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Aviv Geffen, the grandson of legendary Moshe Dayan and number one Israeli rockist, is rapidly becoming a mythic figure himself. He was the last person to embrace Rabin before he was assassinated. The charismatic, bisexual singer-songwriter has rapidly become the Jim Morrison or Bob Dylan of his country, a voice that represents peace and integrity […] >>
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A biographical and psychological portrait of Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, a man of extraordinary abilities but very little conscience: a brilliant physician and a pioneer of psychiatric research, but also an elusive con artist who became the only Jew in history convicted of Nazi war crimes. The film traces his journey from a small town in […] >>
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The Romans called Lod “The City of God”. Today, however, this dilapidated town is central Israel’s forgotten backyard, a mere 10-minute drive from prosperous Tel Aviv. Acute poverty has helped to cultivate racism, bigotry, and violence, so that many of Lod’s 75,000 inhabitants – Jewish, Muslim, and Christian alike – live in a constant state […] >>
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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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In 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, an Israeli paratroop company was ordered to guard hundreds of Lebanese war prisoners for 10 hours. #Schoolyard: An Untold Story is the anatomy of a murder – the step by step, blow by blow, memory by memory chronicle of a horrible moment in Israeli military history. >>
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Through the camera lens, and through the art works of a painter and a poet who grew up with him in the Israeli settlement of Psagot, this student director descibes his growing awareness of the neighboring Arab city of Ramallah and how it impacted his coming of age. >>
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Famous Israeli singer Danny Bassan was born in Brazil and immigrated to Israel with his mother after they were abandoned by his father. Forty years later, in November 1994, Danny returns to Brazil to search for his father. This film, which follows his personal drama as it occurs, investigates concepts such as love, family and […] >>
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A fascinating story of bereavement and mysticism, FOG tells of the quest to unravel the fate of a missing soldier. First Sergeant Mu’in Halabi disappeared at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War during an abortive IDF attempt to conquer Mount Hermon from the Syrians in October 1973. Two weeks later the IDF announced that […] >>
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In 1993 Israel, 15-year-old Bukharan immigrant Natasha spends her days selling balloons on the beach. Determined to break free from her socio-economic status and patriarchal family, she finds herself drawn to her co-worker Arthur, a 21-year-old Russian immigrant. Natasha sees Arthur as her ticket to a higher status in Israeli society. However, as the night […] >>
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The flat, on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv, was where my grandparents lived since they immigrated to Palestine. Were it not for the view from the windows, one might have thought that the flat was in Berlin. There it was, furnished with heavy European pieces, with the best of German […] >>
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This film deals with me and my partner’s decision to leave Israel. It is the physical and emotional journey of a young Arab couple, who decide that Israel is not the right place for them, caught between rational considerations and emotional ones. Our story is intertwined with the stories of other people, similarly disappointed by […] >>
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This is the story of two brothers who for decades feared to meet. Attempting to repress their past and build new lives, the brothers buried dark secrets in their hearts. Only when rare letters were found, letters from their parents who were in a concentration camp at the time, to the orphanage where the brothers […] >>


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