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In the heart of a bustling intersection, a Palestinian girl named Sila finds herself begging within the borders of Israel to support her family. There, she encounters Yusuf, whose presence threatens her livelihood. Despite her attempts to drive him away, an unexpected bond forms between them, rooted in their shared struggles. >>
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My commander in the military called me to his office in the middle of the night. He took out a hand gun from his drawer, loaded it and placed it between us on the table. He ordered me to shoot my own head. By using animation I recreated that night. >>
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From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva Isolated in his faraway home near the Dead Sea, the filmmaker’s conciseness drifts through the desert with the aid of his camera drone, which broadcasts live images from the outside world. Now all he has to do is figure out what these images mean. >>
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A man learns from a Moroccan fortune-teller that his sister is about to die. Together, they embark upon a fictional journey in an attempt to alter the prediction, revisiting the past and the present to defy an implacable future. But the prophecy still shadows them – as in life, so in cinema. Black Notebooks – […] >>
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After many attempts to restore her marriage, Kati is facing her second divorce. Together with her son, the filmmaker, she tries to understand what really led to it. Past traumas float to the surface as one question constantly echoes in the background – what keeps people together and what separates them? >>
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THE DEVIL NEXT DOOR is the true story of John Demjanjuk, a retired Ukrainian-American autoworker living a peaceful life with his family in Cleveland, Ohio suburbs in the 1980s. When a group of Holocaust survivors identify Demjanjuk’s photograph as “Ivan the Terrible” – a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard who tortured and killed nearly […] >>
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A week before her wedding, 28-year-old Ada was diagnosed with ovarian and uterine cancer. In light of their new reality, Ada and her husband Vlad learn how to maintain a loving and healthy relationship, albeit the difficulty following the diagnosis of the disease. Despite everything Ada continues to choose life. >>
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To this day, only sixteen people in the world have earned the title of World Chess Champion. Boris Gelfand of Rishon LeZion was the first Israeli to compete for the title. All his life Boris prepared for the occasion. From the age of six, he was raised to be a chess champion. His father devoted […] >>
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OUTSIDER. FREUD is a new creative documentary film, that takes us on a journey into the life and work of Freud in four acts – a combination of animations, dreams, leading psychoanalysts in the world, in a thought-provoking journey about Judaism, biography, psychoanalysis, and the role of marginalization as a strategy of power in shaping […] >>
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In 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, an Israeli paratroop company was ordered to guard hundreds of Lebanese war prisoners for 10 hours. #Schoolyard: An Untold Story is the anatomy of a murder – the step by step, blow by blow, memory by memory chronicle of a horrible moment in Israeli military history. >>
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Esther, Emmanuel and Michal were born in Israel to migrant parents from Nigeria. In a moment of despair, they were torn away from their Israeli existence to a Nigerian reality, unable to continue their studies, living for a time on the streets. When Esther celebrated her eighteenth birthday she managed to return to Israel on […] >>
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The flat, on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv, was where my grandparents lived since they immigrated to Palestine. Were it not for the view from the windows, one might have thought that the flat was in Berlin. There it was, furnished with heavy European pieces, with the best of German […] >>
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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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From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to Drifting – 1983. Robie, a gay film director, is asked by the Gay Association to direct a vampire musical in Independence Park (an old cruising site in Tel Aviv). When betrayal and lust on the set takes over, Robie’s attempt to direct the musical […] >>
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He drew sketches on tiny pieces of paper and sent them, from the trenches, to a young cellist who was waiting for him in Berlin. She thought he was a genius, and after WW1 she helped him become the busiest architect in Germany. When she planned to leave him for a communist poet, he built […] >>


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