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A New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.

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.

Three young people on the autism spectrum share a flat together.

A successful lawyer (Ashkenazi), who has traumatic memories from his army service, is testifying against his best friend from his unit. His wife, a social-worker (Zorer), is trying to save a poor family named Siton (Garti and Adika). The couple's life collapses when the wife get raped by a gang (lead by Abutbul).

An Israeli Detective investigating a Russian mob in Israel, falls into trouble

Ehud Banai, now Israel's biggest singer-songwriter, got in the music business when he was over thirty. This is the story of his music, his friends, and his musical inspirations - from the beginning.

Tal Movshovitz is a 20-year-old ballroom dancer. In an international dance competition, the judge asks her why she came, and she remains on stage without an answer. The film is a journey into her head, heart, thoughts, and feelings.

With the help of a prominent Israeli journalist, Precious Life chronicles the struggle of an Israeli pediatrician and a Palestinian mother to get treatment for her baby, who suffers from an incurable genetic disease. Each must face their most profound biases as they inch towards a possible friendship in an impossible reality.

On a winter night, Dana, a young woman comes to her childhood friend, Adam, after a fight with her boyfriend and asks for a place to sleep. Adam tells her he planned to go tripping with a new kind of drug he made and asks her to keep an eye on him while he's tripping. After they go to sleep, Dana wakes up and everything starts to get creepy, now their friendship is at stake. Next morning she wakes up and everything seems to be normal again. Adam tells her that accidentally he switch the cups, she took the drugs and that's why she had this night. When Dana feels that Adam is lying, she is trying to get out but he doesn't let her.

A modern gaze at the case of Kaspar Hauser, Israel 2000.

I CLOWN YOU is a documentary portrait of the medical clowning community in Israel. In case you're wondering, yes, medical clowning is an actual job. A medical clown is a proper clown (red nose, huge shoes - the works), who has received special training similar to nursing, and works in a hospital. The basic idea is simple - to make the experience of being in a hospital less traumatic for everyone - patients, both kids and adults, their loved ones and also the medical staff. Balloons and bubbles are of course innate to the job, but there are many more layers to this seemingly simple play. Medical clowning has its secrets of the craft, in Israel it even has a career staircase, professional education including academic degrees and quantitative scientific studies. Medical clowning lies at the intersection of art, therapy and lifestyle and is grounded in ancient traditions of court jesters and circus clowns. Medical clowning is perhaps one of the most unexpected jobs for Israel one could think of and yet it is Israel that has one of the most developed and vivacious medical clowning communities in the World. (They even export medical clowning!) It is this community that we are excited to bring to the limelight - a unique group of red-nosed philosophers who take it upon themselves to make it better day by day, patient by patient.

Patient-doctor relationships are always complex, but when the patient cannot talk or make decisions for himself it becomes particularly complicated. This is the everyday reality for the protagonists of this film: Ariella, a veterinarian, and Shmulik, the chief caretaker of a wildlife hospital. A parallel universe with its own questions and rules. Through love and Sisyphean labor they try to treat their patients, as they are confronted with issues that are also applicable to life outside the clinic walls. Is every life a life worth living? When does help ultimately prolong the suffering? And most of all, when is the right moment to let go?

David Ofek looks back on the first Gulf War, when he was living with his parents in Ramat Gan, Israel. They are Iraqi Jews. His parents are fascinated with news reports of the bombing of Baghdad. His grandmother comes to stay with them during the SCUD attacks. Wearing gas masks, they sit in a secure room David has rigged. When the all-clear sounds, they look at photo albums. They're visited by David's girlfriend, Eve. They talk politics; grandma disapproves of Eve. Eve leaves for Eilat for respite. David images a life with Eve after the war ends.

The last three weeks of Lena's life cast light on her complicated relationship with her daughter, Miri, who came to Israel to say goodbye. Some time prior to that, Miri discovered that she was taken out of her mother's will, which puts the entire relationship in a new context for her. Can the last visit heal their relationship?

Day to day life of the not-so-ordinairy Israeli Family.

Oded Hanoded, the first feature film made in Hebrew.

Adi is a teenager admitted to a mental institution. As she goes back home for her first vacation, she has to confront her threatening father. As the night descents, and the home turns into a slaughter house, Adi will discover the truth behind her nightmares.

Oren, a 35-year old man, a lost child in a grown-up world. He is somewhat clumsy, a little neglected, has no self-esteem and is afraid to grow up and face responsibilities. Oren is still a virgin. Oren is addicted to virtual online "relationships" as he is unable to create real ones. He Spends most of his time in the internet, chatting with girls on camera mainly for sexual release. His virtual persona is the exact opposite of his real self- assertive, impatient, and extremely sexual. After finishing his studies as a Pastry Chef, he kind of gave up hope of finding and maintaining a job since he was fired from every job he tried out for because of his dreamy character, low self-esteem and inefficient behavior. His brother makes him take a job selling sandwiches at a high-tech company. His spends his work breaks sitting at a bus stop where one day he meets Nofar, a 16-year old girl who is a lost girl, extroverted and rebellious. A relationship starts to develop between them, which at first is friendly and childish. Oren is fascinated by Nofar's openness and outgoing character and Nofar who is used to being in sexual relationships with older men, where she is judged and feels she has to provide sex in order to feel wanted, finds for the first time a man who is interested in just talking to her. Nofar runs away from home and surprises Oren at his house and she asks if she can stay the night. Oren reluctantly agrees and when Nofar initiates physical contact he freaks out and they argue. Nofar, visibly disappointed and upset, leaves in anger. Oren is crushed and goes back to his virtual world again. Both miss the opportunity for the healthy relationship they've never had before

In a futuristic world, a scientist must find a male and a female to stay behind and rebuild the world's population. Three days before evacuation, he discovers that his own mate has been chosen to stay behind.

"Blood sweat and tears", that's how Gery Bilu chooses to describe Beit Zvi, the acting school he runs. In a world where there are too many instant stars, there is still one place where they learn and live real acting by "old school" codes and ethics. In this Channel 10 documentary-reality series we follow the students and their lives in school of the Performing Art, Beit Zvi. Their successes, failures, disappointments, romances and above all the race for glory and fame.

Teams of cadets set out to "assassinate" two paranoid criminal masterminds. Meanwhile, a classmate's long absence begins to raise eyebrows.