Look About You

Look About You 1970

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"Look about you" invites you to set out on a fascinating journey through Israel with one small family who is trying to understand what it takes to truly live together. Squeezed in a tiny RV, they meet and live with people from all walks, traversing hope and despair, collecting the slivers of an ancient dream from among the fragments of contemporary reality. A sensitive video journal, it paints a painfully touching picture of real life in Israel, portraying the subtle interdependence between family and society, and the need to overcome separation.

1970

Dad's Age

Dad's Age 2017

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The story of the Israeli actor and holocaust survivor Shmuel Wolf and his wife, Miki Marmor, from the point of view of their daughter, who documented the last 4 years of her father's life. A personal and profound film dealing with old age, parenthood, love and art.

2017

Pause

Pause 2006

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This urgent feeling... grandma is going to die. As if time were paused and all I have is this moment, to change her image of me, the way this relationship will have been engraved in memory." When Gil arrives at the hospital, she meets her grandmother, the myth, lying as a vegetable. This exchange in roles allows her to talk with her, as she never talked before. Is it possible to ask for forgiveness from an unconscious person? Perhaps acceptance can only come from within.

2006

Healing by Killing

Healing by Killing 1996

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This chilling documentary brings to light an overlooked but crucial episode in Holocaust history - the Euthanasia Program. Instituted in 1939 by the Nazi's to eliminate the mentally handicapped, this systematic killing program was the pivotal first step toward mass extermination.

1996

Pink Shells

Pink Shells 1970

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A short animated documentary that tells the story of Tavor – a woman torn between freeing herself from self- destructive habits, and the fear of letting them go.

1970

Tirza Atar: Bird in the Room

Tirza Atar: Bird in the Room 2015

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Two poets, a father and a daughter, in a dangerous game of words. The mysterious life and death of Tirza Atar, daughter of Nathan Alterman, Israel's national poet.

2015

Mazal Means Luck

Mazal Means Luck 2015

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Mazal Ben Yishai, the film's student director, was born to a special-needs couple and raised alongside them by her grandparents. Camera in hand, Mazal documents the nuanced dramas unfolding daily within her family and weaves into the archival footage shot by her grandfather over the years of her childhood. The result is a rare and moving documentary that raises crucial social and political questions about the impossible ethical dilemmas faced by Mazal as her grandparents age and her parents become concerned about who will care for them in the future.​

2015

Alpha

Alpha 2007

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The closing minutes of an anti-Semitic encounter between two women. One is about fifty years old and the other is in her early twenties. What appears to be a promise of perfect harmony brings the connection to its destruction.

2007