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Zosia (12) and her sister Klara (5), live with their mother and grandfather Paweł in a Polish village. Grandpa Paweł adores his little granddaughter Klara, but his relationship with Zosia is more complicated. She is the one who questions his actions. It seems that under the disguise of a loving grandpa, hides a cruel racist […] >>
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Nominated for an Oscar®, the film is a deeply personal, first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. Shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel, the film was co-directed by Burnat and Guy […] >>
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January 1945, four forced laborers women, Estusia Wajcblum, Rosa Robota, Alla Gartner, Regina Safirstein were hanged in public, accused of sabotaging the Nazi war machine. Sabotage unfolds the unknown story of the women’s underground operation in Auschwitz-Birkenau. A story of feminine heroism, resistance, and tragedy, told through the eyes of Anna Wajcblum Heilman, Estusia’s sister […] >>
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Reality & Playing No.3 – Looking For Sarah
Michal Heiman’s work, Reality and Playing No. 3- Looking for Sarah – A proposal for a Visual Reconstruction of a D. W Winnicott Cae Study, reflects the artist’s continuous preoccupation with the interface between psychoanalysis and art. Her film refers to psychoanalyst and prediatricain Donald Winnicott’s text, “Interview with an Adolescent: ATherapeutic Consultation,” published in […] >>
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Shlomo, who is newly widowed, refuses to accept his wife’s loss. Determined to relive their planned vacation, he flies with a dummy in the image of his wife. When Yaron his son, returns home he discovers the dummy and in a moment of rage, throws it away. When Shlomo discovers the act he confronts Yaron, […] >>
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Michal a young single mother, raising her daughter, Keren-Or, between the old depressing tenements of Afula and Jerusalem. Michal is on a journey toward her independence Trying to give Keren-Or the life she never had. Michal wants to give Keren-Or a stable family experience, unlike the one she knew due to her difficult relationship with […] >>
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After many attempts to restore her marriage, Kati is facing her second divorce. Together with her son, the filmmaker, she tries to understand what really led to it. Past traumas float to the surface as one question constantly echoes in the background – what keeps people together and what separates them? >>
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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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Zehava, a young trans woman, was denied asylum by Israel and repeatedly imprisoned due to her “second-class” status as a Palestinian. She fled from the West Bank to Israel after surviving sex trafficking and attempted murder—only to face new obstacles as an undocumented, homeless Palestinian, with the constant threat of deportation. In her perilous journey […] >>
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A love story between Yuli, a young woman who suffers from anxiety and doesn’t go outside and Adam- the ghost who haunts her place. >>
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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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Talia’s idyllic childhood in the kibbutz is shaken when the true identity of her adoptive grandfather is revealed. The home videos he filmed conceal and reveal a family secret kept for 30 years. Through her camera lens, she confronts the truth, reconstructs her story, and asks questions about love, control, social norms, and whether the […] >>
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With the passage of over 50 years, the director chooses to look back at his days in the “Garin Gilboa”, a religious Nahal military platoon where he did his military service after the Six Day War. Towards the age of 70, his friends from the “Garin” opened a WhatsApp group and renewed the ties between […] >>
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The story of the pork industry in Israel, an industry that has raised ethnic tensions and heated struggles over the country’s short history. Sitting firmly between Israel’s most essential identity issues and the fundamental right to freedom of choice, how did the unsuspecting pig turn into such a central taboo in the Jewish tradition and […] >>


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