Yaniv Berman

Eliran Ben-Tovim, a star soccer coach on the verge of national glory, loses everything after a violent outburst during a crucial match. Banned from professional football, he reluctantly accepts coaching a failing middle-school team in a remote northern village. There, among misfit kids and unexpected love, Eliran rediscovers his passion for the game and for life, ultimately choosing purpose and community over fame.

Four young kids who live in a village of military officers families, form a small gang. An old abandoned army base, located in the surrounding fields, turns into their camp. A war begins and most men are drafted. When the kids return to their camp they discover two soldiers who deserted their units, using their camp as a hideout...

School starts at 8am. Teachers and students awaiting to learn what's next on the syllabus. "What will we learn today?" Something slightly different, this time taught by the students. The teachers, our hard working educators, will sit back, and might even learn something - Learn discipline. So come on everybody, let's all embrace the new curriculum. Perhaps we'll begin to enjoy it.

An inter-generational discovery journey of a book seller and his nephew who are made to smuggle books in the face of Israel's ongoing oppression of Arab Palestinian culture and identity.

For three days in March 2023, people spontaneously took to the streets to protest against the government and its prime minister for attempting to change the delicate fabric of Israeli society. At 9 PM on Monday, March 27, things went off course and the seeds of fear and anger burst into a violent cry of frustration. This is a one-shot, unedited continuous take of our BURNING DEMOCRACY.

The morning of the 7th of October took us by surprise. Kadima Zoran is a small town in central Israel, and this is the story of its readiness unit, told by the soldiers serving, while patrolling the streets in a rented white Nissan Micra.

On September 13, 2024, knocks were heard on the doors of three women - activists involved in the protest against Member of Knesset Yuli Edelstein. Standing at the door were police officers, and as the women recount: "They came to take me."

An unprecedented, groundbreaking and voyeuristic look into military reserve life in Israel, this film was shot over a 5 year period in director and reserve soldier Yaniv Berman's life. A soldier in the Israeli army reserves, Alpha Company, Berman had unparalleled access and filmed the soldiers as they went about their military service day and night. Crossing over to the Palestinian border the camera captured remarkably every movement of the soldiers from the frenetic night-time house arrests to the quiet moments of self-reflection and despair.

A hotel room. A bed. A man and woman having a postcoital cigarette. She – a famous singer and he, the hotel’s security guard. The guard turns to the camera and starts recounting the unfolding of their story, from the moment they met up, to when the woman turns up dead, lying naked on the bathroom floor.