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see all genres ›Israel's lively film industry has attracted international attention and awards since the 1970s when a new generation turned away from escapist fare to more serious, socially conscious topics. The country boasts some of the world's most admired directors including Amos Gutman, Eytan Fox, Amos Gitai and the filmmaking team of Shira Geffen and author Etgar Keret.
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Genres / International / Middle Eastern / Israeli
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Ajami
Teeming with Palestinian illegal immigrants, Israeli Arabs, Christians and Jews, Ajami is a cloistered urban neighborhood as treacherous and potentially deadly as the front lines of Gaza. When a Bedouin extortionist is gunned down in self defense, a teenager is mistakenly killed in retribution and an entire Arab family faces...Start your free trial to watch
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Alila
For the apartment dwellers of ALILA, every action creates a ripple unknowingly felt by all. Gorgeous libertine Gabi's (Yael Abecassis, KADOSH) loud, violent trysts with her physically dominant, emotionally unavailable lover Hezi (Amos Lavie) bring down the wrath of their disgusted neighbors. Mali (Hanna Laslo), Gabi's sole...Start your free trial to watch
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Beaufort
After eighteen years dug into a heavily fortified mountain deep in occupied Lebanon, the last Israeli soldiers enduring constant bombardment at the site of an ancient crusader stronghold called Beaufort receive orders to abandon their posts, detonate the warren of bunkers in which they've tenuously clung to life and victory...Start your free trial to watch
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The Best Pilot in the World
Uri Gil is a Guinness World Record holder. At 61, he’s the oldest active fighter pilot and he's waged battle in the skies for decades as he's pressed home Israel's military agenda. A passionate painter as well as a soldier, Uri talks with surprising candor about his values and life in the Air Force. We...Start your free trial to watch
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Campfire
The year is 1981. Rachel Gerlik, a forty-two year old widow and mother of two beautiful teenage daughters, Esti and Tami, wants to join the founding group of a new religious settlement in the West Bank. The problem is that the acceptance committee won't accept her unless she remarries and proves that she and her daughters can...Start your free trial to watch
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Carmel
From Israel's most important filmmaker, CARMEL is Amos Gitai's deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary techniques, Gitai links his family history to ancient history. Through exquisitely composed long takes, he re-enacts the Jewish-Roman wars that began in 66...Start your free trial to watch
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Devarim
DEVARIM is Amos Gitai's debut narrative feature and the first installment in his renowned "City Trilogy" (concluded by 1998's YOM YOM and 1999's KADOSH), a remarkable trio of films each based in one of Israel's thriving metropolises. Making full use of a decade of documentary experience, Gitai transformed Ya'ackov Shabatai's...Start your free trial to watch
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I Was There in Color
While combing the world's archives for historical material to use for an Israeli history channel that never came to fruition, Avishai Kfir discovered a remarkable cache of color home movies shot by a Jewish-American businessman who made frequent trips to Israel during its early years. I WAS THERE IN COLOR...Start your free trial to watch
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Jellyfish
Poignant, often witty and exceedingly cinematic, JELLYFISH tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at a wedding reception...Start your free trial to watch
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Kadosh
Set in the Mea Sherim quarter of Jerusalem, an enclave of the ultra-Orthodox, KADOSH explores a hermetic world almost never seen on the screen. Here, for ten years, the pious Rivka (Yael Abecassis) has devoted herself to her husband Meir (Yoram Hattab), but their marriage remains childless. Presumed barren, she is rejected by...Start your free trial to watch
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Kafka's Last Story
While the world may be eternally grateful to Max Brod for preserving some of the greatest works of 20th century literature and transforming Franz Kafka into a global cultural icon, Kafka himself may be turning in his grave. Kafka’s final wish stated that “all that is left in my estate must be burned...Start your free trial to watch
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Kedma
An Official Selection at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, KEDMA is renowned Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai’s powerful drama about a group of European Jewish refugees who arrive at Palestine in the critical year of 1948. Carried on the deck of the freighter Kedma, they come ashore to find not the Promised Land of milk and honey,...Start your free trial to watch
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Kippur
Taking place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. Although the story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers, the film is far from being an exercise in propaganda. We are led by Weinraub (Liron Levo) and his friend Ruso (Tomer Ruso) on a day that...Start your free trial to watch
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Loving Sophia
How can you fix something that's beyond repair? With care and understanding. LOVING SOPHIA is an intimate story of a family learning to cope with addiction and dependance. As a young woman Sophia lives through immigration, a rise to fame and an even steeper descent into the world of drugs and prostitution. The documentary is...Start your free trial to watch
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Or
Or (Dana Ivgy), a pretty and popular Tel Aviv high school student, works nights at a neighborhood restaurant while taking her first tentative steps out of innocence and into first love. But Or's real full-time job is looking after her mother Ruthie (Ronit Elkabetz). After twenty dehumanizing years of curbside prostitution,...Start your free trial to watch
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Promised Lands
PROMISED LANDS is famed writer and critic Susan Sontag’s sole documentary project (and her third directorial effort), shot in Israel on the fly in the final days and immediate aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Not only does the film scrutinize the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, but it also brilliantly underscores the...Start your free trial to watch
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Silver Jew
A film by Michael Tully documenting two shows by David Berman and his band the Silver Jews in Tel Aviv and an afternoon in Jerusalem during their first ever tour. Fifteen years after the band's inception, this tour is treated as the amazing and improbable event that it was.Start your free trial to watch
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Time of Favor
Winner of six Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and highly acclaimed in its U.S. theatrical release, TIME OF FAVOR weaves an intricate tale of passion, loyalty and conspiracy amidst the contemporary political powder-keg and timeless austere beauty of Israel's West Bank. In a film the New York Times calls an...Start your free trial to watch