Yaël Abecassis Movies

Live and Become

79/100

A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.

Kadosh

69/100

Two sisters become victims of the patriarchal, ultra-orthodox society.

Mein Herz tanzt

73/100

A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.

Survivre avec les loups

67/100

In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes...

Papa

67/100

Louis and his Daddy are driving back home. Daddy is a past master at clowning, which does not necessarily make Louis laugh...

Alila

61/100

Slice-of-life look at the lives of twelve people who live or work in the same apartment complex in Tel Aviv.

7 Days

69/100

When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large ... See full summary »

Words with Gods

71/100

The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words ... See full summary »

Three-Step Dance

62/100

Four separate-but-interconnected stories - one for each season - about life in Sardinia.

Comme ton père

53/100

Bella ciao

61/100

Atlit

61/100

In October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise between elders Darel and Cali when Darel proves unwilling to sell. That's when the sisters start seeing apparitions of their dead parents.

That Lovely Girl

57/100

Moshe and Tami are a couple, Moshe is in his fifties and Tami is in her early twenties. They live together in a cruel and violent relationship, from which Tami seems unable to set herself free. Tami and Moshe are father and daughter.

Sipurei Tel-Aviv

73/100

Three stories about three women: one is trying to find the right guy; one is trying to get a divorce...

Miss Entebbe

67/100

Life Is Life

51/100

Macky is a fifty years old writer and university profesor. Married with children, he's having an affair with a 30 years-old mother Ayala. He spends his days and nights haunted by his ... See full summary »

A Tramway in Jerusalem

60/100

On a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem's neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds are brought together.

The Heritage

62/100

Two extraordinary love stories unfold 500 years apart. As modern lovers struggle against those who seek to separate them, a Christian soldier pursues a perilous romance with a young Jewish girl in the shadows of the Spanish Inquisition.

Until Tomorrow Comes

58/100

Zarim Balayla

Maria: Daughter of Her Son

59/100

L'enfant d'Israel