Dir.: Hadas Ayalon | Estimated Length: 95 minutes
The film follows Alma and Efrat, a middle-aged lesbian couple who lost their son three years ago. When an unexpected letter arrives from the sperm bank, their relationship is shaken, forcing them to confront life, grief, and their sense of motherhood.
Dir.: Klil Kovesh | Estimated Length: 90 minutes
Stav (23) is released from custody and reluctantly becomes a teaching assistant to Yonatan, an 8-year-old welfare child. Third grade proves to be a challenge, but their bond grows—until one day Stav drags them both into trouble and is forced to leave.
Dir.: Assaf Machnes | Estimated Length: 90 minutes
Hassan, a 55-year-old reserved Palestinian Uber driver in Berlin, carries the weight of an unresolved love story. Through a series of rides with a young, outspoken Israeli who’s drifting through the city, a tragicomic tale unfolds—about connection, memory, and the struggle to move forward.
Dir.: Henya Brodbeker | Estimated Length: 74 minutes
Mati doesn’t know if she loves her husband, Simcha. How could she, as an ultra-Orthodox woman who entered an arranged marriage at the age of twenty? Again and again, she keeps testing him, pushing him to the edge, trying to figure out whether what they have might be love.
Dir.: Omer Tobi | Estimated Length: 82 minutes
During the seven-day mourning, the soul of Eden’s mother, a hard-of-hearing trans sex worker, returns in the body of a mysterious animal. Lacking a sense of security, Eden sets out on a journey toward a family of her own, where she may finally find redemption.
Dir.: Yousef Abo Madegem | Estimated Length: 88 minutes
Abbas, a married man from Rahat, struggles under the control of his family. After a life-changing accident, he finds refuge in film school and a new love—but the secret he carries threatens to destroy everything.
Dir.: Hamad Sharoof | Estimated Length: 78 minutes
Ali, a 40-year-old Muslim man who lives with his mother and washes bodies for burial at the mosque, is forced to hire Issam, a young man desperate for work. As their connection deepens, long-suppressed desires begin to surface, unraveling the life Ali has struggled to contain.
Dir.: Inbar Horesh | Estimated Length: 66 minutes
Blacklisted by the Bedouin community and desperate for workers for their construction site, Eitan — a young, ambitious contractor — sets out into the Negev desert with his unfit, boozy brother-in-law and business partner, Kobi, in a last-ditch effort to recruit laborers and save his crumbling business. But the desert has rules of its own.
