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10-year-old Aya, the only daughter of two doctors from Tel Aviv who are leaving on a trip to help Thai refugees, is placed in a kibutz where she must deal with the challenges of living with dozens of other children in a dormitory-style setting, four children per room, and placed without regard to gender.

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This documentary follows a group of African-American high school students from Brooklyn who go with their teacher to work on a kibbutz in Israel for a few months. The students also visit Jerusalem for a day.

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In the narration that accompanies his film Tel Katzir, David Perlov calls it “a reportage” – a term almost unknown then, in Israel of the pre-TV era. “I wanted to look at native born Israelis without their symbolic and mythological attributes, which was not common at the time”, said Perlov, “I wanted to look at them with simplicity, in a straightforward manner, as they really were”. He chose kibbutz Tel Katzir, on the Northern border of Israel, whose members were from the Scouts movement, free of any particular party ideology. It took the raw curiosity of a newcomer, and a total absence of preconception, to reach this simple artistic insight.

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More than twenty years members of the Kibbutz are walking along the fence in a circular motion. Thoughts, feelings, pains and hopes around one changing Kibbutz

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A French boy, street-smart and charismatic, is left to fend for himself after the Nazi occupation of Paris leaves him motherless. The 69 years that followed were an emotional journey that is only now being truly examined. Layer by layer, the past and present of David Bergman unfold into a dramatic story of longing and strength. From the Paris of his childhood to the kibbutz of his youth, from the national stage to his private studio, Bergman travels with filmmaker Micha Shagrir in this starkly intimate film, showing an unshakable and unforgettable emotional tenderness.

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