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"An aura of dreamy melancholy...pervades the entwined stories, which treat the bizarre and the banal as sides of the same coin" (The N.Y. Times).
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100 FIRST GAME SONGS VOL. 1
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The singers in this fun-filled program for kids incorporate movement and laughter with catchy songs about chewing gum, cuckoo clocks, numbers, and other topics. In Hebrew WITHOUT English subtitles. Israel, 2005.
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100 FIRST GAME SONGS VOL. 2
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The fun-filled follow-up to the first volume of Hebrew game songs, featuring catchy songs involving movement and laughter. In Hebrew WITHOUT English subtitles. Israel, 2005.
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17TH ( SEVENTEENTH ) BRIDE
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A strong-willed Jewish woman living in a Czech village during WWII marries a man that she despises to avoid being sent to a labor camp. Eventually, the stress of the loveless marriage and the war begin to erode the woman's mind. Stars Lisa Hartman. In Hebrew with English subtitles. Nadav Levitan---Israel---1984---92 mins.
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2 KUNI LEMEL
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Raphael Klatchkin plays a harried matchmaker in this delightful musical comedy from Israel. Try as he might, the matchmaker cannot find a suitor for the daughter of a wealthy neighbor. After learning of her obsession with a handsome young tutor, he sets the girl up with a convincing look-alike, creating comic complications for everyone. In Hebrew with English subtitles. Israel Becker---Israel---1966---120 mins.
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20 FINGERS
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First-time director Mania Akbari explores the heartbreak and joy of romantic relationships through the stories of seven couples searching for happiness. Comprising seven vignettes, the film features the same two actors in each episode, each time as different characters whose problems unfold in conversations, quarrels, and altercations. Some issues are universal--jealousy, adultery, abortion. Others reveal the personal hardships and political realities exclusive to modern-day Iran, and especially for women. Simultaneously wrenching and uplifting, private and universal, 20 Fingers reveals a director on the cutting edge of filmmaking in her country. Received the Cinema Digitale Award at the Venice International Film Mania Akbari---Iran---2004---72 mins.
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50 YEARS WAR: ISRAEL & ARABS
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The story of the Arab-Israel conflict is told from the perspectives of people on both sides of the war. This documentary series, two years in the making, features the thoughts of leading statesmen, military officials, terrorists, and others touched by this bitter, bloody division. The war is chronicled from the formation of Israel to the latest hopes for peace. 1999, 300 mins.
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9 STAR HOTEL
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The Israeli documentary Malon 9 Kochavim "possesses a brutal immediacy, unfolding like a Middle Eastern Grapes of Wrath" (Time Out NY). Filmmaker Ido Haar gained the trust of a group of young Palestinian men who illegally cross the border into Israel every night in search of construction work. Hiding from police and struggling to survive, they sleep in makeshift hovels ironically referred to as a Nine Star Hotel. The portrait that emerges is both painful but fascinating. A nominee for the Documentary Prix Arte at the European Film Awards, and an Official Selection at the Tribeca film festival. In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. Ido Haar---Israel---2006---78 mins.
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ABC AFRICA
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At the behest of the United Nations, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami traveled to Uganda to craft this profound and affecting documentary. Kiarostami's film tempers its sadness at the ravaging effects of AIDS, famine, and poverty, with a celebration of the courage and joy of his subjects. By acting as a participant in the events he captures, Kiarostami crafts a work "of seemingly limpid transparency and tremendous, understated compassion" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune). In English and Farsi with English Abbas Kiarostami---Iran---2001---83 mins.
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ABORTION, THE
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Horror from Turkey about a young woman, Eda, who is more than three months pregnant and seeks an abortion. Her doctor warns against it, but she proceeds. Months later, Eda is convinced the ghost of her unborn daughter is out to get her. This can only end in one of two places: the psychiatric ward or the graveyard. Araf isn't pro-life or pro-choice. It's pro-terror! Starring Akasya Asliturkmen and Murat Yildirim. In Turkish with English subtitles. Biray Dalkiran---Turkey---2006---97 mins.
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ABOUT BAGHDAD
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Exiled Iraqi poet Sinan Antoon returned to Baghdad in 2003 with a crew of indie filmmakers and activists to document his hometown. The first film made in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, About Baghdad is a loving tribute to the survivors of decades of war and oppression, providing a more comprehensive picture than the one presented by mainstream media. "Altogether impressive and wide-ranging" (San Francisco Bay Guardian).
Sinan Antoon---Iraq---2004---90 mins.
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ADRIFT ON THE NILE
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Based on the novel by Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, Adrift on the Nile shows a group of hedonistic middle-aged friends who gather each night for dancing, sex, and drug-use. The film articulates a scathing indictment of the corruption, discontent, and despair of the Egyptian elite preceding the 1967 War. In Arabic with English subtitles.
Hussein Kamal---Egypt---1971---115 mins.
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AFGHAN STAR
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Despite persistent violence and death threats, Afghan women competed alongside men in this popular Afghani reality television contest in 2005.
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AHLAAM/ UTOPIA
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"Harrowing and beautiful" wrote Variety's Jay Weissberg about this Iraqi film from Mohamed Al-Daradji. As U.S. forces invade Iraq in 2003, three patients at a bombed out Baghdad mental hospital escape and venture out into the chaos in the streets. Story has it that Al-Daradji carried an AK-47 on him at all times, and that some of his crew were beaten, kidnapped, and later interrogated in the process of making this "impressive achievement" (Variety). In Arabic with English subtitles. Mohamed Al-Daradji---Iraq---2005---110 mins.
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AJAMI
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This "deeply humane Arab-Israeli drama" (Time Out), set in a melting pot neighborhood in Tel Aviv, introduces a handful of Jewish, Arab and Christian characters, who are all happy and hopeful, despite being a stone's throw away from violence, arrest, heartbreak, or death. Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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AL KARNAK
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Co-writer Naguib Mahfouz (Miramar) adapted his own work, Al Karnak, for this serious drama about the lives of a group of university students during the tumultuous socio-political changes that affected Egypt in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Nour El-Sherif and Soad Hosny star. In Arabic with English subtitles.
Aly Badrakhan---Egypt---1975---143 mins.
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ALEX IN LOVE
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An early pre-Hollywood romantic comedy from Israeli director Boaz Davidson (The Last American Virgin). Set in the early years of Israeli independence, the film follows the crush that 13-year-old Alex develops on a beautiful and much-older relative visiting from Poland. In Hebrew with English Boaz Davidson---Israel---1980---88 mins.
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ALILA
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The lives of over a dozen residents in a rundown apartment complex on the outskirts of Tel Aviv are explored in this drama from the director of Kadosh and Berlin Jerusalem. Gitai exposes tensions within Israel i society through disparate characters whose stories resonate with humor, pathos and the tempestuous clamor of everyday life. "Ruefully funny. . ..moving" (Scott Tobias, The Onion). In Hebrew with English subtitles. Amos Gitai---Israel---2003---121 mins.
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ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE: AN EXCLUSIVE FACETS 2-PACK
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Theater can be as old as a culture itself or the pathway to modern thought and ideas. This unique set offers both ends of the theatrical spectrum: an ancient Iranian passion play in Dress Rehearsal: The Brave Hurr's Ta'zieh; and the Polish avant-garde at its most revolutionary in The Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor.
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ALONE IN TEHRAN- PP
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Contrasting the day-to-day concerns of the real world with the pursuit of dreams and ambitions, this exceptional documentary follows a young, aspiring actress in Tehran. Desiring to live a carefree and creative lifestyle, this 24-year-old struggles with the pressures of being a single woman, living alone in contemporary Iran. In Farsi with English subtitles. Pirooz Kalantari---Iran---1999---25 mins.
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