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Welcome to the 11th annual AICE Dear Friend, On behalf of the Palace group, it gives DEALER the compelling story of a Israeli Film Festival. It is with great pleasure that I welcome on the me enormous pleasure to present the Jewish woman attempting to recover Each year we bring you the best Israeli occasion of the 11th annual AICE Israeli 2014 AICE Israeli Film Festival. We are family paintings stolen by Nazis, and Cinema has to offer. Just when we Film Festival. proud and honoured to share the voices a truly hilarious black comedy from thought that Israeli films have reached of storytellers from around the world, Uruguay, MR. KAPLAN. These films and The importance of cultural exchange in a high level, the quality of this selection and the AICE Israeli Film Festival is others have been included to enrich the the development of strong bilateral ties is goes beyond anything we have screened no exception. diversity and scope of the programme. demonstrated clearly in the relationship between in the past. the State of and Australia. The Australia The growing strength of Israeli cinema I would also like to thank Albert Dadon As always Palace Cinemas, the leader in Israel Cultural Exchange plays a vital role in was evident in Cannes this year where AM, Founder and Executive Chairman presenting film festivals in Australia, and promoting our respective cultures and therefore several outstanding films were featured, of AICE, without whom the festival Antonio Zeccola have been deepening the friendship between our two including our Opening Night Selection would not be possible. Thank you pro-active in expanding this Festival to countries. Congratulations to AICE and the SELF MADE from Camera D’Or winner for your ongoing commitment to more locations. At AICE we are grateful festival organisers for facilitating such an Shira Geffen, the powerful and moving sharing Israeli cinema and culture for having such wonderful partners. artistic conversation. festival highlight NEXT TO HER, as with our audiences. well as the intriguing drama THE I would like to thank also all the Israeli films present a unique perspective of our Please enjoy the 11th edition of the KINDERGARTEN TEACHER. sponsors, without them there would nation, and provide a unique insight into our AICE Israeli Film Festival, the only be no Festival. vibrant national character and dynamic culture. I am also delighted that the festival’s national presentation of Israeli cinema, We are delighted to be able to share this with you. Please enjoy this 11th edition of selection expands this year to feature screening at Palace Cinemas across the Festival. Shalom, and enjoy the festival. a number of films from the Israeli and the country this August. Jewish diaspora, including Roberto ALBERT DADON AM H.E MR. SHMUEL BEN-SHMUEL ANTONIO ZECCOLA Faenza’s ANITA B. about a young Chairman Ambassador Auschwitz survivor learning to live Executive Chairman Australia Israel Cultural Exchange Embassy of Israel in Australia again; François Margolin’s THE ART Palace Cinemas OPENING NIGHT CLOSING NIGHT

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A charming and cerebral with renowned Jerusalem brings about a bizarre A captivating & emotional whose father is a Hamas Focusing on the complex film about the tribulations artist Michal (Sarah Adler, mix-up of their identities. story - Screen Daily leader, grows up angry relationship with his of women’s lives in Israel Restoration, Sweets) falling handler, The Green Prince is This modern and This gripping documentary and ready to fight Israel. - Hollywood Reporter out of a faulty IKEA-esque a gripping account of terror, sophisticated film offers from Nadav Schirman Arrested for smuggling bed and bumping her head, betrayal, and unthinkable Cannes Camera d’Or winner a beguiling vision that (The Champagne Spy, guns at the age of 17, he’s causing her to become choices, along with a Shira Geffen (Jellyfish) explores themes of identity 2007) depicts such an interrogated by the Shin confused. Michal files a friendship that defies returns to the screen with and politics, while always extraordinary story that Bet, Israel’s security service, complaint which quickly all boundaries this highly-acclaimed, remaining humanistic one is tempted to think and sent to prison. But intelligent and innovative leads to the dismissal of and playful. it is fiction. Two men, spy shocked by Hamas’ruthless black comedy that tells the Nadine (Samira Saraya), INFO 91 MIN ISRAEL 2014 and handler, whom history tactics in the prison and the story of two women – one the Arab woman charged INFO 99 MIN LANGUAGE HEBREW, ARABIC, insists must be adversaries, organization’s escalating GERMANY, ISRAEL, Israeli, the other Palestinian with packing the furniture FRENCH W ENG S/T forge an unexpected trust USA, UK 2014 - trapped within their screws. These two women campaign of suicide and friendship. LANGUAGE ENGLISH, HEBREW respective worlds until an are brought into contact DIRECTOR SHIRA GEFFEN bombings outside, Mosab W. ENG S/T unexplained mystical event when a soldier’s brief CAST SARAH ADLER, A Palestinian in Ramallah, astonishingly agrees to DIRECTOR NADAV SCHIRMAN occurs. The film opens meltdown at the border SAMIRA SARAYA Mosab Hassan Yousef, spy for Israel. OFFICIAL SELECTION 2013 A STRANGE COURSE OF EVENTS CANNES FILM FESTIVAL ME’AL HA’GIVA - DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT ANITA B.

Intelligent filmmaking Marriage, 2001), who lives in who believes so in the When Anita, a Jewish to say, everyone wants home is Italy. Acclaimed that owes its power, with his new partner, healing power of stones, girl of Hungarian origin, to forget the horrors of Italian director Roberto among others things, to Beti (Michaela Eshet). adds an endearing emerges alive from Auschwitz. Anita quickly Faenza collaborated with its seeming simplicity. Shimon and Saul haven’t lightness of touch. Auschwitz after the war, finds herself involved in Bruck on the screenplay - Ha’aretz for this moving film about spoken since the death of Not screening in BYRON she is taken in by her only an intense and passionate life, hope, love and the Forty-something Saul (Ori Saul’s mother several years surviving relative, her aunt affair and so begins her importance of memory. Pfeffer) is a melancholic earlier and the visit isn’t an Monika who lives with courageous search to learn INFO 98 MIN FRANCE, immediate success, though her husband Aron, their to live again. dreamer who works as a ISRAEL 2013 Shimon is certainly happy baby son Roby and Aron’s night-time receptionist LANGUAGE HEBREW Anita B is loosely based to see his son. INFO 88 MIN ITALY 2014 at a hospital in . W ENG S/T brother Eli in a small town on the autobiographical LANGAUGE ITALIAN W ENG S/T When the divorced Saul’s Nadjari (Avanim, Tehilim) DIRECTOR RAPHAËL near Prague. However, novel “Quanta stella c’è loneliness becomes too extracts excellent NADJARI Anita soon discovers that nel cielo” written by DIRECTOR ROBERTO FAENZA much to handle, he decides performances from Pfepper CAST ORI PFEFFER, memory is not a welcome Edith Bruck, born Edith CAST ANDREA OSVÁRT, to visit his father, Shimon and Moshonov, while MONI MOSHONOV, guest. No one wants to Steinschreiber, a holocaust ANTONIO CUPO, MICHAELA ESHET ELINE POWELL (Moni Moshonov, Late Eshet, playing a woman listen to what she has survivor whose adopted NOMINATED 2013 ISRAELI WINNER 2013 SERET FILM HORA 79 ACADEMY AWARDS - BEST FESTIVAL - AUDIENCE HORA SHIV’IM VEY TESHA KIDON ACTRESS & BEST SOUND. CHOICE BEST FILM AWARD.

Cohen’s amazing Now, some 33 years later, the fact that they are If you’d like some escapist police accused the Mossad directing talent and the the dancers reunite to older and their bodies fun, in Hebrew and French, and released security- zest of a group of mostly appear at the Karmiel might betray their minds then Kidon will fit the bill. camera footage showing unprofessional actors who and their memories? - Jerusalem Post Dance Festival for a one- supposed Israeli agents are folk-dancing enthusiasts INFO 89 MIN time show. We meet the make it worth seeing A breezy throwback to caught on tape in the FRANCE, ISRAEL dancers—some are workers, - Jerusalem Post caper comedies of the preparation and execution 2014 some are retired, several 1960s and ‘70s, Kidon has a LANGAUGE HEBREW, FRENCH, This is a delightful comedy of the murder, immediately are excited and many are star studded cast including RUSSIAN, ENGLISH that proves that the joy of INFO 92 MIN ISRAEL 2013 making headlines all over sceptical. As they come Israeli supermodel Bar & ARABIC W ENG S/T dance is ageless. Hora 79 LANGAUGE HEBREW W ENG S/T the world. But no one was together they are filled with Refaeli, a twisty plot and a DIRECTOR EMMANUEL was once the face of Israeli nostalgia as well as guilt DIRECTOR ELI COHEN sense of fun. as shocked as the Mossad NACCACHE folk dance but a traumatic and tension. CAST GILA ALMAGOR, itself and a race against CAST TOMER SISLEY, On January 19, 2010, event occurred causing the ELI COHEN, time to discover SASSON GABAI, legendary troupe to stop Will they be able to NATHAN DATTNER, Mahmoud al Mabhouh was REYMOND AMSALEM, whodunnit ensues. dancing and the members overcome the ghosts of YOSSI GRABER, found dead in his hotel HIPPOLYTE GIRARDOT TSAFI HIMONI BAR REFAELI go their separate ways. the past, the conflicts and room in Dubai. The local Not screening in BYRON LET’S ASSUME, FOR A MOMENT, THAT G*D EXISTS VEIM NANIACH LEREGA SHEELOHIM KAYAM MR KAPLAN

A brilliant life - this modest town. Through Not screening in SA, Álvaro Brechner’s second But now turning 76, he’s unmasking and kidnapping affirming documentary meeting several key figures QLD & BYRON feature is a hilarious, crowd- become grumpy and fed up the German and secretly - Toronto JFF of the neighbourhood, pleasing black comedy with his community and his taking him to Israel. Veteran Israeli filmmaker such as Meir, the grocery revolving around a Jewish family’s lack of interest in its Ram Loevy has been store owner and Eli, the retiree who is convinced own heritage. When a quiet, making films for 47 Iraqi barber, Loevy conveys that the shy, old German elderly German raises Mr. years. In this fly-on- that the whole is greater owner of a local seafront Kaplan’s suspicions of being than the sum of its parts. restaurant is in fact a a runaway Nazi, he ignores the-wall documentary INFO 95 MIN Life is more than a random former Nazi. his family’s concerns and he turns his camera on URUGUAY 2014 sequence of events and secretly recruits Contreras, Israeli’s ethnically diverse INFO 70 MIN Jacob Kaplan lives an LANGAUGE SPANISH sometimes the bigger a former police officer, to community of Ramat Gan ISRAEL 2013 ordinary life in Uruguay. W ENG S/T picture is unknown. help him investigate. offering a transcendent LANGAUGE HEBREW, Like many of his other DIRECTOR ÁLVARO BRECHNER ARABIC, RUSSIAN look at the everyday lives of This is a surprising portrait Jewish friends, Jacob fled Together, they will try to CAST HÉCTOR NOGUERA, W ENG S/T its residents as he reveals to that reminds us of the Europe for South America repeat the historic capture NÉSTOR GUZZINI, CAST RAM LOEVY ROLF BECKER us a rich tapestry of life in universality of community. during World War II. of Adolf Eichmann: by SUNDAY AUGUST 31 MY CINEMA APP GROUP BOOKINGS ADELAIDE PROGRAM 2.00PM NEXT TO HER Download the free Palace Cinema App for GROUPS (20 people or more) 4.00PM THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER iPhone or the My Cinema app for iPhone or $13.50 per ticket 6.30PM THE SECOND SON Android and secure your seats! Booking fees Adelaide enquiries and bookings: PALACE NOVA EASTEND CINEMAS 8.45PM ANITA B apply. 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A tense and truthful while trying to juggle a job Rita’s music succeeds member while in the Israeli character study filled and love-life. Living in a run- where diplomacy can’t – Army and rose to stardom with unexpected turns. down part of Haifa, Chelli getting Israel and Iran to quickly. Rita shows the - The Hollywood Reporter refuses for her sister to be agree - The Guardian power of music to celebrate in contact with anyone but Asaf Korman’s striking identity and cross cultural her, which reflects more An intimate portrait of and powerful feature is and political boundaries. In on Chelli’s co-dependency, Israel’s most successful simply unforgettable, with rather than Gabby’s . When contemporary diva, Iranian- proudly representing both mesmerizing performances INFO 90 MIN the demands of work weigh born superstar Rita Jahan Israeli and Persian culture, from both female leads ISRAEL 2014 heavier, and love presents Foruz, as she records and we follow this inspirational Dana Ivgy (Or, Broken LANGUAGE HEBREW itself in the form of a nerdy, performs her new collection woman as she takes Wings) and Liron W ENG S/T likeable substitute gym of classic Persian songs. her most personal and Ben-Shlush. DIRECTOR ASAF KORMAN teacher Zohar, Chelli is treasured songs all the way INFO 75 MIN ISRAEL 2013 Chelli (Ben-Shlush) is a forced to allow the outside CAST LIRON At the age of eight, in 1970, to the United Nations. LANGUAGE HEBREW, ENGLISH, pretty young security guard world into the bubble BEN-SHLUSH, Rita’s family emigrated to FARSI W ENG S/T who lives and cares for her they share which leads to DANA IVGY, Israel. She began singing Not screening in QLD YAAKOV DANIEL DIRECTOR AYAL GOLDBERG younger sister Gabby (Ivgy) startling consequences. professionally as a band & BYRON SWEETS NOMINATED 2013 ISRAELI THE ART DEALER SUKARYOT ACADEMY AWARDS - BEST FILM L’ANTIQUAIRE

…A seemingly innocent & by Klausner, controls the The new drama from of the Red Balloon childish title. It is anything Israeli candy market and renowned French director and Belle Epíne, gives but. - resents Salah. Klausner sees François Margolin (The another captivating this new initiative as a real INFO 132 MIN Flight of the Red Balloon) performance as a This is a controversial ISRAEL 2013 follows a Jewish woman desperate woman film hailed as part of threat, both on business LANGAUGE HEBREW, ARABIC, searching for the truth and Zionism itself. Under who embarks on a journey INFO 95 MIN Jerusalem’s “New Wave” ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, to recover family paintings in a past shrouded in FRANCE 2014 about Salah (Makram the guise of a business FRENCH, GERMAN that were stolen by Nazis. mystery. Completing Khoury, Lemon Tree, struggle the story reveals a W ENG S/T LANGUAGE FRENCH W this stellar French ENG S/T myriad of characters, moral DIRECTOR JOSEPH PITCHHADZE During her investigation, Munich), an Israeli-Arab cast are Louis-Do de she discovers some DIRECTOR FRANÇOIS entrepreneur, who hopes dilemmas and cultural CAST MAKRAM KHOURY, Lencquesaing (Father MARGOLIN differences – representing a SHMUEL VILOZNY, family secrets are best to sweeten the lives of the of My Children, 2009) complex multinational and MONI MOSHONOV, kept hidden. CAST ANNA SIGALEVITCH, children in the Arab sector EZRA KAFRI, and Michel Bouquet FRANÇOIS BERLÉAND, multifaceted Israel. by opening a new chain of SARAH ADLER, Anna Sigalevitch, who is (Renoir, 2012). LOUIS-DO DE candy stores. The Firm, an Not screening in SA, MENASHE NOY, best known for her work in LENCQUESAING, MICHAEL SARNE MICHEL BOUQUET Israeli corporation headed QLD & BYRON The Piano Teacher, Flight 2013 HAIFA FILM FESTIVAL- 2014 SAN FRANCISCO IFF– THE CEREMONY WINNER 2013 DOCAVIV FILM THE DUNE WINNER OF BEST FIRST NOMINATED BEST NEW HA’TEKES FESTIVAL - AUDIENCE AWARD LA DUNE FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR

At 80 years of age, Colonel A week before the [A] beautifully understated not ready for a child reluctantly accepts the call David Rokni prepares to ceremony, a disaster strikes drama. - Variety in his life. In France, to investigate. command the national unexpectedly. For the first established missing-persons An evenly-paced, elegant ceremony on Israel’s time Rokni has to cope investigator Ruben (Niels and engrossing mystery Independence Day. As he with an unfamiliar situation Arestrup) experiences a with a stellar international has done for the last 30 during during a ceremony set-back after tracking cast, this Israeli-French INFO 90 MIN FRANCE, years, he goes through an that transforms his life down disappeared famous co-production follows two ISRAEL 2013 arduous series of training, and reveals a side to the author Moreau (Mathieu central characters at cross- LANGUAGE FRENCH, HEBREW routine formation and foot unsentimental colonel one Almaric). Both men are roads in their lives. W ENG S/T drills for the traditional would never imagine. left uncertain how to move DIRECTOR YOSSI AVIRAM military parade. While INFO 85 MIN In a desert town in Israel, forward. When Hanoch Not screening in BYRON CAST NIELS ARESTRUP, ISRAEL 2013 fortysomething Hanoch some soldiers are put off is discovered on a beach LIOR ASHKENAZI, LANGUAGE HEBREW by the colonel’s unbending (Lior Ashkenazi, Footnote, in southern France, mute, GUY MARCHAND, W ENG S/T militarism, he finds an Walk On Water) has just without ID, holding only EMMA DE CAUNES, ally in an enthusiastic DIRECTOR AVI WEISSBLEI & discovered his partner an article about Moreau, MONI MOSHONOV, ELIRAN KNOLLER MATHIEU AMALRIC. young woman. is pregnant, but he is questions arise, and Ruben OFFICIAL SELECTION 2014 OFFICIAL SELECTION 2014 THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER CANNES FILM FESTIVAL THE SECOND SON JERUSALEM FILM FESTIVAL HA’GANENET CRITICS’ WEEK ARAVIM ROKDIM

A strange and provocative composing poetry. Nira confirms Lapid as a talent An intelligent, gentle Leaving his Arab home listen to, and not pronouncing film made with refreshing begins to write it down and to be reckoned with. movie that touches almost town of Tira to attend a Hebrew correctly. This story clarity - MUBI.com tries to persuade his family everyone - Ha’aretz prestigious Jewish boarding rings out in every scene with a to have it published, even compelling sense of human truth. Israeli writer-director Nadav school, Eyad (Tawfeek taking Yoav to readings and This deeply compassionate Lapid (Policeman) directs Barhom) faces a dilemma: pressing him to join a world depiction of the intricate his second feature, an can he be accepted in this that vastly exceeds his and complex relationship INFO 105 MIN ISRAEL, ambitious and aesthetically new environment without GERMANY, understanding. between Jews and Arabs in potent drama that is at sacrificing his sense of FRANCE 2014 INFO 119 MIN ISRAEL, the late 1980s is the much- once bizarre, beautiful Lapid demonstrates the self and culture? Though LANGUAGE ARABIC, HEBREW FRANCE 2014 anticipated new work from and deeply unsettling. A aesthetic prowess of a this opportunity suggests W ENG S/T LANGUAGE HEBREW W the multi-award winning teacher, Nira (Sarit Larry), first-class auteur, combining a positive future, Eyad DIRECTOR ERAN RIKLIS ENG S/T Eran Riklis (Lemon Tree, struggles among Israeli becomes convinced that a realistic approach with CAST TAWFEEK BARHOM, DIRECTOR NADAV LAPID her that her five-year- cinematic flights-of-fancy The Syrian Bride) based on Jews, feeling shame at YAEL ABECASSIS, old student Yoav (Avi that are often thrilling to CAST SARIT LARRY, Sayed Kashua’s bestselling simple things like not MICHAEL MOSHONOV, Shnaidman) is a child behold. There’s no question AVI SHNAIDMAN, novels Second Person knowing how to use ALI SULIMAN , LIOR RAZ prodigy with his talent for that this intriguing feature Singular and Dancing Arabs. silverware, what music to DANIELLE KITZIS THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

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[Samen Zoabi] deftly and entrepreneurship. They take their story to the sensitively brings to life create a solar energy Internet and inspire Yossi Aviram’s (The Dune) company with plans to others to work together… bring renewable energy humanistic screenplay Not screening in BYRON - Film Festival Traveler to communities in the . Shot in the West Bank and Support for their venture INFO 75 MIN USA, East Jerusalem and starring is difficult to gain: from ISRAEL, actors from both Israel and families who question them, 2013 the Palestinian Territories, to community members LANGUAGE ARABIC, HEBREW, this film follows the story who threaten them, and ENGLISH W of two businessmen - government policies that ENG S/T Shaul, an Israeli, and make collaboration nearly DIRECTOR SAMEH ZOABI Nizar, a Palestinian played impossible, Shaul and Nizar CAST ALI SULIMAN, by Ali Suliman (Lemon face many obstacles. They YOSSI MARSHAK, Tree, 2008), who seem recognize that their DIRAR SULIMAN, to have little in common company cannot succeed LEVANA FINKELSTEIN but for a shared spirit of without change, so they WINNER 2013 ISRAELI DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS FORUM - BEST MID-LENGTH FILM AWARD

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A wonderful display of the life getting ready for this + SHORT FILM WINNER 2013 DOCAVIV Israel and around the world. + SHORT FILM documentary director’s art. moment; he was raised to INTERNATIONAL FILM He makes every effort to WELCOME AND OUR FESTIVAL - LAUGH OUT Jerusalem Intl. Film Festival become a champion since protect Orit’s “honour”, but EVERYWHERE CONDOLENCES LOUD JURY AWARD the age of six. At its heart, this is not enough for her BUT HERE Filmmaker Halil Efrat turns Turning a documentary into the film is a tender story parents, who demand the a chess competition into WINNER OF THE BEST a comedy that makes us about family relationships, two either marry or break From around the world, a a moving and suspenseful INDEPENDENT SHORT laugh out loud again and as Boris’s father had to up. Their love is trapped group of thirty somethings spectacle where so much is AT TEL AVIV SIFF 2013 again - DocAviv live his own chess dreams between tradition and return to their homeland at stake in Album 61, which AMONG NUMEROUS through his son under the OTHER AWARDS This documentary follows modernity. of Israel to attend a mutual chronicles a twenty-day Soviet regime. Ronen and Orit, both from friend’s wedding with World Chess Championship This multi award-winning respected Bukhari families, INFO 60 MIN dramas forcing them to re- through the eyes of one comedy is set in 1991 during ISRAEL 2013 INFO 70 MIN who after three years examine their relationships of its main competitors, the immigration wave from ISRAEL 2013 together, refuse to marry LANGUAGE HEBREW, and desires. Boris Gelfand, a Russian Russia to Israel and depicts ENGLISH, LANGUAGE HEBREW despite pressure from their immigrant now living one family’s hilarious BUKHARI W Not screening in BYRON W ENG S/T families. According to the in Israel. experience through a video ENG S/T DIRECTOR HALIL EFRAT strict Bukhari tradition recording when their aunt DIRECTOR DAVID OFEK & The World Chess couples must marry after a INFO 45 MIN, dies in-flight causing all NETA SHOSHANI ISRAEL 2013 Championship is a juicy All sessions of ALBUM 61 will brief acquaintance. Ronen is kinds of problems with LANGUAGE W ENG S/T battle, rife with passion, be preceded by the short the star of “Handa Handa” All sessions of HANDA entry paperwork! power and money and comedy WELCOME AND theatre troupe, a hit among HANDA 4 will be preceded DIRECTOR MICHAL ZILBERMAN Boris has spent his entire OUR CONDOLENCES. Not screening in BYRON the Bukhari community in by EVERYWHERE BUT HERE. SHADOW IN BAGHDAD All screenings of SHADOW IN BETWEEN (TSEL BE’BAGHDAD) IN BAGHDAD will be preceded by the short A great, quietly has remained steadfastly + SHORT FILM Baghdad casts a giant shortly thereafter to an film THE VISIT. provocative film secular. The immediacy of shadow…a remarkable unknown fate. After Linda WHEREVER YOU GO - Jacob Burns Film Center Ofek’s style, and the social documentary experiences an unexpected + SHORT FILM and political implications - Jerusalem Post connection with a young Prolific director David of his films, looks and feels Iraqi journalist, the two THE VISIT Ofek (No.17, 2003), is back Zohara decides to travel Award-winning director like a kind of cinéma verite to her estranged sister’s ultimately uncover not only with a fascinating and reminiscent of dissident Duki Dror (Raging Dove, the shocking fate of Linda’s wedding, but on the way CANNES 2014 humorous film that bends Iranian filmmaker Jafar 2003) returns with this father but that of the OFFICIAL SELECTION becomes an accomplice in the boundaries between Panahi. Religious faith aside, hard-hitting, moving once thriving Iraqi Jewish CINÉFONDATION documentary and fiction. a young Bedouin woman’s documentary which In Between explores how we community whose 2,000 When Hagar visits her father desperate escape from an follows a missing father, Amit and Dana are a reconcile relationships as we year-old history came to an in a Jerusalem nursing home a arranged marriage. a lost community and married couple with two age and mature… and live. abrupt end. An important series of mishaps forces her to the journey to trace their young children. They are, story of tragedy redemption spend the day in the building disappearance across however, a couple with and, ultimately, hope. masquerading as a caretaker. INFO 55 MIN ISRAEL 2013 the contours of a shifting a difference. Some three Middle East. Not screening in ACT years ago, he discovered DIRECTOR DAVID OFEK & INFO 70 MIN ISRAEL, NETA SHOSHANI FRANCE 2013 & BYRON Linda Abdul Aziz escaped religion and, in the space INFO 40 MIN, ISRAEL LANGUAGE ARABIC,, of six months, the formerly the upheaval of Iraq in the INFO 27 MIN, ISRAEL LANGUAGE W ENG S/T. HEBREW W fearless, carefree Amit has early 1970s to Israel. Her All sessions of IN BETWEEN ENG S/T LANGUAGE W ENG S/T DIRECTOR RONY SASSON become Ultra-Orthodox. will be preceded by the short father who remained in ANGEL DIRECTOR DUKI DROR DIRECTOR INBAR HORESH Dana, on the other hand, drama WHEREVER YOU GO Baghdad, went missing AICE & FRIENDS PREVIEW SCREENINGS

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