
A homicide detective, in what started out as a routine murder case, uncovers more than he bargained for and finds himself on a journey of self-discovery, challenging the very foundation of his identity.
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Tag Archives: Hebrew
Snails in the Rain (2013) Yoav Reuveni, Yehuda Nahari, Yariv Mozer, Drama, Romance

Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male written, love letters that undermines his sexual identity and interfere his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.
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Shifshuf Naim / Lemon Popsicle III / Hot Bubblegum (1981) Boaz Davidson, Yftach Katzur, Jonathan Sagall, Zachi Noy, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Three high school seniors preparing for final exams in the early 1960s have the normal teenage concerns about girls, sex and relationships. They try to find out if going steady with one girlfriend is better or if changing girlfriends all the time makes for too many complications. By the end of summer, all things get better.
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Shoshelet Schwartz / Schwartz Dynasty (2005) Amir Hasfari, Shmuel Hasfari, Miryam Zohar, Tal Friedman, Yehuda Levi, Comedy

The Schwartz Dinasty belong to a long tradition of Jewish rabbis. The grandfathers took their faith and turned it into deeds coming to the Land of Israel to start a new life and build a country. Where are their descendants and how are they doing in the Israel of today?
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Shkufim / Invisibles (2014) Mushon Salmona, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Ednan Abu Wadi, Bilal Alassad, Drama

Newly discharged from the Israeli Army, Ra’ed, a Bedouin from an unrecognized village in the Negev desert, is determined to save his family’s failing herd of sheep, about to be sold. He plans to live off the herd by starting a roadside Bedouin hospitality restaurant.
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Shesh Peamim / S#x Acts / Six Acts (2012) Johnathan Gurfinkel, Sivan Levy, Eviatar Mor, Roy Nik, Drama

Gili is a teenager who decides to change schools. She is determined to improve her lame social status. Over the course of a few weeks she hooks up with several different boys, all from her new school. Their encounters get more and more sexual, each time exploring their limits a little further. The boys are eager to take what is so generously offered, and Gili is thrilled with the attention. Just as Gili is trapped in the zone where it’s not certain if she is giving her consent to what is happening or not, the viewer too feels trapped in the same zone, feeling for certain that something terrible is happening, but unable to pin point exactly when, and what…
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Ha-Kochavim Shel Shlomi / Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003) Shemi Zarhin, Oshri Cohen, Arieh Elias, Esti Zakheim, Drama, Comedy

16 years old, Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care of most household chores. One day, the school’s principal finds out Shlomi is actually a genius and tries to get him into a more suitable curriculum. However, Shlomi is more interested in taking care of his family and his new love interest, the beautiful girl next door.
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Apples From The Desert / Tapuhim Min HaMidbar (2014) Matti Harari, Arik Lubetzki, Reymonde Amsallem, Elisha Banai, Irit Kaplan, Drama, Family, Romance

Rebecca is the only daughter of an Orthodox Jewish family living in Jerusalem. Unhappy with the reality of her life, Rebecca secretly exposes herself to the secular world. One day she runs away from her family to a kibbutz in the desert with a young man.
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Boker tov adon Fidelman / Restoration (2011) Yossi Madmoni, Henry David, Nevo Kimchi, Ruti Bornstein, Drama

In one of TEL-AVIV’s oldest neighborhoods, a senior antique furniture restorer is struggling to keep his workshop alive, confronting his own son who is trying to close down shop and aided by his young and bizarre apprentice who wishes to succeed him.
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Zinuk BaAlia / Hill Start (2014) Oren Shtern, Romi Aboulafia, Shlomo Bar-Aba, Albert Iluz, Comedy

A Comic drama that tells the story of the Geva family – a bourgeois family from Jerusalem. When the mother of the family, Ora, goes into a coma after a car accident, the family members try to bring her back in every way possible.
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