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        <item><title><![CDATA[On ‘The Attack’: A Q&A with Writer-Director Ziad Doueiri]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri hoped to add a little nuance and ambiguity to the debate about the Israeli occupation with his adaptation of The Attack, Yasmina Khadra’s novel about a secular Palestinian doctor practicing emergency medicine in Israel whose deceased wife becomes the prime suspect in a recent suicide bombing. But it wasn’t until “The Attack” came under fire from all sides of the conflict that Doueiri realized he’d surpassed his own ambitions for the film.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/on-the-attack-a-q-a-with-writer-director-ziad-doueiri</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Film of Israeli Rape Victim Who Became Miss World, at AFI]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Just weeks before Linor Abargil became Miss Universe, the Israeli fashion model was brutally raped. A movie about her story, Brave Miss World, will be shown June 21 and 22 in the 2013 AFI Docs Film Festival in D.C.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/film-of-israeli-rape-victim-who-became-miss-world-at-afi</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Sundance Selects Picks Up Documentary 'Dancing in Jaffa']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Hilla Medalia's film follows ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine as he returns to his hometown in Israel.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/sundance-selects-picks-up-documentary-dancing-in-jaffa</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Honing their craft]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Local filmmakers are given the chance to shine at the International Student Film Festival in Tel Aviv this week.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/honing-their-craft</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Poles Apart]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[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 first: the first Israeli movie about a pole dancer - Pole, Dancer and a Movie - a documentary by Isri Halpern.
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/poles-apart</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[The Effort to Stop ‘The Attack’]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[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 out to an undisclosed location in the southern suburbs of Beirut, headed for a meeting with Hezbollah, the Lebanese paramilitary group.
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/the-effort-to-stop-the-attack</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Israeli Film ‘Fill the Void’ is Jane Austen for Jews]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New movie offers a glimpse into the insular ultra-Orthodox community.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/israeli-film-fill-the-void-is-jane-austen-for-jews</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Palestinian film '5 Broken Cameras' to open IDSSFK 2013]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An astonishing Palestinian film, ‘5 Broken Cameras,’ will open the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSSFK 2013), here on June 7. Astonishing, for the film on the strife-torn area was made by Palestinian and Israeli film-makers. It also created history, being the first Palestinian documentary to be nominated for the Oscars.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/palestinian-film-5-broken-cameras-to-open-idssfk-2013</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Double take: Looking back on the man who revolutionized Israeli cinema]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Filmmaker Uri Zohar ditched flamboyance for religion, and revolutionized Israeli cinema.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/double-take-looking-back-on-the-man-who-revolutionized-israeli-cinema</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[God’s Neighbours ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It was with some trepidation that I sat down to watch Gods Neighbours]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/gods-neighbours</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[New Israeli movies coming to a theater near you]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It’s shaping up to be an amazing season for the Israeli film industry at Cannes and at home.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/new-israeli-movies-coming-to-a-theater-near-you</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Haredi Family’s Secrets Revealed Tenderly]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When it played last fall's New York Film Festival, Rama Burshtein's debut feature, "Fill the Void," was one of the great surprises of the autumn, a stunningly poised and mature first film that heralded the first major talent to emerge from the haredi film community in Israel.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/haredi-familys-secrets-revealed-tenderly</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Israel Creates the Falafel Western]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Gala night features quirky ‘falafel western’ Ballad of the Weeping Spring]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/israel-creates-the-falafel-western</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Rama Burshtein's Orthodox tale 'Fill the Void' is from the inside]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Israeli writer-director Rama Burshtein felt a lot of pressure graduating from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem two decades ago because everyone expected great things from her.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/rama-burshtein-s-orthodox-tale-fill-the-void-is-from-the-inside</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Ultra-Orthodox insider invites outsiders in through the big screen]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Director Rama Burshtein's film is a rare insider's look at Israel's ultra-Orthodox, without criticism or obsessing about what sets them apart.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/ultra-orthodox-insider-invites-outsiders-in-through-the-big-screen</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Movie review: Policeman]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Formally meticulous, even austere, the assured feature debut of Israeli film-maker Lapid announces the arrival of a significant talent.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/movie-review-policeman</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Film Review: Fill the Void]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rama Burshtein’s Fill The Void (Lemale et ha’halal) is the second film in as many years to emerge from Israel with not only a strong international presence, but a unique perspective on religious Judaism. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/film-review-fill-the-void-2</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[To 'Fill The Void,' A Choice With A Personal Cost]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Burshtein refuses to engage with the culture wars that flare fiercely between secular and religious types in Israel.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/to-fill-the-void-a-choice-with-a-personal-cost</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Choosing between love and obligation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Fill the Void,” which won Israel’s equivalent of the Academy Award last year, is a love story unlike any Hollywood fare and it is set in a Jewish community unfamiliar to most Jews.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/choosing-between-love-and-obligation-2</link>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Choosing between love and obligation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Fill the Void,” which won Israel’s equivalent of the Academy Award last year, is a love story unlike any Hollywood fare and it is set in a Jewish community unfamiliar to most Jews.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.israelfilmcenter.org/connect-now/news/choosing-between-love-and-obligation</link>
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