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9 Star Hotel
An intimate look inside the lives of Palestinian construction workers who cross illegally into Israel in search of a livelihood.
Between Two Notes
A filmmaker travels across the Middle East in search of the roots of classical Arabic music while uncovering a hidden aspect of her own heritage.
Borders
Filmmakers Nurit Kedar and Eran Riklis teamed up to make Borders, a riveting documentary that puts a human face on the neighbors who live alongside Israel's 1,171 kilometers of borders. The film deftly explores the political, cultural and geographical divisions that separate Israelis, Lebanese, Jordanians, Syrians, Egyptians and Palestinians from one another. Some of these borders are peaceful and quiet; others are fraught with fear. But the people who live and work near the borders - an Israeli soldier who "adopts" an Arab family, a Druze bride who leaves her family in the Golan to marry in Lebanon (the real-life story behind Riklis's Syrian Bride), or the Lebanese merchant importing luxury goods from Israel into Southern Lebanon we will meet again in Lebanon Dream - navigate these artificial boundaries with a combination of emotional and physical effort. Director Nurit Kedar will be in attendance.
Bubble, The
Eytan Fox (Walk on Water, Yossi and Jagger) continues his extraordinary run of sleek, chic films that define the contradictions of modern Israeli life. A trio of charming gay and straight twenty-somethings share a flat in a hip Tel Aviv district. But the carefree "bubble" they live in threatens to burst when one of them falls in love with a young Palestinian man.
Hot House
Filmmaker Shimon Dotan probes a startling truth: Israeli prisons are a breeding ground for the next generation of Palestinian leaders and a hotbed for terrorism.
I Am - You Are
I Am You Are presents films by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers in the award-winning youth media program at the Jerusalem Cinematheque. Preceded by Gary's Story.
Knowledge Is the Beginning
In the 1990s, conductor Daniel Barenboim and the late Palestinian-born writer and professor Edward Said created the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. This unusual hybrid of a concert movie and a political documentary chronicles the life of the orchestra.
Lebanon Dream
Veteran filmmaker Nurit Kedar's two documentaries Borders and Lebanon Dream explore the meaning of borders and the travails of those who cross them.
Sidewalk
When does it all begin? How do we become who we become? How did any of us survive the trials and tribulations of childhood?
Three Mothers
A tale of three beautiful triplets from Egypt, told over 60 years, as they come to terms with long-buried secrets and passions.
Wasted
Nurit Kedar's Wasted is a candid look at Israeli soldiers who served in the fortress of Beaufort in Southern Lebanon before Israel's withdrawal in 2000.
Yedidiah's Collection
This documentary is a fascinating view of the withdrawal from Gaza from the point of view of a young settler boy who collects shrapnel.