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When her ex-best friend – with whom she hasn’t spoken in two years – is about to get married – Yael (24) decides to attend her bachelorette party. During the party, old tensions arise until the inevitable explosion. >>
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David Fisher, the director of this film, lost his parents one after the other, leaving him and his four siblings with a 45-year-old mystery. For two years he’s been searching for his sister, who was taken as a day-old infant from his mother’s bed in the maternity hospital. His parents, both Holocaust survivors, arrived in […] >>
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When Zina immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union, she envisioned her son settling down with a blonde-haired Jewish girl. Her vision is suddenly shattered when Gennady announces plans to marry his girlfriend of four years, Nurit, an immigrant from Ethiopia. Now Zina attempts to prevent her son from committing what she believes will […] >>
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The practices of purity and impurity are the hallmarks of mandatory law and practice in the Samaritan community and the Ethiopian community. The film looks at the Niddah customs in both communities, as we meet protagonists Yafit (47) and Mollya (44). They bring us into their homes and share their experiences of the rituals of […] >>
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Part of “Moments, Israel 2002” : We will be better and stronger if we pose questions, rather than wallowing in the vain belief that we already know – or that what we don’t already know isn’t worth discovering. >>
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Passing time fills a central role in The Way Home. Using old 8 mm. films and an intimate portrayal of the significant events in his personal life over the last fifteen years, director Tomer Heymann (It Kinda Scares Me, Paper Dolls, Bridge Over the Wadi), reveals a charged and surprising emotional world. Shooting with a […] >>
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How does it feel to have been pregnant or nursing for 25 out of 26 years of your married life? This and other questions are posed for the first time in this film as they expose the consequences of the commandment “be fruitful and multiply” upon the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman. The man is commanded to […] >>
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While researching footage for a documentary, an Israeli archive researcher comes across a few tapes titled “Loot.” Why are they there? To whom do they belong? In 1982, The Israeli army invaded Beirut. A film archive of the PLO’s filming unit, containing hundreds of hours of raw materials, disappeared. “SHALAL” is a story of a […] >>
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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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In a luxurious furniture store in the small town of Weimar, human beings are trying out Bauhaus chairs. In-between customers, signs of life re-emerge from the past. >>
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The film brings for the first time the story of the Israeli radio station Beit Shidir. With the establishment of the State of Israel and the immigration of Jews from Arab countries, the radio station was an active site for producing intelligence and political warfare against Arab countries in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. From […] >>
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Tzipora And Rachel Are Not Dead
After 30 years of failed efforts, Tahel (Rachel at birth) finally persuades her sister Tzipora to leave Abarbanel Psychiatric Hospital and move in with her. Together, the two sisters challenge and dismantle language – both verbal and cinematic – until once again it becomes a tool they can use to speak the silence, the oblivion, […] >>
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Noni and Tamar live a quiet life with their little girl. One evening, they hear screams in the street and Noni opens the window and asks for silence. After a brief moment, they hear someone knocking at their door. Two young men, drunk and nervous, enter the room. >>
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The film tells the story of the world of Israeli journalism – an industry now in deep crisis – from a unique point of view. Through the stories of two photojournalists, Eli Hershkovitz (Haaretz) and Eddie Israel (Maariv). Both reside in the south of Israel. Hershkovitz and Israel are both trying to survive their dying […] >>