Movies: Ze'ev Shimshoni

oav (Doron Nesher) is a member of an elite diving unit in the Israeli Navy who has just lost a friend (killed in action). It is up to him to visit the widow, and when he does, they develop a bond based on their shared grief. This unspoken affinity be...

A young man by the name of Hertzel comes back to Israel broke after years abroad and finds work hanging advertising posters. He drives across the country from north to south in his deceased father’s old Volvo, meeting stranded people, lost people, pe...

Flash (1987) A couple becomes hostage when a frantic soldier takes over their house. This social drama depicts the state of the Israeli society following the devastating 1984 war....

A brother and sister return to the Kibbutz where they grew up in order to bury their aunt - the last remaining member of the family in the Kibbutz. At the end of the poor funeral, they set to blackmail the Kibbutz's secretary, a closeted gay man, in ...

Guttman's best short film, Afflicted tells the story of a young, closeted Israeli man who visits a drag bar one night in search of sexual expression....