FEATURE FILMS Archives - Israel Film Festival Best Tue, 05 Nov 2024 12:12:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 STUDENT FILM #1 https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/films/student-film-1/ Sun, 03 Nov 2024 17:46:09 +0000 https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/?post_type=films&p=10381 THE BOY Dir: Yahav Winner Avinoam and Barak, a father and son from the Gaza Strip,each face the approaching war in their own way. Barak wants to stop everything andAvinoam wants to stop Barak   GIRL NO 60427  ילדה מספר Dir: Shulamit Lifshitz  Tel Aviv, 1998, summer vacation. Reut finds and reads her grandmother’s secret […]

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THE BOY

Dir: Yahav Winner

Avinoam and Barak, a father and son from the Gaza Strip,each face the approaching war in their own way. Barak wants to stop everything andAvinoam wants to stop Barak

 

GIRL NO 60427  ילדה מספר

Dir: Shulamit Lifshitz 

Tel Aviv, 1998, summer vacation. Reut finds and reads her grandmother’s secret notebook from the Holocaust. Grandma’s story resonates in Reut’s well-developed imagination, and the fun week in Tel Aviv with Grandpa and Grandma turns into something else entirely. Reut’s relationship with her grandmother changes forever. This mixed-genre, live action/animation film is based on the childhood memories of the director, who discovered her grandmother’s Holocaust diary when she was thirteen

SOLOMON & SOLOMON GO FISHING סלומון וסלומון יוצאים לדוג     

Dir. Eliyahu Wonda

In a last attempt to connect with his son, Solomon (an Ethiopian man, 49) takes Junior on a fishing trip to the Dead Sea. As the two descend in their path, the cultural and personal gaps reveal the absurdities of their lives in the Holy Land. 11 Min. 2023

THE 50TH PSALM המזמור החמישים

Dir. Hamed Sharoof & Fadi Qubti

Peter, an Arab boy (16) is having a secret relationship with his married neighbor, Roje. He tries to convince him to leave his wife so they can live together, but Roje refuses and asks for more time. Peter is tired of waiting and demands Roje to decide.

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]]> MATCHMAKING 2 | 2 בחורים טובים https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/films/matchmaking-2-2-%d7%91%d7%97%d7%95%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%98%d7%95%d7%91%d7%99%d7%9d/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:14:29 +0000 https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/?post_type=films&p=9992 After breaking box office records with over 350,000 viewers with their first film, the good guys are back on the big screen to make you fall in love with them all over again! Baruch Auerbach (Maor Schwitzer), a graduate yeshiva student who has long missed every opportunity to get married, continues to live in a […]

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Baruch Auerbach (Maor Schwitzer), a graduate yeshiva student who has long missed every opportunity to get married, continues to live in a small room at the yeshiva where he studied and serves as the faithful assistant to the matchmaker Malchi (Irit Kaplan). When Malchi assigns him the task of picking up her younger daughter Shira (Omer Nudelman) from the airport, he decides it’s time for him to get married. Baruch seeks Malchi’s help, but when she tries to match him with Ruth (Niv Sultan), he resolves to do everything he can to thwart the match with Ruth and win Shira’s heart.
Only when he realizes how wrongly he has interpreted the circumstances of his life will his heart open up to the love he truly deserves.

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]]> HIGHWAY 65 | כביש הסרגל https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/films/highway-65-%d7%9b%d7%91%d7%99%d7%a9-%d7%94%d7%a1%d7%a8%d7%92%d7%9c/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:12:18 +0000 https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/?post_type=films&p=9969 Until recently, 41-year-old Daphna was a promising detective in Tel Aviv. She now finds herself in small-town Afula, dealing with petty crimes, seeking shade from the heat, and deflecting the intrusive question: “How come you don’t have any children?” Daphna’s world is shaken by the sudden disappearance of Orly Elimelech, a captivating army widow known […]

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]]> Until recently, 41-year-old Daphna was a promising detective in Tel Aviv. She now finds herself in small-town Afula, dealing with petty crimes, seeking shade from the heat, and deflecting the intrusive question: “How come you don’t have any children?” Daphna’s world is shaken by the sudden disappearance of Orly Elimelech, a captivating army widow known for her beauty and rebellious spirit. Soon enough, a troubling question creeps in: “Why isn’t anybody looking for her?” Fearing the worst, Daphna will stop at nothing to solve the mystery.

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]]> THE MONKEY HOUSE | גן קופים https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/films/the-monkey-house-%d7%92%d7%9f-%d7%a7%d7%95%d7%a4%d7%99%d7%9d/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:27:01 +0000 https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/?post_type=films&p=9973 A once-successful novelist tries to revive his fading career by launching a highly inventive scam. He recruits a reckless actress and trains her to assume the somber identity of a lit Masters student. Their lives will alter forever.

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]]> A once-successful novelist tries to revive his fading career by launching a highly inventive scam. He recruits a reckless actress and trains her to assume the somber identity of a lit Masters student. Their lives will alter forever.

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]]> KARAOKE | קריוקי https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/films/karaoke-%d7%a7%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%95%d7%a7%d7%99/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:28:55 +0000 https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/?post_type=films&p=9964 An offbeat, comedic journey that delights and surprises, Karaoke follows Tova and Meir, a standard aging couple with 46 years of marriage and two grown daughters. They live a comfortable life, with Meir currently on sabbatical from his academic professorship, and Tova running a boutique shop. Their lives get a jolt of excitement from their […]

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]]> An offbeat, comedic journey that delights and surprises, Karaoke follows Tova and Meir, a standard aging couple with 46 years of marriage and two grown daughters. They live a comfortable life, with Meir currently on sabbatical from his academic professorship, and Tova running a boutique shop. Their lives get a jolt of excitement from their neighbor from above, Itzik, who invites them to his penthouse for karaoke nights. Tova and Meir fall hard for Itzik’s energetic lifestyle. They enter into a competition amongst their other neighbors and soon themselves, trying to win Itzik’s attention.

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]]> THE CITY | העיר הזאת https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/films/the-city-%d7%94%d7%a2%d7%99%d7%a8-%d7%94%d7%96%d7%90%d7%aa/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:55:50 +0000 https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/?post_type=films&p=9957 In a dark city, in a fictional world, detective Joe is called upon by Sarah Bennett to help investigate the murder of her sister. Quickly, the plot thickens, and Joe finds himself facing the most notorious criminal mastermind in “The City”. The first-ever Hebrew rap opera.

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]]> In a dark city, in a fictional world, detective Joe is called upon by Sarah Bennett to help investigate the murder of her sister. Quickly, the plot thickens, and Joe finds himself facing the most notorious criminal mastermind in “The City”. The first-ever Hebrew rap opera.

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]]> HOME | בית https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/films/home-%d7%91%d7%99%d7%aa/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:48:23 +0000 https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/?post_type=films&p=9949 A young and recently married Orthodox man’s dream to open a computer store in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem turns into a violent nightmare when the entire neighborhood sees him as an existential threat. Turning his whole world upside down, the threat enters his home and puts his marriage to the test, as he faces […]

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]]> A young and recently married Orthodox man’s dream to open a computer store in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem turns into a violent nightmare when the entire neighborhood sees him as an existential threat. Turning his whole world upside down, the threat enters his home and puts his marriage to the test, as he faces the reality of his own free will within a predetermined world.

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]]> DELEGATION | המשלחת https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/films/delegation-%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%a9%d7%9c%d7%97%d7%aa/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:36:14 +0000 https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/?post_type=films&p=9942 Poland. Warsaw’s Chopin airport. Businessmen, tourists and local workers come and go. A group of 40 teenagers, accompanied by a few nervous adults, exit the arrivals gate. They are all bunched up together, wearing white sweatshirts with “ISRAEL” printed in blue on the back. At first glance they might look like a national sports team, […]

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]]> Poland. Warsaw’s Chopin airport. Businessmen, tourists and local workers come and go. A group of 40 teenagers, accompanied by a few nervous adults, exit the arrivals gate. They are all bunched up together, wearing white sweatshirts with “ISRAEL” printed in blue on the back. At first glance they might look like a national sports team, but this Delegation is here for a very different reason – a school trip to concentration camps and memorials. We’ll follow this young Israeli delegation on their journey around Poland, where the incomprehensible past of WW2, meets the complex present of being an Israeli teenager. The clash between these realities is at the base of this perceptive, critical, coming-of-age story.

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]]> CONCERNED CITIZEN | אזרח מודאג https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/films/concerned-citizen-%d7%90%d7%96%d7%a8%d7%97-%d7%9e%d7%95%d7%93%d7%90%d7%92/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:27:42 +0000 https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/?post_type=films&p=9934 Ben plants a tree on the street in front of his house in Neve Sha’anan, a migrant neighborhood in the south of Tel Aviv. The district is on the up, and Ben has bought and upgraded a flat here together with his partner Raz. This couple now enjoys a settled existence ready to tackle their […]

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]]> Ben plants a tree on the street in front of his house in Neve Sha’anan, a migrant neighborhood in the south of Tel Aviv. The district is on the up, and Ben has bought and upgraded a flat here together with his partner Raz. This couple now enjoys a settled existence ready to tackle their desire to have children. One day, when a neighbourly conflict escalates over the tree he has planted, Ben’s life goes into a turmoil.

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]]> SODA | סודה https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/films/soda-%d7%a1%d7%95%d7%93%d7%94/ Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:42:28 +0000 https://staging.israelfilmfestival.com/?post_type=films&p=9887 A beautiful seamstress moves to a neighborhood of Holocaust survivors in 1956. Rumors about her past (as a Capo) shake up the neighborhood, and especially Shalom, the leader and a former brave resistance fighter, who is torn between his passion to the beautiful woman and his commitment to the community to reveal her past.

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]]> A beautiful seamstress moves to a neighborhood of Holocaust survivors in 1956. Rumors about her past (as a Capo) shake up the neighborhood, and especially Shalom, the leader and a former brave resistance fighter, who is torn between his passion to the beautiful woman and his commitment to the community to reveal her past.

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