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Yotam Regev, a teenage boy and the son of the Mayor, is waiting alone in a room at the local police station. A youth interrogator enters and Yotam starts describing the incidents leading to his arrest, all revolving around his attempt to court a girl, following his father’s somewhat militant teachings. When Yotam’s father abruptly […] >>
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Haim Hatuel started stabbing his kids at age 5. This is Delila and Maor Hatuel’s family childhood memory. They are now Israeli fencing champions. Haim Hatuel is a native of Morocco who arrived in Acre when he was 15 years old. A day after his release from the Israel Defense Forces, Haim saw an ad […] >>
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There’s always place for hate – the inconceivable story of a Nazi gang in Israel. The deceivingly peaceful Sea of Galilee is the backdrop of an inspiring story of violence, hope, and rebirth of one young man and the unexpected people who love him. In the 1990s a million former USSR Jews arrived in Israel. […] >>
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From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to The Dress – 1969. Thomas returns to his apartment to collect the last of his belongings. Encountering the new additions to his old roommate’s life, he reminisces upon their complex relationship and looks for closure. >>
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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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The Girl Who Didn’t Know What to Do
The solar system is shaking, a girl sheds a tear, and a monster is drinking blood. Childhood drawings and stories assemble the author’s personal diary. Phone calls with her grandmother raise questions about hereditary melancholy. >>
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A family of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel deals with the unexpected escape of its patriarch, Malkamo, back to his homeland. His duaghter-in-law Bunchi is left to care for her demented mother-in-law, her deceitful husband and their two adolescent daughters. When Malkamo unexpectedly returns to Israel, raising hopes and a promise of relief, Bunchi is forced […] >>
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Minkush, a young ultra-Orthodox Hasidic woman, struggles to reconcile conflicting desires, hoping to win her husband’s physical affection in a battle of love versus religious law. >>
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More than 16 years have passed since furrier Stefan Braun passed away, but for Eliezer Rath, his lover and life-partner for 39 years, Stefan’s heart is still beating. Day in and day out he sits in Stefan’s room which hasn’t been touched since Stefan passed away, recording himself talking to him. Eliezer has recorded hundreds […] >>
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Not everyone has time to die. Yael did. The director met her ten years after their first encounter, after which they drifted apart. Now, as a new, scared patient in the Oncology ward, Yael, an old hand, showed her a way through the darkness. Yael didn’t use her time for ‘bigger than life’ experiences. Rather, […] >>
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Following the involvement of two of his nephews in a terrorist attack, and the harsh reaction of the Israeli public to his new film, actor and director Mohammad Bakri visits the grave of Emil Habibi, a Palestinian politician and author and formerly Bakri’s mentor, to tell him about his life since Habibi’s death. Against the […] >>
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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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A shocking video of a double murder in Russia appeared on YouTube in 2007. The police investigation reached a dead end; two years later, director Vladi Antonevicz and his friend Dima “Shurabi” set off on a daring investigation of their own. Snooping around the darkest crevices of Russia’s neo-Nazi underground, they are determined to find […] >>
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Late night, September 1997, a force of the commando marches into a deadly ambush in Lebanon. 11 of them are killed, the body of one remains behind – my brother, Itamar. 25 years after Itamar was killed, his sister, director Aya Elia, goes back to observe the bereavement rituals in Israel. “Knock on the Door” […] >>