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The story of a couple giving birth to a stillborn baby. From this moment, begins their long journey in a parallel world, facing their sorrow and facing the life that continues around them. An abstract journey, in their inner world, from the loss of this long-awaited child, to its setting in the ground and the […] >>
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When Naomi duplicates a key for her boyfriend without asking her roommate, a war of attrition ensues. They spare no means to destroy everything in the battle to win over the apartment. >>
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Mike Brant – Laisse Moi t’Aimer
Mike Brant’s body was found on the sidewalk on Arlanz’e St. in the 16th quarter of Paris, on the morning of Friday, April 25th, 1975. He was lying on his back, facing the sky, in a blue shirt and barefoot. Seemingly intact on the outside, but shattered to bits on the inside, he was 28 […] >>
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The film reveals the story of the Jaradis, a Jewish Yemenite family, one of many that were brought from Yemen to the US by the Ultra orthodox Satmar Community which operates a propaganda machine against the immigration to Israel. The story exposes a deep cultural gap between the Yemenite families and the Yiddish Satmar Community […] >>
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Mindy, A shy nerdy young girl, is trying to catch a star. While she looks at the sky, her neighbor watches her. From here on starts a competition between the two that will make the main character learn an important lesson about friendship. >>
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From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to The Policeman – 1971. Albert, an aging parking inspector from Tel Aviv is retiring after many years of loyal service. Worrying about life without work, he starts peeping at his neighbor Maya and her son, fantasizing about the day they’ll all become one big […] >>
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In the year 2047, the government passes an amendment to the law of return stating that all Jews around the world must immigrate to Israel by the end of 2048. Through the stories of four young people, we learn what happened to Israel in the last hundred years and if it is the same Israel we […] >>
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THE DEVIL NEXT DOOR is the true story of John Demjanjuk, a retired Ukrainian-American autoworker living a peaceful life with his family in Cleveland, Ohio suburbs in the 1980s. When a group of Holocaust survivors identify Demjanjuk’s photograph as “Ivan the Terrible” – a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard who tortured and killed nearly […] >>
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Since his boyfriend left him, Yotam hasn’t slept one night alone. Obsessed by dating apps, he spends his nights in the arms of strangers, until he discovers that he has been infected by an intolerable skin disease. >>
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Dvora is a 17-year-old girl who refuses to leave her job at the fish farm on her Kibbutz, even though she promised to return to school. Her last day at work intensifies her fear of life outside the water. >>
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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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January 1945, four forced laborers women, Estusia Wajcblum, Rosa Robota, Alla Gartner, Regina Safirstein were hanged in public, accused of sabotaging the Nazi war machine. Sabotage unfolds the unknown story of the women’s underground operation in Auschwitz-Birkenau. A story of feminine heroism, resistance, and tragedy, told through the eyes of Anna Wajcblum Heilman, Estusia’s sister […] >>
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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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