Jaffa

From Alicja Feitzinger author: Yedaya, Keren  Jaffa [videorecording] This is a compelling drama about a young Jewish woman, Mali Wolf. Her father owns an auto repair shop in the heart of Jaffa. Mali and Toufik, a Palestinian mechanic, have been in love for years and now she is pregnant. As they plan their future together, [...]

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Welcome

From Alicja Feitzinger titl: Welcome [videorecording] Welcome is a story about Bilal (Firat Ayverdi) and Simon (Vincent Lindon).  Bilal is a 17-year-old Kurdish refugee. He spent the last three months of his life traveling across Europe in an attempt to reunite with his girlfriend who recently emigrated to England. Simon (Vincent Lindon), a middle-aged swimming [...]

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The Inheritance

From Chris Garland The Inheritance A tense drama from Danish director Per Fly, The Inheritance is the story of a man transformed by power. Christoffer, heir to a vast industrial fortune, has given up the stressful family business for a peaceful life with his actress wife in Stockholm. When his father commits suicide, Christoffer must [...]

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Departures

from Chris Garland Departures, Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film 2008 ‘Departures’ is a deeply moving film about death, a subject we don’t like to confront,  but this film does it with grace, dignity, humility and beauty.  It is about saying goodbye to loved ones for the last time and thereby evoking [...]

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