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Browse 41 movies from Sam Spiegel Film & Television School
Flora was born in the field, that's what she keeps telling everyone, that is. She is a waitress in a coffee shop that requires complex acrobatic skills. Flora cannot take it anymore. But she still hasn't lost her dramatic talent...
Feb 2004
Fifty years after Slow Down by Avraham Heffner won a prize at Venice Film Festival, top alumni of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School challenge the 1968 legendary black and white
Jan 2018
18-year-old Anton hangs out with thugs who steal cell phones and blackmail their owners. But when Anton gets a hold of Meitar’s phone, he becomes obsessed with the world she has compulsively recorded.
Jul 2023
Yair, returns home from military service in the West Bank. He invites Yaara to his family’s bourgeois Jerusalem home. They play piano and open a bottle of wine. What seems to start as peaceful weekend together, is interrupted by a story about an innocent family whose house he invaded on the previous evening.
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Ten year-old Noam is a latchkey child whose parents have temporarily separated. While waiting for his parents to reunite, Noam fulfills a parental role to his sisters, even as he tests his own boundaries in a dangerous children's game. The family’s suspended routine will be shaken once more, when Noam’s mother announces she has important news.
Jan 1998
Eitan works security in the Dead Sea Works factory. On his way to a night shift he is sexually assaulted by his bus driver, thus begins a dream-like journey on the silent beaches of the Dead Sea.
Sep 2015
A young gay, neurotic and ex-religious art student goes into a spin with the surprise visit of an eccentric childhood friend.
Feb 2024
Four short stories unfold in a sleepy Jerusalem neighborhood, where everyday troubles collide with one looming misfortune that threatens to tie them all together.
Apr 2025
Red Cow is a coming-of-age film that takes place in the days leading up to the assassination of Rabin and depicts the life of Benny, 16, orphaned from mother at birth and the only child of Joshua - a religious, right-wing extremist, in those critical junctures when she is forming her sexual, religious and political awareness.
Feb 2018
A star disappeared in the constellation of the Hound Dogs and at that moment a puppy named Puppy appeared on Earth. He is kind and fair and loyal in his friendship. Puppy can talk and the viewer can hear his inner voice when he communicates with people.
Jan 1991
After facing difficulties with his girlfriend, Uri starts doubting the idea of love. Casual meetings with people from his past teaches him that sometimes growing up means pecking up your roots
Vika, 12, returns home from her dormitory, to find out that her mother's new baby is being neglected, as was she. In both noble and desperate act, she takes the baby and leave.
Jan 2005
After embarking on a sailing trip on the way to their wedding in Larnaca, Ruth and Yona find themselves stranded at sea with no wind in their sails. As they wait for conditions to change, Ruth's past resurfaces.
Carmel (17) is asked to convey a message of reconciliation from his best friend Ido's recent ex-girlfriend. When he finds Ido heartbroken and in need of comfort, he clings to the last moments of closeness.
Dec 2022
Right after graduating from film school, Dani discovers he is losing his sight. With the help of an app connecting blind and sighted people, he sets out to capture the last images he wishes to preserve in his memory.
When Naomi's roommate catches her with the duplicate key she made for her boyfriend, they begin a war of attrition over the house. Each one is ready to touch the other's most painful points in order to win the house.
Jul 2024
Within the disciplined and rigid world of the military, it is easy to forget the little man. While preparing his troops for a military funeral, a seasoned military finds himself reflecting on his own life and behavior. As he instructs his cadets to conduct themselves with honor, he himself is challenged by the lack of respect he hopes for.
Rachel is experiencing a cruel adolescence, both at home and outside of it; her unemployed father unloading his frustration and rage upon his wife and daughter. Rachel attempts to handle her violent father and protect her mother. Defenceless and exhausted, she and her mother try to comfort one another while awaiting some compassion.
Jul 2006
Ron, at 22, still lives with his parents. He barely knows the daylight hours and his nights are divided between his job as editor of wedding videos, chats on the Internet and futuristic fantasies. One night all the elements he toys with converge and, for the first time in his life, Ron is willing to risk an in-person human interaction.
Feb 2000
Aya is young, sensitive and very much in love. Love, in fact, is her essence. When she realizes that her boyfriend is about to break up with her, she runs away in a desperate attempt to hide from the inevitable.
Jun 2023