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Ten artists, with language as an essential part of their life, speak about the relationship between their mother tongue, and Hebrew, Israel’s official language. Sometimes these artists live between two languages, and sometimes they do not speak the other language, but its music continues to echo… >>
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Morad lived in an Arab village in the north of Israel. He was socially popular, loved by his family, an athlete, and a good student. One night, during the fall of 2006, he was cruelly beaten by his classmates, who mistakenly accused him of having an affair with their engaged cousin. Physically, he recovered within […] >>
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A couple drives in the desert in a reality show, while filming themselves with head cameras. A Fata Morgana (mirage) on the road causes an accident. To avoid consequences, they hide the evidence and re-shoot everything the footage. But like the mirage they saw, nothing is as it seems. >>
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Listen to me: there is life without love. Loneliness is the soul’s forgotten desire. You don’t need anyone. Don’t search, don’t hope, don’t dream; and only then, perhaps, you too will learn how to be alone.” Based on Screenplay adapted from the short story” How To Be Alone” by Orna Coussin. >>
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Yael returns from India to the Kibbutz, where she lives with her mother, with her leg in a cast. She yearns for a room of her own, outside her mother’s house. Will Yael be willing to pay the price for her own space? >>
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Alma attempts to create a perfect family for herself, on top of the ruins of her broken one. She invites her new boyfriend, who is two decades older than her, to Shabbat dinner at her mother’s house, only to discover that her father intends to destroy everything. >>
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Seven women arrive in Israel by ship in the 1950s and 1960s and are sent straight to Dimona, a town recently established in the desert. They now open up and share their life stories that have never before been told from their perspectives. What happened during the first fifteen years to the girls and women […] >>
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in Kibbutz Mafalsim, 4 kilometers from the Gaza border, inside a small apartment, through a window overlooking a big tree, we see A frame within a frame of the changing landscape of reality, before and after October 7th. While the exterior view remains untouched, the overwhelming feelings of uncertainty and fear are flooding these four […] >>
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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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Uri Avnery: A Warrior for Peace
This biography of veteran peace activist Uri Avneri follows both his personal and political life in a detailed account combining new, revealing interviews with original archival footage. At 79, Uri Avneri is still a complex, respected figure of the Israeli radical left who is a lifetime proponent of Israeli-Palestianian peace.He is a controversial figure who […] >>
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In a Jerusalem suburb, fifteen young American drug addicts, abandoned by their Hassidic families, share both pain and great hope that Eric – another recovering addict – will save them from death. >>
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From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva Danny (31, AKA “Sweetie”) is desperate to meet another human being after spending 14 days in quarantine. All she can see on the balconies of the buildings across the street are couples. Staring at them only underlines how difficult it is for her to be single […] >>


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