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The epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses. Shlomo is plagued by two big secrets: He is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived and wants, somehow, to fulfill his Ethiopian mother's parting request that he “go, live, and become.” Buoyed by a profound and unfaltering motherly love–both in his memory and in the arms of his adoptive mother–he...
63) Qassam
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Qassam tells the story of the city of Sderot and the people who live there. The city has been attacked by thousands of Palestinian Qassam rockets since 2001. The film was produced in 2004 and 2005. This documentary has been screened around the world including American and Canadian television.
64) Dark Side
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A Holocaust survivor opens up to his family about taking murderous revenge on the soldiers that killed his family in WWII.
65) Past Life
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Inspired by true events, "Past Life" tracks the daring 1977 trans-European odyssey of two sisters – one an introverted ambitious classical music composer, and the other a combative liberal magazine editor. As they try to unravel a disturbing wartime mystery that has cast a foreboding shadow on their entire lives, they realize that freedom from the shackles of the past requires painful sacrifices, as does the struggle to discover one's unique voice....
66) In Between
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In director Maysaloun Hamoud's remarkable feature debut, three Palestinian women sharing an apartment in the vibrant heart of Tel Aviv find themselves doing the same balancing act between tradition and modernity, citizenship and culture, fealty and freedom.
67) In Bed
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Guy and his best friend Joy are enjoying the gay pride parade to the fullest, when their bliss is abruptly put to an end by a shooting. Fleeing the scene into the safety of Guy's home, they enter a night full of sex, drugs and paranoia.
68) Love & Dance
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Young Chen upsets his Israeli father, Rami-- but pleases his Russian mother, Lena-- when he halts his martial arts studies to enroll in dance lessons. Amid mounting tensions at home, Chen finds joy in his lessons -- and in the true source of his interest in the sport: his crush, fellow classmate Natalie.
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Mekimi volume 4
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Alma's parents are worried and take her to meet Elisha, a former repentant. Alma travels to Rabbi Nachman's grave in Oman in the Ukraine, where she meets Dalit, another repentant. Alma tells Ben they can no longer live together and moves in with Dalit.
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Bilingual Baby® total immersion language features Live-Action and real children. Bilingual Baby® helps teach using everyday objects in familiar surroundings to make fast learning connections. Over 60 Words such as Colors, Numbers, Familiar Words and Sentences, Manners and Phrases are introduced by a Native-Language Narrator. Children will always hear only one language on all Bilingual Baby®, giving them maximum exposure to the sounds,...
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The year is 1947. 18-year old Margalit from a village in northern Israel loves theater and dreams of becoming an actress. One day she falls in love with 24-year old Eli from Kibbutz Beit Keshet. She tries to get close to him, hoping he'll fall for her, but things don't go so smoothly. He has a girlfriend and is busy with the dramatic events preceding the birth of Israel. Slowly the barriers come down, Margalit moves in with Eli and they set up a date...
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A Matter of Size is an Israeli comedy (yes, comedy!) like nothing you've seen before, a hilarious and heart-warming tale about about a coming out of a different kind: four overweight guys who learn to love themselves through the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling!Herzl (Itzik Cohen) has been struggling with his weight ever since he was young, and his overbearing mother made it no easier on him. His friends Aharon (Dvir Benedek) and Gidi (Alon Dahan)...
75) Powder
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Against the backdrop of a family dealing with illness and death, Ayal is repeatedly called for reserve duty as a Tank Commander in the Israeli army.
77) For My Father
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A Palestinian man forced into a suicide mission, and a beautiful young Israeli woman, outcast from her orthodox family, fall in love during a desperate weekend in Tel Aviv.
78) Harmonia
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A contemporary variation of the biblical story of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar. Sarah, a harpist of the Jerusalem Philharmonic Orchestra is married to Abraham, its conductor.
When Hagar, a young Palestinian horn player joins the orchestra, the thin balance in their family is shaken. Harmonia uncovers the metaphoric emotional roots of the ancient conflict between the two peoples living in Jerusalem, now seeking harmony through a dramatic encounter between...
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Four men whose combined intellect doesn't reach the triple digits successfully steal a safe full of foreign currency from a police station. Now can these bumblers keep greed and bad decisions from bringing their crime to light? Based on a real-life incident and co-written by police officer and playwright Haim Marin.
80) Cinema Sabaya
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A group of Palestinian and Israeli women attend a video workshop at a small town community center run by Rona (Dana Ivgy, Zero Motivation), a young filmmaker from Tel Aviv, who teaches them to document their lives. As each student shares footage from her home life with the others, their beliefs and preconceptions are challenged and barriers are broken down. The group comes together as mothers, daughters, wives, and women living in a world designed...