The Flat (2011)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 37M
Director : Arnon Goldfinger
Sinopse
The flat on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv was where my grandparents lived since they immigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. Were it not for the view from the windows, one might have thought that the flat was in Berlin. When my grandmother passed away at the age of 98 we were called to the flat to clear out what was left. Objects, pictures, letters and documents awaited us, revealing traces of a troubled and unknown past. The film begins with the emptying out of a flat and develops into a riveting adventure, involving unexpected national interests, a friendship that crosses enemy lines, and deeply repressed family emotions. And even reveals some secrets that should have probably remained untold...
Após ser preso e levado a um campo de concentração, Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) concorda em ajudar os nazistas em uma operação de falsificação criada para financiar os esforços de guerra. Neste processo mais de 130 milhões de libras esterlinas foram impressas. Como o Reich sabia que o fim da guerra estava próximo, ordenou que fossem impressas notas na moeda dos inimigos da Alemanha. A intenção era que esta atitude minasse a economia dos países e, ao mesmo tempo, ajudasse os cofres alemães. Tratava-se da Operação Bernhard, que contou com a participação de prisioneiros de diversos campos de concentração.
Uma série de assassinatos brutais coloca as vidas de três homens em rota de colisão: O pai da vítima mais recente agora em busca de vingança, um detetive da polícia que trabalha fora dos limites da lei, e o principal suspeito dos assassinatos - um professor de estudos religiosos preso e liberado devido a um erro técnico da polícia.
In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
Paul é um veterano da Guerra do Vietnã. Mentalmente perturbado, ele passa o tempo circulando por Los Angeles, investigando pessoas que lhe pareçam suspeitas. Sem confiar no Governo, ele procura, desesperadamente, o novo terrorista que poderá causar uma tragédia igual à de 11 de setembro. Para isso, ele conta somente com a ajuda do mendigo Jimmy.
Mike Anderson, a tough American reporter on a dangerous foreign assignment, finds his own life in jeopardy when he uncovers a deadly labyrinth of political intrigue that threatens the lives of thousands. Dispatched to investigate a mysterious and fatal attack on an overseas US naval base, Anderson, a leading investigative journalist and ex-US marine, finds himself back on familiar ground. Instinct makes him question the official CIA explanation that cites an unknown terrorist group called Black October. Alone, and armed only with his combat training and determination to uncover the truth, he sets out to expose a complex and dangerous political web.
Nasri é um garoto de 13 anos de idade que enfrenta a passagem para a vida adulta de forma dramática quando seu tio fere imprudentemente um importante membro de um clã, deixando assim sua família exposta à vingança. Omar, irmão mais velho de Nasri, está decidido a salvar a todos. Ele aceita cometer um crime por dinheiro, mas vive o dilema de estar apaixonado por Hadir, justamente a filha do chefe. Num cenário no qual inimigos são todos vizinhos, as vidas desses personagens se entrecruzam em Ajami, um bairro israelense aonde judeus, muçulmanos e cristãos convivem lado a lado, ainda que as diferenças culturais sejam explícitas.
Yossi é um cardiologista que nunca superou a morte de Jagger, sua grande paixão. Apesar de assediado, ele vive solitário e tentando enganar sua melancolia com o vício no trabalho. Um dia, uma mulher misteriosa entra em seu consultório. Este encontro muda o rumo de sua vida e ele decide deixar Tel Aviv.
Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn't speak any Hebrew (she communicates mainly in English), and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.
Nos primeiros doze minutos do filme é recheado de cenas sensuais. Como num ritual, o dançarino Boaz aparece algumas vezes levando um homem a cada noite para seu apartamento. Toda manhã, depois que seu companheiro vai embora o rapaz se alonga, toma uma ducha e vai trabalhar.Três anos depois, o foco da trama não é Boaz, mas sim Omer , um jovem bibliotecário gay, que está sempre em busca de um amor e próximo de fazer 30 anos.
How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungry population to follow the chilling call of just one man to world domination. A real-life horror story, an ominous tale of violence and deception, which takes place from 1919 to 1934. (Entirely made up of restored, colorized archival footage.)
The flat on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv was where my grandparents lived since they immigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. Were it not for the view from the windows, one might have thought that the flat was in Berlin. When my grandmother passed away at the age of 98 we were called to the flat to clear out what was left. Objects, pictures, letters and documents awaited us, revealing traces of a troubled and unknown past. The film begins with the emptying out of a flat and develops into a riveting adventure, involving unexpected national interests, a friendship that crosses enemy lines, and deeply repressed family emotions. And even reveals some secrets that should have probably remained untold...
The film takes place in Tel Aviv, much of it in a fictitious local pub called Barbie, a satirical nickname for a famous Israeli mental health institution. The pub's name hints at the characters and the events which occur in the pub and which befall its owner (Daliah), the employees and customers. The plot unfolds with a streak of violence which takes a surprising turn.
A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, grating song about "amour." Realizing that Anat is distraught over the crisis in her marriage, they decide to compose a song to cheer her up. As a lark, they enters their cellphone video of it in next year's contest, and it becomes Israel's entry.
Life in a Tel Aviv apartment complex, an urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover Hezi—who's older, balding and married—rent a room to have an affair, while Ezra, a pot bellied divorcee, supervises an illegal construction site next door. All this racket drives Schwartz, a Holocaust survivor, to a mental breakdown. Other characters include illegal Chinese immigrants, a teenage boy who's afraid to serve in the army, and a corrupt police detective.
A party in Tel Aviv, Israel. Danny is looking for Max to share that she is pregnant with his child; but Max has just started a new relationship with Avishag whose rough sexual fantasy he is trying to make come true.
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She's just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Or's emotions roil further when the mother of the youth she's in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Or's choices narrow.
The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give form to this architecture. We follow the journey of Munio, my father, born in 1909 in Silesia, Poland, the son of a tenant farmer of a Prussian junker. At the age of 18, Munio goes to Berlin and Dessau to meet Walter Gropius, Kandinsky and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus. In 1933, the Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis, who accused Munio of treason against the German people. Munio was imprisoned, then deported to Basel. He left for Palestine. Upon his arrival in Haifa, he began a career as an architect and adapted European modernist principles to the Middle East.
Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a special bond with the two giraffes in the zoo. He seems to be the only one to communicate with them. After an air raid in the region the male giraffe dies. His mate, Rita, won’t survive unless the veterinarian finds her a new companion. The only zoo that might provide this animal is located in Tel Aviv ...
The film about Max Bill (1908-1994) moves between the dynamic fields of art, aesthetics and politics. Max Bill was probably the most important swiss artist of the 20th century and the most famous student to come out of the legendary Bauhaus in Dessau. He was an ardent anti-fascist and all his avant-garde work as an artist, sculptor, architect and typographer showed a social responsibility and environmental awareness right through his life. His views have become incredibly topical.
Um pai solteiro de meia-idade lida com o desejo de sua filha adolescente de acabar com sua vida.
