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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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Cousins Gabriel and Omer spend the end of their summer break working in a packing warehouse owned by Omer’s dad, Elisha. The film follows the two teenagers, during another routine day at the warehouse from Gabriel’s perspective. Gabriel is a bit of an outsider. He is a slim boy, who likes to observe what’s happening […] >>
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A Sephardic Baalei Teshuva family tries to integrate within the insular Ashkenazi Haredi community in Bnei Brak. Their son Raphael, a prodigy, is not accepted into a prestigious yeshiva. His mother, Ahuva, tries to handle the situation peacefully, but his father, Shmuel, a handyman with great faith, struggles to accept the situation. Shmuel fights to […] >>
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In a deserted military company, far from any jurisdiction, the midget digit is all that matters! Shechter, a newbie soldier tries every way to earn his long waited seniority. But when Levi, his company “buddy”, gets the title before he does, Shechter enters a demonic race of washing dishes to prove his justify eligibility. In […] >>
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These are the memories of a lost girlhood. When they were only five or six or ten years old, their parents snatched them from the playground and handed them to much older men to be married. They recall the violence and fear they were subjected to, the pregnancies at the age of eleven or twelve, […] >>
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Ever since 17-year-old Rachel Levy, an Israeli, was killed four years ago in Jerusalem by a Palestinian suicide bomber, her mother, Abigail, has hardly found a moment’s peace. Levy’s killer was Ayat al-Akhras, also 17, a schoolgirl from a Palestinian refugee camp several miles away. The two young women looked remarkably alike. Through the personal […] >>
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From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva Isolated in his faraway home near the Dead Sea, the filmmaker’s conciseness drifts through the desert with the aid of his camera drone, which broadcasts live images from the outside world. Now all he has to do is figure out what these images mean. >>
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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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Decades after the Holocaust, many survivors still bear vivid memories of the trauma they experienced. This film follows the lives of a group of survivors who have stayed long-term in the Psycho-Geriatric Ward of the Abarbanel Mental Health Center. G. is like a robot, unable to stop working; H. continues to clean the bathrooms and […] >>
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Following the involvement of two of his nephews in a terrorist attack, and the harsh reaction of the Israeli public to his new film, actor and director Mohammad Bakri visits the grave of Emil Habibi, a Palestinian politician and author and formerly Bakri’s mentor, to tell him about his life since Habibi’s death. Against the […] >>
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The story of the Israeli “bear” society, through the eyes of one group of gay, overweight men with similar preferences, who are struggling with weight problems, loneliness and their pasts. The film focuses on four main characters, Paz, Daniel, Motti and Motti, and follows them on their journeys for survival, during which they will have […] >>
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Hybrid film, combining both fiction and documentary. The story of three good friends, homelessness, from the suburbs of Israel, that decided to go to a trip to The big city Tel-Aviv in order to fulfill their dreams. >>
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An old tape reveals a practical joke that went terribly wrong. The revelation leads to an unexpected search – not only for the prankster, but for the filmmaker himself. >>
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Grisha Starosta was 21 years old when he left his wealthy bourgeois home and followed his dream to become a pioneer in Palestine, but he had to leave the orange groves of Kfar Saba and return to Romania just a few months later when he learned he had a daughter. Many years would pass until […] >>


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