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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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The story of two Yemeni women artists in their seventies. One a composer of hit ballads, the other a writer and poet.

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Abd al-Qader al-Husseini tells the story of four sites in Jerusalem connected to the history of the al-Husseini family- one of the most prominent families in Palestinian society. Abd al-Qader speaks about his father, Faisal al-Husseini, a Palestinian leader who worked for Palestinian self-determination and especially for a free and open Jerusalem, and about his grandfather and namesake, Abd al-Qader al-Husseini, who was the commander of the Palestinian resistance in 1948 and was killed during the battle at Qastal. ‘The two people have rights upon this land. History forces war on us. Reality requires co-existence in peace.’

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An intimate portrait of reclusive poet/musician David Berman and his band the Silver Jews. In the midst of their first ever world tour in the summer of 2006, David, his wife Cassie, and the rest of the band–Tony Crow (keyboards), Brian Kotzur (drums), Peyton Pinkerton (guitar), and William Tyler (guitar)–stopped off in Israel to play two shows in Tel Aviv and visit Jerusalem.

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A revelatory and mature work from Festival veteran Igal Hecht…” (Toronto Jewish Film Festival) Streets of Jerusalem is a new documentary shot over a period of five years, centers around the lives of ten Jerusalem residents. Terror, racism, occupation, economical hardships, political changes and the yearning for peace, are all explored in a no hold’s barred honest manner that has been the trade mark of Chutzpa Productions.

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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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The story of the establishment of the grassroots Hapoel Katamon soccer team in th 1970’s.

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