opening day at the jewish film festival

yesterday was opening day at the jewish film festival. i saw two movies yesterday . i saw tehillim and hebrew lesson . tehillim was about a modern orthodox woman whose husband leaves her and her two kids and the aftermath. the father in law was a bit more religious than his daughter in law. one of the film producers was in attendance. i found it quite enjoyable, but for those who like films with nice pat endings it may not be .
the second film that i saw was called a hebrew lesson ,which was directed by david offeck who also directed number seventeen which was the movie about identifying the unidentified victim of an israeli bus bombing. one of the directors (not david offeck) was in attendance as well. hebrew lesson is an engaging as well as disturbing film. it chronicles the lives of two chinese women, one german woman , and one peruvian woman who are in an ulpan in israel and are all involved with jewish israeli men ( i know ive said that i normally boycott these types of films, but i didnt realize there was such a strong theme of intermarriage in the film.) the last individual featured at the ulpan was sasha a jewish russian born man. what i found disturbing was that at the expense of making an interesting story it made it seem like the majority of people who want to make aliyah to israel are non-jewish women involved with jewish men. what i found disturbing was the way these people who were presented as the "new Israelis" aren't even jewish. although, to be fair they did broach the subject of the german woman converting and without giving away her whole story, there was alot of dialogue with her about this especially since she was German. they were teaching judaism as just a culture to fit in with. although i cant say that i have any concrete plans to move to israel, it made me feel at least more strongly than usual, that i should move to israel just to make sure that jews will actually comprise a majorty of new olim. i think that they sacrificed a little bit of reality to make it more interesting. they wanted to make israel seem so cosmopolitan that anyone would want to live there that they didnt show why it would be so special for an actual jewish person to want to live in the jewish state. the few stories they showed that were jewish stories of new olim such as the russian guy and the parisian jewish ulpan teacher were uncomfortably overshadowed by the stories of the non-jewish olim. one of the chinese olim went so far as making a documentary about the illegal chinese immigrants to israel, which actually made one begin to question what the identity of an israeli is based on . is being jewish the essence of being israeli? moreover, IF this can be a question, what a sorry state the state of israel is in.