David

Faith, friendship and family – and the challenges of being different in America.

Lea and Daria

In the Prime of Her Life

In this modern adaptation of S.Y. Agnon’s story a young woman pursues her dangerous quest for love. Will she succeed in righting the injustices of the past and break the tragic cycle of fate, or will she simply perpetuate it

All I've Got

A 72-year-old grandmother dies and finds herself on a ferry which will take her across the river to the hereafter. On the ferryboat she meets her first love, who was killed in a road accident in which they were both involved when they were young. And here she is presented with a fateful choice.

Caravan 841

 
A young Ethiopian boy, longing for his mother and torn between a traditional religious older man and a spirited musician.

Buchachi

 Against the background of a fierce sing-out between the cooks and pilots during Independence Day celebrations on a military base, a new soldier arrives who casts new light on the cook’s status. Buchachi, a cook at an air force base, had previously accepted the military hierarchy that places pilots at the top of the pyramid.

It Was Great

 
Forced to face the gap between self-image and reality, a family on vacation explores some hidden truths.

Shofar

One afternoon, the autistic son of a poor family enters the neighbor’s apartment and a miracle occurs. From that moment, a great crowd gathers around the home of the Zakuta family and changes their lives. A story of marriage, belief and parenting in crisis.

Three Fingers

An entertaining road movie about couples, marriage and love. After Duvik saws off three of his fingers in his amateur woodworking shop, his wife rushes him to the hospital. In the emergency room Ofra realizes that she left the bag containing the amputated fingers in the car. When she goes to the parking lot she’s surprised to see her car driving away

Slaves of the Lord

Convinced that she is impure, an Orthodox teenager grows increasingly depressed. She dives head-first into obsessive compulsion attempting to silence the unfettered whispering of an inner voice.  A story that provokes distress about a victim of religion who eventually finds a way out.

Poker Face

Every Friday night for the past 16 years Anna and Alex have played poker with three other couples. But Alex is experiencing memory even though he is not yet 60 and the others do not want to deal him in. So Anna must put on a poker face and forge on.
 

Mother V

A religious woman in her 60s leaves her small town –despite family opposition, to visit her son who is in solitary confinement charged with revealing state secrets. Along the way she meets up with young Bedouin who helps her learn the truth about her son, about herself, and to achieve independence for the first time in her life.
 

Halfway

In a halfway house for former convicts, Benny quickly becomes Shaul’s role-model. When Benny takes a wrong turn to drugs, Shaul uses humiliation to control Benny. A drama therapist draws them into their past in order to discover the roots of their crisis.

Mortgage

A very contemporary parable about the realities of modern life. A darkly funny film about love and survival in the face of the current economic predicament.