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The Life and Death of Gotel Botel (2007)

Gotel Botel

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Nati Ornan, an unknown musician and failed lover, lives in a grey world. By day, he is a genuine loser who lives with his mother and plays the part of a vacuum cleaner in a children's play. By he is..

Dada do Jaja - Absurd Under War in Yugoslavia & Israel (2002)

Directed by: Tali Ohaion

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The movie is a personal journey to Serbia, due to the death of my Yugoslavian boyfriend who immigrated to Israel. The movie focuses on wartime absurdness of reality and in two and theatre, in and in..

Dusty Dreams (2005)

Directed by: Michal Kesten-Keidar

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In an old neighborhood in the southern town Beer-sheva, "The Municipal Center for the Art of Dance - Bat-Dor Beer Sheva", one of the best ballet schools in the country, has been active for over 20 a..

Happily Forgotten (2009)

Directed by: Galia Oz

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Can an artist be too modest to become famous? Asher Feldman was an Israeli painter who led an anonymous life away from the crowd, and left behind an artistic treasure containing hundreds of Years as..

For All To See (2007)

L'Einei Hakol

Directed by: Galia Osmo

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Bombarded by ads, billboards, signs, posters and shop window splendors, we walk the streets unaware of an entire world displayed for all and yet unseen. Graffiti, murals, installations and prints to..

Beyond the Horizon

Directed by: Duby Tal, Moni Haramati

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Fly With us, and your eyes will gaze out on the far horizon, where everything comes together, and the colors are dazzling, daring and crystal clear. From the heights, your eyes look down on places..

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..

The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground (2010)

Directed by: Erik Greenberg Anjou

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Director Erik Greenberg Anjou (A Cantor's Tale, NYJFF 2006) returns with this high- energy documentary about the Grammy Award-winning, New York-based superstar klezmer band, The Klezmatics. are with..

Ponar (2002)

Directed by: Racheli Schwartz

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The Jews used many ways to struggle against the Nazi system. One way, perhaps the most heroic and least familiar, was the cultural struggle. Against the threat of impending death, the horrors of and..

Song of Life (2006)

Directed by: Yosi Leon, Ran Brener

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The documentary Song of Life follows the one hundred singers of the "Israeli Philharmonic Singers Choir " on their tour to Poland, performing at the Ceremony commemorating 60 years since the of the..

The Escape Artists (2004)

Directed by: Rachel Rusinek

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The Escape Artists is a movie about the journey of Miri, an Israeli performance artist, who joins her husband in a life with a Belgian traveling circus. Miri gives up a life of comfort and moves an..

Life in Stills (2011)

Ha-Tzalmaniya

Directed by: Tamar Tal

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At the age of 96, Miriam Weissenstein never imagined that she would be facing a new chapter in her life. But when "The Photo House" - her late husband Rudi's life's work - was destined for even this..

Mind Fuck (2010)

Ziyunei Sechel

Directed by: Eran Sarel, Ricardo Rojstaczer, Eran Koblik Kedar

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Yaki just wanted to make a porn film. As a child growing up in an ultra-orthodox family (very religious), he never even heard about this "dubious" genre. Actually, he never even encountered the of..

Bye Bye to Love (2006)

Bye-Bye L'Ahava

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Poetry LTD (2011)

Shira Ba'am

Directed by: Dorit Weisman

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A movie about a revolution in poetry and five Jerusalem poets for whom poetry is a way of life and a catalyst for social change.

Score for a Salmon's Life

Ha-Partitura shel ha-Dag Salomon

Directed by: Ian Zafarti

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Composer Andre Hajdu, winner of the Israel Prize, is the "bad boy" of Israeli classical music. He swims consantly against the stream.

Shoulder Dancing (2011)

Ktefayim Rokdot

Directed by: Ruth Eshel

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The film tells the story of Ruth Eshel, avant-garde dance and scholar of artistic dance in Israel, and her journey along with dozens of Ethiopian-Israeli dancers to establish an Ethiopian dance in..

To Love Sophia (2010)

Le'ehov et Sofia

Directed by: Ohad Itach

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Coming to Israel from Moldova in the 1990's left Sophia unstable and yearning for more. Her well-educated parents are unable to control their only daughter as she rapidly descends from sing in..

What am I, Farag? (2011)

Ma Ani, Farag?

Directed by: Kobi Faraj

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A feature documentary about an eldest son who succeeded in turning his first name -Farag- into a word synonymous with photography, and to the name of a whole family.

Young Cameri

Kamera ha-Tzair

Directed by: Ella Zaharano

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The director conducts one-on-one meetings with the members of the young Cameri repertory theater. She asks them to cooperate in exposnig intimate details of their lives. Based on these she a..

Underground Man (2010)

Ish ha'Martef

Directed by: Shlomit Carmeli

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"Which is better? Cheap happiness or sublime suffering?" (Dostoyevsky) Asher Tsarfati, actor-director, total artist, founder of the fringe theater in Israel, a prominent figure on the outskirts of a..

The Heart That Sings (2011)

Directed by: Robin Garbose

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Set in 1950, The Heart That Sings tells the poignant story of a brokenhearted orphan from the Holocaust trying to begin life again when she is hired as the music and drama counselor at an elite..

The Way Back- Rivka Zohar returns to NY (2012)

Directed by: Avida Livny

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Rivka Zohar’s life has been determined by three powerful forces: the first is an exceptional singing voice that fixed her place in the Israeli pantheon at the young age of 20; the second is to..

Dance of the Red Flutes (2012)

Rikud Ha'Chililim

Directed by: Elinor Nechaissi

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An overweight dancer in a culinary dream world gets a rude awakening.

Honi Hameagel: After Me, The Deluge (2012)

Directed by: Uzi Yahav

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A film about the death and work of the interdisciplinary artist Honi Hameagel, who worked on the seamline between reality and illusion, blurring hte boundaries between life and art.

The Seven Tapes (2012)

Sheva Ha'Slilim Shel Yona Wallach

Directed by: Yair Qedar

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The Seven Tapes is a cinematic journey into the world of legendary poet Yona Wallach, whose radical life and poetry ended at an early age, leaving behind a myth and flocks of admirers. More than..

Mendelsohn's Incessant Visions (2011)

Mendelsohn- Chezyonot bilti poskim

Directed by: Duki Dror

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He made sketches on scraps of paper and sent them to the young cellist who awaited him in Berlin. She saw his genius and within several years helped him turn into the most sought-after architect in..

A Milk Well, Mid Town (2012)

Be'er Chalav be-emtza ha-ir

Directed by: Uri Barbash

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A documentary project about a dozen young poets who constitute an intellectual and cultural opposition to the mainstream.

Mr. Gaga (2012)

Mister Gaga

Directed by: Tomer Heymann

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At age 60, internationally renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin does some soul searching on the backdrop of rehearsals for a new work.

Prodigy (2012)

Yaldat Peleh

Directed by: Herela Hodaya Moise

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Naomi was a musical prodigy who gained fame as a singer in her childhood but decided to leave it all behind at the age of 17. The film follows her daily life today and tries to understand the of her..

Back to Casablanca (Son of the Land) (2012)

Ben Ha'aretz

Directed by: Sigalit Banai

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Israeli actor and director Ze'ev Revach was born in Morocco in 1940. He sets out on a journey back to Casablanca, in search of a Moroccan actor to star alongside him in his next film, which he that..

Yotzer (2012)

Directed by: Adaya Pilo

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A portrait of an artist who once served in an elite unit of the IDF and now creates his art on the edge of the desert.

1999? (2001)

1999?

Directed by: Israel Yerushalmi

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Musician Rami Fortis needs no introduction - most of us already know the man and his message through listening to his music. "1999?" is a documentation of the year 1999, following singer and artist..

Through His Eyes- Yoni Hamenahem

Miba'ad L'eynayim

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The history of Israeli cinema through the eyes of a still-photographer, Yoni Hamenahem, who for the past 40 years has photographed the sets of many of Israel’s classic films. Since beginning..