Israeli films - 1990s

A rabbi's son rebels against his roots and becomes a magician. A woman enters his life and turns his tricks into metaphysical phenomena. The son is forced to choose between love and living up to his father's expectations.

Mivtza Savta ("Operation Grandma") is a satirical Israeli comedy about three very different brothers trying to get around many obstacles to bury their grandmother on her kibbutz. The story takes place in Israel, in the fictional kibbutz "Asisim".

Comedy about life among Tel Aviv's 30-something bourgeoisie is nothing if not proof that self-absorbed, would-be hipsters are the same the world over. The central character is Asher, an unbecoming depressive and all-round schlemiel who publishes a book on 'How to Be an Idiot', and finds himself becoming the guru of a self-help circle. A liberal sprinkling of sight gags and non-sequiturs - and even a slight flavour of Almodóvar in the sexual absurdities - keeps things lively.

A Westernized teenager struggles to come to terms with the white magic practiced by members of her family.

The year is 1999 and the storyline is actually a number of subplots all revolving around the 13-year old Clara, a girl who can predict the future and has telekinetic powers. The subplots include a boy in her class who has a crush on her, his family, her family, and her principal who keeps talking French for some strange reason.

Two sisters become victims of the patriarchal, ultra-orthodox society.

The Gulf War, January 1991. Talila Katz, a yuppie Tel Avivian creative director at an ad agency falls in love with clumsy food engineer Noah Ne'eman. The war, with its Scud missiles bombarding Israel and disrupting everyday life, is the backdrop for this pair's love story, told with satirical bite that only Irit Linur [screenplay / novel] can provide.

October 1973, a week before the Yom Kippur War. Five young men and one woman are on the verge of change, of facing new challenges, of beginning a new life. Vulcan Junction is a nostalgic voyage to the last days of innocence, last days of arrogance, last moments before a whole country is engulfed by a war that will change it forever.

Moshe (Sasson Gabay), a hard-living quarry worker in 1950s Israel is determined to get back at his boss, Nissim (Uri Gavriel), for stealing the woman he loved back in Casablanca - before either of them had immigrated to Israel. The running feud between the two brings life at the quarry, and at the migrant transit camp where they both currently live to a boiling point.

In 1980s, two neighboring families navigate love and loss as their gay sons face different struggles. While one deals with relationship troubles, the other returns home ill and distant, leading to an unexpected connection between them.

A biopic about Israel's most successful and famous Mizrahi artist, Zohar Argov, his rise to fame, drug addiction and eventual suicide.

When a small, run-down circus comes to a Palestinian town, it changes the lives of the West Bank villagers.

Three stories about three women: one is trying to find the right guy; one is trying to get a divorce from her runaway husband so she takes hostages; one turns Tel Aviv upside down in order to save a kitten trapped in a storm drain.

A brother and sister arrive alone in the new country of Israel after World War II where they hope to find their lost mother. The complexities of life with colorful characters in the refugee transit camp and nearby kibbutz makes it hard to reconcile their real lives with their deeper dream of still finding the Newland.

Based on a novel by Amos Oz..

The second chapter in Assi Dayan's trilogy centers on three marginal characters from "Life According to Agfa". Malka, a whore with a Romanian accent who dreams of becoming a singer, Levi, her pimp and Moshe, a homeless man who dreams that Malka will love him and follows Malka and Levi. Levi navigates the trio in a grotesque and turbulent world in which people have lost the purpose of their existence.

Mickey Baum is told by his doctor he has cancer and will die in 92 minutes. During his final hour he makes arrangements while recalling his short life and trying to understand the reality in which he has lived.

David is a garage electrician, who dreamt all of his life of becoming a magician, but had no luck in it. His girlfriend Batya wants an ordinary life, but David is still looking for his dream, so he links up with Romanian immigrant Shimon, who is an expert magician.

Muki, a reserve soldier serving in Lebanon just before the IDF's retreat,is trying to document his soon to come death.

An Israeli soldier is taken hostage by a small PLO squad in lebanon. The soldier planned to go on vacation and to fly to the world final soccer cup (mondial), he and his capturers share the love to soccer and toward the (not so happy) end a relationship is made.