Films
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I Shot My Love
Seventy years after his grandfather escapes from Nazi Germany to Palestine, Israeli documentary director Tomer Heymann returns to the country of his ancestors to present his film “ read more...
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The Way Home - Baderech Habaita ( 8 part series)
Passing time fills a central role in Baderech Ha'baita. Using old 8 mm. films and an intimate portrayal of the significant events in his personal life over the last fifteen years, director Tomer Heymann (It Kinda Scares Me, Paper Dolls,...
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Lone Samaritan
As a tiny sect constantly in danger of extinction, the Samaritans have very harsh rules about assimilation. After Sophie Tzdaka and her three sisters left the community, one after the other, the family became subject to terrible physical and m... read more...
Sayed Kashua - Forever Scared
"I'm scared of cars, of dogs, of snakes; I'm scared of airplanes, helicopters, tanks and soldiers. I'm scared of terrorist attacks. I'm scared of Jews, I'm scared of Arabs, I'm scared that some day, they'll put us in refugee camps" (Sayed Kashua, Haaretz, 2...
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Lady Kul el-Arab
Angelina, the first Druze woman to attempt significant steps in the Israeli fashion world, finds herself in the middle of a complicated conflict in which the tradition and values of her society clash with her brave efforts to choose her own way in life. Duah Fares, a...
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Dancing Alfonso
Dancing Alfonso is a pitch-perfect portrait of a vital widower who finds a physical practice that sustains him, and community and creativity in the rhythms and movement of flamenco. Alfonso is a powerful dancer in a troupe of older flamenco dancers; the troupe is ser...
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Debut
The documentary series "Debut" ("Hofa'at Bechora") portrays the exciting journey of two youth groups from the south of Israel ("Brinks" from Netivot and "Ditora" from Kiriyat Malachi) making their first steps in the music indus...
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Stalags - Holocaust and Pornography in Israel
Stalags were pocket books whose plots revealed lusty female SS officers sexually abusing camp prisoners. During the 1960s, parallel to the trial held against Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmannl, sales of this pornographic literature broke all records in Israel and hund...
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Out of Focus
Ohad Naharin is Israel’s “rock star” choreographer, and artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company. He specializes in getting world-class dancers to move from their guts—not the mirror—by teaching them what he playfully calls “Gag...
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Aviv (F****d Up Generation)
Aviv Geffen, the grandson of legendary Moshe Dayan and number one Israeli rockist, is rapidly becoming a mythic figure himself. He was the last person to embrace Rabin before that controversial politician was assassinated.
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Black Over White
Tomer Heymann followed Israeli pop/world-beat band The Idan Raichel Project on their 2006 concert tour to Ethiopia and emerged with a documentary that rollicks and rocks. The film, part lighthearted road trip, part examination of multiculturalism in Israel, is a clos...
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Cinderellas
This series about the israeli plastic sergury industry Made together with TTV productions. Will be aired on Israli Channel 2 in the end of 2005.
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Paper Dolls
"Paper Dolls" is a documentary film which explores changing patterns of global immigration and expanding notions of family through the prism of a community of Filipino transvestites who live illegally in Israel. Cast out by their families because of their s...
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Bridge Over The Wadi - The Series
In the first episode (“Drive out the Darkness”) we follow the evolving friendship of two 3rd-graders – Asaf and Bashar. Asaf, who at the beginning of the year is afraid of Arabs and apprehensive about going to school in Kfar K...
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Bridge Over the Wadi
For the first time in Israel, a group of Arab and Jewish parents decide to establish a conjoint bi-national, bi-lingual school inside an Arab village.
The film follows the school's first year and portrays through the personal stories of its characters, how co...
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My Village
My Village
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Zorki
Two years ago, Zohar Wagner, then 34, decided to tear away the cloak of silence that enveloped her bourgeois family. Her mother had a five year affair with a man ten years her junior, and Zohar, at the age of twelve, was an accomplice to the secret. Twenty years afte...
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Paper Dolls- The Series
In a small apartment in southern Tel Aviv, a group of Gay Filipino migrant workers meet every weekend. Throughout the week they work as caregivers of elderly Orthodox Jews in the Tel Aviv suburb and on weekends they performed before an audience of Filipinos migrant w...
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It Kinda Scares Me
It Kinda Scares Me is a gritty, funny documentary about a drama coach and the ÅgdelinquentÅh boys he teaches. In their world, bravado is everything and Friday nights are for getting into fights. Tomer Heymann, both filmmaker and drama coach, encourages th...
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Laugh Till I Cry
"We live on spare time, you live with people that soon will be out of date" says one of the main characters in the film. In 1997 a group of people in their 20's who suffer from CF disease (Cystic Fibrosis) created a theater group to help themselves deal wit...
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