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Decades after the Holocaust, many survivors still bear vivid memories of the trauma they experienced. This film follows the lives of a group of survivors who have stayed long-term in the Psycho-Geriatric Ward of the Abarbanel Mental Health Center. G. is like a robot, unable to stop working; H. continues to clean the bathrooms and […] >>
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Tala (33) is a quirky musician and a newly single mother. To support her baby daughter, she is forced to take a job at the Milky Way, a repository for mother’s milk where women can pump and sell their breast milk. It’s an awkward set up, but everything could work out fine if only Tala […] >>
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Following the fall of the Soviet Union, Jewish Russian immigrants began arriving to Israel daily by the hundreds. Alice Neiman arrived in Israel on October 26th, 1990, at the age of twenty with 750 others seeking a new life. A decade later, she examines to what extent the hopes and fears of some of those […] >>
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Oren Levi is struggling to find his place in the world. Born in Guatemala and adopted by an Israeli couple as a baby, Oren had a troublesome childhood despite all the love and support of his family. Misdiagnosed with autism and mental illness, put into a psychiatric ward after a suicide attempt, he found it […] >>
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In his journeys to save Yiddish libraries and cultural treasures from destruction, Mandy Kahan visits the homes of the last Yiddish speakers, and gives their favorite books a home in the center he established at the central bus station in Tel Aviv. The film will tell the story of a dying culture through the hopeless […] >>
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Yoni is a 7-year-old girl who lives in Kibbutz Merhavia in the late 60’s. She doesn’t cope well with the communal sleeping in the children’s home. During bedtime, Yoni’s mother kisses her goodnight and goes out. Yoni lies in bed and can’t sleep. Out of the shadows creep the Havzuls. Fear overcomes Yoni and she […] >>
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This film follows the Goren family over a period of 15 years as they are removed from the fishing village in the Israeli settlement of Dugit, located on the north of the Gaza Strip, near the Israeli border. In 1984 the Israeli government designated this area to establish a fishing village until it was dismantled […] >>
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What makes a hero? What is heroism? Against all odds, what compels someone to maintain his/her integrity, go against the grain and fight for what is just? In this documentary, director Yoav Shamir sets out on an entertaining and insightful international travelogue, exploring the notion of heroism. In a journey spanning three years, Yoav travels […] >>
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Since she was a little girl, Daniella fantasied of becoming a professional basketball player. Now her dream is closer then ever, scouts from the national league are about to visit her school. Although she knows that they are only interested in the boys she is determined to be noticed and get her chance at advancing […] >>
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The film “Ben David” tells the story of the complex relationship between a religious Israeli Secret Service officer, and his teenage settler informant. The film present the difficulties in recruiting ISA (‘Shabak’) source from the ‘Hilltop Youth’ for information about ‘price tag’, while presenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a new angle, as an internal conflict […] >>
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The last three weeks in Lena’s (99) life cast light on her complicated relationship with her daughter, Miri (75). Miri came to Israel to say goodbye, after learning that her mother disinherited her. Will this last visit be able to mend their relationship, with the shadows of more than 70 years looming behind? >>
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At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply “Ghetto,” this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a […] >>
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The film is a journey that follows the observation diaries written by Amit Geffen – a young bird-watcher. The diaries beautifully and elaborately describe the observations he conducted from his childhood until his death at 21 from a rare disease. Why would a young boy, who knows that his days are numbered, choose to dedicate […] >>
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Michal Ben Horin reveals her childhood secrets. Through a personal film archive in which she holds private conversations with the world’s most psychopathic criminals, including Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez – The Night Stalker who murdered 18 people, Lynette Fromme – a member of the Manson family and the woman who tried to assassinate President Ford, […] >>


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