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MOMENTS, The Face of the Nation, 2004
MOMENTS, The Face of the Nation, 2004

 14 Israeli Filmmakers present 14 different faces of Israel, as they are reflected in each filmmaker’s lens.

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Shameless
  • Written and Directed by: Asaf Shafir & Michal Klein

  • Synopsis:
  • The story of a young man who lost his shame after babysitting the emperor’s children. Instead of shouting “The Emperor is Naked” he did something else…
Her Face
  • Written and Directed by: Noam Meshulam

  • Synopsis:
  • A young girl is driving a jeep and putting on make-up. She races along the creases in the face of the nation. She waves goodbye to the wrinkled face and takes off for another one. She immediately discovers that on another face her own turns into the image of the place where she came from.
Just not Another Suicide Bombing
  • Written and Directed by: Amit Drori

  • Synopsis:
  • Jerusalem, 2004. From one bombing to the next we try to carry on our everyday routine. But how can you sit on a bus today without constantly looking around for the potential suicide bomber? So who are the people who do take the bus? Those who have no choice.
Condenced
  • Written and Directed by: Zvulun Moshiashvili

  • Synopsis:
  • Outside is noisy. A musical harmony of car horns,talk, shouts, steps, chirping of birds and explosions come together to work on the senses. And we are not satisfied. God whispers “listen to your heartbeats,knock, knock, it’s me knocking. I’m in here, not out there.”
Politically Correct
  • Written and Directed by: Rona Tamir

  • Synopsis:
  • “I had an Arab. Actually Two. An Israeli Arab and an Arab from the Palestinian Authority. And I’ve been with a Druze. Now he’s a major in the army. I haven’t been with an Ethiopian. I had an Afro-American, in New Orleans.
Silence
  • Written and Directed by: Suha Arraf

  • Synopsis:
  • Rafah, a city so close yet so far from Tel Aviv. Only a great disaster puts it on the map. The city and its refugee camps paid the price of the political conflict… perhaps because they live on the border, perhaps because it is too far away.
The Value of Values
  • Written and Directed by: Hani Mor-Silverman & Maya Arad

  • Synopsis:
  • Equality. Work. Solidarity and Jewish culture. These sublime values that inspired the founding fathers of the State are etched on the Israeli bills. What is the face of the nation? The portrait on the bill or that of the person holding it?
An Israeli in Berlin
  • Written and Directed by: Ayelet Bargur

  • Synopsis:
  • "For 6 month now, I’ve been living in Berlin, the most German city of all . To be an Israeli in Berlin is to sit in the U-Bahn and stare at memories that aren’t mine. And to know that the things did happen here, not so long ago. To take the U-Bahn and to remember, To sit in the U-Bahn and to hear: that Israel is the greatest threat to world peace…”
Cover Up Story
  • Written and Directed by: Yoni Zigler

  • Synopsis:
  • “The Channel 2 reporter arrived first, with his cameraman, a lighting guy and make-up person. he asked to bring out the hard lines of my face. I didn’t protest. At eight in the evening, precisely, he gave me the sign to start".

  • Based on a story by Yossi Levi.
On the Face
  • Written and Directed by: Jachin Hirsch

  • Synopsis:
  • What seems beautiful ‘en face’ is not necessarily beautiful in profile. Can a rhinoplasty change one’s character?
Ringtones
  • Written and Directed by: Dov Gil-Har

  • Synopsis:
  • Every Israeli has a cell phone. He takes it everywhere. to the end. A musical-cinematic work composed entirely of ringtones; beginning in harmony and ending up as a spine chilling cacophony.
common language
  • Written and Directed by: Noa Ben-Hagai

  • Synopsis:
  • “Clorox, Fantastic, payslip, come tomorrow,balagan (mess), get to work, you’re no good, you’re lazy, make it clean”. Foreign workers tell about the first words they learned in Hebrew and about how we look in their eyes.
Wanted
  • Written and Directed by: Regev Contes

  • Synopsis:
  • The director, Regev Contes, arrives at the police station and asks the police illustrator to help him construct the face of the State of Israel – as a composite portrait. It soon turns out that the cop and the director have something in common…
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