Movies: Ilanit Ben-Yaakov

Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparent...

A childless young ultraorthodox couple faces a crisis after a traumatic treatment for barrenness. When the difference between good and bad is unclear, the family must deal with unresolved secrets that raise fundamental questions about religion and fa...

Mira Segal wakes up screaming one morning to discover that her husband has disappeared. The police open a Missing Person file and advise her to wait. As weeks turn into months, Mira continues to search for him while exploring her own desires and the ...

A family in Jerusalem is torn apart by the mysterious disappearance of their father after a tragic a car accident....

Thirty-eight-year-old Alice spends her days sleeping. Working nights at a rehabilitation center provides her with an excuse for her fatigue and emotional apathy. Yigal, Alice’s husband, feels lonely and tormented by her chilly attitude, while his ang...

2020. Corona era. A journalist with an opinion column who receives hateful messages and threats on his cell phone tries in vain to reach his autistic son who lives in a hostel. His daughter went to protest in Balfour and is not answering the phone. H...

With the aid of four actors in a rehearsal room, filmmaker Nur Fibak lays open the police investigation and court proceedings against the man who had molested her, revisiting the case as it unfolded from the moment she decided to seek justice. The fi...

The mysterious and violent murder of a cashier in a remote small-town supermarket – sends her colleague, Orly Blaish, a conservative middle-aged family woman suffering from advanced muscular dystrophy, to a tense and turbulent journey into the depths...

A Pickup truck runs through a road in the rural Galilee. A cow crosses the road. The driver hits the breaks. Just in time. Or maybe too late. Nothing will be the same again. He tries to return to his old life, his home, his wife; but all that was hid...