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In the heart of a bustling intersection, a Palestinian girl named Sila finds herself begging within the borders of Israel to support her family. There, she encounters Yusuf, whose presence threatens her livelihood. Despite her attempts to drive him away, an unexpected bond forms between them, rooted in their shared struggles. >>
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Mindy, A shy nerdy young girl, is trying to catch a star. While she looks at the sky, her neighbor watches her. From here on starts a competition between the two that will make the main character learn an important lesson about friendship. >>
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A week before her wedding, 28-year-old Ada was diagnosed with ovarian and uterine cancer. In light of their new reality, Ada and her husband Vlad learn how to maintain a loving and healthy relationship, albeit the difficulty following the diagnosis of the disease. Despite everything Ada continues to choose life. >>
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Aya awaits her husband at the airport’s arrivals hall, but following an innocent mix-up, she pickes up a complete stranger instead. An immediate sense of intimacy sparks between the two, but ends abruptly when the man disappears, leaving Aya with a key to his hotel room and a yearning that perhaps only a complete stranger […] >>
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At the age of 75, Geula breaks up with her husband Arik, 77. A contractor is hired to build a wall that divides the family house in two, and each of them now lives in their own half. Director Shai Gal points his camera to his parents in an attempt to find out what happened […] >>
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The Dead Sea. Among the masses of tourists vacationing are disabled veterans, entitled to a state-funded retreat. A journey to the body and soul of those who were hanging between life and death, located in the lowest place on earth. >>
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The yellow gate, which stands at the entrance to every kibbutz, was in the past a symbol of security and protection. Through conversations with the guards at the gate, we are exposed to thoughts about the unstable reality and the feeling that at any moment something might happen. Will the gate be able to protect […] >>
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Three soldiers are ambushed while returning to their post. They manage to escape and hide in the home of a Palestinian couple while they await their rescue team. Hostility and lack of communication prevail between the soldiers and the couple, until a small detail is revealed which helps them find common ground. The two sides […] >>
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In 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, an Israeli paratroop company was ordered to guard hundreds of Lebanese war prisoners for 10 hours. #Schoolyard: An Untold Story is the anatomy of a murder – the step by step, blow by blow, memory by memory chronicle of a horrible moment in Israeli military history. >>
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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 […] >>
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The film follows Azmi, 56, who recovered drug addict, who was imprisoned for drug trafficking, and was released from jail, with connections and knowledge, which led him to pursue a life of crime for many years. Then, he decided to own up to his drug problem, clean up and leave the life of crime. Instead […] >>
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A patholog’s daily routine is being interrupted when he encounters a body in his image. >>
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THE DEVIL NEXT DOOR is the true story of John Demjanjuk, a retired Ukrainian-American autoworker living a peaceful life with his family in Cleveland, Ohio suburbs in the 1980s. When a group of Holocaust survivors identify Demjanjuk’s photograph as “Ivan the Terrible” – a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard who tortured and killed nearly […] >>
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Leisure (Veronica) opens with a long shot lingering on Seurat’s famous work identified with pointillism: “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of a Grande Jatte” (1884). The camera focuses on the neck of a girl whose torso shows the tattooed name “Veronica”, calling to mind the name of the saint Veronica, who mopped the sweat […] >>


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