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Dancing in Jaffa

Sundance Selects Picks Up Documentary 'Dancing in Jaffa'

Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights Hilla Medalia's documentary Dancing in Jaffa, which follows ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine as he returns to his hometown in Jaffa, Israel, his to..View More

posted June 18, 2013 in News | Permalink

A Dancer, A Pole and a Movie

Poles Apart

The Israeli film industry has achieved so many "firsts" in recent years: seven Oscar nominations in five years, first Israeli film to win the top prize at Venice, and so many others. Here's another..View More

posted June 16, 2013 in News | Permalink

The Attack

The Effort to Stop ‘The Attack’

Several months before his native country decided to ban his new film about the husband of a Palestinian suicide bomber, the Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri got into a car with tinted windows and set..View More

posted June 14, 2013 in News | Permalink

Fill the Void

Israeli Film ‘Fill the Void’ is Jane Austen for Jews

The cloistered confines of Haredi society are no stranger to Israeli television and film, which has long been fascinated by the isolated enclaves of the ultra-Orthodox. But unlike those depictions,..View More

posted June 11, 2013 in News | Permalink

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Burning Mooky (2008)

Mooky Bo'era

Directed by: Lina Chaplin, Slava Chaplin

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During Mooky's adolescence, which is shadowed by his mother Tinka's seductive nature, he contends with unrequited love for one young woman and a sado-masochistic relationship with another. Mooky to.. View More
A Universal Language

A Universal Language (2013)

Directed by: Igal Hecht

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Sumna's Letter (2011)

Ha-Mikhtav shel Sumna

Directed by: Timna Goldstein Chatab, Hadar Kleinman

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Hannah Star was adopted as an infant from Romania to Israel and was sent to a boarding school at age 13.  As she approaches her 18 birthday, she decides to go on a journey in search of her and.. View More

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