Manpower (2014)

Actors: Herzl Tobey (actor), Yoav Roeh (producer), Janja Kralj (producer), Yossi Marshek (actor), Effi Cohen (editor), Noam Kaplan (writer), Noam Kaplan (director), Orit Zamir (producer), Shmulik Calderone (actor),

Plot: Immigration police officer Meir, returns from a tour to Buchenwald concentration camp,a prize for decorated policemen, to a brutal deportation of African labor immigrants. A story of manhood in crisis, Manpower is an ironic yet compassionate film about belonging and upheaval, exile and immigration, home and family.

Genres: Drama,

Take Note (2008)

Actors: Gill Weinstein (producer), Elite Zexer (writer), Elite Zexer (director), Ronit Porat (editor), Tamar Glezerman (writer), Tamar Glezerman (miscellaneous crew), Adi Bielski (actress), Hila Meckier (actress), Tamara Klayngon (actress), Maayan Harush (actor), Ron Shimoni (actor), Morad Agraiev (actor), Tal Nagar (actor), Yoav Bartel (actor), Tal Angel (actor),

Genres: Drama, Short,

Goyband (2008)

Actors: Natasha Lyonne (actress), Tovah Feldshuh (actress), Jonathan Gray (miscellaneous crew), Nicole Compas (miscellaneous crew), Tibor Feldman (actor), Zoe Lister Jones (actress), Bern Cohen (actor), Dean Edwards (actor), Georgiana Enders (miscellaneous crew), Cris Judd (actor), Josh Alexander (actor), Christopher J. Scott (producer), Christopher Grimm (writer), Christopher Grimm (director), Amy Davidson (actress),

Plot: Goyband is a romantic comedy that fuses music and pop culture with a satirical (albeit gentle) look into Orthodox Judaism and Kabbalah. The word "Goy" is Yiddish for a non-Jewish male. In our story, Adam Pascal of "Rent" fame plays ex-boyband pop star, Bobby Starr. Bobby Starr is booked to headline the grand opening of the first Kosher Casino in the Catskills, (hence the title Goyband.) The reason Bobby gets this unlikely booking is that the daughter of the hotel owner, Rebekkah (played by Amy Davidson of "8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter") has a secret crush on him - hiring him to perform live at the hotel is her last act of rebellion before committing to her arranged marriage.

Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: "Dirty Dancing" meets "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" with a touch of a hip hop "Fiddler on the Roof." A gefilte fish out of water story "A gefilte fish out of water tale that's fun for the whole mishpucheh!"

Quotes:

Bobby: Kabbalah like Madonna right?::Manny: No Madonna wouldn't know Kabbalah if it bit her on the tukish. Kabbalah is powerful Jewish magic.

Manny: He was the lead singer in the group Eye Candy - Ear Candy - some sort of candy.

Bobby: The signs are all in freaking Arabic!

Bobby: Do you know how long it takes Bobby Starr to get over a girl?::Ty: No, how long does it take Bobby Starr to get over a girl?::Bobby: What girl?

Bobby: Thank you for freeing my ride!

Bobby: Okay, this is your first time. Are you ready? This goes against everything you've ever been taught. There's no undoing this. No turning back.

Bobby: Not the Grey Goose!

Bobby: Be careful. You know what they say about the blue ones.

Manny: It's a feud between the men in white and the men in black.::Bobby: Like the Yankees and the Red Sox?

Haim: This is the Tree of Life; the symbol of Kabbalah!::Bobby: Are you sure, 'cuz I have an air freshener in my car that looks just like that.

Haim Was here (2006)

Actors: Moshe Ivgy (actor), Sarit Vino-Elad (actress), Shlomi Hayun (editor), Shlomi Hayun (writer), Shlomi Hayun (director), Shlomi Avraham (actor), Effi Cohen (editor), Yoram Levinshtein (actor),

Genres: Short,

Distortion (2005)

Actors: Nelly Kafsky (producer), Amos Lavi (actor), Haim Bouzaglo (writer), Haim Bouzaglo (actor), Haim Bouzaglo (director), Smadar Kilchinsky (actress), Haim Zanati (actor), Dor Zweigenboim (actor), Tzufit Grant (actress), Jay Koller (actor), Joseph Grinkorn (producer), Shushan (composer), Jony Arbid (actor), Ziv Meir (actor), Danny Rotenberg (actor),

Plot: Everyday life in Israel during the "Intifada": suicide-attacks, distresses, tensions. A director must present a new theater play but he just can't write a line. His partner, a documentary filmmaker, is preparing the portrait of a former soldier who opened a trade but went into bankruptcy. This man is ruined, his wife has left home, his son got exiled to Australia. The director, desperate, believes that hiring a private detective to follow his wife is gonna put some salt in his life. Without knowing it, the detective becomes the real director of the play which is getting written step by step.

Genres: Drama,

Or (2004)

Actors: Marek Rozenbaum (producer), Ronit Elkabetz (actress), Jérôme Bleitrach (producer), Itai Tamir (producer), Emmanuel Agneray (producer), Véronique Hallot (miscellaneous crew), Dana Ivgy (actress), Li Alembik (costume designer), Shmuel Edelman (actor), Shelly Skandrani (actress), Sarit Vino-Elad (actress), Sari Ezouz (writer), Sari Ezouz (editor), Keren Yedaya (writer), Keren Yedaya (director),

Plot: Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She's just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Or's emotions roil further when the mother of the youth she's in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Or's choices narrow.

Keywords: alleyway, bachelor-party, bare-breasts, bare-butt, bath, bathtub, beach, blood, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, bus
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Lo Nafsik Litzkhok (2002)

Actors: Guri Alfi (actor), Guri Alfi (actor), Guri Alfi (actor), Tal Friedman (actor), Eli Finish (actor), Assi Cohen (actor), Mariano Idelman (actor), Adir Miller (actor), Yuval Semo (actor), Rotem Abuhab (actress), Tzion Baruch (actor), Muli Segev (editor), Miki Geva (actor), Shalom Assayag (actor), Roy Bar-Natan (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Mars Turkey (2001)

Actors: Alon Aboutboul (actor), Danny Shick (editor), Tzahi Grad (actor), Dvir Benedek (actor), Gal Zaid (writer), Gal Zaid (actor), Eitan Evan (producer), Tomer Sharon (actor), Keren Sternfeld (miscellaneous crew), Dalit Kahan (actress), Zohar Shtrauss (actor), Yael Hadar (actress), Hilla Vidor (actress), Gisele Silver (actress), Poly Reshef (actor),

Plot: A stylish Israeli crime comedy, Mars Turkey tells the story of Reuven, a police captain in charge of protecting Shimon, the last remaining witness in a trial against crime-lord Patrick Sarusi. Seeing as how Patrick has managed to get to all the other witnesses, Reuven is so desperate to keep Shimon alive that he assigns himself to watch-duty, with the intention of never letting Shimon out of his sight. But as the trial draws near, events start spinning out of control when, in an act of desperation, Reuven sends his sexually frustrated mistress, Aya, to plant a bug in Patrick's apartment. Encouraged by Patrick's neighbor, Aya decides to confront Reuven about his sexual inadequacy and his vain promises to her about leaving his wife, just as Patrick slips out of house-arrest. Will Reuven be able to keep his mind on the job while his love life melts down in front of his eyes?

Keywords: male-nudity, male-rear-nudity
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller,

Mashehu Totali (2000)

Actors: Etgar Keret (actor), Etgar Keret (writer), Emjay Rechsteiner (producer), Eyal Shiray (producer), Gur Bentwich (actor), Gur Bentwich (writer), Gur Bentwich (director), Herman Brood (actor), Rakesh Mehra (producer), Rakesh Mehra (actor), Tinkerbell (actress), Shira Geffen (actress), Ran Tal (producer), Maor Cohen (actor), Vlatka Simac (actress),

Genres: Adventure, Romance,

Quotes:

Sophie: Where's he going?::Shushan: Well, Him - what we call in hebrew "Obsessivi". You know "Obsessivi"?

Haim: So, you got to ask the baba, uh?::Zohar: What do you want from the baba?

M.J: I need a fix... 'Cuz i'm going down.

Elisha: Hot shower, Full power, 24-Hour.

Shushan: ...Are you sure it's the same substance?::Haim: Same substance... It's the woman that's different.

976-WISH (1997)

Actors: John Clayton (actor), Joseph R. Gannascoli (actor), Bernie Van De Yacht (actor), E.J. Callahan (actor), Patrick Thomas O'Brien (actor), Patrick Fabian (actor), Eric P. Steckler (producer), David L. Bertman (editor), David L. Bertman (director), David L. Bertman (producer), David L. Bertman (writer), Jan Hoag (actress), John Axelrad (editor), Vanessa Marcil (actress), Dennis LaValle (actor),

Plot: When college freshman, Brinton Smith discovers a business card with the number 976-WISH inscribed in silver, he is instantly hooked up with Wish Services, an ultra modernized corporation of unionized Toothfaires, Santa's Helpers and Genies. Assigning a Genie Third Class to his case, the Corporation is unable to grant even the simplest of wishes. Brinton discovers the bittersweet lesson, "it's who you are inside that counts" as his first time Genie discovers the joys and elations of being human.

Keywords: genie, independent-film, number-in-title, phone-number-in-title, student-film, wish
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Short,
Taglines: Not quite Heaven. Not quite Hell... More like Pittsburgh on a Thursday Afternoon