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Tomer wears two hats as both the manager of a trendy Tel Aviv coffee house and as the youth director for a group of teenagers in the small town of Azur. The film explores Tomer’s personal odyssey over a period of two years as he helps the jaded youth group members navigate moments of estrangement […] >>
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Gadi Abaje is a 23-year-old Ethiopian immigrant, whose Christian mother was forced to stay in Ethiopia. He lives on the margins of Israeli society – in Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station, supporting himself by petty thefts, and has a dream of turning the bus station’s P.A. system into a radio station that will serve as both […] >>
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A young filmmaker meets and follows Raya, a 94-year-old Soviet war heroine who fought in the Siege of Leningrad. As Head of the World War II Disabled Veterans Club in her city, she introduces him to a vanishing generation in Israel. Her own fighting spirit and willpower are still fierce. As Raya faces the loss […] >>
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Anat, a young woman, looks outside her bedroom window, Her grandfather, who passed away, appears outside the window and the city disappears. >>
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The film follows a day in the life of three young teens living in a neglected ghost town in post-Soviet Europe. >>
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After being convicted of espionage, ostracized by her people, and marked as a traitor, Israeli whistleblower Anat Kamm tried to rebuild her life in NYC. She goes and graduates from Columbia University, but her past still haunts her. Unable to find employment and extend her visa, she is forced to return to Israel. In her […] >>
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To Be Like Avi is the coming-of-age story of three friends, refugees who fled Africa and left their families behind. They study in the Galilee and dream of following in the footsteps of Avi (formally Ibrahim), the only refugee who somehow obtained an Israeli citizenship and enlisted in the IDF. The film follows them during […] >>
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The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev
Tajikistan’s answer to the Jackson Family. A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family, controlled by their charismatic, funny, yet overbearing patriarch, Papa Alaev, who at the age of 80 is starting to lose his grip on the ‘family business’, sending the clan on a rocky and unsure transition from Monarchy to Democracy. >>
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When my dying mother, Alegria, asks me, Meirav , a former detective, to stop the curse on the family, and on my brother Victor, I give her my word. My mother doesn’t remember that the curse already took my brother’s life. As I try to understand what this terrible thing was that my grandfather Victor […] >>
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Dasi, an Ultra-Orthodox woman, makes a pact with God – she will donate a kidney to a stranger and in return, her daughter will mend her ways. But she is put to the test – just before the surgery, she discovers that the recipient is an Arab woman. >>
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Moments in Isolation Israel 2020
Nine filmmakers, confined to their homes during the Covid-19 lockdown, share fragments of their isolation experience: Manya is on the phone, speaking in Russian to lonely elderly people; Omer is on the phone to his Grandmother, infected with Covid-19. On the other side of town – Danny is smoking alone on her balcony and Reuven […] >>
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In 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, an Israeli paratroop company was ordered to guard hundreds of Lebanese war prisoners for 10 hours. #Schoolyard: An Untold Story is the anatomy of a murder – the step by step, blow by blow, memory by memory chronicle of a horrible moment in Israeli military history. >>
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Mom’s food, the touch of her hands, Taste of her stories. Six women from Yeruham take the stage with the spotlight on them. Cutting tomatoes, frying garlic and hot peppers, with the smells filling up the nostrils and the mouth salivating. They cook and tell each other of themselves. The music rises and so does […] >>
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Women Between the Holy and the Profane
They give birth to children year after year. Raising them, carrying on their shoulders ever-growing household and serving their husbands who spend their days praying and learning. Even though the higher purpose of raising an ultra-Orthodox family with multiple children, they remain independent. A documentary four-year in the making reveals the unconventional struggles with unconventional […] >>