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| Dolphin Boy | 2011 |
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Dani Menkin and Yonatan Nir | 72 minutes | Thu 8:30 pm |
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A true story about the healing power of nature
Morad, a teenager from an Arab village in Israel's north,
cuts himself off from human contact following a violent
experience. As a last resort before hospitalizing his son in
a mental health facility, his devoted father takes him to be
treated with dolphins in Eilat. Morad starts speaking again
following months of silence, but erases his past and refuses
to go home to his waiting mother. This documentary, about
the devastation that violence wreaks upon the human soul,
and about the healing powers of love and nature, was filmed
over the course of four years.
Winner, Jury Mention Award at the
Jerusalem Film Festival (2011)
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| Family in Captivity | 2011 |
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Tal Goren | 56 minutes | Mon 6:30 pm |
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On the morning of June 25, 2006, 19 year old soldier
Gilad Schalit was abducted by Hamas and has been held
hostage ever since. For more than five years, there has been
no knowledge of Gilad's physical state or the conditions
under which he is being held. On the morning that he was
kidnapped, his family was also taken hostage – hostage to
a new life that was thrust upon them, a life dedicated to the
struggle to bring their son back home alive. The years of
efforts to secure Gilad's release have taken a big toll on all
family members, with each needing to deal individually with
their new surreal life and its harsh realities.
This film follows the Schalit family in intimate detail, revealing
the ongoing difficulties, the frustration and the pain the
family must endure daily to save their son's life. This
relentless nightmare is portrayed in the film along with the
gut-wrenching dilemma accompanying their every decision –
whether their actions will bring Gilad's release closer or, G-d
forbid, lead to disaster.
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| Just the Two of Us | 2011 |
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Tzipi Baider | 43 minutes | Sun 6:30 pm |
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The last living survivors of the Treblinka death camp, both
88 years old, share a journey to the place they fled from 68
years ago. On the way they remember, laugh, experience a
range of emotions, cry, and sing together the Treblinka
anthem. On arriving at Treblinka, their journey ends
with a stunning surprise, the likes of which they have
never experienced: a parade of IDF soldiers is
standing at attention, saluting them. To the young soldier
who hugs him, Samuel says in tears: "It is the happiest day of
my life" while Kalman whispers: "I never dreamt of getting
back here in such an old age, after all in Treblinka you were
no more than a dead on vacation". |
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| The Flood | 2010 |
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Guy Nattiv | 100 minutes | Sun 8:30 pm, Mon 8:30 pm |
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Everything is complicated in Yoni's life. He's almost 13,
intellectually gifted, but physically underdeveloped. Yoni
struggles daily to grow up before his upcoming Bar Mitzvah.
He sells homework to secretly buy a body building wonder
powder, which, to date, has achieved nothing. His new
classmates are a year older and two heads taller, and bully
him at every opportunity. His parents barely speak, only
communicating with each other, if at all, through Yoni. If all this
isn't enough, only a week before his Bar Mitzvah, his autistic
brother, Tomer, returns home. At 17, Tomer has been hidden
for years in a recently closed institution. His brother's return
shakes not only Yoni's life, but his entire family's unstable
foundation. It falls to Yoni to deal with a brother he hasn't seen
in ten years.
Winner, Israeli Film Academy Award (2010) including:
Best Supporting Actor - Michael Moshonov
Berlin International Film Festival 2011 | Won Crystal Bear -
Special Mention Best Feature Film | Category Generation Kplus |
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| My Lovely Sister | 2011 |
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Marco Carmel | 91 minutes | Tue 6:30 pm |
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Based on a modern Moroccan-Jewish legend.
Taking place in the impoverished housing blocks of Israel's
peripheral towns, "My Lovely Sister" is a love story between the
primitively superstitious Rahma, her rude husband, Robert, and
the ghost of Rahma's beautiful sister, Mary. Mary died from the
pain of banishment, when she followed her heart and chose to
live with an Arab man. Rahma and Robert's conscience will be
tested through an emotional and passionate journey with the
ghost of Mary. |
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| Human Resources Manager | 2010 |
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Eran Riklis | 103 minutes | Sun 4:30 pm, Wen 6:30 pm |
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From the acclaimed director of "Lemon Tree" and
"The Syrian Bride".
Yulia, a foreign worker at a Jerusalem bakery, is killed in a
bombing, and an aggressive journalist creates a scandal
after her unclaimed body lies in the morgue for a week. To
counter the negative image of a big, cold company allowing
an employee's remains to languish in the morgue, the
business' owner instructs her human resources manager to
accompany Yulia's body back to her native land. Far from
home, on a mission to honour a woman he didn't even know,
the HR manager rediscovers his own humanity. The manager
encounters many unanticipated obstacles while attempting to
fulfill his mission. Witty and full of character, this is a touching
tragicomedy based on the novel by Abraham B. Jehoshua.
Winner of five (5) Israeli Film Academy Awards (2010)
including:
Best Film | Best Director - Eran Riklis | Best Screenplay -
Noah Stollman | Best Sound - Gil Toren, Asher Milo |
Best Supporting Actress - Rosina Kambus
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| Dusk | 2010 |
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Alon Zingman | 90 min | Wen 8:30 pm, Thu 6:30 pm |
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A car accident brings together four people. Between the film's
beginning at sunrise at the airport and ending at sunset at the
hospital, their four stories are woven together and complete
strangers become linked with one other. This is a story of
parents, children, and relationships.
Haifa International Film Festival 2010 Best Debut
Israeli Film Academy
Nominated for Best Cinematography: Roi Rot |
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| Mrs. Moskowitz and the Cats | 2009 |
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Jorge Gurvich | 83 minutes | Tue 8:30 pm |
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When Yolanda Moskowitz, a retired French teacher, wakes up
in a hospital geriatric ward, she is convinced it must be an
error. But the titanium plate in her hip is real, confining her to
a lengthy convalescence in a wheelchair. Yolanda discovers
new life in the hospital as a close relationship develops with
her roommate Allegra, a solitary woman. She also meets Shaul,
a former soccer player, who stirs in her emotions she thought
had vanished forever. Like a young woman in love, Yolanda
does everything to get Shaul's attention. When well enough
to go home, she returns to her life of loneliness. Just as she's
about to renounce her possessions to win over the friendship
of a caregiver, there's a knock at her door...
Winner, Jerusalem Film Festival Awards (2009)
Best Actress - Rita Zohar |
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| Playoff | 2011 |
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Eran Riklis | 111 min |
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Playoff tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Max Stoller. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel's first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team - of all people! - into European winners. Max always maintains that Germany - where he was born before the war - means nothing to him, and that training their national team is just another job on his path to NBA glory. But things aren't as simple as he refuses to speak German to the young players. The only person he seems to be able to relate to is a Turkish immigrant woman Deniz, and her cheeky teenage daughter Sema. Max just about falls in love with Deniz - and does succeed in reinventing the Germans as European champions. When he discovers what happened to his own family in the 1940s - it is not what he had expected. And he will realize that one cannot run away forever from one's own past and demons. Playoff is inspired by the life of Ralph Klein, Israel's most famous basketball coach, ever. |
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