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SEGELL IKHTIFA (1996)

Jon W. — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:07:32 +0000

Deceptively simple and executed with a documentary feel, this drama represents a highly personal journey home for expatriate Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman. The film is divided into two sections. The first documents the paradoxical but sleepy existence in the Arab part of Nazareth. The second part takes a more political view of the city and in it, Suleiman takes a more active role. He has come to his former home in search of inspiration, but what he sees are many disturbing images of Arab people trapped in a cultural identity crisis, a point best illustrated by the plight of a young Arab woman who wants more independence than traditionally allowed in her part of town but cannot find it because of prejudiced residents on the Jewish side.

Director: Elia Suleiman. سجل اختفاء / Chronicle of a Disappearance
Writer: Elia Suleiman.
Stars: Elia Suleiman, Nazira Suleiman, Fouad Sleiman, Ali Suliman, Juliet Mazzawi, Fawaz Eilemi, Leonid Alexeenko, Iaha Mouhamad.
Cinematographer: Marc-André Batigne.
Composer: Abed Azrie.

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HATUNA MEUHERE (2001)

Jon W. — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:36:22 +0000

Zaza is a good-looking and intelligent Israeli man in his thirties, but despite his family’s wishes he is still a bachelor. His relatives, holding fast to the traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage, try to arrange a marriage for him by setting him up with a series of eligible young virgins. Zaza, however, is secretly in love with Judith, an opinionated divorcee with a young daughter. As Zaza struggles to decide between tradition and love, Late Marriage manages to become comic, emotional, and erotic all at once, while constantly maintaining respect for both sides of the debate.

Director: Dover Koshashvili.
Writer: Dover Koshashvili.
Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Ronit Elkabetz, Moni Moshonov, Lili Koshashvili, Aya Steinovitz, Rozina Cambos, Simon Chen, Simon Chen, Dina Doron, Leonid Kanevskiy, Libia Hakmon, Eli Turi, Maria Ovanov, Orit Sher, Rivka Gur, Ana Feinstein, Zuri Botrashvilli, Nana Dvir, Bachur Gene, Michael Moshonov, Rotem Zoler, Liza Turikashvilli, Nethanel Bitan.
Cinematographer: Daniel Schneor (as Dani Schneor).
Composer: Josef Bardanashvili (as Joseph Bardanashvili).

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LE’AT YOTER (1967)

Jon W. — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 07:09:44 +0000

In just 14 minutes, Avraham Heffner’s short film successfully refines the confession of a quarrel and reconciliation between an ageing couple in late 1960s Tel Aviv. The heroine’s omnipresent, stream-of-consciousness narration provides a harsh account of life together. And though it is a short film, Slow Down was nonetheless hailed a harbinger of a new style of Israeli filmmaking and storytelling, while director Avraham Heffner himself admitted it was his favourite film. Based on a short story by Simone de Beauvoir (L’âge de discretion).

Director: Avraham Heffner. AKA Slow Down.
Writers: Avraham Heffner, Simone de Beauvoir.
Stars: Avraham Ben-Yosef, Fanny Lubitsch.
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg.

1968? Venice Film Festival – Winner of Award for Best Short Film.

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GOODBYE, NEW YORK (1985)

Jon W. — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 06:11:27 +0000

A young New York woman, devastated to find out that her husband has been cheating on her, decides to hop a plane to Paris to get away. However, she falls asleep on the plane, misses her connection, and winds up in Israel, with no money, no luggage and no friends.

Director: Amos Kollek.
Writer: Amos Kollek.
Stars: Julie Hagerty, Amos Kollek, Shmuel Shiloh, Aviva Ger, David Topaz, Moscu Alkaly, Jennifer Babtist, Christopher Goutman, Chaim Girafi, Hanan Goldblatt, Mosko Alkalai, Ya’ackov Ben-Sira, Chaim Banai, Irit Ben Zur, Chaim Jeraffi, Bella Ben David, Moshe Ish-Kassit.
Cinematographer: Amnon Salomon.
Composer: Michael Abene.

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EMINENT DOMAIN (1990)

Jon W. — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 10:31:14 +0000

The film is based on the true story of a senior member of the Polish Politburo and his wife who are both abruptly banished from the party. While they struggle to figure out why, having unusual encounters with people they do not know in the process, things start to take a darker turn when the wife is sent to a mental asylum and their 15-year-old daughter is kidnapped.

Director: John Irvin.
Writers: Richard Greggson, Andrzej Krakowski (story).
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Anne Archer, Paul Freeman, Anthony Bate, Bernard Hepton, Jodhi May, Pip Torrens, Françoise Michaud, Yves Beneyton, Denis Fouqueray, Bernard Hepton.

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THE LAST WINTER (1983)

Jon W. — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 10:23:23 +0000

Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.

Director: Riki Shelach Nissimoff.
Writer: John Herzfeld.
Stars: Yona Elian, Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Macht, Zipora Peled, Michael Schneider, Avi Oriah, Brian Aaron, Michael Shillo, Yossi Werzansky, Yehuda Fuchs, Naomi Sharon, Zafrir Kochanovsky, Zafrir Kochanovsky.

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MADRON (1970)

Jon W. — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:01:45 +0000

A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter who helps her to evade the marauding Indians during her attempt to reach Sante Fe. During the arduous journey they slowly develop an unlikely friendship and respect for each other despite Madron initially treating Sister Mary very badly as merely a sex object.

Director: Jerry Hopper.
Stars: Richard Boone, Leslie Caron, Gabi Amrani.

1971 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Music, Original Song (Riz Ortolani/Arthur Hamilton).
1971 Golden Globes – Nominated for Best Original Song – Motion Picture (Riz Ortolani/Arthur Hamilton).

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HA-MAKAH HASHMONIM V’ECHAD (1974)

Jon W. — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 09:48:20 +0000

An historical document made up of footage and stills shot by the Nazis. A compilation of testimony from witnesses who appeared at the Eichmann trial provides a telling narrative. The film’s title refers to the story of a Jewish boy in one of the ghettos, who was struck with 80 blows. He survived and immigrated to Israel, where he found that no one believed his story – which for him was the 81st blow!

Directors: David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich, Haim Gouri. AKA The 81st Blow

1975 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary, Features.
1975 Chicago International Film Festival – Nominated for the Gold Hugo.