Dangerous Acts (1998)

Director: Shemi Zarhin

The Jump

A man is about to jump from the roof of a building. In the building lives a woman. The man says to the woman, "if you don't forgive me, I'll jump". The woman says nothing.

This is one of this psychological thriller's breathtaking climaxes, staring 2 of Israel's leading film and theater actors, Gila Almagor and Moshe Ivgy, darkly and masterfully shot by veteran David Gurfinkel, and featuring an exciting, complex orchestral score which won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Film Score. The film won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Director.

Composed, orchestrated and conducted by Ady Cohen

Performed by Ady Cohen and the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra

Winner - the Israeli Academy Award for Best Music 1998

Fire Birds (2015)

Director: Amir Wolf

The Three Old Ladies

Amir Wolf's thrilling debut film, a mystery drama with a sense of humor that touches on old age, death and the memory of the holocaust, features three veteran stage and film actresses as the film's female protagonists. The theme I composed tried to capture the old, elegant world of pre-war Europe, by using fretted instruments such as a dulcimer, a mandolin and a guitar (reminding us of the zither from the famous “The Third Man” theme), and by writing the theme is a waltzy meter - ¾ – which alludes to the three ladies and their mysterious personalities.

Composed, orchestrated and conducted by Ady Cohen

Performed by: Yaki Reuven – mandolin, Eyal Bat – piano, Josué Cordero Cortés – oboe and english horn, Nitsan Ein Habar – saxophone, Ady Cohen – guitar and other instruments

Members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Eyal Ein Habar – flute, Jonathan Hadas – clarinet, Yigal Tuneh, Avital Steiner, Sivan Maayani Zelikoff, Semion Gavrikov, Nitzan Canetty, Dumitru Pocitari – violins, Roman Spitzer, Robert Mozes – violas, Chagit Glaser, Linor Katz – cellos, Omri Weinberger, Eli Magen – contrabasses

Mother Divine (2004)

Director: Jeff P. Elstone

Marlena

Marlena, a glamorous opera singer, arrives at an abandoned hotel troubled, alone, and in need of refuge. Once checking into a room of her own, she enters a realm of fantasy that is quickly interrupted by her own reality and a peculiar need for reconciliation. After reaching out to her mother in desperation and in need of redemption, she is subsequently cast further away into a lonely and altogether desolate place with only a single path left to follow. In the end, Marlena meets her fate in the very place where her dreams once flourished.

The score fills this Lynchian, surreal, stylish and mostly dialogue-less melodrama, with reminiscenses and winks to the Golden Age of Hollywood and to the great operas of the past.

Composed and orchestrated by Ady Cohen

Performed by the Ramat Gan Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Aviv Ron

Soloists: Bavat Marom - mezzo soprano, Eyal Bat - piano