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Debbie Lasri celebrates her 51st birthday in a psychiatric ward. Riva, her partner, arrives at the ward with Michal, her video-therapy student, hired to make a personal video with Debbie. Michal is drawn into Debbie’s world, but her story is full of gaps. As curiosity and over-motivation become an obsession, Michal crosses the lines looking […] >>
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Like many of those who survived the horrors of the Holocaust, Moshe Knebel has difficulty talking about his past with his children. They each have collected bits and pieces over the years, but none have the complete picture. Unlike other survivors, Moshe Knebel’s story is not just a story of survival, it is a story […] >>
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Haifa Bay, the third biggest metropolis in Israel is a polluted and sick area, the back yard of the country. In its heart 25% of Israel’s most polluting industries, morbidity is souring and the population is decreeing. What is the future of Haifa Bay? Engulfed in governmental cessation, overrun by powerful industrial moguls? A group […] >>
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A folkloristic fantasy that takes place during the Russian immigration to Israel in the 90’s. Elina is a young immigrant who lives with her grandma in a small desert town, trying to fit in with her peers and overcome her mother’s abandonment. Until a strange genetic phenomena interrupts – her body starts to grow feathers. […] >>
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Itzik is the proud father of young twins. Conceiving seemed an impossible task, but after fifteen years of trying, his wife Ruthie got pregnant. She was already in her mid-fifties, while he approached 70. Suddenly, their home is flooded with joy. Despite their meager means and late entry into parenthood, they are able to provide […] >>
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A short documentary about a house and characters that cannot be shown. Two israeli tenants create a miniature world of found-objects. On a desk, with changing sceneries, they tell the story of the different narratives colliding in the Palestinian house they rent. >>
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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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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 the day to day life, fun and games of the children in the Old City of Jerusalem, over their summer vacation. >>
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Decades after leaving the entertainment world to become an ultra-Orthodox Rabi, Uri Zohar, one of the founders of Israeli cinema, is once again directing a film. With the help of a group of young film school graduates, Zohar directs a film about a successful dancer discovering her faith who, much like Uri Zohar’s own personal […] >>
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In a Jerusalem suburb, fifteen young American drug addicts, abandoned by their Hassidic families, share both pain and great hope that Eric – another recovering addict – will save them from death. >>
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A six-part series about six Israeli Prime Ministers, who try to look back on and examine the biggest decisions they made in office, how justified they were in real time and whether their outcomes stand the test of time. The series deals with Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, Shimon Peres […] >>
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A visual poem about a wishy washy relationship, the yearning for childhood and a choir of girls. >>
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Mike Brant – Laisse Moi t’Aimer
Mike Brant’s body was found on the sidewalk on Arlanz’e St. in the 16th quarter of Paris, on the morning of Friday, April 25th, 1975. He was lying on his back, facing the sky, in a blue shirt and barefoot. Seemingly intact on the outside, but shattered to bits on the inside, he was 28 […] >>
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Vita Activa, The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
A personal spiritual biography of the Jewish philosopher, Hannah Arendt, who coined the controversial phrase “The Banality of Evil,” in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. The movie tracks the connections between her life story and her thinking, through rare archival footage demonstrating the Banality of Evil. Her Ideas on the nature of Evil, pluralism, Freedom, […] >>
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Yonatan is asked to come see his grandmother on her deathbed with his judgmental older brother. On their nightly train ride the two siblings turn against each other, as the looming encounter with death threatens to tear down Yonatan’s walls of apathy. >>


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