Yigal Bursztyn

Belfer

Yigal Bursztyn

Jacques Cohen, Gadi Yagil

Solomon Belfer, child who arrives to kibbutz after his father fled the country. He dreames of the moment when his father sent him a plane ticket, and he will leave the kibbutz. Meanwhile, he lies in his room and refuses to join the life of the community ...

Everlasting Joy or the Life and Adventures of B. Spinoza as Reported by His Vigilant Neighbors

Yigal Bursztyn

Ariel Zilber, Ofra Weingarten

A descendant of Spinoza is living, translating, and commenting on life today.

Zimzum

Yigal Bursztyn

Uriel Morag, a retired general with a glorious past that includes some less than glorious episodes, has, like many other army officers, graduated into an executive ministerial job. Self-important, overweight and - in his own mind - indispensable, he heads for the countryside with Mona, his latest bimbo, for a weekend away. But as he drives his BMW towards the village farm of two friends from his military past, he and his love are transported into a twisted Through The Looking Glass-style version of present day Israel.

Etsba Elohim

Yigal Bursztyn

Alon Aboutboul, Moshe Ivgy

A working-class guy meets the beautiful model from the billboard. But a few more people are involved. Here, the guy is married and his daughter has a crush on the weatherman. The weatherman wants to marry the cosmetics queen from the billboards. The cosmetics queen kind of likes the guy's sidekick. The sidekick kind of likes the guy's daughter, although she's in high school and the age difference would raise anyone's eyebrows.

Leibovitch in Ma'alot

Igal Bursztyn, Yigal Bursztyn

An intellectual Western: three philosophers huddled on a taxi backseat ride on a rainy day to a small town in the Galilee. The town prepares to confront them. The confrontation at the local community center leads to the question: is a civil war in Israel unavoidable?

Our Beds Are Burning

Igal Burszty, Yigal Bursztyn

Dan Muggia, Shira Farber

The film presents fascist ideologies since the beginning of the 20th Century. The actor/presenter of Maurice Barrés argues against foreign labor on the Tel Aviv beach. Mussolini in a gym. Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera in a bookshop. Carl Schmitt at court. Abba Ahimeir and Itamar Ben-Avi in a public library. Gudrun Streiter recalls her love affair with an SA Stormtrooper with Hitler and Himmler on a bench in a park. Three Rabbis from the Yitzhar Settlement on the West Bank: Shapira, Ginzburg and Elitzur have recently ruled that “there is a reason to kill a child if it is clear that it will grow to harm us” (Torat Hamelekh, 2009, pg. 207). They too appear and discuss their interpretation of Divine commands on a park bench.