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The Impure is a documentary film which brings to life a dark story which took place in Argentina in the early 20th century. The “Impure” was how the Argentinian Jewish pimps were called by the “normal” Jewish community. They were vicious organization leaders and brothel owners who practiced religious lives while trafficking thousands of unfortunate […] >>
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From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva As the world contends with the Covid-19 pandemic, a young man suffers a cardiac-arrest-like episode that no medical test seems to be able to explain. A tongue-in-cheek investigation into his own medical history helps him interpret the scientific language and rekindle his faith in the modern […] >>
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Every Saturday a group of elderly women and men carry plastic lawn chairs across the Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem. In the shade of an old pine tree, they sit in a circle and discuss various matters. For over two decades, the “Mt. Herzl Academy” has held its weekly meeting at this cemetery. Seated […] >>
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“Stains” takes place between two summers. In the summer of 2008 the director left for Ukraine with her camera to tell a story of abandonment: the relationship of an abandoned daughter and an alcoholic runaway father. But as he started telling his stories of escapes, lies, and life as an anarchist fugitive under Soviet rule, […] >>
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Simon danced in front of thousands in the prestigious theatre halls of Tbilisi, but in 1972 he left his home of Georgia and migrated to Israel. With a lack of stages and audiences for the craft he brought with him from Georgia, Simon was forced to give up his career as a dancer and become […] >>
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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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An apartment building in Jaffa is home to both Jews and Arabs, representing opposite extremes of the political spectrum. Haski is head of the tenants’ committee; Omar, a Muslim, hopes that things will change for the better; Charlie and Samia are Christian Arabs, trying to impart Christian values to their children; Itzik is Chairman of […] >>
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Itamar, a chubby and depressed young man, returns to his childhood home in the suburbs following a mental breakdown. As he struggles to get better under the care of his quirky and overprotective mother, old tensions about his sexual orientation arise – especially when he meets Ronen, a handsome lifeguard who leads him to confront […] >>
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On September 1993 Israeli Holocaust historian and Auschwitz expert, Prof. Gideon Greif, arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, accompanied by six of the last Israeli survivors of the “Sonderkommando” (‘The special squad’) – the squad of Jews forced by the Germans to serve as slaves at their killing installations in Auschwitz. At the camp, these ex-prisoners reconstruct the […] >>
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Forty years ago, while searching for his place in the world, Nissim Kahlon (67) made his home in a limestone cliff under the Apollonia National Park, north of the Herzliya coast. Amidst the sound of the waves and the fragile limestone mountain, he dug a cave to live in, to shield him from the heat […] >>
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In the year 2047, the government passes an amendment to the law of return stating that all Jews around the world must immigrate to Israel by the end of 2048. Through the stories of four young people, we learn what happened to Israel in the last hundred years and if it is the same Israel we […] >>
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The Opposite of Love is not Hate
A dark secret is lurking under the floorboards of the house the four siblings are about to sell. In this personal documentary, the intricate balance of one family; questions about parents, siblings – and the echoes of one person’s story within the family are examined. The memories of the four children are presented in a […] >>
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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 […] >>