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Browse 48 movies from Tel Aviv University Film & Television Department
A strange awkward relationship develops between Or, a 30-year-old wheelchair user after an injury, and her new physiotherapist that brings new breeze of desire to her daily routine rehabilitation at her mother’s house.
May 2020
The difference between kids' love and grownup's love from two kids' point of view.
Jan 2016
Three teenage murderers escape to a secluded ruin where they must deal with the huge gap between the ideological romance that had planned the act and the dark reality which suddenly engulfs them.
Jan 2009
Four filmmakers, Israeli and Palestinian, created short films, both documentary and fiction, on the subject of SPORT.
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A tragic love story between a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and SS officer.
One weird guy, accompanied by his ambitious neighbor exterminating some aphids.
Jan 1991
Ten directors, Israeli and Palestinian embarked on a journey to create short films, fiction or documentary, inspired by water.
Jan 2012
A late night hook-up leads Shay and Adam to the bedroom. Before long, chit-chat gives way to passion. But something is missing from their interaction – something that is important to Adam, repellent to Shay – and it soon becomes a sticking point.
Mar 2022
A cinematic collaboration between young Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, who together created a series of short films. Coffee takes part in our cultural identity, it is shared by all individuals in terms of our daily routine and pastes different people together, no matter who they are. Includes two documentaries and two fiction films made by Palestinian filmmakers, and four fiction films made by Israeli filmmakers. Each of the films gives a personal and courageous point of view on the reality in which we live in.
Sep 2010
The story follows Samir, a Palestinian butcher falsely accused by his manager of removing hostage posters, forcing him to fight for his job and innocence amidst rising prejudice.
Jan 2025
12-year-old girl Mashda and 45-year-old Amnon find solace in each other's company. Their relationship - a bond shared in silence, never truly coming to terms with the implications of its very nature - pushes both character and spectator towards a zone of ambivalence, where morals and desires intermingle uneasily.
May 2008
Guy is a young man who efficiently aims his camera both in Israel and in the occupied territories of Palestine.
Sep 2018
Danny gets dumped by Noa, who finds it difficult to bear his sensibilities. Devastated about her ignoring his calls, he inadvertently discovers that he is not a human being, but in fact, an engineered robot. As he gains confidence to confront her, he finds out that Noa has been kidnapped - and that they're both entangled in a high-tech conspiracy hoping to utilize robot-humans for violence.
Aug 2015
At its center is a couple whose relationship has run aground – he is an artist, a product of popular industrialized culture, who attempts to undermine it by creating exhibitions that use French fries as a symbol of the spirit of the age. His partner tries to make him truly see her through the food she prepares for him. When she sees something she was never meant to see, their relationship is shaken.
Jan 1997
An activist couple finds a temporary shelter in a decaying flat at the verge of the city after taking part in an anarchist action. He's obsessively trying to make the place a safe haven while she longs back to the riots. The film was made after the Tel-Aviv riots for social justice and it shows the conflict between the will to fight for change and the need in a more quiet and bourgeois life. The conflict is represented by the two characters and by the tension between the shut interior and the chaotic urban exterior.
Jan 2014
On the first day of summer vacation, fifteen-year-old Zohar is supposed to meet Yoav, the boy she is secretly in love with, at the movies with her friends. Instead, she is forced to stay home with her older sister, who suffers from depression, to make sure she does not harm herself while their mother is at work.
May 2001
After another unsuccessful suicide attempt, depressed Simcha wakes up in her childhood bedroom. During 48 hours of family supervision, after which she is to be committed, Simcha tries to find other ways to kill herself while her family members race against the clock to find her something else.
Jun 2023
An intimate and unexpected night evolves between Hagar, a female taxi driver, and an ultra-Orthodox young man, who she picks up.
Jun 2021
Levana Hakim’s student graduation project from Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television Studies features the story of Havatzelet, a young woman who spends her nights in the company of UN soldiers, in the hopes that one of them might whisk her off with him across the ocean, as far away as possible from her past and her life of destitute, living in a shack she must share with her strict conservative mother, pregnant sister, and brother who is bleeding her dry, financially. The film was shown at multiple festivals and has won scores of praise and awards.
Jan 1989
Within four walls, a daughter faces her greatest fear as she tries to get her mentally ill mother to attend a rehabilitation committee that will determine her disability status.
Nov 2025