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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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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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Roni, who fights to preserve her special relationship with her twin brother Alon, goes through a journey that leads her to realize that true love for him means respecting his choices, even at the cost of separation. >>
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Alon, the film’s director, returns to a traumticexperience during their nights as a sex worker in Jerusalem. Through the power of cinema, they seek to reclaim control over a painful memory — and to retell the story that left a lasting scar. >>
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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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Yasmin is accused of helping her brothers kill their sister over a forbidden love affair. She and Nizar, the film’s director, set out to find the murdered sister’s grave. The search emerges as a metaphor for the political relationship between men and women, a relationship based mainly on the struggle for power. >>
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When my father, Meir Ariel, got into the Medical Cannabis Industry he never realized that after nine years he will be struggling to build the first production logistics factory of medical cannabis in Israel.And so, our family found itself joining my father’s dream and taking key roles in the company.This movie follows my father at […] >>
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A photo found by the filmmaker in her grandmother’s house after her death seems strange. She has a pregnant belly. But she had told the story of adopting the director’s father because she was not able to conceive. Her old friends explain that the kibbutz decided state-building efforts preclude giving birth, and she had an […] >>
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Ruchama, an elderly and devoted wife, tries to maintain a normal life for her and her paralyzed husband in Tel Aviv. A French tourist by the name of Piere reminds her of all she has given up on for the sake of her marriage. She is swept away for a moment, but having re-discovered her […] >>
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Ever since Europe closed its gates to African refugees, thousands of Eritreans have fled the brutal dictatorship in their homeland and traveled north, to Israel. Many were seized by Bedouin smugglers as they crossed the Sinai desert. They are now held in camps and tortured until they pay a ransom. This film follows Eritrean radio […] >>
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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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A literary-documentary journey into Block 461 in Ma’alot. The film presents cooperation and confrontation between documentary expression and the literary text written by the novelist Sara Shilo. The Neighborhood – “This is a tolerant neighborhood, like the seashore. Wave after wave of immigrant families have broken on it for decades.” Snow-White – “Snow fell in […] >>
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Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: Life as a banal game; our leaders are children; the ability to press “pause” has not yet been proven, but nor has it been entirely ruled out; we hope that the ending will be pastoral. >>
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The film dives into the childhood memories of 10-year-old Rosalie in a Jerusalem slum, when her father leaves home. While Rosalie escapes to the gum trees of the Galapagos islands, her mother, a French immigrant, tries to preserve the delicate ideal of a family. Both try to remain hopeful, while delving into a world of […] >>
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“A journey through Kabbalah, heroin, chaos and redemption. For 10 years I’ve filmed my mother’s and my own life change dramatically. Mom, a holocaust survivor, married Rabbi Ashlag when she was 45 and he 40 years older. He taught her the secrets of Kabbalah and then passed away. Since then mom, Rebbetizin Faiga, has been […] >>


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