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Inside a small house on a Moshav on the Jerusalem hills, lives 54-year-old Libby, poor and alone except for her two dogs and her cat. During the 1980s, she was the first punk singer in Israel, a soloist for “Libby and the Flash.” Will she ever make a comeback?

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Interlaced with commercials that should remind audiences of television shows, this standard “Candid Camera” documentary features the Allen Funt of Israel, Yehuda Barkan and his crew of pranksters pulling the proverbial wool over the eyes of the unsuspecting.

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 The film uncovers the personality of Dr. Vicki Shiran, a feminist and Mizrahi-born leader who led all major social struggles in the past 3 decades until her untimely death 8 years ago. Occasionally a person’s biography can faithfully mirror the spirit of a social struggle. The life story of Shiran is also the story of the rise, and some say the fall, of the social struggle for equality that characterized Israel in the past and still goes on in a different manner to this day.

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An right-wing Israeli man falls in love with an extremist Palestinian woman in the West Bank of the 80’s. Tensions rise in the neighborhood as people begin to react to their budding relationship.

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The true story of Richard Kuklinski, loving husband, devoted father, and ruthless contract killer, who took credit for over 200 murders for the Gambino family during the 1970’s and 80’s.

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Lack is a story that originates after the 1980 military coup, between 1981 and 1984, during the years when the hunt for revolutionaries was most prevalent, and continues today. Pregnant Melek’s husband is arrested and later killed by torture. Although she has just given birth, she is kicked out of the house by her father-in-law, who keeps her older son Deniz. After 30 years pass, Deniz, now a misanthrope, desolate and alcoholic, turns to his mother and brother who he hasn’t seen ever since. Now he will have the answers to all his questions. But, the truth has a price. “As a person whose family went through similar issues; during this era of trauma, I am intrigued by the ongoing effects of the coup. We believe that the effects of the coup on the country as a whole have manifested on this family that we depict here. Although the consequences seem to be significant then, it is obvious that these traumas have left scars on several generations and created conscience rifts and serious soul searching that have sustained decades.” 

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