Ran Tal

Forty-eight years have passed since The Sixteenth Sheep (HaKeves HaShisha Asar) first came into the world, a one-of-a-kind creation born from the extraordinary collaboration between Yehonatan Geffen, who wrote the lyrics, and Yoni Rechter, who composed the music. They were joined by Gidi Gov, Yehudit Ravitz, and David Broza. Over the years, the album became a landmark of Israeli culture, with its songs and melodies passed down as an emotional inheritance from parents to children and grandchildren. The Sixteenth Sheep: The Reunion follows the preparations for the historic reunion concert, which took place during the turbulent days we all experienced, the performance itself, and above all, the overwhelming emotion it inspires in audiences.

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Israel's most celebrated war photographer, Micha Bar-Am, unfolds his extraordinary archive of over half a million negatives. A life devoted to recording a conflict for the prestigious Magnum agency.

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Can a leader succeed in influencing the world? Or is he, as any other human being, only a nutshell tossed to the waves of history with no ability to affect it? Tolstoy pondered this question in War and Peace. Ehud Barak, controversial former prime minister and a decorated commander on the battlefield, contemplates it in this film. Twenty years after he was forced to resign from the premiership due to the failure of the 2000 Camp David summit, 78-year-old Barak observes his own history and the history of the State of Israel with disillusioned clarity, while trying to figure it all out - "What if?"

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The Museum is a film that observes, examines and ponders Israel's most important cultural institution, the Israel Museum. The film follows the visitors, observes the observers, listens to the speakers and descends to the storerooms, labs and conference rooms. The American museum director, the singing security guard, the Jerusalemite curator, the Haredi kashrut inspector, the Palestinian guide and the visitor who lost her vision are some of the characters that take part in a chain of activities which add up to the museum. For about 18 months director Ran Tal collected footage of the daily routine of the museum that seeks to both reflect and mold the Israeli legacy and culture.

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This poetic ensemble of personal stories converging over the course of a full year is a cinematic portrait of contemporary Israel: multifaceted, diverse, contradictory, complex. At Sakhne, one of the most popular parks in Israel, a varied collection of characters—recent immigrants, Zionist pioneers, Christians, Arabs and non-believers—coexist in an intricate microcosm of Israeli society. There are stories of camaraderie, loneliness, tolerance, intolerance, alienation and love. And each one, despite religion and politics, reminds us that we are, after all, one and the same. As summer turns to fall and winter, then spring, stories renew themselves with each new visitor that passes through the park gates.

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A documentary on how children are conforming to living in an Israeli kibbutz.

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After surviving a long illness which nearly put an end to his life, author Yoram Kaniuk wrote his book Between Life and Death. The film follows Yoram Kaniuk for six weeks as he tries to recover from the illness.

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These short television dramas brought young Hebrew writers together with a new generation of filmmakers. The prevailing topic is love between young urbanites.

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67 Ben Tzi Road” is the address of the only Institute of Pathology in Israel. 2,500 bodies arrive at the institute every year for investigation as to the cause of death. Needless to say, the bodies sent for autopsy did not die of natural causes.

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Skin Deep is a tragic comedy of a destined loser who will do anything to prove that the destiny is wrong. A story of a hopeless romantic who wants to surprise his love one with a tattoo on his left arm carrying her name, and ends up by surprising her with another lover. Now he has tow options: abandon his belief in an eternal love or find another girl with the same name.

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An intimate portrait of late director, George Obadiah, made when Tal was a student at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television Studies. In the film, the immensely popular Obadiah who was loved by audiences and loathed by critics, sits down with Tal for an on-camera conversation, just two years before his death. Elderly, poorly, and frustrated that he is no longer making films, Obadiah opens up about his love of filmmaking and the principles that have steered him throughout his professional career.

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A film crew steps into a film critic’s life, to watch the perpetual watcher, and turn him into a cinematic hero.

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Israel's most celebrated war photographer, Micha Bar-Am, unfolds his extraordinary archive of over half a million negatives. A life devoted to recording a conflict for the prestigious Magnum agency.

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The Museum is a film that observes, examines and ponders Israel's most important cultural institution, the Israel Museum. The film follows the visitors, observes the observers, listens to the speakers and descends to the storerooms, labs and conference rooms. The American museum director, the singing security guard, the Jerusalemite curator, the Haredi kashrut inspector, the Palestinian guide and the visitor who lost her vision are some of the characters that take part in a chain of activities which add up to the museum. For about 18 months director Ran Tal collected footage of the daily routine of the museum that seeks to both reflect and mold the Israeli legacy and culture.

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A documentary on how children are conforming to living in an Israeli kibbutz.

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These short television dramas brought young Hebrew writers together with a new generation of filmmakers. The prevailing topic is love between young urbanites.

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67 Ben Tzi Road” is the address of the only Institute of Pathology in Israel. 2,500 bodies arrive at the institute every year for investigation as to the cause of death. Needless to say, the bodies sent for autopsy did not die of natural causes.

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