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Shlomo Bar – a Musical Documentary
Shlomo Bar is one of Israel’s most important and original musical artists. For forty years, together with his band “Natural Gathering” he has created music that expresses the complex heart and soul of the Israeli experience – a stirring blend of East and West that yields compositions of exceptional beauty, while also expressing social protest […] >>
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In the Spring of 1945, Holocaust survivor and psychologist Lena Kuchler single handedly created a home for orphaned Jewish children in Krakow, Poland, following World War II. In 1949, a wave of violent anti-Semitism forced Lena to flee with the children to France and later to Israel where Lena says goodbye to the children as […] >>
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In April 2002, following a series of Palestinian terror attacks in Israeli cities, the IDF invaded the West Bank with heavy forces in order to destroy Palestinian terror bases. The operation, known as Defensive Shield, lasted 40 days during which Palestinian sources mislead the world with false Information about thousands of casualties and about a […] >>
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The Last Fisherman in the Sea of Galilee
An intimate and spiritual encounter of a Japanese director, a member of the Makuya community, who believe in the Hebrew Bible and in the New Testament, with an Israeli fisherman in the Sea of Galilee. The director has had only one question since his childhood. Why did Jesus choose his first disciples from the fishermen […] >>
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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 […] >>
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This film deals with me and my partner’s decision to leave Israel. It is the physical and emotional journey of a young Arab couple, who decide that Israel is not the right place for them, caught between rational considerations and emotional ones. Our story is intertwined with the stories of other people, similarly disappointed by […] >>
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Erez, a rising swimming star, arrives at a godforsaken training camp. The winner of the competition there wins one ticket to the Olympics. And then there is Nevo, beautiful and gifted, who awakens subconscious desires in Erez. >>
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The film was produced in the framework of the “Souvenirs” program – a film lab for Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers in the Old City of Jerusalem. The film follows “Abu Taher”, who manages a number of workers who prepare brooms at the Arab Blind Association. Abu Tahar, also sings the Koran in a small mosque […] >>
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Shadow of Truth is a 4-part documentary that deals with the murder of Tair Rada, a 13 year old girl whose body was found in the toilet of the school she attended in Katzrin. The series revolves around this murder, exploring the case in depth and breaking it apart. >>
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Arabs and Jews have lived in ongoing conflict for over a century. A group of dreamers decided to challenge everything they know about their nationalities and histories and founded a village in 1970s Israel as a social experiment. The film follows the many children who were brought up in this unique environment. In this bold […] >>
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Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula. >>
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The tragic story of an Ultra Orthodox family. The film enters into the inner world of the believer faced with the silence of God. The story unfolds during three days of preparations for a longed-for trip to the Dead Sea, during an intimate and poetic journey to the protagonist’s world and the wishes of his […] >>
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Women Between the Holy and the Profane
They give birth to children year after year. Raising them, carrying on their shoulders ever-growing household and serving their husbands who spend their days praying and learning. Even though the higher purpose of raising an ultra-Orthodox family with multiple children, they remain independent. A documentary four-year in the making reveals the unconventional struggles with unconventional […] >>
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Tala (33) is a quirky musician and a newly single mother. To support her baby daughter, she is forced to take a job at the Milky Way, a repository for mother’s milk where women can pump and sell their breast milk. It’s an awkward set up, but everything could work out fine if only Tala […] >>
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In 1946, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, the longest serving commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, is awaiting trial in a Polish prison. Albert, a young and successful Polish investigation judge, is appointed to interrogate Höss and get a perfect confession out of him. The encounter between the two men will unveil the frightening routine and banalization […] >>