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Victor, a male fairy, becomes depressed and files his resignation letter. He doesn’t want to work anymore – to help people. He feels disappointment for himself and the world. One morning, a fairy social worker barges into his apartment, telling him that his resignation letter has been rejected and that he must return to his […] >>
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Shlomo Bar – a Musical Documentary
Shlomo Bar is one of Israel’s most important and original musical artists. For forty years, together with his band “Natural Gathering” he has created music that expresses the complex heart and soul of the Israeli experience – a stirring blend of East and West that yields compositions of exceptional beauty, while also expressing social protest […] >>
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Rafi is a compulsive gambler at a crossroads. He must choose between his beloved wife and daughter and the football lottery, his life’s obsession. He is overtaken by all too familiar fantasies of wealth, the possibility of answering only to oneself and the joy of commanding the respect of others. >>
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Nava, Miki, and Ilan have shared an unconventional family unit for five decades. The three live together in the same building and are raising May, their adopted daughter. Alongside their personal lives, they founded and continue to run a bold and iconic cultural institution — Tmuna Theater. Now, a necessary move from their crumbling building […] >>
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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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“Made in Israel” is a documentary series that features the history of five Israeli industries. Each 50 min. episode is dedicated to a different industry, telling its story from the early beginning in Israel to the present. The way to the heart of each story is told as an exciting voyage through production lines, hardships […] >>
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LAISHA – The Story of a Women’s Magazine
Since 1947, “La’Isha” has been Israel’s top women’s weekly. This film explores the 78-year bond between the magazine and its readers. From its male-led early years and beauty pageants to its feminist evolution, the magazine provided a “room of one’s own” while fueling body image debates. Through interviews, letters, and rare archives, the film reveals […] >>
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Yichia (14) and Hamam (8) come from a village in the area of Tul Karem, in the Palestinian Authority. While their parents and elder siblings cannot cross checkpoints to enter the state of Israel, the two brothers work as child beggars. The young children find themselves serving as the sole providers for their family of […] >>
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Hagar works at a photo store where she converts old video tapes to new digital files. A lonely, quiet young woman, she finds herself fascinated by watching the videotapes people have forgotten to pick up. A young man she sees in one of these tapes haunts her, and when she tries to find him, the […] >>
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The film brings for the first time the story of the Israeli radio station Beit Shidir. With the establishment of the State of Israel and the immigration of Jews from Arab countries, the radio station was an active site for producing intelligence and political warfare against Arab countries in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. From […] >>
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Ruthy returns to Argentina to clear out her late parents’ apartment with her twin sister Judy. Using various objects and private archive materials, the film is both a nostalgic look at the past and a very personal portrait. It deals with the complexity of the immigrant’s identity, sibling relationships, and the function of objects as […] >>
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In the picturesque alleys of the ultra-Orthodox Nachlaot neighborhood in Jerusalem, a mother discovers a bite on her son’s penis. Two weeks later, 14, then 100, and finally 145 children from the crowded neighborhood tell of shocking sexual assaults on a network of pedophiles that leads children through tunnels to churches, where they are harmed, […] >>
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Through the striking cinematography of Nurit Aviv and a soundtrack composed of beautiful chanting and haunting silence, this film explores the mystery and discretion of forty silent nuns living at the Beit Jamal monastery near Jerusalem. The film attempts to deal with the cinematic challenge posed by their very silence and incorporates texts from the […] >>
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Ancient Winds – Moroccan Chronicle
A new angle on the inner conflicts that plagued the Moroccan Jews in Israel throughout their efforts to assimilate, “Ancient Winds – Moroccan Chronicle” explores the historical identity of Moroccan Jews with an emphasis on questions of belonging, denial and animosity. Told through six fascinating characters from the second generation of immigrants, they tell the […] >>
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Yasmin is accused of helping her brothers kill their sister over a forbidden love affair. She and Nizar, the film’s director, set out to find the murdered sister’s grave. The search emerges as a metaphor for the political relationship between men and women, a relationship based mainly on the struggle for power. >>


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