The Substitute

Director : Talya Lavie

Israel 2005 19 mins

Zohara is a female soldier in an isolated military base in Israel. She hates every minute and cannot wait to leave. But her hopes are shattered when her new substitute appears to be suicidal. Instead of leaving the base, Zohara now finds herself ordered to guard her substitute.

The Syrian Bride

Director : Eran Riklis

Israel/France/Germany 2004 97mins

Winner of numerous international awards, from Best Film at the Montreal Film Festival to Public Choice Award in Locarno, The Syrian Bride is one of Israel’s best quality features in recent years. Young bride Mona knows that once she crosses the border between Israel and Syria to marry Tallel, a Syrian soap star, she will never be able to return to her home and her family in Majdal Shams.

The Tribe

Director : Tiffany Shlain

USA 2005 18mins

What can the most successful doll on the planet show us about being Jewish
today? Narrated by Peter Coyote, the film mixes old school narration with a
new school visual style.

Three Mothers

Shalosh Imahot 

Director : Dina Zvi-Riklis

Israel 2006 106mins

Sixty years ago, triplets Rose, Flora and Yasmin were born into a wealthy Egyptian-Jewish family and blessed in person by King Farouk.Today, in Israel, they live together in an apartment without men and without children.

Tomorrow We Move

Demain On Déménage 

Director : Chantal Akerman

France 2004 110mins

As in the best French comedies, social barriers do not exist and strangers become best friends within a few moments. Charlotte is an author who is trying to write an erotic novel whilst living with her widowed mother in a cramped and chaotic apartment.

Watermarks

Director : Yaron Zilberman

Austria 2004 80 mins

Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Hakoah (“The Strength" in Hebrew) was founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes. In the 1930s Hakoah's best-known triumphs came from its women swimmers, who dominated national competitions in Austria. In 1938, the Nazis shut down the club, but the swimmers managed to flee the country before the war broke out, thanks to an escape operation organized by Hakoah’s functionaries. Sixty-five years later, director Yaron Zilberman meets the members of the women’s swim team in their homes around the world, and arranges for them to have a reunion in their old swimming pool in Vienna, a journey that evokes memories of youth, femininity, and strengthens lifelong bonds.

What A Wonderful Place

Eyze Makom Nifla 

Director : Eyal Halfon

Israel 2005 105mins

Israel’s 2005 Oscar entry highlights the difficulties foreign workers experience in contemporary Israel. This multi-lingual ensemble film speaks eloquently about something common to us all: the need for human contact.

When do we Eat?

Director : Salvador Litvak

USA 2005 90 mins