How did Avigdor Lieberman – who immigrated to Israel without a penny to his name – rise to serve in the country's top political positions, and what does his story reveal about the social changes Israel has undergone over the last two decades?
After a fatal plague wipes out the world’s entire female population, a father hides his young daughter. She dresses like a boy, but is already on the cusp of adolescence, as they attempt as they attempt to avoid other humans and the potential threats they pose.
When an intelligence unit soldier starts to spy on a gay couple, he is lead to confront his own sexual identity.
Alice, a senior botanist, develops a flower with unique psychotherapeutic benefits: it releases an ingredient that can make its owner happy. But when she gives one to her son, she discovers that its effect is not that innocent.
A young man in search of his long-lost love finds himself caught up in a convoluted nocturnal journey. An award-winning film noir that draws viewers into a dark, hypnotic world. Phenomenal cinematography, including an hour-long 3-D shot.
Years after leaving the orthodox Jewish world, Menachen returns to Bnei Brak to face a dark secret from the past. His journey sheds light on a repressed and particularly disturbing phenomenon. An award-winning documentary.
A mother and daughter, Russian immigrants, try to bridge years of miscommunication, and to revitalize a connection long lost. Watching old home videos together, old memories begin to surface.
A documentary that treats the role of the soundtrack in forming our cinematic experience with respect. It follows influential soundtrack designers in film history, and features milestone soundtracks and interviews with leading directors.
An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her make peace with her past.
This documentary reveals Alien’s origins, entrenched, among many others, in ancient myths and Francis Bacon’s art. Alexander Philip explores how the minds behind the film tapped these sources to effectively touch upon our collective memory.
Filmed during the battle of Kobani, this film reveals the women at the heart of the fight against IS. With stoical perseverance and the aid of American airstrikes, these women are leading the fight for freedom.
In Montana, a teenaged girl does everything for her widowed father who suffers from PTSD. When his behavior takes a particularly destructive turn, she is forced to choose between family commitment and self-fulfillment.
Jonah Hill debuts as writer-director in this beautiful film about the Los Angeles skating scene during the mid-1990s. The life of 13-year-old Stevie takes a turn when befriends a group of older skaters and catches the skating fever.
An award-winning documentary about the Ochoa family’s private ambulance that operates illegally in Mexico City as a vital rescue force. As police corruption soars, they must raise enough money to legalize the family business.
A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
A single mother receives a call from her seven-year-old son who is on vacation with his father. At first it causes her joy, but soon, becomes a nightmare when the child says he is alone and cannot find his father.
A ménage à trois develops between a rich teen, a local girl, and her religious brother who is determined to end the girls’ relationship but is drawn into the sexual whirlpool himself. Pawel Pawlikowski’s widely-acclaimed film.
Jennifer Kent’s (The Babadook) Modern Western, which was cause for heated debate at the Venice FF, stars Aisling Franciosi (Game of Thrones) as a young woman who embarks on a journey of revenge in the 18th century Australian outback.
Two drivers come together in a moment of new possibilities given by what was lost and what was created. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Competition 2019
Assayas’s new film, starring Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet, is a witty comedy about a publisher and author who face mid-life crises, the changing literary world, and dominant wives. A critically-acclaimed festival favorite.
After 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave her husband. She moves into a hotel across the street where people from her past appear and share their opinions. A witty comic fantasy, starring Chiara Mastroianni.
Documentarian Nanfu Wang (Hooligan Sparrow) explores the effects of China’s One-Child policy. By combining her personal story with propaganda material, she reveals human rights violations, including the abandonment of infants and forced abortion.
The Druze populated village of Beit Jann holds the highest record of high school graduates in Israel and possibly the world: a success rate of 100%. This is their story.
Luna is a vibrant young Chinese American girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut. She lives with her loving father who supports her, but As Luna grows up, she faces adversity of all kinds in pursuit of her dreams.
