Irit Kaplan

Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramle are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they belong to. When Herzl (155 kilos), the main protagonist, loses his job as a cook and starts working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant in Ramle he discovers the world of Sumo where large people such as himself are honored and appreciated. Through Kitano (60 kilos), the restaurant owner, a former Sumo coach in Japan (who is supposedly hiding from the Yakuza in Israel), he falls in love with a sport involving "two fatsos in diapers and girly hairdos". Herzl wants Kitano to be their coach but Kitano is reluctant - they first have to earn their spurs. "A MATTER OF SIZE" is a comedy about a ‘coming out’ of a different kind - overweight people learning to accept themselves.

Moti, an Ashkenazi yeshiva boy, is about to embark on a matchmaking round to find a beautiful and pious bride. However, just as his parents are ready to set him up with an American girl, Moti falls for his best friend’s sister. The fact that she belongs to a Mizrahi family makes the match difficult and forces him to find a creative solution.

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In present day Jerusalem, a city increasingly dominated by religious fanaticism, Naomi, a secular young woman seeks refuge from the pressure of her life as a concert pianist. Despite her intentions to stay alone, however, Naomi quickly makes two unexpected connections- one with a musically gifted Ultra-Orthodox young boy who lives in her building and the other, with Fabrizio, a charismatic Italian monk and organist. While these relationships allow Naomi to reconnect with her love of music and sense of meaning, they also make her a target in her new community. Faced with escalating isolation and violence, Naomi must learn to use music as a bridge to overcome towering religious barriers.

Directed by multi-award winner Nir Bergman (Broken Wings), Saving Neta tells the stories of four women whose lives change after their brief encounter with a man called Neta. Humour, drama, love and hope, a powerful and moving portrait of family relationships and parenthood in modern life.

Based on the award-winning play and popular Israeli short story, this poignant family drama follows Rivka, 19-years-old and strong-willed, who struggles to follow the conservative lifestyle of her ultra-orthodox parents in Jerusalem. Determined to break free from her parents’ rigid worldview, she runs away to a secular farming community in the desert. The decision pushes the two generations to confront the chasm between their stringent views of tradition and modernity.

When two generations of Israeli women fall for a German woman and a Palestinian man, chaos follows. What happens with lovers who don't fit but do belong together?

Baruch Auerbach, a yeshiva graduate who has long since missed every opportunity to get married, continues to live in a small room at the yeshiva where he studied and serves as the faithful assistant to the matchmaker Malki. When Malki assigns him the task of picking up her young daughter, Shira, from the airport, he decides that the time has come for him to get married. Baruch asks Malki for help, but when she tries to set him up with Ruth instead, he decides to do everything he can to thwart the match with Ruth and win Shira’s heart. Only when he realizes just how wrongly he has interpreted the circumstances of his life will his heart open up to the love he deserves.

Baruch Auerbach, an unlucky-in-love Orthodox matchmaker from Bnei Brak, is finally engaged to struggling pastry chef Ruth but their financial woes make the loved-up pair’s dream wedding impossible. When American Jewish Orthodox millionaire Michael Gerstel offers a $100,000 to anyone capable of finding a suitable match for his only daughter, Baruch is left with no option but to reunite with his mentor/adversary, Malki, for the matchmaking mission of-a-lifetime.

The loves, heartbreak, jealousy and pain of the three Armoza sisters – Luna, Rachelika, and Becky - their parents, grandparents and children, set during the early-mid 20th century in Jerusalem.

In a sleepy high school in Kfar Sava, in a Citizenship class, 12th-grader Lianne and her teacher Amir get into a heated political confrontation that gets out of hand and soon reaches personal and painful places.

Pinhas "Pini" Zanzouri lives in Yavne, a town in central Israel, with his wife and two children. Zanzouri is an average Israeli citizen with an average job, who comes home and passes his evenings watching TV . On his 40th birthday, Zanzouri's life changes forever when his father comes to him with two revelations: that all the men in his family have died in their 40th year, and that he is adopted. Accepting that he has a year to live, Zanzouri decides to fulfill all his dreams.

A new comedy drama from Keshet 12, created, written and directed by comedian Adir Miller. The series follows Gidi, a regular IDF soldier who experiences a double shock: After receiving terminal medical news that led him on a journey of rebellion and disintegration, he discovers that there was a mistake in the tests. Now, healthy but surrounded by the ruins he caused with his own hands, he must choose between trying to repair the fragments and embarking on a completely new path, far from the familiar path of his life.