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Sugarcane

Drama, 90 minutes, Germany/Rwanda

Co-written and Co-directed with Aline Amike

Twelve-year-old Sugarcane lives in a well-funded orphanage in southern Rwanda with her twin sister. When she learns that one of her European sponsors is planning a visit and intends to adopt her, she will do everything it takes to seize this opportunity.

Inspired by true events, the film tells a tense, action driven story, about survival and the guilt

lying underneath it.

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Sugarcane

Drama, 90 minutes, Germany/Rwanda

Co-written and Co-produced with Aline Amike
 

Twelve-year-old Sugarcane lives in a well-funded orphanage in southern Rwanda with her twin sister. When she learns that one of her European sponsors is planning a visit and intends to adopt her, she will do everything it takes to seize this opportunity. ​ Inspired by true events, the film tells a tense, action driven story, about survival and the guilt lying underneath it.

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Happy

Drama, 12 minutes, Israel, 2016   
Production: Green Productions. 
Sales: Assaf Machnes and Green Productions.

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Loose 

Series.  8 episodes/45 minutes. 

More information coming soon.

Fathers

Series.  10 episodes/45 minutes. 

More information coming soon.

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Tate

Juan, a 45-year-old Argentine immigrant living in London, commits a crime and goes into hiding. He finds refuge within the walls of Tate Modern, one of the world’s largest modern art galleries. How will he survive inside - and what will he discover?
 

This film is an immersive thriller exploring borders.

© 2026 by Assafmachnes.

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Lionel

Meet Lionel, the Israeli forrest Gump. ​

 

When Lionel's parents confess that he was adopted and that his original parents were Jewish, Lionel decides, at the age of seventeen, to leave his life in Marseilles, France, and join the Israeli army. 

 

From then on we follow this peculiar and naive character on his life journey in the holly land, trying to understand what the f**k it means to be Jewish. 

 

It's a film about idenity, exploring the vast amount of different groups living under the same roof in Israel.

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