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The films in this category are nominated for:
Van Leer Award for Best Live Action Film
Van Leer Award for Best Documentary Film
The Jerusalem Film & Television Fund - The Jerusalem Development Authority Award for Best Animation Film
Yom Kippur eve. Keren HaYesod Street lies in sacred silence, but David, a religious Jewish boy, is in turmoil. On the holiest night of the Hebrew year, he sets out on a journey to restore his waning faith in God.
A 12-year-old boy is put in charge of watching over a 400-year-old tree. Life in the village unfolds beneath the tree, where the reality of living close to the Separation Wall is mixed with stories of loss and love.
After a short home-leave in India, Raj returns to his 85-year-old employer only to find out he's been replaced by a Filipina caregiver named Joy. But Raj won’t back down without a fight.
A woman walks into the Clal Center building in Jerusalem in search of a toilet; there, she encounters a series of characters that sweep her into an awakening experience.
A young man tries to hold on to the image of his sick grandfather, by piecing together fragments of memories.
A family of donkeys makes its way through the Arava and they are not alone. Desert, water, sky, noise, metal, engines, dolphins, donkeys, galloping, road, plateau, mountain, path, on the highroad.
A daughter's fantasy of her mother, elusively portrayed at her own magical house and garden. The mother's image and voice are deconstructed and assembled again within an intergenerational sonnet.
Efrat goes to the dentist to undergo a tooth extraction while in a fragile state of mind. The appointment becomes unpredictable as she is swept into a fantasy.
Hadarim is a short experimental animated documentary which depicts, through the eyes of a 7-year-old pupil, the strange and grotesque routine of elementary school in Israel.
Teenage Michal, a product of the welfare system, is a single mother raising her baby daughter, Keren-Or. Michal wrestles with insurmountable obstacles in an effort to provide a good life for her child.
Nothing Happens offers a new way of looking. It is about spectatorship - about watching and being watched. It is about being present.
Eighteen-year-old Omer wakes up one day with a thick beard and discovers that he has turned into Omar, an Arab. This impossible situation forces Omar to keep his new identity undercover….
In the near future, all actors are computer animated and human actors are unemployed. An aging actor comes to the booth where the computer directs his monologue reading. This is the only place he can act.
Sapir Academic College |The identity of a young teenager is compromised by the announcement of his father's homosexuality.
A story of separation between a mother and her much loved daughter, who leaves the familial home in order to move in with her new boyfriend. A complicated relationship, full of jealously, love, and hatred.
Omri is trying to direct a scene recreating the day his dog died. The attempt becomes complicated when Omri discovers that his father remembers the events differently.
Rebellious rich kid Tubi is getting ready to host a neighborhood meetup with his idol, a socialist politician. When his father tries to take over the event, Tubi must hit the streets and win over the community's support.
Leah works as a maid in the hotel during the day, while Meital, her daughter, sings at the hotel’s lobby at night. They live trapped in their relationship, surrounded by the Dead Sea.
An Eritrean refugee emerges from the desert into a small rural community in the Arava region in Israel; he yearns to belong, but holds on to the memory of the lover he left behind.
An intimate investigation of World War II soviet veteran, 92-year-old Newsak Weis or as he prefers, just Uncle Nusya. The mission is to discover a real person under the armor of medals and the role model of a hero.
