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Seven Days (2008)

Shiva

Directed by: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz

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It is 1991 in the midst of the first Gulf War and Israel is under daily missile attacks. But in the Ohayon family, tragedy has hit in more mundane circumstances as beloved Maurice, one of nine and a..

Campfire (2004)

Medurat Hashevet

Directed by: Joseph Cedar

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The story of a young widow, the mother of two beautiful teenage daughters, who wants to join the founding group of a new religious settlement in the West Bank, but first must convince the acceptance..

Crazy Weekend (1986)

Sof Shavuah Meturaf

Directed by: Yeud Levanon, Ilan Moshenson

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Noga is mistakenly told she doesn’t have long to live, and decides to commit suicide from a high floor of a hotel. She is not aware of the fact that she is being followed by a private hired by..

Dangerous Acts (1999)

Mesukenet

Directed by: Shemi Zarhin

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Zvia, a successful stage actress, loses her entire family in a traffic accident. Three years later, when the man responsible is let out of prison, he comes to her home begging for forgiveness,..

Desperado Square (2001)

Kikar Ha-Halomot

Directed by: Benny Toraty

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In a neighborhood that time forgot, the first anniversary of Morris Mandabon's death is approaching, and his youngest son, Nissim has a dream. In the dream his father orders him to re-open the old a..

Forever Young (1996)

Tze'irim Lanetzah

Directed by: Michael Behagen

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The tragic story of four young people who die in a car accident while filming themselves. The movie is based on the videotapes found in the car after the accident.

He Walked Through The Fields (1967)

Hu Halach Besadot

Directed by: Yossi Milo

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A young man returns to his kibbutz after studying for two years and falls in love with a Polish immigrant. He then find himself torn between staying with his family and the girl, and fighting in the..

Schwartz Dynasty (2005)

Shoshelet Schwartz

Directed by: Amir Hasfari, Shmuel Hasfari

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This bittersweet comedy sees two women, both with loved ones to bury, join forces in a struggle against cemetery politics. The story revolves around Miryam (Miryam Zohar), who goes against tradition..

Siege (1969)

Matzor

Directed by: Gilberto Tofano

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Deals predominantly and explicitly with the relationships of a widowed mother, her lover, and ex-husband's friend. A widow struggles to buck tradition and tries to find a new life in this Tamar..

Tehilim (2007)

Tehilim

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In contemporary Jerusalem, a small Jewish family leads an ordinary life until following a car accident, the father mysteriously disappears. They all deal with his absence and the difficulties of as..

Year Zero (2004)

Shnat Effes

Directed by: Joseph Pitchhadze

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Rueven, a real estate agent, is upset with his wife's pregnancy. Through a chain of events, his life becomes connected and intertwined with the lives of others in Tel Aviv.

It All Begins at Sea (2008)

Hakol Mat'hil Bayam

Directed by: Eitan Green

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The story of the coming of age of the Goldstein family - mother, father and son; an Israeli family coping with a familiar array of life experiences - friendship, love, sex, death. The film..

Who Are You to Me (2010)

Mi Ata Bishvili?

Directed by: Dror Reshef

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Anya, 25, is mentally handicapped but manages to lead an independent life. Since the sudden death of her parents she has been living alone, surrounded by her own silence, earning her living as a an..

There Were Nights (2009)

Haiu Leilot

Directed by: Ron Ninio

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Goni's father lost his reputation, his pride and his desire to live after serving a short prison sentence twenty years ago. A little later he lost his wife, Gony's mother, to cancer. Since then, at..

As Lilith (2009)

Kmo Lilit

Directed by: Eytan Harris

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A chilling tale of a girl's suicide, the eccentric mother's desire to cremate her, and the father's desire to bury her according to Jewish law.

Between Two Passovers (2008)

Directed by: Sharon Levy

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The film explores a family taking leave of their dying father. The family consists of two brothers and three sisters who grew up in a small apartment in Haifa and, in the course of time, left to to..

Clementine (2009)

Clementine

Directed by: Tal Haim Yoffe

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A Czar Army officer, protecting an entire town against a pogrom, A Gold treasure rescuing Jewish refugees, A steel-smith learning his craft from a Nazi leader, Underground wars and..

Fireflies (2009)

Gachliliyot

Directed by: Gili Meisler

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The film "Fireflies" (Gachliliyot) is the story of Gili, a 12 year old boy, a 24 year old young man and a 44 year old adult, who ventures out in search of his brother, Giora, who remained forever 19..

Missing Father (2009)

Ga'aguim Le'Abba

Directed by: Yair Elazar

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30 years after the death of Lieutenant General David Elazar (Dado), his son, Yair, takes a journey in his footsteps to penetrate the web of myths shrouding his father's memory.

It's Not Me, It's My Sister (2008)

Directed by: Sharon Elovic

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They are born in pairs - with the same horoscope, same genetic code and the same potential. From that moment on they are destined to go through life with the conflict of their shared identity.The of..

Fill the Void (2012)

Lemale Et Ha'Halal

Directed by: Rama Burstein

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Fill the Void tells the story of an Orthodox Hassidic family from Tel Aviv. Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising of..

Rahamim (2007)

Directed by: Yaniv Amodai

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Melanoma My Love (2006)

Melanoma Ahuvati

Directed by: David Ofek

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Noga, a beautiful young dancer, is married to Uzi, an actor 10 years her senior. At age 30, Noga is diagnosed with melanoma. She has only three months to live. Only Uzi knows that his wife's is and..

Janem Janem (2005)

Directed by: Haim Bouzaglo

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Aldi, a high-school teacher and a class tutor, 40 years old, is in a midlife crisis. He just returned from a long army reserve service in Jenin and informs the school's principal that he is not back..

Things Behind the Sun (2006)

Dvarim Sh'Me'achorey Ha'Shemesh

Directed by: Yuval Shafferman

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This film offers a glimpse into the Grossman's family life, each struggling to find love and intimacy while insisting on sealing themselves from each other. When Abraham, the Grossman family's is in..

Avanim (Stones) (2004)

Avanim (Stones)

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Michale, a 30 year old Israeli woman, works in her father's office in Tel Aviv, which provides accounting services to important religious institutions. Michale has been cheating on her husband for..

Nina's Tragedies (2003)

Ha-Asonot Shel Nina

Directed by: Savi Gabizon

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Nadav, a 14 year old boy, tells the story of his torn family: his parents divorce, his dying father, his wild and promiscuous mother and most of all, the story of his beautiful, wonderful and sexy -..

Broken Wings (2001)

Knafayim Shvurot

Directed by: Nir Bergman

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The unexpected death of the family patriarch throws every member of the Ullmann clan off course. Widow Dafna takes to bed for three months and when she finally returns to her job at the maternity of..

Mr. Baum (The 92 Minutes of Mr. Baum) (1997)

Mar Baum

Directed by: Assi Dayan

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The third and final installment in the comic trilogy about contemporary Israeli life that begins with Life According to Agfa. Assi Dayan wrote, directed, and starred in the titular role. Mr. Baum is..

No Names on the Doors (1996)

Eyn Shemot Al Hadlatot

Directed by: Nadav Levitan

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People and relationships are tested against the backround of the modern kibbutz and its changing values.

Time for Cherries (1990)

Onat Haduvdevanim

Directed by: Haim Bouzaglo

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Muki, a reserve soldier serving in Lebanon just before the IDF's retreat,is trying to document his soon to come death.

The Thousand Wives of Naftali Siman-Tov (1988)

1000 Neshotav shel Naftali Siman-Tov

Directed by: Michal Bat-Adam

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The story of the third wife of Naftali,who lost two wives .He does not touch her beacause he believes that his sperm caused the death of his other wives. She gets pregnant by another man,and finds..

The Vulture (1981)

Ha-Ayit

Directed by: Yaky Yosha

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Boaz, a young officer, returns home from the Yom-Kippur war. He departed with two friends and returned with one dead and the other badly injured. Down and out, and lonely, Boaz aimlessly wanders the..

Repeat Dive (1982)

Tzlila Chozeret

Directed by: Shimon Dotan

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Yoav (Doron Nesher) is a member of an elite diving unit in the Israeli Navy who friend was just killed in action. It is up to him to visit the widow, and when he does, they develop a bond based on -..

Saint Cohen (1975)

Hagiga Le'enayim

Directed by: Assi Dayan

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A comic story about a poet who tries to commit suicide

As If Nothing Happened (1999)

Ke'Ilu Klum Lo Kara

Directed by: Ayelet Bargur

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Based on the personal experience of the director, this film focuses on one family waiting to hear news of a son who may be involved in a terrorist incident. It is Sunday morning. Like most Israeli a..

A Night Without Lola (2001)

Laila Lelo Lola

Directed by: Shay Kanot

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To Die in Jerusalem (2007)

Lamut Beyerushalaim

Directed by: Hilla Medalia

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Ever since 17-year-old Rachel Levy, an Israeli, was killed four years ago in Jerusalem by a Palestinian suicide bomber, her mother Abigail has found hardly a moment's peace. Levy's killer was Ayat a..

The House on August Street (2007)

Beith Ahawah

Directed by: Ayelet Bargur

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The House on August Street tells the remarkable, unknown story of Beate Berger, a German Jew who single-handedly rescued over 100 children during the Holocaust, smuggling them from Berlin to in the..

Spring 1941 (2008)

Aviv 1941

Directed by: Uri Barbash

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Successful doctor Artur Planck, his wife Clara and their two daughters are seeking shelter from the Nazis storming Poland. They find a safe house in the farm of Emilia, their local grocer who is all..

The Decision Maker (2010)

Mekabel Ha Hachlatot

Directed by: Danny Yagil

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Gideon Harel, The Prime Minister of Israel, a cynical and experienced politician, arrives to take part in a TV election debate. The polls are not showing good results, there are no achievements to a..

The Sons of Eilaboun (2007)

The Sons of Eilaboun

Directed by: Hisham Zreiq

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On October 30, 1948, the Israeli Army marched into the northern Galilee village of Eilaboun. My uncle Badia and 18 other men from the village, who had been hiding with the rest of the village in two..

Addicts (2010)

Mekurim

Directed by: Haim Pinkason

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Based on a true event, the film tells the story of an innocent young girl who abuses drugs and alcohol until her tragic death. Stories like this happen in Israel on a daily basis.

At the End of the Day (2000)

Directed by: Ayelet Bargur

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Four commanders in the same Israeli Defense Force Golan Heights paratrooper unit, were killed over a 22-month period. With great sensitivity and skill, Bargur, whose brother Zvi was among those who..

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..

Biba (1977)

Directed by: David Perlov

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In his straightforward and personal style, Perlov presented one of the first pictures of mourning in the Israeli cinema. The film is a portrait of Biba, whose husband was killed in the Yom Kippur of..

Tsur's Kids (2010)

Hayiladim Shel Tzur

Directed by: Yaron Yarkoni

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Six men and one mother provide a portrait of present day Israel and an introspective into the consequences of being a paratrooper in the world's most famous army, The Israeli Defense Forces. The and..

Citizen Number 1 (2010)

Ehud Olmert Ezrach Lemofet

Directed by: Vanessa Lapa

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60 years ago Israel independence changed the face of the Middle East. Today, the region faces crucial dilemmas: Life or Death, War or Peace, Jewish or Arab, Together or Apart. An exclusive intimate..

Edges (2010)

Kitzavot

Directed by: Tal Avitan

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The story of a family living in the shadow of a father's death. The film, over a two year time span, follows the struggle of Shai , the dreaming little brother to be a football player, and Shlomi, a..

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..

The Human Resources Manager (2010)

Shlichuto Shel Hamemune Al Mashabei Enosh

Directed by: Eran Riklis

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A Human Resources manager at Israel's largest bakery finds himself the unlikely chaperone of the body of a young Romanian woman in this touching tragic-comedy. Eran Riklis, the acclaimed director of..

Gilad Shalit: 2 Years in Captivity (2008)

Directed by: Irit Gal

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On June 25 2006, a Palestinian resistance force in Gaza crawled out of a tunnel and attacked an IDF tank. Two Israeli soldiers were killed and Gilad Shalit, the gunner of the tank, was captured and..

Another World (2012)

Directed by: Eitan Reuven

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A post-apocalyptic horror/science fiction film. The setting is in a near post-apocalyptic future where a biological warfare program goes wrong, and turns most of humanity to mindless, murderous - to..

The Mummy Lives (1993)

Directed by: Gerry O'Hara

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Based on the story, "Some Words With a Mummy" by Edgar Allen Poe, Tony Curtis plays a mummy who returns from the dead and becomes obsessed with a woman which he thinks is the reincarnation of his..

It's Never Too Late (2011)

Af Paam Lo Meuchar Midaye

Directed by: Ido Fluk

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A man takes his deceased father's 86' Volvo for a trip across Israel exploring the places he knows from his childhood and his current disjointed life.

Mama (2010)

Directed by: Bettina Fainstein - Dor

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The film accompanies three Israeli sisters in search of their mother who has disappeared in China. Following photos from her digital camera, they try to piece together the story of her During the in..

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..

Over My Dad's Body (2008)

Kosot Ruach LeAba

Directed by: Taliya Finkel

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This documentary thriller follows filmmaker Taliya's story. When Taliya was young, she never knew for sure whether her uncle was a KGB agent in disguise or a true member of the family. Her father in..

My Ziv

B'Ziv Yamav

Directed by: Ayelet Bargur

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Ziv Bargur wan a Platoon commander in the Paratroopers, IDF. Ziv was killed in a car accident in May 1996, when his driver fell asleep at the wheel; he was 23 years old when he died. This film tells..

100 Days in Green (2004)

100 Days in Green

Directed by: Mooly Landesman

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Israel is a nation of immigrants. Since its establishment in 1948, millions of Jews have made Israel their home. To this day, they come to start new lives and to defend their state. The are..

52/50 (2006)

Directed by: Uri Bar-On

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A documentary film which deals with the violence of Immigration Police and the situation of foreign workers in Israel.

Delayed Reaction (2004)

Directed by: Shmuel Calderone

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33-year-old Meni spends his time gambling and working as DJ at the club he manages with an old childhood friend. His life moves in self-destructive circles, without direction or commitments. The of..

Daddy Come to the Fair (1996)

Abbaleh, Bo L'Luna Park

Directed by: Nitza Gonen

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The film documents the pilgrimage of a father and son, journeying from alienation and reaching reconciliation and empathy. MORDECHAI VILOZNY, the father, is a Holocaust survivor visiting a..

I Love You, Rosa (1972)

Ani Ohev Otach Rosa

Directed by: Moshe Mizrahi

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This story centers on the Jewish practice that requires an unmarried brother to marry the childless widow of his dead brother. In this story the younger brother is only 12 years old when his brother..

Landscape (2000)

Krajinka

Directed by: Martin Sulik

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Krajinka, aka "Landscape," consists of 10 separate vignettes, or short stories, grafted together chronologically. The time span stretches from pre-WWII Czechoslovakia to the latter half of the 20th..

Late Summer Blues (1987)

Blues Lahofesh Hagadol

Directed by: Renen Schorr

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A group of close friends celebrate the bittersweet changes coming to their lives during the summer of their high-school graduation: adult responsibilities, adult romance -- and the soberingly adult..

Attack at Dawn (1970)

Ha-Pritza Hagdola

Directed by: Menahem Golan

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Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who had spent 2 years of horror in the same prison. a..

The Ambassador (1984)

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson

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Based on the novel, 52 Pick-Up by Elmore Leonard An Amerian ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East, but his efforts are hampered when his wife has an affair with a PLO..

The Lover (1985)

Ha-Me'ahev

Directed by: Michal Bat-Adam

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Based on the novel by A.B. Yehoshua. Concerns a middle-aged couple and their teenage daughter. The wife falls madly in love with a stranger. Then the 1973 Yom Kippur war intervenes and throws into a..

The Deserter's Wife (1991)

Isha Zara

Directed by: Michal Bat-Adam

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Nina is a French concert pianist. One day she meets Ilan, an Israeli computer experts, in Paris on vacation. They fall in love, marry and move with their son Gili to Israel. Not much later,..

Rachel (2009)

Directed by: Simone Bitton

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In 2003, in a controversial incident, 22-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed while attempting to stop an Israeli military bulldozer from demolishing homes in Gaza. Rachel is a..

War and Love (1985)

Directed by: Moshe Mizrahi

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From the ashes of man's darkest hour comes an incredible true story. War and Love painstakingly recreates the horrific nightmare suffered by Jews in Warsaw during the German invasion of 1939, and in..

Shooting Conflicts (2003)

Directed by: Noam Shalev

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For seven years, Alon Bernstein, an Israeli TV news journalist working for AP, and Jimmy Michael, a Palestinian TV journalist working for BBC, have gathered the news, witnessing events from opposite..

The Descent (2009)

Hayerida

Directed by: Shai Miedzinski

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A moving Portrait of a family dealing with grief and transition as they search for a perfect gravestone for their son in the dusty and atmospheric Israeli desert.

The Cemetery Club (2006)

Moadon beit hakvarot

Directed by: Tali Shemesh

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10 oclock, Saturday morning. A group of elderly women and men carry plastic lawn chairs across the Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem...In the shade of an old pine tree, they sit down, in a..

The Darien Dilemma (2006)

Directed by: Erez Laufer, Nachum Laufer

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A father and his filmmaker son exploring the heretofore untold story of 1,000 Jews stranded during the winter of 1941 on the frozen Danube, awaiting a life-or-death decision to be taken by their the..

Tsahal (1994)

Tsahal

Directed by: Claude Lanzmann

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Tsahal is a film about the Israeli army based on interviews with young soldiers and which created much controversy, provoking the right-wing activists to throw tear gas bombs during its showing in a..

Metamorphosis of a Melody (1996)

Milim

Directed by: Amos Gitai

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Historical parable which goes from the fall of Jerusalem to the divisions crossing Israeli society today - and the assassination of Prime Minister Itzakh Rabin.

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..

Shalom, Jordan (2005)

Directed by: Dov Gil-Har

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On the 10th anniversary of the Israeli-Jordanian peace accord, Israeli filmmaker Dov Gil-Har reveals the story behind the secret negotiations which lead to the historic treaty.Shalom Jordan unveils..

Sleeping with the Enemy/ Behind Enemy Lines (2004)

Directed by: Dov Gil-Har

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Sleeping with the Enemy - Israeli filmmaker Dov Gil-Har documents, in his first film, the initial acquaintance of Benny and Adnan on a joint peace mission to Japan during pre-Intifada days. While of..

Snapshots (2008)

Directed by: Dov Gil-Har, Uri Rozen

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In the course of the last 60 years, the Israeli collective memory has been burned with several never to be forgotten images . As part of Israel@60 events, filmmaker Dov Gil-Har returns to seven of 7..

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 Children of Teheran (2007)

Directed by: Yehuda Caveh, David Tour, Dalia Guttman

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World War II. Autumn of 1939. The Nazis occupied Poland and thousands of Jewish families escaped eastward, into the hands of the Russian army that exiled the refugees to the freezing weather, hunger..

Mr. Cortisone Happy Days (2004)

Directed by: Shlomo Shir

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The isolation room, where he stays for radioactive-iodine treatment, becomes an inspiring cinematic location for the director who is a cancer patient. Moving constantly in-front and behind the he is..

The Last Scene (2004)

Directed by: Eliezer Shapiro

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For seventy years, Menucha has remained silent. The image of parting at the train station in Warsaw in the Spring of 1935 remains engraved in her memory. The face of five year old Menucha is pressed..

White Walls (2005)

Directed by: Meital Abekasis

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Shahar Aboutbul, a photographer just beginning her career, is working on her first exhibition. In the midst of her preparations Shahar receives news of her grandmother's death and goes south to the..

Shrouds (2010)

Tachrichim

Directed by: Shalom Hager

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A drama about Nachum, an Orthodox Jew, who's wife Yona is in the last months of her pregnancy. The impending joy is marred by the memories of the couple's first child who died of Sudden Infant Death..

The Flat (2011)

HA’DIRA

Directed by: Arnon Goldfinger

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Source: Arnon Goldfinger, Tel Aviv The flat, on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv, was where my grandparents lived since they immigrated to Palestine. Were it not for the view from..

Goya (2011)

Goya

Directed by: Nikita Feldman

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A religious family from Jerusalem receives a strange guest for the Sabbath: Sveta, a young Russian woman undergoing conversion. A downward spiral of tragedy and violence ensues.

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..

Radical (2013)

Radical

Directed by: Omer Reis

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Israel 2011. In a society with ambivalent values, acts of violence are just a matter of time... Nicole, a rich former Israeli young woman, returns to Israel in order to meet David Atias, her ex and..

X Burst

Hitpartzut X

Directed by: Eitan Tzur

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In a fit of jealousy, a middle-aged professor murder his younger wife's lover. Although he gets rid of all of the evidence from the murder, he now has to deal with his wife's longer for her lover,..

Beating Time

la'Netzah al ha'Zeman

Directed by: Odette Or

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After being diagnosed with ALS (Lu Gherig's Disease) and being told that he has only four years left to live, 29-year-old Avi Kramer decides to do the impossible and find a cure. He believes that is..

Clearing Out Mom's House (2011)

Leroken et ha'Bayit shel Ima

Directed by: Tal Haim Yoffe

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After their mother passes away, the director and his three sisters are charged with going through their late mother's house. The house is filled with hundreds of books, photo albums, and trinkets, a..

The Inheritance (2011)

ha'Yerushah

Directed by: Hiam Abbass

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In a small Muslim village in Northern Israel, an inheritance battle between siblings goes on as their lies on his deathbed, reminiscing about his past and his bitter relationship with his late wife..

Kafka's Last Story (2011)

ha'Sippur ha'Acharon shel Kafka

Directed by: Sagi Bornstein

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Upon his death from tuberculosis at the age of 41, Kafka left his will to his closest friend Max Brod: "Dearest Max, my last request: everything I leave behind me... to be burned unread... Yours, to..

Mah Harag et Moni Fanan

Directed by: Ophira Assayag

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Exclusive interviews with the family of Moni Fanan and the story of the private "bank" that he ran and managed to keep secret for 15 years until his suicide in 2009.

Monologues about Death (2011)

Epilog -- Monologim shel Mavet

Directed by: Michal Kaphra

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Thirteen influential figures from Israeli society were chosen to recite monologues about death. In the last leg of their lives, they talk about singing, their fears, and death.

One of his Kind

Mot ha'Admor

Directed by: Ron Mailberg

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The life story of Adam Baruch, one of Israel's most imporant journalists, who died two years ago.

Dr. Pomerantz (2011)

Doctor Pomerantz

Directed by: Assi Dayan

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"Life is a disease with 100% mortality." Dr. Yoel Pomerantz, 64, an unemployed clinical psychologist, lives in poverty in his 12th floor apartment with his son Yoav, 30, who works as a parking and a..

Who Killed Baby Rose (2011)

Sod ha-Retzach shel Rose

Directed by: Nili Tal

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On September 11, 2008, a police diver pulled up a red suitcase from the bottom of the Yarkon River, in Tel Aviv. Inside, were the remains of a toddler named Rose. The film tells the story of..

Sharon Amrani: Remember His Name (2010)

Sharon Amrani - Zikhru et ha-Shem

Directed by: Yair Raveh, Joseph Cedar, Nir Bergman, Dover Koshashvili

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This documentary is about the director and screenwriter Sharon Amrani, who drowned tragically in 2001,and incorporates scenes writen by Amrani and directed by leading feature filmmakers in Israel.

The Woman Who Knew too Much (2010)

Ha-Isha she-Yada'a Yoter Miday

Directed by: Yarin Kimor

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An investigative documentary into the reasons behind the death/murder of Jenny May, who was found hanged on the Tel Aviv beach. A transnational investigation that takes us through Jenny's with..

One Day, After Peace (2012)

Yom Echad acharei ha-shalom

Directed by: Miri Laufer, Erez Laufer

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Robi Damelin, an Israeli of South African origin, lost her soldier son in the occupied territories. Robi tries to reconcile with her son's Palestinian killer, however he refuses, stating that her of..

Sisters in Arms (2006)

Achvot L'Nashak

Directed by: Avital Livneh-Levi

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This is the story of five remarkable women who independently leave their comfortable, city lives to pursue the ideological struggle of the settler movement. The closest of friends, these women kept..

Last Calls (2012)

Sichot Achronot

Directed by: Ruthy Pribar

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Seventeen-year-old Tal finds the mobile phone of her older sister who died six months ago. In a fit of curiosity she starts dialing the last numbers on the phone's memory, trying to grasp more about..

Son of a Railway Man (2012)

B'No Shel Nahag Ha'Rakevet

Directed by: Assaf Tager

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Casapo, the son of a locomotive driver for the Zambian railway company, is called back home following the news of his father's death.

Turbulence (2012)

Directed by: Yotem Wax

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In this short film, we follow the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Ofir. Ofir escapes drowning in the sea and discovers that his father has died while trying to save him. During the Shivah at the..

Ve'Ahavta, Or: How Shoshana Zaligman Went to Heaven (2012)

Ve'Ahavta, O: Eich Shoshana Zaligman Higiya L'Gan Eden

Directed by: Danielle Dimenshtein, Tom Apfel

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After doing nothing while a disabled woman is degraded by a cashier at a coffee shop, Itay feels guilty and decides to help others. Alas, his efforts are met with hostility and maliciousness, which..

Inheritance (2012)

Ha-Yerusha

Directed by: Hiam Abbas

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In a small Muslim village in the north of Israel, an inheritance battle rages between siblings as the father lays on his deathbed. IN the midst of it all is a forbidding love between the youngest..

Kesher Chofsi (2012)

Directed by: Amior Arziel

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After a near-death experience, Yair goes through an identity crisis and becomes more and more religious. His best friend Oshik, on the other hand, takes the opposite path.

Marzipan Flowers

Directed by: Adam Kalderon

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After her husband is killed in a freakish accident, 48 year old Regal finds herself under intense scrutiny from her fellow Kibbutz members, who seem threatened by her status as a new widow.

The Aharonsons (2012)

Ha-Aharonsonim

Directed by: Nir Toib

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A personal journey takes the filmmaker on a journey into his family's past to an inheritance related to the heroineof the Nili underground Sarah Aharonson.

Between Two Walls (2012)

Pitchei Ha-Neshamot

Directed by: Michal Ben Tovim, Shanny Littman

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The film surveys the myths and beliefs and contemporary political meanings related to the religous concept of the resurrection of the dead.

Demons (2012)

Shedim

Directed by: Noga Almi-Hantke

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The director looks at the relationship between her retired hypochondriac father and her mother, who loos after him until she is diagnosed with cancer.

Halevai Shetamuti (2012)

Directed by: Amalia Margolin

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The film recounts the relationship between the late musician Uri Salonim and the singer Michal Shapira as they struggle against a rare form of cancer while insisting on life and musip up to the last..

Hanan Porat: Settled in Faith (2012)

Directed by: Gil Mezuman

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Winter, 1975. Hanan Porat is carried on the shoulders of dozens of men in Sebastia, in the heart of Samaria. Rabin's government caves to the pressure of the settlers and authorizes the establishment..

Shadow in Baghdad

Tzel be-bagdad

Directed by: Duki Dror

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Linda, an Iraqi-Israeli journalist, along with M, a journalist from Baghdad, investigate the disappearance and death of Linda's father in Baghdad years earlier.

Who Shot My Father? (2011)

Mi Ratzach et abba?

Directed by: Liora Amir-Barmatz

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Three daughters, one big secret, and many unsolved issues. This film follows the courageous attempts of these daughters to uncover the dark secret behind the murder of their father, Israeli Air Joe..