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“Moshe Dayan was radioactive,” says his grandson, Sa’ar, as he tries to explain how throughout Dayan’s life and decades after his death, his family still struggles with the large shadow cast by one of the most interesting and enigmatic characters in Israel’s history. The series follows five generations of the Dayan family—“The Israeli Kennedys”—whose story mirrors that of Israel itself. They have played an essential part in the critical milestones in the life of the state and tell its story in an intimate, scandalous, and fascinating manner.

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The film looks at the members of the band, “Chayot Hakodesh,” founded in1999 in Lifta, who range vastly in age and lifestyle.

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The filmmaker takes her father to Paris, his hometown, in the hopes of understanding why he ran away from his past.

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A filmed journey through a single street on the outskirts of Jerusalem… an attempt to explore fragments of the filmmaker’s childhood and recapture memories of the mother he lost. He returns to the street where his childhood unfolded and meets its elderly residents, immigrants from the Soviet Union, creating a mosaic of a rapidly vanishing way of life.

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Two decades ago, filmmaker Yair Lev made Hugo, a film about his father, a survivor of Auschwitz, in which the older man revealed his most passionate belief: “It is most important for a man to be strong.” Now, Lev returns with Hugo 2, the result of his ruminations about his thin and frail son: Would he have survived his grandfather’s experience? A moving film that captures the inherited past and its implications, from survivor to child to grandchild.

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A film about Rafael and Svetlana Parashvili, who have been running a Jewish orphanage in Moscow for the past ten years.

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The director goes back to Poland, the land of her childhood, to meet the people her late father lived with before they were forced out in ‘68.

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