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The Ninth Day
Movie
A powerful historical drama directed by Academy Award-winner Volker Schlöndorff ("The Tin Drum") and starring Ulrich Matthes (Downfall), August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds, A Hidden Life) and Bibiana Beglau (Crescendo).
Inspired by the true tale of a dissident priest's temporary furlough from D...
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Noa Baum: A Land Twice Promised
Movie
Beloved Israeli-born storyteller Noa Baum's dialogue with a Palestinian woman weaves together heartfelt memories to create a moving testimony that illuminates the complex and contradictory history and emotions surrounding Jerusalem, for Israelis and Palestinians alike.
“The stunning result of B...
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Nora's Will
Movie + 1 extra
Nora's Will is a comedy like nothing you've seen before, a truly unique tale of lost faith and eternal love from one of Mexico’s most talented filmmakers, writer/director Mariana Chenillo. Nora's Will was named Mexico’s Best Picture of the Year, taking home seven Ariel Awards. Chenillo is the fir...
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Odessa... Odessa!
Movie
Take a journey across three Odessas – from Odessa, Ukraine to “Little Odessa” New York and Ashdod, Israël – revealing the wanderings, hopes and illusions of the vanishing Odessa Jewish community.
CICAE Arthouse Prize | Berlin International Film Festival 2005
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Once In A Lifetime
Movie
A dedicated history teacher at a French high school, Anne Gueguen (Ariane Ascaride), is determined to give the best education she can to her underprivileged inner-city pupils. Overcoming their apathy, however, is proving to be more difficult than expected. Frustrated but undaunted, Anne tests her...
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Or
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Winner of the Camera d’Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, this Israeli classic follows down-on her-luck prostitute Ruthie (Ronit Elkabetz, "The Band’s Visit") and her 18-year-old daughter Or (Dana Ivgy). Or has tried many times to convince her mother to quit working the street, without success....
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Outdoors
Movie
Gili and Yaara decide to leave the city and have a fresh start, building a house in the countryside of the Galilee. But while their dream house is being built, the foundations of their relationship slowly collapse.
Directed by Asaf Saban
Starring Noa Koler, Udi Razzin
Israel, 2017
Drama
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The Outer Circle
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Midway through a gruelling Orthodox conversion, Daniel and his fiancée Katherine are eager to gain the blessing of his intimidatingly large and loud Iraqi Jewish family. At their annual Rosh Hashanah feast, Katherine’s natural elegance and ‘English English’ heritage immediately endears her to the...
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The Pirate Captain Toledano
Movie + 2 extras
On a 16th century pirate ship, a Jewish stowaway fleeing the Inquisition wants to become a pirate to fight the Spanish. The captain must decide whether to make him a pirate... or make him walk the plank. “The Pirate Captain Toledano” is the first film set in the little-known world of Jewish pirac...
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The Poet and the Con
Movie + 1 extra
This “ambitious and provocative” documentary is about the relationship between Eric Trules - a prize-winning poet and performer - and his uncle, Harvey Rosenberg - an underworld enforcer and career criminal. It’s a story about crime, family, morality, and redemption, as told by two very articulat...
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Promise at Dawn
Movie
Charlotte Gainsbourg ("Melancholia,” “Norman") stars in Promise at Dawn, the epic film adaptation of Romain Gary’s best-selling autobiographical novel.
From his difficult childhood in Poland to his adolescence under Nice’s sun, to his career in the air force in Africa during World War II... Roma...
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Rabin In His Own Words
Movie + 1 extra
Rabin In His Own Words is an “autobiography” of sorts, the story is told entirely in Rabin’s own voice. Through a combination of rare archival footage, home movies and private letters, his personal and professional dramas unfold before the viewer's eyes - from his childhood as the son of a labor ...
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The Rape of Europa
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The Rape of Europa is an epic journey through seven countries, into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe.
For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. But heroic you...
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Redemption
Movie
Menachem, a former frontman for a rock band, is now religious, and a father to a six-year-old. When his daughter is diagnosed with cancer, he must find a creative solution to fund the expensive treatments. He reunites his band for one last tour. The journey to save his daughter exposes old wounds...
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Restoration
Movie
70 year old Yaakov Fidelman (Sasson Gabai, The Band's Visit) hangs on with all his might to the antique restoration workshop which has been his life's work. After his long-time business partner passes away, Fidelman rejects his son Noah's idea to close the business and build an apartment complex...
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The Ride: Overcoming the Impossible
Movie
A diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma is basically a painful death sentence. Moshe a 65 year old survivor, celebrates the outcomes of his battle with a 125-mile bike ride, full of its own challenges and surprises along the way. Experience how a positive attitude, support, an educated proactive patient ...
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Rue Mandar
Movie
Take a traditional Jewish funeral whose rituals no one can quite recall, add a Yiddishkeit community in Paris - one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and top it off with an ensemble cast of dysfunctional siblings and spouses. What you get in the assured hands of director Idit Cébula (Two...
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Run Boy Run
Movie
A superlative saga of courage and compassion, Run Boy Run tells the extraordinary true story of a young Polish boy’s struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and maintain his Jewish faith through his intrepid will and the kindness of others. Escaping the Warsaw ghetto at the behest of his father, ...
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Sacred Sperm
Movie
An eye-opening documentary explaining the concept of sacred sperm within the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community which considers new life pure if born of “sacred sperm” and the spilling of sperm murder. In this documentary Director/Narrator Or Yashar shares his journey as he tries to fully un...
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Saviors in the Night
Movie
Saviors in the Night (Unter Bauern) is based on the memories of Marga Spiegel. In her narrative, published in 1965, she describes how courageous farmers in southern Münsterland hid her, her husband Siegfried {named Menne} and their little daughter Karin from 1943 until 1945, thus saving them from...
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Scandal in Ivansk
Movie
In the small Polish town of Ivansk, one word ignites a nationwide controversy. Most of Ivansk’s Jews were killed by the Nazis, and the headstones in the Jewish cemetery were plundered for construction purposes. A group of descendants of Ivansk Jews restore the town’s cemetery, retrieving what hea...
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The Scribe
Movie
Kalman Delmoor Is an American born Scribe who sits in the Old City of Jerusalem at the Four Sephardic Synagogues. There he scribes, interacts with tourists, and runs workshops. He focuses his work on connecting content and imagery, micro and macro, in a smart and meaningful way that he hopes can ...
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The Shabbos Goy
Movie
God literally forbids she turn off a vibrator gone rogue, so an Orthodox Jew (Milana Vayntrub, ATT's "Lily") sets out on a quest to find someone who can. Executive Producer Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat) presents this award-winning short film written and directed by Talia Osteen.
Audience Awa...
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Shalom Bollywood
Movie
A celebration of the all-singing, all-dancing history of the world’s largest film industry, Shalom Bollywood reveals the unlikely story of the 2000 year old Indian Jewish community and its formative place in shaping the world’s largest film industry. At the advent of the Indian cinema industry, i...