2000s Hebrew-language films

Arna's Children

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Juliano Mer Khamis' documentary on his mother, Arna, an activist against the Israeli occupation who founded an alternative education system for Palestinian children.

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Waltz with Bashir

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 8

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

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Budrus

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Follows a Palestinian leader who unites Fatah, Hamas and Israelis in an unarmed movement to save his village from destruction. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter jumps into the fray.

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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behav...

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Ushpizin

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 7.3

In Jerusalem's orthodox neighborhoods, it's Succoth, seven days celebrating life's essentials in a sukkah, a temporary shack of both deprivation and hospitality. A devout couple, Moshe and Mali, marri...

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Arranged

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.3

ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share...

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Lemon Tree

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order t...

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The Bubble

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 7.3

The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the...

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Walk on Water

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends h...

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