 Movies from Israel
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Broken Wings (2002)
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| The unexpected death of the family patriarch throws every member of the Ullmann clan off course. Widow Dafna takes to bed for three months and when she finally returns to her job at the maternity hospital, she has little time for her children. Eldest son, Yair drops out of school and adopts a fatalist attitude, shutting out his siblings and girlfriend. His twin sister Maya, a talented musician, feels the most guilt and is forced to act as a family caregiver at the expense of career opportunities. Bullied at school, younger son Ido responds by obsessively filming himself with a video camera and attempting dangerous feats. The baby sister, Bar, is woefully neglected. Preoccupied with their own misery, the family is barely a family anymore. When another tragedy strikes, will they be able to support one another?
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Late Marriage (2001)
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| Zaza (Lior Ashkenazi) is a 31-year-old bachelor Georgian-Israeli Ph.D. student at Tel Aviv University whose family is trying to arrange a marriage for him, within the Georgian community. Unknown to them, he is secretly dating a 34-year-old divorcée, Judith (Ronit Elkabetz), who has a 6-year-old daughter. When his parents violently intervene, Zaza must choose between his family traditions or his love. Wiki.
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Life According to Agfa (1992)
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| In this tragic drama, the characters are all denizens of Tel Aviv's nightlife, and the action takes place in an all-night bar owned by two women with difficult romantic relationships.
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Nina's Tragedies (2003)
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| The events in "Nina’s Tragedies," a flighty Israeli film that takes whimsical tangents into the absurd, spring from entries in a secret journal kept by a glum, bespectacled 14-year-old boy with a dirty mind (Aviv Elkabets), As the movie gyrates between comedy and pathos, it toys with magic realism that never bursts into full-flowered surrealist fantasy. The boy is besotted with his mother’s beautiful, high-strung sister Nina (Ayelet July Zurer), who is unexpectedly widowed when her new husband is killed in a terrorist attack. Ms. Zurer, whose blend of beauty and spirited eccentricity suggests an Israeli answer to Diane Keaton, is the steadiest light illuminating a film that takes in the topsy-turvy world of contemporary Tel Aviv through an adolescent's distracted glances.
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The Troupe (Ha-Lahaka) (1979)
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| The time is just after the 1967 Six-day War when a group of Israeli soldiers travel around the country entertaining their fellow servicemen and women in more or less amateur musical numbers and stand-up comedy routines.
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