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A Woman's Case (1969)

Mikreh Isha

Directed by: Jacques Katmor

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A woman has an affair with a man in a sculptor's studio and is found dead.

Aviva My Love (2006)

Aviva Ahuvati

Directed by: Shemi Zarhin

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Aviva, a poor hotel cook, is about to see her dreams come true when she meets Oden, a famous writer, who promises to help her become succesful. But her path to success changes her life in more..

Berlin Jerusalem (1989)

Berlin-Yerushalaim

Directed by: Amos Gitai

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Two women, the German Else Lasker-Schüler and the Russian Mania Shohat, are each travelling to Jerusalem, a mythical but also very real city that they must confront. Based on the biographies of..

Free Zone (2005)

Ezor Hofshi

Directed by: Amos Gitai

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After an American woman breaks up with her boyfriend, she goes on an adventure with a cab driver to the "free zone," a place surrounded by Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, to collect a sum of she..

Beautiful Troubles (1976)

Eizeh Yofi Shel Tzarot!

Directed by: Assi Dayan

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A comedy about how two people Armand and Ofra bond and grow closer while escaping their troubles

Lemon Tree (2008)

Etz Limon

Directed by: Eran Riklis

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Salma, a 45 years old widow from a small Palestinian village in the West Bank, finds herself fighting the Israeli Minister of Defense who built his house on the green line border between Israel and..

No Longer 17 (2002)

Lo Bat 17

Directed by: Itzhak Zepel Yeshurun

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A Kibbutz in Israel is heavily in debt. In a last effort to produce a viable financial restructuring, the old, "unproductive" members are asked to leave the kibutz, to make room for younger, more to..

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..

Sima Vaknin Witch (2003)

Sima Vaknin Machshefa

Directed by: Dror Shaul

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Sima is an older women who discovers she has supernatural powers after a curse that she puts on her neighbor comes true. She becomes famous overnight as a psychic and is driven by her greedy and in..

Disengagement (2007)

Hitnatkoot

Directed by: Amos Gitai

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A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to find her long ago abandoned daughter.

Thirst (2005)

Atash

Directed by: Tawfik Abu Wael

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An intense story about a family of five, some animals living in the middle of nowhere. They need to survive and somehow find freedom.

The Day We Met (1990)

Neshika Bametzach

Directed by: Sam Firstenberg

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Arik Schwartzman is doing his yearly Israeli Army reserve duty and is assigned with the mission of finding a serial rapist.

Women, Women, Women (1998)

Messagest Hatzameret

Directed by: Alfred Steinhardt

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A Masseur with very special skills with his woman clients brings three particular clients back to a more intimate setting.

The Secrets (2006)

Ha Sodot

Directed by: Avi Nesher

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Two women uncover their voices and reveal their secrets in a repressive orthodox community.

The Summer of Aviya (1988)

Ha Kayitz Shel Aviya

Directed by: Eli Cohen

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It is summertime, 1951, in an Israeli town where European immigrants continue to settle after World War II. Still scarred and raw from the Holocaust, they are often misunderstood and ridiculed ..

Happiness (2008)

Lo Yoda'at Eich

Directed by: Aviram Shulchany

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Rachel Guetta knows everyone, and everyone knows her. Slowly she discovers that she doesn't exactly know herself.

Walls (2008)

Kirot

Directed by: Dani Lerner

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A unique relationship develops between Galia, an illegal resident and hired assassin, and Elinor, a supermarket cashier and abused woman.

Lipstika (2011)

Odem

Directed by: Jonathan Sagall

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Lara is Palestinian. She left Ramallah thirteen years ago to begin a new life in London where she married Michael and had a child. She, her husband and her seven-year-old son James lead a pleasant,..

Valentina's Mother (2009)

Directed by: Arik Lubtzki, Mati Harari

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Paula, an elderly Holocaust survivor living in Tel Aviv, resists her only son's attempts to find her a live-in help. Yet, when a local priest introduces her to Valentina, a young Polish woman, a..

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..

Underdogs (2008)

Directed by: Yosef Ochayon

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The film is concerned with the violence of Israeli society, through a coincidental meeting of a man and a woman in a middle-class Tel Aviv apartment.

Lady Kul El-Arab (2008)

Lady Kul El-Arab

Directed by: Ibtisam Mara'ana

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The dream of a young Druze woman to be Israel's beauty queen, and the conflict between the values of her traditional community and the world of modeling.

Married to a Palestinian (2008)

Directed by: Michael Kovalsky, Elena Mescheryakova

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Russian-born Tanya and Nona married Palestinian students and came with their husbands to the Territories. Just kilometers from their home live hundreds of thousands of their compatriots.

Naseej (Fabric of Life) (2009)

Directed by: Timna Rosenheimer

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A weaving factory in a Bedouin village in the Negev where the women struggle to survive on the seam between progress and tradition.

Queen Khantarisha (2009)

Ha'Malka Hantarisha

Directed by: Israela Shaer Meoded

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The story of two Yemeni women artists in their seventies. One a composer of hit ballads, the other a writer and poet.

Queen of Jerusalem (2009)

Malkat Yerushalayim

Directed by: Dani Dothan, Dalia Mevorach

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Archaeologist, Professor Trude Dothan was born in Vienna in 1922. Her son decides to launch an "archaelogical" excavation in her Jerusalem house.He finds the death mask of poet Elsa Lasker-Schuler a..

Mom, Please Tell Me (2009)

Directed by: Orna Ben Dor, Ami Teyer

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For the filmmaker, a mother's bosom, usually a promise of gentleness and unconditional love, was a haunted place, scattered with thorns.

The Search

Directed by: Osnat Margovski, Adi Arbel

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A sensitive, funny, and touching journey about a woman who takes her life in her hands. Production status: post-production

Seed of Joy

Directed by: Ofir Dery

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Esther, a 36-year-old single woman, decides to become a mother through an anonymous sperm donation. Her brother, the filmmaker, accompanies her over the course of two and a half years.

Shining Stars (2008)

Kokhavim notzetzim

Directed by: Yael Kipper Zaretzky

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Purim 1996. 27 year old Meital was severly wounded in a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. Nine years later she decides to go through fertility treatments and have a child on her own.

Photo Romance (1987)

Photo Roman

Directed by: Assi Dayan, Tal Ran

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A high-school girl dreams of being a writer and writes a story about her soldier boyfriend.

Yes, Miss Commander! (2009)

Ken Ha'Mefakedet

Directed by: Dan Setton, Itzik Lerner

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For 100 days the film crew follows the unusual scenes on the military base "Havat Hashomer" in the Galilee. Soldiers on this base are not ordinary recruits. From backgrounds of violence, abuse,..

Ukraine Brides 8 Years Later (2000)

Kalot Me'Ukraina 8 Shanim Ahrey

Directed by: Nili Tal

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The film revisits several Ukrainian brides and looks at what happened to them in the last eight years. Did the inter-continental marriages work? Or were they destined for failure?

Very Heavy Stones

Avanim Kvedot Me'od

Directed by: Tamara Arda

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The film follows the work process of the wheelchair-bound choreographer and dancer Tamar Borer on her work "Bardo."

Frozen Days (2005)

Directed by: Danny Lerner

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A lonely young woman survives a suicide bombing and assumes the identity of one of its victims. As she moves into his apartment her grip on reality starts to crack.

Jellyfish (2007)

Meduzot

Directed by: Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret

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The film tells the story of three women living in Tel Aviv. Batia is a young woman who makes a living as a waitress for a wedding catering service. On the day her boyfriend leaves her, she finds a a..

Three Mothers (2006)

Shalosh Imahot

Directed by: Dina Zvi-Riklis

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Rose, Flora and Jasmine were born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1943 and as a rare triplet were blessed by King Faruk. Today they live together in Israel, their lives clouded by secrets and lies from the..

Close to Home (2005)

Directed by: Vidi Bilu, Dalya Hager

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Smadar and Mirit, both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together, as part of their military service. They are assigned to detain any Palestinian passerby, check their in..

She's Got It (2006)

Eyn La Elohim

Directed by: Jacob Goldwasser

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A comic drama takes place in the southern Israeli town hit by devastating economic hardships. Tipped off on a Brinks car robbery, the three heroines, Malca, Yafit and Irena, seize a golden to get on..

Riki Riki (2004)

Directed by: Eitan Anner

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A classic romantic comedy. Riki - a confused 30-year-old art graduate seems to believe that her life is always under control even when everything goes crazy, and things take a different route. Riki ..

Life is Life (2002)

Haim Ze Haim

Directed by: Michal Bat-Adam

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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 -..

The Rabbi's Daughter and the Midwife (2010)

Directed by: Ron Ofer, Yohai Hakak

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Adina Bar - Shalom, eldest daughter of the revered, Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, established the first academic institution of higher education for the ultra orthodox community in Israel. Rachel Chalkowski..

Lullaby (2008)

Directed by: Natalie Haziza

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Lullaby, a 50 min documentary by Natalie Haziza, tells the story of her two mothers, one of them Jewish South-African and the other her African nursemaid. Rebecca worked for 10 years as Natalie`s 4..

Desert Brides (2008)

Kalot Hamidbar

Directed by: Ada Ushpiz

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Miriam El Kwader, a Bedouin wedding photographer and mother of seven, living in an unknown and neglected Negev village, reveals through her camera lens, the world of Bedouin weddings; the most issue..

Clean Sweep (2001)

Mars Turkey

Directed by: Oded Davidoff

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Aya, a tough female police agent is sent to "nail down" a notorious Mafia boss -- Patrick Saroussi. At the same time, the romantic affair she has with her commander, inspector Reuven, breaks down...

Nymphs in the Fog (2007)

Nimfot B'Arafel

Directed by: Yoram Sachs

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Life imitates art when Yaniv, in a perpetual sulk ever since his girlfriend Liat left him, settles into a comical routine that alternates between his job at a video store, watching romantic and of a..

Voices from the Heartland: Slaves of the Lord (2002)

Shiur Moledet: Avdei Hashem

Directed by: Hadar Friedlich

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In a Jewish Orthodox village in Israel, Tamar, a twelve-year-old girl, prepares for her Bat-Mitzvah which will take place on Passover. She is convinced that she is impure and becomes obsessed with a..

Foreign Sister (2000)

Ahot Zara

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The Story of Naomi, a woman who is a prisoner in her own life. Trapped by bordom, she risks losing herself to housework. This is of course, until she meets Nigist, a Christian Ethiopian woman. A is..

Zaya (1999)

Directed by: Jonathan Paz

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"Zaya" is based on a true story that took place in Morocco. The film tells the tragic story of the love and fate of a Jewish Girl, Zaya, who grew up under the strict Berber tribal tradition in the..

Release the Princess (1998)

Shachrer Et HaNesicha

Directed by: Oron Adar

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Release the Princess is a gimmick-filled TV show known for its extravagant prizes. Its dungeon-like set features a hanging cage in which a beautiful, helpless Princess is held, waiting for the who a..

Giraffes (2001)

Girafot

Directed by: Tzahi Grad

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Efrat, Dafna, and Avigail are singles in their twenties, living in the same apartment building in Tel-Aviv. One day, Avigail is picked up by the driver who intended to drive Dafna to a film set, is..

Chronicle of Love (1999)

Chronika Shel Ahava

Directed by: Tzipi Trope

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Chronicle of Love is the first Israeli feature film to deal with the subject of battered women. Portraying the lives of women struggling with the cycle of domestic violence, director Tzipi Trope the..

Women (1995)

Directed by: Moshe Mizrahi

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Chronicle of a Kidnap (2008)

Chronika Shel Hatifa

Directed by: Nurit Kedar

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Udi Goldwasser was kidnapped on day #1 of the 2006 Lebanon war. This is the story of his wife who wished "to bring him the moon" and who inadvertently became a pawn in international diplomatic and..

Involuntary (2007)

Lo Retsoni

Directed by: Boaz Alexander Rosenberg

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Alin and Shani are two young Israeli women. Inside them exists a monster that is threatening to burst at any time, it is called Tourette Syndrome and the two are suffering from it in the most severe..

Sh'chur (1993)

Sh'chur

Directed by: Shmuel Hasafri

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13 year old Rachel's last summer at home is full of mystery, magic and spells, the solution to problems in her traditional Moroccan family.

Aya: An Imagined Autobiography (1993)

Autobiographia Dimionit

Directed by: Michal Bat-Adam

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While shooting a film about her own life, film director Aya struggles to become somebody and do something with her life, first to please her father and then herself.

Laura Adler's Last Love Affair (1990)

Ahavata Ha'ahronah Shel Laura Adler

Directed by: Avraham Heffner

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Yiddish live theater, a formerly lively theatrical form, is barely sustained by a few aging aficionados and its loyal but aged audience. Laura Adler is a big star of one of these troupes. She is and..

Zahara (2009)

Zahara

Directed by: Mohammad Bakri

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With touching personal style and breathtaking cinematography, Director Mohammad Bakri tells the story of his 78 year old aunt Zahara, from the times of pre-state Palestine to present, leading the of..

Pomegranates and Myrrh (2008)

Al-mor wa al rumman

Directed by: Najwa Najjar

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Dancer Kamar's joyful wedding to Zaid is followed almost immediately by Zaid's imprisonment in an Israeli jail for refusing to give up his land. Free-spirited Kamar wants to support her husband and..

Until Tomorrow Comes (2004)

Hata Yisbah Sabah

Directed by: David Deri

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Life According to Agfa (1992)

Ha-Chayim Al-Pi Agfa

Directed by: Assi Dayan

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The complex Israeli social and political fabric is captured via a Tel Aviv pub owned by a middle aged woman who, along with her patrons, is looking for love. Life According to Agfa follows the on in..

Tel-Aviv Stories (1991)

Sipurei Tel-Aviv

Directed by: Ayelet Menahemi

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Three stories about three women: one is trying to find the right guy; one is trying to get a divorce from her runaway husband and takes a hostage in her attempt; and one turns Tel Aviv upside down a..

Something Sweet (2004)

Mashehu Matok

Directed by: Dan Turgeman

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In a small agricultural village in northern Israel, on the day of the middle-sister's wedding, Maya (Avital Abrajill), the youngest of the 3 sisters, arrives to the celebration with Alon (Dan a in..

1000 Calories (2001)

1000 Caloriot

Directed by: Dalia Gur

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3 female friends get-away for a weekend and secrets are reveiled.

First Love (1982)

Ahava Rishonah

Directed by: Uzi Peres

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The ex-lover of a middle class woman appears on her birthday after 20 years. Both the woman and her daughter are romantically attracted to him.

Stretch Marks (2009)

Simaney Meticha

Directed by: Zohar Wagner

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Short Synopsis: This highly revealing self documentation follows a pregnant, single woman, provocative performance artist into the club, the living room, the bedroom and even beyond... This movie of..

Dead End Street (1982)

Kvish L'Lo Motzah

Directed by: Yaki Yosha

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Based on a true story. Alice, a young street walker, receives an opportunity of a lifetime when a television crew casts her to star in a documentary about prostitution in Tel-Aviv. Alice, a 17 year..

The Highway Queen (1971)

Malkat Hakvish

Directed by: Menahem Golan

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Margalit (Gila Almagor) is a prostitute with one child, and she wants another one. A man-hater, she doesn't want a husband, just another child. At this point she is an independent woman who works a..

The Girl from the Dead Sea (1966)

Fortuna

Directed by: Menahem Golan

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The Dress (1970)

Ha-Simla

Directed by: Judd Ne'eman

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Three short stories of life in Tel Aviv; A girl meets a boy in a library and has to decide what to do next; A young husband comes home to meet his wife's boyfriend; A young clerk opens a letter and..

Moments (1979)

Moments de la vie d'une femme

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Anne, a Parisian, visits her friend Yola in Tel Aviv, where Yola lives with her husband Avi and their son. There's tension in the air and the attraction between the two women is palpable. Flash back..

Girls (1985)

Banot

Directed by: Nadav Levitan

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The House on Chelouche Street (1973)

Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche

Directed by: Moshe Mizrahi

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The film tells the story of a family of Egyptian immigrants that settle in 1947 Tel Aviv. The family consists of a widowed wife (played by Gila Almagor) and her four children. The plot centers on a..

Sabina and Her Men (1966)

Sabina V'Hagvarim

Directed by: Peter Freistadt

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Elinor (1994)

Directed by: Keren Yedaya

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Two lonely female soldiers experience, each in her own way, the difficulties of the masculine environment

A Secular Pilgrim in Jerusalem (2009)

Directed by: Elena Canetti

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One morning in Jerusalem, Elena wakes up to the emptiness of her life. Forty-five years old, no children, and no faith. Elena embarks on a cautious journey among the world's three monotheistic all..

Seeds of Summer (2007)

Zirei Kayitz

Directed by: Hen Lasker

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"My Mom always says that my military service is to blame for everything that has happened to her little girl." Seven years after completing an IDF course for female combat soldiers, the to..

Covenant : Women, God and All between (Birth) (2005)

Directed by: Nurit Jacobs-Yinon

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A Jewish fetus grows for nine months in its mother's womb. Eight days after the birth, her husband must circumcise him. The husband blesses, while the mother remains a distant spectator upon the is..

Ahead of Time (2009)

Hekdima Et Zmana

Directed by: Robert Richman

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'Ahead of Time', a documentary on the remarkable life of Ruth Gruber. At 97 years old, Brooklyn-born Ruth still has that same sharp intellect and moxie that propelled her to become the world's PhD a..

Budrus (2009)

Budrus

Directed by: Julia Bacha

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Ayed Morrar, an unlikely Palestinian community organizer, unites all Palestinian political factions and Israelis. Together, they wage a lengthy lunch-counter-sit-in-style unarmed struggle to save by..

Crossing Borders (2007)

Directed by: Bilal Yousef

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Crossing Borders tells the story of Aisha Sidawi and Umiya Abu-Ras, two Palestinian Israeli women struggling to achieve equality against the men in their lives; are taking part in a political which..

The Hilltops (2010)

Hagvaot

Directed by: Igal Hecht

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The West Bank hilltops are a critical final frontier in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some see them as a key to long-term peace, while others view them as a door to destiny. Following the lives..

Ladino: 500 Years Young (2005)

Directed by: Rina Papish

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The film follows the rise of Ladino singer, Yasmin Levy, from the moment she discovers she can sing and all the way to international success. As she gets to know herself as singer, Yasmin her Levy,..

Winding Roads (2008)

Directed by: Eitan Wetzler

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The film follows a year in the life of Huda Abu Abied, a 19-year-old Bedouin girl from the Negev desert in Israel. As a young independent woman, she refuses to adapt to the patriarchal traditional a..

How Much Love (2010)

Kama Ahava

Directed by: Kineret Hay-Gillor

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Carmel was once a promising athlete. Today due to progressive muscular dystrophy he runs a small shop with sports equipment. His wife, Sara, helps him with everyday chores. The film's author - - the..

Georgia My Love (2007)

Georgia Ahuvati

Directed by: Noga Gamlieli

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This is a story of two Georgians sisters Maya and Manana, poor young women working in a bridal salon from dawn until darkness. Like many of their fellow Georgians, they have been rejected and by of..

Born in Berlin (1991)

Directed by: Naomi Ben-Natan, Leora Kamenetzy

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This penetrating documentary produced for Israel Educational Television looks at the lives of three Jewish women writers: Cordelia Edvardson, Angelika Schrobsdorff, and Inge Deutschkron. All three..

Living For Tomorrow: Untold Stories by the Pioneering Women of Israel (2000)

Directed by: Lilach Dekel

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Lilach Dekel’s grandmother immigrated from Eastern Europe to Palestine in the 1920s resolved to help build the kibbutz movement. With an unwavering belief in Socialism and Zionism, these young..

Purple Lawns (1998)

Deshaim S'Gulim

Directed by: Dina Zvi-Riklis

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Based on a story by Savion Liebrecht. Yael is a dancer and a teacher of movement at an ultra-orthodox school in Bnei Brak, and Shlomit is a painter and graphic artist. The two young women, friends a..

Rites of Passage: The Spiritual Journey of Alice Shalvi (1998)

Directed by: Paula Weinman-Kelman

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In this intimate documentary portrait, Alice Shalvi shares her thoughts and memories of her public and private life, from her childhood in Essen to her present-day success as a leading Israeli and a..

A Working Mom (2006)

Directed by: Yaron Kaftori, Limor Pinhasov

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A story which demonstrates the extremes Mothers would go to, in order to save their families – sometimes saving and losing them in the same act. In 1990, 22-year-old Marisa Villozial, left her..

Taliya.Date.Com (2011)

Taliya.Date.Com

Directed by: Taliya Finkel

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"Taliya.Date.Com" is a creative documentary that tells the story of Taliya Finkel's quest for finding love in the estranged world of Internet dating. This quest is based on a mouse, a keyboard and a..

Private (2004)

Directed by: Saverio Costanzo

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A Palestinian family with five children lives outside town, near Israeli settlements. Samia, the wife, wants to leave; so does one teen son. Mohammad, the patriarch, is adamant that he is staying. a..

Tikkun (2002)

Directed by: Taliya Finkel

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Tikkun portrays the phenomenon of the Rabbanit (the wife of a Rabbi) of Tiberius, Leah Kook; an orthodox leader supported and followed by many Israeli women. This film is a vivid..

Shahida - Brides of Allah (2008)

Directed by: Natalie Assouline Terebilo

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March 21st, 2002, a crisp bright winter morning. It is mother's day. Kahira makes breakfast for her four small children and hugs them goodbye as they leave for school. Only two hours later, Kahira a..

4 Kilometers (2008)

Arba Kilometer

Directed by: Miri Shapiro

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Somewhere between the 1947 traditional Bedouin desert-life of southern Israel and the 2007 modern city life of Beer-Sheba, just 4 Kilometers off the highway, lives a small Bedouin community. 15 year..

Black Bus (2009)

Soreret

Directed by: Anat Yuta Zuria

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Sara writes a harsh blog about the bleak lives of Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) women. Shulamit is an independent photographer who documents violent incidents on segregated busses on which women are to at..

Liebe Perla (1999)

Perla Yakirati

Directed by: Shahar Rozen

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During the Nazi regime, Dr. Josef Mengele conducted "scientific" experiments on and shot "research" footage of a Hungarian Jewish family of dwarfs. (Mengele, by experimenting on them, saved them the..

Lulu (1999)

Directed by: Keren Yedaya

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Tackles prostitution in Israel.

Underwear (2001)

Les Dessous

Directed by: Keren Yedaya

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About a Parisian lingerie and women's wear store.

My So-Called Enemy (2010)

Directed by: Lisa Gossels

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This is the rare film about Arab-Israeli coexistence that goes far beyond documenting a one-time encounter at a peace camp; rather, it follows six of its compelling subjects for seven years to the..

For Making Me A Woman (2005)

Directed by: Yoram Schaffer

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Religion is conservative in its nature and Judaism is no exception. But in recent years, new voices that carry the message of equality, freedom and a true role for women in public life are now being..

Gole Sangam (2007)

Directed by: Sarit Haymian

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Gole sangam is the stone flower in Farsi. The flower that can bloom only from the stone (cyclamen). The film follows two elderly Jewish women, Ilanit and Naima, who immigrated from Iran to Israel 50..

Yolande: An Unsung Heroine (2010)

Directed by: Dan Wolman

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This riveting documentary tells the story of Yolande Gabai de Botton, considered by many the Jewish "Mata Hari." A sophisticated Jewish woman from Alexandria, Egypt, she risked her son's life and in..

Pickels (2005)

Directed by: Dalit Kimor

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This is the story of eight Israeli Arab widows, all lacking vocational training, who decided one day to change their fate and to jointly open a "start up" - a plant for high quality pickles. As with..

The Beach Boys (2006)

Directed by: Honi Ha'Meagel

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An intimate portrait of Israeli masculinity through three hard-core womanizers at the Tel-Aviv beach. From 1975-2005, the director-cinematographer, a reputable avant-garde artist and womanizer in of..

The Miracle Year (2010)

The Miracle Year

Directed by: Simha Lev

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Four Jewish women are getting ready for a journey. They are about to travel to Ukraine and reach a holy man's grave. They believe that if they pray on his grave, all their wishes will come true a go..

Faith (2006)

Directed by: Natalie Haziza

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On the eve of her wedding, Emuna immerses herself in the Mikve, the ritual bath. Suddenly, she remembers that she`s been there before. A childhood memory forces her to deal with the past.

Invisible (2012)

Lo Roim Alaich

Directed by: Michal Aviad

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Over twenty years after Lily and Nira were raped by the same serial rapist, an unexpected encounter brings them together. Single mother Nira, a reserved television editor, comes across charismatic a..

Pesya's Necklace (2006)

Hasharsheret Shel Pesya

Directed by: Jorge Gurvich

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On her eightieth birthday, Pesya Goldfarb is determined to return to her parents` house located in Poland. Traveling with her teenage granddaughter, she intends to find a golden necklace, which was..

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..

Love Davka (2010)

Love Davka

Directed by: Rona Soffer

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"At the age of 15 I was involved in a severe car accident. In the film I pursued the challenge of finding love, sex and colour. I met disabled and non-disabled men and searched for my place in..

Melissa, Mom and Me (2010)

Directed by: Limor Pinhasov

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Camcorder footage captures two girls-one Israeli, one American-in corsets and bunny ears, high on coke, backstage at a Tokyo strip club. Yael films Melissa giggling, sobbing, heartbreakingly candid...

Mother Economy (2007)

Heshbonia

Directed by: Maya Zak

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Mother Economy is a meditation on Holocaust remembrance and an homage to resourceful women during violent periods of political upheaval. Wearing glasses, a lace-collared blouse, and her hair neatly..

Obsession (2011)

Resisei Ahavah

Directed by: Nissim Notrika

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1968. A woman’s journey into self-destruction, humiliation, and violence, as a result of her husband’s infidelity. The story takes place in an old Sephardic neighborhood in and a..

Bayit, Avodah, Chayim: ha'Menechazim shel ha'Matzav ha'Enoshi

Directed by: Senyora Bar David

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This film explores how women struggle within the cruel economic reality.

The Dreamers (2011)

ha'Cholmot

Directed by: Efrat Shalom Danon

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Ruchama and Tikva, a teacher and a wigmaker, embark on a journey to fulfill their dream of making movies within the closed ultra-Orthodox society in which they live. Will they find freedom in..

December 25th (2009)

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December 25th is a working day in Jerusalem. As Christmas day passes, Carmen, a foreign worker from South America, misses her son and family abroad, and keeps trying to reach them over the phone. of..

Bye Bye to Love (2006)

Bye-Bye L'Ahava

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A Place of Her Own (2011)

Reut

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This documentary was filmed over the course of four years and follows Reut, a teenager who spent most of her life moving between institutions and living on the street. The film opens when Reut is to..

Wherever You Go

Directed by: Rony Sasson-Angel

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A fascinating story of a Jewish woman who gives a ride to an Arab woman who is fleeing a forced marriage.

Freeflow (2012)

Tluim Ba'avir

Directed by: Ramy A. Katz

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A mother of six in a provincial town, fighting with courage and wisdom to keep her family together despite the harsh violence against her from her abusive husband, and her eldest son who stands by..

Single + (2012)

Ravaka Plus

Directed by: Dover Koshashvili

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Zehava is a 34 year old, single woman. Her mother fakes being terminally ill in order to pressure Zehava to get pregnant and bring her a grandchild.

Blue Natalie (2010)

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A television show about a family that runs a sex trafficking business out of its yacht - which it also rents to honeymooning couples, bar mitzvahs and birthday celebrations.

Purity (2002)

Tehura

Directed by: Anat Zuria

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This documentary film broke taboos and examined how the laws of Taharat Hamishpaha (family purity) shape women's lives and sexuality within Orthodox Judaism.

The Black Bus (2009)

Sorecet

Directed by: Anat Zuria

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The documentary shows the treatment of women by the ultra-orthodox members of Israel's society. Women have to sit in the back of the Black Buses, their effigies on photographs published in like Shaa..

A Stranger's Face (2009)

Directed by: Shani Ifrach

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Two days in the life of Rika, a half Japanese-half Israeli exotic dancer living and working in Tel Aviv, as she comes to terms with her identity through her relationships and her art.

Good Intentions (2008)

Kavonot Tovot

Directed by: Ronit Weiss-Berkowitz

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10 Episodes. A drama series about a fictional cooking show.

Why Did You Dance Naked? (2012)

Yemey Ha-Zohar

Directed by: Zohar Wagner

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Video cassettes filmed years ago in New York reappear one day in a couple's home. The content undermines the man's trust in his wife. Who is the man who filmed this video twenty years ago? Why did a..

Stitches (2011)

Tfarim

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Amit and her female life partner Noa decide to take a crucial step and have a baby. Despite their strong self-confidence, neither one of them knows for sure what they will do next. The night after..

Grace (2012)

Directed by: Michal Aronzon

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Gracie, a Filipina who came to Israel to look for work 20 years ago, married an Israeli man and bore him three sons. Since then she has lived with a split identity: half Filipina – half She a..

Ruth (2011)

Directed by: Ofer Freiman

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In 1962, Ruth Flez realized a childhood dream when she founded “Beit-Or-Li”, the first private senior citizens' home in Tel Aviv. At the age of 85 she leaves her home across the and a..

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..

Duma (2011)

Directed by: Abeer Zeibak Haddad

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Duma (dolls in Arabic) is based on stories of sexual abuse in Arab society in Israel. Abeer, the creator of a puppet theater show which deals with the subject of sexual abuse during childhood,..

The Stone Flower (2007)

Gola Sangam

Directed by: Sarit Haymian

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This documentary follows two elderly Jewish women, who immigrated from Iran to Israel 50 years ago and currently live in a deprived area. Married in their teens, they moved from the domineering of a..

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..

Bus Station (2008)

Directed by: Lily Shefy

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A Muslim and an ultra-Orthodox woman meet at a bus stop when one of their shopping bags break and their tomatoes get mixed up. Part of the Ir Amim "Jerusalem Moments" compilation.

A Screw (2011)

Directed by: Shira Geffin

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The film focuses on two women, an Israeli named Efrat and a Palestinian named Nadine, whose worlds collide when Efrat complains that her new bed is missing a screw. Nadine, who is in love with a man..

Betty (2012)

Directed by: Yula Gidron

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One morning, Daphna, a prisoner in the female military jail, finds out that her only friend in the prison, Betty, has left without saying goodbye. She goes searching for her.

Washed (2012)

Mechubeset

Directed by: Daphna Mero

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A female laundry worker desperately attempts to abort the fruit of a violent encounter. When the consequences of her action are reveled, the memories she has repressed re-emerge.

Howl (2012)

Yalalah

Directed by: Natalie Bettelheim, Sharon Michaeli

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A mother’s struggle to come to terms with her daughter’s strange nature.

The Fence (2012)

Ha-Gader

Directed by: Tali Avrahami

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An exciting drama set towards the end of the 19th century. Faigi, Fruma, Shayna and other girls must confront the everyday life of a small town aginst the abundant opportunities of the modern world.

Matinee (2012)

Hatzaga Yomit

Directed by: Einat Fernbach

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Three urban stories about three women with the same name. The first is a man who longs to be a woman. The second is a painter who lives under the eye of a private investigator. The third is trying..

Orange People

Anashim Ktumim

Directed by: Hanna Azulay-Hasfari

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Grandma Zohara is looking for someone to take over her job as fortune teller for members of the Moroccan community in Israel. She chooses her daughter Simone, but Simone has her own dreams to open a..

Seven Clean Days (2011)

Shiv'a Yamim Neki'im

Directed by: Julie Shles

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In the holy city of Jerusalem, ultra-Orthodox women declare a sex strike to protest the injustice in their lives. In their special way, they manage to make a change.

Take Mameh (2011)

Directed by: Ariel Cohen

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A surprising suspense melodrama orgininally made for the female ultra-Orthodox pulic (with all the rules of Jewish modesty), and is now shown for the first time to the general public.

Three Sisters (2012)

Shalosh Arraf

Directed by: Suha Arraf

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A young Palestinian woman from East Jerusalem goes to live with her aunts in Ramallah. The film focuses around the aunts: three, unmarried women in their sixties, part of the city's Christian whose..

All Happy Mornings (2012)

Kol Ha-Bekarim Ha-Smechim

Directed by: Omer Yefman

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A personal journey into bisexuality. Facing presure from his surroundings, Yefman tries to find a way to feel complete without having to explain.

Ba-Derekh Shela (2012)

Directed by: Roni Shiloni

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A group of women heads out on a jeep trek in China. Among them are the widow of the astronaut Ilan Ramon and the mother of a fallen fighter pilot.

Jerusalem ER (2012)

Yerushalayim ER

Directed by: Hilla Medalia

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Hadasa Mount Scopus Hospital is located in the ethnically charged buffer zone between the surrounding Israeli and Palestinian communities. Our story is seen through the eyes of Dr. Stalnikowicz and..

The Mountain (2012)

Ha-har

Directed by: Yaelle Kayam

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A housewife who lives with her family in the Jewish cemetary on the Mount Olive looks for meaning among the ancient tombs.

Please Love (2011)

Directed by: Yaelle Shwed, Aya Shwed

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A SCREAM FOR LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE Yaelle, a new immigrant in Israel from France follows the sun and finds the love of her life. Her family finds it hard to accept. The movie is a moving, musical and..

Schuna- The Secret of the Dead Moments (2012)

Shchuna

Directed by: Ilan Yagoda

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A small bench on the sidewalk near their houses is the daily meeting place of four women who have lived in the same neighborhood for the past 50 years and who have witnessed the constant change..

White Nights (2012)

Laila Lavan

Directed by: Irit Gal

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Night after night a group of Palestinian women go on a border crossing journey from their village, risking capture and arrest, to work as cleaning ladies in Jerusalem. On these nightly journeys, and..

From the Black You Make Color (2012)

Directed by: Judy Maltz, Richie Sherman

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At Tel-Aviv's oldest beauty academy, a group of students come from seven different countries, yet somehow fi nd a common language. The eight characters pulled into focus by the filmmakers, share and..

Breaking the wall (2012)

Shoveret Kir

Directed by: Yitzhak Halutzi

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The film uncovers the personality of Dr. Vicki Shiran, a feminist and Mizrahi-born leader who led all major social struggles in the past 3 decades until her untimely death 8 years ago. a can a..