in theaters on my screens

Tikkun

Isr. 2015. Drama by Avishai Sivan with Riki Blich, Khalifa Natour, Aharon Traitel. Reanimated after a 40-minute coma, an ultra-Orthodox scholar feels a strange force awakening in his body and suspects God is testing him.

Runtime: 119 min.

in theaters on my screens

The Other Son

V.O.: Le Fils de l'autre

Fr. 2012. Drama by Lorraine Lévy with Emmanuelle Devos, Jules Sitruk, Mehdi Dehbi. The son of a Jewish couple in Tel Aviv discovers that he was accidentally switched at birth with a boy who grew up in a Palestinian family in the occupied territories.

Runtime: 105 min.

in theaters on my screens

Héritage

Fr. 2012. Drama by Hiam Abbass with Hiam Abbass, Hafsia Herzi, Makram Khoury. A family in Galilee, caught between Israel and war-torn Lebanon, is torn apart after a bomb puts their patriarch in a coma.

Runtime: 88 min.

in theaters on my screens

When Pigs Have Wings

V.O.: Le Cochon de Gaza

Fr. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Sylvain Estibal with Sasson Gabai, Baya Belal, Myriam Tekaïa. A Palestinian fisherman finds a pig in his nets and tries to use it to get out of his miserable reality.

Runtime: 99 min.

in theaters on my screens

The Band's Visit

V.O.: Bikur Ha-Tizmoret

Isr. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Eran Kolirin with Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri. Visiting Israel, the members of an Egyptian band get lost and end up in a hut in the middle of the desert where a restaurant owner offers them hospitality.

Runtime: 87 min.