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On Leave

2009 Movie Drama

Yotam came back from the army. He met his dad. He met his mom. He took his girlfriend for a ride. Yotam came back home, but something went wrong on the way. Gripping drama where silence shouts louder than words.

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A group of young immigrants from Soviet Union live in a provincial Israeli town. In their new homeland the only person who follows them closely is the local policeman, family ties are wearing out day by day, and they do everything to mess their lives up, transforming their anxiety to get a new social standing in violence and robbery. Will they be able to build a soccer team and win the local championship? Will sport help them to recover self-esteem and prove to everyone that they are not doomed to live as criminals?

The Children of USSR

2007 Crime
Forced Testimony poster
FILM

The young, recently divorced mother Ronit lives only for her young son and a future with a new man. But then she witnesses the rape of her neighbor Betty and is supposed to identify the perpetrator. His brother, however, does everything in his power to prevent this and does not hesitate to threaten his little son. The terror really begins when Betty, who has been raped, kills herself and the perpetrator is released. Now Ronit has only one option left...to act herself.

Forced Testimony

1984 Thriller
Day After Day poster
FILM

In spite of blood ties to both Haifa's Jewish and Arab populations, Moshe leads a rootless existence. Grown weary of his impatient wife Didi and ambivalent about his needy young mistress Grisha, the only relationships Moshe doesn't complicate are with his devoted parents, Jewish Hanna and Arab Yussuf, and with Jules, Moshe's ne'er-do-well childhood friend. But when Jules' real estate developer brother moves to buy a prized piece of property from the Arab side of the family, Moshe's divided ancestry is put to the test.

Day After Day

1998 Comedy
Japan Japan poster
4.2 FILM

The film tells the story of Imri, who at 19 goes to live in Tel Aviv, but dreams of moving to Japan. Through his relationships and encounters and in diverse cinematic tools, we are introduced to the young person’s life. An exploration of living in the exotic city of Tel Aviv is presented through a hero who are themselves in the midst of exploring his own choice of an exotic place. A unique correlation is formed between the hero’s misconception of Japan and ours of them. The movie was constructed by both improvised and pre-scripted scenes, as required by the nature of each scene. (Taken from the Filmmaker's Website:

Japan Japan

2007 Drama

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The Color of Friendship poster
75% match FILM

Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.

The Color of Friendship

★ 6.7 2000 Drama

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