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Not everyone has time to die. Yael did. The director met her ten years after their first encounter, after which they drifted apart. Now, as a new, scared patient in the Oncology ward, Yael, an old hand, showed her a way through the darkness. Yael didn’t use her time for ‘bigger than life’ experiences. Rather, […] >>
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From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva Isolated in his faraway home near the Dead Sea, the filmmaker’s conciseness drifts through the desert with the aid of his camera drone, which broadcasts live images from the outside world. Now all he has to do is figure out what these images mean. >>
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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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The manual of mental disorders, the DSM, grows thicker with each new edition. There seem to be more and more psychiatric disorders, notes the maker of #AMiNORMAL, Mika Orr, whose father is a psychiatrist. In eight 15-minute episodes, the series takes a humorous and compassionate look at various disorders. People from all over the world […] >>
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A relationship between Dror, a deaf child, and his father, Moshik, who finds it difficult to accept his deafness. Moshik insists Dror goes to a school for hearing children, but Dror feels rejected and experiences bullying. Moshik doesn’t read the signals, even when Dror angrily breaks his precious hearing implant in protest. The rift between […] >>
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After Nazi forces take his father away, 11-year-old Emil must use the only two things he has left—creativity and imagination—as he embarks on a perilous journey to find his father. Inspired by the true coming-of-age story of a Holocaust survivor. >>
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“A family’s story is the starting point for a discussion of the moral and political ideas (and clichés) that shook Europe and the Middle East throughout the 20th Century and still reverberate today. The story begins in the 1930s in the Warsaw Pawiak Prison where Igal Bursztyn’s mother was incarcerated for illegal Communist activities. It […] >>
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A patholog’s daily routine is being interrupted when he encounters a body in his image. >>
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The film portrays the story of Safaa Dabour, a religious Muslim from Nazareth, struggling to fulfill her dream of personal independence and to establish a cinematheque in Nazareth, the first of its kind for the Arab population in Israel. Safaa’s father and husband both died while she was still a young mother of two boys […] >>
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Tamar, an ultra-Orthodox girl from an extremist community, is taken to the hospital by her beloved father, who thinks she has had sex. Her relationship with her father and her virginity are tested. >>
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Mount of Olives – overlooking Temple Mount and the absent Holy Temple. Tradition proclaims this is the closest point on earth to heavenly sanctity, and burial here ensures proximity to eternity. Yet among the tombs we find the living: those who have chosen this holy mount for their home, who have elected to live in […] >>
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Thousands of young Israelis join “The journey to Poland” each year to learn about the Holocaust. Looking into the journey through the videos they upload on YouTube reveals a moving and troubling image of the Israeli narrative and the way collective memory is formed in the web age. >>
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The flat, on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv, was where my grandparents lived since they immigrated to Palestine. Were it not for the view from the windows, one might have thought that the flat was in Berlin. There it was, furnished with heavy European pieces, with the best of German […] >>
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Five prominent Israeli poets present their POV on poetry, culture and life in a way never before seen. >>