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A Documentary about the execution of The Disengagement Plan and the evacuation of 8,000 settlers from their homes at the settlements in the Gaza strip which began on August 15 th, 2005, lasting only 5 days. Eight camera crews followed closely for five full days the key figures, providing us with...
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The Garden is a desolate section of Tel Aviv where young gay prostitutes and drug addicts gather. It is a territory for the dispossessed, for pickups, drug deals, and clashes with the law. Over the course of one year, filmmakers Shatz and Barash follow two boys who have made the Garden their...
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“You never fully recover from Childhood” says the physician of Laurent Roth. Roth is the director of the film and an inmate at a psychiatric hospital. He invites his entire family, parents, uncles, cousins and sister - to an experiment within the hospital walls. Using a children\'s building...
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The film takes place in Kumba Cameroon, presenting a feminist portrait of the changing Cameroonian society, by focusing on three women: a Marital Court Judge, a Policewoman and a State Prosecutor, all representing the tremendous change this African state is undergoing. The film follows three...
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Jerusalem is Proud to Present depicts how in 2006 a specific, emotionally charged point of contention was added to the familiar list of political and religious antagonisms in this city: the organization of the Pride Parade. The parade, chaste because without nudity, would make a statement across...
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Copyright © 2007 Sony Pictures Classics
In the span of only a few months, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international
renown – and sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. She was compared to Kandinsky
and Pollock, and called “a...
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In 1935, three Walt Disney films were screened in Moscow. Fyodor Chytruk, then a young art student, saw these films and did not believe his eyes; he was convinced that he had seen a miracle unfolding before him. What he did not know was that one day he himself would become one of the greats of...
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A documentary with elements of a docu-drama about the life and work of the artist Ori Reisman,
who lived in Kibbutz Cabri in Israel and died in 1991.
The film, which took six years to produce, is based on voice recordings
made with Ori in 1981.
Ori\'s voice is interwoven throughout the...
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Copyright © 2007 HBO Films
An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional...
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In Between is about noon, the mid-day, in between dawn and dusk, about a city in between layers
of cultures. The film depicts the sun dials as well as people of Istanbul. Istanbul at noon in
a summer day;
a cross continental metropolis literally on two continents - Asia and Europe; a...
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