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  • Moon in the 12th House

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    When a pair of estranged Israeli sisters—one who stayed at the childhood home to care for their debilitated father, the other who left for a new life in Tel Aviv—are reunited, they must come to terms with the circumstances that tore them apart.

    Directed by Dorit Hakim
    Israel, 2016
    Drama, Coming-...

  • Provence United

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    Shlomi, the star player of a minor league soccer team, dreams of leaving his small hometown and playing for Maccabi Tel-Aviv. Unfortunately for him, his local team manager needs Shlomi to stay and help the team advance, in order to prove his worth to the league officials. When Maccabi Tel-Aviv sc...

  • Love Life

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    From the Emmy Award-winning director of "Unorthodox"! Ya'ara has everything: She is pretty, happily married and has excellent prospects for a university career. Yet when she meets the much older Arie, a friend of her father, her perfect world falls apart. She succumbs to his fascinating, erotic a...

  • The Sign Painter

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    Ansis earns his living as a sign painter, a seemingly innocent occupation. His craft is needed in every regime – the authoritarian Thirties, the following Communism, as well as Nazism. Ansis is compelled to cooperate. He paints the signs of the city green, later replaced by red and finally brown....

  • The General

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    When Jewish Federal Prosecutor Fritz Bauer sets out to root out Nazi war criminals in post-war Germany, he runs into an invisible conspiracy at all levels of government trying to block his way. So when Adolf Eichmann shows up in Argentina, Bauer turns to the Mossad instead...

    An international po...

  • The Ninth Day

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    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...

  • Naked Among Wolves

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    A three-year-old Jewish boy is smuggled into Buchenwald in a suitcase - the effort to hide him and keep him alive becomes a metaphor for the struggle to preserve their humanity among the inmates.

    A gripping and touching drama starring Florian Stetter (German Oscar® Entry BELOVED SISTERS, STATION...

  • Generation Clash: Paradise Apartments

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    Though Nev is happily situated with his family in Los Angeles, he has yet to reveal his secret to his old school Jewish parents who are coming over to visit their new grandson for the first time.

    A Film by Yaniv Rokah
    United States, 2020
    Drama, Comedy, Jewish Culture
    English
    15 minutes

  • Vasermil

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    Vasermil tells the story of three teenagers who live in a tough neighbourhood, growing up in an unforgiving environment, pinning their hopes on football as a way out. Shlomi, a pizza delivery boy, lives with his widowed mother, little sister, and step-father. Adiel, of Ethiopian descent, has to l...

  • Paris-Manhattan

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    Idealistic pharmacist Alice (Alice Taglioni) is totally obsessed with the movies of Woody Allen. She continually quotes lines from his films, engages in imaginary conversations, and even prescribes her customers his classic works to help alleviate their ailments; it's a little wonder she's still ...

  • Pastry, Pain and Politics

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    An old Jewish couple is planning a summer vacation. She wants to go to Israel, and definitely not to Switzerland, a country that once refused her as a refugee. But for him Israel is too hot, and anyway full of Arabs. So off to Switzerland they go, where he suffers from a heart attack. The nurse w...

  • The Investigation Must Go On

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    Police investigator Micha Stein receives a tip that a singer, Shalom Shalom, is responsible for a recent robbery. Stein, who is excessively ambitious, arrests Shalom. A cat-and-mouse follows with two equally stubborn men playing off the contradictions of the characters. A wedding photographer wit...

  • An Impossible Love

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    At the end of the 1950s, Rachel (Virginie Efira, "Other People's Children", "Benedetta"), a young office clerk living in a provincial town, meets Philippe (Niels Schneider), a well-educated man from a wealthy family. They share an intense but short-lived romance, from which a daughter is born. Ov...

  • Wedding Doll

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    WEDDING DOLL follows a young impulsive woman, Hagit, who dreams of love, marriage and freedom from the strict guidance of her mother, an overprotective divorcee. Hagit strikes up a relationship with her boss' son at the toilet paper factory where she works. While hiding the blossoming romance fro...

  • The Last Suit

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    Abraham Bursztein, an octogenarian Jewish tailor, embarks on the adventure of a lifetime. Escaping a family intent on confining him to a nursing home, Abraham leaves Buenos Aires in search of the man who, over 70 years ago, saved him from certain death. With assistance from a roll call of generou...

  • Dawn
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    Dawn

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    Autumn 1947: Elisha, a young Jew, learns that he has been chosen to kill the hostage John Dawson (Jason Isaacs, "Harry Potter"), a captain in the British Army occupying Palestine. Will Elisha, himself a survivor of the holocaust, be able to commit this irrevocable act?

    Based on the Novel by Elie...

  • Bena
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    Bena

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    Amos lives alone with his schizophrenic teenage son, whom he refuses to intern in the psychiatry ward - he knows only too well how they treat their patients there. One day, Amos brings home a Thai young woman, an illegal alien called Bena. Amos hopes to find some "normality" through this female p...

  • An Irrepressible Woman

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    Léon Blum, the Jewish French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister, stands at the heart of a new film. Jeanne Reichenbach (Elsa Zylberstein) fell in love with Blum (Hippolyte Girardot) when she was only sixteen. Years later, when they could finally be together, the Nazis arrived in F...

  • A La Vie

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    Helene (Julie Depardieu), Lili (Johanna ter Steege) and Rose (Suzanne Clément) met in Auschwitz, where the three twenty-year-old Jewish girls were deported. Thanks to German-speaking Dutch Lili, who was working in the camp kitchen, the two French girls survived. Determined to find her old compani...

  • She's Got It

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    In the town of Mitzpeh Ramon, afflicted by unemployment and closing factories, a security guard of an armored car and the owner of a local printing house join together in a sophisticated sting operation to switch the money, taken from an illegal Casino, to fake bills which they have printed in ad...

  • Longing

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    Ariel, a well-off, childless man gets a phone call from his college girlfriend. She needs to tell him a couple of very surprising things: first, when they broke up twenty years ago, she was pregnant and went on to have a lovely boy. The second thing will make Ariel explore the hidden aspects of p...

  • That Lovely Girl

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    Moshe and Tami are a couple, Moshe is in his fifties and Tami is in her early twenties. They live together in a cruel and violent relationship, from which Tami seems unable to set herself free. Tami and Moshe are father and daughter.

    Official Selection (Un Certain Regard) - Cannes Film Festival ...

  • Over the Ocean

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    The year is 1962, and Holocaust survivor Menachem Goldfarb (Arie Muskuna) now lives in Israel with his family. Because tensions between Israel and Palestine are growing worse, Menachem wants to get his family out of the country. However, money is tight. But when an old friend, Morris (Moti Giladi...

  • Broken Mirrors

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    Shadowed by a strict, military father who inflicts severe methods of punishment as a form of discipline, seventeen-year-old Ariella (Shira Haas, Unorthodox, Shtisel, Asia) commits a grave error that her father (Yiftach Klein, 7 Days in Entebbe, Fill the Void) isn't willing to punish her for. Seek...