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One sunny day, Jetta, a 50-year-old caregiver who came to Israel from Moldova, enters the life of Jack, a 90-year-old widower. The connection between them is quick natural and full of charm. In the film we look at their lives in their daily routine, the family events, the moments of joy and humor, as well […] >>
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in Kibbutz Mafalsim, 4 kilometers from the Gaza border, inside a small apartment, through a window overlooking a big tree, we see A frame within a frame of the changing landscape of reality, before and after October 7th. While the exterior view remains untouched, the overwhelming feelings of uncertainty and fear are flooding these four […] >>
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From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva Thousands of lonely Russian-speaking elderlies have become even lonelier due to the pandemic. Stuck at home on their own and unable to communicate in Hebrew, the situation has forced a double isolation on them. The radio, the TV and phone calls with volunteers are their only […] >>
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To Be Like Avi is the coming-of-age story of three friends, refugees who fled Africa and left their families behind. They study in the Galilee and dream of following in the footsteps of Avi (formally Ibrahim), the only refugee who somehow obtained an Israeli citizenship and enlisted in the IDF. The film follows them during […] >>
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The film follows a day in the life of three young teens living in a neglected ghost town in post-Soviet Europe. >>
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Grandma Rivka is forced to leave her home and memories to move in with her children and grandchildren. She finds the transition unbearable, but her family shows her love and sensitivity as they lead her toward a new life, where there is room for memories as well. >>
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A relationship between Dror, a deaf child, and his father, Moshik, who finds it difficult to accept his deafness. Moshik insists Dror goes to a school for hearing children, but Dror feels rejected and experiences bullying. Moshik doesn’t read the signals, even when Dror angrily breaks his precious hearing implant in protest. The rift between […] >>
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At birth we are tossed into a complex, demanding reality. This is our verdict. In our lives, do we get the chance to sweeten our sentence? From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>
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A visual cinematic tribute to the poems of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. “Wonderfull and hard are the days of my life…” From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>
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A Tale That Begins With Three Rooms
1933. Dr. Karl Schwartz is invited to Israel by Tel Aviv mayor Meir Dizengoff, to be appointed director of the first art museum in Palestine – The Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Schwartz left Berlin and arrived in Tel Aviv to discover, much to his surprise, that the museum in question consisted of nothing more […] >>
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Megiddo is the largest security prison in the world, a microcosm of the painful experience of the two nations. The fates of Benny, the tough prison commander, and Abdal Basat, the leader of Hamas, are intertwined in one another, depending on common or conflicting interests, all in order to fulfill the yearnings they have, each […] >>
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A chain of unsolved murders of women along the Israeli coastal road, raises suspicions of a serial killer who had never been caught. >>
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Thousands of young Israelis join “The journey to Poland” each year to learn about the Holocaust. Looking into the journey through the videos they upload on YouTube reveals a moving and troubling image of the Israeli narrative and the way collective memory is formed in the web age. >>
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“It was all as if a childlike picture, the mood wore an opera hat that eight reflections ricoheted off across the surface of ponds. The ghost dressed in a natty shroud, Was smoking a cigar at the window of his room, At the castlekeep’s top story, Where the sagacious crow told the cats their fortunes. There was […] >>
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The film dives into the childhood memories of 10-year-old Rosalie in a Jerusalem slum, when her father leaves home. While Rosalie escapes to the gum trees of the Galapagos islands, her mother, a French immigrant, tries to preserve the delicate ideal of a family. Both try to remain hopeful, while delving into a world of […] >>


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