be commanded by Menachem, a disciple of the rabbi. He also wants his daughter, Michal, to marry Pini, the yeshiva's best scholar. Michal has no interest in Pini, but she is attracted to Menachem. When she rebuffs Pini, he hatches a bold and secret plan. Is jealousy the motivation or something else? Meanwhile, the army and Moussad are closely watching the rabbi's activities and Menachem's military training. Who is trustworthy?
Drama
זוג נשוי
1

זוג נשוי

Jan 01, 1983
A Married Couple is a 1983 Israeli drama film directed by Yitzhak Yeshurun. The film was selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Drama
מלכת הכיתה
5

מלכת הכיתה

Jan 01, 1986
Enrike, a young Israeli boarding-school student, falls in love with Malka, the most popular girl in his class. Malka tires of their relationship and takes up with Shalom, Enrike's best friend.
נישואין פיקטיביים
4.5
Eldad is about to go abroad, but changes his mind at the last minute. Instead of going home to Jerusalem, he disguises himself and takes a cheap hotel room in Tel Aviv. There he meets the receptionist Judy who he makes believe he'll marry so she can go to American with him and get a working visa there. In another disguise he is mistaken for a deaf-mute Arab and joins a group of them both at their Israeli construction site and back in their village.
Romance
סיפור חיים
1

סיפור חיים

Oct 02, 2023
Haim, a charismatic talented person who finds himself on the verge of impoverishment. Haim, a security guard in his 50's, lives with his elderly mother whose health is deteriorating. His past is being told by several people: his ex-wife, children and young lover. With their help, a profile emerges of a person who throughout life missed many opportunities due to life's complexity and unpredictability. His predicament also emanates from living in a society that in crucial moments appears devoid of compassion.
סיפור חיים
1

סיפור חיים

Oct 02, 2023
Haim, a charismatic talented person who finds himself on the verge of impoverishment. Haim, a security guard in his 50's, lives with his elderly mother whose health is deteriorating. His past is being told by several people: his ex-wife, children and young lover. With their help, a profile emerges of a person who throughout life missed many opportunities due to life's complexity and unpredictability. His predicament also emanates from living in a society that in crucial moments appears devoid of compassion.
סיפור חיים
1

סיפור חיים

Oct 02, 2023
Haim, a charismatic talented person who finds himself on the verge of impoverishment. Haim, a security guard in his 50's, lives with his elderly mother whose health is deteriorating. His past is being told by several people: his ex-wife, children and young lover. With their help, a profile emerges of a person who throughout life missed many opportunities due to life's complexity and unpredictability. His predicament also emanates from living in a society that in crucial moments appears devoid of compassion.
נשים
6.5

נשים

Jan 02, 1996
Love, family expectations, and religion mix in 19th century Jerusalem. Jacob and Rebecca marry; he's a rabbi, she's dutiful and loving. But she has no children. Months become years. Although Jacob is content, his mother reminds everyone she is waiting for a grandson. After 15 years, Rebecca determines that Jacob must take an additional wife, the young and beautiful Sultana. Rebecca fasts and prays, and in a state of near ecstasy, persuades everyone involved and then arranges an elaborate wedding. However, Sultana does not conceive, and Rebecca watches helplessly as Jacob's affection shifts to Sultana. She's near madness and the household is in turmoil. What can Rebecca do now?
Drama
Matok Ve'Mar
7

Matok Ve'Mar

May 15, 2008
The sudden arrival and prophecies of a fortune teller unexpectedly throws a wrench into the lives of three couples.
Drama
A.K.A Nadia
7.7

A.K.A Nadia

Jul 01, 2015
The sudden arrival and prophecies of a fortune teller unexpectedly throws a wrench into the lives of three couples.
Drama
Printemps 1941
6.2

Printemps 1941

Sep 28, 2007
The sudden arrival and prophecies of a fortune teller unexpectedly throws a wrench into the lives of three couples.
Drama
מלח הארץ
7

מלח הארץ

Jul 13, 2006
They were four friends in heart and soul. Blood Brothers that were that were bound together by their army experience. They were good people and decent citizens. They had love, careers, hopes, a future - but they wanted more. And they wanted to commit the perfect crime...
Crime
שלוש אמהות
6.7

שלוש אמהות

Nov 16, 2006
Rose, Flora and Yasmin were born as a triplet sixty something years ago in Alexandria, Egypt. Their well-off parents gave them names of flowers, and King Farouk of Egypt gave them his blessing. Today, in Israel, they live together in an apartment without men and without children...
Drama
ריקי ריקי
6

ריקי ריקי

Jan 13, 2005
What will Riki do after Asher, her fiancé, tells her that he got second thoughts regarding their wedding?..
Romance
לא בת 17
5.2

לא בת 17

Oct 30, 2003
A Kibutz in Israel is heavily in debt. In a last effort to produce a viable financial restructuring, the old, "unproductive" members are asked to leave the kibutz, to make room for younger, more productive new members. Among those destined to leave is Shraga. His marriage to Clara is loveless while he desperately loves Bracha, his late brother's widow. Clara dreams of starting afresh with her husband in an old age home, in the far north of the country. Bracha on the other hand refuses to remain a mere no. 2. Shraga is asked to make a decision. Other family members are forced into joining this unresolvable conflict.
Drama
Noa Bat 17
7

Noa Bat 17

Jan 01, 1982
Amid the political turmoil of 1950s Israel, a teenage girl named Noa (Dalia Shimko) is caught between her desire to go to college to express her individuality and her parents' wish to send her to a kibbutz -- a type of rural Jewish community based on the idea of communal property. Noa's middle-class upbringing and the options it affords her are catalysts for tension during a time of smoldering unrest.
Derrière Les Barreaux
5
Amid the political turmoil of 1950s Israel, a teenage girl named Noa (Dalia Shimko) is caught between her desire to go to college to express her individuality and her parents' wish to send her to a kibbutz -- a type of rural Jewish community based on the idea of communal property. Noa's middle-class upbringing and the options it affords her are catalysts for tension during a time of smoldering unrest.
Drama
בר 51
5.8

בר 51

Mar 29, 1985
After the death of their mother, Thomas and his sister Mariana leave their hometown for a brighter future in the city. They become patrons of a marginal bar in Tel Aviv, Bar 51, whose regulars serve as a backdrop for Thomas’s obsessive love for his sister, and her desire to break free and make a life of her own.
Crime
Ha-Me'ahev
4.5

Ha-Me'ahev

Jun 06, 1985
Adam is trying to fix his marriage but both his wife Asia and teenage daughter Dafi are too busy with their lovers.
Romance
1

Feb 03, 1977