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After a scholar’s immense investment in his life’s work, he is shaken to discover that another creator preceded him. The film focuses on the emotional upheaval experienced by the creator, and touches on existential questions, about value and uniqueness, by interweaving the story of the creator, with an ancient legend about the diminishment of the […] >>
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One night, while delivering pizza to a middle-aged man, Ariel, a teenager, spots Olimpia, a hyper-realistic woman-like sex doll lying on the bed. He tells his friends (a boy and a girl) and they decide to steal Olimpia. Soon after, they’re drawn into a youthful game that quickly spirals out of control. >>
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When her ex-best friend – with whom she hasn’t spoken in two years – is about to get married – Yael (24) decides to attend her bachelorette party. During the party, old tensions arise until the inevitable explosion. >>
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House calls are routine for Rita, a nurse working for Social Security. Mali, a young trainee, joins her and Rita is determined to pass on her philosophy on how to get the job done. At the end of the day, after an emotionally charged visit in the afternoon, Rita decides to make one last visit, […] >>
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On Purim 1994, Dr. Baruch Goldstein fired 119 bullets at a group of Arab worshippers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. The horrible massacre motivated Prime Minister Rabin’s government to ban the “Kach” and “Kahane Chai” movements. However, Israel’s extreme right reorganized immediately to oppose the peace process, culminating with Yigal Amir shooting three bullets, […] >>
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Tamar Ariel grew up in a religious home on a moshav in southern Israel. Encouraged to follow her dreams, she did a two years voluntary National Service and then joined the IDF air force, where she served as the first-ever Jewish Orthodox combat navigator. In 2014, wishing for new experiences after her military service, she […] >>
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Dima and his family are forced to move out of their apartment, where they’ve been living for 20 years, ever since migrating from Russia. Where their house currently stands, a new residential tower is going to be built. >>
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Footsteps in Jerusalem is a tribute to David Perlov and to his 1963 revolutionary film “In Jerusalem”, made a few years before the ‘67 War. The film, which won the bronze medal at the Venice Film Festival in 1963, was produced at a time when Jerusalem was divided between Jordan and Israel by “no-man’s land” […] >>
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Can the means used to resolve the conflict in South Africa be applied to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? As someone who experienced both conflicts firsthand, Robi Damelin wonders about this. Born in South Africa during the apartheid era, she later lost her son, who was serving with the Israeli Army reserve in the Occupied Territories. At […] >>
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To this day, only sixteen people in the world have earned the title of World Chess Champion. Boris Gelfand of Rishon LeZion was the first Israeli to compete for the title. All his life Boris prepared for the occasion. From the age of six, he was raised to be a chess champion. His father devoted […] >>
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Seventy years after his grandfather escapes from Nazi Germany to Palestine, Israeli documentary filmmaker Tomer Heymann returns to the country of his ancestors to present his film Paper Dolls at the Berlin International Film Festival, and there meets a man who will change his life. This 48-hour love affair develops into a significant relationship between […] >>
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Tali, a single mom, finds out her bank account is blocked. The kindergarten payment fell through and her daughter is banned. She is lost between call centers, until she decides to gain back some self-respect. She takes her daughter to the call center of the insurance company that screwed her. >>
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Grandma Rivka is forced to leave her home and memories to move in with her children and grandchildren. She finds the transition unbearable, but her family shows her love and sensitivity as they lead her toward a new life, where there is room for memories as well. >>
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He drew sketches on tiny pieces of paper and sent them, from the trenches, to a young cellist who was waiting for him in Berlin. She thought he was a genius, and after WW1 she helped him become the busiest architect in Germany. When she planned to leave him for a communist poet, he built […] >>