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“Warm snow” is an animation short about the relationship between a father and his grown up daughter. It starts out in an ordinary situation with the father and daughter sitting at the kitchen table. The daughter is waiting for her food to get warm and is annoyed by her father’s questions and suggestions. The situation […] >>
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On the morning of his daughter’s birthday, Natan (73) decides to throw a big party. He wakes Hagar (69) and expects her to get up and help organize. They start the morning organizing the house for a party, hanging balloons and baking a cake. When hagar can’t find any strawberries for the cake, Natan volunteers […] >>
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While researching footage for a documentary, an Israeli archive researcher comes across a few tapes titled “Loot.” Why are they there? To whom do they belong? In 1982, The Israeli army invaded Beirut. A film archive of the PLO’s filming unit, containing hundreds of hours of raw materials, disappeared. “SHALAL” is a story of a […] >>
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Surni, 14, wakes up to the first day without her love, Eli. She is in an Israeli absorption center. She keeps her eyes and ears closed, she won’t leave her bed, she just tries to shut out her new reality and pretend she never left Ethiopia. Her family attempts to get her out of bed. […] >>
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Itzik is the proud father of young twins. Conceiving seemed an impossible task, but after fifteen years of trying, his wife Ruthie got pregnant. She was already in her mid-fifties, while he approached 70. Suddenly, their home is flooded with joy. Despite their meager means and late entry into parenthood, they are able to provide […] >>
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Nadav Bin-Nun’s work, [%#@!^ &*:)^%(, presents an unstable world where the borders between reality and fiction, inside and outside, mother and son are blurred. Television infiltrates reality with recorded sound effects that pervade the living room, whereas the grey and bleak reality ominously and confusingly invades into the televised fiction. >>
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Noni and Tamar live a quiet life with their little girl. One evening, they hear screams in the street and Noni opens the window and asks for silence. After a brief moment, they hear someone knocking at their door. Two young men, drunk and nervous, enter the room. >>
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This is the story of four Ultra-Orthodox women, who dared to shout “we won’t be silenced!”. Through their revolution, we are able to get a glimpse into this very closed community, which has a very clear code of silence with regard to sexuality in general, and sexual assault in particular. The world of each of […] >>
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Two professional dancers around the age of 30, lose touch with who they are. Their childhood dreams have been fulfilled and now they are left with a sense of emptiness. The film follows their internal journey to find a new anchor that will give them their lost confidence back. >>
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The film tells the story of the world of Israeli journalism – an industry now in deep crisis – from a unique point of view. Through the stories of two photojournalists, Eli Hershkovitz (Haaretz) and Eddie Israel (Maariv). Both reside in the south of Israel. Hershkovitz and Israel are both trying to survive their dying […] >>
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THE DEVIL NEXT DOOR is the true story of John Demjanjuk, a retired Ukrainian-American autoworker living a peaceful life with his family in Cleveland, Ohio suburbs in the 1980s. When a group of Holocaust survivors identify Demjanjuk’s photograph as “Ivan the Terrible” – a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard who tortured and killed nearly […] >>
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In a luxurious furniture store in the small town of Weimar, human beings are trying out Bauhaus chairs. In-between customers, signs of life re-emerge from the past. >>
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Vita Activa, The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
A personal spiritual biography of the Jewish philosopher, Hannah Arendt, who coined the controversial phrase “The Banality of Evil,” in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. The movie tracks the connections between her life story and her thinking, through rare archival footage demonstrating the Banality of Evil. Her Ideas on the nature of Evil, pluralism, Freedom, […] >>
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Tala (33) is a quirky musician and a newly single mother. To support her baby daughter, she is forced to take a job at the Milky Way, a repository for mother’s milk where women can pump and sell their breast milk. It’s an awkward set up, but everything could work out fine if only Tala […] >>
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A journey following a belief beginning with stars and ending in the Kibbutz. Over a decade ago, Alain left everything to live a spiritual life in Germany. One day he returns home. As the filmmaker gets closer to the grandfather she never had, she asks him to look at who was left behind. A fragile […] >>