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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.

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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

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 / Experimental / Short films / Compilation

Runtime: 56 Min

Language: Hebrew, English. English subtitled

17 3-minute films created by Israel's top  filmmakers, reflecting on the current reality in Israel.

This special project was founded out of the intensity of life in Israel and the complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The 17 films cover a wide range of genres and issues, from documentaries, animation, satire and personal statements.

This is a perfect film to reveal the diverse feelings and expressions of Israeli filmmakers.

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Rochus Misch is the last living witness of Hitler’s final days.  He was Hitler's typist, bodyguard and personal assistant through the drama that marked the last months of the Nazi regime.

Rochus Misch stayed by Hitler’s side in the Fuhrerbunker throughout the last months of his life. He witnessed the turbulent conclusion of the last Nazi drama: the moment of realization when Hitler knew that the war was irretrievably lost, the dismissal of the bunker personnel, the typing of Hitler’s last will and testament, the preparations for the collective suicide of the Goebbels family and the failed attempt by the pilot Hanna Reitsch to get their six children out of the bunker, the suicides of Hitler and Eva Braun, the removal of their bodies from the bunker and their cremation in the garden.

In this profoundly important piece of evidence and testimonial, Misch describes the workings of the most evil man-made machine of our history - the Nazi regime.

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The true story of the rebellious group "The Black Panthers" who operated in Israel in the 1970s.

In the 1970s, a new protest movement burst into Israeli politics. Calling themselves the Black Panthers, this group of rebellious young Mizrahi men was intensely critical of racism and class bias within the Israeli establishment. They embraced Robin Hood-like campaigns such as "Operation Milk," which stole food from rich areas in Jerusalem and distributed it to impoverished immigrants.

Their bold moves captured the attention of the young and disenfranchised while earning the animosity of others (Golda Meir called them barbarians). Thirty years ago, as a novice filmmaker, Nissim Mossek set out to document the Panthers' burgeoning movement, following their demonstrations and ferocious confrontations with police. He and the Panthers had no compunctions about waking up families in the middle of the night to ask them to "present their poverty" to the camera, hoping to inform the public about the struggle for equality within Israeli society and incite others to action.

Mossek's 1970s protest film vanished suspiciously just after completion; for years it was believed to be lost. The recent discovery of a copy in the Jerusalem Cinematheque prompted the filmmaker to investigate the demise of the Panthers. He tracked down surviving members to examine their sometimes surprising trajectories and their deeply conflicted relationships to their shared radical past. Intercutting footage from his early film with his modern-day research, the diverse, volatile and charismatic subjects (including Panthers Charlie Bitton and Sa'adia Marciano) cast light onto a lesser-known chapter in the struggle for equality and justice of Mizrahi Jews, and illuminate issues of disunity that continue to reveal themselves in today's Israel.

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Two Israeli DJs arrive in L.A to try and make it in the music scene. When a strange and mysterious phone call is recieved by their parents in Israel, they start to suspect something might be wrong with their kids.

When no other method of contact with the young men in successful, the parents decide to fly to L.A and turn to the police for help. The unbelievably indifferent attitude of the police to the dissappearance frustrates the parents and they start their own investigation, discovering an alarming connection between their sons and some dangerious drug dealers.

When finally, the two bodies are found buried in the desert after being tortured and shot, the parents’ suffering continues as the inefficient and indifferent systems of the American judicial, police and prosecution are revealed.

Written and Directed by: Nili Tal

Produced by: Nili Tal Productions

Israel, 2005

Running Time: 60 Minutes