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EST 1917

Israeli films

The dark coming-of-age feature film Princess follows a 12-year-old Israeli girl, Adar (Shira Haas), who is failing out of school and emotionally distant. Her overworked mother, Alma (Keren Mor), holds down double shifts as a nurse while supporting her boyfriend Michael (Ori Pfeffer), who stays home all day, painting watercolors and getting into tickling matches […]

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Bleakly funny, poignant, and timely, Zero Motivation is Israel’s answer to beloved war send-ups like M*A*S*H and Stripes. Though where those productions deflect reality in favor of slapstick, Zero Motivation address the grittiness head-on, but never in sacrifice of good humor. Director/Writer Talya Lavie’s first feature length film, Zero Motivation has been an immediate sensation. Since its Israeli […]

Shirtless men on bicycles, male bonding, gender relations, and social unrest. In Policeman, Israeli director Nadav Lapid’s newest film, opening in select theaters on June 13, a band of special operations unit policemen, led by the patriotic and driven Yaron, contend with their own fallibility and the rupturing of Israeli society. In the opening scene, five […]

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