Each year a small number of students is admitted; the staff invests great human and financial resources in developing the professional abilities and skills of the students. Since its founding, the school has defined the concept of the short film as a genre of its own, centred around a story, which aspires to emotionally move the viewer. This concept defines the film in time and in space and allows an appropriate shooting time as well as proper technical and financial backup for the different projects.

In its 19 years, the school has put together some of the most advanced curriculum and production systems in the world. Apart from theoretical studies, the curriculum of the comprehensive directors’ course includes all of the subjects of filmmaking. Each student is required to take part in the different professional roles of around 150 fiction and documentary projects of different lengths, which are being produced at the school every year. The teaching in the classroom and the experience made in the field are accompanied and guided by teachers and mentors. The curriculum is constantly examined, conclusions are being drawn, changes and updates are being made during every semester.

The school demands high credibility and reliability from its students, as well as following a tight schedule and cooperation with class members.  

The school’s uniqueness 

·     A dynamic and internationally unique curriculum, a special cooperation of the three different courses: joint workshops and productions, intensive practical training alongside academic theoretical studies.

·     Monthly meetings with artists or experts from around the world.

·     Investment of resources, teaching time and close accomnaying for each student: in the director’s course and the producer’s course up to 7 times more than the tuition fees, in the creative-writing course up to 3 times more.

·     Hiring teachers who are active filmmakers.

·     A deep experience of each student from the director’s course in all aspects of filmmaking.

·     Professional specialising in small study groups and advanced studies.

·     Support for the students in all stages of productions; in mentoring, production scholarships’ equipment and materials, post-production, graphics and distribution and marketing.

·     Exposure, distribution and marketing of the school films in Israel and worldwide: Cinematheque screenings, international and local competitions, television broadcasting nationally and internationally and hundreds of festivals around the globe.