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The West Bank and Gaza Strip have been under Israeli military authority since 1967, forcing over three million Palestinians to live under Israeli occupation. When traveling from one village or city to another to go to work, visit relatives, or seek medical care, they must pass through Israeli checkpoints. These checkpoints, acting as the first […] >>
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For the last thirty years David Talker has been father, heart, and soul of the cricket team Dimona Champions. He dreams of building the first cricket field in Israel, but his dream comes with a high price tag. Now that his team is about to fall apart he gazes courageously at his past and reconnects […] >>
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Twenty-six years after the iconic “Orna and Ella” restaurant opened in Tel Aviv, having become a celebrated culinary institution, Orna Agmon and Ella Shine decided to close their shared life’s work. During the restaurant’s final week, director Tomer Heymann—who worked there for six years and for whom it was much more than just a workplace—documents […] >>
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From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to Lemon popsicle – 1978. The Sabbath is a few hours away. Victor, a confirmed ultra-Orthodox Jew, is stuck in cosmopolitan Tel Aviv after missing the last bus home. Seeking to find his way out, he encounters a different everyday reality that evokes long forgotten […] >>
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Daniel, an Israeli film director, prepares for his debut premiere at a prestigious New York film festival, only to discover that his girlfriend’s ex, Amir, a big-shot Israeli director, is also in the competition. >>
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“A journey through Kabbalah, heroin, chaos and redemption. For 10 years I’ve filmed my mother’s and my own life change dramatically. Mom, a holocaust survivor, married Rabbi Ashlag when she was 45 and he 40 years older. He taught her the secrets of Kabbalah and then passed away. Since then mom, Rebbetizin Faiga, has been […] >>
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When it comes to love, Roberta knows what she wants – and it’s not what she’s getting. One night she takes matters into her own hands. A comic fantasy starring two of the dance world’s most exciting performers. >>
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The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art’s plaza has always been a place where art and life meet. Even the museum’s own opening ceremony had a protest event organized in the plaza in front of it. Ever since its establishment, the museum plaza has been ground zero for artistic expression, protests and demonstrations. By studying the plaza’s […] >>
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“Death in Umm Al-Hiran”, tells one of the most shocking and significant stories that happened in Israel in the last decade, as it reveals the mechanisms behind the killing and defaming of Yaqoub Abu Al-Qia’an, a Bedouin teacher who died at the hands of the police during an eviction raid. For the first time, the […] >>
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The film reveals the story of the Jaradis, a Jewish Yemenite family, one of many that were brought from Yemen to the US by the Ultra orthodox Satmar Community which operates a propaganda machine against the immigration to Israel. The story exposes a deep cultural gap between the Yemenite families and the Yiddish Satmar Community […] >>
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A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature. >>
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Anat, a young woman, looks outside her bedroom window, Her grandfather, who passed away, appears outside the window and the city disappears. >>
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Gili dreams of becoming an independent woman. Noam, her husband, cannot possibly think of releasing his hold of her, he loves her to death. The film ‘Cheer Me Up’ reveals a 48-hour glimpse in the life of a family living in the shadow of domestic violence. >>


With the support of the Ministry of Culture - The Israel Film Council