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Tag Archives: Hebrew
Shavua ve Yom / One Week and a Day (2016) Asaph Polonsky, Sharon Alexander, Shai Avivi, Evgenia Dodina, Drama
When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor Read More »
Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche / The House on Chelouche Street (1973) Moshé Mizrahi, Gila Almagor, Shaike Ophir, Joseph Shiloach, Drama
A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.
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Hannah Arendt (2012) Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Biography, Drama
In 1961, the noted German-American philosopher, Hannah Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. Read More »
Out in the Dark (2012) Michael Mayer, Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni, Jamil Khoury, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Nimer and Roy are two gay men on opposing sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict who fall for each other. Much as they’d like to be left alone, both political conflict and orthodox beliefs will not leave their budding relationship untouched, with most of the egregious circumstances befalling Nimer, whom security forces pressure into helping them by stripping his access to education and threatening to leave him without family. Through his eye-witnessed death of a friend, Nimer knows he can’t oblige. Can love find a way through this no-win situation?
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To Die in Jerusalem (2007) Hilla Medalia, Documentary
Ever since 17-year-old Rachel Levy, an Israeli, was killed four years ago in Jerusalem by a Palestinian suicide bomber, her mother Abigail has found hardly a moment’s peace. Read More »
Yom Yom / Day after day (1998) Amos Gitai, Moshe Ivgy, Hanna Maron, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Comedy, Drama
A slice of life – day after day – in Haifa, where Moshe and Didi’s marriage is on the rocks, affairs are casual, and Moshe’s angst about health, his parents, sex, communication, and business are pervasive and existential.
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Tzedek muchlat / Primal Justice (1998) Arnon Zadok, Gabi Amrani, Yona Atari, Saar Badishi, Drama
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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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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