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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Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and tortured, which spurs them to make an escape attempt that could cost them their lives.

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

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Two weeks before Elio is released from prison, he finds out that his brother Meir was killed in a gang fight on the streets of South Tel Aviv. He now has two things that he wants to do. The first is to honor his dead brother with a “maftir” prayer in the synagogue, and the second is to revenge his death. But in a world of violence, power and intrigue, nothing is what it appears to be. Elio returns home to find himself involved in a war to control the illegal gambling between the corrupted police, the Israeli mafia and the Russian mafia. 

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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 tragic- comic adventure of Gary Razomov a young architect living in Berlin, totally disconnected from his past. A sudden announcement of his father’s death brings him back to Israel. Upon arrival he finds out he’s been lied to. His father,a former scientist, is not dead but escaped from prison, where he’d been sentenced for espionage for the the USSR. He meets a young woman named Tom and together they are dragged into a search after the father. During the journey Gary is forced to confront his traumatic past.

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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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