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From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to Avanti Popolo – 1986. It’s a little known fact that within the already conflicted reality of Israel, Arab soldiers also serve in the Israeli army. On the memorial day of Yom Kippur, a small unit is sent to reinforce a remote army post alongside […] >>
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In the year 2047, the government passes an amendment to the law of return stating that all Jews around the world must immigrate to Israel by the end of 2048. Through the stories of four young people, we learn what happened to Israel in the last hundred years and if it is the same Israel we […] >>
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Daniela (16) and Ohad (17) are determined to make their dream come true – win the World Kickboxing Youth Championship. Along with the demanding lifestyle required in professional sports, their studies and matriculation that require dedication and time, they also have to face strong opposition and pressure from their traditional Caucasian families, who disagree with […] >>
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At night, Keren is unable to fall asleep against the backdrop of her husband’s moans of pain. She leaves him with Lior, their son, and goes for a night stroll around the city. >>
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A fascinating story of bereavement and mysticism, FOG tells of the quest to unravel the fate of a missing soldier. First Sergeant Mu’in Halabi disappeared at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War during an abortive IDF attempt to conquer Mount Hermon from the Syrians in October 1973. Two weeks later the IDF announced that […] >>
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Decades after the Holocaust, many survivors still bear vivid memories of the trauma they experienced. This film follows the lives of a group of survivors who have stayed long-term in the Psycho-Geriatric Ward of the Abarbanel Mental Health Center. G. is like a robot, unable to stop working; H. continues to clean the bathrooms and […] >>
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A group of Palestinian tourists on a three-day sightseeing trip to Israel. The tourists come from the Occupied Territories. The windows of the bus open up onto an unknown portrait of Israel. And looking from the outside in, we get an unusual glimpse into the very heart of Palestinian society. Filmed in 2000, just months […] >>
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“Southern Winds” is a short drama that takes place on the beach of Israel and portrays the complex relationship between a father, the local legendary surfer and his only son, who hasn’t seen him in over a year. It’s about big dreams, small Mediterranean waves, and one father who tries to save the one good […] >>
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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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Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: When concerned people living abroad ask me what will be, I tell them I’m about to have a son, and that they should ask him when he grows up. Although he’ll probably tell them to ask the next generation. A sort of cautious optimism for the coming fifty years. >>
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A man learns from a Moroccan fortune-teller that his sister is about to die. Together, they embark upon a fictional journey in an attempt to alter the prediction, revisiting the past and the present to defy an implacable future. But the prophecy still shadows them – as in life, so in cinema. Black Notebooks – […] >>
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Ruchama, an elderly and devoted wife, tries to maintain a normal life for her and her paralyzed husband in Tel Aviv. A French tourist by the name of Piere reminds her of all she has given up on for the sake of her marriage. She is swept away for a moment, but having re-discovered her […] >>
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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 […] >>