Français         A Matter of Size 2009 90 min A touching, light-hearted, genial situation comedy. Fed up with dieting four overweight friends come to a realization that, opposite to their situation in the weight-loss group, in sumo wrestling their size is an asset. Each of the characters conceals secrets and personality quirks that allow the film to build interest, laughter, and tension. The filmmakers don’t let any chances for humor slip by, and they make the most of pratfalls, comic counterpoint, and verbal exchanges. Entertaining. Israeli Film Academy Winner 4 awards Ajami 2009 100 min Complex cross-cultural drama. A fractured chronology introduces a series of inter-related stories fatally united at the end by the same tragic knot. It is the story of a multitude of characters, each carrying its own burden and dreams, each seeking a way out. In the colourful mosaic of "Ajami", there are no good or bad guys, only ordinary people in an impossible situation. The fact that the directors used a mostly nonprofessional cast and shot "Ajami" on location, sometimes without a script, gives their film a raw, realistic, amazingly authentic power. Academy Awards, USA 2010 Nominated Oscar Best Foreign Language Film Cannes Film Festival 2009 Won Golden Camera - Special Mention European Film Awards 2009 Nominated European Discovery of the Year Five Hours from Paris 2009 90 min From agreeable romance to surprisingly melancholy drama. Yigal is a taxi driver. Lina is a music teacher. She used to dream of being concert pianist but has grown used to living without dreams. Yigal has also given up… Both feel a little lonely, a little lost, left behind, but then they meet…. Yigal is enchanted with Lina and falls in love instantly. Lina takes a little longer. But suddenly life feels like a French film… and then reality steps in. Charming. Israeli Film Academy 2009 Nominated Best Actor Dror Keren Haifa International Film Festival 2009 Won Best Film Eli & Ben 2008 90 min A charming story of coming-of-age and seeing your parents as the flawed human beings they are. The life of twelve year old Eli, take a sudden turn when his father, Ben, the Town's Architect is accused of taking bribe. Eli sets out on a mission to prove the innocence of his beloved and admired father. It's a tough journey in which Eli has to face his school mates, the police investigators and his close family. Many painful facts emerge along the way, ultimately maturing young Eli into a young man. Sensitive and Relevant. Father – son relations drawn in fine lines. Eyes Wide Open 2009 91 min Drama. A gay love story in the heart of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem. Aaron, a married, Orthodox Jewish father of four falls in love with a twenty two year old male student. Aarons observant world is turned upside down with the arrival of a young Yeshiva student Ezri .When Aaron and Ezri begin spending time together, Aaron is quickly ostracized within the Orthodox community. Under enormous pressure that his wife and the community operate on him, Aaron comes to a decision to commit an irreversible act…. Sensitive, delicate and reserved, despite the loaded subject. Flanders International Film Festival 2009 Won Grand Prix Best Film Jerusalem Film Festival 2009 Won Best Actor Stockholm Film Festival 2009 Nominated Bronze Horse James Journey to Jerusalem 2004 91 min A social satire - From sweet-natured innocent to corrupted capitalist. A Christian African tribe sends James, the noblest young man in their village, on a spiritual sojourn to Jerusalem. But Israel is no longer the Holy Land that James and his people imagined. At the airport, James is suspected of trying to infiltrate the country in order to work illegally. He is jailed and destined for deportation. Inside the dark cell, as James prays to God to allow him to complete his mission, a miracle occurs but this miracle has a price. Israeli Film Academy 2003 2 awards & 7 nominations International Film Festival of India 2003 Silver Peacock award Oslo Films from the South Festival 2003 Won FIPRESCI Prize Films from the South Award São Paulo International Film Festival 2003 Nominated International Jury Award Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema 2003 Won Golden Palm Lebanon 2009 94 min A wrenching condemnation of war seen from inside a tank. The emotional traumas of young Israeli soldiers drafted into the war are recounted through the eyes of a tank crew in this wrenching concentration of raw emotion. A lone tank and a paratrooper's platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The action is set entirely within the claustrophobic confines of an armored tank, the only views of the outside world are through the cross-hairs of the gun barrel. Impressive and breathtaking. Venice Film Festival 2009 Won Golden Lion Award of the Israeli Film Academy 2009 Winner 4 awards & 6 nominations