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As thousands of angry protesters storm the Israeli embassy in Cairo, five Israeli embassy staff members find themselves trapped inside, as the steel door that separates them from being torn to pieces by violent mobs begins to collapse. No rescue force is able to reach them. The beseiged Israelis realize that these may be the last hours of their lives, and tensions begin to rise among them; Specifically between security agent Tal Shemtov, his childhood friend Roy Barzani, Chief of security and Shemtov’s boss, and Barzani’s neglected girlfriend Hagar, caught up in the middle with a secret of her own. At a time in history when political and personal interests mix, and values of solidarity and the promise that “no soldier is left behind” are left empty of meaning, unstable friendships and national relations between Egypt and Israel, are pushed to the brink of war.
A beautiful seamstress moves to a neighborhood of Holocaust survivors in 1956. Rumors about her past (as a Capo) shake up the neighborhood, and especially Shalom, the leader and a former brave resistance fighter, who is torn between his passion to the beautiful woman and his commitment to the community to reveal her past.
A journey of a man and a woman who found themselves in a parallel world - an endless arid desert. With no identity or memory, they cling to the visionary dreams they each have at night, trying to find who they really are.
Tom is a teenager who lives with his single mom in a small southern Kibbutz, and deals with his (and other’s) sexuality.
Ben arrives to his native Kibbutz and plans to ask his distant father Albert to help him recover a family apartment looted in WWII. But Albert has other plans... Completely drunk, he has bet that he could cross the country from north to south on a tractor in less than a week.
Germany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their entire families were killed by the Nazis. They dream of retaliation on an epic scale for the Jewish people. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Max starts identifying with the group's monstrous plans...
It is Thursday and another war is hitting the northern part of Israel hard. Three brothers reunite in their childhood kibbutz to bury their father. Two days later the youngest has to go to war, and while he seeks guidance from his older siblings who have both experienced the battlefield, the homecoming soon spins out of control.
A family from an Israeli kibbutz takes their ailing patriarch for a ride on a lazy Sunday in this warm and moving snapshot of their encounter with the ephemerality of the natural world.
By Blood is a chronicle of a visit, Tamar meets her half-brother, and his new family, after a long time apart. The visit seems normal, but beneath the surface lies a hidden secret.
