Hebrew

  • Nitzan Giladi – Hatuna MeNiyar AKA Wedding Doll (2015)

    2011-2020DramaIsraelNitzan Giladi
    Hatuna MeNiyar (2015)
    Hatuna MeNiyar (2015)

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    Hagit, a young woman with mild mental deficiency, works in a toilet-paper factory. She lives with her mother Sarah, a divorcée who gave up her life for her daughter. Hagit strives for independence and Sarah is torn between her desire to protect her, and her own will to live. When a relationship develops between her and the son of the factory owner, Hagit hides it from her mother. The announcement of the closing of the factory shakes Hagit and Sarah’s life and jeopardizes Hagit’s love story.Read More »

  • Julie Shles – Muchrachim Lehiyot Same’ach AKA Joy (2005)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaIsraelJulie Shles
    Muchrachim Lehiyot Same'ach (2005)
    Muchrachim Lehiyot Same’ach (2005)

    Joy Levine lives in an old apartment that, in complete contrast to her, is shabby and worn-out on the outside while well-kept and filled with joy on the inside. Her life changes when she auditions for a TV show called “Gotta Be Happy”. To her astonishment, she is chosen, and her mission is to throw a surprise party for her parents on the upcoming show. However, there is a price to pay for all this: she has to let the viewers into her private inner world and share with them an event that has been overshadowing her family’s life and hers for the past 22 years; an event that made a tight-knit bunch of friends shun her parents, Chaya and Yitzhak Levine. Read More »

  • Baruch Dienar – Hem Hayu Asarah AKA They Were Ten (1961)

    1961-1970DramaIsrael
    Hem Hayu Asarah (1961)
    Hem Hayu Asarah (1961)

    The recreation of the establishment of a nineteenth century settlement in Eretz Yisrael by ten Russian Jews. They had to build the land and also contend with the Arab resentment and the Turkish military.Read More »

  • Assi Dayan – Ha-Chayim Al-Pi Agfa AKA Life According to Agfa (1992)

    1991-2000Assi DayanDramaIsrael
    Ha Chayim Al Pi Agfa (1992)
    Ha Chayim Al Pi Agfa (1992)

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    Following its initial release, the movie soon became a major cultural touchstone. A lot of Israelis in my age group (say 30-40) who consider themselves sophisticated love “Agfa” dearly. In Dayan, they felt they finally had a Hebrew-speaking Wim Wenders of their very own.Read More »

  • Eran Riklis – Pituy AKA Temptation (2002)

    Eran Riklis2001-2010DramaIsraelRomance
    Pituy (2002)
    Pituy (2002)

    Daphne’s life is peaceful. She has solid marriage with a successful lawyer, two charming children and a nice local bookshop. Recently her father passed away and left her a good deal of money, but besides that it’s the same old routine. This routine is about to abruptly change when Daphne befriends with Ami.Read More »

  • Dover Koshashvili – Love Birds (2017)

    Dover Koshashvili2011-2020DramaIsrael
    Love Birds (2017)
    Love Birds (2017)

    A couple, Tamara and Alon meet each other in a hotel suite for a day full of fantasy, they are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary and this is their routine celebration. But this year is different. Through this day secrets, lies, will be coming out while they are both living their sexual fantasy. As they go along through the revelation of secrets, infidelities and untold desires the experience becomes more and more painful for both of them.Read More »

  • Idan Haguel – Ezrah Mudag AKA Concerned Citizen (2022)

    2021-2030DramaIdan HaguelIsraelQueer Cinema(s)
    Ezrah Mudag (2022)
    Ezrah Mudag (2022)

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    Ben and Raz are painstakingly pursuing their desire to have a child, and the migrant neighbourhood where this gay couple has set up their new flat is on the up. But a conflict over a newly planted tree in the city brings deep-seated prejudices to light.Read More »

  • Amos Gitai – Territories (1980-2001)

    Amos GitaiDocumentaryIsrael

    1. House
    At a stone quarry above Hebron, Arab stonecutters work without explosives to cut away slabs shipped to cities to build houses. We visit a site in an old Arab quarter of Jerusalem where Palestinian laborers are enlarging a house for a Jewish family that had been an Arab family’s home until 1948. We meet the house’s present owner, a Jewish professional. We meet a stonemason at work on the addition; he talks about his hatred of Jews. We meet an older man who had built the original house, and we meet the physician who had lived in the house until he and his family evacuated it. He explains why they left. History, class, labor, and attitude on display at a construction site.Read More »

  • Amos Gitai – Ana Arabia (2013)

    Amos Gitai2011-2020DramaIsrael

    Filmed in one sequence shot of 81 minutes, this virtuosic film draws back the curtain on a moment in the life of a small community of outcasts, Jews and Arabs, who live together in a forgotten enclave surrounded by mass public housing near Jaffa. A young journalist (Yuval Scharf, intelligent and glamorous) visits them and discovers, among the dilapidated shacks and an orchard of lemon trees, a range of characters far removed from the usual cliches of the region. Compelling performances by Sarah Adler, Assi Levy, and Yussuf Abu-Warda shed light on private dreams and desires. From internationally acclaimed director Amos Gitai (Berlin Jerusalem NYJFF 1993, Kedma NYJFF 2003, Alila NYJFF 2004, News from Home / News from House NYJFF 2007).Read More »

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