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This is Millie’s story, the story of a young woman dealing with the pain and loss that have tormented her since the prenatal death of her twin sister. On her birthday, Millie is drawn through her birthday cake into the depths of her memory. This journey exposes her coming of age process in the shadow […] >>
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In December 2010, a man was found dead in one of Israel’s maximum-security prisons. The guards did not know his name, nor what crime he had committed. He was only known as “Prisoner X.” When the story broke two years later, the suicide of this anonymous Mossad agent revealed the agency’s faults, failures and systematic […] >>
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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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Diana, Ilana, Rona, Shelly, Rucha and Liat openly speak about their life in prostitution: from the initial lure, through learning the rules, to survival strategies. They present stories of independence, resourcefulness, pain and trauma, expressing an extreme feminine and human experience. Michaela (pseudonym) – a young woman currently engaged in prostitution, sounds off on the […] >>
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Amid her remarkable career as a world champion in Thai boxing, Nili faces the sacrifices of personal dreams such as love and family, along with a journey to shape her identity beyond the ring. Those around her, who in many ways live in the shadow of her success, struggle to see the price she pays […] >>
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A visual cinematic tribute to the poems of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. This project includes a collection of short video clips that vocally and visually illustrate the songs of one of the greatest Israeli poets of all time, Yehuda Amichai, who past away on September 22, 2000. Artists from different fields have joined the project […] >>
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Sima Shimony, age 69, embarks on a mission to find her friends and staff from the “ALYN” Institute for Children with Disabilities, that was situated in the secluded San-Simon monastery on a hilltop in Jerusalem, in the 1960s. Armed with a small camera attached to her wheelchair she sets on a journey across the country […] >>
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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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Sonia meets the love of her life, Ariel, the Jewish Agency volunteer. She follows him to Israel and they start a secret relationship until Sonia has finally converted to Judaism. There are many obstacles in their path. Will Sonia find herself in Israel? The search for a Home begins. >>
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A phone call wakes me up early in the morning. My older brother got into trouble. Again. After another entanglement, I realize that I can no longer ignore the problems that follow him around, and which seem to be taking over my life. I use the camera to get answers from my family and a […] >>
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My small and once close-knit has fallen apart. My father became religious, my mother converted to Christianity, my sister married a non-Jewish man and now my father hates her and won’t have anything to do with her or her daughters; I escaped all this and fled to Israel. After my divorce, I decided to return […] >>
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The army’s field observers play a significant role in managing hostile security incidents and preventing them, but sometimes they are “transparent”, they deal with tough situations, without receiving any mental support. The film, which was shot before Oct 7th, is about six female observers who share stories from their army service, among them is also […] >>
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In the winter of 1941 on the banks of the Danube, one thousand Viennese Jews wait for their fate to be determined by Mossad agents in a hotel room in Istanbul. Originally, filmmaker Nachum Laufer intended to tell the story of how he fled from Europe with his mother. However, while researching, he came across […] >>


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