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In a technologically saturated world, a young Jerusalemite with a longing for human contact and addiction to screens, goes on a digital journey in search of a mysterious girl with whom he is in contact only through digital means and loses his identity online. >>
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I ran away from home last October, just when the war started. In this liminal time, I encountered both the beauty and grief of being connected and attached. >>
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At the age of 30, Ella receives a mysterious suitcase with home tapes from the 1990s, which have been kept secret to this day. The videotapes uncover her mother’s, the singer Dafna Armony, life. This happens while Ella is helping her mother pack up and move – another consecutive move forced upon her due to […] >>
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The film was produced in the framework of the “Souvenirs” program – a film lab for Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers in the Old City of Jerusalem. The film follows pilgrims walking the path of Jesus on his way to the crucifixion. While immersed in their religious experience, the daily reality in the old city unfolds. >>
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One Street in Silwan tells the story of “Batan al-Hawa” Street (East Jerusalem), which overlooks the Temple Mount and serves as a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On one side of the street, live Israeli settlers in a house that once belonged to an evicted Palestinian family. On the other side, a Palestinian family faces […] >>
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The story of the Druze community in the Golan Heights—conquered in 1967 and annexed by Israel in 1981—is told through two characters from Majdal Shams: 19-year-old Aya, who dreams of joining Israel’s national hockey team and is willing to accept Israeli citizenship to achieve her goal, and her older uncle Ayoub, a journalist and farmer […] >>
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Hidden among the viral videos of YouTube are the most private teenage diaries, which slowly and gently follow them growing up. For years, the camera is pointed towards them allowing us to be with them during their most fragile, painful, confusing and amusing phases of growing up, trying to become the person they dream of […] >>
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Miriam (33), leaves her family home heavily pregnant, and moves in with Nevo (31), her terminally ill brother, in a village in the south of Israel. Their connection creates a charged, emotional reunion, during which she can’t decide whether to give in to the pressure and move him to a medical facility, or keep him […] >>
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Aya awaits her husband at the airport’s arrivals hall, but following an innocent mix-up, she pickes up a complete stranger instead. An immediate sense of intimacy sparks between the two, but ends abruptly when the man disappears, leaving Aya with a key to his hotel room and a yearning that perhaps only a complete stranger […] >>
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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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The film “Ben David” tells the story of the complex relationship between a religious Israeli Secret Service officer, and his teenage settler informant. The film present the difficulties in recruiting ISA (‘Shabak’) source from the ‘Hilltop Youth’ for information about ‘price tag’, while presenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a new angle, as an internal conflict […] >>
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The story of the pork industry in Israel, an industry that has raised ethnic tensions and heated struggles over the country’s short history. Sitting firmly between Israel’s most essential identity issues and the fundamental right to freedom of choice, how did the unsuspecting pig turn into such a central taboo in the Jewish tradition and […] >>
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After losing a custody case, Maya realizes that unless she commits an extreme act, her ex-wife will disappear along with their mutual daughter, Shai-Li. On that same day, Maya shows up at her daughter’s kindergarten and takes her for some “quality time” with no intention of bringing her back. >>
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A Song of Loves – R. David Buzaglo
Rabbi David Buzaglo was the greatest Hebrew liturgical poet of the twentieth century. Born in Morocco in 1903, his literary output had a major impact on a community of hundreds of thousands of people. From his prolific period in the Diaspora to the years he spent in a ruptured Israel, Buzaglo’s poetry has initiated an […] >>
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Arna Mer Khamis was a legendary activist against the Israeli occupation. Born into a Jewish family, she married a Palestinian Arab and and moved to the West Bank. She founded an alternative education system for Palestinian children whose lives had been disrupted by the Israeli occupation. In the Jenin refugee camp, Arna opened a theatre […] >>


With the support of the Ministry of Culture - The Israel Film Council