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Ben (35), a talented animator, dreams of publishing his comic book, titled “The Dream Factory”, but keeps getting rejected. His daughter Maya decides to take him into their own fantasy world and together they journey to The Dream Factory, in order to make his dream come true. On the way, Ben realizes that his dreams […] >>
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The practices of purity and impurity are the hallmarks of mandatory law and practice in the Samaritan community and the Ethiopian community. The film looks at the Niddah customs in both communities, as we meet protagonists Yafit (47) and Mollya (44). They bring us into their homes and share their experiences of the rituals of […] >>
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The film follows an adolescent girl’s stream of consciousness as she tries to cope with her unfamiliar femininity, the same process that every girl goes through when they get their first period. The entire process is accompanied by the changing moon, which becomes fuller as the girl’s understanding of herself develops. Her thoughts are weaved […] >>
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Have No Fear of Walking Alone into that Dark Night
From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva My grandmother contracted the coronavirus. She lives alone. She’s in a risk group. These are difficult days. I am in a tower at one end of town, and she’s at the other end. Communication between us is done over the phone. It’s hard to be apart, […] >>
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Pesachke Burstein was a singer, a dancer and a comedian born in a Jewish town in Poland at the end of the nineteenth century. When he was 14-years-old he ran away from home to join an itinerant group of entertainers. He went on to live a life of theater, and was famous for his incredible […] >>
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There’s always place for hate – the inconceivable story of a Nazi gang in Israel. The deceivingly peaceful Sea of Galilee is the backdrop of an inspiring story of violence, hope, and rebirth of one young man and the unexpected people who love him. In the 1990s a million former USSR Jews arrived in Israel. […] >>
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Evyatar (28) and Aviv (28) are expecting their first son. This is an amazing time for them. They know that against the whole world they are strong as long as they are together. After Arbel was born, Aviv doesn’t leave the bed. The depression that suddenly emerged in the lives of these new parents leaves […] >>
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The Material That Love Is Made Of
In the winter of 1992, a New York scientist isolated the material that love is made of: it is an unbelievable hormonal matter composed of three chemical elements. Ten years after that discovery, director Ari Folman goes out on a two-year journey in an attempt to investigate the material love is made of, as it […] >>
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“Death in Umm Al-Hiran”, tells one of the most shocking and significant stories that happened in Israel in the last decade, as it reveals the mechanisms behind the killing and defaming of Yaqoub Abu Al-Qia’an, a Bedouin teacher who died at the hands of the police during an eviction raid. For the first time, the […] >>
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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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Samuel Makanda is a man living two very different lives. He was born in a small village in Northern Kenya where his wife and children now live in a stone house with no electricity or running water. He visits them for one month each year. For the past ten years, the rest of his time […] >>
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An immigrant from Argentina, Jorge Weller has built a life for himself in Ra’anana, Israel but constantly yearns for the family he left behind in South America — His aging father, his older sister Graciela, and his younger sister Clarisa, a zestful, mentally challenged woman of 30. Clarisa’s genuine wisdom shines through her clinically defined […] >>
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From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to The Dress – 1969. Thomas returns to his apartment to collect the last of his belongings. Encountering the new additions to his old roommate’s life, he reminisces upon their complex relationship and looks for closure. >>
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The Queen Has No Crown is a documentary film of Tomer Heymann’s that navigates the intimate lives of five brothers and their mother, as they experience the pains of exile and the joys of family bonding. Three of the Heymann sons take their families and leave Israel, one after the other, for “better” lives in […] >>
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Since his boyfriend left him, Yotam hasn’t slept one night alone. Obsessed by dating apps, he spends his nights in the arms of strangers, until he discovers that he has been infected by an intolerable skin disease. >>


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