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Sexual Abuse, Incest, and Imagination in This Dark Israeli Film

“Our imaginations can sometimes change our reality,” writes Israeli writer/director Tali Shalom Ezer about her award-winning film Princess. But only sometimes. Ezer’s main character, 12-year-old Adar (played hauntingly by Shira Haas) is surrounded by dangerous adults. In the opening moments of the film, Adar is in bed with her mother and her mother’s boyfriend, their […]

Being Dead Hasn't Stopped Rabin From Narrating His New Biopic

Yitzhak Rabin Narrates His New Biopic From The Grave

“I think you could say I’m an introverted person. I don’t know if I’m friendly or unfriendly.” These words, spoken by an uncharacteristically confessional Yitzhak Rabin, mark the start of Israeli Director Erez Laufer’s 2015 documentary Rabin in His Own Words, released on the 20th anniversary of the prime minister’s murder. The film is […]

Love, Marriage, and Toilet Paper: Israel’s “Wedding Doll”

The film Wedding Doll is set in an isolated town in Israel’s Negev Desert. Hagit (Moran Rosenblatt) is a peppy young woman with a mild mental disability who works at a local toilet paper factory. An aspiring fashion designer, she spends her evenings making sketches and crafting tiny dolls with wedding dresses made of toilet […]