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Rei Davi (2012)

Actors: Paulo Figueiredo (actor), Gracindo Júnior (actor), Ângela Leal (actress), Clemente Viscaíno (actor), Felipe Kannenberg (actor), Marly Bueno (actress), Thelmo Fernandes (actor), Maria Ribeiro (actress), Raymundo de Souza (actor), Isaac Bardavid (actor), Roney Villela (actor), Oberdan Júnior (actor), Leonardo Brício (actor), Eduardo Semerjian (actor), Thierry Figueira (actor),

Genres: Action,

L.L. (2010)

Actors: Amos Kollek (director), Amos Kollek (producer), Amos Kollek (writer), Sebastian Roché (actor), Paul Lazar (actor), Tibor Feldman (actor), Tanja Meding (producer), Meital Dohan (actress), Alison Gordy (actress), Bernadette Quigley (actress), Marc Bonan (actor), Osnat Shalev (producer), James Vidos (actor), Tom Rahav (actor), Sabina Sciubba (actress),

Plot: LL, a young Princeton graduate living in NYC, is in a deep identity crisis. She just lost the woman who raised her, but does not really know who either of her parents were. She receives a call from JJ, a mysterious man who claims to be her father.

Keywords: acronym-in-title, character-name-in-title, identity-crisis, new-york, period-in-title
Genres: Drama,

L.L. (2007)

Actors: Amos Kollek (director), Amos Kollek (producer), Amos Kollek (writer), Sebastian Roché (actor), Paul Lazar (actor), Tibor Feldman (actor), Tanja Meding (producer), Meital Dohan (actress), Alison Gordy (actress), Bernadette Quigley (actress), Mark Santora (producer), Marc Bonan (actor), James Vidos (actor), Osnat Shalev (producer), Tom Rahav (actor),

Plot: LL a film by Amos Kollek LL, a young Princeton graduate living in NYC, is in a deep identity crisis. She just lost the woman who raised her, but does not really know who either of her parents were. She receives a call from JJ, a mysterious man who claims to be her father. He lives in a shabby transients hotel. LL has no idea whether JJ is really her father or not, but is very intrigued by him. So she keeps coming back to the hotel, trying to understand the puzzle of this man and her possible relationship to him.

Keywords: acronym-in-title, character-name-in-title, entire-title-is-capitalized-acronym
Genres: Drama,

Va, vis et deviens (2005)

Actors: Armand Amar (composer), Marek Rozenbaum (actor), Giovanni Stabilini (producer), Marco Chimenz (producer), Ludo Troch (editor), Olivia Bruynoghe (miscellaneous crew), Marek Rozenbaum (producer), Roschdy Zem (actor), Genevieve Lemal (producer), Bill Clinton (actor), Yoram Globus (producer), Riccardo Tozzi (producer), Patrick Descamps (actor), Joshua Berman (miscellaneous crew), Denis Carot (producer),

Plot: In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews. In turn they are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy. Upon arrival this second mother dies. Schlomo is adopted by a good family but remains depressed until he secretly sends a letter to his real mother. From the beginning he experiences large and small racist difficulties. In his teens he and Sarah fall in love. Her father is an extreme racist. Schlomo tries to gain "real Jewishness" by winning a competition in Bible interpretation. No change of Sarah's father's attitude. Disappointed he goes to the police and reports himself as not being a Jew. But the police officer just gives him a scolding. "The newspapers are full of that stuff, the Falashas are no Jews. Now they begin to believe it themselves." His adoptive parents send him to France to study medicine. When he afterwards marries Sarah she loses her family and her status as a "white Jew". But he dares not tell her the truth until she becomes pregnant. She leaves him, but only because he had not trusted that she would love him as much anyway. His adoptive mother reconciles them. Sarah's first line when she returns: "Unbelievable what three mothers would do for you." But she makes a condition for returning: Schlomo must meet his real mother again. As a doctor he takes a job in the Ethiopian fugitive camp where she is still alive.

Keywords: 1980s, 1990s, adoption, airplane, airport, arab-israeli-conflict, archive-footage, army, assumed-identity, bare-feet
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Narrateur: They had been forgotten on their mountaintops, near Gondar. Yet, since the dawn of time, the Ethiopian Jews, known as the "Falashas", dreamed of returning to their homeland, the Holy Land, Jerusalem. With Israeli and U.S. Aid, a vast program was undertaken from November to January 1985 to transport the Ethiopian Jews to Israel. The Falashas were returned and finally recognized as descendants of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The Israeli secret service carried out the operation on the sly, keeping it from the Mengitsu pro-Soviet regime who had prohibited their emigration. The Falashas walked from Ethiopia to Sudan, a Muslim country under Charia law. There, they had to hide their Jewish identity under pain of death In Sudan, planes awaited to take them to Israel. On the road, hundreds died of sickness, famine, exhaustion. Others were killed by bandits. In the 1980s, the Sudanese camps welcomed thousands of Africans from 26 countries who were prey to famine: Christians, Muslims, and clandestine Jews. The first secret airlift operation, known as "Operation Moses", saved 8,000 Ethiopian Jews. 4,000 died on the road between Ethiopia and Sudan, murdered, tortured or suffering from famine, thirst and exhaustion. Many children reached the Holy Land alone or as orphans.

Schlomo adolescent: Should we give back land we consider our own. We were deprived of it in our wanderings and had no other to call our own. And now we finally have it back and we love it...::Papy: This tree provides shade. We planted it 50 years ago. But the tree over there; it was there before we got here. I think we should share the land, like the sun and the shade, so that others can know love too.::Schlomo adolescent: Even if we risk being pushed to the sea and dying?::Papy: Love dosen't come without risks. And it's difficult to decide how others should love

Laila Lelo Lola (2001)

Actors: Ayelet Zurer (actress), Dror Keren (actor), Arik Leibovitch (editor), Shmuel Edelman (actor), Smadar Kilchinsky (actress), Rivka Neuman (actress), Amnon Wolf (actor), Dana Eden (producer), Shay Kanot (writer), Shay Kanot (director), Omer Tadmor (actor), Shosha Goren (actress), Omer Tadmor (writer), Ayelet Imberman (producer), Hili Yalon (actress),

Genres: Drama,