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Twenty six Israeli women directors of narrative features are sharing their personal experiences of sitting in the director's chair. From Ellida Geyra - Israel's first female fiction filmmaker, to contemporary female directors, the film weaves together a conglomerate of women's voices, as they echo each other, clash, and come apart, then culminate in a fiery speech by Ronit Elkabetz. Their stories create a diverse and cinematic patchwork quilt of female directors, providing us with a multifaceted reflection of any woman who wishes for her story to be heard. This is a moving documentary, that will motivate you to get up and do something about the glass ceiling, both the real one, as well as the imagined.
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Майя живёт в Иерусалиме вместе с мужем и детьми. У неё собственная хореографическая студия, которая считается одной из лучших в городе. Её любящий муж Йоав продвигается по карьерной лестнице в сфере политики. Однако никто не подозревает, что за ширмой счастливой и тихой жизни представительницы еврейского среднего класса Майя прячет большой секрет своего прошлого.
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Майя живёт в Иерусалиме вместе с мужем и детьми. У неё собственная хореографическая студия, которая считается одной из лучших в городе. Её любящий муж Йоав продвигается по карьерной лестнице в сфере политики. Однако никто не подозревает, что за ширмой счастливой и тихой жизни представительницы еврейского среднего класса Майя прячет большой секрет своего прошлого.
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A tragic comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
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The sudden arrival and prophecies of a fortune teller unexpectedly throws a wrench into the lives of three couples.
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Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?
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1971 год. Знаменитая виолончелистка Клара Планк приезжает на родину, в Польшу — впервые за 30 лет. Знакомые места и звуки виолончели вызывают в памяти события тридцатилетней давности, когда она потеряла все, что было ей дорого. 1939 год. Доктор Артур Планк с женой Кларой и двумя дочерьми пытаются найти убежище в оккупированной нацистами Польше. Их принимает в своем доме зеленщица Эмили, недавно потерявшая на войне мужа. И, вопреки доводам рассудка, страстно влюбляется в доктора. Среди ужасов войны и постоянного страха быть обнаруженными, с молчаливого согласия Клары, возникает странный любовный треугольник. Но что, на самом деле, заставило Клару толкнуть мужа в объятия другой женщины — любовь, способная все понять и простить, или всепоглощающий страх перед неизвестным будущим?
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Rose, Flora and Yasmin were born as a triplet sixty something years ago in Alexandria, Egypt. Their well-off parents gave them names of flowers, and King Farouk of Egypt gave them his blessing. Today, in Israel, they live together in an apartment without men and without children...
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They were four friends in heart and soul. Blood Brothers that were that were bound together by their army experience. They were good people and decent citizens. They had love, careers, hopes, a future - but they wanted more. And they wanted to commit the perfect crime...
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What will Riki do after Asher, her fiancé, tells her that he got second thoughts regarding their wedding?..
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Фильм о семье друзов, живущих на Голанских высотах. Девушка по имени Мона из селения, находящегося на стороне Израиля, выходит замуж за Талеля, звезду сирийского телевидения. Ей придется стать подданной Сирии, и она больше не сможет вернуться в Израиль к родным.
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A Kibutz in Israel is heavily in debt. In a last effort to produce a viable financial restructuring, the old, "unproductive" members are asked to leave the kibutz, to make room for younger, more productive new members. Among those destined to leave is Shraga. His marriage to Clara is loveless while he desperately loves Bracha, his late brother's widow. Clara dreams of starting afresh with her husband in an old age home, in the far north of the country. Bracha on the other hand refuses to remain a mere no. 2. Shraga is asked to make a decision. Other family members are forced into joining this unresolvable conflict.
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Is today's fanaticism tomorrow's policy? In a West Bank settlement, Rabbi Meltzer has a grand design: he's building a movement "to pray at the Temple Mount." His yeshiva has scholars, and the settlement is getting its own military company to be commanded by Menachem, a disciple of the rabbi. He also wants his daughter, Michal, to marry Pini, the yeshiva's best scholar. Michal has no interest in Pini, but she is attracted to Menachem. When she rebuffs Pini, he hatches a bold and secret plan. Is jealousy the motivation or something else? Meanwhile, the army and Moussad are closely watching the rabbi's activities and Menachem's military training. Who is trustworthy?
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A drama about four malcontent and oddly matched characters on a three-day journey. Each an outcast: Gadi, a petty criminal on parole seeking to make his way back into mainstream society; Yitzhak, his pensive, naive, and serious younger brother; Shoshana, a serious criminal who insists on tormenting the group; and a young, pregnant, Russian immigrant who has left her husband an meets up with the other three in a coffee shop. The characters together define their obvious marginalization from society and their search for individual dignity.
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Love, family expectations, and religion mix in 19th century Jerusalem. Jacob and Rebecca marry; he's a rabbi, she's dutiful and loving. But she has no children. Months become years. Although Jacob is content, his mother reminds everyone she is waiting for a grandson. After 15 years, Rebecca determines that Jacob must take an additional wife, the young and beautiful Sultana. Rebecca fasts and prays, and in a state of near ecstasy, persuades everyone involved and then arranges an elaborate wedding. However, Sultana does not conceive, and Rebecca watches helplessly as Jacob's affection shifts to Sultana. She's near madness and the household is in turmoil. What can Rebecca do now?
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Somewhat autobiographical, the film opens right after the 6 day war, when Israelis euphoric with victory and the kids dress up as the captured Western Wall in Jerusalem. Now it is 1972. The film centers on a young boy, who is failing in school, and grounded from going on Passover trips with his classmates. Instead he must visit private academies (including military school) with his parents, who want him to do better in school. Foreshadowing to the coming war in 1973 and the defeat of euphoria.
Somewhat autobiographical, the film opens right after the 6 day war, when Israelis euphoric with victory and the kids dress up as the captured Western Wall in Jerusalem. Now it is 1972. The film centers on a young boy, who is failing in school, and grounded from going on Passover trips with his classmates. Instead he must visit private academies (including military school) with his parents, who want him to do better in school. Foreshadowing to the coming war in 1973 and the defeat of euphoria.
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To save her father, a girl who always puts others before herself promises to live her life in a lavish castle with a strange beast.
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Enrike, a young Israeli boarding-school student, falls in love with Malka, the most popular girl in his class. Malka tires of their relationship and takes up with Shalom, Enrike's best friend.
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Adam is trying to fix his marriage but both his wife Asia and teenage daughter Dafi are too busy with their lovers.
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After the death of their mother, Thomas and his sister Mariana leave their hometown for a brighter future in the city. They become patrons of a marginal bar in Tel Aviv, Bar 51, whose regulars serve as a backdrop for Thomas’s obsessive love for his sister, and her desire to break free and make a life of her own.
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В израильской тюрьме сидят арабы и евреи. Ури осужден на 12 лет за вооруженный налет, Исан осужден на 50 лет за терорристическую деятельность. Ури и Иссам — признанные и авторитетные лидеры внутритюремных арабских и еврейских группировок заключенных. Внезапно возникает конфликт молодого израильтянина и палестинца, и когда израильтянин умирает, тюремный офицер пытается разжечь огонь взаимной ненависти между двумя сторонами. Ури и Иссаму приходится объединиться, чтобы выступить против гнилой тюремной системы…
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В 1951 году израильское рабочее движение раздирали противоречия: как жить дальше, следовать ли по-прежнему "евангелию от Москвы" или повернуться лицом к Западу? Киббуцы и семьи раскалывались пополам, повсеместно вспыхивающие беспорядки предвещали гражданскую войну. В этой обстановке героиня фильма, семнадцатилетняя Ноа, переживающая период первой любви, отстаивает свою индивидуальность и право подвергать всё сомнению. «Ноа в 17 лет» — это напряжённый, эмоциональный рассказ о становлении человека.
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Directed by Ram Loevy.
