ISRAELI SHORT FILMS
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Revital is an Alien
Gabriela is thrilled when she finds a baby alien in the forest and calls her Revital. As Revital grows and develops into a little alien girl she finds it harder and harder to exist in a world so different from her. Gabriela does everything she can to put her daughter at ease and make her happy. B...
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Seven Minutes
Yair, an IDF soldier who has just started his basic training, is supposed to stay in the base during the upcoming weekend. At the very last minute, Yair's commander gives him a chance to go home for the weekend with the rest of his fellow rookies. In order to go back home and visit his family and...
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Dear God
Lior Ashkenazi, one of Israel's top actors, stars as a simple Western Wall guard who follows a mysterious, beautiful woman's notes in the holy stones of Jerusalem.
Year: 2014
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Directors: Erez Tadmor, Guy Nattiv
Producers: Shemi Shoenfeld, Amitan Manelzon
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Paris on the Water
Bathya is a former movie star who feels that her life is finally about to change. After years of frustration, she is offered a part in a movie. But on the morning of the audition, she is forced to reexamine her priorities.
Year: 2014
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Director: Hadas Ayalon
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The Youngest
In the Jewish ultra-Orthodox world, marriage is by arrangement only. Leah, a young woman just coming of age, is ready for love. But her mother seems unwilling to let her go.
Year: 2018
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Director: Rachel Elitzur
Producer: Racheli Vasserman
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Absorption Center
An Argentinean immigrant to Israel arrives at an absorption center in the city of Kiryat Yam, where he meets a Russian girl who shares the same feelings of uncommonness.
Year: 2017
Languages: English & Hebrew, English & Hebrew subtitles
Director: Jonathan Grynkraut
Producer: Gal Dor
Writer: Jon... -
As You Like
A father, a mother, and two daughters are in an idyllic setting at home, each doing their own thing. The moment is disrupted when Dad comes up with a fun, spontaneous suggestion.
Year: 2020
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Director: Maya Yadlin
Producer: Minshar School of Art
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Jonah the Wet Nurse
Jonah is an orthodox undertaker. After his wife dies in childbirth, a miracle happens and he appears to have special powers. He becomes a magic man and a healer in his neighbourhood.
This program may contain strong language, nudity, and/or violence. Viewer discretion is advised.
Year: 2015
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Let Go
In the heart of the spiritual old city of Jerusalem, Joel finds himself at a crossroads. His heart shattered by a love lost, he seeks solace in the holiness of this ancient place. Surrounded by sacred sites and the whispers of countless prayers, Joel finds a refuge in the city's embrace.
Just as...
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Wrong Rhythm
Yifat and Moav, a young religious Jewish couple, discover in weird circumstances that they are expecting a baby. Eight months later, on the day of her brother's wedding, Yifat rushes to the doctor and there she is told she lost the baby. She chooses to keep it a secret from everyone, even her hus...
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Who Are You?
When a daughter visits her sick mother who suffers from memory loss, she finds herself reliving a childhood trauma.
Year: 2019
Languages: Hebrew & Russian, English subtitles
Director: Tanya Yakovlev
Producer: Yoel Eilat
Starring: Alina Litvinov, Yhali Handros Digmi, Tamara Klingon, Irit Digmi -
Kapunka
A wild Jewish western comedy about the conflict of living a traditional and modern life. In order to get around, a requirement for Jews to leave their fields once every seven years. Shmulik "sells" his land to his Thai laborer leading to unexpected consequences.
Year: 2015
Language: Hebrew, Engl... -
Test
Tomer (25) is helping his fellow student to unload technical equipment for a film shooting. While the photographer and his assistant perform tests on the camera, Tomer is captured while getting a disturbing call from his sister, informing him about the hospitalization of their father.
Year: 2015...
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The Mouse
A hard-working family in an Israeli suburb in the '70s. Through the kids' point of view, we follow the message the adults deliver to their children and how that will shape the adults they will become.
Year: 2019
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Director: Liat Akta
Producers: Shraga Bar, Marco... -
Two of Every Kind
The flood, one of the most colossal events in the history of mankind. Two of every kind, two of every living thing, went inside of Noah’s Ark in order to save themselves. Not many know but amongst the couples were also two male peacocks. In this extraordinary stop-motion animation, we can see the...
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True to Life
In the near future, humanity has reached a pinnacle in Robotics Science: the ability to create an anatomically exact duplicate of human beings… But are they true to life?
Year: 2011
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Director: Assaf Ehrenreich
Producers: Yuval Greenfield, Rom Weissman, Yuval Ka... -
The Unknown Soldier
This film is the testimony of a World War II veteran and an intimate portrait of the main protagonist, Uncle Nusya. It presents a real person whose identity is hidden behind a jacket full of medals. What's also important are his feelings and a past captured in the form of tattoos on his body.
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The Opportunity
Married to a star-picker who aimed for the sun and failed, a woman deals with the consequences of her man's shattering ego. Could any of her efforts put him back together again?
Year: 2015
Language: English
Director: Tatia Rosenthal
Producer: Tatia Rosenthal
Starring: Alex Karpovsky, Tzahi Grad -
The External Tel-Aviv
An ordinary day in the ordinary life of an ordinary family in Tel Aviv.
Year: 2018
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Directors: Omer Ben-David, Dan Messer
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The Amazing Charleroux
A magician and his assistant have found the perfect way to perform the "sawing a woman in half" trick by actually splitting a person in half.
Year: 2011
Director: Ido Fluk
Producers: Itay Gross, Justin Edwards, Shira Aharony
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Surprise
This is the story about a 35-year-old man who doesn't like to waste his time. His mother sends him to the grocery store, while planning a surprise birthday party for him. While purchasing dairy products, he muses about the similarities between their expiration dates and his own life. He returns h...
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Street Shot
A street photographer wanders the streets of south Tel Aviv, looking for images. When he spots a homeless woman on a nearby bench, he shoots her as well. An innocent offer changes the whole picture.
Year: 2017
Director: Yael Danon
Producer: Moran Blecher
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Foreign Film
In a surreal world where time and space have no meaning, one man, with a suitcase handcuffed to his arm, unwillingly joins a ship of weirdos. Together they embark on a hallucinatory ride in the desert sands. No one on this ship understands the language of the other and they have only their body a...
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Sabbatical
Lily is a teacher in her Sabbatical year, living in a Kibutz. She is having a hard time adjusting to her year off while life at school goes on without her. Her attempt at finding something else to do, at all costs, brings her to an unexpected showdown.
Year: 2015
Language: Hebrew, English subtit...