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Hananel, a young religious Jew, is hurrying home for Shabbat. An unexpected encounter with Mundir, a stubborn Palestinian hitchhiker, leads Hananel on a series of mix-ups that eventually teach him a lesson in communication, friendship and love. >>
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The film “All That Good” presents difficult questions about Israel, about the political-social complexity and the void, the fracture, and the disconnection that appeared in the days before the war, and may deepen in the future. >>
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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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Three kids are playing in the buildings’ stairway. During the game While playing, they discover an old coat, which leads them into a world full of adventures. >>
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A worker flees during a coffee commercial shoot. As the presenter pursues her, their chase spirals through a world of advertisements, exposing the dark reality of consumer culture. >>
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A cinematic delirium. “Even those who have survived find out they have died, eventually” From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>
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Past present and future mix in this eloquent and intense portrait of documentary filmmaker David Fisher and his siblings, as they retrace the footsteps of their late father—a Holocaust survivor who was interned in Gusen and Gunskirchen, Austria. David’s journey takes him to the U.S., where he meets American WWII veterans who participated in the […] >>
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It all started with a watch, or more precisely, with over 106 rare European timepieces. One piece alone, made especially for ill-fated French queen Marie Antoinette, was valued at a whopping $30 million. On a quiet Friday evening in 1983, the collection disappeared from Jerusalem’s Museum of Islamic Art. It wasn’t seen again for a […] >>
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In a Jerusalem suburb, fifteen young American drug addicts, abandoned by their Hassidic families, share both pain and great hope that Eric – another recovering addict – will save them from death. >>
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After losing their former business, Gila and Motti resort to selling flowers and strawberries on the roadside to make a living. Motti is a 51-year-old man of honor with a checkered past and Gila is 39-year-old fiery red head divorcee with two kids. She is neurotic, sarcastic, a workaholic and toothless. The couple hopes to […] >>
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Who was Tamar Golan, and why does she not appear in the history books? Was she a Mossad agent, or the lover of an Egyptian general or an African ruler? How did she influence the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt? The woman who dressed in white and pulled the strings behind the scenes of […] >>
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A phone call wakes me up early in the morning. My older brother got into trouble. Again. After another entanglement, I realize that I can no longer ignore the problems that follow him around, and which seem to be taking over my life. I use the camera to get answers from my family and a […] >>
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In 1946, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, the longest serving commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, is awaiting trial in a Polish prison. Albert, a young and successful Polish investigation judge, is appointed to interrogate Höss and get a perfect confession out of him. The encounter between the two men will unveil the frightening routine and banalization […] >>
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Ever since Europe closed its gates to African refugees, thousands of Eritreans have fled the brutal dictatorship in their homeland and traveled north, to Israel. Many were seized by Bedouin smugglers as they crossed the Sinai desert. They are now held in camps and tortured until they pay a ransom. This film follows Eritrean radio […] >>
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27-year-old Svetlana is a married woman, a mother, and a registered nurse. 17-year-old Vadim works as a garbage man. Though seemingly very different, the two have a unique passion in common: They participate in a live-action, interactive role playing game set in a forest. Players dress up in medieval costumes and infuse magic into an […] >>


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