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Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
עברית
Description
It tackles an extremely sensitive issue in a vibrant, humorous way. Well into their 70s, Yehezkel and his wife Levana are living contented lives inside a Jerusalem retirement home. But they are shocked when their dear friend Max falls prey to an irreversible illness. Looking to escape a slow, painful death, Max asks Yehezkel for help to end his suffering.
2) Baba Joon
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
עברית
Description
Yitzhak runs the turkey farm his father built after they emigrated from Iran to Israel. Yitzhak hopes his thirteen-year-old son, Moti, will continue the proud family tradition, but his passion lies in fixing up cars. Yitzhak takes Moti's refusal to take over the farm as a personal rejection, and the result sets off a chain of events that causes familial turmoil.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
עברית
Formats
Description
Renowned filmmaker Avi Nesher’s latest film THE OTHER STORY tells a suspenseful, poignant, and humorous story through the eyes of two rebellious young women from two troubled families that tangle in the most unexpected ways in Jerusalem. As the characters’ warring personal convictions and intimate anxieties clash, the secular and religious world views they hold dear also come to embody the struggle for identity reflecting present-day Israel.
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Utilities around the world are racing to install smart utility meters, which are emerging as anything but smart. This documentary uncovers shocking evidence of in-home privacy, increased utility bills, health risks such as cancer, environmental harm, fires, and unprecedented hacking vulnerability, while lighting the path toward solutions. With compelling insight from whistleblowers, researchers, government agents, lawyers, doctors, and environmentalists....
5) The hilltops
Publisher
Sisu Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
עברית
Description
"The Israeli/Palestinian conflict unfolds in front of the camera in this powerful drama as viewers get a rare, no-holds-barred look into the lives of illegal Jewish settlements on the West Bank, populated by those who stare down the future of the Middle East peace process from up on their hilltops."--Container.
6) Bethlehem
Pub. Date
2014
Language
עברית
Description
The complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant. Shuttling back and forth between conflicting points of view, the film is a raw portrayal of characters torn apart by competing loyalties and impossible moral dilemmas, giving an unparalleled glimpse into the dark and fascinating world of human intelligence.
Publisher
Sisu Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
עברית
Description
Surrounded by buzzing family and friends, nervous Omer waits for his bride-to-be, Roni. Across town in her wedding dress, Roni is crazy with indecision. Should she? Shouldn't she? When Omer goes in search of his runaway bride, other couples' stories come to the surface and the startling truth about Omer and Roni is brought to light.
Publisher
[Distributed by] Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
עברית
Description
"In 1982, during the First Lebanon War, a tank manned by a novice crew of Israeli soldiers is led into a town previously bombed by the air force. The situation spins out of control, testing the mental toughness of the men inside a confined space with only the lens of a periscopic gun sight to see the madness outside."--Container.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
עברית
Description
Raya and Victor built a shared career as the Soviet Union's most beloved film dubbers, translating the work of Federico Fellini and Stanley Kubrick into Russian over the decades. Upon the collapse of the USSR in 1990, the Jewish couple must immigrate to Israel and reinvent their talents to find employment. As they strive to acclimate to their adopted home, opportunities for first-rate vocal performances are few and far between. Raya answers a help...
10) Omar
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Arabic
Description
Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with his childhood friends, but it's soon evident that everything he does is for his love of Nadia.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
עברית
Description
The Levis are a large, fun-loving family in early 1980s Israel. The father advises his children every day on the importance of fulfilling their dreams, while his wife preaches absolute family loyalty. Their summer holiday is usually filled with dances, flirting, and the playful hijinks, but this summer the family's idyllic life is shattered when twin brothers Erez and Ofer fall in love with the same girl.
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Features former 'Economic Hitman' and New York Times bestselling author, John Perkins, along with the Venus Project, an organization for social redesign created by industrial designer Jacque Fresco. Broken into four chapters, the first explains 'Fractional reserve banking' and how debt and bankruptcy are inevitable realities. The second exposes various levels of international corruption via the financial/corporate system.
13) Policeman
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
עברית
Description
A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young extremists.
14) The matchmaker
Pub. Date
2013
Language
עברית
Description
Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, he falls in love with Tamara, his friend Beni's cousin.
15) Advocate
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
עברית
Description
Profiles Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel.
16) Past life
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two sisters traverse 1977 Europe in the hopes of solving a World War II-era mystery that haunts their present lives.
18) Sublet
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Michael, a travel columnist for The New York Times, goes to Tel Aviv to write an article after suffering a tragedy. He is still grieving and the loss has caused problems between him and his husband. He just wants to do his research and go home. But when he sublets an apartment from Tomer, a young film student, he finds himself drawn into the life of the city.
19) Wedding doll
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
עברית
Description
The bittersweet and gently moving story follows a young impulsive woman, Hagit, who dreams of love, marriage and freedom from the strict guidance of her mother, an overprotective divorcee. Hagit strikes up a relationship with her boss' son at the local factory where she works. While hiding the blossoming romance from her mother, news arrives of the factory shutting down, and if forces Hagit's romantic fantasy and reality to collide.
Publisher
Sisu Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
עברית
Description
A tiny Israeli village in the Negev Desert is home to people from both Morocco and India. They have poverty in common and little else. Two families will be brought together by the unlikely friendship of daughters. There is the sultry Moroccan, Nicole, and the thoughtful Indian, Sara. The women's youth and lust for freedom overcome cultural prejudices. For this community and these two friends, the road to harmony is full of twists and turns.
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