Yamna’s Blessing
Yamna is an 82-year-old miracle-worker and righteous woman from Sderot, Israel. The film depicts her unique character and rituals, her Eastern culture and her effort to bequeath her mystical power to the next generation Yamna’s story is told through the people who come to her for help as we are offered a glimpse into some of her secrets. Yehudit, 40, whose biological clock is running out, hopes that Yamna can help her become pregnant after conventional fertilization treatments have failed. Dudu, Yamna’s grandson, asks her for help with finding success in the music industry. Yamna’s daughter, Shula, has the technical know-how of her mother but is still searching for the special spark she needs to honor her birthright and become a righteous woman.
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Daniel returns to his childhood home in a small town in Israel after living abroad for many years. He seeks out Lilah, who was the love of his life that remained in his town when he left. Lilah, a former ballet teacher, has been paralyzed and bedridden for the past three years. Realizing her situation, Daniel is going to commit an unbelievable act of love.The film deals with the conflict between religious tradition and the freedom to choose your fate.
Hebrew Language with optional English Subtitles.Apocalypse Love
An action-packed necromantic animated stop-motion love triangle involving a Rocker Boy, a Gothic Girl, and his dead ex-girlfriend set in the middle of a zombie apocalypse during an alien invasion!
When Tom lost his girlfriend BB to a tragic accident on prom night, the police suspected him, his family shunned him, his friends blamed him—or they would have, if he’d had any. Now he writes death metal love songs by BB’s grave – until his restless solitude is shattered when space aliens invade Earth and turn the dead into an army of zombie killers. Battling to save BB from becoming a puppet to alien masters and his own desire to resurrect his lost love, Tom has to dodge bullets, legions of zombies, aliens, death-rays, and global apocalypse. This highly original festival-award-winning film is the first of its kind to feature the animation of puppets-and-hands in the same style that child-sized toy puppeteers have done in toy commercials over the past two decades.State-Less
The Story of Adi Khavous, a musician and extraordinary artist who chose a vagabond lifestyle. Adi left home in Israel and now lives in Canada as a solitary immigrant and rock 'n' roll singer. The film depicts five years of Adi's journey and presents an alternative, off-beat way of life. In his lonesome life, Adi holds on to one dream: to break through as a musician. This 5 years journey provides a glimpse into an extreme life of a unique artist.
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Caine Farrowood is a bounty hunter who works under the control of ruthless kingpin Loomweather. One day a bounty retrieval goes awry and Caine is left for dead. Just when he thinks his life is over, he mysteriously awakens back home to the comforts of his wife Christina. Baffled and confused by how he got home Caine insists on finding answers, but before long he is enlisted in the retrieval of another bounty. This one is huge and may cost Caine not only his life, but his sanity, as he finds himself pitted against an adversary who may very well be the fallen angel himself.Doubtful
Assi, a Tel-Aviv based screenwriter, stuck in his life, is sentenced to community service to work with juveniles in the remote city of Beersheeba. A story about a detached man who aspires to save delinquent youth through art, and about thoughtful teenagers who do not want to be saved.
Winner Best First Film Award, Best Cinematography Award, Commendation for Young Actor Jerusalem International Film Festival. Hebrew language with optional English subtitlesKiller BBQ
A local landmark BBQ stand becomes the focus of a dogged investigation by the tenacious new female deputy when she realizes that multiple people have gone missing from the small town. She teams up with one of the town locals whose family disappeared 30 years before; and it becomes quickly evident that they might not be able to trust anyone else in town as bloody mayhem ensues.
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A live-action movie based on the popular animation series "Blood C" by Production I.G and CLAMP. Set in Japan before World War II, a captain of the fascist Special Political Police (the "SPP") was murdered in a small village. During a brutal investigation conducted by the SPP, tensions between the SPP and villagers grow, and soon the conflict leads to violence – and the sudden appearance of the mysterious, sword-wielding “Asura Girl”!
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A possessed piñata, seeking to avenge the savagery that humanity has inflicted on his kind, picks off a group of friends, one by one, in an unending night of terror.
"So silly it's good!" rave the critics of this you-gotta-see-it-to-believe-it film. After watching this film, you'll only have one question on your mind: What will they think of next? Director: Stephen Tramontana. Starring: Eliza-Jane Morris, Billy Chengary, Lindsay AshcroftLand of Genesis
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When a half-way home for recently released prisoners faces permanent closure - the former prisoners face a dramatic junction -- will they be able to integrate back into society or will they be thrown back into their previous lives? The series centers around Anat, an idealist social worker and current manager of the group home, who deals with both the shutting down of her life's work and the reemergence of Niko, her former ward and flame.
An Israeli TV drama, that originally aired in 2019. Hebrew language with English subtitles
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