Esther Kling

The supermarket workers leave the sleepy supermarket in Yavneh for a crazy adventure in which they are accused of a serious crime in a plot that begins in a detention cell and countinues with an escape story of Shefa Isasschar in an attempt to save their good name.

In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.

Asia is the single mother of 17-year-old Vika. Vika's deteriorating health urges Asia to finally find her voice as a mother and to embrace and cherish their time together.

In this edge-of-your-seat thriller inspired by real events, a British police officer and a Jewish woman fall in love amidst the political turmoil of 1930s Tel Aviv. With British control over Palestine precarious and conflict inevitable, everyone is forced to choose a side.

A once successful novelist tries to revive his fading career by launching a highly inventive scam. He recruits a reckless actress and trains her to assume the somber identity of a lit Masters student. Their lives will alter forever.

Based on true events. The story of 7 characters whose lives will unknowingly entangle. Each character is trapped in a failed relationship due to both tragic and comedic events, which leads them all to a shared belief: October 6th, the day the love died, is their worst day ever. The following day, during Hamas' sudden attack on Israel, they'll desperately have to try to survive while figuring out the true meaning of their lives and what must be changed.

A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.

1948: an Egyptian filmmaker is creating newsreel stories about a volunteer force tasked to liberate Palestinian farmers. The journey propels him towards a chance encounter with a tenacious young leader of a nearby commune that will set in motion events that will change their lives forever.

After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened. They expect sympathy and cooperation from the Israeli authorities, but are instead met with an official explanation that fails to tally with any eye-witness accounts, and a wall of silence. When an Israeli army report attempts to whitewash the incident, the Hurndalls decide the only way to establish the truth is to launch their own investigation into the shooting, a process which brings them face to face with both the Open-Fire regulations of the Israeli army in Gaza, and the soldier who pulled the trigger.

Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.

The year is 1964. Rachel Brener is one of 3 young Mossad agents teem who caught "THE SURGEON OF BIRKENAU" - a Nazi monster who was never brought to trial in Israel. The official reason was that he was shot to death while trying to escape from Israeli captivity in a safe house somewhere in Europe. 30 years after, the well communicated death story of the monster could be questionable, a small article appears in a local unimportant paper in a small town in Ukraine. Surprisingly the Surgeon is ALIVE and is willing to admit his crimes against the human race and especially the Jews. The 3 older x Mossad agents who are in their late 60th became aware to this unfortunate threatening knowledge. The fact was that the "Surgeon" managed to escape from his guards 30 years ago.

The "Refreshment Channel", consisting of Shaked Ferrara, Asthma de Loco and Lidoy, were the most successful pop band in Israel, until their unfortunate statement against the army turned them into enemies of the state overnight. In an attempt to restore their reputation, the three most pampered stars in the country enlist in the PR band - a military band that aims to increase the IDF's popularity, under the command of Sharona (Rotem Sela) and Yirmi (Eran Zarhovich). When they are away from home, the fans and their favorite hookah, old tensions pop up and threaten to break up the band. For the first time since they met at age 4 in the Red Bull kindergarten, the three split up. Will they find themselves or each other? Will they choose true friendships or the spotlight? All the answers in "Rising to the Top," the ripping movie of the summer in theaters!

Natali, a beautiful Israeli model, is paralyzed after an accident at sea. While at rehabilitation she meets Yossef, a kind Palestinian paraprofessional. Albeit her being suspicious at the start the two fall in love. When their relationship is discovered, the reservations coming from their families threaten to separate them.

The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal process of Beckett's newest play, including the recording of the dialogue, as almost all of it is voiceover. The final fifteen minutes of the film are the premiere performance in its entirety.

Ruth and Shmuel, a young couple from the ultra-Orthodox world, thought they knew everything about love. She, a sensitive young mother, constantly tests boundaries—but with grace. He, a brilliant yeshiva student, has a promising future in the yeshiva world. But when tragedy hits them, everything they believed about family, community, parenting—and even God—is put to the test. RUTH is a moving, intimate drama with surreal moments. A story about two people trying not to lose each other, yet speaking different languages that widen the emotional and religious gap between them, in a world where asking questions—especially the hard ones—is forbidden.

Filmmaker Tal Maoz’s graduation project from Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television Studies follows the story of Moran, an IDF commander of a basic training camp who must deal with a difficult soldier who is struggling to comply with the military’s code of conduct and seems to have developed feelings for her. When she brings him in for an assessment with an army psychologist who then recommends that he be discharged from service, private and commanding officer grow closer – but their newfound intimacy, in turn, unleashes a violent, dangerous outburst.

A Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage and is taken in by a group of musicians — until her past comes calling.