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Documentary / Religion / Christianity / Judaism /   Muslim / Islam

Written and Directed by: Tali Ohaion

Running Time: 1:37:18

Language: English, English subtitled

The Foundation Stone - the "Holy of Holies" on Jerusalem's Temple Mount - is believed to be the spot where the world was created - and where it will end…

In this breathtaking documentary, the secrets and forces clashing over this ancient stone are unraveled. Through a wide range of spiritual and scientific experts, such as Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri, Muslim Sheikh Dr. Akrama Al Sabri, Christian Father Eugenio Alta and Quantum Mechanics expert Prof. Lev Widman, the significance and explosiveness of the Foundation Stone is revealed.

According to Judaism, the Foundation Stone is where the Creation took place, According to Islam - this is where the Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven. Christianity attributes the concept of “The Mystical Foundation” to Jesus.  Every theological and historical event is a manifestation of divine intervention and serves to bring about the Redemption at the holiest place in the world.

When a water stain is suddently discovered in the Foundation Stone, Christian Clerics, Jewish Kabbalah experts and Muslim authorities rush to consult - as according to tradition, the discovery of water in the Foundation is a sign for the coming of the End of Days. And in today's fragile Jerusalem, political and religious forces are about to ignite over this sensitive and sacred place.

Written and Directed by: Tali Ohaion
Executive Producer: Oren Avraham
Production: Sacred Rock Productions
Photography: Roni Aharon
Editing: Eldad Cohen
Original Music: Yosef Assayag, Ziv Harpaz, The Holy Creatures, Nash Didan

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Documentary / War / Conflict

Written and Directed by: Yariv Mozer

Runtime: 82 Min

Language: Hebrew, English subtitled

At the age of 28, I was drafted as a soldier in the Second Lebanon War. Instinctively, I grabbed my video camera. The documentary recalls the lack of justice in this unnecessary war and the loss of valuable lives. This was my personal earthquake and the nation’s as a whole.

Awards:

*DOCAVIV 2008- Special Jury Nomination Award

*Cape Winelands Film Festival 2009- The Audience Award

*The Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2009- The David A. Stein Memorial Award for the Director of the Best Documentary Film

Festivals:

*2008 The DOCAVIV Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival

*2008 IDFA Competition for First Appearance

*Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2009, USA

*Goteborg International Film Festival 2009, Sweden

*Sguardi Altrove Film Festival 2009, Italy

*The Cape Winelands Film Festival 2009, South Africa

*The Amnesty International Film Festival- The Movies that Matter Festival 2009, Netherlands

*The Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2009, Canada

Documentary, 2008

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Documentary / Travel/ Spiritualism / India

Directors: Noam Pinchas & Yoni Zigler

Runtime: 58 Min

Language: English, Hebrew, Indian. English Subtitled

For many years now, travelling to India has been a rite of passage in Israeli life.

We hear so much about the Israelis in India that we sometimes forget there are actually Indians living there. Hummus Curry offers an intimate look into the lives of the local Indians living in a small village packed with Israeli tourists.Up in the Himalaya Mountains resides the village of Bhagsu, the rainiest place in all of India. During the hard winter the rain never stops & Bhagsu does not get a whiff of tourism.Kala Kumar (28), feeling bored, spends the slow monsoon days with his family, doing little within the fresh brick walls of his new guesthouse. In April the sun comes out for the first time and Bhagsu is awakened to life. Another season starts and the village is flooded with Israeli backpackers once again. Shoresh Singh (22) buzzes around the many Israelis filling his small shack, serving them the famous Israeli dish - ‘Jachnon-Hamin’. Just like the average Israeli, he never stops complaining about his business, speaking in broken Hebrew, quoting lines taken from Israeli cult movies he's never seen. In one of the restaurants we meet Gopal Sharma (29), a charming waiter who gets along easily with the Israeli girls, especially with Shirley, with whom he's flirting at the restaurant's counter. Is there a chance for a love affair between the Hummus and the Curry or will Shirley lose her courage and leave just like the others? Will Shoresh win the battle against the local Jewish missionaries in the war of who will host the greatest Israeli New-Year’s dinner? How does the presence of the new houseguests affect Kala & his family, especially the relationship between him and his newly wed wife - a relationship that slowly unfolds during the film? Hummus Curry contains no interviews and the presence of the camera goes unfelt. This viewing experience takes us through intimate, funny and moving scenes that surprise the viewers time and time again. Rain drops turn into tear drops and we are given a unique opportunity to see the Israeli culture, through the eyes of the Indians.

Festivals: The 8^th Jerusalem Jewish film festival

Producers: Arik Bernstein & Yariv Moser

Directors: Noam Pinchas & Yoni Zigler

Script Writers: Noam Pincahs & Yoni Zigler

Cinematographers: Noam Pincahs & Yoni Zigler

Broadcaster: Channel 8 - Israel

Editor: Yuval Erez

Website: http://hummuscurry.com

IMDB: Hummus Curry

Documentary / Travel / Spiritualism / Judaism / New Age

Director: Shachar Zefania.

Duration: 56 min

Language: English & Hebrew (with English Subtitles).

The director set out to Nepal to shoot two different films:

The first, about the largest Passover Seder in the world taking place in the Katmandu valley, and the second, a journey in the spectacular Nepalese Himalayan mountains, a breathtaking trek to Gokyo peak.

Preparations for the Seder are carried out like a military operation and over 1,000 travelers attend this joyous meal. The film explores the logistics involved in preparing for this event, and more importantly, the goodwill and unity in instills in people of all backgrounds. What emerges is the seemingly impossible connection between these two far-away worlds and two completely different journeys.

Two journeys – one film.

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Documentary / History / War / Israel / Palestine / Conflict

Director: Sharon Schaveet

Runtime: 120 Min

A comprehensive, chronological review of the wars and conflicts that have shaped Israeli history, and the growth and development of the famous Israeli Army – the IDF.

From the British occupation of Palestine in 1917 to the latest Lebanon War in 2006, all the milestones, achievements and challenges of Israel's War History are described in depth, including never-before-seen footage and information about the IDF and it's capabilities.

Including rare interviews with national leaders such as Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon and Yitzhak Shamir and an exclusive interview with the Israeli Airforce Commander during the 2006 Lebanon war, General Dan Halutz.

A must-see documentary covering the most important aspect of Israel's history and the making of the smartest army in the world.

Producer: Biblical Productions/Avi Media

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Documentary

Produced by: Yariv Mozer

Runtime: 88 Min

Seven documentary films by seven young directors,

Palestinian and Israeli, reflecting the complexity of life in Jerusalem, in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They courageously confront the delicate and charged issues and present personal and political points of view about the reality in Jerusalem today.

Written and Directed by Yasmine Novak, Daniel Gal, Liviu Babitz, Nihad Sabri Markesto, Momen shabaneh, Radwan Duha, Avi Goldstein and Amber Fares

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Documentary

Directed by: Nili Tal

Runtime: 87 Min

After 20 years of being adopted and raised in Israel, a group of young women go back to Brazil to find their biological parents.

There are not enough children for adoption in Israel. During the 80’s hope arose for those seeking to have a child - Brazil.

Approximately 3,000 Israeli families flew to the carnival country to adopt a child. German and Italian families were also part of this adoption wave. In the meantime, the children, now grown-up, are traveling to their land of origin to look for the woman who gave birth to them.

Filmmaker Nili Tal follows four young Israeli women on such a voyage.

This is a moving trip to a third-world country, where women have four or five children from several men and another one somewhere in a far away place. It is also a personal voyage into each of the protagonists’ life bringing up issues concerning us all.

Festivals:

Written and Directed by: Nili Tal

Produced by: Nili Tal Productions

Israel, 2006-7

IMDB: The Girls from Brazil

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Documentary / History / Christianity / Judaism / Israel

Directed by: Sharon Schaveet

Runtime: 70 Min

A journey through the sights, sounds and holy places of the most cherished place on earth -Israel, the Holyland.

See where Jesus of Nazareth lived and preached a message that reached out across eternity, radiating from the Sea of Galilee and its fertile mountains to parched southern deserts, from the rolling hills of Samaria to the sacred slopes of Jerusalem.

A breathtaking trip that will reveal the treasures of the Holyland and the stories behind the places. A must-see for all!

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Documentary / History

Directed and produced by: Yitzhak Rubin, Teknews

Runtime: 60 Min

The drama surrounding the privatization of the world's first kibbutz is an ironic allegory to current global crises as the world financial bubble bursts together with our strong belief in capitalist dream.

At the center of this drama is a bitter dispute over the privatization of the world's first kibbutz, 'Degania', established 100 years ago on the banks of the Jordan River. 'Degania' was the Utopian flagship of a Zionist-socialist experiment copied by 400 other kibbutzim.It's ethos was "From each member according to his ability, to each member according to his need". Einstein, Kafka, Gandhi and Masaryk came to see and learn from it.It reflected a struggle between the ideals of cooperative life with shared responsibilities and values versus a community of individuals each responsible for his own destiny. The social fabric woven over a period of 100 years is torn to pieces as the ideological rift widens. This is a local as well as a universal story of the struggle between values of social responsibility against economic and individual freedom.

Israel, 2008

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Documentary / History / Legacy / Conspiracy

Directed by: Naftali Glicksberg

Produced by: Arik Bernstein- Alma Productions

Runtime: 52 Min.

Ten years after the Rabin assassination, new findings about the night of the murder are revealed and powerful questions arise.

For the first time, the film discloses the late Prime Minister’s clothes, in which a third hole is discovered in the front of his shirt and undershirt respectively, and which was never spoken of, seen or investigated.

The assassination

Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on the night of November 4^th, 1995, by two bullets to his back fired by the murderer Yigal Amir.  The bullets were found in the Prime Minister’s body. The first and third "hollow point" bullets struck the Prime Minister and were found in his body. The second plain bullet struck Yoram Rubin, head of the security unit.

The Film

Exhausting research enabled the filmakers access to the clothes that the Prime Minister’s wore on the night of the murder.  A third hole, never mentioned, never investigated and never accounted for, is discovered on the front of the Prime Minister’s shirt and undershirt. Filmmakers Naftaly Gliksberg, Arik Bernstein and Nurit Kedar reenact the night of the murder in an attempt to gain insight into this findings. Why was such an important detail never mentioned? Was it human error, or an attempt to conceal information? Was every detail examined?

The film, based on a year of in depth research, revisits the conclusions of the Special Inquiry Commission headed by Chief Justice Shamgar, and investigates the performance of the various authorities involved: the General Security Services (GSS), the Police Force, the State Attorney’s Office, the judicial system and the media – before, during and after the murder.

The film includes interviews with the State Prosecutor in the murder trial, Pnina Guy, the physicians who attended to Rabin in the emergency room, pathologist Prof. Yehuda Hiss, Chief Justice Meir Shamgar who headed the Official Commission Inquiry, GSS top officials Hezi Kalo, Savinoam Avivi and Rafi Malka, General Yaacov Shoval of the Israel Police Central District and many others involved in the case.  In addition, the film introduces the expert opinions of two top forensic investigators, one from Israel and the other from Britain, who examined the third hole.