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After naming her rapist online, Dana, a crime journalist, is interrogated by a young policewoman who must determine if Dana is a slanderer or a survivor. Once the station chief barges in, the two women realize Dana’s fate will be sealed in the interrogation room. >>
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A visual cinematic tribute to the poems of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. This project includes a collection of short video clips that vocally and visually illustrate the songs of one of the greatest Israeli poets of all time, Yehuda Amichai, who past away on September 22, 2000. Artists from different fields have joined the project […] >>
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The film tells the story of how, 30 years ago, the divorce of a woman who went on to become a renowned author, and her husband, an esteemed rabbi, shook the religious city of Bnei Braq and affected the lives of their seven children. It follows a family divided between the two conflicting worlds of the […] >>
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The film portrays the story of Safaa Dabour, a religious Muslim from Nazareth, struggling to fulfill her dream of personal independence and to establish a cinematheque in Nazareth, the first of its kind for the Arab population in Israel. Safaa’s father and husband both died while she was still a young mother of two boys […] >>
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Passing time fills a central role in The Way Home. Using old 8 mm. films and an intimate portrayal of the significant events in his personal life over the last fifteen years, director Tomer Heymann (It Kinda Scares Me, Paper Dolls, Bridge Over the Wadi), reveals a charged and surprising emotional world. Shooting with a […] >>
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Baruch dreams of going to heaven after life. For this he marries a woman, he thinks, will make him go through hell during his lifetime and will bring him to Heaven afterlife. That is, until things take a twist. >>
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A random trance party in a living room is fairly common when it comes to young people. But what happens when the young people are Israeli soldiers, when the living room is owned by a Palestinian family that is locked up in one on the rooms of the house? 18 years after serving in the […] >>
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Esther, Emmanuel and Michal were born in Israel to migrant parents from Nigeria. In a moment of despair, they were torn away from their Israeli existence to a Nigerian reality, unable to continue their studies, living for a time on the streets. When Esther celebrated her eighteenth birthday she managed to return to Israel on […] >>
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Experimental documentary film that combines video and animation. The film documents wandering around Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station. >>
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The film will focus on 8 months in the life of Liad (13) a girl on the autistic spectrum. During which she and her parents are required to choose between secular high school studies in Hod Hasharon and a religious high school in Petah Tikva – both educational institutions adapted to the disabled. Liad’s family […] >>
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Late night, September 1997, a force of the commando marches into a deadly ambush in Lebanon. 11 of them are killed, the body of one remains behind – my brother, Itamar. 25 years after Itamar was killed, his sister, director Aya Elia, goes back to observe the bereavement rituals in Israel. “Knock on the Door” […] >>
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“Let Sleeping Dogs Lie” is a short animated dark comedy, set in a wild and crazy world where a little girl struggles to retrieve her lost dog. >>


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