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Jean-Claude Van Damme: Karate King poster
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An American low-budget action film celebrated an unexpected worldwide success in 1988: "Bloodsport". With its, the world of film fans and martial arts cinema discovered a new idol: Jean-Claude Van Damme. In the 1970s there was Bruce Lee, but at the end of the 1980s a Belgian won the day. Van Damme was a karate master and had unparalleled strength and flexibility. For ten years he was one of Hollywood's hottest action stars. But excessive overconfidence and drugs bring him down again. At home in Europe he becomes a laughing stock on talk shows. Only with "JCVD" does he manage to get back on his feet, playing his character with perspective and self-irony, but without ever giving up the reputation that his action films brought him and which has been a cult for several generations. The highs and lows of his eventful life are told through archive footage and contributions from people close to the popular Belgian actor.

Jean-Claude Van Damme: Karate King

Mar 2023

The Bubble poster
Movie

The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country and the turmoil it's going through. The movie looks at young people's lives in Tel Aviv through the POVs of gays and straights, Jews and Arabs, men and women.

The Bubble

Jun 2006

Policeman poster
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A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.

Policeman

Mar 2012

Bialik - King of the Jews poster
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By the age of thirty he’d already become the most famous poet in the Jewish world. He spent very few years living in Tel Aviv, but he loved the city dearly. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1934. “King of the Jews” is a portrait of the most beloved Jew of his day, Chaim Nachman Bialik. Combining special animation, a voice track by Chaim Topol, rare archival footage, long-forgotten photographs, poems by Bialik performed by Ninet and interviews with the foremost Bialik researchers and fans in Israel and around the world, this film retells the story of the little boy from the shtetl, who became King of the Jews.

Bialik - King of the Jews

May 2014

A Crazy Night at the Festigal poster
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Two friends, a nerdy girl and a wannabe rockstar boy, spend a night at the museum and interact with various historical figures.

A Crazy Night at the Festigal

Jan 2010

The Ashram Children: I Am No Body, I Have No Body poster
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The first 20 years of the film-maker's life he grew up in two places: in Jerusalem, and in an ashram in India, a thing he had to keep a secret. in the ashram it wae expected of him to devote his entire being to his guru. Thus, in his words, he could finally define the purpose of his life, understand the "truth" of the meaning of life and be enlightened 20 years later (quite a few in psychological therapy), the director sets out on a quest to find out what was hidden in his life in India, why his life in the Ashram still affects him even when he has not visited in years, And whether he grew up in a cult.

The Ashram Children: I Am No Body, I Have No Body

Mar 2019

Innocence poster
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Innocence tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service. Through a narration based on their haunting diaries, the film depicts their inner turmoil. It interweaves first-hand military images, key moments from childhood until enlistment and home videos of the deceased soldiers whose stories are silenced and seen as a national threat.

Innocence

Aug 2022

Memory Agents poster
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Ido and Amalia Rosenblum’s father, Adam Baruch, was born to an orthodox family and became a central figure in Israel’s mass media culture. His intense lifestyle led to his untimely death, leaving his children with questions about the gap between their private dad and the gloomy public figure who had quite a few critics. To answer these questions, they collected thousands of items from their father’s archive, and built a unique exhibition space, to which they invited key figures from Baruch’s life who help them piece together the different parts and create a more complete picture of their father.

Memory Agents

May 2018

The Star poster
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In an anxious and isolated world, paralyzed by the fear of the pandemic, one woman is determined to get a kiss -- lips touching lips -- from the Star of her dreams.

The Star

Jul 2021

Letters from Rishikesh poster
Movie

In the travel to New Delhi to search for his daughter, Alex encounters and experiences things that expose him the world of his daughter.

Letters from Rishikesh

Sep 2004

Shadow of Truth: The Verdict poster
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15 years after he was accused of murdering Tair Rada and sentenced to life in prison, Roman Zadorov’s request for a retrial is accepted. Now, his most important battle commences- proving his innocence.

Shadow of Truth: The Verdict

Mar 2023

The Songs, the Games- childhood songs poster
Movie

Rinat, Guy, and friends sing the songs of Uzi Hitman

The Songs, the Games- childhood songs

Jan 2010

Better Days: Ze'ev Revach’s Story poster
Movie

Ze'ev Revach, Israel's popular comedian, became trapped in the typecast that would later become his prison. From the prestigious stage of the Cameri Theater to film characters engraved in cultural memory, Revach struggled to find his place between worlds: between religion and secularism, between cult cinema and high art. Through rare footage and extraordinary testimonies, "Better Days" traces Revach's complex story—a cinematic journey of passion and tragedy, revealing a screen legend we never truly knew.

Better Days: Ze'ev Revach’s Story

Nov 2024

No Child Spared poster
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Meni Philip believed the days of teachers physically disciplining students belonged in the past, along with vague memories of abuse he suffered in school years ago. A viral post online proved otherwise, detailing brutality suffered at the hands of teachers in ultra-orthodox Jewish schools and eliciting hundreds of similar stories. The responses sent Meni on a journey to lift the veil on this ongoing system of abuse that transcends generations and happens all over the world.

No Child Spared

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Want a Heart? poster
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In Jerusalem, a performer dressed as a clown officer appears at rallies and high-pressure locations. She safeguards the protesters and fearlessly confronts armed situations while distributing heart-shaped stickers. During a volatile rally, she is incarcerated and her costume is forcibly removed. Despite her widespread recognition, her true identity remains a mystery. Following her release from prison, her motive is revealed.

Want a Heart?

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My Sister's Keeper poster
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Four ultra-orthodox women who dared to yell “we won’t be silenced!”.Through their revolution, we manage to make our way inside a closed off community with a very clear code of silence in regards to sexuality in general, and sexual assault in particular. Following these events, the worlds of each of these women has been overturned, whether because she herself has been a victim of sexual assault or a woman in one of their close circles.

My Sister's Keeper

Oct 2023

The Consultant - Arthur Finkelstein poster
Movie

Although the late Republican Party consultant Arthur J. Finkelstein was little known in his native US, his kingmaking powers had played a major role in the rise of right-wing populism around the world over the last two decades. In 1968, aged just 23, he helped Nixon get elected, and later masterminded the stunning victories of Reagan in 1980, Orbán in 2010 and Netanyahu in 1996, a mere few months after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Finkelstein’s ability to manipulate public opinion and the media – using it to advance his clients’ careers while zealously protecting his privacy – however, could not stop the leaks about his long term same-sex relationship. Attempting to square Finkelstein’s gay, urban and Jewish identity with the views of the politicians he worked with, this fascinating film sheds light on a life full of mind-boggling, moral contradictions.

The Consultant - Arthur Finkelstein

Sep 2022