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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 72 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
The son of a respected elder in a cloistered Hasidic enclave unwittingly runs afoul of his father's strict religious doctrine when childhood life prompts questions outside the confines of tradition. A family holiday at the seashore brings the ideological rift to a dramatically tragic climax.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 109 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Annemarie Jacir's politically charged feature debut is the story of Soraya, a Brooklyn-born woman who travels to Palestine to retrieve her grandfather's savings, frozen in a Jaffa bank account after his 1948 exile. Her status as a dispossessed exile and encounter with contemporary politics provides a rare glimpse in to the Middle East of today.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 117 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A New York-based Jewish real estate tycoon is suddenly accused of being a Nazi war criminal. At his trial in Israel, he adopts a shocking defense which raises more questions than it answers. Based on Robert Shaw's book and play.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this thrilling drama, a homophobic Israeli intelligence agent grappling with the recent suicide of his wife is assigned to befriend the granddaughter and gay grandson of a Nazi war criminal. Director Eytan Fox (Yossi & Jagger) delicately conveys the complex traumas haunting both modern Israel and the individual psyches of his characters. In this way, WALK ON WATER illuminates the ways the personal and the political always intersect.. Winner, Top...
5) Aliyah
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Alex, 27, lives in a working-class Paris neighborhood and sells drugs for a living, continuously paying off the debts of his brother Isaac (played by French auteur Cedric Kahn), who’s becoming a real burden. When his cousin, who has just returned from completing his military service in Israel, tells him he’s opening a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Alex thinks that joining him might be the life-changing opportunity he was waiting for. But in order to...
6) Ushpizin
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming and light hearted look at the daily lives of ultra-Orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel. The story of a family facing hardships who must rely on their faith for miracles to happen during the holiday season.
8) Miral
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After she rescues dozens of children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, Palestinian Hind Husseini establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children left homeless by violence. But the success of her peace-through-education institution is tested when pupil Miral gets a taste of radical politics in the region's refugee camps.
10) The band's visit
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event. Once there, they find the expected delegation is not there to meet them. Arrangements to get to their destination of Petah Tiqva have not been taken care of either. They find their own ride and arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning's bus, the band, lead by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharaya, gets help from the worldly...
Publisher
United King Ltd
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
A tiny Israeli village in the Negev Desert is home to people from both Morocco and India. They have poverty in common and little else. Two families will be brought together by the unlikely friendship of daughters. There is the sultry Moroccan, Nicole, and the thoughtful Indian, Sara. The women's youth and lust for freedom overcome cultural prejudices. For this community and these two friends, the road to harmony is full of twists and turns.
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Romi Meir, an American businessman, travels to Israel for the funeral of his father. While there, he is persuaded to do a brief reconnaissance for the Israeli Secret Service inside the city of Ramallah. However, the assignment goes awry and Romi finds himself trapped behind enemy lines with a mysterious, beautiful Palestinian woman, Joleh Khalid. Caught in the crossfire between opposing sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict, he is forced to re-examine...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
Based on the international best seller by Amos Oz, the story of his youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories told, become the stories lived.
Series
Publisher
Big Idea
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (29 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
In the hilarious retelling of the Bible story of David and Goliath, Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber teach kids that it makes no difference whether you're nine feet tall or two feet tall.
15) The debt
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr. 54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel and Stephan about their former colleague David. All three have been venerated for decades by Israel because of the secret mission that they embarked on for their country back in 1965-1966, when the trio tracked down Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel, the feared Surgeon of Birkenau, in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
An Israeli mother wrestles with her own grief and that of her four children while working two jobs to keep their family together, after the death of her husband.
17) Hello goodbye
Publisher
Liberation Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Alain is a successful doctor in his mid-fifties who has been married to Gisele most of his adult life. Looking for a change and eager to embrace their Jewish heritage, they decide to pull up stakes and move from Paris to Tel Aviv.
18) Golden voices
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
When the Soviet Union collapses, a Russian Jewish couple, who made their careers as dubbing artists, decide to emigrate to Israel, where they struggle to find employment and attempt to use their talents in unconventional ways.
Author
Publisher
Ghostlight
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 CD (42 mins., 29 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With a cast that includes Katrina Lenk and Emmy Award winner Tony Shalhoub, this musical has become one of the most acclaimed new Broadway productions of 2017. It includes music from three-time Tony Award nominee David Yazbeck.
"One of the most ravishing musicals you will ever be seduced by..."--New York Times.
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