Assi Dayan – MRQE

Zihron Devarim

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Drama – This Israeli drama tells the story of three men living in Tel Aviv. They set off to attend a funeral. Unfortunately, they cannot find the right cemetery. Later the story shifts to their complex love lives. – Gabi Beniashvilly, Samuel Calderon, Helena Cherkasov

Ein Shemot Al Hadlatot

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Set on a modern kibbutz, as the spectre of an Arab invasion lurks in the backgroun,d and financial pressures are breaking down traditional communal values, a series of fragile, interwoven stories mirror this disintegration of collective ideal.

Jellyfish

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The lives of three dissimilar women — bride Keren (Noa Knoller), catering crewmember Batia (Sarah Adler) and Joy (Ma-nenita De Latorre), an attendee’s employee — converge at a wedding in Tel Aviv, Israel. Each woman has her own unique set of problems to face. Batia ends a romantic relationship, and afterward finds an abandoned child. Joy has emigrated from the Philippines, but could not bring her son with her. The prospect of Keren’s honeymoon is shattered after an unfortunate accident.

Promise at Dawn

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.

Meduzot

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn’t speak any Hebrew (she communicates mainly in English), and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.

Hofshat Kaits

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“My Father My Lord” is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father’s love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional gap between the impish child and the stern father. When the father’s all-consuming obsession with observing religious ritual inadvertently leads to tragedy, his previously subservient wife rages against both her husband and God. A dramatic retelling of the story of Abraham.

Bekarov, Yikre Lekha Mashehu Tov

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After discovering that his father has lied to him for years about his estranged sister and his mother, 14-year-old Ilan runs away from home and ends up living with his sister, Dalia, who works on a cruise ship and is having an affair with a married man. While Dalia is at work, Ilan explores her down-and-out neighborhood and discovers and befriends Avram, an elderly holdout Communist living in an abandoned building with his weapons cache and marijuana-growing business, biding his time for the ultimate battle against the capitalists.

Lemarit Ain

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ya’ara, a blind PhD candidate in Mathematics at Princeton University, hears of her cousin Talia’s suicide. Ya’ara rushes back to Israel. They were best of friends and twin spirits. Talia saw for both of them, and was always the one who believed and led Ya’ara to believe, that in spite of her blindness, Ya’ara could see everything. Ya’ara joins Talia’s family for the traditional 7-day mourning period and there, she discovers the secrets of Talia’s life and embarks on an investigation trying to discover the reason that led Talia to commit suicide.

Medurat Hashevet

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of one woman’s personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.

Things Behind the Sun

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Now that Itzhak’s father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own family: his wife, a long suppressed artist whose life’s dream is fulfilled that same week; his twenty-seven-year-old son – a “philosopher” still living at home; and his twenty-five-year-old daughter – a tormented lesbian who has had no contact with her family for a long time. Itzhak doesn’t realize, though, that his ten year old daughter, Didush, neglected and almost invisible to her family, is secretly visiting her grandfather whom she has never met previously and sets out to discover the old family secret.