About 40% of Bedouin women in the Negev live in polygamist families. The story of three such women is exposed through the lens of a Bedouin wedding photographer, who also lives in fear of her husband marrying another woman. From one wedding to another, the hardship of living under the polygamist system is revealed. Even independent, educated women find themselves "unwillingly choosing" to marry, like they say, as second, third or fourth wives. The stories of successful women, who are tempted to marry married men because of their old age, being divorced or an infatuation, show the power of a system, any system, that survives due to its victims' cooperation.

Angelina, the first Druze woman to attempt significant steps in the Israeli fashion world, finds herself in the middle of a societal conflict when the tradition and values of her village clash with her aspirations to be the first Druze Miss Israel. Her brave choices put her life and dreams in danger as she attempts to defy her community's ways.

In honor of the centennial celebrations of the founding of Tel Aviv Yaakov Gross presents in a new documentary the 40 years which shaped the neighborhood which grew into a city. The historical story of Tel Aviv was captured on film from its founding. The movie "Legend in the Dunes" follows the development of the building of the new city across from the ancient city of Yaffo. Its founders, builders and bohemia who settled there installed a new spirit in the awakening Land of Israel, in times when it was hard to believe the Zionist dream would be fulfilled. The building of the first Hebrew city was for its founders the creation of a miniature "Jewish State." The film is interspersed with amazing archival footage from both the Steven Spielberg Jewish film Archive - Hebrew University and the Israel Film Archive - Jerusalem Cinemateque as well as rare footage being shown for the first time from various worldwide sources.

For ten years, Ehud Banai went around with a recording sample that nobody wanted to hear. In 1985, aged 32, Banai worked as a gardener and was still seeking a gateway into the Israeli music industry. Yossi Elephant was a great guitarist who dreamt of being an international rock legend, but hadn't managed to penetrate the Tel Aviv club scene. He had a heart defect and felt that he was going to die young. Outsiders Banai and Elephant formed a rock group whose other members (Jean-Jacques Goldberg, Gil Smetana, and Noam Zide Halevy) had not found their niche in Israeli culture or society either. Banai decided to call the band The Refugees. They produced a single record that didn't sell well at the time, and held performances for small audiences. But they were also a group that offered boundless musical passion and professionalism, friendship and rivalry, and primarily authentic, innovative Israeli rock that garnered enthusiastic fans and laid the foundations for one of the greatest careers in Israeli music. From provincial Ramat Gan of the 1960s, via Amsterdam and London, in private houses in Karkur and Rosh Pina, from depression in New York and delirious concerts played to tiny audiences in Eilat, to the West Coast of the US, a unique friendship formed among a group of artists that only death could separate.

Director Yishai Orian is married to Eliraz, but is also in love with his old Volkswagon Beetle. Eliraz is about to give birth to their first child, and the soon-to-be-mother is anxious to get rid of the old wreck, which she feels is absolutely unsafe for a baby. As the argument heats up whether to junk or invest in rehabilitating the Beetle, Yishai's reluctance to let go of the past leads him on an exciting, funny and touching road trip that begins with the intimate memories of previous owners of the yellow Beetle, continues in Jordan with attempts to renovate the old car and ends with the birth of Yishai's son. The emotional and enlightening encounters blend with Yishai's personal journey toward fatherhood and his attempt to save his two loves.

During Passover 2007, traveling on my scooter through southern Tel Aviv's Florentine industrial zone, I suddenly noticed a very old photograph inside a green dumpster. Upon removing it from the container, I noticed that underneath the photograph were additional ones, as well as a couple of documents. I took my findings home and "Googled" the names of the people mentioned in the documents. I could only find reference to one of the documents, so to trace the others, I had to implement "real detective work." The Green Dumpster Mystery became a docu-detective film, slowly unwinding a tragic family history beginning in ?odz, Poland, transversing a Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the "Gordonia" kibbutz movement in Frankfurt, a Haha'apala ship embarking from an Italian port, a single-room apartment in a deserted Arab building in Jaffa, and an absentee IDF soldier somewhere in the sands of the Sinai Peninsula. Just an anonymous family, this family's saga could be fodder for ten heroic genre Hollywood motion pictures, or, alternatively ten Greek tragedies.

The Idealist is a very personal, poetic look on Lova Eliav, one of the giants who pioneered the state of Israel. In 1967 Eliav (who was liked by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol & Golda Meir) seemed a sure candidate for Prime minister. Yet his decision to call upon a two states solution for both Israelis and Palestinians, was made at a time when such an idea was considered heresy - Subsequently, he left his comfortable position in the ruling Labor Party. Meanwhile, while Arik Sharon and Shimon Peres were shaping the face of the country, Eliav remained in political exile in his on back yard.

A journey into the mysterious life of Aris San, the Greek (non-Jewish) singer who arrived in Israel as a young man in 1957 and within five years became a megastar, club owner, close friend of IDF commanders and politicians and lover of countless movie actresses and singers. In Israel of the 1960s, everyone was singing Aris' hits, such as "Sigal" and "Boom Pam" and the gossip columns were full of his forbidden love affair with singer Aliza Azikri. For his fans, Aris was the perfect combination of east and west. Then began the rumors that Aris was a spy and stories of a violent relationship with Aliza. Aris left Israel and set out to conquer America. He opened a hot nightclub in New York where Hollywood stars, politicians, and mafiosi basked in the light of the singer who hid behind an artificial wig, huge glasses, white suits, gold rings and a guitar. His friends included Anthony Quinn, Telly Savalas, Harry Belafonte, as well as the Gallo family. Aris thought that he had found the key to success, but at the end of his meteoric rise came his fall, flight and mysterious end in Budapest. Shot in Israel, Greece, the United States and Hungary, the film uncovers the man behind the glittering smile, who had a contract with the muses and perhaps with the devil as well.

The Israeli journalist, Miki Rosenthal, attempt to understand the "behind the scenes relationship between money and government" in Israel. This is the system whereby the government sells its limited resources, cheaply, to a handful of wealthy families. Rosenthal, together with the director and photographer, Ilan Aboodi, chooses a difficult mission - he must track down several complicated multi-billion sheqel deals between the Ofer family, one of Israel's top ten wealthiest families, and the government. Part of the wealth of the Ofer family is the result of its partnership with the government which afforded the family very nice profits and represented significant loss to the state. As it turns out, no one really wants to talk to Rosenthal and Aboodi - no one from the Ofer family or, for that matter, not anyone of the government officials and politicians involved in the privatization or other deals mentioned in the movie. During three years of documentation, Rosenthal uncovers the frightening image of a country which sold its assets cheaply to its wealthiest families, allowing them to pollute the air and take advantage of expensive natural resources. He then shows how several of the officials, upon terminating their work for the government, were employed by the Ofer family.

El-Sayed, a Bedouin village nestled in the scenic landscape of the Negev Desert, is home to the largest community of deaf people in the world. Here deafness is seen not as a disability but as a natural part of life. The hearing and the deaf coexist easily in this remote society, but when one father, Salim, decides to get a cochlear implant for his son Muhammad, members of the tightly knit community have distinct, strong opinions. For Muhammad, the road to hearing is long, painful, and garbled. His journey is further complicated by the fact El-Sayed lies outside of Israel's electric infrastructure, making it nearly possible for his parents to main the implant's functionality. With appropriately creative uses of sound, Voices from El-Sayed brings this unique community to life in such a way that we understand how the gift of hearing may feel like the loss of community and identity