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- Yair Lev, a Israeli documentary filmmaker turns a detective and sets on a journey to uncover the true identity behind the man who stole his grandfather's identity and later on became the president of a Jewish community in Austria.
- Bashir returns home to find his Jewish girlfriend, Karin, with an unexpected baby in her arms. 'We're a family now' she tells him, 'and we'll never be apart.'
- This is the dramatic story of Bureau 06, the team of police investigators formed for the sole purpose of investigating and preparing the grave charges brought by the Jewish people against Adolf Eichmann, during the trial that took place in Jerusalem, 1961. The Eichmann trial presented the story of the Shoah to the entire world in a way that had never been told before. This film reveals the unique personal and shared stories of the team of investigators, their hardships, their confessions and the emotional turmoil they experienced, while trying to revive the "act of evil" for the very first time. After the investigation was concluded and the charges brought forth, most of the investigators were emotionally drained and did not appear at the trial. Of special note is the story of Avner Less, Eichmann's personal interrogator, who spent more than 275 hours with Eichmann, left Israel after the trial, and reclaimed his German identity card.
- 20-year-old Sisai, Ethiopian immigrant in Israel, lives with his adoptive family - the Gavros. Father Gavro returns from Ethiopia with news of Sisai's biological father's whereabouts. Confused by the news and the fresh confrontation with his past, Sisai does not share his family's excitement. He is too busy with his own news; Sivan, his girlfriend, is pregnant. The director, who is also Sisai's brother, joins him and their father on a journey to Ethiopia on their search for identity, blood connection, love and longing.
- DESCRIPTION OF A MEMORY examines the complexities of Israel's history through the lens of Chris Marker's 1960 film DESCRIPTION OF A STRUGGLE (DESCRIPTION D'UN COMBAT), a portrait of the country made 13 years after its founding. Marker went to Israel as an outsider, looking to discover the spirit of the young country through its "language of signs." He found a place whose unique moral and political obligations could provide a new, humane model of nationhood to the world. In DESCRIPTION OF A MEMORY, director Dan Geva, an Israeli, explores what has happened in his homeland in the years since with a more critical eye, asking whether the promises Marker identified have been fulfilled. Structured by thirteen memories, the film is an open-ended, essayistic meditation on the distance between the ideals that fueled the creation of Israel and the realities of its history.
- Eight young Israelis find themselves at a life's crossroads. Their common ground is being out of place in their surroundings and they all long for a sense of wholeness and integrity which eludes them. Even so they unconditionally delve into a final delusional quest in search of a satisfying solution to their loss. MYMYM is a journey which concludes by intersecting their paths for the first and last time. Amnon and Miko drive from one end of the country to the other for an underpaid concert. Committed in pursuing their long coveted dream of becoming Rock Stars. Shimrit helps Sharon escape a mental asylum. Together they set out in search of Sharon's son who has been separated from her. Boris, a successful D.J., who has had enough of the party scene, encouraged by his over zealous drug dealer Andre, sets off alone into the desert in search of the comforting sound - silence. Left behind, his girlfriend Ma'Mayan, is quick to console herself in romance with a dreamy street musician. Each person and the path they take. Each path and the surprises at its bend. With some of Israel's less known scenery at the background and exercising free cinematic expressions, the characters' exploits run parallel to each other, crossing back and forth those refined borderlines that seem to persist within our minds - those between reality and imagination.
- Filmmaker Ronen Amar documents two protagonists whose only common denominator is the sleepy southern town they come from. Amar follows his cousin Eyal, a successful architect-contractor who decides to run for mayor and kick up dust. He also follows his friend Koko, a stoner on an eternal soul search. With municipal elections raging in the background, Amar's protagonists stand at critical junctures in their lives. How will their s[elections] shape the director's future as well?
- The film follows 4 young Brazilians from a village that was just recently discovered by tourists. It shows the immense influence that the tourists have over the lives of the locals, and the difference between the way the tourists conceive the locals and the reality that is filmed. The arrival of foreigners to the village has created a new variety of options for self fulfillment, that doesn't go hand in hand with the economical and social possibilities of the locals.
- Elaine is traveling to South Africa to part from her elderly mother. Rebecca is traveling to her village to visit her children who she has left to work in the city. Lullaby is about my two mothers. I am accompanying on their journeys in South Africa and embarking on a journey of my own, to recapture my childhood memories, so that I can discover the meaning of motherhood.
- The film follows Julia, a Russian Immigrant, and her 5 years old daughter, who live on the border between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, 4 km from Gaza city, in Kibbutz Nir-Am. Because of its close proximity to the border, Kibbutz Nir Am has the highest ratio of rocket hits per square kilometer, and the least time for advance warning - less than18 seconds from the time the" Red Dawn" siren is sounded. This is a intimate and surprising story of a mother and daughter, who raise each other in their barbed wired fenced Garden of Ede, In spite of Israeli helicopters soaring above their heads, and Palestinian rockets falling in their yard
- Kibbutz Eshbal in the Galilee, established in 1998 as an educational center, runs a boarding school for adolescents who have been expelled from other educational institutions. At Eshbal, Baruch, Ora, Moshe and Yael, first-generation immigrants from Ethiopia, are counseled by Yoav and Vickie, kibbutz members. The film portrays the first class at Eshbal's boarding school while documenting life on a secluded hill in the Galilee, of committed kibbutz youngsters and alienated youths, each striving, in their own way, for a place within Israeli society.
- This is the story of a number of old stores in modern-day Tel Aviv-Jaffa, all small businesses, 40 years old or older, who have somehow survived despite the hardships of time. The film passes between the stores and unfolds an old and aging world of tradition and family businesses, a whole fabric of life and places very different from the fast, dynamic life that surrounds us. Among the participating shops: A barber shop about to close, Mikolinsy shoes which was one of the city's most elegant shops and an Arab-owned pharmacy in Jaffa run by a father and his son.
- 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 after the difficult episode that had torn the family apart, as the Filmmaker's Mother is selling her childhood home, the family gathers and Pandora's Box is opened. The film is called "Zorki," the family nickname for Zohar.
- Filmmaker Gali Meiri allows us to share the journey of an exceptional young woman, Eylon Nuphar co-creator and founder of Mayumana (www.mayumana.com), the world-renowned performance troupe group who manages, against all odds, at the peak of her career, to find strength within fragility, facing a whirlwind of challenges, fighting breast cancer.
- Maksim, a sleep addict, asks his parents to help him buy a pizza place he co-owns. As soon as the work begins, the parents realize they will have to invest a lot more than just money. With dad as the delivery boy and mom as the oven cleaner, the film creates a true profile of the average Israeli family in the new millennium.
- The documentary A Year in a Village features a village in Moravia, Czech Republic. The focus is on 12-year-old Vojta and his father Danek, who are both into beekeeping and on Vojta's 16-year-old cousin Anetka, who is preparing for her first participation in "hody" celebration, and of their grandmother Bohuska. We watch the members of the family work and perform their hobbies. We listen to their opinions, trying to understand their thinking, as well as the world they live in. Even though a part of the documentary features the traditional feast called "hody", the aim is not to describe the event itself, but to understand how the characters feel about being a part of it and how it influences them.