Known for Acting
After winning the best film award at the Cannes Film Festival, the legendary film producer - Yonatan Harel, is facing bankruptcy due to a chain of anomalies in the film budgets and investors who withdrew their investment due to the Corona virus. Jonathan tries to survive and save his life, with the help of his lawyer and close friend. On the occasion of winning the Cannes Orit festival, his wife throws him a surprise party and invites the entire film industry, and the professionals he worked with: Gadi Harush, the legendary actor and borderline personality, and the stars of his winning film, Eli Gold and Dafna. Jonathan decides to monitor the entire house with cameras and what he discovers will be beyond his wildest imagination.
'Shoelaces' tells the story of a complicated relationship between an aging father and his special-needs son, whom he abandoned while he was still a young boy. Reuben's (60) kidney's are failing and his son Gadi (35), wants to donate one of his own kidney's to help save his father's life. However, the transplant committee objects to the procedure claiming that Rueben, acting as Gadi's sole legal guardian, does not have the right to authorize such an invasive procedure. Gadi, who recently lost his mother, is afraid of losing his father as well. He feels he finally has the chance to do something meaningful; to become a man and stand on his own. He's furious with the committee's decision and sets out to fight for his right to save his father's life. Through the film's portrayal of a relationship full of love, rejection and co-dependency, it manages to shed some light and question the importance of human life, human connection and if life is even possible without it either one of them.
Israel 1948. A house by the sea in Jaffa, from which Palestinian families have had to flee in haste, becomes the home of Jewish survivors who managed to escape the inferno in Europe. Out of the turmoil of their existence, under the shadow of the unresolved conflict between Jews and Arabs, rises a desperate cry for.
An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gendered rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.
Following on the Zaguri Family from Beer Sheva. After 8 years when his father disowned him and made him move out, Aviel returns home after his Granpa's death, his Granpa left a will that rips the family (even more) apart Loosely based on “Oedipus Rex”
