Nine months after her husband died, Dafna Ullman has just gone back to work as a night shift hospital midwife. Sixteen-year old Yair has dropped out of school, abandoned a potential basketball career and now hides inside a mouse costume, distributing flyers on the subway. Eleven-year-old Ido deals with his building aggression by trying to break the world free jump record, while six-year-old Bahr begins a lonely first day of school. So it's left to 17-year-old Maya, a gifted budding singer/song writer, to act as a surrogate mother to her youngest siblings. Everyone tries to navigate their daily lives as best as they can but when Maya forgets to pick up little Bahr from school, it's an incident that causes a major upheaval in their lives. Told with sincerity, drama and self- deprecating humour, Nir Bergman's feature debut has a remarkable freshness and a keen sense of observation of the contemporary family.

Best Film and eight other awards, Israeli Film Academy Awards, 2002
Panorama Audience Award and two other awards, Berlinale, 2003
Wolgin Award (Best Israeli Feature), Jerusalem Film Festival, 2002
Grand Prix (Best Film), Tokyo International Film Festival, 2002

THE RITCHIE BOYS is the untold story of a group of young men who fled Nazi Germany and returned to Europe as soldiers in U.S. uniforms. They knew the psychology and the language of the enemy better than anybody else. In Camp Ritchie, Maryland, they were trained in intelligence and psychological warfare. Not always courageous, but determined, bright, and inventive they fought their own kind of war. They saved lives. They were victors, not victims.