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Short:Long – A Tribute to Israeli Cinema
A tribute to Israeli cinema upon reaching its 80th anniversary. A unique artistic project of young, vibrant filmmaking, which stems from Israel’s cinematic past. 9 Young filmmakers showcased 8 short films, inspired by local classics.This homages bring together the next generation of Israeli cinema with past legends such as Uri Zohar, Savi Gabizon, Boaz Davidson, Raffi […] >>
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Hybrid film, combining both fiction and documentary. The story of three good friends, homelessness, from the suburbs of Israel, that decided to go to a trip to The big city Tel-Aviv in order to fulfill their dreams. >>
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Dasi, an Ultra-Orthodox woman, makes a pact with God – she will donate a kidney to a stranger and in return, her daughter will mend her ways. But she is put to the test – just before the surgery, she discovers that the recipient is an Arab woman. >>
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The Material That Love Is Made Of
In the winter of 1992, a New York scientist isolated the material that love is made of: it is an unbelievable hormonal matter composed of three chemical elements. Ten years after that discovery, director Ari Folman goes out on a two-year journey in an attempt to investigate the material love is made of, as it […] >>
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Pole dancing may have started in strip clubs, but over the past few years it has won international recognition as an art form, a sport and a means of empowering women. Director Isri Halpern follows Neta Lee Levy, the founder of Israel’s first pole dancing studio, as she competes for the European title. He discovers […] >>
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Yosef and Bracha married when they were 12 in Sana`a, Yemen and lived together for close to 70 years. Yosef became absorbed in his books, while Bracha took care of the needy. Before he dies, Rabbi Yosef Kapach hands his granddaughter Einat, director of the film, a bundle of pages which uncover a secret he […] >>
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The tragic story of an Ultra Orthodox family. The film enters into the inner world of the believer faced with the silence of God. The story unfolds during three days of preparations for a longed-for trip to the Dead Sea, during an intimate and poetic journey to the protagonist’s world and the wishes of his […] >>
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Paris 1962. Oded is 12 years old when his father reveals to him he’s a secret agent for the Israeli Mossad and makes him swear to secrecy because his life depends on it. When his father leaves on his mission to Cairo assuming the identity of Wolfgang Lotz – a German millionaire, ex Nazi, playboy […] >>
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China is one of the first countries in the world to label overuse of the Internet a clinical condition. To combat what authorities deem the greatest social crisis for youth today, the Chinese government has created treatment facilities to detox and cure teenagers of their addictions to online life. But what starts out as an […] >>
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The Life and Death of Anna Lysis
Anna Lysis is a drag queen who meets different men over the course of one night. Some approach her; Some she flirts with. At the end of the night, all encounters unite and raise questions about trauma, identity, and repression. >>
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When Bashir, a 75-year-old artist, watches the film Rambo III, he sees much more than Sylvester Stallone fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan. In the mute and grainy desert background, Bashir sees the Negev Desert in the south of Israel and a document of his dispossessed tribal land. In the 80s, he was hired to […] >>
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Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: When concerned people living abroad ask me what will be, I tell them I’m about to have a son, and that they should ask him when he grows up. Although he’ll probably tell them to ask the next generation. A sort of cautious optimism for the coming fifty years. >>
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The Kiryat Moshe neighborhood on the outskirts of Rehovot is home to a large Jewish Ethiopian community. Nowadays a national priority construction evacuation project guarantees the residents a safe exit from the neglected and poor ghetto. Hana, a single mother who is worried about her teenage son, jumps at the opportunity for a change that […] >>
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When my dying mother, Alegria, asks me, Meirav , a former detective, to stop the curse on the family, and on my brother Victor, I give her my word. My mother doesn’t remember that the curse already took my brother’s life. As I try to understand what this terrible thing was that my grandfather Victor […] >>
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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 […] >>