5 Days

Chamisha Yamim 

Director : Yoav Shamir

Israel 2005 94mins

Unprecedented access and footage of one of the most controversial events in recent Middle East history – Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza.

A Different Dish

Director : Shay Hamias

UK 2006 10mins

A Jewish Moroccan mother who can’t accept her son being gay and and a son who has rejected the traditions of his culture lean to overcome their prejudices, with the help of a rascally rabbi.

A Love To Hide

Director : Christian Fauré

France 2005 103mins

Set in Paris in 1942 where two gay lovers, Philippe and Jean, hide their love from their families and the occupying Nazi army.

Another Road Home

Director : Danae Elon

Israel 2005 79mins

Award-winning Israeli filmmaker and daughter of renowned writer Amos Elon, portrays her quest to find Musa Obeidallah, the Palestinian man whose love and sacrifice profoundly influenced her life.

Be Fruitful And Multiply

Director : Shosh Shlam

Israel 2005 50mins

How does it feel to have been pregnant or breastfeeding for 25 out of 26 years of your married life? This and other questions are posed openly and directly in this film exposing the consequences of the commandment “Be fruitful and multiply” for religious Jewish women.

Black Book

Director : Paul Verhoeven

Netherlands/UK/Germany 2006 145mins

Black Book marks Paul Verhoeven’s return to Holland after 25 years in Hollywood, tackling a subject he has long held dear – his homeland’s behaviour during World War II.

Close To Home

Karov La Bayit 

Director : Vidi Bilu and Dalia Hager

Israel 2006 90mins

Rebellious and outgoing Smadar can’t stand some of the people in her IDF unit. Mirit, introverted and frightened, keeps away from the likes of Smadar. But the two are thrown together as they are assigned to a patrol in Jerusalem as part of their compulsory military service.

Don Quixote In Jerusalem

Director : Dani Rosenberg

Israel 2005 5mins

Don Quixote and Sancho Pancho arrive in Israel in the year 2004. They reach a hill on the Jerusalem road overlooking the wall which divides Israel and the Palestinian Authority. They inspect their target and make their plans.

Down There

Là-Bas 

Director : Chantal Akerman

France/Belgium 2006 79mins

“When Jews in France say to each other ‘Tu vas là-bas’ they usually mean: ‘are you going to Israel?’ We have the place where we live and we have ‘là-bas’.” Akerman didn’t intend to make a film about Israel. But then, while staying in a rented seaside apartment in Tel Aviv, she started filming.

Exodus

Director : Otto Preminger

USA 1960 208 minutes

Based on Leon Uris’s sweeping novel, Exodus is the epic saga of the founding of the state of Israel in the days following World War II.