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Paris 1962. Oded is 12 years old when his father reveals to him he’s a secret agent for the Israeli Mossad and makes him swear to secrecy because his life depends on it. When his father leaves on his mission to Cairo assuming the identity of Wolfgang Lotz – a German millionaire, ex Nazi, playboy […] >>
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Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Hakoah (”Strength” in Hebrew) was founded in 1909, in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which most Austrian sports clubs adopted forbidding the acceptance of Jewish athletes as their members. Its founders were eager to popularize sport among […] >>
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Mindy, A shy nerdy young girl, is trying to catch a star. While she looks at the sky, her neighbor watches her. From here on starts a competition between the two that will make the main character learn an important lesson about friendship. >>
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Mohorosh, an admired American Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi, establishes an extreme and segregated cult between Israel and Brooklyn. Going from underage marriages to sexual assaults, through house burndowns to big money flowing into the Rabbi’s pockets. This corruption went on for decades, yet no one ever dared expose the painful truth. When the Rabbi died, an ugly […] >>
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From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva The pandemic caught me in between a miscarriage and my next pregnancy test. My daughter’s naïve use of my camera captures little intimate moments of pain and grace, uncertainty and expectation. >>
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Three kids are playing in the buildings’ stairway. During the game While playing, they discover an old coat, which leads them into a world full of adventures. >>
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Two brothers, Izak and Shepsel, were born in a displaced persons camp after World War II. They lived their entire lives in the shadow of secrets kept from them by the people closest to them. The brothers were separated as babies, neither was told the other existed. An investigation into the mysterious history of their […] >>
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The Life and Death of Anna Lysis
Anna Lysis is a drag queen who meets different men over the course of one night. Some approach her; Some she flirts with. At the end of the night, all encounters unite and raise questions about trauma, identity, and repression. >>
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Beitar Jerusalem F.C. is the most popular and controversial football team in Israel, the only club in the Premier League never to sign an Arab player. Mid-way through the 2012/13 season, a secretive transfer deal by the owner, Russian-Israeli oligarch Arcadi Gaydamak, brought two Muslim players from Chechnya. The deal inspired the most racist campaign […] >>
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“Appleless” by Aimee Bender is a story of a girl who is victimized in an apple orchard. In a somewhat parallel plot the film follows two young brothers who discover the power of dangerous play, while wondering in their grandparents’ house. This short film is a part of a new cultural venture called ‘StoryVid’, combining […] >>
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During the October War of 1973, Israel’s military and political leadership, so confident of its superiority, suffered a nervous breakdown, as Israel faced a surprise attack by the Egyptian and Syrian armies. Senior officials, headed by Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan, devised wild and desperate ideas, among them the use of nuclear weapons. This 4-part […] >>
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A Tale That Begins With Three Rooms
1933. Dr. Karl Schwartz is invited to Israel by Tel Aviv mayor Meir Dizengoff, to be appointed director of the first art museum in Palestine – The Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Schwartz left Berlin and arrived in Tel Aviv to discover, much to his surprise, that the museum in question consisted of nothing more […] >>
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Subliminal is a proud Zionist rapper who, with fellow artist MC Tamer, a pro-Palestinian Arab, seeks co-existence in the underground Israeli rap scene. Their belief that the language of hip hop can traverse the political tensions of the region to reunite their people is soon shattered as lyrical battles begin to spill onto the streets. […] >>
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Every Saturday a group of elderly women and men carry plastic lawn chairs across the Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem. In the shade of an old pine tree, they sit in a circle and discuss various matters. For over two decades, the “Mt. Herzl Academy” has held its weekly meeting at this cemetery. Seated […] >>
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Dvora is a 17-year-old girl who refuses to leave her job at the fish farm on her Kibbutz, even though she promised to return to school. Her last day at work intensifies her fear of life outside the water. >>