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Giado – Holocaust in the Desert
For seven decades, Yosef Dadush concealed a private diary, securely locked away in a closet at his home. Only after his passing was the diary unearthed, granting us a precious opportunity to peer into the harrowing existence endured by the inmates of Giado—a concentration camp situated in the heart of the Libyan desert. “GIADO” chronicles […] >>
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Tysir is 15 years-old and is released from prison on parole. The only one waiting for him is Yonatan, a social worker from the Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority. Yonatan tries to help Tysir overcome the sad statistics that say that 3 out of 4 teens end up back in prison. The deal, which seems attractive behind […] >>
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Duma (dolls in Arabic) is based on stories of sexual abuse in Arab society in Israel. Abeer, the creator of a puppet theater show which deals with the subject of sexual abuse during childhood, decides to take her camera and journey from the north to the south of the country and document women who have […] >>
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For the last 24 years, I have been documenting my life obsessively. My journey started in Tel Aviv in 1996, when extra-terrestrials abducted me from my bedroom. The event left me in shock. I closed my production company and hit the road, searching for an answer. I went to Roswell, New York, Paris, and Cuba. […] >>
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The children of illegal workers in Israel live out their seemingly normal everyday lives in the shadow of the constant fear of deportation.This film focuses on the world of the children of illegal foreign workers who are forced to deal with a complex reality which includes tough questions regarding their identity. The children’s dreams, pastimes, […] >>
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80-year-old Tzvi tries to educate his rebellious grandson and takes him on a trip to the desert, only to find that the generation gap between them is as wide as the extreme sceneries surrounding them. The impossible journey comes to its end in the only imaginable way. >>
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When their senior dog’s condition deteriorates, owners often wonder: is it better to prolong life or mercifully put to sleep? When is the right moment to let go? At “Hofshi” (“Free”), a retirement home for dogs, the stories of owners and their pets convey these dilemmas, which escalate when facing the threat of being put […] >>
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As time draws closer towards the jail release of her violent husband, Kifaya Ayati, a resident of Acre, who has been brutally attacked several times, is looking for a way to survive. She paints women who have been abused and murdered by their spouses and meets their sisters, mothers and daughters. Every meeting becomes a […] >>
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In the winter of 1941 on the banks of the Danube, one thousand Viennese Jews wait for their fate to be determined by Mossad agents in a hotel room in Istanbul. Originally, filmmaker Nachum Laufer intended to tell the story of how he fled from Europe with his mother. However, while researching, he came across […] >>
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A documentary journey about friendship and madness in the digital age. The film follows real Facebook conversations between me and Ray over the years 2011-2012. The content of the conversations moves from a state of openness and closeness, to mutual accusations, while in the middle ,there’s a video clip for Dudu Tassa, which we must […] >>
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The moment Neurobiologists discovered how to copy human memories to a hard drive, Mankind began abandoning the physical world for a virtual reality called Second Life. In the wake of a growing shortage in memory storage, it was decided to minimize human interaction, and speech was outlawed. When finally remained in the physical reality, only […] >>
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“Write Down, I Am an Arab” tells the fascinating story of the Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish. His poetry molded Palestinian identity and helped shape entire generations on its behalf. Darwish grew up under a military government, which denied him freedom of movement and left him confined to the city of Haifa. In 1964 he […] >>
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Black to Back deals with replication and imitation, as they are manifested in Youtube video comments. It is a 5 channel video installation, showing 5 women making an “Amy Winehouse Hairdo”. Together they keep spreading Winehouse’s figure through the internet, long after her 2011 physical death in. The women are “taken” out of the internet […] >>