Israeli
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YOSSI
Ten years on and Eyton Fox’s brilliant ‘Yossi & Jaeger’ about two Israeli soldiers who fall in love is fondly regarded as a ‘classic gay movie’, and now he follows it with this rather wonderful sequel. Yossi is still mourning the loss of his lover Jagger who died in his arms at the Front and…
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THE FLAT
After Arnon Goldfinger’s 98 year old grandmother Gerda had died, he and his family descended on the Apartment in Tel Aviv where she had lived for over 70 years. Grandmother was a compulsive hoarder so Arnon and his siblings and Hannah their mother had their work cut. When Gerda and Karl her husband had re-located…
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FAMILY TIES
When Israeli filmmaker Nitzan Gilady crammed his parents and two grown up brothers and one sister in lawn into an RV to travel thousands of miles across country for a week to go visit the Grand Canyon I was very skeptical.What on earth could happen over the Passover holiday with the family living on top…
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5 BROKEN CAMERAS
Emid Burnat is a Palestinian farmer who works the same land that his family have done for generations in Bil’in on the West Bank and this movie is his firsthand account when the village is threatened by the encroaching Israeli Settlements. This highly personal documentary film bears witness to how the non-violent resistance by the…
