The Garden is a desolate section of Tel Aviv where young gay prostitutes and drug addicts gather. It is a territory for the dispossessed, for pickups, drug deals, and clashes with the law. Over the course of one year, filmmakers Shatz and Barash follow two boys who have made the Garden their...

Creative Documentary. A voyage through the sensual treasures of long passed childhood in Tel Aviv. In this film I tried to superimpose the rich and sometimes frightening imagination of a child on today’s daily scenery of the city.

Director: Avigdor Weill

Tags: experimantal childhood art

The radio program 'Out with Drugs' goes on air every Saturday at midnight. Eyal, a radio broadcaster takes calls from drug addicts crying out for help, while Yuval rushes through the empty streets of Tel Aviv in search of the anonymous voices. From the dark night appear dreamlike images. Eyal...

Kibbutz Eshbal in the Galilee, established in 1998 as an educational center, runs a boarding school for adolescents who have been expelled from other educational institutions. At Eshbal, Baruch, Ora, Moshe and Yael, first-generation immigrants from Ethiopia, are counseled by Yoav and Vickie,...

The film follows 4 young Brazilians from a village that was just recently discovered by tourists. It shows the immense influence that the tourists have over the lives of the locals, and the difference between the way the tourists conceive the locals and the reality that is filmed. The arrival...

Saed, a film director originally from Bethlehem, who is not permitted to have pre-marital sex, sets out on a journey to confront his traditional family and to find sex in a brothel in Tel Aviv and in a porn cinema in Amman.

Director: Saed Abu Hmoud

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Tel Aviv’s central bus-station area is a fascinating micro-cosmos - the transient home of labor migrants from around the world, victims of humiliation and fear. Behind half-shuttered doors, in improvised semi-clandestine spaces, they create an isolated and protected world, home away from home,...