Avi Grainik

Urban Tale

The Receptionist

A boy and a girl wake up in bed one morning, naked. The children's mother died a few weeks earlier. Before she died she asked her children to find their birth father who left them when they were still babies. Their quest in search of their father leads them to hospitals, nursing homes and holding cells. In the course of the quest the brother and sister meet people who provide them - like in parallel quantum universes - a glance into what their future lives may hold for them.

Bed & Biscuit

Moti

Bed & Biscuit takes place in a family-run doggie daycare in a small village in Israel. The kennel is run by an energetic father named Moti and his smart and funny daughter, Ori who have recently moved to the village from the big city. In their new place, they meet some wonderful friends such as Claudia, the voluptuous dog groomer, her son Royo, a young, charismatic, high tempered boy and a goofy girl named TomTom, and have an insane rivalry with Jacky Kakky, the annoying neighbor.

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The Israelis

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Eyes Wide Open

Israel Fischer

A middle-aged Orthodox Jew, Aaron, living and working in Jerusalem with his wife and children, meets a homeless 19-year-old student. Aaron offers to give Ezri work as his assistant at his family's butcher shop. The two men grow close and their attraction becomes sexual. Aaron must now confront his own sexuality, his feelings for Ezri, and his obligations to his family and faith.

Perfect Strangers

Seven childhood friends with a history and shared experiences from their past, meet for dinner to see together a rare lunar eclipse. This bourgeois and routine event takes a turn as they start playing a game that will change their lives: every message, call or alert they receive on their phone is exposed to the eyes of everyone. Betrayals, lies, secrets and accounts that are 20 years old rise and float to the surface and question the long-standing friendships and internal relationships in it.

Campfire

Oded

The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.

The World Is Funny

Avram

Simple people struggle through extraordinary circumstances. Sometimes the only answer to any problem is 'The world is funny so we have to laugh.

The Store That Has Everything

A musical sitcom about people, desires and everything in between. The Store That Has Everything, as it is called - an upgraded and disturbed department store, where you can get everything! From elephants to time machines, from lost lovers to the moon. Everything. The sales team is colorful, silly, funny, human, and touching. Occasionally they sing, simple, everyday texts: of shop assistants, of people reading a newspaper, of friends gossiping.

Pippi Longstocking - The Musical

Tommy

Israeli musical adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's "Pippi Longstocking"

As Tears Go By

Yaakov Tcherniak and his son Yitzhak have a small company that organizes parties and events. They travel to weddings, bar mitzvas and birthdays, and supply the sound equipment and a female vocalist who sings Israeli songs. Their dream is to expand the business and supply catering services as well. To this end, they need another vehicle in addition to their pick-up truck. Yitzhak is supposed to be the driver of the second vehicle. Sadly, he just can't manage to pass his driving test. During the course of the film, the Tcherniak family must deal with this and other problems that arise.

Lenin in October

Moti

A comedy set in Ashdod, Israel. Grisha, has almost given up on his dream of opening his own restaurant and serving his specialty dishes. The sudden death of a rich uncle in Russia changes all that. The uncle bequeaths all his money to his only and beloved nephew, so that he may open a restaurant. The problem is that all his life, the uncle was a sworn Communist, and his condition for granting the inheritance is that the restaurant be dedicated the values of Communism. Grisha is indifferent to these values but accepts the condition- he wants to make his dream come true at any price and he's prepares to dedicate the restaurant to any ideology they tell him to - it really doesn't matter. This leads to conflict between Grisha and his father, a failed poet who blames everything on the Soviet regime back in the Old Country.

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יוחאי אהרונסון

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Rinat's Pizzicat

Rinat's wonderful adventure told through modern versions of classical music.