Dana Ivgy
9 titles
Filmography
9 results

Zero Motivation
(2014)A smash hit in Israel and winner of the Best Narrative Feature Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, Zero Motivation is a unique, sometimes dark and often hilarious portrait of everyday life for a unit of young female soldiers in a remote Israeli desert outpost. Playing out like M*A*S*H meets Orange is the New Black, the film details the power struggles of three women with different agendas.

Cupcakes
(2013)A feel-good music comedy about 6 friends who record a song on their cell phone and end up the official selection of Israel in a song contest.

Cinema Sabaya
(2021)A young filmmaker (Dana Ivgy, 'Zero Motivation') teaching a workshop in a community center puts cameras into the hands of eight women, Arab and Jewish, and asks them to film their lives. As they share their footage, barriers are broken down, beliefs are challenged, and the women learn more about each other... and themselves.

The Other Widow
(2022)A dark comedic drama about Ella, a 34 year old theater costume designer and mistress of a playwright who dies unexpectedly. While the preparations for the premiere are in full swing, Ella insists on attending his Shiva and dives into a world once forbidden to her. Things get complicated when she becomes too close to his loved ones, especially his wife.
Embezzlement
Based on a true story. In 2002 a bank teller turns herself into police, confessing sheβs embezzled millions to protect her gambling addict brother. The investigation reveals multi-layer corruption in Israel.
Queens
One night, in the middle of Eyal Malka's bachelor party, assassins boarded the family's yacht and killed all the men and 'soldiers' of the family, which was at the time one of the largest crime families in Israel.
Autonomies
Set in an alternate reality in which the State of Israel is split into two territories; one a secular state, the other an ultra-Orthodox reality. A man is recruited to kidnap a girl caught in the centre of a legal battle between the opposing sides.

The Secrets
(2007)The self-righteous, genius daughter of an ultra-orthodox rabbi rebukes an arranged marriage and falls in love with a new female friend in Israel.

Disengagement
(2007)Ana (Juliette Binoche) is reunited with her estranged Israeli stepbrother Uli when he travels to France for the death of their father. She decides to return to Israel to search for the daughter she gave up at birth some 20 years ago. Crossing frontiers by car, train and boat, Ana and Uli end up in the turmoil and emotion of the military-enforced disengagement of Israeli settlers from Gaza in 2005.