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Monday, May 2, 2022 • 12:00 PM • Virtual Screening

Grossman
גרוסמן

“I learned something about my writing since my son, Uri, was killed – there’s one way we’re able to comprehend the slightest inkling of what exists beyond the impenetrable wall of death, the feeling of non-existence. And yet, to feel... Read More»

Sunday, March 15, 1998 • 3:30 PM • at Gershman Y

2nd Generation

Members of the Israeli artistic and music communities, including Shlomo Artzi ans Shmuel Vilozhni, discuss being children of Holocaust survivors. Read More»

Saturday, April 6, 2019 • 8:45 PM • at Gratz College

Homemade
רחוב הנביאים

Trying to preserve the legacy of a family falafel business, Motti and his son feed the people of The Prophets street. A captivating short piece showing a father and son relationship through the most famous falafel window in Jerusalem. This... Read More»

Sunday, March 31, 2019 • 7:00 PM • at Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Shoelaces
שרוכים

Shoelaces is the story of two men: Gadi (Nevo Kimchi), who has special needs and whose mother just passed away, and Rueben (Dov Glikman), the father who abandoned him at a young age and who his now his sole guardian.... Read More»

Saturday, March 7, 2009 • 8:00 PM • at Gershman Y

Lost Islands
איים אבודים

Set in 1980, “Lost Islands”, an autobiographical film about a family with five children, was the biggest box office success in Israel in 2008. The story revolves around twin brothers, Erez (Michael Moshonov) and Ofer (Oshri Cohen). Their father, Mr.... Read More»

Saturday, March 6, 2010 • 8:00 PM • at Gratz College

Eli & Ben
אלי ובן

Ben (Lior Ashkenazi, “Walk on Water”) has always affectionately entertained his son Eli’s (Yuval Shevakh) mischievous behavior. Their profound connection seems secure as Eli approaches his tumultuous teenager years. But when the police arrest Ben under suspicion of bribery, Eli... Read More»

Sunday, February 21, 2010 • 7:30 PM • at International House

For My Father
סוף שבוע בתל אביב

Fate grants Terek (Shredi Jabarin), a young Palestinian on a suicide bombing mission, an unexpected window into Israeli society, and leads to a reluctant compassion for a small corner of Tel Aviv and its mysterious kiosk worker, Karen (Hili Yalon).... Read More»

Sunday, March 11, 2018 • 7:00 PM • at Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Scaffolding
פיגומים

17 year old Asher (Asher Lax) has always been the impulsive trouble maker from primary school all the way through high school. It’s hard for him to concentrate in class and he is fueled by rage and violence; yet he is... Read More»

Sunday, March 4, 2018 • 4:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

Maktub
מכתוב

Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon, the acclaimed writers and stars behind Israeli TV mega-hits such as Scarred, Asfur, and Ma Bakarish, play partners in crime in this hilarious, politically incorrect caper. Maktub means fate, and certainly the destiny of these... Read More»

Saturday, March 3, 2018 • 8:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

Maktub
מכתוב

Saturday, April 2, 2011 • 8:45 PM • at Gratz College

Missing Father
געגועים לאבא

Decades after the death of Israel’s legendary but discredited Lieutenant General David Elazar (Dado), his youngest son launches a personal investigation into the life of the national celebrity and military genius. Now a father himself, Yair Elazar feels compelled to... Read More»

Sunday, March 19, 2017 • 12:00 PM • at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy

My Special Brother
אחי מיוחד

When your brother has “special needs,” it turns out that your whole family becomes “special.” So says Nadav, whose twin brother was born with disabilities. This documentary film sensitively examines how three extraordinary families not only cope with but ultimately triumph... Read More»

Saturday, March 12, 2016 • 8:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

The Kind Words
המילים הטובות‎

Three siblings (Rotem Zissman-Cohen, Roy Assaf and Assaf Ben-Shimon) , joined by the death of their mother, discover that their entire family identity is based on a lie. The secret that their mother (Levana Finkelstein) kept from them leads to a revelation about the identity... Read More»

Sunday, March 8, 2015 • 7:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

Magic Men
הבן של אלוהים

An estranged father and son – a 78-year-old Greek Holocaust survivor (Makram Khoury) and a newly Orthodox Hasidic rapper (Zohar Shtrauss) – find themselves together on a road trip to locate a life-saving magician from the father’s past. The occasionally... Read More»

Saturday, March 14, 2015 • 8:45 PM • at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy

Apples from the Desert
תפוחים מן המדבר

Inspired by the award-winning play of the same name, this poignant drama centers around Rivka (Moran Rosenblatt), the only child of Ultra Orthodox Jewish parents from Jerusalem, who begins to secretly explore the secular world. She befriends Dubi (Elisha Banai),... Read More»

Thursday, March 19, 2015 • 7:00 PM • at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy

Sacred Sperm
זרע קודש

A fascinating, eye-opening documentary exploring the concept of sacred sperm within the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community which considers new life pure if born of “sacred sperm” and the spilling of sperm murder. In this documentary Director/Narrator Ori Gruder shares his journey... Read More»

Saturday, March 28, 2015 • 9:00 PM • at Gratz College

The Green Prince
הנסיך הירוק

From the Academy Award Winning Producers of Man on Wire, Searching for Sugar Man and One Day in September, this critically acclaimed documentary retraces the details of an unprecedented partnership that developed between sworn enemies. Set against the chaotic backdrop... Read More»

Saturday, February 25, 2012 • 8:00 PM • at Lightbox Film Center at the International House

Intimate Grammar
הדקדוק הפנימי

A dysfunctional family and delayed puberty make life miserable for a pre-adolescent growing up in Jerusalem in the 1960’s. The film, an adaptation of David Grossman’s “The Book of Intimate Grammar”, shows our hero, Aharon Kleinfeld (Roee Elsberg), striving to... Read More»

Saturday, March 17, 2012 • 8:30 PM • at Drexel University, Westphal College, Edmond D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center

Restoration
בוקר טוב אדון פידלמן

When his business partner of many years dies suddenly, Yaakov Fidelman (Sasson Gabai) realizes his antique furniture restoration shop is on the verge of bankruptcy. Fidelman’s son (Nevo Kimhi), who doesn’t get along with his father, wants to close the... Read More»

Sunday, March 16, 2014 • 7:00 PM • at Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Bethlehem
בית לחם

Bethlehem tells the story of the unlikely bond between Razi (Tzachi Halevy) , an Israeli secret service officer, and his Palestinian informant Sanfur (Shadi Mar’i). Sanfur is the younger brother of a senior Palestinian militant. Razi recruited him when he was just... Read More»

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will you show this again? It was sold out?

Not sure how a judge can force a theater to show this film against their will. Perhaps there will be a lawsuit against you. Honestly, I don't know who should win this dispute. I don't doubt many of those associated with the festival don't want it to be a tool of nationalism. Perhaps the Israeli consulate should not have been involved, as this becomes primarily a political issue, not cultural

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I don't see very big attendance, or am I wrong? I think that scheduling in the secular horrible days (הימים הנוראים בין יום השואה ליום הזיכרון) is one reason. Also - location, location, location...