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A shocking video of a double murder in Russia appeared on YouTube in 2007. The police investigation reached a dead end; two years later, director Vladi Antonevicz and his friend Dima “Shurabi” set off on a daring investigation of their own. Snooping around the darkest crevices of Russia’s neo-Nazi underground, they are determined to find […] >>
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Twenty years after shooting the film Souvenirs, Shahar lives in Amsterdam, raising two Dutch-Yemeni children, just like the grandchildren his late father had longed for. He runs the best falafel food truck in town, employing refugees from all over the world. His son Salie, is a 14-year-old adolescent with a sharp tongue and plenty of […] >>
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Driven by mysterious voices from the sky, Ohad breaks into his father’s house, kidnaps him at gunpoint, and drags him into a chaotic quest to fulfill the absurd fantasy he never got to realize – becoming a post-traumatic war hero. His father tries to have him hospitalized, but Ohad will do everything in his power […] >>
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Eliav is a young commander in the Jewish Underground in 1947. But his real name is Yosef, and he is the last descendant of his family, who all perished in the Holocaust. Yosef suffers from survivor’s guilt and concentration camp syndrome, which brought him to change his identity. Yaakov, a childhood friend of Yosef makes […] >>
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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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Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: “It has been a woman’s task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. lf we are united, we may be able to produce a world in which our children and other people’s children will be safe.” (Margaret Mead) >>
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Gabi Abudraham, a dreamy young man from Beit She’an who is obsessed with Elvis and virtuoso musical virtues, creates an eccentric character named Charlie Megira and sets out on a rocky musical journey to conquer the world while fighting demons from the past. >>
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Omar, Muhammad and Yazan are three 12-year-olds from Lod. The boys are in their last year of elementary school, beginning to confront the challenges of life: Omar will deal with his father’s illness, Yazan will need to overcome the consequences of his violent behavior and Muhammad will prepare to leave Lod and the friends he […] >>
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Amid her remarkable career as a world champion in Thai boxing, Nili faces the sacrifices of personal dreams such as love and family, along with a journey to shape her identity beyond the ring. Those around her, who in many ways live in the shadow of her success, struggle to see the price she pays […] >>
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In the winter of 2006 13-year-old Tair Rada was found dead inside a locked toilet stall at her school on the northern tip of Israel. A week later the police arrested Roman Zdorov, a Ukrainian Immigrant, who had worked there as a temp, and eventually he confessed to the murder. But many still believed he […] >>
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A patholog’s daily routine is being interrupted when he encounters a body in his image. >>
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Ella and Edik, two brothers from a traditional Bukhari family (Uzbek Jews), arrive early on the eve of a Jewish holiday, to their parents’ home in a small town in Israel. There they find their homophobic father dead and dressed in women’s clothes. While their mother is on her way home, they have to decide […] >>
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Rona and Amnon (30), young parents, are trying to break through their economic and social status with an improvised business for cooking and distributing lunch to the elderly in the area. The daily encounter with the sights of the old age and her elderly clientele, brings Rona together with unfamiliar and repressed places within her, […] >>


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