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Love Affair(s)

Dir.: Emmanuel Mouret
| 122 minutes

Daphne, three months pregnant, finds herself alone in the countryside as she must host Maxime, her boyfriend François’s cousin. For four days, Daphne and Maxime get to know each other and share intimacies that bring them closer.

 

The Magic Mountain

Dir.: Eitan Efrat, Daniel Mann
| 68 minutes

The Magic Mountain connects three sites at the foot of the snowy Alps and the invisible powers that churn underground. Local residents and European tourists flock to the sites to expose geological layers that are believed to conceal a deep secret.

 

March ’19

Dir.: Nadav Aronowicz, Iris Ozer
| 30 minutes

Army recruitment day, a defining moment in Israeli-Jewish identity. Turning our gaze toward this controversial rite, we muse on life in a country that lives by the sword, while raising questions about the limits of parenthood.

 

Matryoshka

Dir.: Sveta Shelegovskaya
| 15 minutes
In an attempt to free herself from dark memories, escape her childhood traumas and begin a process of healing, Nina decides to film a video-art piece featuring her father. She never expected it to be this difficult.
 

Meadow

Dir.: Klil Kovesh
| 26 minutes

Yuli lives in a small village with her father and her special-needs older brother, Ariel. She runs a therapeutic farm created by her mother, but dreams of leaving home so that she realizes her full potential. 

 

Memory House

Dir.: João Paulo Miranda Maria
| 93 minutes

Cristovam, a black man from rural north Brazil, moves to a southern town, a strange sort of Austrian colony, to work in a milk factory. But xenophobia abounds all around and he feels isolated and alienated from the white world that surrounds him. 

 

Minyan

Dir.: Eric Steel
| 118 minutes

Eric Steel’s takes us to 1980s Brooklyn as it follows 17-year-old David, the son of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union. David embarks on a journey of self-discovery, discovers his sexuality, and tries to maneuver between his religious environment and the provocative districts of New York’s East Village.

 

Mission: Hebron

Dir.: Rona Segal
| 22 minutes

Mission: Hebron offers an unflinching guide to the most troubled city in the occupied West Bank.

 

Moffie

Dir.: Oliver Hermanus
| 103 minutes

In South Africa, 1981, a young conscript’s task to survive his military service is made all the more difficult when a connection is sparked between him and a fellow recruit. The fourth feature by Oliver Hermanus (The Endless River).

 

The Motive

Dir.: Tali Shemesh, Asaf Sudry
| 110 minutes

35 years after a 14-year-old boy shot his father, his mother, and his two sisters point-blank, directors Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry set out to understand what happened. They try to decipher the complex character of the murderer and comprehend the contrast between the pleasant and composed boy and the monstrous act he committed.

 

Onsite Screening

Muranow

Dir.: Chen Shelach
| 70 minutes

Beneath the Muranow neighborhood in Warsaw lay the ruins of houses once teeming with Jewish life and culture. While Muranow lives in the present, it seems that it's buried past is swarming beneath.

 

Onsite screening

My Rembrandt

Dir.: Oeke Hoogendijk
| 95 minutes

Dutch director Oeke Hoogendijk embarked on a journey to follow the incessant pursuit of Rembrandt, the Master of Intimacy, whose paintings continue to be the source of obsession among collectors, aristocrats, art scholars and museums till this day. 

 

Nadia, Butterfly

Dir.: Pascal Plante
| 107 minutes

Nadia decides that after the Olympic games in Tokyo, she will put her glorious swimming career behind her to escape the harsh life of sacrifices. After the very last competition, she is swept into nights of drinking, partying, and loss of control, in an attempt to deal with her emotional crisis. 

 

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Dir.: Eliza Hittman
| 101 minutes

A young girl from Pennsylvania wants to abort an unwanted pregnancy, but it is illegal in her state. She takes her cousin with her to New York City, the city of unlimited possibilities, to take care of the problem. 

 

The Pageant

Dir.: Eytan İpeker
| 83 minutes

Every year since 2011, a unique beauty contest has been taking place in Haifa. The contestants are female survivors of the Holocaust. Amid this spectacle sponsored by an Evangelical organization, the personal traumas of the survivors remain as deep as ever.

 

The Painted Bird

Dir.: Václav Marhoul
| 169 minutes

A magnificent and ambitious cinematic adaptation of the epic novel The Painted Bird, which revolves around "The Boy," whose name we do not know and whose words we do not hear, as he attempts to survive the impossible reality of Eastern Europe during World War II. 

 

Palm Springs

Dir.: Max Barbakow
| 90 minutes

Sarah and Niles meet at a wedding in Palm Springs. What develops between the two is supposed to remain in the past, but the next morning, Sarah discovers that she's stuck in a strange time warp. 

 

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Dir.: Armando Iannucci
| 116 minutes

The new film by Armando Iannucci (Stalin is Dead!) is a creative, whimsical, and unusual adaptation of Charles Dickens's famous novel. It’s a smartand colorful comedy that features wonderful performances by Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire), Tilda Swinton, and Hugh Laurie (House).

 

Power

Dir.: Haviv Kaptzon
| 14 minutes

A video essay dealing with the relationship between man and the natural world and focusing on the dual meaning of the word "POWER," both as an electrical energy and as a political and economic significance. 

 

Proxima

Dir.: Alice Winocour
| 107 minutes

Sarah is a French astronaut trying to navigate her ambitious career with raising her daughter. When Sarah is chosen to be the only woman on a year-long space expedition, and is sent to a demanding training camp, she will have to reexamine her relationships with her daughter, colleagues, and with herself.

 

Onsite Screening

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Dir.: Jasmila Žbanić
| 103 minutes

The new film by Jasmila Žbanić (Grbavica) takes us to Bosnia on July 11, 1995, at the height of the war. Aida works as an interpreter for the United Nations in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army occupies the area, she tries to do everything to save her husband and children.

 

Rascal

Dir.: Peter Dourountzis
| 96 minutes

The brilliant first feature by Peter Dourountzis centers on the deceptive and enigmatic character of Dje, a destitute vagrant arriving in Paris following a prison term. His encounter with a graffiti artist named Maya gives rise to unexpected emotions.

 

Onsite Screening

The Salt of Tears

Dir.: Philippe Garrel
| 100 minutes

Veteran French filmmaker Philippe Garrel’s new film follows a provincial youngster who travels up to Paris to sit an entrance exam for a "grande école". His path crosses that of a young woman and they strike up a short-lived relationship.