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1. Seven Blessings (2023)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
Marie travels from France to Israel, where her family now lives, to marry her one true love. "Seven Blessings"is a week of festive meals in honor of the bride. This week turns into a sad comedy about family crimes, forgiveness and loss.
Director: Ayelet Menahemi | Stars: Reymonde Amsellem, Tikva Dayan, Rivka Bahar, Eleanor Sela
Votes: 231
2. Shiva (2008)
103 min | Drama, Romance
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large ... See full summary »
Directors: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz | Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Moshe Ivgy, Yaël Abecassis, Albert Iluz
Votes: 579
3. Revivre (2009)
45 min | Drama, History
The story of the illegal immigrant Yehuda Halevi ship that brought immigrants to Israel from Morocco in 1947. On her way to Israel stopped in France to collect holocaust survivors.
Stars: Bernard Campan, Marie-France Pisier, Jocelyn Quivrin, Marc Ruchmann
Votes: 33
4. Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah (2013)
86 min | Documentary
Kamal Hachkar explores the 2000-year-old Mellah in his family's village of Tinghir, Morocco, and follows the trail of the town's once substantial Jewish population to its emigres and ... See full summary »
Director: Kamal Hachkar
Votes: 12
5. Orange People (2013)
90 min | Drama
Grandma Zohara occupies a special role within the Moroccan community within Israel. By cradling an object brought to her by her clients, Grandma Zohara gains access to the family's past ... See full summary »
Director: Hanna Azoulay Hasfari | Stars: Rita Shukrun, Esti Yerushalmi, Hanna Azoulay Hasfari, Yoram Toledano
Votes: 48
6. Raymonde El Bidaoia (2020)
77 min | Documentary, Music
Raymonde - diva, queen, enigma, inspiration, survivor, widow, woman, and mother. Armed with a camera, Yael Abecassis followed her mother and stepped into a world where she had always been a... See full summary »
Director: Yaël Abecassis | Star: Raymonde Abecassis
Votes: 7
7. Alia (II) (2015)
47 min | Documentary, Biography
Alia is an aging Moroccan immigrant in Israel who cannot leave the confines of her council flat due to her deteriorating health. Through the power of Art she transforms her narrowing physical world.
Director: Noam Edry | Star: Alia Edery
8. In Your Eyes, I See My Country (2019)
75 min | Documentary
Neta Elkayam and Amit Haï Cohen live in Jerusalem. Together, they created a band where they revisit and reshape their common judeo-moroccan musical heritage. In life as on stage, they ... See full summary »
Director: Kamal Hachkar | Stars: Neta Elkayam, Amit Hai Cohen
Votes: 15
9. The Ancestral Sin (2017)
109 min | Documentary, History
The story of Israel's "development towns" in a chilling documentary, as never told before: Testimonials and previously sealed transcripts reveal a method, an ideology and a cruel practice ... See full summary »
Director: David Deri | Stars: Elisha Efrat, Erez Tzfadia
Votes: 33
10. Egoz (1999)
45 min | Drama
The story of the ship Egoz that carried Jewish emigrants from Morocco to Israel, at a time when the immigration of Moroccan Jews to Israel was illegal.
Stars: Sasson Gabay, Levana Finkelstein, Igal Naor, Alon Aboutboul
Votes: 9
11. The Milk Trial (2016)
80 min | Drama, History
Based on a true story that happened in Morocco at the beginning of The 40's.
Director: Jonathan Paz | Stars: Maayan Keret, Sarai Tzuriel, Sami Huri, Alon Dahan
13. A Song of Loves - Rabi David Buzaglo (2015)
60 min | Documentary
Rabbi David Buzaglo was the greatest Hebrew liturgical poet of the twentieth century. Born in Morocco in 1903, his literary output had a major impact on a community of hundreds of thousands... See full summary »
Director: Rafael Balulu | Stars: Shlomo Bar, Meir Buzaglo, Haviva Pedaya
Votes: 8
14. The Black Panthers (in Israel) Speak (2003)
54 min | Documentary
The Black Panthers in Israel are the social movement of second generation Mizrahim in Israel - Jews originating from Arab and Muslim countries. The uprising of the Black Panthers in the ... See full summary »
Director: Sami Shalom Chetrit | Stars: Reuven Abergel, Charlie Biton, Saadia Marziano
15. Until Tomorrow Comes (2004 TV Movie)
65 min | Drama
Director: David Deri | Stars: Raymonde Abecassis, Yaël Abecassis, Uri Gavriel, Avi Grainik
Votes: 8
16. Ruah Kaddim - Chronika Marokait (2003)
60 min | Documentary, History
The story of Moroccan Jewry in Israel.
Stars: Oved Abutbul, Reuven Abergel, Arie Deri, Erez Biton
17. Victor Hugo Street, Number 2 (2018 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary
The story on an 82 years old woman that was born in Marocco, and at the age of 13 decided to leave everything and go to Israel, Either, with her family or without. After 67 years she is ... See full summary »
Directors: Nati Malhi, Yuval Otzar
18. Zehava Ben - The Solitary Star (1997)
80 min | Documentary, Music
A view of middle east politics through the life and performances of Zehava Ben. The Moroccan-born Israeli musician captured the hearts of audiences Gaza, Jericho, and elsewhere throughout the Arab world.
Director: Erez Laufer | Star: Zahava Ben
19. Bonjour Madame (1995 TV Movie)
Documentary, Biography
A biography of the Moroccan Israeli singer Raymond Abecassis.
Director: Levana Hakim | Stars: Raymonde Abecassis, Yaël Abecassis
21. Shuttered Rhymes - The Life and Poetry of Erez Bitton (2014)
67 min | Documentary
This documentary film is a portrait of the blind Israeli poet Erez Bitton, who as a young child in 1948 was forced to emigrate from Morocco with his family. Shattered Rhymes tells the ... See full summary »
Director: Sami Shalom Chetrit | Star: Erez Biton
22. Come Mother (2009)
79 min | Documentary
This is the story of my journey within my mother's journey. My mother, Yakut (Pearl in Arabic), the film's leading character, is going on a search for her classmates from the elementary ... See full summary »
Director: Sami Shalom Chetrit
23. Back to Casablanca (2012)
50 min | Documentary
Israeli actor and director Ze'ev Revach was born in Morocco in 1940. He sets out on a journey back to Casablanca, in search of a Moroccan actor to star alongside him in his next film, which... See full summary »
Director: Sigalit Banai | Star: Ze'ev Revach
24. 9 Years Later (2009)
68 min | Documentary
Danielle, a Jew who grew up as a Muslim in Morocco, struggles for the right to bring up her son, Nasser. Nine years after she was forced to leave him and moved to live in Jerusalem, she returns to Morocco to fight for custody.
Directors: Sari Ezouz-Berger, Yifat Kedar
25. With a Pledge (2014)
10 min | Animation, Short
In a Jewish village in Morrocco during the 40s, Simon and her best friend Hanna promise that when their children grow up they will marry. The wedding day nears and Simon does not reveal to ... See full summary »
Directors: Eliran Franco, Efrat Grava, Noa Peleg | Stars: Reymonde Amsellem, Rotem Zissman-Cohen, Nadav Abuksis
27. Child Mother (2016)
90 min | Documentary
Child Mother tells the story of elderly women, born into Jewish communities in Morocco and Yemen, forced to become brides when they were still little girls.
Director: Yael Kipper Zaretzky
Votes: 8