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Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: Times are pretty bad, right? So they tell us day and night! The radio and television do not stop chanting, and with each bombing the reporter is a poet. >>
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In his interpretation to Ben Marcus’ story, director Nir Bergman brings a disturbing apocalyptic world in which the individual no longer exits. This description of what our world might look like in the near future, deals with the authorities’ control, with the invisible marginalized people in a society, and the suppression of the ‘other’. This […] >>
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Have No Fear of Walking Alone into that Dark Night
From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva My grandmother contracted the coronavirus. She lives alone. She’s in a risk group. These are difficult days. I am in a tower at one end of town, and she’s at the other end. Communication between us is done over the phone. It’s hard to be apart, […] >>
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The Museum is a film that observes, examines and ponders Israel’s most important cultural institution, the Israel Museum. The film follows the visitors, observes the observers, listens to the speakers and descends to the storerooms, labs and conference rooms. The American museum director, the singing security guard, the Jerusalemite curator, the Haredi kashrut inspector, the […] >>
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Mohorosh, an admired American Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi, establishes an extreme and segregated cult between Israel and Brooklyn. Going from underage marriages to sexual assaults, through house burndowns to big money flowing into the Rabbi’s pockets. This corruption went on for decades, yet no one ever dared expose the painful truth. When the Rabbi died, an ugly […] >>
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At 80 years of age, Colonel David Rokni prepares to command the national ceremony on Israel’s Independence Day. Just like in each of the last 30 years, he goes through an arduous series of training, routine formation and foot drills for the traditional military parade – a job of which no other person is capable. […] >>
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Daphna, 41, who was until recently a promising detective in the major city of Tel Aviv, finds herself in small town Afula, dealing with petty crimes, seeking shade from the heat, and dodging the nagging question: “how come you don’t have any children?” The disappearance of Orly Elimeleh ,36, a beautiful and rebellious army widow, […] >>
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A journey following a belief beginning with stars and ending in the Kibbutz. Over a decade ago, Alain left everything to live a spiritual life in Germany. One day he returns home. As the filmmaker gets closer to the grandfather she never had, she asks him to look at who was left behind. A fragile […] >>
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Yichia (14) and Hamam (8) come from a village in the area of Tul Karem, in the Palestinian Authority. While their parents and elder siblings cannot cross checkpoints to enter the state of Israel, the two brothers work as child beggars. The young children find themselves serving as the sole providers for their family of […] >>
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Igor, Avner, Kipnis and Leon are residents in the psychiatric ward ‘Brosh’ in the Abarbanel Mental Hospital. Each one has a dream. This film traces their pursuit of their dreams. The film evolved from a creative collaboration with the residents of a mental institutions. >>
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After Midnight, The City’s Darkest Secret
Alon Kastiel, a convicted sex offender, operated in Tel Aviv for a whole decade, unhindered. One Facebook post changed everything, opening up the floodgates. 17 women filed official complaints and for a moment it seemed like justice would be served, but Kastiel was convicted of lesser offenses in a plea bargain. He was sentenced to […] >>
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The film documents the struggle of a middle-aged woman from Yavneh who sets out in search of her husband, Danny Sa’il, who was a member of the Israeli Black Panthers organization, and disappeared twenty years earlier under mysterious political circumstances. His wife, Mazal Sa’il, is considered an agunah under Jewish law and is forbidden from […] >>
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The Hebron Hills garbage dump serves the Israeli settlements in the area and is a source of an eked-out livelihood for 200 Palestinian families from in and around the Palestinian village of Yatta. The stories of eleven-year-old Harun, seventeen-year-old Ibrahim, forty-year-old Yusuf, and sixty-year-old Badawi, expose a daily struggle for subsistence in an inescapable reality […] >>
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Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers took part in a 10-day film lab in the Old City of Jerusalem, and the resulting anthology of four films breaths energy and life into the stories of the city, opening a window into the lives of the locals, who are regularly overlooked by tour guides: a 144 year old family […] >>