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Located in the city of Rehovot lies the Marmorek neighborhood. Its Yemenite residents pride in the Hapoel Marmorek Soccer team with its director, Hanan Adani, 73. A veteran of many battles. Players and coaches alike have changed multiple times while he stays in a little room within the stadium dominating the group with an iron […] >>
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One night, one apartment and one mystery. A psychological drama set entirely during one night in one apartment in Tel Aviv. The apartment belongs to young couple Shir and Rami. Shir is woken up one evening by the doorbell. An angry neighbor hands over the dog Rami had taken out earlier in the evening. Rami […] >>
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Naomi Golan, daughter of producer and filmmaker Menachem Golan, travels to India following her father while he shoots “The Return from India” in hopes of repairing their troubled relationship. After many years of failed attempts, Naomi decides to talk to her father in the only language he understands – the language of film. She puts […] >>
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A visual poem about a wishy washy relationship, the yearning for childhood and a choir of girls. >>
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This cinematic adaptation of the award-winning play, “Arbeit Macht Frei”, accompanies the Acre Theater Group as it probes the innermost recesses of the Israeli psyche in the generation after the Holocaust. The film takes the viewer along the most difficult collective journey faced by Israeli society – the Holocaust – with an impact so sweeping […] >>
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A folkloristic fantasy that takes place during the Russian immigration to Israel in the 90’s. Elina is a young immigrant who lives with her grandma in a small desert town, trying to fit in with her peers and overcome her mother’s abandonment. Until a strange genetic phenomena interrupts – her body starts to grow feathers. […] >>
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Ilan is a drunk taxi driver On Valentine’s Day he decides to surprise his former lover with a bouquet of flowers but this time his lover will surprises him. >>
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This sociological journey back in time began over twenty years ago when several families were evicted from their homes. They got together and squatted in an abandoned building in Jaffa for two years. The children of all ages who lived there grew up around violence and poverty —but also solidarity. They saw the power of […] >>
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On the eastern skirts of Haifa sits Wadi Rushmia, a region of abandoned quarries from the days of the British Mandate. Throughout the generations this place has been home to a variety of immigrant populations, first to Jewish immigrants from North Africa and Eastern Europe and later from Ethiopia and Russia. Eventually, displaced Palestinian Arabs […] >>
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August 1st, 2009. An armed man bursts into the “Barnoar”, an LGBTQ+ center, and opens fire. The bullet that hit me, turned my life. 13 years later, I embark on a journey to revisit old wounds, deal with the trauma and talk with my family for the first time about that evening and the secrets […] >>
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The film documents the struggle of a middle-aged woman from Yavneh who sets out in search of her husband, Danny Sa’il, who was a member of the Israeli Black Panthers organization, and disappeared twenty years earlier under mysterious political circumstances. His wife, Mazal Sa’il, is considered an agunah under Jewish law and is forbidden from […] >>
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In the ultra-Orthodox community men are educated not to look at women or think about them and a girl practices modesty in clothing, actions and thoughts. Marriage requires complete strangers to suddenly encounter their partner for the first time in an intimate situation with only rudimentary information. According to Jewish law, they are required at […] >>
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Magdalena Kopp was married to the most wanted terrorist in the world – Carlos “the Jackal.” She followed him through the birth of international terrorism, of which he became the star. From the small conservative Bavarian town where she grew up, to the 68’ revolutionary zeitgeist of Berlin and the radical leftist cells of Frankfurt, […] >>


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