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After naming her rapist online, Dana, a crime journalist, is interrogated by a young policewoman who must determine if Dana is a slanderer or a survivor. Once the station chief barges in, the two women realize Dana’s fate will be sealed in the interrogation room. >>
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He calls himself TRA. He is 13, and he always was a little different. People tried to tame him. They hurt him quite a bit. “I was a fat kid who loved to daydream and draw fairies instead of playing soccer, and no one wanted to play with me. They bullied me, and then the […] >>
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Duma (dolls in Arabic) is based on stories of sexual abuse in Arab society in Israel. Abeer, the creator of a puppet theater show which deals with the subject of sexual abuse during childhood, decides to take her camera and journey from the north to the south of the country and document women who have […] >>
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In the winter of 1941 on the banks of the Danube, one thousand Viennese Jews wait for their fate to be determined by Mossad agents in a hotel room in Istanbul. Originally, filmmaker Nachum Laufer intended to tell the story of how he fled from Europe with his mother. However, while researching, he came across […] >>
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Yoni is a 7-year-old girl who lives in Kibbutz Merhavia in the late 60’s. She doesn’t cope well with the communal sleeping in the children’s home. During bedtime, Yoni’s mother kisses her goodnight and goes out. Yoni lies in bed and can’t sleep. Out of the shadows creep the Havzuls. Fear overcomes Yoni and she […] >>
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“Milo’s Morning Walk” is a fun animated short. In it, Milo the dog lives on a Moshav, he chews through his leash in order to make friends. When he gets a whiff of a smelly cow fart, he runs after the smell, leading him to piles of poop. He rolls around excitedly in the poop. […] >>
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Avi and Yuval’s relationship was solid, until the devastating news arrived. Their son Nadav, a soldier in the Israeli army, was killed in Gaza. For three years, they each tried to cope with their individual pain, a process which slowly drove them apart. Then Yuval (47) announced: “I want another child.” The film follows the […] >>
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Tali, a single mom, finds out her bank account is blocked. The kindergarten payment fell through and her daughter is banned. She is lost between call centers, until she decides to gain back some self-respect. She takes her daughter to the call center of the insurance company that screwed her. >>
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Anastasia is trapped in an abusive relationship with Noam – a talented pianist haunted by his past. At the steps of the Rape Crisis center, Anastasia meets the pop-star Libby. Their encounter helps her to break free from the constraints of Noam, but also results in her adopting aggressive patterns of her own. >>
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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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82-year-old Elisheva Rise passed away. After her death, her children clear out her home, and find some journals she secretly wrote to each of her seven children, documenting 57 years from their birth to the day she died. It was her life’s work. Every evening she would sit in her home in Kibbutz Ein Tzurim […] >>
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Let’s Assume, for a Moment, That God Exists
A documentary is a desperate attempt to document that which cannot be documented. Heresy thoughts of a veteran documentarian. A neighborhood in the city of Ramat Gan. A grocer, a watchmaker, dancers, sheep, a hairdresser, a furious prophet and more. Real? Staged? Fragmentary – like cell phone chats, like TV broadcasts, like life itself. Finally […] >>
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Over a year ago, 22-year-old Zura’s mother left home, leaving him and his father behind. Since then, Zura’s father suffers from depression, and is busy drowning his sorrows in alcohol. Zura is forced to take care of him, while his soul longs for peace and freedom. An encounter with a captivating girl named Daniel will […] >>
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Seven women arrive in Israel by ship in the 1950s and 1960s and are sent straight to Dimona, a town recently established in the desert. They now open up and share their life stories that have never before been told from their perspectives. What happened during the first fifteen years to the girls and women […] >>


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