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A short documentary about a house and characters that cannot be shown. Two israeli tenants create a miniature world of found-objects. On a desk, with changing sceneries, they tell the story of the different narratives colliding in the Palestinian house they rent. >>
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The fascinating story of the special friendship forged between two women: Perla Ubitsch, the last remnant of a family of dwarfs that survived Dr. Mengele’s cruel experiments in Auschwitz, and researcher Hannelore Witkovsky, a German Protestant born after the war. Filmed in both Germany and Israel, the documentary accompanies Hannelore on her quest to find […] >>
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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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Hard to say exactly when did Israel turn from a country based on socialist ideals to a capitalist country, living the ‘work-shop-throw out’ dream. Is it the constant security threat that brings us to live and shop as if it was our last day? Why do the Banks and the authorities encourage over consumerism? And […] >>
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A swarm of bees found by Grandpa Yishai in 1959 began the Ofir family’s beekeeping tradition. When he is hospitalized, his granddaughter, Adva, begins documenting the family’s occupation. For over a decade, she observes and ponders the family’s deep connection to the bees, nature, and each other. Through the seasons, she experiences uncertainty, anticipation, aging, […] >>
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Megiddo is the largest security prison in the world, a microcosm of the painful experience of the two nations. The fates of Benny, the tough prison commander, and Abdal Basat, the leader of Hamas, are intertwined in one another, depending on common or conflicting interests, all in order to fulfill the yearnings they have, each […] >>
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A cinematic journey investigating the brutal massacre of 17 Israeli prisoners by Syrian Soldiers in the Golan Heights. The two tragic events depicted in this film, clouded in secrecy and lies by the Israeli Defense Forces for over 50 years, serve as a metaphor for Israel’s weakness and blind arrogance during the early days of […] >>
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Minkush, a young ultra-Orthodox Hasidic woman, struggles to reconcile conflicting desires, hoping to win her husband’s physical affection in a battle of love versus religious law. >>
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The film tells the story of Wilm Hosenfeld, a Nazi officer best remembered today for having saved “the Pianist” (Władysław Szpilman) in Roman Polanski’s remarkable film. Recent findings have revealed that over the course of the war he actually saved about sixty people, Jewish and Polish alike. Before joining the Wehrmacht, Hosenfeld was principal of […] >>
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Leon a 15 year old is part of the Cosplay community, teenagers who dress up as characters from comics and Japanese Anime, meet and role-play. Leon writes a blog, where he appears as a French character from a web show. Leon’s blog has over 100,000 fans from all over the world that know him as […] >>
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Jacob de Haan: A Voice Out of Time
The death of Jacob Israel de Haan is commemorated annually by both the ultra-Orthodox Jews of Neturei Karta in Jerusalem and the LGBTQ+ community in Amsterdam. He is a pioneer for both. In the early twentieth century, he published the first LGBTQ novel in the Netherlands. He then returned to his Jewish roots, migrated to […] >>


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