Avi Nesher
1) The Secrets
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Nominated for 8 Israeli Film Academy Awards, THE SECRETS presents the complexities of a religious lifestyle in a vibrant environment of youth, rebellion and desire.. Naomi, the brilliant and pious daughter of an ultra orthodox rabbi finds herself at a crossroads of life choices when her mother dies and she is expected to immediately marry her father's prodigy. Distressed yet determined, she begs that her father allow her one year to study at a women's...
2) Past Life
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, PAST LIFE tracks the daring 1977 trans-European odyssey of two sisters – one an introverted ambitious classical music composer, and the other a combative liberal magazine editor. As they try to unravel a disturbing wartime mystery that has cast a foreboding shadow on their entire lives, they realize that freedom from the shackles of the past requires painful sacrifices, as does the struggle to discover one’s unique voice.....
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves in the seedy area by the port. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one.. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, he...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Arabic
Description
Inspired by true events in 1948. Hassanin, an Egyptian filmmaker, is tasked with documenting a raid on the isolated kibbutz Nitzanim. When the kibbutz learns of the impending army raid, Mira, a young but valiant mother, is forced to reckon with the true cost of war and make an impossible choice.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
עברית
Description
Renowned filmmaker Avi Nesher’s latest film THE OTHER STORY tells a suspenseful, poignant, and humorous story through the eyes of two rebellious young women from two troubled families that tangle in the most unexpected ways in Jerusalem. As the characters’ warring personal convictions and intimate anxieties clash, the secular and religious world views they hold dear also come to embody the struggle for identity reflecting present-day Israel.
6) Past Life
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
עברית
Description
Inspired by true events, PAST LIFE tracks the daring 1977trans-European odyssey of two sisters – one an introvertedambitious classical music composer, and the other acombative liberal magazine editor. As they try to unravel adisturbing wartime mystery that has cast a forebodingshadow on their entire lives, they realize that freedom fromthe shackles of the past requires painful sacrifices, as doesthe struggle to discover one’s unique voice.
7) Doppelganger
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A writer with a room for rent acquires a strange new roommate with a psychotic alter-ego that follows her wherever she goes.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
עברית
Description
An avowed anarchist and Stern Gang hitman is sent to Jerusalem to assassinate a senior British officer creating much tension within the already troubled cell and almost bringing its collapse, as the British operatives close in. Winner of Best Foreign Film at the **Portland Festival of World Cinema**.