C'est l'histoire de loyauté et de trahison entre un agent des services secrets israéliens, Razi, et son jeune informateur palestinien, Sanfur (« Schtroumpf » en arabe), sur fond d'attentats suicides en Israël. Sanfur est tiraillé entre son amitié pour Razi et sa loyauté pour sa famille et notamment son frère Ibrahim, qui appartient aux Brigades des martyrs d'Al-Aqsa tout en étant financé par le Hamas. De nombreux protagonistes de ce thriller jouent en fait un double jeu, sur fond d'alliances politiques mouvantes inter-palestiniennes et israélo-palestiniennes.
Naïve teen girl Gili (Sivan Levy) changes schools. She is determined to improve her inferior social status, so she hooks up with her new school’s coolest guy, Tomer (Roy Nik). Her plan succeeds, and she takes pride in her ability to draw attention. Even when her crush passes her off to his friend, she is still flattered. But soon all of the boys become aware of Gili’s reputation, and as each new encounter pushes her limits a little further, the line of consent begins to blur.
De nos jours, en Israël. Yael, une jeune journaliste, se rend à la jonction des cités de Jaffa et de Bat Yam. Elle découvre que deux communautés de Juifs et d'Arabes y cohabitent.
Somewhere in Israel, three children play hide-and-seek in the woods. One of the girls hides in the closet in an abandoned house, from where she is abducted by an unknown perpetrator. Dror, a school teacher, is suspected of the crime and is arrested by the police. He is subjected to torture by a police team led by Micki to reveal the location of the missing girl. This whole episode is shot on his phone by a kid who happens to be playing in the vicinity and is subsequently uploaded onto YouTube.
Le cinéaste israélien Avi Mograbi et son ami arabe Ali décident d'écrire ensemble un film, sur le passé commun et pacifique des communautés du Proche-Orient. Avec la Guerre du Liban en toile de fond, ils fouillent d'abord dans leurs archives et leurs souvenirs. Puis, ils partent filmer une colonie israélienne marquée par la réalité du conflit, accompagnés de la fille d'Ali et du caméraman d'Avi.
Anna, enquêtrice dans l'armée israélienne, est une jeune femme idéaliste. Quand elle confronte un officier supérieur à des accusations de violence gratuite à l'encontre d'un Palestinien, sa propre intégrité et sa détermination sont mises à l'épreuve. Malgré la complexité politique de l'affaire et les mises en garde de ses collègues, elle prend clairement position contre ce qui ressemble à un abus de pouvoir. Mais sa quête de justice de plus en plus acharnée aura de lourdes conséquences pour toutes les personnes impliquées...
The documentary follows the plan that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad puts forth in 2009 for the Palestinians to achieve statehood. It follows the progress made by the Palestinians but also "the political quagmire" that threatens the progress. The documentary shows the following people:
Ellie (Noa Rotstein) has come to the United States from Israel with her father, mother, and little brother in 1982. After her uncle was killed by friendly fire during the 1982 Lebanon War, her parents decided to leave the country in protest. Feeling homesick, Ellie keeps in touch with her best friend in Israel telling her about their new television and shopping in thrift stores. But as time goes on, she gets more and more frustrated about not knowing English.
Le film raconte les amours contrariées entre Roy, un jeune avocat israélien, et Nimer, un Palestinien qui étudie la psychologie un jour par semaine à Tel Aviv, ce qu’il voit au départ comme un tremplin pour les États-Unis. Le frère de Nimer, Nabil, est un activiste violent et homophobe qui stocke des armes dans la maison familiale à Ramallah.
Shira Mendelman, an 18-year-old Haredi girl living in Tel Aviv, is looking forward to an arranged marriage with a young man whom she likes. However, on Purim, her family suffers a tragedy when Shira's older sister Esther dies in childbirth. Shira's father subsequently delays the engagement so as not to have to deal with an empty house so soon after Esther's death. Esther's husband, Yochay, begins to regularly bring their son, Mordechai, to the Mendelman's house, where Shira cares for him.
After years of living in the U.S. with her mother, 13-year-old Libby (Elya Inbar) is sent to Israel to live with her estranged father, Shaul (Gur Bentwich), a hapless inventor who is currently “in-between apartments” (i.e. homeless). Libby’s arrival coincides with the outbreak of the 2006 Lebanon War and, in order to provide a home for her, Shaul pretends that they are refugees from Northern Israel so that a wealthy Jerusalem family, who want to extend a helping hand to their fellow citizens, can take them in. Finally in a “normal” household, Shaul and Libby begin to build their father-daughter relationship, but their false identities can’t last forever, especially as Libby unleashes teenage fury at the lies permeating her life, those she must tell now, and those she’s been fed since childhood.