School / Academy
The Armageddon starts with falafel patties. The last Jew who is left in the diaspora finally arrives in Israel and enjoys everything the country has to offer. By doing so he is unaware that his arrival to the Holy Land starts the Apocalypse as described in the Evangelical interpretation of the New Testament.
The name of the film is taken from the book “Liquid Love” by the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The film investigates the tension and the pendulum swing between freedom and belonging. An attempt to express two opposing worlds trying to co-exist, where one will always overcome the other in a constant, endless tension.
7 years ago Boaz has cut all ties with his parents, brother & sister, his friends, and his previous world. The film tracks the story of his disappearance and embarks in a surreal journey into the memories he left with his family.
Neta (1987, Jerusalem) makes short films, illustrations, titles and typography, and has directed and designed for clients such as MTV, Barneys New York and HBO. She holds a BA (Hons) and a recent MDES degree in Visual Communication, both from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She lives in Tel Aviv with her partner Lior, her daughter Zohara and her dog, Gili.
In the old Jewish cemetery in the city of Safed, people come from afar to pray on the graves of rabbis from the golden age of Kabbalah in the 16th century, sometimes with hope to find redemption to their life problems.
A brief meeting after many years undermines a father’s world and renders his words meaningless.
A lonely walk home is intertwined with an underwater fantasy world. The combination between reality and fantasy is portrayed in a love letter addressed to an imaginary “perfect” man.
Through the eyes and imagination of a seven years old, elementary school pupil, a glimpse of the weird and grotesque school routines (in Israel).
A tale of an old shaman, a spiritual leader of a primitive tribe on her deathbed. She will bid farewell to her tribe in a mystical ritual and will be buried in a ceremonial burial preceded by a feast in her honour.
A Satire movie that criticize the daily life in Jerusalem. A city with a great gap between its symbolic and holy values to the “simple” people who are living in it.
Reflection on the loops of suffering apparent in the modern human life. It’s characters, co-exist separately, are joined together through their absurd behaviours that imprison them.
Waitress in a café experiences the world outside through objects left behind by the patrons.
Yuval goes to his friends’ house, where creepy things start happening. He begins to suspect that someone is out to get him when the signs keep appearing.