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What happened to the worn sofa we discarded after our visit to Ikea? What became of the kitchen dishes we left by the dumpster? Cast-Offs depicts the journey of discarded items from the heart of consumerist Israel to the periphery and the Palestinian Authority, where they come back to life. The film exposes an underworld […] >>
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Eliav is a young commander in the Jewish Underground in 1947. But his real name is Yosef, and he is the last descendant of his family, who all perished in the Holocaust. Yosef suffers from survivor’s guilt and concentration camp syndrome, which brought him to change his identity. Yaakov, a childhood friend of Yosef makes […] >>
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A love story between Yuli, a young woman who suffers from anxiety and doesn’t go outside and Adam- the ghost who haunts her place. >>
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How does the world look through a 6 years old child’s eyes? The movie “Summer Nights” offers a window into a child’s world. A window to his fears, his desires, his way of thinking. A journey into the subconscious of an innocent and ingenuous child, while he drifts into the depths of his own mind. >>
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In a technologically saturated world, a young Jerusalemite with a longing for human contact and addiction to screens, goes on a digital journey in search of a mysterious girl with whom he is in contact only through digital means and loses his identity online. >>
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Yonatan is asked to come see his grandmother on her deathbed with his judgmental older brother. On their nightly train ride the two siblings turn against each other, as the looming encounter with death threatens to tear down Yonatan’s walls of apathy. >>
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In April 2002, following a series of Palestinian terror attacks in Israeli cities, the IDF invaded the West Bank with heavy forces in order to destroy Palestinian terror bases. The operation, known as Defensive Shield, lasted 40 days during which Palestinian sources mislead the world with false Information about thousands of casualties and about a […] >>
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In a deserted military company, far from any jurisdiction, the midget digit is all that matters! Shechter, a newbie soldier tries every way to earn his long waited seniority. But when Levi, his company “buddy”, gets the title before he does, Shechter enters a demonic race of washing dishes to prove his justify eligibility. In […] >>
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Ever since Europe closed its gates to African refugees, thousands of Eritreans have fled the brutal dictatorship in their homeland and traveled north, to Israel. Many were seized by Bedouin smugglers as they crossed the Sinai desert. They are now held in camps and tortured until they pay a ransom. This film follows Eritrean radio […] >>
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A 12 year old girl, must complete a family history assignment for school. The boring task slowly becomes a sweeping drama embodying many secrets during three generations of one family, beginning before the Second World War, continuing as Holocaust refugees and ending with the fall of the collective kibbutz idealism. What does this heavy historical […] >>
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Anver Shahaf’s work, Dream, is based on a technique devised by the Surrealist Movement-the “exquisite corpse.” In this method, a group of people draws together an image of a person. Each member discreetly draws, in turn, a different part of the human body and then folds the paper over leaving only the edge of his […] >>
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17-year-old Gil hates his life in the village he lives in. He lives with his Father, Avishai, and his 10-year-old brother, Yuval, who he blames for their parents’ divorce. He dreams of joining the army as a combatant, as an excuse to escape his life. One night, the brothers have an ugly fight about a […] >>
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This film intimately documents the life of Palestinian men living in hiding in the hills surrounding the Israeli city of Modi’in. With unprecedented access, the film portrays life in the hideout of these young men, focusing on Ahmad (19) and Muhammad (20), as they provide for their families. The harsh conditions of being “illegal” workers […] >>