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Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: What is the sound of fear? This short presents a cacophony of sounds related to Israel’s contstant state of alert. >>
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“Stains” takes place between two summers. In the summer of 2008 the director left for Ukraine with her camera to tell a story of abandonment: the relationship of an abandoned daughter and an alcoholic runaway father. But as he started telling his stories of escapes, lies, and life as an anarchist fugitive under Soviet rule, […] >>
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How I Learned to Overcome my fear And Love Arik Sharon
As the elections approach, director Avi Mograbi sets out to make a documentary film about Israel’s most maligned politician, Arik Sharon. Sharon, a figure admired by many, is a legendary warrior and officer. Mograbi, who was a conscientious objector to the Lebanon War, has personal issues with Sharon, the mastermind of that war. Nevertheless, while […] >>
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When El-Ad was small, his mother told him: “Raising you is like raising three kids.” Ever since that moment, he felt guilty for being deaf, and tried extra hard to be like everyone else. He became even more alienated after the tragic death of his mother and the breakdown of his family. El-Ad later started […] >>
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After being kicked out from every available at-risk youth establishment, and after facing criminal charges for drug trafficking and violence, Kiki is about to enter a youth prison by court order. Gal, his sister, manages to convince the authorities to give Kiki one last chance. Gal is a caregiver for an at-risk youth organization that […] >>
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On the day his mother dies, Alex can’t gather enough people for the funeral, to say the traditional Jewish Kadish prayer on his mother’s grave. So at the Rabbi’s suggestion, Alex sets out on a journey to find people to help him. However he soon comes to realize all he wanted wasn’t the Kadish, but […] >>
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A shocking video of a double murder in Russia appeared on YouTube in 2007. The police investigation reached a dead end; two years later, director Vladi Antonevicz and his friend Dima “Shurabi” set off on a daring investigation of their own. Snooping around the darkest crevices of Russia’s neo-Nazi underground, they are determined to find […] >>
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The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most Westerners to grasp. Unmistaken Child follows the 4-year search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk’s devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been […] >>
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In a technologically saturated world, a young Jerusalemite with a longing for human contact and addiction to screens, goes on a digital journey in search of a mysterious girl with whom he is in contact only through digital means and loses his identity online. >>
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Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: Many Israelis feel they live in a chaotic nation whose leadership is leading them into the abyss, but most of us continue our lives in the hope that maybe tomorrow morning we will wake up and the world will be different. How many of us are willing to begin today […] >>
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The film dives into the childhood memories of 10-year-old Rosalie in a Jerusalem slum, when her father leaves home. While Rosalie escapes to the gum trees of the Galapagos islands, her mother, a French immigrant, tries to preserve the delicate ideal of a family. Both try to remain hopeful, while delving into a world of […] >>
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Now, When The Waters are Pressing Mightily
A visual version with footage from the Tsunami Disaster. Following the publication of the poem at “The New Yorker” magazine. From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>
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In the late 1970’s, after thousands of years of praying and longing for Jerusalem, the first Ethiopian Jews arrived in Israel. “Was it worth it?” their children now ask, for the first time. They are brave and direct and their words pierce through the heart. Words shifting between the great happiness of village life and […] >>
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In a Jerusalem suburb, fifteen young American drug addicts, abandoned by their Hassidic families, share both pain and great hope that Eric – another recovering addict – will save them from death. >>