Mental Illness Films | Israeli Film Database

Iris (1968)

Iris

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A man pretends to be married to his ex-wife for the sake of his mother's sanity. But when he finds love with his secretary, and later a 17-year-old, he ends up lost in confusion.

Adam (1974)

Adam

Directed by: Yona Day

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Shmulik Kraus is a wealthy doctor who decides to go against his psychologist, and disprove his theory on the origins of human violence.

Out of the Blue (2008)

Etzbah Elohim

Directed by: Yigal Bursztyn

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Shabtai is a junkman who makes his living reclaiming and selling various cast-offs he finds while scouring the back streets of Tel Aviv. He's has been having a recurring dream in which he meets a no..

Stigma (1982)

Ot Kain

Directed by: Uri Barbash

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A mentally unstable Israeli man who is released from an institution, discovers at once that his wife has left him, and that he must serve a compulsory one-month stint in the military.

Adam Resurrected (2008)

Adam Ben Kelev

Directed by: Paul Schrader

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"Adam Resurrected" follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Nathan in..

Bena (2009)

Bena

Directed by: Niv Klainer

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Amos is a mental health worker, widower, and father to Yurik, a mentally ill teenager. One day, while visiting one of his patients, Amos discovers Bena, an illegal Thai immigrant. Instead of turning..

The Black Light (2009)

Directed by: Shachar Zefania

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Production completed as of July 2009: Alon goes to New York for a new psychological treatment to confront his abandonment complex.

Who Are You to Me (2010)

Mi Ata Bishvili?

Directed by: Dror Reshef

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Anya, 25, is mentally handicapped but manages to lead an independent life. Since the sudden death of her parents she has been living alone, surrounded by her own silence, earning her living as a an..

Moonstruck Ballad

Balada Le'Muke Yareach

Directed by: Gonen Glazer

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Post-production as of July 2009: After taking mushrooms in Central America, Amit Dagan went from popular and witty to being a wreck who can hardly pick up the pieces of his..

Heroes

Directed by: Eli Hakim

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A support group for men who were involued in anti-terrorist activities in the 1980s is shaken when the leader of the group is accused of international war crimes.

Food for Thought (2007)

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Sweet Mud (2005)

Adama Meshuga'at

Directed by: Dror Shaul

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On a secluded Kibbutz in the desert, 12 year old Dvir realizes that his mother is mentally ill. Dvir navigates between the kibbutz's absurd attempts to implement the idea of equality and the painful..

Voices from the Heartland: Slaves of the Lord (2002)

Shiur Moledet: Avdei Hashem

Directed by: Hadar Friedlich

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In a Jewish Orthodox village in Israel, Tamar, a twelve-year-old girl, prepares for her Bat-Mitzvah which will take place on Passover. She is convinced that she is impure and becomes obsessed with a..

Blood Guilt (1996)

Kesher Dam

Directed by: Yaky Yosha

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Bloodguilt is a dark thriller about a dangerous love triangle, inspired by the biblical romance of Jacob, Rachel and Leah.

Burning Memories (1987)

Resisim

Directed by: Yossi Zommer

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Garry, a reserve soldier who survived war in Lebanon. He undergoes group therapy with other shell shocked soldiers.After three exhausting weeks of therapy,Garry returns home to face his memories..

On the Fringe (1987)

Bouba

Directed by: Zeev Revah

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Bouba may have been a war hero, but the war traumatized him too much for him to endure human company. Now he is a silent hermit living in the deserts of southern Israel in an abandoned bus and an is..

The Thin Line (1980)

Al Hevel Dak

Directed by: Michal Bat-Adam

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The struggle against human depression - the family and public reaction towards the depressed individual - is the subject of this film by Michal Bat-Adam. Pola, the mother who suffers from mental her..

Forgiveness (2006)

Mechilot

Directed by: Udi Aloni

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On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be were A..

Shell Shock (1988)

Helem Krav

Directed by: Yoel Sharon

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Happy You’re Alive

Directed by: Hilla Medalia

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Happy You’re Alive is an intimate look into the psychological effects of war on soldiers and the necessary healing process. It examines the dark, yet inevitable, fears and dilemmas that mark a..

Weeping Suzanna (2009)

Susannah Ha'bochiah

Directed by: Lina Chaplin, Slava Chaplin

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A three-part mini series based on Alona Kimhi's award winning bestseller. Emotionally disturbed Susannah lives with her widowed mother. The arrival in Israel of long-lost nephew from New..

Over My Dad's Body (2008)

Kosot Ruach LeAba

Directed by: Taliya Finkel

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This documentary thriller follows filmmaker Taliya's story. When Taliya was young, she never knew for sure whether her uncle was a KGB agent in disguise or a true member of the family. Her father in..

Delayed Reaction (2004)

Directed by: Shmuel Calderone

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33-year-old Meni spends his time gambling and working as DJ at the club he manages with an old childhood friend. His life moves in self-destructive circles, without direction or commitments. The of..

The Last Krasucky (2009)

Ha'Krasucky ha'aharon

Directed by: Y.A. Krasucky

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The 94-year-old grandmother of the director, Tosha Krasucky, only wants to die. However, before she moves to the next world, she needs to release a skeleton from her closet. Three years ago, she her..

A General's Story (2005)

Directed by: David Havler

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Michael Levi wakes up and marches out for his daily routine dressed up as a Lieutenant-General. He is a flower-shop deliveryman, living a military routine in his own mind. Michael is the only in who..

Dr. Pomerantz (2011)

Doctor Pomerantz

Directed by: Assi Dayan

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"Life is a disease with 100% mortality." Dr. Yoel Pomerantz, 64, an unemployed clinical psychologist, lives in poverty in his 12th floor apartment with his son Yoav, 30, who works as a parking and a..

Status: Single

Status: Ravak/a

Directed by: Chen Landau

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Four successful singles aged 38+ take us on a personal journey into the reasons behind their status, raising questions of fear and failure, living alone, past traumas, and the relevance of the of..

Jonathan's Return (2011)

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The film Jonathan's Return examines the experience of a man diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young adult, as he migrates between various institutional and national contexts: growing up as a in the..

Blurred (2012)

Amoma

Directed by: Shay Gott

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Ora, a 58-year-old divorced woman, lives together with her 33-year-old only son, Daniel, who has been diagnosed with mental illness. After a period of time during which Daniel refuses to take and to..

Post Lebanon (2011)

Post Lebanon

Directed by: Lior Agur

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Two friends return home wounded from the inferno of the Second Lebanon War into an agitated protest that rocks the state of Israel. They unite forces in order to fight for their survival and Second..

Special Interview - The Film (2012)

Directed by: Nitzan Rozenberg, Nitzan Rozenberg

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Two young people with disabilities become star reporters in this uplifitng documentary. Efrat Dotan is 27 years old and has Down syndrom. 20 year old Matanel Bitton has developmental disabilites. at..