Levana Finkelstein Movies

The Galilee Eskimos

2007

As a financially-faltering kibbutz in Galilee, Israel is forced to file Chapter 11, many of its residents - adult men, adult women and children - pack their belongings and take...

Aviva My Love

2006

A hotel cook who longs to eschew the demands of her job and highly eccentric family furtively dreams of becoming a successful writer in writer/director Shemi Zarhin's...

Nekama Yehudit

1997

Aleksandr Shabatayev's 1997 Hebrew-language comic thriller Nekama Yehudit (AKA Jewish Vendetta) concerns a jealous husband (Leonid Kanevsky) who - certain of his...

Women

1996

Offering a richly detailed and carefully researched view of Jerusalem at the turn-of-the century, this romantic drama depicts a time when the city was a haven for both Arabs and...

An Imagined Autobiography

1994

In this Israeli film, director Michal Bat-Adams combines fictional film with autobiography to tell the story of her difficult childhood with a cold father and mentally ill...

Dreams of Innocence

1994

The Hebrew translation for this film is "A Tale that Begins with the Funeral of a Snake." It follows the adventures of a young girl and her brother as they travel to Tel Aviv to...

The Heritage: An Eternity of Love

1993

Love transcends the laws of time in director Amnon Rubenstein's romantic drama tracing the passion of two sets of lovers separated by 500 years. As a pair of modern-day...

Thousand and One Wives

1989

He has already been married twice before, and has lost his previous two wives in ways which are difficult to explain. Reluctant to marry again, Naftali Simantov finally agrees...

Salamoniko

1972

When the state of Israel was formed, the city of Tel Aviv was built to accommodate the need for a port city. However, the city had great difficulty finding reliable Jewish...

I Love You Rosa

1972

This Israeli romantic drama chronicles the love of Nissim for Rosa (Michel Bat-Adam), Nissim's widowed sister-in-law. Under (very old) Jewish religious law, Nissim has the duty...