The story of Shlomo Mizrahi and the “Electric Stage,” a Jerusalem rock band that rocked the clubs between the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars.

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Poland 1968. A cabaret-style film documenting the last hours in Poland of Jews driven out by a wave of anti- Semitism.

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Rebellion,music,and bitter debates about pacifism and patriotism in the late 60’s,when high school graduates spend their last summer vacation before being drafted.

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This is the third film in the Lemon Popsicle triology. Three high school seniors preparing for final exams in the early 1960s have the normal teenage concerns about girls, sex and relationships. They try to find out if going steady with one girlfriend is better or if changing girlfriends all the time makes for too many complications. By the end of summer, all things get better.

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This film is a documentary based on the large amount of footage filmed by prime minister Yitzhak Rabin during 1963-1973. It begins with steady shots of Paris – from beautiful landscapes to repeated images of homeless people sleeping on the streets – and eventually shows his filming of touristic London and Florence, various rural scenes in Asia and Africa, and a series of city scenes in Iran. A long section devoted to his time as ambassador to the United States – during which he filmed not only New York, Washington and San Francisco but also a football game, as well as American television – suggests both the growth of Israel’s relationship with its mega-ally and the large developmental difference between the two countries. 

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In the early sixties, Hilik, a ten year old boy who lives in Tel Aviv, knows he and his brother have a goal in life: to make his parents happy and compensate for the grief and loss they suffered during the Holocaust. Moishe, Hilik’s father, chooses to believe that his lost son, from his first marriage, didn’t die in Auschwitz, and somehow escaped to America to become President Kennedy’s assistant. As he has never really accepted being the only survivor from his family, Moishe sinks back into his past. Torn between fear that his father will abandon him, and a wish to make him happy, Hilik chooses to test his father’s love, while accepting the risk of losing him.

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The recreation of the establishment of a nineteenth century settlement in Palestine by ten Russian Jews. They had to build the land and also contend with the Arab resentment and the Turkish military.

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