focus on films from Israel

Alila

$26.95 | 123 minutes

Amos Gitai paints a vivid, gritty portrait of life in modern-day Israel with this multi-character study of intertwining lives in and around a Tel Aviv apartment complex. Ezra (Uri Klauzner) is a building contractor who sleeps in his van with his illegal Asian immigrant workers outside his ex-wife Mali's (Hanna Laslo) door while building&hellip…

Amos Gitai: Territories - Field Diary/Arena of Murder

$20.95 | 163 minutes

Part of Israeli director Amos Gitai's TERRITORIES series, this set of documentaries examines the territories occupied by the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as well as the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. While both moving, the first piece (FIELD DIARY) created so much controversy, it caused Gitai to be exiled from his own home for a period&hellip…

Amos Gitai: Territories - House/A House in Jerusalem

$20.95 | 140 minutes

Part of controversial Israeli director Amos Gitai's TERRITORIES series, this set of documentaries examines the lives of several people living in West Jerusalem at a building deserted by a Palestinian doctor during 1948. A HOUSE IN JERUSALEM visits the same structure and neighboring community 18 years later&hellip…

Amos Gitai: Territories - Wadi 1981-1991/Wadi Grand Canyon 2001

$20.95 | 183 minutes

Part of controversial Israeli director Amos Gitai's TERRITORIES series, this set of documentaries examines the relationships and tensions between several Palestinians and Israelis over a 20-year period in Wadi Rushmia&hellip…

Amos Gitai: Territories 3 Pack

$59.95 | 411 minutes

Acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai presents TERRITORIES, a set of six documentaries. This 3-pack contains all three releases in the series. FIELD DAY/ARENA OF MURDER: This set of documentaries examines the occupied territories during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as well as the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. While both moving&hellip…

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi

$21.95 | 94 minutes

A coming-of-age teen comedy, the Israeli BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI eschews scatological humor for a warm, melodramatic humanism. Shlomi is a young man who has become the linchpin of his dysfunctional family--he does the cooking, he cares for grandfather, he mediates between feuding parents. He spends so much time caring for others that&hellip…

Campfire

$17.95 | 96 minutes

Israeli Academy Award-winning director Joseph Cedar wrote and directed this intelligent, carefully crafted film. It follows Rachel (Michaela Eshet), a widowed middle-aged mother struggling to find her place in Israeli society in 1981, during the early days of the Israeli settlement movement&hellip…

Cup Final

$26.95 | 107 minutes

Cohen, a soldier in the Israeli army, is thrilled to have tickets to soccer's greatest event -- the World Cup Final -- but when Israel invades Lebanon, he's forced to stay on military duty in the desert. And if that's not bad enough, some Palestine Liberation Organization soldiers on their way back to Beirut take him prisoner. Then&hellip…

Devarim

$26.95 | 116 minutes

DEVARIM was the first film Amos Gitai made in Israel upon his return, after ten years of exile precipitated by his powerful documentary, FIELD DIARY (1983). Gitai was ready to take his filmmaking talent in a new direction. Always focused on the power of his images, he began using the talented Renato Berta as his Director of Photography&hellip…

Distortion

$26.95 | 103 minutes

This critically lauded film from Haim Bouzaglo follows a troubled Israeli playwright who tries to make sense of the world through his newest play, and when he becomes bogged down with writer's block, tries to find inspiration by having his girlfriend followed by a private investigator. Bouzaglo uses his fresh visual style and engaging&hellip…