YALLA FILMS

Documentary // 70 min // 2023 // KAN 11 This is the astounding story of The Midrashia, the mothership of the religious zionism in Israel. it’s a story about an elitist educational establishment – that in his last years became a crazy school, that is dominated by chaos and violence next to beauty and grace.

Documentary // 55 min // 2022 // yes docu Two men in suits shoot at the frightened crowd in a Tel Aviv café. All caught on security cameras, Closed Circuit deconstructs this event to give insight into the complex Israeli reality and the lasting trauma caused to those involved.

Documentary TV Series // 2019 // KAN 11 // "YYY - The Story of the Generation Y" is a fun, sweeping and exciting documentary series designed to help frustrated young people understand themselves, and frustrated parents understand their children. The series is comprised of dozens of meetings of director Yair Agmon with dozens of young Israelis, and tries to touch on the core issues that preoccupy them, and the crises they experience in their lives - in the job market, in the rental market, in academia, in their lifestyle and in their romantic relationships.

Fictional Web Series // 6 Episodes // 2020 // KAN Digital // Through their eyes, the world seems like it used to be when they were twenty five, but the world looks back at them and sees eighty year old people. "Stay in the Game" tells the tragic-comic stories of six actors and actresses who refuse to retire, and will do anything in order to remain relevant in a world that leaves them behind.

Documentary // 50 min // 2020 // A film about a failed and frustrating spiritual journey that encompasses a wider story about the annual wild and wonderous festivity which takes place in Uman, Ukraine, about the tens of thousands of Israelis that visit the grave site of their Rabbe, about the mysterious character of Rebbe Nachman, about our ability as human beings to dive deep into our failures and disappointments and find within them some comfort.

VR Film // 2019 // Venice FF 2019 // Every night, hundreds of IDF soldiers go on dozens of arrest missions in Palestinian villages in the West Bank. The film “Battle Hymn” gives its viewers a one-time peak into this ‘routine’ IDF fundamental experience, where manliness and shame, strength and weakness, lowliness and power, combine. In doing so, the film tells a tale, both realistic and surreal, of this crazy place we call home.

Documentary Web Series // 2020 // 4 Seasons // KAN Digital // Here and there one can still find them, the hitchhikers of this country, standing sweating, clenched and determined at random stations, waving a finger of disappointments in anticipation, in no hurry. A direct encounter with the hitchhikers of this country, in my mother's red car, is a meeting with a period, with a place and with people who deserve to reach the small screen.

Documentary // 2021 // Coming Soon // HOT 8 // Corona incidents at Ichilov Hospital. "A Tale of Two Plagues" tries to tell the story of the elusive medical drama that exposed the state of Israel in all its misery and glory, the digital media drama that has been raging here for a year without a break, the mental and personal drama that took place in all of us, throughout the days of the pandemic, and the strange story of this disturbed year, which we have all felt, but have not yet been able to process or internalize.