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This film reveals the painful relationship between my 87-year-old mother and me, her son, who has suffered all his life from the silence that dominated our family. My mother’s silence always stood between us. It concealed secrets concerning our family story, during the Holocaust, and created a sense of distance and anger within me. The […] >>
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Nir has received a definitive diagnosis. She is going to die. She looks healthy now, but she knows that can change at any moment. The filmmaker suggests filming her, and over the course of a year, she watches her live with her approaching death. The film follows a young woman, a musician and a dancer, […] >>
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Ruchama, an elderly and devoted wife, tries to maintain a normal life for her and her paralyzed husband in Tel Aviv. A French tourist by the name of Piere reminds her of all she has given up on for the sake of her marriage. She is swept away for a moment, but having re-discovered her […] >>
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The film follows the preparations for the Bar Mitzvah of Guy, the director’s younger autistic brother, from the moment his parents decide to have Guy do the ceremony in the synagogue up to the day of the Bar Mitzvah itself. During the course of preparations for this unusual event, the daily and complex reality the […] >>
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After being kicked out from every available at-risk youth establishment, and after facing criminal charges for drug trafficking and violence, Kiki is about to enter a youth prison by court order. Gal, his sister, manages to convince the authorities to give Kiki one last chance. Gal is a caregiver for an at-risk youth organization that […] >>
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Hezi and Shmuel are driving in a taxi, navigating through changing landscapes from urban roads to highways. Missed calls from Raz, Hezi’s son, echo throughout the journey, guiding their direction while pain and hardship arise. >>
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Director Amir Stolar tries to recall the event of the day when his father abandoned him and fled the country, 12 years ago. His digging into this old wound blends with the inter-continental relationship he has with Victor, his Swedish partner. Gradually, things turn into a bureaucratic struggle intended to get Amir’s father to attend the […] >>
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This film describes the life of the Arabs and the Jews living on Haladiya Street in the heart of the Muslim Quarter between 1986 till this day. It is a mix of people who live in a bubble of peace and calm and Arabs who live there under occupation. Our story revolves around the awkward […] >>
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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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A pioneer of Israeli rock, Bert Vaknin was one of the first to perform music of bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath on the Israeli stage. Personal tragedy forced him to pause his musical journey, but now, at 70, he’s ready to rock again, reviving his iconic band, ‘Bereshit’. >>
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In November ’77, after years of war, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat landed in Israel with a message of peace and a promise to take back the occupied Sinai soil. Nelson, who feared losing his holiday village on the Sinai border, went to war to preserve his bohemian holiday village. He harnessed his comrades at the […] >>
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Following the fall of the Soviet Union, Jewish Russian immigrants began arriving to Israel daily by the hundreds. Alice Neiman arrived in Israel on October 26th, 1990, at the age of twenty with 750 others seeking a new life. A decade later, she examines to what extent the hopes and fears of some of those […] >>
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In April 2002, following a series of Palestinian terror attacks in Israeli cities, the IDF invaded the West Bank with heavy forces in order to destroy Palestinian terror bases. The operation, known as Defensive Shield, lasted 40 days during which Palestinian sources mislead the world with false Information about thousands of casualties and about a […] >>
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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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