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Consolation (2010)

Nechama

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What is happening in the consciousness of a woman who wakes up on the morning of the last day of her life, at least she thinks so, and her family are able to accept it? Nechama (Rivka Michaeli)..

Landsman (2009)

Landsman

Directed by: Dor Mosessco

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Seventy-eight-year-old Ze'ev Landsman gives in to family pressure and moves into a retirement home. After a botched escape attempt, he is forcefully returned to the home by his son and Although he a..

Kibbutz (2005)

Kibbutz

Directed by: Racheli Schwartz

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Kibbutz Hulata is located in the Upper Galilee. For 5 years Racheli Schwartz has been following the collapse and disintegration of her home. Most kibbutzim in Israel are in a vicious syndrome of as..

Last Journey Into Silence (2001)

Directed by: Shosh Shlam

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Filmed at the Shaar Menashe Hospital in Israel, this heartbreaking film examines the plight of elderly Holocaust survivors whose war-time experiences have left them unable to find inner peace. by -..

The Shower (1997)

Directed by: Jorge Gurvich

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Hospitalized in a ward, a father (Yossi Yadin) pleads with his son to be allowed to return home at least once for a shower. The elderly man's anxiety in the face of loneliness and death fades and of..

Loving Sophia (2010)

Loving Sophia

Directed by: Ohad Itach

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The dark corners of growing up as a new immigrant are powerfully explored in this intense documentary. Arriving in Israel from Moldova in the 1990's left Sophia unstable and yearning for more. Her a..

The Pill (1972)

Ha-Glula

Directed by: David Perlov

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This movie is the first fiction feature film directed by Perlov. A visually beautiful burlesque fantasy about a fountain-of-youth pill and its effects on Getz, a down-and-out Tel Aviv night-club the..

Aisha (2010)

Aisha

Directed by: Oshri Hayun, Hila Cohen

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Aisha, 96, drags a pail around to help her walk. In her ripe old age, she virtually walks to the old chicken coop in her yard "on all fours". Booba the "adolescent" goat, is a substitute for Aisha's..

Brothers by Blood (2005)

Ahim Ba'dam

Directed by: Manara Nivron

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Two brothers, both in their early 70s, hold a long life grudge against each other. They can be compared in so many ways, yet they cannot manage to keep a brotherly relationship, due to childhood the..

Life Stories (2003)

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Deborah, Miriam (Helga), and Tzvi participate in a creative writing story for the retired. They face many difficulties while attempting to immortalize their life stories. The stories unveil the the..

Fluchkes (2011)

Directed by: Ofer Inov

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Fluchkes (in Yiddish: flabby arms) follows the multi-disciplinary dance performance “Gila”, which is performed by 70- and 80-year-old women. The film documents the hard work that went of..

Atonement Day (2009)

Kipur

Directed by: Sivan Mor

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On the eve of Yom Kippur, a young girl carelessly injures an elderly man on the street while riding her bicycle. This short film documents her struggle to atone for this event.

Fall (2003)

Directed by: Dan Geva, Noit Geva

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At the age of eight she was already dancing at Moscow's Bolsoi theatre. Since then she has performed on the world's most prestigious stages.In the course of a career spanning over half a century, as..

Hayuta and Berl

Hayuta ve'Berl

Directed by: Amir Manor

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Hayuta and Berl depicts an elderly couple and the troubles they have adjusting to the social and economic changes surrounding them. One painful night, they decide to put an end to their physical and..

Lonely Planet (2010)

Planettah Acheret

Directed by: Edan Zeira

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A film crew sets out on an unusual, adventurous quest throughout Siberia in search of an elusive Holocaust survivor who was a small boy during World War II. He hid out from the Germans for 3 years..

In Bed at 10 pm (2010)

B'Mita B'Eser B'Lilah

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Rachel and Motti, both in their seventies, are in bed at 10 PM. They enjoy each other's company. And then Motti's wife calls him. Twice. And he has to leave. Recently he agreed with his wife that if..

Pnina Feiler - A Communist Nurse (2010)

Pnina Feiler - Achot Komonistit

Directed by: Dalia Mevorach, Dani Dothan

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85-year-old Penina watches the world she dreamed of collapse all around her. Her kibbutz has abandoned its socialist ideology, her children have left Israel, and wars are pushing the ideal of..

Where's My Stuff? (2011)

Eifo ha-Devarim Sheli

Directed by: Zohar Kaniel

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The film follows the relationship between the director and his 70-year-old mother, an obsessive collector, who goes through a trauma when she has to leave her apartment of 35 years and her stuff to..

Epilogue (2012)

Chayuta ve-Beryl

Directed by: Amir Manor

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Hayuta and Berl, an elderly couple, find it hard to adjust to today's Israel and to the social changes surrounding them. After years of struggle, the two refuse to let go of their communal dreams, a..

When You Played (2012)

Kshe'Nigantah

Directed by: Itay Tal

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In the middle of the night an elderly woman knocks loudly on the apartment door of an old man. He turns on the light and opens the door. "Who are you looking for?" he asks. "I live here," she and..

Betrayed (2012)

Lo Bagadeti

Directed by: Roni Aboulafia

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Meir Moses is on a quest to expose classified details about the affair that turned him into a haunted man. His story takes us back to one of Israel's big myths of heroism and self-sacrifice. years a..

Tateh (2012)

Tateh

Directed by: Yaniv Linton

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Ran returns to the kibbutz to visit his father, who has suffered a sudden heart attack. There has been no contact between the two since Ran returned to his religious roots. Driving a rickety Hasidic..

Ezra (2012)

Directed by: Roni Sharon

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An old man battles against the forces of nature.

For The Remainder (2012)

B'Shaarit Ha'Zman

Directed by: Omer Ben David

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An old cat on his deathbed bids farewell to his home before leaving to die unseen. Looking for the right moment, he uses his remaining time to etch a final memory of the world he called home.

Take a Number (2012)

Kach Mispar

Directed by: Assaf Ben Sasson, Vartan Avny

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Jeremy, a kindly old man, enters a waiting room. What seems simple becomes complicated.

Pensyon Frect (2012)

Directed by: Tamar Yarom

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The 1960s. In a hostel inhabited by Holocaust survivors and run by the severe Madame Frect, Manfred meets a beautiful Yiddish poetess and decides to do something that will give meaning to his life.