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Bederech el ha-hatulim (2009)

Actors: Vladimir Friedman (actor), Amir Harel (producer), Moni Moshonov (actor), Yosef Grunfeld (editor), Ya'ackov Bodo (actor), Rita Zohar (actress), Li Alembik (costume designer), Ayelet Kait (producer), Shredi Jabarin (actor), Jorge Gurvich (director), Jorge Gurvich (producer), Mickey Leon (actor), Tikva Dayan (actress), Elie Meirovitz (producer), Idit Teperson (actress),

Loving Leah (2009)

Actors: Mercedes Ruehl (actress), Jeff Beal (composer), Ricki Lake (producer), Jeff Bleckner (director), Harris Yulin (actor), Brent Shields (producer), Ricki Lake (actress), Natasha Lyonne (actress), Geoffrey Rowland (editor), Susie Essman (actress), Cameron Johann (producer), Nathan Gendzier (miscellaneous crew), Elli (actor), David Vogel (miscellaneous crew), Julie Solomon (miscellaneous crew),

Ein La Elohim (2007)

Actors: Marek Rozenbaum (producer), Eyal Rozales (actor), Anat Lubarsky (editor), Natan Elkanovich (costume designer), Meir Suissa (actor), Jacob Goldwasser (director), Doron Suliman (miscellaneous crew), Yael Poliakov (actress), Evelyn Kaplun (actress), Haim Marin (writer), Raymonde Abecassis (actress), Yuval Segal (actor), Zohar Laskov (writer), Zohar Laskov (producer), Moshe Folkenflick (actor),

Meduzot (2007)

Actors: Assi Dayan (actor), Grégoire Hetzel (composer), François Gédigier (editor), Laetitia Gonzalez (producer), Tzahi Grad (actor), Yael Fogiel (producer), Etgar Keret (director), Etgar Keret (actor), Amir Harel (producer), Amir Harel (actor), Dror Keren (actor), Sarah Adler (actress), Li Alembik (costume designer), Ayelet Kait (producer), Sascha Franklin (editor),

Plot: Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn't speak any Hebrew (she communicates mainly in English), and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.

Ha-Burganim (2000)

Actors: Menashe Noy (actor), Arik Bernstein (producer), Keren Mor (actress), Ami Amir (producer), Shai Avivi (actor), Boaz Leon (editor), Grace Benoish (miscellaneous crew), Hani Furstenberg (actress), Assi Levy (actress), Sarit Vino-Elad (actress), Eitan Tzur (director), Eitan Tzur (writer), Shalom Shmuelov (actor), Efrat Ben-Zur (actress), Udi Segal (producer),

Plot: Israeli comedy-drama TV series about a group of upper middle-class friends who have most everything they desire as far as apartments, jobs, and relationships are concerned, but who still can't manage to become satisfied with their lives.

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Kinu'ach (2000)

Actors: Yehuda Efroni (actor), Ruth Farhi (actress), Ofer Zingerman (editor), Amit Sakomski (writer), Amit Sakomski (director), Yair Nesher (actress),

Kadosh (1999)

Actors: Amos Gitai (director), Amos Gitai (actor), Amos Gitai (writer), Amos Gitai (producer), Monica Coleman (editor), Roberto Cicutto (producer), Philippe Eidel (composer), Rivka Michaeli (actress), Yaël Abecassis (actress), Michel Propper (producer), Uri Klauzner (actor), Yussuf Abu-Warda (actor), Louis Sclavis (composer), Laura Dinolesko (costume designer), Laurent Thiry (producer),

Plot: The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain childless. The yeshiva's rabbi, who is Meir's father, wants Meir to divorce Rivka: "a barren woman is no woman." Rivka's sister, Malka, is in love with Yakov, a Jew shunned by the yeshiva as too secular. The rabbi arranges Malka's marriage to Yossef, whose agitation when fulfilling religious duties approaches the grotesque. Can the sisters sort out their hearts' desires within this patriarchal world? If not, have they any other options?

Hamsin (1982)

Actors: Itai Tamir (miscellaneous crew), Salim Dau (actor), Shlomo Tarshish (actor), Meir Suissa (actor), Daniel Wachsmann (writer), Daniel Wachsmann (director), Moshe Ish-Kassit (actor), Shmuel Shiloh (actor), Dan Verete (writer), Ruth Geller (actress), Levi Zini (editor), Raviv Gazit (composer), Ya'ackov Lifshin (writer), Yossi Keinan (actor), Ya'ackov Lifshin (producer),

Plot: Named after the hot desert wind that periodically blows through the Middle East sending temperatures and tempers soaring to potentially explosive heights. Set in an old farming village in the Galilee, the story revolves around inherited land ownership of Israelis and Arabs, of disappointed dreams, political tensions, and torn emotions as the clash between love and nationalism spiral to a tragic end.

La Polonaise (1971)

Actors: Fernand Guiot (actor), Alain Bouvette (actor), Jean Davy (actor), Benoît Allemane (actor), Hans Verner (actor), Clément Michu (actor), Fred Ulysse (actor), Bernard Rousselet (actor), Henri Spade (director), Henri Spade (writer), Bernard Garnier (actor), Simone Rieutor (actress), Fred Fisher (actor), Loumi Iacobesco (actress), Jean-Claude Monteil (actor),

Where Is My Child? (1937)

Actors: Henry Lynn (director), Henry Lynn (writer), George Roland (editor), Morris Strassberg (actor), Ruben Wendorf (actor), Celia Adler (actress), Abraham Leff (director), Abraham Leff (producer), William Siegal (writer), Sam Steinberg (writer), Esther Gerber (actress), Morris Silberkasten (actor), Solomon Steinberg (actor), Mischa Stutchkof (actor), Ceril Arnon (actress),

Plot: Celia Adler, doyenne of the Yiddish stage, gives a haunting performance as the film's heroine who arrives in New York in 1911 at the height of mass Jewish immigration newly widowed, friendless, impoverished and the mother of a newborn baby boy. Fearing that she cannot care for the child, she places him in an orphanage. She quickly regrets her decision, but it is too late as she finds herself tricked into the decision. Obsessed with the thought of reunion with him, she spends the next twenty-five years searching, pining, and bewailing her loss. The film is filled with the conventions of the popular Yiddish stage: the melodramatic plot centering on the rupture and restoration of family ties; the comic subplot; the songs; the stereotyped characters; the happy coincidences and happier endings. Above all, it was the theme of the pains and joys of the mother-son relationship, always idealized in the Jewish folk mind, which could be counted on to strike a responsive chord. All this was bound to be familiar to the film's first audiences.