Yaël Abecassis Movies

What had initially started out as a Jewish revolt against the Roman occupation, quickly turned into a fierce civil war. The combination of religious...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Igal Naor

Four separate-but-interconnected stories - one for each season - about life in Sardinia.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaël Abecassis

In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Moshe Abebe

Life in a Tel Aviv apartment complex, an urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. Gabi, a bobbed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yaël Abecassis

In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mathilde Goffart

When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronit Elkabetz

The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaël Abecassis

A driver in the ultra-Orthodox community takes his daughter on his nightly journey, exposing her to the more questionable members of this pious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Moshe Folkenflick

1968. La famille Maïmon : Félix, Mireille et leurs deux enfants, Eric et Michel, débarquent à Marseille. Quelques...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaël Abecassis

Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clémence Poésy

Louis and his Daddy are driving back home. Daddy is a past master at clowning, which does not necessarily make Louis laugh. At times Daddy gets...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alain Chabat

In this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank robbery in order to seek revenge on the institution for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sasson Gabai

A man struggles to support his family while remaining true to his ideals in this drama set in Europe during the 1930s. Orfeo Mancini and his wife...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabelle Carré

Moshe and Tami are a couple, Moshe is in his fifties and Tami is in her early twenties. They live together in a cruel and violent relationship, from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maayan Turgeman

The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miranda Tapsell

A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tawfeek Barhom

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Cast: Moshe Ivgy

A diverse cross-section of Israeli society converges in a single multi-use building, the Shikun. As people of different languages, origins and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irène Jacob

In October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise between elders Darel and Cali when Darel proves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Géraldine Nakache

Three stories about three women: one is trying to find the right guy; one is trying to get a divorce from her runaway husband so she takes hostages;...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yaël Abecassis

A fairy helps children face their fears and gives them a friend.

Genre: Family

Cast: Yaël Abecassis

This téléfilm film on the life of Mary, Joseph's wife and Jesus' mother, from the conception of Jesus to the Assumption into heaven at...

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Cast: Nicholas Rogers

Following his brother's suicide, Avihu encounters a mesmerizing transgender woman who is a vivid mirror image of his brother. Together they embark on...

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Cast: Yaël Abecassis

In 1932, Albert Einstein was invited by the League of Nations to address a letter on any subject to any person. He chose to correspond with Sigmund...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Irène Jacob

Jerusalem 1976, a coming of age story about a confused girl, set against the Entebbe airplane hijacking.13- year-old Noa, is convinced she can free...

Genre: Family

Cast: Merav Avrahami

On a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem's neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noa

Raymonde - diva, queen, enigma, inspiration, survivor, widow, woman, and mother. Armed with a camera, Yael Abecassis followed her mother and stepped...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Raymonde Abecassis

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Cast: Yaël Abecassis

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeanne Moreau