Haim Zanati

Farewell Column (2023)

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. He and ...

Roses Gate (2023)

A dramatic, neo-realist Moroccan-speaking comedy, centered on the Vaknin family - a Moroccan Jewish family that immigrated to the picturesque town of "Bab El Ward" (an imaginary town symbolizing the whole periphery). ...

Hanna's shabbath dress (2021)

Southern Winds (2018)

A short drama that takes place on the beach of Israel. It's about big dreams, small waves, and one father who tries to save the one real thing he has left, his son, but ends up proving once again, all he cares about is himself. ...

The Women's Balcony (2016)

An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gendered rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power. ...

Our Father (2016)

Ovadia Rachmim is the strongest and most violent doorman of Tel Aviv night clubs. He and his wife Rachel are trying to get pregnant for 5 years. A small time gangster named Shalom, offers Ovadia a job, to be a debts collector, offering him a lot of money. ...

Suicide (2014)

A failed businessman must kill himself to pay off a loan shark or his family will die, but a detective discovers the case turns on a shocking secret. ...

Kicking Out Shoshana (2014)

Ami Shoshan is the star of the "Sons of Jerusalem" football club, a team known for its violent, racist and homophobic fans. One unfortunate evening Shoshan flirts with a beautiful woman not knowing that she is the mistress of a local Mafia boss, "Blackie" ...

Kidon (2013)

"Kidon" begins in the morning of the 18th of February 2010 in Tel-Aviv when the whole world wakes up discovering, on the front page of all the newspapers, pictures of the Mossad agents caught while killing Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai a month earlier. It wa ...

God's Neighbors (2012)

Rules must be followed. For the "supervisors" of the Bat Yam neighbourhood in Israel, this means ensuring that women are dressed appropriately, that people respect Shabbat, or that Arabs from Jaffa don't enter the neighbourhood with music blaring from thei ...

Eyes Wide Open (2009)

A middle-aged Orthodox Jew, Aaron, living and working in Jerusalem with his wife and children, meets a homeless 19-year-old student. Aaron offers to give Ezri work as his assistant at his family's butcher shop. The two men grow close and their attraction b ...

Julia Mia (2007)

Johnny is a B movies director. He meets Mia, a young Julia Roberts look-alike. Johnny decides to create an Israeli version of "Pretty Woman" with Mia. As he falls in love with the fantasy, his film turns into reality. ...

Distortion (2005)

Everyday life in Israel during the "Intifada": suicide-attacks, distresses, tensions. A director must present a new theater play but he just can't write a line. His partner, a documentary filmmaker, is preparing the portrait of a former soldier who opened ...

Pippi Longstocking - The Musical (2005)

Israeli musical adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's "Pippi Longstocking" ...

Black Jack (2004)

Black Jack is the coming-of-age story of Jacky, a young, frivolous adventurer, searching for an identity and thirsty for love. As he is swept into the world of crime, he falls in love with a beautiful casino dealer and learns from her that in order to surv ...

Blind Date (2003)

A Israeli diplomat from France begins sending flowers and romantic love letters anonymously to a romantic comedy translator who dreams of love whose business card he found by chance. After a few weeks of letters, he sends her a plane ticket to Paris and s ...