9 Star Hotel

Malon 9 Kochavim 

Director : Ido Haar

Israel 2006 78 mins

Follows a group of Palestinian construction labourers working illegally on the building site of a new Israeli town, across from the West Bank.

A Hebrew Lesson

Ha'Ulpan 

Director : David Ofek & Ron Rotem

Israel 2006 123 mins

In 2004, in an ulpan in the heart of Tel Aviv, a different and fascinating tapestry of individuals face the difficulties of a new language and a new life.

A Kiss Is A Kiss Is A Kiss

Director : Uri Bar-on

Israel 2006 5 mins

Or is there more to it? A very short take on some grand issues

A Slim Peace

Director : Yael Luttwak

UK 2007 60 mins

Filmmaker Luttwak sets herself a bold task, forming a weight-loss group in Jerusalem for women from across the political spectrum

Aviva My Love

Aviva Ahuvati 

Director : Shemi Zarhin

Israel 2006 107 mins

All Aviva wants is to write, and indeed every detail in her mundane life sparks an imaginative tale. But Aviva lives in a working class town in the North of Israel.

Beaufort

Director : Joseph Cedar

Israel 2007 120 mins

The story of the poignant retreat of a group of young soldiers in 2000 from Beaufort Castle, who must find ways to carry out their mission until the very last minute.

Between Two Notes

Le Blues de l'Orient 

Director : Florence Strauss

France/Canada 2006 85 mins

A musical road movie that moves between Iraq and Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, Israel and Egypt.

Bridge Over the Wadi

Gesher Al Ha'wadi 

Director : Tomer Heymann & Barak Heymann

Israel 2006 55 mins

Follows children in their first year at a bilingual school established by Arab and Jewish parents in Galilee.

Cirkus Rex

Director : Zlatco Bourek

Yugoslavia 1965 13 mins

This strange and haunting short film powerfully evokes the dark side of the circus in a landscape of Nazi occupation.

Crazy Love

Director : Dan Klores

USA 2007 96 mins

The astonishing story of the obsessive roller coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach, which shocked the US during the summer of 1959.