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The film follows Azmi, 56, who recovered drug addict, who was imprisoned for drug trafficking, and was released from jail, with connections and knowledge, which led him to pursue a life of crime for many years. Then, he decided to own up to his drug problem, clean up and leave the life of crime. Instead […] >>
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The flat, on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv, was where my grandparents lived since they immigrated to Palestine. Were it not for the view from the windows, one might have thought that the flat was in Berlin. There it was, furnished with heavy European pieces, with the best of German […] >>
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Inbal Perlmutter- If You Let Me Go
Many remember the evening of Rosh Ha’Shana 25 years ago, when the news announced that 26-year-old Inbal Perlmutter was killed in a car crash. Despite her young age, the rebellious rocker had already achieved fame as lead singer for Ha’Mechashefot. Her career, as well as her personal life, had been turbulent, up until the inevitable […] >>
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The film is about my young sister, Hadar, who shortly after the birth of her eldest daughter, developed Guillain–Barré syndrome overnight. Paralyzed, mechanically ventilated and unable to speak, she implored through her alphabetical board: “film me!” “57 Muscles” captures life’s fleetingness and follows Hadar’s continuous struggle to regain control of her life. >>
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China is one of the first countries in the world to label overuse of the Internet a clinical condition. To combat what authorities deem the greatest social crisis for youth today, the Chinese government has created treatment facilities to detox and cure teenagers of their addictions to online life. But what starts out as an […] >>
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The fascinating story of the special friendship forged between two women: Perla Ubitsch, the last remnant of a family of dwarfs that survived Dr. Mengele’s cruel experiments in Auschwitz, and researcher Hannelore Witkovsky, a German Protestant born after the war. Filmed in both Germany and Israel, the documentary accompanies Hannelore on her quest to find […] >>
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In the winter of 2006 13-year-old Tair Rada was found dead inside a locked toilet stall at her school on the northern tip of Israel. A week later the police arrested Roman Zdorov, a Ukrainian Immigrant, who had worked there as a temp, and eventually he confessed to the murder. But many still believed he […] >>
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During the Second Lebanon War, Motti and Keren, a young religious couple from the north of Israel, look for a place to stay to escape the tense situation in their hometown. They find themselves at Yali and Boaz’s bourgeois apartment in Tel Aviv. Due to differences between the couples, conflicts begin to arise. The apartment […] >>
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The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes
A few weeks before the opening of the Eichmann trial, transcripts of recorded conversations that Adolf Eichmann had with a Dutch Nazi journalist, Willem Sassen, were mysteriously handed over to prosecutor Gideon Hausner. The conversations were held a few years before Eichmann was brought to Israel by the Mossad. During the trial, Eichmann tried to […] >>
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A young couple camps in the countryside. At night their dog goes missing and they find someone else is walking the woods… the couple sets out to confront what lurks in the depths of the forest. >>
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Past present and future mix in this eloquent and intense portrait of documentary filmmaker David Fisher and his siblings, as they retrace the footsteps of their late father—a Holocaust survivor who was interned in Gusen and Gunskirchen, Austria. David’s journey takes him to the U.S., where he meets American WWII veterans who participated in the […] >>
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Short:Long – A Tribute to Israeli Cinema
A tribute to Israeli cinema upon reaching its 80th anniversary. A unique artistic project of young, vibrant filmmaking, which stems from Israel’s cinematic past. 9 Young filmmakers showcased 8 short films, inspired by local classics.This homages bring together the next generation of Israeli cinema with past legends such as Uri Zohar, Savi Gabizon, Boaz Davidson, Raffi […] >>
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The children of illegal workers in Israel live out their seemingly normal everyday lives in the shadow of the constant fear of deportation.This film focuses on the world of the children of illegal foreign workers who are forced to deal with a complex reality which includes tough questions regarding their identity. The children’s dreams, pastimes, […] >>
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This film is an Israeli coming-of-age story. The 1990s saw the birth of a new youth culture in Israel – Trance – based on enormous parties set in nature, on computerized music, on New Age ideas and on drugs. In a short time, the trance party phenomenon in the Israeli periphery grew to proportions with […] >>