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To Be Like Avi is the coming-of-age story of three friends, refugees who fled Africa and left their families behind. They study in the Galilee and dream of following in the footsteps of Avi (formally Ibrahim), the only refugee who somehow obtained an Israeli citizenship and enlisted in the IDF. The film follows them during […] >>
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A chronicle of a death unforetold. After his brain stroke a daughter tries to make her father into a filmmaker and a parent once again, while unknowingly documenting his last years. A film about the fragility of the father figure evolves into a story on the power of clinging to life through a shared act […] >>
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Osher, Michelle, and Eitan were taken out of their homes as children and transferred to foster families. Their biological families are dysfunctional and absent. The foster families are supportive and stable, but this guardianship ends at age 18. The film follows the three over the last year of foster care and the first year of […] >>
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Yotam Regev, a teenage boy and the son of the Mayor, is waiting alone in a room at the local police station. A youth interrogator enters and Yotam starts describing the incidents leading to his arrest, all revolving around his attempt to court a girl, following his father’s somewhat militant teachings. When Yotam’s father abruptly […] >>
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A violent crime leads us through a fascinating journey back in time from Africa to modern Israel, as we follow the hopes, frustrations and daily struggles of two Ethiopian women. The film tells the stories of Abuna Vessa, mother of five, who was strangled to death by her husband; and Ania Matiko, whose husband fails […] >>
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When my father, Meir Ariel, got into the Medical Cannabis Industry he never realized that after nine years he will be struggling to build the first production logistics factory of medical cannabis in Israel.And so, our family found itself joining my father’s dream and taking key roles in the company.This movie follows my father at […] >>
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One year inside the women’s section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the biggest confessional in the world. The director, a woman who is breaking-up her marriage, documents the dramatic year in her personal life, juxtaposing phone conversations she has with her husband, family and friends, with occurrences at this unique and volatile site. Wall is a double portrait […] >>
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Ronen didn’t planned to steal the Torah scroll that night. He’s about to become a father and decides to go ahead and try to sell the stolen goods. This night is going to be a bumpy journey of faith – and of fatherhood. >>
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1,2,3,4 Adolf Hitler At My Door
Tami, an Israeli Journalist, travels to Germany to interview Israelis who have chosen to live there: Dr. Ruth Hertz, a judge in Colonge, Dr. Yoram Levi, a plastic surgeon in Garmisch, Naomi Tereza Salmon, a photographer in Weimar, and Prof. Michael Wolffsohn, a history lecturer at the German army Officers’ Academy in Munich. While Tami […] >>
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This video art piece connects two distinct processes: the humanization of virtual forms, and the process of human motion capture technologies, which is a virtual movement that is disguised as “organic.” The video follows an interview with a psychologist working at a company aiming to investigate how virtual bots can be made human-like. This interview is […] >>
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In 1946, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, the longest serving commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, is awaiting trial in a Polish prison. Albert, a young and successful Polish investigation judge, is appointed to interrogate Höss and get a perfect confession out of him. The encounter between the two men will unveil the frightening routine and banalization […] >>
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People all over the world post video clips online. They cram their video notes into virtual bottles and toss them into the boundless ocean that is the Internet. All they want is for someone to find the hidden treasure and to be seen. Samantha (38) lives in New Orleans and works as a caregiver. She […] >>
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Spring time. The desert sheds its winter foliage, obeying summer’s reign. The local Awassi sheep shearing season has arrived. Khadra Al Sana steps into her pickup truck on her way to oversee the sheep shearing process in the Negev. Shepherd after shepherd, flock after flock. Six months later, Khadra will return to the heart of […] >>