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Monthly Screenings

Jerusalem Women's Film Festival 2025

Opening Event

Greetings and opening remarks (in Heb.)

Tow

Dir.: Stephanie Laing
| 105 minutes

Amanda (Rose Byrne) lives in her 1991 Corolla, her only hope for work. When it’s stolen, she loses everything. With a young lawyer’s help, she takes on the system in a legal battle that could make history.

 

The Good Manners

Dir.: Celia Rico Clavellino
| 110 minutes

A period drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Ana, a humble woman, fights to protect her dignity, family, and humanity amid poverty, silence, and fear. When her brother-in-law Antonio returns from the war, the fragile order in their home is shattered—and with it, Ana’s world is turned upside down.

Houses

Dir: Veronica Nicole Tetelbaum
| 98 minutes

Sasha, 28, and non-binary, returns to the isolated city of Safed, from which they immigrated from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. Confronting childhood memories and fears, they seeks peace and renewal.

Book of Ruth

Dir.: Esty Bitton Shushan
| 88 minutes

The life of Ruth and Shmuel, an ultra-Orthodox couple, is shattered when their son Srulik tragically dies. Shmuel seeks forgiveness through tradition, while Ruth, shaken in faith, pursues practical solutions and quiet defiance within their strict religious community, challenging the life they once knew.

Female Directors, Youth Competition: Program 1

Fairuz, Dir.: Ariel Maya | As Long as the Light Keeps Shining, Dir.: Tohar Cohen | What Comes After, Dir.: Yali Sharon | Bigger than Us, Dir.: Shira Oriyan | Such a Reality, Dir.: Ella Amir

Israeli Shorts by Female Directors - Program 2

Kasey, Dir.: Veronica Kedar | Jenny's Wars, Dir.: Manya Lozovsky | In Pigeons Blood, Dir.: Hod Adler, Chaya Moshayev | The Country Calls You, Dir.: Yosra Abu Kaf | Frequency, Dir.: Mindi Ehrlich

Israeli Shorts by Female Directors - Program 3

Where Language Falls Short, Dir.: Tamar Peled | Dear Mom, Dir.: Gala Kaplun, Danna Levy, Maor Alteras | Yerus, W.: Yerus Teame, Yuel Toleda | Edna and the Dog, Dir.: Danielle Wiesman

Mama

Dir.: Or Sinai
| 93 minutes

After years away from her family, Mila has become comfortable in the wealthy landscape of her employer in Israel. When an accident sends her back to her poor Polish village, Mila must rediscover her home.

Waitress

Dir.: Adrienne Shelly
| 104 minutes

Jenna‘s in trouble. She‘s unhappily married and pregnant, she‘s in love with her doctor, her boss at the diner berates her, and she lives in the deep South. She takes out her frustrations by baking wonderful and unique pies… What are Jenna‘s chances of escaping this messy life?

Israeli Shorts Female Students - Program 1

Frames for Michael, Dir.: Liya Daniel Elbashan | Orly Loses Hope, Dir.: Yarden Ben Tabou De Leon | Not Home, Dir.: Reut Ben Shushan | About to Have Sex, Dir.: Yuval Mansharov

Israeli Shorts Female Students - Program 2

Vivid Shlomit, Dir.: Hila Paz | Play Time, Dir.: Noga Elkayam | Slide, Dir.: Michal Zecharia | Daybreak, Dir.: Nava Yaari | Maintenance, Dir.: Rotem Avidani

Flower

Dir.: Anna Yam
| 82 minutes

A chance encounter between Anna, a photographer, and Flower, a homeless sex worker, sparks a journey through Tel Aviv’s dark backstreets. Weekly meetings in Anna’s car reveal Flower’s story and a deep bond—one that exposes both the fragility and resilience of human connection.

Four Letters of Love

Dir.: Polly Steele
| 125 minutes

Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.

Closing Event

Prior to the screening, announcment of the Israeli film competitions' winners (in Heb.)

Yakushima's Illusion

Dir.: Naomi Kawase
| 122 minutes

Corry, a French pediatric heart transplant coordinator, goes to Japan where organ donation is taboo. While trying to save a boy, her partner Jin mysteriously disappears as a “Johatsu”—one of 80,000 who vanish yearly. Corry must save the child and face her heartbreak.

Screening in the presence of Adva Dadon, Ami Tayar, and Alice Miller. Following the screening, a panel discussion (in Heb.)

Cutting the Sky

Created by: Adva Dadon, Ami Tayar
| 58 minutes

The Israeli Air Force’s success in Iran marks a peak in a story that began three decades earlier—with Alice Miller, a 22-year-old who challenged the military to accept women as combat pilots. Her battle against deep resistance sparked a social revolution, but a hidden secret threatens everything she fought for.

Winning Short Films

A selection of winning short films from the 2025 Jerusalem Women's Film Festival. 

Tow

Dir.: Stephanie Laing
| 105 minutes

Amanda (Rose Byrne) lives in her 1991 Corolla, her only hope for work. When it’s stolen, she loses everything. With a young lawyer’s help, she takes on the system in a legal battle that could make history.

 

Necropolis

Dir.: Keren Alexander
| 75 minutes
In a city where death is present at every corner, Necropolis dives underground on a vivid cinematic journey - between hard labor and sacred work, technology and tradition, resurrection and eternal war.