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Tzuriel is 11 years old, looks like he’s 6 with the soul of a 60-year-old man. Born with a rare medical disorder, he cannot eat and is under constant supervision. His family is relentless in their care and love as Tzuriel discovers the world. >>
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This is the story of a girl who dreamt of being an officer in the IDF, who was a great patriot and who was shot and wounded in a 1978 terrorist attack on an El Al flight crew in London. Now a grown woman with daughters of her own, this mother does not allow them […] >>
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The film follows Azmi, 56, who recovered drug addict, who was imprisoned for drug trafficking, and was released from jail, with connections and knowledge, which led him to pursue a life of crime for many years. Then, he decided to own up to his drug problem, clean up and leave the life of crime. Instead […] >>
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Spring time. The desert sheds its winter foliage, obeying summer’s reign. The local Awassi sheep shearing season has arrived. Khadra Al Sana steps into her pickup truck on her way to oversee the sheep shearing process in the Negev. Shepherd after shepherd, flock after flock. Six months later, Khadra will return to the heart of […] >>
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Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: When concerned people living abroad ask me what will be, I tell them I’m about to have a son, and that they should ask him when he grows up. Although he’ll probably tell them to ask the next generation. A sort of cautious optimism for the coming fifty years. >>
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Thousands of young Israelis join “The journey to Poland” each year to learn about the Holocaust. Looking into the journey through the videos they upload on YouTube reveals a moving and troubling image of the Israeli narrative and the way collective memory is formed in the web age. >>
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The film evolves as a mysterious journey revealing a hidden matriarchal figure, inspired by my late grandmother and her memories of Oran, her native city on the northwestern Mediterranean coast of Algeria. The viewer experiences the journey through the perspective of a seeking figure, by passing along four miniature domestic spaces: the workplace, the shower, […] >>
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For years Leah has been abused by her husband, who suffers PTSD (Shell Shock). One evening with the help of her little daughter she decides to change her life. >>
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The Hoess family did everything they could to ignore the horror. The windows were boarded up so that they couldn’t see the chimneys and the gas chambers from their mansion. Family photos show children playing outside and other idyllic scenes that don’t betray the presence of the camp. The only things they couldn’t ignore, explains […] >>
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This film follows the Goren family over a period of 15 years as they are removed from the fishing village in the Israeli settlement of Dugit, located on the north of the Gaza Strip, near the Israeli border. In 1984 the Israeli government designated this area to establish a fishing village until it was dismantled […] >>
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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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Three prophets of rage offer three economic revolutions to restore Israeli society When you look forward on Israeli society, are you optimistic or pessimistic? Do you believe that women & man in Israel will ever reach true economic equality? Do you think Israeli economy is in good or bad shape? Can it be improved? What […] >>
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Women of Freedom follows the stories of women who were murdered in the name of ‘honor killing,’ women whose lives are under threat, women who survived murder attempts, even that of a killer expressing remorse. The documentary tries to unravel the social and political circumstances that have led to this custom. The murder of a […] >>
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Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. Among them are the Binghams, a dynasty of Kentucky pastors, and their Evangelical congregants in an impoverished coal-mining town. They donate sacrificially to Israel’s foremost philanthropic organization, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews because they fervently believe the Jews are crucial to Jesus’s […] >>


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