Meir Swissa

Live and Become

In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.

Hill 338

New comedy film inspired by the Israeli classic "Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer", released to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Somewhere in the Great Rift Valley stands a small, forgotten, and seemingly useless military base. When the Chinese government offers the state of Israel an enormous sum of cash to lay the path of their new Silk Road through it, all that seems to be done is to shut this base down. Ran Shem Tov, a "disassembly officer" who was deployed to command due to "military streamlining needs", is recruited for this mission. But the thing Ran and the heads of the IDF don't know is that an old bunker was built beneath the base, for which no one remembers the cause of construction. Lately, strange things have been happening in it, which delay the base's shutdown. These events bring all soldiers together against internal and external forces.

Berliner Blues

99 Dizengoff Street

In the easy-going, sexually-liberated 1970's Tel Aviv, three young friends, struggling filmmaker Nati, his impressionable girlfriend Ossi and his geeky friend Mushon, move in together in a small apartment in Dizengoff Street number 99. By day, they work a boring desk office job but by night the city is their playground. Their overall goal is to make their way into the commercial movie making business, but harsh realities and romances often sidetrack them. Their fourth friend and Nati's older other girlfriend is aspiring musician, Miri.

The Troupe

The movie, set in the Israeli 1969 War of Attrition, tells the story of a prestigious military band, and the tensions and ego crises new band members cause when joining the band. Will the band survive?

Breaking

A group of actors descends into the Negev to film a rock opera about the wilderness of David and Goliath. The film has a low budget, and the actors are forced to compromise on improvised solutions and protect their honor.

No Names on the Doors

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.

Good Name Heavy II

Sequel to the popular Israeli rap opera starring Tamir Bar. Shem Tov Heavy successfully escaped from prison and has lived under a fake identity for the last few years. When he goes on the run again, he finds himself in a fictional city called "Ya Hood", where he is praised as the "Shaliah".

Don't Save The Date

Meshi, a barista from Tel Aviv who likes to mess around, has a great habit of avoiding responsibility. He promises his best friend to organize the most luxurious bachelor party ever - and then completely forgets about it. When the day of the party arrives and the obsessive bride hands off the groom to him with very detailed operating instructions, Meshi realizes the severity of the problem he set himself into. With no other choice, he starts planning the event on the go. Soon enough, things get out of control. Between nonstop moments of insanity and some moments of simple truth, Meshi discovers that he might not have been "on it" as he believed.

Honeymood

A bride and groom arrive at their lavish honeymoon suite on their wedding night. When the bride, Eleanor, discovers her now-husband has received a ring as a wedding gift from his ex-girlfriend, a knock-out fight ensues. At Eleanor’s insistence, the newlyweds leave the hotel and set out on an expedition to return the ring. Their simple mission quickly derails into an all-night odyssey through the streets of Jerusalem. Over the course of a single night, the couple are forced to confront past lovers, repressed doubts, and the lives they’ve chosen to leave behind.

Cup Final

An Israeli soldier is taken hostage by a small PLO squad in Lebanon. The soldier planned to go on vacation and to fly to the world final soccer cup, he and his capturers share the love to soccer and toward the (not so happy) end a relationship is made.

Mr. Leon

In a rendition of a father-daughter conflict based on misunderstandings, this melodrama focuses on Annette (Nurit Cohen) who has left home for the city where she is unexpectedly offered a leading role in a movie. She is excited as she returns home to tell her news to her father (Zeev Revach) -- a truly conservative shopkeeper -- but she is equally anxiety-ridden about his likely reaction.

Nadia

A story about an Arab girl in a Jewish school.

The Song of the Siren

The Gulf War, January 1991. Talila Katz, a yuppie Tel Avivian creative director at an ad agency falls in love with clumsy food engineer Noah Ne'eman. The war, with its Scud missiles bombarding Israel and disrupting everyday life, is the backdrop for this pair's love story...

The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Bad

The prisoner sentence to a very long time gets visitation home in order to meet his wife. The only problem is that he got a company - one of the prison guards.