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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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David Fisher, the director of this film, lost his parents one after the other, leaving him and his four siblings with a 45-year-old mystery. For two years he’s been searching for his sister, who was taken as a day-old infant from his mother’s bed in the maternity hospital. His parents, both Holocaust survivors, arrived in […] >>
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Two years ago a prison revolt was brutally suppressed by Warden Ronny Lefkowitz and his guards. Beersheba Prison now seems quiet, but sounds of discontent still seethe among the inmates. Lefkowitz is about to retire and the appointment of his successor, Shlomo Twizer, raises tensions and expectations among the prisoners and guards. Twizer grew up […] >>
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A group of young Ethiopians in a neighborhood in Ashdod, go to war against the local police who control terror in the neighborhood. They kidnap a policeman who deliberately caused the death of one of their friends in order to change the rules of the game against the establishment. The group is led by two […] >>
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Michal a young single mother, raising her daughter, Keren-Or, between the old depressing tenements of Afula and Jerusalem. Michal is on a journey toward her independence Trying to give Keren-Or the life she never had. Michal wants to give Keren-Or a stable family experience, unlike the one she knew due to her difficult relationship with […] >>
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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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From the first hand-print on the cave wall, through the footprint on the moon, into our Facebook wall full of memories of our lives – we are trying everything possible give our temporary and crumbling body, a print into time. Our work creates a space where people can experience giving a physical expression to body […] >>
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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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Boxer Johar Abu Lashin dreams of winning a world title in Nazareth and then in his hometown of Gaza, but faces challenges amidst the political situation in the Middle East. Can his journey to winning a title prize in the ring make him a hero in the eyes of both Israelis and Palestinians? >>
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Aya is young, sensitive and very much in love. Love, in fact, is her essence. When she realizes that her boyfriend is about to break up with her, she runs away in a desperate attempt to hide from the inevitable. >>
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In the Spring of 1945, Holocaust survivor and psychologist Lena Kuchler single handedly created a home for orphaned Jewish children in Krakow, Poland, following World War II. In 1949, a wave of violent anti-Semitism forced Lena to flee with the children to France and later to Israel where Lena says goodbye to the children as […] >>
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One night, while delivering pizza to a middle-aged man, Ariel, a teenager, spots Olimpia, a hyper-realistic woman-like sex doll lying on the bed. He tells his friends (a boy and a girl) and they decide to steal Olimpia. Soon after, they’re drawn into a youthful game that quickly spirals out of control. >>
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Although he spent most of his life fighting ethnic discrimination, Yosef Shiloah is best remembered by the public for his comedic roles in Bourekas films. Yet behind the clownish image that clung to him was a deep, complex, and courageous artist who sought to change Israeli reality. He met with Yasser Arafat in his office […] >>


With the support of the Ministry of Culture - The Israel Film Council