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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 the day to day life, fun and games of the children in the Old City of Jerusalem, over their summer vacation. >>
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A tribute to the classic: “Man with a movie camera”/ Dziga Vertov (USSR 1929). A naïve documentary filmmaker, heavily armed with 3 cameras and a purple draped stage, sets out to roam his beloved country on his cheap motorcycle in order to bring to the screen the ultimate truth of his people. The racist and […] >>
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Leon a 15 year old is part of the Cosplay community, teenagers who dress up as characters from comics and Japanese Anime, meet and role-play. Leon writes a blog, where he appears as a French character from a web show. Leon’s blog has over 100,000 fans from all over the world that know him as […] >>
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Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: Kheira Abu Hassan lost her baby while waiting at an IDF roadblock. Now she cannot control her smile. Her smile is used as a barrier that the occupied can place before the occupier. >>
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The village of Beit Jann in the mountains of the Galilee holds the highest record of high school graduates in Israel, and possibly in the world. While the school only held a 12% graduation rate up to a few years ago, it has now climbed to 100%. Beit Jann inhabits a population of 12,000 Druze, […] >>
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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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How does a white boy with Alabama roots become a Flamenco guitarist in Andalucian boots, and what happens along the way? The film tells the story of “David Serva,” born David Jones, through his five women and five children—one of whom is the director. After all, who knows the-man-who-came-and-saw-and-conquered (and conquered and conquered), “strumming their […] >>
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Grandma Rivka is forced to leave her home and memories to move in with her children and grandchildren. She finds the transition unbearable, but her family shows her love and sensitivity as they lead her toward a new life, where there is room for memories as well. >>
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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. >>
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Darwish, a young man with existential fatigue, returns home from work with one concern: to fix the broken fan in his house. While his neighbour gets shot and wounded in front of the building and is taken away to hospital, Darwish finds himself stuck in the crime scene looking for solutions for his fan, while […] >>
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The film follows a day in the life of three young teens living in a neglected ghost town in post-Soviet Europe. >>
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This film intimately documents the life of Palestinian men living in hiding in the hills surrounding the Israeli city of Modi’in. With unprecedented access, the film portrays life in the hideout of these young men, focusing on Ahmad (19) and Muhammad (20), as they provide for their families. The harsh conditions of being “illegal” workers […] >>
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Like many of those who survived the horrors of the Holocaust, Moshe Knebel has difficulty talking about his past with his children. They each have collected bits and pieces over the years, but none have the complete picture. Unlike other survivors, Moshe Knebel’s story is not just a story of survival, it is a story […] >>
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Ohad is an animal-rights activist. After years of being cut off from his family, he tries to heal the wounds and go home, but their decision to eat meat still stands in his way. Will the family manage to reconnect? >>