An Arab man and Jewish woman marry and give birth to a girl and a boy. They live in quiet harmony in an Arab-Jewish community. So when dozens of mysterious terror attacks tremble the state of Israel in the late 1960s, no one suspects the Arab father. When he is caught, the mother flees the country with her kids and settles in the heart of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Montreal, Canada. The boy and the girl study shoulder to shoulder with other religious Jewish kids, ignorant of their origins. But in a surprising twist to an already shocking story, the siblings confront their roots as the grow up and take opposite roads—one becoming ultra-Orthodox, the other becoming Muslim.

The story of the historic cooperation between firefighters of the Palestinian Civil Defense and the Israel Fire and Rescue Services during the tragic Carmel fire in December 2010. The blaze that began on Mount Carmel and swept through hills around the coastal city of Haifa was the deadliest in Israeli history, claiming 44 lives. It was also a cultural historic moment—producing unprecedented cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian firefighters.

Based on a novel by Eli Amir, this celebrated film tells the story of the most ancient Jewish community in the world in Iraq, just before they leave for Israel after living there for close to two thousand years. Against the background of Jewish life in Bagdad of the 1950s, we witness the coming-of-age of 16-year-old Kabi. Transformed from a studious child to one of the central activists in the Zionist underground, he enables the immigration of the Jews of Iraq to Israel at a time when most Jews did not want to leave.

Only 67 kilometers separate Lod and Tlamim, but the residents are a world apart, divided by vast national, cultural, and ideological differences. Through an education and technology school program aimed at bridging gaps in Israeli society, sixth grade students from a secular school in the impoverished city of Lod and a religious school in the settlement of Tlamim are paired as online pen pals. Samar, an Arab girl from Lod and Linor, a settler who lived in Gush Katif, represent the extremes of these differences. Still, a spark is ignited in their online relationship and a friendship is formed. But when the two girls have the opportunity to meet, their families enter into a profound and complex experience.

A masterful drama from the writer of The Syrian Bride and The Lemon Tree, about three sisters, the last of the bourgeois Christian minority who did not leave after 1967, living in old manor in Ramallah. Time has stood still for the sisters until their young orphaned niece comes to live with them and becomes subject to their routines and delusions of social stance. Their late brother’s daughter gives the sisters hope for a future of pride for the family, as she shakes up the power structure in the old house.

The Philippines’ most celebrated film of the year takes on Israel’s 2009 law that allows children of foreign workers to be deported back to their parents’ country. Transit dramatizes the struggles of an extended Filipino family that has lived and worked in Tel Aviv for years. Janet’s work visa has expired and she may be deported back to the Philippines. Her teenage daughter Yael, born of an Israeli father from a past relationship, wants to stay, and Janet’s brother Moses hides his four-year-old son at home for fear that if he is found, the child will also be deported.

Jewish Israeli grandparents are challenged by their grandchild to compose an agreed-upon version of the untold story of a large crystal mirror, taken from the Palestinian village of Zarnuqa during the Nakba – the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by the new Israeli state in the 1948 war. An intimate discussion that reflects on the presence of the Nakba in the lives of Jewish Israelis and addresses its silenced remnants, located at the very center of our lives