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        <item><title><![CDATA[Obsession’ won’t grip you]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[There are certain trends that are becoming apparent in the booming Israeli film industry, and one is that groups that have been overlooked by the movies in the past are finding their voices.

While Mizrahi Jews were never exactly ignored on film in the past, they were most often figures of fun.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/obsession-wont-grip-you</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Review: The Law in These Parts]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In "The Law in These Parts," one of Israel's most creative nonfiction filmmakers places judges and attorneys on the cinematic witness stand to explain Israel's contorted 45-year-old military legal structure governing Palestinians in the occupied territories. Adopting a post-modern method quite different from his remarkable "The Inner Tour," Ra'anan Alexandrowicz poses his questions from a legal angle, and finds these minds stumped by a system they've professionally defended. Pic's Sundance doc..]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/review-the-law-in-these-parts</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Israeli documentary on West Bank legal system wins prestigious Sundance prize]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Law in These Parts by Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, which deals with the IDF's court system, wins the film festival's World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/israeli-documentary-on-west-bank-legal-system-wins-prestigious-sundance-prize</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Israel and the Oscar]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cedar sees second Oscar nom, for 'Footnote']]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/israel-and-the-oscar</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Who's a hero?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After documenting West Bank checkpoints and anti-Semitism, filmmaker Yoav Shamir is now training his camera on the individuals who, despite all odds, help other people in distress. Last week, iconic filmmaker Michael Moore came on board.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/who-s-a-hero</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Israeli film industry is a surprising powerhouse]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The budgets are bare-bones and the talent pool is limited, but Israel has emerged as a surprising powerhouse in the foreign film industry.

The Israeli film "Footnote," up for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film this year, is Israel's fourth such nomination in the past five years, giving Israel more nominations during that period than any other country.
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/israeli-film-industry-is-a-surprising-powerhouse</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[The Law in These Parts: A View on Israel]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In 1979, a group of Palestinian farmers filed a petition with Israel’s High Court of Justice, claiming their land was being illegally expropriated by Jewish settlers. The farmers were not Israeli citizens, and the settlers appeared to have acted with the state’s support; indeed, army helicopters had escorted them to the land—a hilltop near Nablus—bringing along generators and water tanks. The High Court of Justice nevertheless ordered the outpost dismantled. “The decision of the court… proved..]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/the-law-in-these-parts-a-view-on-israel</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[$800 Israeli film appears at Sundance]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[With a budget of just $800, Israeli film student Adi Kutner has proven that it's the story that counts and not the hoo-ha producers usually rely on to move movies forward. Kutner's 18-minute short, Barbie Blues, was chosen to screen at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, beginning today, and ending on January 29.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/800-israeli-film-appears-at-sundance</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[What Can "Footnote" Teach American Jews?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[American Jews, in general, should go to see this film about wrongheaded comfort zones, in order to break out of one of their own: the mistaken sense of kinship with the Jewish state and the Jews who live there.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/what-can-footnote-teach-american-jews</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Joseph Ceder's Nomination]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Joseph Cedar's film, "Footnote," was nominated yesterday for the Academy Award's best foreign language film for 2011. Four Israeli films, including Cedar's "Beaufort" in 2007, have made the short list for the prestigious prize in the last five years.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/joseph-ceder-s-nomination</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Views of Israel at Sundance]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In past years movies at the US's top independent film fest have featured films exploring nuances of Israeli life.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/views-of-israel-at-sundance</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Israeli Film Nominated for an Oscar]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Joseph Cedar’s "Footnote," Israel’s official entry for Academy Award consideration, received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday in Los Angeles. 

This is the tenth nomination for an Israeli film in this category, though none has ever won a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/israeli-film-nominated-for-an-oscar</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Footnote and the Oscars: An Interview with Joseph Ceder]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[At the age of 43, the American-born Israeli director Joseph Cedar is already a veteran of the Oscar process. Israel has submitted all four of the feature films he has made as official selections. His previous project, “Beaufort,” about Israeli soldiers in the waning days of the war in Lebanon, was a nominee for the Oscar for best foreign-language film in 2008, and his latest film, “Footnote,” was named this week to the shortlist of nine films contending for this year’s Oscar. On Tuesday, he’ll..]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/footnote-and-the-oscars-an-interview-with-joseph-ceder</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[From Unyielding Cameraman, an Acclaimed Film]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Emad Burnat was born to the land and, like generations of his family in this hilltop West Bank village, he has eked out a modest living from its rocky soil. But six years ago, at the birth of a son, he was given a video camera and turned unexpectedly into the village chronicler.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/from-unyielding-cameraman-an-acclaimed-film</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Mabul Opens the 1st Annual NY Jewish Film Festival ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[You can’t accuse the New York Jewish Film Festival of being a front for Zionist propaganda, especially with the festival opener “Mabul” (The Flood).

The Israeli-Canadian-French co-production, in Hebrew with English subtitles, could well be a film for the Manhattan JCC’s Other Israel film festival, with tales of the unhappy side of the Jewish State. There’s Yoni, the young bar mitzvah boy, earning money doing homework for the school bullies; his non-functioning pot-smoking crop pilot father;..]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/mabul-opens-the-1st-annual-ny-jewish-film-festival</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Michael Moore Backs Israeli Filmmaker]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Oscar winner Michael Moore has signed on to help an Israeli filmmaker produce his next documentary — a project that will focus, in part, on the small minority of Germans who defied the Nazis during World War II.

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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/michael-moore-backs-israeli-filmmaker</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Jewish film school with soul]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Students of Ma’aleh delve into provocative topics including rape and homosexuality in yeshiva.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/jewish-film-school-with-soul</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Israeli film on 2012 Oscar Shortlist]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two films from the Islamic world and one from Israel. An Asian historical epic with a strong resemblance to the futuristic "Avatar." And a dance meditation that's also a contender for best documentary. The shortlist for the Oscar for best foreign language film, announced Wednesday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, can always be counted on for surprises and intrigues. This year's semifinalists, which include a Canadian entry, underlined a shift away from the Academy's focus in..]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/israeli-film-on-2012-oscar-shortlist</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Sharon Bar Ziv’s Room 514 to Premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sharon Bar Ziv’s first feature film Room 514 has been selected to participate in the Bright Future program section of debut or second feature films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The 41st edition of the film festival will take place from January 25 to February 5, 2012.

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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/sharon-bar-zivs-room-514-to-premiere-at-international-film-festival-rotterdam</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Google Baby Explores Online Baby-Making Industry]]></title>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/google-baby-explores-online-baby-making-industry</link>
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