The director writes a script. Characters from her past and characters she meets on the street and elsewhere, sneak into the story and take control of her. As she writes, she sees herself in all female characters and her close friend Gadi, who is an actor by profession, in all male characters. Writing the script gives the director a chance to take a fresh look at the life and destiny she creates, life, which is actually her life, and it gives us a chance to take a look at the sources of inspiration and the creative process.

Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who had spent 2 years of horror in the same prison. They organize a rescue operation against the prison. The soldiers must use both cunning and boldness if they are to help their fellow Israelis regain their freedom.

Atalia is a 40-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Six-Day War and lives on a kibbutz with her adolescent daughter. Lonely and feeling outcast, she enters into a forbidden affair with her daughter's classmate, Matti, an idealistic 19-year-old rejected by the army.

An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.

In this Israeli comedy, a father is afraid that after having sired eight daughters, that he will never produce a son.

This story centers on the Jewish practice that requires an unmarried brother to marry the childless widow of his dead brother. In this story the younger brother is only 12 years old when his brother dies. The requirement is avoided by a legal fiction, but as time passes in the story, the situation changes.

Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He's a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act.

英国托管末期的以色列特拉维夫。生活在切罗基大街的是一群来自世界各地犹太人。15岁埃及裔以色列男孩儿萨米是寡妇克拉拉的长子。克拉拉给人帮佣，家庭生活拮据。喜欢读书的萨米不得不缀学去做工。因粗暴的工头的种族歧视语言引发了工人们的罢工，萨米借机来到图书馆看，邂逅了叙利亚女孩儿索妮亚，并与她发生了肌肤之亲，最终因种族和年龄的差异而分手。英国军队四处抓捕犹太激进分子，民不聊生。联合国决议宣布后，第一次中东战争开始，萨米的弟弟在轰炸中丧生，萨米虚报年龄参军入伍，奔赴战场。 获奖情况： 该片获当年奥斯卡最佳外语片提名。