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My Dream, Your Nightmare

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Chana Meir is a religious woman. Ruti Duek is secular. Chana lives in Ir David, a Jewish settlement in the Arab village of Silwan, right outside Jerusalem's Old City. Ruti Duek is a political and of..

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..

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..

Family Picture

Directed by: Itszhak Haluki

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A dinner invitation transports them to their past during the Holocaust and provides an opportunity for revenge.

On a Very Narrow Bridge

Gesger Tzar Meod

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A story about a love affair between a lawyer doing his reserve military duty and a librarian from Ramallah in the West Bank.

Tolya

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On International Women's Day, when all his fellow alien workers call their distant wives to greet them, Tolya remains speechless as he calls Natasha, his wife. His toothless mouth can't pronounce a..

The Pioneers (1934)

Halutzim

Directed by: Aleksander Ford

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A powerful, beautifully photographed story about the trials and tribulations of Jewish pioneers, featuring an indomitable heroine who fights for the group's survival and success--in the face of hard..

Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (1955)

Giv'a 24 Eina Ona

Directed by: Thorold Dickinson

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This film was the first ever to be shot in Israel and deals with the outbreak of hostility and war that occurred during the Israeli War for independence. The night before a cease-fire in the to be a..

The True Story of Palestine (1962)

Etz O Palestina

Directed by: Nathan Axelrod, Joel Silberg, Uri Zohar

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Hundreds of hours of raw material shot by Nathan Axelrod, a pioneer of Israeli filmmaking before the State of Israel who documented the building of the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine - are the building ..

A Pound a Piece (1963)

Rak Ba'Lira

Directed by: Yoram Gross

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Tall Giddi and short Jacko are two bums trading "a pound a piece" articles. They spend worriless days on the Tel Aviv streets of the 60's, until the bench on which they sleep collapses and they need..

Nini (1963)

Nini

Directed by: Shlomo Suriano

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A well to do guy falls in love with a poor, Christian Arab girl from Jaffa.

Dreamboat (1964)

Ulay Terdu Sham

Directed by: Amatsia Hiouni, Israel Visler

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A group of children embrace an eccentric old man, and working together, build a ship on a rooftop.

Sallah (1964)

Sallah Shabati

Directed by: Ephraim Kishon

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This film concerns a Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet" - a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was -..

Moishe Aircondition (1966)

Moishe Ventilator

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Ervinka (1967)

Ervinka

Directed by: Ephraim Kishon

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Chaim Topol, a badly behaved idler, joins in a plot to rob the Israeli lottery.

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..

Scouting Patrol (1967)

Sayarim

Directed by: Micha Shagrir

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Israeli commandos cross into Arab territory in order to kidnap an enemy terrorist.

Not Mine to Love / Three Days and a Child (1967)

Shlosha Yamim Veyeled

Directed by: Uri Zohar

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Eli has to take care of his old girlfriend's child for three days where we see their love-hate relationship.

Iris (1968)

Iris

Directed by: David Greenberg

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A man pretends to be married to his ex-wife for the sake of his mother's sanity. But when he finds love with his secretary, and later a 17-year-old, he ends up lost in confusion.

Fish, Football and Girls (1968)

Hashchuna Shelanu

Directed by: Uri Zohar

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The story of the Suramlaloo family, through which we are introduced to a variety of characters living in a Tel Aviv Neighborhood; Jacko is the oldest, who has only daughters and await a birth of a a..