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In Nepal, a venerable monk, Geshe Lama Konchog, dies and one of his disciples, a youthful monk named Tenzin Zopa, searches for his master's reincarnation. The film follows his search to the Tsum Valley where he finds a young boy of the right age who uncannily responds to Konchog's possessions. Is this the reincarnation of the master? After the boy passes several tests, Tenzin takes him to meet the Dalai Lama. Will the parents agree to let the boy go to the monastery, and, if so, how will the child respond? Central to the film is the relationship the child develops with Tenzin.

The shooting lasted on six tense days in June 1967, but the Six Day War has never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped through this region in the ensuing decades stems from those six fateful days. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was in 1967. "Six Days" chronicles the events of forty years ago with a fresh historical perspective. Beginning with the buildup for the war, and the political and military maneuvering of Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and Egyptian President Jame Adel Nasser, the film takes us through the six days of fighting, the war with Jordan, the occupation of the West Bank and the annexation of Jerusalem. Featuring stunning archival footage and first-hand accounts of the war from both the Israeli and Arab soldiers who fought it, "Six Days" explores how these events became the flash point in history that reshaped the regional political landscape, destroyed old systems and brought new forces to the surface. Rarely in modern times has so short and localized a conflict had such profound global consequences.

As a new conflict opposes Israel and Lebanon, Hajar, a young Palestinian student, returns to her native village in Galilee on the occasion of a wedding in the family. Just before the ceremony, she goes to see her father, patriarch Abu Majd, who has always encouraged her to learn and to discover the world. It is with confidence that she tells him about the man she loves, Matthew, an English art teacher at the university of Haifa. His negative reaction upsets her...

A look at how Israeli prisons have become the breeding ground for the next generation of Palestinian leaders as well as the birth place of future terrorist threats.

A journey from the harbor town of Jaffa to the Jaffa orange, a fruit through which the Israeli filmmaker examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This project reported on life as experienced by men, women and children in Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel): their lives and their survival on a daily basis. Under difficult living conditions and the threat of air attacks and bombings, people do keep on working, loving and dreaming-life in spite of everything. In order to document this will to live, short chronicles (two minutes each) were shot by both Israeli and Palestinian teams, day after day for two months. These short stories followed seven characters from Gaza and seven from Sderot.

A four episodes documentary series that unveils one of the most controversial topics in the history of the Israeli state. Rare archival materials and testimonials of former residents tell the stories of the 'Ma'abrot' (refugee absorption camps meant to provide accommodation for the large influx of Jewish refugees in Israel in the 1950s), and the institutional discrimination towards its inhabitants - Jewish immigrants from North Africa and Middle East.

"I learned something about my writing since my son, Uri, was killed - there's one way we're able to comprehend the slightest inkling of what exists beyond the impenetrable wall of death, the feeling of non-existence. And yet, to feel the vastness of what it means to be alive alongside it - through writing. That is what I search for in my writing, to exist in both places, for just a brief moment". David Grossman shares these honest, private and intimate insights on camera, and exposes the delicate and complex connection between his novels and his personal life. The film follows Grossman up close and takes the viewers on a personal journey into the soul and work of an exceptional human being.

For many years now, traveling to India has been a rite of passage in Israeli life. We hear so much about the Israelis in India that we sometimes forget there are actually Indians living there. Hummus Curry offers an intimate look into the lives of the local Indians living in a small village packed with Israeli tourists. Up in the Himalaya Mountains resides the village of Bhagsu, the rainiest place in all of India. During the hard winter the rain never stops & Bhagsu does not get a whiff of tourism. Kala Kumar (28), feeling bored, spends the slow monsoon days with his family, doing little within the fresh brick walls of his new guesthouse. In April the sun comes out for the first time and Bhagsu is awakened to life. Another season starts and the village is flooded with Israeli backpackers once again. Shoresh Singh (22) buzzes around the many Israelis filling his small shack, serving them the famous Israeli dish - 'Jachnon-Hamin'. Just like the average Israeli, he never stops complaining about his business, speaking in broken Hebrew, quoting lines taken from Israeli cult movies he's never seen. In one of the restaurants we meet Gopal Sharma (29), a charming waiter who gets along easily with the Israeli girls, especially with Shirley, with whom he's flirting at the restaurant's counter. Is there a chance for a love affair between the Hummus and the Curry or will Shirley lose her courage and leave just like the others? Will Shoresh win the battle against the local Jewish missionaries in the war of who will host the greatest Israeli New-Year's dinner? How does the presence of the new houseguests affect Kala & his family, especially the relationship between him and his newly wed wife - a relationship that slowly unfolds during the film? Hummus Curry contains no interviews and the presence of the camera goes unfelt. This viewing experience takes us through intimate, funny and moving scenes that surprise the viewers time and time again. Rain drops turn into tear drops and we are given a unique opportunity to see the Israeli culture, through the eyes of the Indians.

All her life Jane rebelled against the conventions of Georgian Patriarchal society. After years, just before becoming a mother, Jane returns with a camera to try understand her mother and her self, in relation to the men of the family.

Rochus Misch acted as Hitler's personal bodyguard and telephone operator. He witnessed the turbulent conclusion of the last Nazi drama: the typing of Hitler's last will and testament, the preparations for the collective suicide of the Goebbels family, the suicides of Hitler and Eva Braun and the removal of their bodies from the bunker and their cremation.

HaGashash HaHiver were an iconic Israeli comedy trio whose members were: Shaike Levi, Gavri Banai and Israel Poliakov, Produced by Avraham Deshe [Pashanel]. Yossi Banai, may he rest in peace, once said that there is nothing more Israeli than the HaGashash HaHiver. His younger brother, Gavri, was a member of the group, and Yossi himself wrote and directed some of the trio's greatest sketches. And yet, the equation of HaGashah = Israeliness, requires no protection. It seems that over the years it has become a convention, an axiom almost. In the new series we will examine, were the Gashash really the essence of Israeliness? Or did they serve an easy-to-digest dose of Israeliness in "as if" - to paraphrase one of their well-known sketches - such that all parties enjoyed believing that it was indeed real? Through multiple interviews, classic and newly discovered archival materials we try and decipher - if this is indeed a refined essence of Israeliness, what does it teach about Israeli society? And how do they stand the test of time today?

Through personal interviews, conversation with teenage boys, meeting with experts and considerable humor and self exposure, Edan Alterman sets out to examine how height affects men who are shorter than others. Are shorter men funnier? Does short stature created tall character? Why do girls only want to date tall guys? And who do the short guys go out with? The film follows two short- statured boys who still dream of getting tall, and short- statured adults who have learned to live with a world that at times teases them but generally just blocks their view. Short is a personal, moving and entertaining documentary that will add a couple of inches to the ego of short people. "Short is just the film I was missing as a teenager. As the shortest kid in the class, I felt lonely and an outsider. I could only have wished that someone would have made a documentary about shorter than average people (5 foot 5, in my case) and answer the thousands of questions that tormented and frustrated me, but perhaps also made me who I am..." (Alterman)

Documentary series about the history of Israeli cinema, featuring hundreds of interviews and a wealth of rare archival footage.

The story of the abduction and attempted rescue of the late soldier Nachshon Wachsman is documented step by step.

'I was brought up and destroyed in a hell called Nazism. I was educated and raised by the Holocaust.'(Ephraim Kishon)

A documentary about the work and personality of Meir Ariel, as never revealed. A film trying to crack the enigma called Meir Ariel and understand how the abundance of the creation that was caused by him expressed his stormy soul,

Filmmakers Naftaly Gliksberg, Arik Bernstein and Nurit Kedar reenact the night of the Itzhak Rabin murder in an attempt to gain insight into this findings.

A docu-reality series sponsored by the EU and deals with the life in Europe and its ties to Israel, in an amusing way, through trial and error and integration in local life. In this series two people - one from Israel and the other from a member country of the EU will exchange their lives. The basis of each exchange is the prospective jobs of the two participants. As each exchange takes place, particular attention will be paid to both the every-day routine of the participants and their prospective jobs. At the end of the exchange (which takes approximately a week), each participant will be faced with a "professional" challenge reflecting what they have learned. Trading places incorporates a young and entertaining format with varied ?content that appeals both to the Europeans viewers and the Israelis, since there is nothing more typically Israeli, than taking a trip to ?a foreign country and comparing the life "here" with the life "over there".

Five decades of documentary work in the Israeli public broadcasting Channel 1.