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Legends of the Ten Lost Tribes
The Assassanation
On Saturday, June 16th 1933, at 23:00 while vacationing with his wife Sima near the shores of Tel Aviv, Haim Arlosoroff was shot dead at the age of 34 by two unknown assailants. Arlosoroff was a promising leader and a rising star in the Zionist movement. The assassins quickly fled through the side streets of the city, taking with them the answer to a question which has been left unresolved to this very day: Who killed Arlosoroff? Now, 85 years later, it is time to revisit the investigation and dust off the past.
Operation Wedding
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After reading a note that he wrote 10 years prior, 29 year old Tzafrir realizes that he didn’t fulfill any of the dreams he had for himself when he was young. Just before his 30th birthday, he decides to fulfill his childhood dream and drive through Israel on an electric toy car. With the hope of understanding what he wants to do with his life, he goes on the journey across the country and meets people that give their perspective on what it means to grow up.
Bird in the Room
The life story of Israeli poet and songwriter Tirza Atar (1941-1977) – a beloved and enigmatic part of Modern Hebrew Culture – is brought to the screen for the first time. Atar, the daughter of celebrated poet Nathan Alterman, composed hundreds of poems and song lyrics that captured the hearts of the audience, wrote popular children’s books and translated plays for the theater. Yet, her fragile beauty and her short, turbulent life remain shrouded in mystery many years after her tragic death at the age of thirty-six.
The Accursed
The Accursed is a five-part series created by Hagai Levi. Through a combination of documentary footage and reenactments, the series follows four Israeli iconic artists: Author Pinchas Sadeh, philosopher Moshe Kroy, poet Yona Wallach, and artist Aviva Uri. The fifth and final episode is a documentary featuring Hagai Levi revealing his 3 years creative-working process on the series.
Dove’s Cry
Hadeel, a charismatic Arab teacher, teaches Arabic in a Jewish elementary school. Her relationships with the pupils and staff enable both parties to have a unique glance at one another’s cultures, refute prejudices and dissolve fears. Yet, due to the complex Israeli reality, the meeting of these two cultures inevitably causes clashes. Back home, being 27 and a religious Muslim woman, Hadeel is being pressured to get married this year.
The Accursed (Episode 5: Epilogue)
Epilogue: in the fifth episode of The Accursed, eighteen-year-old Emanuel Levi, a film student and the son of the series’ creator Hagai Levi investigates the unique format of the series and the motivation behind it. With the help of rare archival footage, he attempts to figure out why his father chose now, of all times, to return to these individuals, and what their message is in the present age. He examines where the need for this unconventional style of documentary came from, with its unusual combination of reenactments and the documentarist’s personal biography. More generally, he investigates what about this series is real and what is fiction.
The Accursed (Episode 3: Moshe Kroy)
Soon after the Yom Kippur War, a short philosophical tract entitled Life According to the Intellect was published in Israel, and Moshe Kroy, a twenty-five-year-old Doctor of Philosophy became a kind of local guru for one turbulent year. The Theory of Rational Egoism that he developed fell on the eager ears of all the people fed up with all the fallen ideologies. Hagai, who was now about to enter the army, becomes a student of Kroy and documents him too. For years he follows the dramatic turnabouts in Kroy’s philosophy but also in his life. He even follows Kroy to Australia to confront him about what seemed at first to be like a return to religion, or was it to madness?The remarkable story of Moshe Kroy is one of the most extreme examples that this country has known. It is the story of a genius who paid every imaginable price in his uncompromising effort to reach the truth.
