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Albi Fund supports development, production, distribution and impact in film and television directly.

Albi Film and Television Fund is the first-ever independent moving image fund for productions by or about Israelis and Palestinians, entirely committed to equality and democracy. We support projects at every phase and every genre so long as the perspective and impact potential are clear.

The fund is built to scout, advise, select and partner with productions that have the ability to strategically shift narratives in unique ways. Over 2024, we are launching the Albi Film & Television Fund as our flagship Fund. In the coming years, we will explore similar endeavors in other cultural fields.

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Our 2024 inaugural list:

Indal

director: Assaf Korman | writer: Endal kachew Kebede & Ori Weisbrod
producer: Studio Dori Media & Abot Hameiri
A group of Ethiopian Israeli youth decide to kidnap the police officer who peppered their adolescence with abuse and eventually murdered their closest friend. Led by the small-time crook INDAL, the group capture the officer in an abandoned public pool and turn the whole area into an autonomous zone for the struggle. What starts off as a personal revenge scheme quickly boils over into a massive national protest movement against police violence and for equality.

Sabbath Queen

director: Sandi DuBowski | writer: Francisco Bello, Sandi DuBowski, Jeremy Stulberg
producer: Sandi DuBowski
Filmed over 20 years, Sabbath Queen follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's epic journey as the dynastic heir of thirty-nine generations of Orthodox rabbis who rejects his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer queer bio-dad, and the founder of Lab/Shul: an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. Sabbath Queen joins director Sandi DuBowski and his rabbi, Amichai, on a lifelong and cinematic quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion, ritual, and love for a challenging, rapidly changing twenty-first century.

Grounded

director: Shady Srour
producer: Hilla Medalia
Culinary historian Muzna Bishara delves into Palestinian cuisine, exploring the vanishing traditions of rural women. Beyond food, it embodies identity, memory, and heritage, with ingredients tied to geography and seasons, flavors reflecting conflicts and politics. Each chapter centers on an ingredient, revealing the essence of Palestinian culture in a fresh perspective.

Of Dogs and Man

director: Dani Rosenberg
producer: Itai Tamir, Alexander Rodnyansky, Laila Films And AR Content
16-year-old sets out on a journey back to her kibbutz to look for her dog who went lost during the recent terror attack. Over the course of two days, she navigates through the horrors etched upon the place and on the faces of people she meets, while she encounters the stark reality of the unfolding disaster just beyond the fence.

Want a Heart?

director: Natan Rushanski
producer: Michal Weits
In the heart of East Jerusalem's violent and painful conflicts, a clown-policewoman named 'Az Oolay' emerges. Confronting evictions of Palestinian homes, violent clashes between residents and the police, and escalating tensions as settlers enter Arab neighborhoods. Amidst all this, the policewoman distributes stickers of love in both Hebrew and Arabic, attempting to prevent police violence. Beneath her costume, with the red-nosed disguise, the woman behind it is gradually revealed: Idit Kishinovski, coping with severe trauma from a shooting attack she miraculously survived. Jerusalem's healing journey unfolds as a deeply personal odyssey, repeatedly returning to the frontline that scarred her soul.

Prophets Of Change

director: Assaf Ben Shetrit
producer: Assaf Ben Shetrit
Prophets of Change began in 2017 with the hope of capturing the lives and stories of eight Palestinian and Israeli musicians who refuse to accept their reality. The film was completed in the beginning of 2023, or so we thought. By May 2024, the latest war had claimed countless innocent lives, inflicting immeasurable suffering and destruction. Yet, in the midst of this despair, these eight artists came together for the first time in Jerusalem. Over the course of four days, they wrote and recorded five songs, blending Arabic, English, Hebrew, and Yiddish with rap, rock, hip-hop, gospel, and heavy metal. Their collaboration became a powerful testament to the unifying force of music, a continuation of their shared beliefs and tireless efforts. The impact campaign of "Prophets of Change" aims to foster dialogue and promote unity through the power of music. By partnering with global events and leveraging the influence of high-profile narrators: Forest Whitaker, JK Simmons, Sarah Silverman, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee, Ed O'brien and Perry Farrell. The goal is to spread a message of hope and inspire young people worldwide to overcome divisions and take action for a better future.

The Abstract and the Very Real

director: Omer Shamir
producer: Shlomi Elkabetz, Galit Cahlon
Depicting characters leaning on crutches and wrapped in bandages, Know Hope’s murals become a self-fulfilling prophecy as chronic illness forces him to recalibrate and create political and participatory art in Palestine-Israel.

Podium (You Have Three Minutes)

director: Rachel Leah Jones
producer: Philippe Bellaiche
Since Israel was established and its legislature -- the Knesset -- first convened, Palestinian lawmakers have served alongside Jewish ones. Be they communists, liberals, nationalists, or Islamists — every Palestinian parliamentarian steps up to the podium with pain, frustration, anger, and hope. Yet most of their words fall on deaf ears. Were we to listen to a collection of 3-minute speeches by these parliamentarians, what would we hear? A hungry appeal for a rightful place at the table of governance, sovereignty, and self-determination rather than the carrot, the stick, and the civil rights crumbs begrudgingly and conditionally swept off of it.

Rabbi Capoeira

director: Barak Heymann
producer: Barak Heymann
Rabbi Capoeira reveals a dramatic and unknown occurrence in the heart of Bnei Brak, the largest ultra-Orthodox city in Israel. The hero of the film is the Capoeira champion of the Mediterranean. He is an ultra-orthodox man whose life was saved by Capoeira, who wants to revolutionize his beloved society, despite the strong criticism he has towards it. Together with his dream partner, a brave ultra-Orthodox woman with a tough life story of her own, he fights like a lion and is not ready to take no for an answer.

The Smugglers

director: Tony Copti & Yaniv Berman
producer: Tony Copti & Yaniv Berman
Michel George El-Raheb owns a small bookshop and café in the city of Jaffa called Yafa Cafe. Facing mounting challenges in running the shop, he calls upon his nephew, film producer Tony Copti, to partner with him. While looking to buy books for the shop, Tony ends up on an eye-opening journey that forces him and his uncle to become book smugglers. The process brings him to question where Jaffa’s books have disappeared after the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation, known to Palestinians as the Nakba. “The Smugglers” is an absurd reflection of Israel’s ongoing oppression of Arabic language and Palestinian culture.

Oxygen

director: Netalie Braun
producer: Adi Bar Yosef, Aviv Ben Shlush
Anat, a single mother and a devoted literature primary school teacher is impatiently waiting for her son’s discharge from the army. But exactly on the due date of his release, a soldier is being abducted and a new war breaks out. The condition of her shell-shocked father, Yakov, starts to deteriorate as Ido calls to say that all discharges have been put on hold. The angst-ridden Anat tries to get him back home, appealing to the kindness of the commanding officers. Ido returns, but her spirit is broken when she discovers that discharges were not suspended - it was Ido who volunteered to fight. Their symbiotic relationship goes downhill, Ido returns to the border post and the battle on that front flares up. Before his unit enters Lebanon, Anat, who feels trapped between her father and her son, decides to take matters into her own hands.

Coexistence, My Ass!

director: Amber Fares
producer: Rachel Leah Jones
COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! follows activist-turned-comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she writes, lives, and stages her one-woman show about racism, sexism, war, peace, and… her ass. But after October 7th the “coexistence” she grew up on sounds like a bad joke. Can she pick up the pieces and continue the fight for justice for everyone between the river and the sea?

Yes

director: Nadav Lapid
producer: Judith Lou Levy, Thomas Alfandari, Janine Jackowski
After October 7th, Y, an eccentric and politically engaged jazz musician, experiences a revelation. The time has come for him to be good and generous toward his bleeding country. No longer will he be an alienated artist. Together with his wife, Jasmine, an ex-dancer, he will provide joy, fun, and consolation. He will give his art, his soul, and his body. Y devotes himself entirely to this new horizon. Unsurprisingly, he is soon granted a prestigious mission: To compose the melody for a new national anthem for Israel born out of this tragedy, an anthem of violence and vengeance.

Issa's House

director: Tomer Heymann
producer: Tomer Heymann, Leigh Heiman, Ahmad Amro
Issa Amro and his brave group of non-violent activists spend their days and nights guarding a beautiful Palestinian-owned home in Hebron. Despite living under Israeli occupation and the absurdity of military law, the members of Issa’s House refuse to leave their legally owned home and dream of building the first-ever Palestinian movie theater in Hebron. Issa’s House gives voice to their stories of solidarity and camaraderie in the face of seemingly insurmountable oppression.

Everything You Have Is Yours

director: Tatyana Tenenbaum
producer: Brighid Greene
Everything You Have Is Yours is a poignant portrait of political reckoning that unfurls through the dances of Hadar Ahuvia, a NYC-based choreographer of Israeli descent. Hadar is the granddaughter of Zionist ‘kibbutzniks,’ collectivist pioneers who built new communities in 1930’s Palestine. Through imaginative dance portraiture, Hadar deconstructs the layered history of Israeli folk dance with attention to gestures appropriated or misconstrued from Palestinian and Yemenite Jewish sources. The film features a cast of Jewish-American, Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian-American dancers whose stories convey the power of dance as an embodied medium for grieving, healing, resistance and reclamation.

The Day After

director: Yuval Orr and Aziz Abu Sarah
producer: Liel Maghen
The Day After tells the unbelievable story of the peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, one of the longest running conflicts in modern history, through the eyes of an Israeli and Palestinian film crew. Blending a historical documentary with the perspective of the crew behind it, who draw parallels back to their homeland, The Day After takes a hard look at the sacrifices and compromises needed to create a shared society where once only bloody division existed.

Handsome Groom

director: Sameh Zoabi
producer: Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait
The story centers on Hamada, a 40-year-old Palestinian actor in Israel. His reluctance to marry and have children brings concern and shame from his family. Struggling to find his artistic voice and lacking motivation, he becomes financially strained, prompting him to return to his childhood village and move in with his parents. Originally intending a temporary stay, it extends into a seven-year stretch. Now in his early 40s, he grapples with societal pressure to marry while navigating his identity and searching for love and purpose. Photo by Noa Nir

Thousand Yard Stare

director: Ari Folman
producer: Marek Rozenbaum, Janja Kralj
In this highly anticipated film project, "Thousand Yard Stare," Folman emerges from two decades of groundbreaking achievements in the field of animation to explore live-action cinema and delve deeper into the timeless cinematic tradition through a film to be captured on black & white on 35mm film. Refusing to glorify war, it’s a story about human connections—a powerful and tragic love tale that unfolds against the backdrop of historical conflict. The plot spans over 50 years, starting just before the Yom Kippur War and reaching its climax on October 7th, 2023. It is centered around the love story of the film's protagonist, a mail delivery pilot, the lowest-ranked pilot in the Israeli Air Force. He is an anti-hero who, due to traumatic events at the outbreak of the war, experiences the loss of both his brother, killed in the first hours of the conflict, and his beloved girlfriend, who leaves him upon his return from the battlefield, displaying the famous "Thousand Yard Stare," a professional term used to depict the trauma from war. The guilt has haunted him for 50 years, leading up to the present date, October 7th, 2023, when he is determined to save his daughter—a result of enduring love, now endangered. This modern Film Noir addresses the survival of the soul after the loss of the ability to love, guiding the hero from collective tragedy to his own redemption and bringing hope.

Seven Eyes

director: Talya Lavie
producer: Eitan Mansuri, Jonathan Doweck
Based on true events and survivors’ testimonies, Seven Eyes tells the story of the Israeli army female lookout soldiers on the day of the October 7^th attack and the weeks that preceded it. The lookout soldiers watch live surveillance footage from cameras posted near the Gaza border. On the morning of the attack, the scenes they had been observing on screen penetrated with deadly violence to the very command-and-control room in which they were left defenseless to face their cruel fate.

The Last Summer

director: Alaa Dakka, Mor Azulay | writer: Ala Daka, Tamar Goren
Producer and Creator: Mor Azulay The Last Summer is an edge-of-your-seat teen thriller, blending the intensity of a high-stakes mission with the raw emotions of coming-of-age. This mixed group of Arab and Jewish teenagers refuses to accept the world handed to them. They understand that all the chaos in the world, from money machines creating gas rigs to those starting wars, leads to one direct outcome: the destruction of the earth. While adults play at amassing wealth and seeking enemies, the earth cries, and their generation will be left with nothing. It's a lost war, maybe even a suicide mission, but nature has no voice, and they will be its voice at any cost.