Johnathan Gurfinkel

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Sagit, a cynical 33-year-old security screener at Ben Gurion Airport, still lives with her father, with whom she shares a complicated and deeply codependent relationship. When he leaves to perform with a famous band, Sagit is forced to face life on her own for the first time. As she slowly ventures beyond her comfort zone, she unexpectedly finds romance, reconnects with her estranged mother, and discovers the courage to pursue her dream of becoming a writer.

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A mother-daughter vacation abroad takes a devastating turn when Gali is arrested for drug possession. Refusing to accept the charges, her mother Orna risks everything on a quest for freedom—only to get entangled in a web of Gali's secrets.

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Gili is a teenager who decides to change schools. She is determined to improve her lame social status. Over the course of a few weeks she hooks up with several different boys, all from her new school. Their encounters get more and more sexual, each time exploring their limits a little further. The boys are eager to take what is so generously offered, and Gili is thrilled with the attention. Just as Gili is trapped in the zone where it's not certain if she is giving her consent to what is happening or not, the viewer too feels trapped in the same zone, feeling for certain that something terrible is happening, but unable to pin point exactly when, and what...

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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.

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Sagit, a cynical 33-year-old security screener at Ben Gurion Airport, still lives with her father, with whom she shares a complicated and deeply codependent relationship. When he leaves to perform with a famous band, Sagit is forced to face life on her own for the first time. As she slowly ventures beyond her comfort zone, she unexpectedly finds romance, reconnects with her estranged mother, and discovers the courage to pursue her dream of becoming a writer.

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