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Past and present collide as the family history is echoed in a contemporary war, and a little-known story emerges of the Jewish refugees who found a safe haven in Mumbai during World War II. Rafting to Bombay is the story of how 5 year old Nahum and his mother escaped the Nazis in Poland, crossed Europe by train and sailed on a raft on the Tigris River until they reached the exotic and fascinating India of monkeys, elephants and Rajas. But Nahum’s childhood experience, which is remembered as an enchanting fantasy, was in reality, a chilling story of a last minute escape.

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Liviu Babitz, a young Romanian immigrant to Israel, deals with questions of immigration, integration, loss of identity, and worldview.

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Valerie,a famous actor from Moscow immigrates to Israel with his family, hoping to succeed in Israel. When he can not bridge the cultural gap, and finds himself secluded.When he returns to Moscow, he finds out that his friends are no longer there for him.

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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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A hotel manager, who left his wife and daughter and immigrated to the U.S.A, returns to Israel to participate in the Yom Kippur War. After he gets injured in a battle, he receives a blood donation from his daughter, who volunteers in the hospital.

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This film presents ten years of documentation of the renowned Gesher Theater and its founder and director Yevgeny Arye.

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The script deals with growing up in a real world. The hero- Misha, an 18-year-old immigrant, who arrived from Russia to Israel without his parents, is forced to become responsible for his deeds in a too short period. Basic events – which occur to every teenager and define what’s important – which usually happen during a few years, happen to him in a few months’ time.

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