Drama
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Slaves of the Lord
(Fic., 50 min., DVD/BETA, 2002)Written & Directed by: Hadar Friedlich
Produced by: Mosh Danon, Eylon Ratzkovsky - JCS
Series Creators: Renen Schorr, Orit Azoulay
Series Originators: Chaim Sharir, Renen Schorr
Convinced that she is impure, an Orthodox teenager grows increasingly depressed. She dives head-first into obsessive compulsion attempting to silence the unfettered whispering of an inner voice. A story that provokes distress about a victim of religion who eventually finds a way out.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90 -
Poker Face
(Fic., 52 min., DVD/BETA, 2001)Written & Directed by: Eitan Anner
Produced by: Reshet & Donna Productions
Series Creators: Renen Schorr, Orit Azoulay
Series Originators: Chaim Sharir, Renen Schorr
Every Friday night for the past 16 years Anna and Alex have played poker with three other couples. But Alex is experiencing memory even though he is not yet 60 and the others do not want to deal him in. So Anna must put on a poker face and forge on.
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Mother V
(Fic., 52 min., DVD/BETA, 2001)Written by: Avida Livny, Shahar Rozen
Directed by: Shahar Rozen
Produced by: Reshet & Donna Productions
Series Creators: Renen Schorr, Orit Azoulay
Series Originators: Chaim Sharir, Renen Schorr
A religious woman in her 60s leaves her small town –despite family opposition, to visit her son who is in solitary confinement charged with revealing state secrets. Along the way she meets up with young Bedouin who helps her learn the truth about her son, about herself, and to achieve independence for the first time in her life.
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Halfway
(Fic., 40 min., color, DVD/BETA, 2005)Written & Directed by: Issac Yatskan
Produced by: Zuf Productions, Jerusalem
In a halfway house for former convicts, Benny quickly becomes Shaul’s role-model. When Benny takes a wrong turn to drugs, Shaul uses humiliation to control Benny. A drama therapist draws them into their past in order to discover the roots of their crisis.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90 -
Mortgage
(Fic. 52 min., DVD/BETA, 2006, Color)Written & Directed by: Sharon Maymon & Tal Granit
Produced by: Globus Group
Sponsored by: Makor Foundation for Israeli Films
A very contemporary parable about the realities of modern life. A darkly funny film about love and survival in the face of the current economic predicament.
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A Touch Away
(8 X 38 min. DVD/BETA, Color – An Award Winning Drama Series, 2007)Creators of the Series: Zafrir Kochanovsky, Ronit Weis-Berkowitz, Ron Ninio
Directed by: Ron Ninio
Produced by: Zafrir Kochanovsky & Miri Ezra – T.T.V Productions
Sponsored by: Reshet/Israel’s 2nd Channel & Tsav Piyus
Language: Hebrew, Russian with English and French Subtitles
An engaging series that focuses on two families whose lives fatefully intersect in an apartment complex in an Orthodox suburb of Tel Aviv. The Bermans are a strictly religious (Haredi) family - but sparks fly when a newly arrived, secular family from Russia take over a neighboring apartment.DVD - For Home Use Only :$99.00 -
A dramatic metaphoric interpretation of the history of the state of Israel. Set in the desert during the 1948 War of Independence, two very different types of Jews are tossed into the wilderness where their fates are forever tied together.
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