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On Purim 1994, Dr. Baruch Goldstein fired 119 bullets at a group of Arab worshippers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. The horrible massacre motivated Prime Minister Rabin’s government to ban the “Kach” and “Kahane Chai” movements. However, Israel’s extreme right reorganized immediately to oppose the peace process, culminating with Yigal Amir shooting three bullets, […] >>
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On the precipice of losing her fertility,Rosa, a filipina migrant worker, tries to conceive a child with a younger man. This sends her on a strange spiritual journey, that brings her to a place where Jerusalem is just out of reach, on the fine line between deliverance and random absurdity. >>
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Israel Bar-On, a past winner of the Israeli version of “American Idol”, sets out on a journey back to the music industry and the limelight. >>
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Naomi Golan, daughter of producer and filmmaker Menachem Golan, travels to India following her father while he shoots “The Return from India” in hopes of repairing their troubled relationship. After many years of failed attempts, Naomi decides to talk to her father in the only language he understands – the language of film. She puts […] >>
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Based on a story by Lydia Davis, the film depicts a surreal symbolic deconstruction of the society through the eyes of a little girl. This short film is a part of a new cultural venture called ‘StoryVid’, combining a short story reading with visual videography. >>
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The relationship between 15-year-old Hemi, and his conservative father is taking a down turn. Hemi is forced to take swimming lessons like his father wanted him to, but feels more like he’s drowning emotionally. Everything is about to change when he takes a trial dance class, and something stirs up within him. Between classes he […] >>
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One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection between the dream and their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the […] >>
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Tamara and Adam, a wild unstable couple, are about to become parents and their life is a mess. Just before being evacuated from their apartment in Tel Aviv, Tamara decides to search for their new home in Adam’s home town Haifa. During one unforgettable day of apartment hunting, the journey to find a home turns […] >>
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Erez, a rising swimming star, arrives at a godforsaken training camp. The winner of the competition there wins one ticket to the Olympics. And then there is Nevo, beautiful and gifted, who awakens subconscious desires in Erez. >>
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The Samaritan: A Biblical People
Good Samaritan laws protect do-gooders and Good Samaritan hospitals heal us. Samaritans appear in our holy texts— in the Bible, the Talmud, and the Quran. The Samaritan people today number 850 souls, down from a million in the time of Jesus. They are split between Israelis and Palestinians. The Samaritans may soon go extinct, a […] >>
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Three soldiers are ambushed while returning to their post. They manage to escape and hide in the home of a Palestinian couple while they await their rescue team. Hostility and lack of communication prevail between the soldiers and the couple, until a small detail is revealed which helps them find common ground. The two sides […] >>
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This is the story of The Midrashia, the mothership of religious Zionism in Israel, “the Mother of all high school yeshivas”. It’s a story about an educational start-up, founded before the establishment of the State, having produced thousands of quality students that placed themselves in all the centers of power in Israel. This is a […] >>
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“Little Victories” is a dramatic-comic film that tells the story of Tamar and Michal, two Tel-Avivian mothers and members of a catch-ball team, and of “Coach Moodie”, a charismatic and somewhat odd man, who is determined to release them from their net of daily battles and make them fall in love with a completely different […] >>
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If you ever thought that love and attraction between a man and a woman are spontaneous and irrational, think again. An entire industry of books, workshops and tutorials is teaching men how to be successful with women and how to become ‘Seduction Artists’. The film follows the story of three young men that have become […] >>


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