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The day in the life of Adi, a young woman trying to survive a disastrous day. She’s late for work, a pipe in her flat bursts, the dog pees on the floor and she fights with her manager at work. Her emotional instability leads to chaotic and devastating choices. Exhausted from medication and shrinks, Adi […] >>
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Three prophets of rage offer three economic revolutions to restore Israeli society When you look forward on Israeli society, are you optimistic or pessimistic? Do you believe that women & man in Israel will ever reach true economic equality? Do you think Israeli economy is in good or bad shape? Can it be improved? What […] >>
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Pole dancing may have started in strip clubs, but over the past few years it has won international recognition as an art form, a sport and a means of empowering women. Director Isri Halpern follows Neta Lee Levy, the founder of Israel’s first pole dancing studio, as she competes for the European title. He discovers […] >>
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The Story of the Israeli women’s national football team. In the first game of the season Noam is injured. Her ADHD and losses on the football field discourage her. Opal, her team mate, realizes that expectations from her religious family may interrupt her professional aspirations. An important upcoming tournament in Russia prompts the girls to […] >>
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A dance film showing Tatiana, a 76-year-old resident of Sderot, who immigrated to Israel from Moscow. she goes to the market twice a week and has to carry the full bags on her own. The film illustrates her fantasy to be free. >>
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Over the nearly seven decades of its existence, the Mossad has cultivated its image as a daring, all-powerful intelligence agency for which no ‘mission impossible’ exists. This four part documentary brings to the screen for the first time the stories of 24 former spy-chiefs and operatives and with them a first-person perspective of the personal […] >>
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Paula, a 79-year-old Holocaust survivor, is pushed by her only son to move into an old people’s home. She doesn’t want to give up her home and independence and finds a young Polish woman named Valentina to stay with her and help her around. But Valentina brings back memories from Paula’s youth in Poland. Her […] >>
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Almost ten thousand Palestinians, designated by the Israeli government as “Security Prisoners,” are incarcerated in Israel today. Most Israelis consider them murderers and criminals, but most Palestinians regard them as freedom fighters. Granted rare permission to film inside the country’s highest security facilities, Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan shows everyday prison life, including biweekly family visits, […] >>
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Israel Bar-On, a past winner of the Israeli version of “American Idol”, sets out on a journey back to the music industry and the limelight. >>
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When high school ends and adulthood begins, Benjamin and Joshua Israel, two identical twins of Jewish origin, start feeling burdened and without a future. Being in your twenties and having a sassy attitude is not enough if you have an intellectual disability and the world makes it hard for you to fit in. Joshua would […] >>
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Two years ago a prison revolt was brutally suppressed by Warden Ronny Lefkowitz and his guards. Beersheba Prison now seems quiet, but sounds of discontent still seethe among the inmates. Lefkowitz is about to retire and the appointment of his successor, Shlomo Twizer, raises tensions and expectations among the prisoners and guards. Twizer grew up […] >>
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The story of a couple giving birth to a stillborn baby. From this moment, begins their long journey in a parallel world, facing their sorrow and facing the life that continues around them. An abstract journey, in their inner world, from the loss of this long-awaited child, to its setting in the ground and the […] >>