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The Ashkenazim (2006)

Ha'Ashkenazim

Directed by: Dani Dotan, Dalia Meyerovich

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The Ashkenazim is a humorous and moving film about young Israelis in search of their Ashkenazi roots. These women and men seek to reconnect with their Jewish European heritage which they feel was in..

Stalin's Forgotten Zion (2004)

Stalin

Directed by: Rob Hof

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The first modern Jewish state wasn’t in the Middle East—it was in Siberia. Stalin’s Forgotten Zion explores the history of Birobidzhan through archival footage and to a..

South Wind on Hilton Beach (2006)

Ruach Deromit B'Chof Hilton

Directed by: Karin Kainer

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The story begins with Dr. Dorian Peskovich, a Jewish American surfing champion who, surfing on the waves of Zionism, introduces the first surfboards to the Frishman Beach gang. This band of guys the..

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..

Sidewalk (2007)

Directed by: Duki Dror

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This touching film interweaves seven parallel stories of children on their way to and from school into one journey. We witness the most intimate moments - between parent and teacher; danger and - a..

Passover Fever (1994)

Leylasede

Directed by: Shemi Zarhin

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A large family convenes to celebrate the Passover Eve Feast. During the meal several dramas take place along with suspicious looks and restrained smiles. Everyone is there, but a dark cloud casts of..

Peppers (2006)

Paparim

Directed by: Jaap van Heudsen

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Simcha decides to have Gideon, an ultra-Orthodox boy from Jerusalem, stay at her house as part of an exchange program at her school. Gideon, however, has no idea that Simcha is a girl. Fighting the..

My Own Telenova (2004)

Ha'Telenova Hapratit Sheli

Directed by: Jorge Weller

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A journey of self-discovery and redemption, filmmaker Jorge Weller travels back to his native Argentina, which he left twenty-two years earlier in order to immigrate to Israel. With film crew in he..

My Family's Pizza (2003)

Pizza Mishpachtif

Directed by: Ronen Amar

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Maksim, a pizza wizard addicted to sleep, asks his parents to help him buy a pizza place he co-owns. As soon as he becomes the sole owner, his parents realize they will have to invest in it a whole..

Mother Stayed There (1997)

Ima Nishara Sham

Directed by: Dalia Meyerovich

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This documentary relates the stories of two Ethiopian Jews whose mothers were left behind during the 1991 Israeli airlift of 14,000 Ethiopians. Paulus (19) and Rachel (20) tell their stories, these..