About a hundred adolescents immigrate to Israel all alone from the former USSR. Within 9 months, in a reckless atmosphere, they are supposed to transform from “Russians” to “Israelis”. This film follows their changing lives, and sees them in moments of joy and sorrow, camaraderie and loneliness, hope and disillusion.
May 29, 1985 – 39 fans died in the Brussels’ Heyzel Stadium before the UEFA CUP FINAL between Juventus and Liverpool began. It seems obvious that the match would be cancelled. The UEFA representatives insisted that the match be played; the Juventus management had a different plan.
How does a single heterosexual woman, who’s tired of waiting for Mr. Right, do what she desires most and give birth to a child? This dilemma challenged Dafna, until she met Itamar and Kai
Neel, 50-years old and mother of three, has been diagnosed with cancer. After three years of aggressive treatment, her oncologist has predicted she will have one year to live
What is anti-Semitism today, two generation after the Holocaust? Director Yoav Shamir travels the world in search of the most modern manifestations of the “oldest hatred” and comes up with some startling answers.
In the north western corner of Namibia near the Angolan boarder, one of the most godforsaken desolate regions of Africa, lives a Himba tribe. They are one of the last tribes trying to maintain a traditional way of life. Winds of change, progress and modernism coupled with the real menace of AIDS threaten to annihilate the ways of the Himba
This film looks at an ambitious initiative to re-open a previously abandoned cinema in the West Bank city of Jenin. It presents an intimate, nuanced and textured view on the city and its domestic affairs
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 his village from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier
Various characters meet in a Hebrew language Ulpan where their personal stories meld with the complexities of Israeli reality. The immense effort of learning a new language is revealed through their encounter with a strange culture and an unfamiliar environment
Follow the life of a group of young Palestinian outlaws, construction workers in Modiin, telling a story that takes us into an absurd reality. A daily routine of police raids and fear of the separation wall slowly closing in on them cannot take away from their youthful playfulness as they are pushed from childhood to manhood.
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