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- A New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.
- With the help of a prominent Israeli journalist, Precious Life chronicles the struggle of an Israeli pediatrician and a Palestinian mother to get treatment for her baby, who suffers from an incurable genetic disease. Each must face their most profound biases as they inch towards a possible friendship in an impossible reality.
- Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.
- Documentary about the relationship between the mild-mannered filmmaker Tomer and a gang of tough, nihilistic estate-boys whom he is counseling and helping to put on a play.
- I CLOWN YOU is a documentary portrait of the medical clowning community in Israel. In case you're wondering, yes, medical clowning is an actual job. A medical clown is a proper clown (red nose, huge shoes - the works), who has received special training similar to nursing, and works in a hospital. The basic idea is simple - to make the experience of being in a hospital less traumatic for everyone - patients, both kids and adults, their loved ones and also the medical staff. Balloons and bubbles are of course innate to the job, but there are many more layers to this seemingly simple play. Medical clowning has its secrets of the craft, in Israel it even has a career staircase, professional education including academic degrees and quantitative scientific studies. Medical clowning lies at the intersection of art, therapy and lifestyle and is grounded in ancient traditions of court jesters and circus clowns. Medical clowning is perhaps one of the most unexpected jobs for Israel one could think of and yet it is Israel that has one of the most developed and vivacious medical clowning communities in the World. (They even export medical clowning!) It is this community that we are excited to bring to the limelight - a unique group of red-nosed philosophers who take it upon themselves to make it better day by day, patient by patient.
- "Zugaim Dama" ["Queens Up"] is a story about an unequal match in a tough male environment. Somewhere around the northern boundaries of Israel, in an adjutancy office of a quite sleepy military base, on an especially wintry Saturday night - three "desk-jockeys" who remain on weekend duty - are playing Poker. In the course of the poker game it turns out who is weak, who's even weaker and who's the weakest among three: Green, the NCO (non-commissioned officer) who is only three months before his release from the army, has a weakness for money, and poker is the best way he knows to earn it. Dudu, the cook, is about to sign standing army just like his father; He has a weakness for paternal figures, that's why he hangs after Green. And the weakest soldier of the base, Mano, the gate-keeper, has an artificial eye, and he's just came out of basic training, so he's an easy prey for everyone. After a few rounds of poker, Mano confesses that he can't pay the money he owes, so Green makes him a twisted offer: if Mano can't bet on money, why couldn't he bet on his glass-eye. From now on the card game becomes nerve-racking, until the one-eyed rifle-armed Mano turns from a prey into a predator. This movie is about a little nightmarish army.