THE BOY | הילד

Dir: Yahav Winner

Avinoam and Barak, a father and son from the Gaza Strip,each face the approaching war in their own way. Barak wants to stop everything andAvinoam wants to stop Barak

THE BAT | העטלף   
Dir. Coral Hoffman Haick

Roey, a 13 years old boy, finds an injured bat in a field and decides to take care of it. He hopes that healing the bat will heal his heart. But the mission gets complicated when his classmates demand that he gets rid of it. Roey realizes that the bat is quite similar to him, and he gets into a struggle where it’s not clear how things will turn out. 

TODAY IS THE DAY 

Dir.  Roee Nagan 

During an ugly divorce battle, Oded takes his son to the police station to file a complaint. When his son refuses to go into the station alone, Oded insists on finding a way for his voice to be heard too – even if it means sacrificing his son. 

KOSHER TEST |  בדיקת כשרות
Dir. Riki Rotter

Tamar, an ultra-Orthodox girl from an extremist community, is taken to the hospital by her beloved father, who thinks she has had sex. Her relationship with her father and her virginity both are being tested. In an ultra-Orthodox family, the father lies that the daughter was raped. Her father takes her to the hospital for an examination to determine the status of her virginity. The daughter finds herself undergoing an intrusive examination accompanied by questioning without any ability to make her voice heard and tell the truth. She experiences alienation from her family and neglect from the medical staff in a safe room.

 

IT’S NO TIME FOR POP  

Dir. AMIT VAKNIN  

Finding an apartment in Tel Aviv is never easy, especially on Memorial Day.  Nevertheless, Yael has no other choice but to leave her home.