Jewish Festival
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1. Recognition (2015)
86 min | Documentary, Drama, War
Noga is a high school teenager who is eager to be accepted into the best unit of the Israeli army. Moran is a religious social worker who has chosen as a home town Sderot, which is under ... See full summary »
Director: Sharon Ryba-Kahn
2. Paris on the Water (2014)
29 min | Short, Drama
Bathya is a former movie star who feels that her life is finally about to change. After years of frustration she was offered a part in a movie, but something happens in the morning of the ... See full summary »
Director: Hadas Ayalon | Stars: Naama Amit, Ilan Dar, Miryam Zohar
Votes: 25
3. The Dove Flyer (2013)
105 min | Drama
Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
Director: Nissim Dayan | Stars: Daniel Gad, Yasmin Ayun, Tawfeek Barhom, Ahuva Keren
Votes: 164
4. Tito's Glasses (2014)
94 min | Documentary, History
With the search for her roots her constant companion, actress Adriana Altaras goes on a journey to find a country which no longer exists - and along the way discovers a whole lot more.
Director: Regina Schilling | Stars: Adriana Altaras, Aaron Altaras, Leo Altaras, Wolfgang Böhmer
Votes: 58
5. Poltory komnaty ili Sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na Rodinu (2009)
130 min | Animation, Biography
A semi-fictional account of the life of Nobel-Prize-winning Russian poet Josif Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
Director: Andrey Khrzhanovskiy | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Sergey Yurskiy, Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy, Artyom Smola
Votes: 570
6. Once Upon a Time There Was a King (2015)
80 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
Nissim Aloni was a king of the Hebrew theater. The magical realm he created on stage brimmed with imagination and poetry, giving voice and vision to the loftiest dreams. But in a world ... See full summary »
Director: Doron Djerassi | Stars: Nissim Aloni, Shaike Levi, Yossi Pollak
7. Don't Lose Heart (2014)
Documentary
When her 88-year-old father moved home, estranged daughter Hella de Jonge acquired the legacy of her great aunt who survived the Nazi terror along with Hella's parents. This inspires her to... See full synopsis »
Director: Hella de Jonge
Votes: 10
8. Last Days in Jerusalem (2011)
80 min | Drama
About the emotional upheaval of a Palestinian couple's last moments before leaving voluntarily Jerusalem, their native city, to forge a brighter future in France.
Director: Tawfik Abu Wael | Stars: Huda Al Imam, Ali Badarni, Samir Hawa, Kais Nashif
Votes: 31
9. Yellow Stars of Tolerance (2015)
28 min | Documentary, Short | Completed
YELLOW STARS OF TOLERANCE documents a project to preserve yellow stars that were painted during the Holocaust in World War II on a synagogue exterior wall in Normandy, France to terrorize ... See full summary »
Director: Curt Fissel
10. A Film Unfinished (2010)
Unrated | 88 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.
Director: Yael Hersonski | Stars: Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Avrutzki, Luba Gewisser
Votes: 1,898 | Gross: $0.31M
11. Ajami (2009)
Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama
Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.
Directors: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Stars: Fouad Habash, Nisrin Siksik, Elias Saba, Youssef Sahwani
Votes: 6,527 | Gross: $0.62M
12. Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams (2009)
75 min | Documentary
Directors: Masha Zur Glozman, Yonathan Zur | Stars: Paul Auster, Nadine Gordimer, Sari Nusseibeh, Amos Oz
Votes: 24
13. Being Jewish in France (2007 TV Movie)
185 min | Documentary
Director: Yves Jeuland | Stars: Robert Badinter, Elie Barnavi, Mathieu Amalric, Jean-Claude Grumberg
Votes: 20
14. Cabale à Kaboul (2006)
87 min | Documentary
The movie Cabal in Kabul tells the story of the last two Jews in Afghanistan. All the other Jews, from a community that once numbered more than 50,000 have left a long time ago. Isaac and ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Alexe | Stars: Isaac Lévy, Zabulon Simantov
Votes: 66
15. Five Hours from Paris (2009)
87 min | Drama, Romance
He's a native Israeli. She's a Russian immigrant. He's a taxi driver. She's a music teacher. He has no aspirations. She gave up hers long ago. He is afraid of flying and she is about to fly away. What are the odds they'll end up together?
Director: Leon Prudovsky | Stars: Dror Keren, Helena Yaralova, Vladimir Friedman, Yoram Toledano
Votes: 190
16. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
Not Rated | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Director: Joann Sfar | Stars: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Doug Jones
Votes: 10,306 | Gross: $0.23M
17. La cámara oscura (2008)
Unrated | 85 min | Drama, Music
At the end of the 19th century, a woman whom everyone considers ugly is ignored by all. Eventually, she meets a French photographer, and he will be the only person capable of seeing the beauty and the richness of her intense inner world.
Director: María Victoria Menis | Stars: Mirta Bogdasarian, Fernando Armani, Patrick Dell'Isola, Carlos Defeo
Votes: 167
18. Leap of Faith (2009)
95 min | Documentary
Four American families struggle with a life-altering decision to abandon their childhood Christian faith for conversion to Orthodox Judaism. A young woman from Trinidad, a family who leaves... See full summary »
Directors: Antony Benjamin, Stephen Z. Friedman | Stars: Eugene Bowser, Joyce Bowser, Alana DeSilva, Leslie Rawlins
Votes: 8
19. Strangers No More (2010)
40 min | Documentary, Short
In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at ... See full summary »
Directors: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
Votes: 219
21. The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground (2010)
Documentary
Director: Erik Greenberg Anjou | Stars: Matt Darriau, Lisa Gutkin, Frank London, Paul Morrissett
Votes: 13
22. The Last Survivor (2010)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary, History
The Last Survivor presents the stories of genocide survivors and their struggle to make sense of tragedy. They work to educate, motivate and promulgate a civic response to mass atrocity ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Kleiman, Michael Pertnoy
Votes: 40
23. The Matchmaker (2010)
112 min | Drama
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror Keren, Tuval Shafir
Votes: 865
24. Turn Left at the End of the World (2004)
110 min | Drama, Romance
As a family from India moves in to a desert neighborhood in Southern Israel in the 1960's, the family's eldest, beautiful daughter discovers friendship and romance with the lovely local ... See full summary »
Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Neta Garty, Liraz Charhi, Aure Atika, Jean Benguigui
Votes: 1,235
25. A Borrowed Identity (2014)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.
Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Tawfeek Barhom, Razi Gabareen, Yaël Abecassis, Michael Moshonov
Votes: 1,881 | Gross: $0.28M
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