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A man learns from a Moroccan fortune-teller that his sister is about to die. Together, they embark upon a fictional journey in an attempt to alter the prediction, revisiting the past and the present to defy an implacable future. But the prophecy still shadows them – as in life, so in cinema. Black Notebooks – […] >>
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Micha, the director and protagonist of this film, is very disturbed by historian Uri Milstein’s upcoming, in-depth investigation into what really happened during the Battle of Sultan Yacoub, during the First Lebanon War. In the name of military camaraderie, he supports Ira, the battalion commander, as he prepares for his interviews with Milstein. After all, […] >>
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Avi and Yuval’s relationship was solid, until the devastating news arrived. Their son Nadav, a soldier in the Israeli army, was killed in Gaza. For three years, they each tried to cope with their individual pain, a process which slowly drove them apart. Then Yuval (47) announced: “I want another child.” The film follows the […] >>
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After being forced by tragic circumstances to put her only daughter, fathered by a Muslim Bedouin man, up for adoption, an Israeli woman returns to Israel many years later to find her lost child. She soon finds herself along with her director friend in an unusual cinematic creation of her life, a voyage that covers […] >>
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82-year-old Elisheva Rise passed away. After her death, her children clear out her home, and find some journals she secretly wrote to each of her seven children, documenting 57 years from their birth to the day she died. It was her life’s work. Every evening she would sit in her home in Kibbutz Ein Tzurim […] >>
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Tzipora And Rachel Are Not Dead
After 30 years of failed efforts, Tahel (Rachel at birth) finally persuades her sister Tzipora to leave Abarbanel Psychiatric Hospital and move in with her. Together, the two sisters challenge and dismantle language – both verbal and cinematic – until once again it becomes a tool they can use to speak the silence, the oblivion, […] >>
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The moment Neurobiologists discovered how to copy human memories to a hard drive, Mankind began abandoning the physical world for a virtual reality called Second Life. In the wake of a growing shortage in memory storage, it was decided to minimize human interaction, and speech was outlawed. When finally remained in the physical reality, only […] >>
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On the morning of his daughter’s birthday, Natan (73) decides to throw a big party. He wakes Hagar (69) and expects her to get up and help organize. They start the morning organizing the house for a party, hanging balloons and baking a cake. When hagar can’t find any strawberries for the cake, Natan volunteers […] >>
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“Warm snow” is an animation short about the relationship between a father and his grown up daughter. It starts out in an ordinary situation with the father and daughter sitting at the kitchen table. The daughter is waiting for her food to get warm and is annoyed by her father’s questions and suggestions. The situation […] >>
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Three characters produce a portrait of the Siemens workers’ neighborhood in Berlin, which became an open museum of the International Style buildings. A lonely worker who yearns for the good old Siemens days, a Jewish single mother who lives in a building from the Nazi regime, and a girl from a family of Ghanaian immigrants […] >>
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On Purim 1994, Dr. Baruch Goldstein fired 119 bullets at a group of Arab worshippers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. The horrible massacre motivated Prime Minister Rabin’s government to ban the “Kach” and “Kahane Chai” movements. However, Israel’s extreme right reorganized immediately to oppose the peace process, culminating with Yigal Amir shooting three bullets, […] >>
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This sociological journey back in time began over twenty years ago when several families were evicted from their homes. They got together and squatted in an abandoned building in Jaffa for two years. The children of all ages who lived there grew up around violence and poverty —but also solidarity. They saw the power of […] >>
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The following story of Aviv Talmor, a frustrated poet and literature teacher from Tel Aviv, is true…mostly. Aviv is informed that his father whom he had never known, has died, bequeathing him one Israeli lira (less than one penny). Aviv embarks upon a legal battle over his inheritance as part of his brave and painful […] >>
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Lost Angeles – Musical Documentary
In the past 30 years, Yosef Hurriye has worked in the chaotic watchmaker’s shop he inherited from his father. Yosef was the town genius, but his hometown was no place for genius children; Today he is 60, with mounting debts and looming local elections he decides it’s time. Against all odds he decides to run […] >>