Aki Avni

Free Zone (2005)

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large of sum of money.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amos Gitai
CAST:  Natalie Portman  •  Hana Laslo  •  Hiam Abbass  •  Carmen Maura

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large of sum of money.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amos Gitai
CAST:  Natalie Portman  •  Hana Laslo  •  Hiam Abbass  •  Carmen Maura

Time of Favor (2000)

Is today's fanaticism tomorrow's policy? In a West Bank settlement, Rabbi Meltzer has a grand design: he's building a movement "to pray at the Temple Mount." His yeshiva has scholars, and the settlement is getting its own military company to be commanded by ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph Cedar
CAST:  Aki Avni  •  Tinkerbell  •  Idan Alterman  •  Assi Dayan

Is today's fanaticism tomorrow's policy? In a West Bank settlement, Rabbi Meltzer has a grand design: he's building a movement "to pray at the Temple Mount." His yeshiva has scholars, and the settlement is getting its own military company to be commanded by ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph Cedar
CAST:  Aki Avni  •  Tinkerbell  •  Idan Alterman  •  Assi Dayan

Salt of the Earth (2006)

They were four friends in heart and soul. Blood Brothers that were that were bound together by their army experience. They were good people and decent citizens. They had love, careers, hopes, a future - but they wanted more. And they wanted to commit the perfect ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Uri Barbash
CAST:  Lior Ashkenazi  •  Aki Avni  •  Lucy Dubinchik  •  Liat Glick

They were four friends in heart and soul. Blood Brothers that were that were bound together by their army experience. They were good people and decent citizens. They had love, careers, hopes, a future - but they wanted more. And they wanted to commit the perfect ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Uri Barbash
CAST:  Lior Ashkenazi  •  Aki Avni  •  Lucy Dubinchik  •  Liat Glick

Amazing Grace (1992)

A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as a musician in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amos Guttman
CAST:  Sharon Alexander  •  Aki Avni  •  Gal Hoyberger  •  Rivka Michaeli

A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as a musician in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amos Guttman
CAST:  Sharon Alexander  •  Aki Avni  •  Gal Hoyberger  •  Rivka Michaeli

Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)

When terrorists threaten nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, the world's only hope is to reactivate decommissioned Universal Soldier Luc Deveraux. Rearmed and reprogrammed, Deveraux must take on his nemesis from the original Universal Soldier and a next-generation ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Hyams
CAST:  Jean-Claude Van Damme  •  Dolph Lundgren  •  Andrei Arlovski  •  Mike Pyle

When terrorists threaten nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, the world's only hope is to reactivate decommissioned Universal Soldier Luc Deveraux. Rearmed and reprogrammed, Deveraux must take on his nemesis from the original Universal Soldier and a next-generation ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Hyams
CAST:  Jean-Claude Van Damme  •  Dolph Lundgren  •  Andrei Arlovski  •  Mike Pyle

My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008)

Henry Durand is a young federal agent who is given a difficult assignment: spy on his mother and her boyfriend who is suspected of leading a gang of art thieves.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Gallo
CAST:  Meg Ryan  •  Antonio Banderas  •  Selma Blair  •  Colin Hanks

Henry Durand is a young federal agent who is given a difficult assignment: spy on his mother and her boyfriend who is suspected of leading a gang of art thieves.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Gallo
CAST:  Meg Ryan  •  Antonio Banderas  •  Selma Blair  •  Colin Hanks

The Fifth Heaven (2011)

Maya, a beautiful, 13, arrives to an orphanage towards the end of World War II. She discovers who her true father is and has a forbidden relationships with an orphanage worker.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dina Zvi-Riklis
CAST:  Guy Adler  •  Amit Moshkovitz  •  Aki Avni  •  Yehezkel Lazarov

Maya, a beautiful, 13, arrives to an orphanage towards the end of World War II. She discovers who her true father is and has a forbidden relationships with an orphanage worker.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dina Zvi-Riklis
CAST:  Guy Adler  •  Amit Moshkovitz  •  Aki Avni  •  Yehezkel Lazarov

Children of the Fall (2016)

Rachel Strode, a young immigrant with a dark secret in her past, comes to Israel in the Fall of 1973 to volunteer in a Kibbutz and then to convert to Judaism. Soon, she realizes that the local Kibbutz members don't seem to like strangers and foreigners, and that ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eitan Gafny
CAST:  Noa Maiman  •  Aki Avni  •  Yafit Shalev  •  Iftah Jeffery Ophir

Rachel Strode, a young immigrant with a dark secret in her past, comes to Israel in the Fall of 1973 to volunteer in a Kibbutz and then to convert to Judaism. Soon, she realizes that the local Kibbutz members don't seem to like strangers and foreigners, and that ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eitan Gafny
CAST:  Noa Maiman  •  Aki Avni  •  Yafit Shalev  •  Iftah Jeffery Ophir

10% My Child (2014)

Franny is seven years old. Franny's mother's new boyfriend is 26 year old Nico, an aspiring filmmaker who couldn't even finish his graduation film. The first time they meet, Franny finds Nico in her mother's bed. From that moment on, Nico and Franny need to find a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  URI BAR-ON
CAST:  Aki Avni

Franny is seven years old. Franny's mother's new boyfriend is 26 year old Nico, an aspiring filmmaker who couldn't even finish his graduation film. The first time they meet, Franny finds Nico in her mother's bed. From that moment on, Nico and Franny need to find a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  URI BAR-ON
CAST:  Aki Avni

Black Light (2009)

Alon undergoes innovative psychotherapy in New York. He embarks on a tempestuous, soul-searching journey, seeking out the details of his mother's childhood in Poland. He does this as a way of understanding why she, a survivor of the Auschwitz and Majdanek death ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shachar Zefania
CAST:  Aki Avni  •  Aliza Weintraub  •  Nathan Meged

Alon undergoes innovative psychotherapy in New York. He embarks on a tempestuous, soul-searching journey, seeking out the details of his mother's childhood in Poland. He does this as a way of understanding why she, a survivor of the Auschwitz and Majdanek death ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shachar Zefania
CAST:  Aki Avni  •  Aliza Weintraub  •  Nathan Meged

Open Heart (2002)

This beautiful love story that start's in Israel and going through all scene's of India, it's cultural, beauty and religions traditions brings us to the question: "What is this love?"...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Aki Avni  •  Assi Dayan  •  Riki Gal  •  Orli Perl

This beautiful love story that start's in Israel and going through all scene's of India, it's cultural, beauty and religions traditions brings us to the question: "What is this love?"...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menahem Golan
CAST:  Aki Avni  •  Assi Dayan  •  Riki Gal  •  Orli Perl

Damascus Cover (2017)

A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daniel Zelik Berk
CAST:  Jonathan Rhys Meyers  •  Olivia Thirlby  •  John Hurt  •  Jürgen Prochnow

A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daniel Zelik Berk
CAST:  Jonathan Rhys Meyers  •  Olivia Thirlby  •  John Hurt  •  Jürgen Prochnow

The Investigation Must Go On (2000)

An excessively ambitious police investigator pursues a tip that a singer with underworld ties is responsible for a recent robbery/homicide, becoming obsessed with the case and the suspect's wife.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marek Rozenbaum
CAST:  Aki Avni  •  Moshe Ivgy  •  Osnat Fishman  •  David Danino

An excessively ambitious police investigator pursues a tip that a singer with underworld ties is responsible for a recent robbery/homicide, becoming obsessed with the case and the suspect's wife.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marek Rozenbaum
CAST:  Aki Avni  •  Moshe Ivgy  •  Osnat Fishman  •  David Danino

Djihad! (2006)

A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young French Arabs who each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans; a 40-something French ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Félix Olivier
CAST:  Saïd Taghmaoui  •  Makram J. Khoury  •  Adel Bencherif  •  Marianne Denicourt

A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young French Arabs who each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans; a 40-something French ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Félix Olivier
CAST:  Saïd Taghmaoui  •  Makram J. Khoury  •  Adel Bencherif  •  Marianne Denicourt

Amos Guttman, Film Director (1997)

From 1977 to his untimely death in 1993, Amos Guttman directed six films, all of them deeply personal reflections of his own life. Interviews with lovers, family and friends--including some of the most important people in Israeli cinema--tell the gripping story of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ran Kotzer
CAST:  Doron Nesher  •  Boaz Turgeman  •  Koti Guttman  •  Miri Guttman

From 1977 to his untimely death in 1993, Amos Guttman directed six films, all of them deeply personal reflections of his own life. Interviews with lovers, family and friends--including some of the most important people in Israeli cinema--tell the gripping story of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ran Kotzer
CAST:  Doron Nesher  •  Boaz Turgeman  •  Koti Guttman  •  Miri Guttman

Beethoven's Last Laugh

A film director is out to get what he wants at any cost, even if it means murder, oblivious to the fact the woman he trusts is actually working against him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victor Braun  •  Shahar Tzphania
CAST:  Assi Dayan  •  Aki Avni  •  Guy Loel  •  Hagar Tishman

A film director is out to get what he wants at any cost, even if it means murder, oblivious to the fact the woman he trusts is actually working against him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victor Braun  •  Shahar Tzphania
CAST:  Assi Dayan  •  Aki Avni  •  Guy Loel  •  Hagar Tishman

פול ספיד (2021)

an israeli movie about race cars  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kobi Machat
CAST:  Kevin Rubin  •  Shira Levy  •  Avraham Arenson  •  Aki Avni

an israeli movie about race cars  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kobi Machat
CAST:  Kevin Rubin  •  Shira Levy  •  Avraham Arenson  •  Aki Avni

Betrayal (2021)

In the virtual age, that of the Internet and of social networks, everything is possible, mixing good with evil. Being able to manage the complexity of long-term relationships with the possibilities of the virtual world allows un-limited possibilities for couples ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Doron Eran
CAST:  Aki Avni  •  Ann Konopny  •  Imri Biton  •  Amnon Wolf

In the virtual age, that of the Internet and of social networks, everything is possible, mixing good with evil. Being able to manage the complexity of long-term relationships with the possibilities of the virtual world allows un-limited possibilities for couples ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Doron Eran
CAST:  Aki Avni  •  Ann Konopny  •  Imri Biton  •  Amnon Wolf