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One year inside the women’s section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the biggest confessional in the world. The director, a woman who is breaking-up her marriage, documents the dramatic year in her personal life, juxtaposing phone conversations she has with her husband, family and friends, with occurrences at this unique and volatile site. Wall is a double portrait […] >>
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A biographical and psychological portrait of Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, a man of extraordinary abilities but very little conscience: a brilliant physician and a pioneer of psychiatric research, but also an elusive con artist who became the only Jew in history convicted of Nazi war crimes. The film traces his journey from a small town in […] >>
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Survival and the Art of the Joystick
Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: When I go to my parents’ house in Beit-El, I take my fear with me, as well as my love and many question marks. The drive there is like a video game – you either make it through or you don’t… Just close your eyes until the nightmare is over. >>
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David Fisher, the director of this film, lost his parents one after the other, leaving him and his four siblings with a 45-year-old mystery. For two years he’s been searching for his sister, who was taken as a day-old infant from his mother’s bed in the maternity hospital. His parents, both Holocaust survivors, arrived in […] >>
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The Woman Who Didn’t Know How to Love
Discovering my late grandmother’s personal archive sparks a cinematic journey into the relationship between my mother and me. Through audio tapes, 8mm films, and one present-day encounter, a three-generational dialogue emerges that could never have taken place. The film brings memory, secrets, and conflicting versions of love together, revealing what was passed down without ever […] >>
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When it comes to love, Roberta knows what she wants – and it’s not what she’s getting. One night she takes matters into her own hands. A comic fantasy starring two of the dance world’s most exciting performers. >>
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A young couple, Stav and Avi, are preparing for their dream honeymoon through Central Asia. When Stav fractures her foot a week before the flight, the two of them embark on an alternative journey that complicates matters even further. >>
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Listen to me: there is life without love. Loneliness is the soul’s forgotten desire. You don’t need anyone. Don’t search, don’t hope, don’t dream; and only then, perhaps, you too will learn how to be alone.” Based on Screenplay adapted from the short story” How To Be Alone” by Orna Coussin. >>
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Osher, Michelle, and Eitan were taken out of their homes as children and transferred to foster families. Their biological families are dysfunctional and absent. The foster families are supportive and stable, but this guardianship ends at age 18. The film follows the three over the last year of foster care and the first year of […] >>
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A six-part series about six Israeli Prime Ministers, who try to look back on and examine the biggest decisions they made in office, how justified they were in real time and whether their outcomes stand the test of time. The series deals with Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, Shimon Peres […] >>
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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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In 1993 Israel, 15-year-old Bukharan immigrant Natasha spends her days selling balloons on the beach. Determined to break free from her socio-economic status and patriarchal family, she finds herself drawn to her co-worker Arthur, a 21-year-old Russian immigrant. Natasha sees Arthur as her ticket to a higher status in Israeli society. However, as the night […] >>
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After Midnight, The City’s Darkest Secret
Alon Kastiel, a convicted sex offender, operated in Tel Aviv for a whole decade, unhindered. One Facebook post changed everything, opening up the floodgates. 17 women filed official complaints and for a moment it seemed like justice would be served, but Kastiel was convicted of lesser offenses in a plea bargain. He was sentenced to […] >>
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Magdalena Kopp was married to the most wanted terrorist in the world – Carlos “the Jackal.” She followed him through the birth of international terrorism, of which he became the star. From the small conservative Bavarian town where she grew up, to the 68’ revolutionary zeitgeist of Berlin and the radical leftist cells of Frankfurt, […] >>


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