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Deep inside a municipal art museum, a single guard is the sole queen of a small exhibition. When she is forced to leave the room, her exile becomes a journey in search of a new home. >>
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82-year-old Elisheva Rise passed away. After her death, her children clear out her home, and find some journals she secretly wrote to each of her seven children, documenting 57 years from their birth to the day she died. It was her life’s work. Every evening she would sit in her home in Kibbutz Ein Tzurim […] >>
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The Museum is a film that observes, examines and ponders Israel’s most important cultural institution, the Israel Museum. The film follows the visitors, observes the observers, listens to the speakers and descends to the storerooms, labs and conference rooms. The American museum director, the singing security guard, the Jerusalemite curator, the Haredi kashrut inspector, the […] >>
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Yaeli is a 20-year-old Ultra-Orthodox woman, who dreams of love. Her heart is beating for David, a handsome and smart yeshiva boy, but Yaeli is also a barren woman. Yaeli’s father, a charismatic and strong man, is looking for a man with children for her, and is not willing to introduce his daughter to a […] >>
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Noni and Tamar live a quiet life with their little girl. One evening, they hear screams in the street and Noni opens the window and asks for silence. After a brief moment, they hear someone knocking at their door. Two young men, drunk and nervous, enter the room. >>
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Decades after leaving the entertainment world to become an ultra-Orthodox Rabi, Uri Zohar, one of the founders of Israeli cinema, is once again directing a film. With the help of a group of young film school graduates, Zohar directs a film about a successful dancer discovering her faith who, much like Uri Zohar’s own personal […] >>
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The Five Houses of Leah Goldberg
She died more than four decades ago, but even today, Leah Goldberg is still an enigmatic figure – she is Israel’s most beloved poet, a powerful woman, who lived with her mother and never married, a woman who invented herself from the ashes of World War I through her magical poetry. The film is a […] >>
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The film is a journey that follows the observation diaries written by Amit Geffen – a young bird-watcher. The diaries beautifully and elaborately describe the observations he conducted from his childhood until his death at 21 from a rare disease. Why would a young boy, who knows that his days are numbered, choose to dedicate […] >>
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20 years after his assassination, Yitzhak Rabin himself tells his dramatic life story. Without commentators or mediators, director Erez Laufer brings to the screen the story of one of Israel’s most prominent leaders in his own words. Through a combination of rare archive footage, home movies and private letters, his personal and professional dramas unfold […] >>
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After being forced by tragic circumstances to put her only daughter, fathered by a Muslim Bedouin man, up for adoption, an Israeli woman returns to Israel many years later to find her lost child. She soon finds herself along with her director friend in an unusual cinematic creation of her life, a voyage that covers […] >>
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The Romans called Lod “The City of God”. Today, however, this dilapidated town is central Israel’s forgotten backyard, a mere 10-minute drive from prosperous Tel Aviv. Acute poverty has helped to cultivate racism, bigotry, and violence, so that many of Lod’s 75,000 inhabitants – Jewish, Muslim, and Christian alike – live in a constant state […] >>
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In the dead of night, my parents left the house my father had built in the Bedouin village, Tal-a-Sabeh, and moved, perhaps “fled,” to Omer, a Jewish town, very bourgeois, located only 5 km away. For 10 years of dealing with breast cancer, my mother’s only wish was to be buried in Omer. The town […] >>
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Itamar, a chubby and depressed young man, returns to his childhood home in the suburbs following a mental breakdown. As he struggles to get better under the care of his quirky and overprotective mother, old tensions about his sexual orientation arise – especially when he meets Ronen, a handsome lifeguard who leads him to confront […] >>