Movies: Yaël Abecassis

  • 2005
    Papa

    Papa (2005)

    Papa

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    Louis and his Daddy are driving back home. Daddy is a past master at clowning, which does not necessarily make Louis laugh. At times Daddy gets awfully mad, picking on people who don't deserve it. That also does not make Louis laugh. But Daddy IS swe...

    Papa
  • 2015
    Atlit

    Atlit (2015)

    Atlit

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    In October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise between elders Darel and Cali when Darel proves unwilling to sell. That's when the sisters start seeing apparitions of their dead parents....

    Atlit
  • 2000
    Bella ciao

    Bella ciao (2000)

    Bella ciao

    2.62000HD

    A man struggles to support his family while remaining true to his ideals in this drama set in Europe during the 1930s. Orfeo Mancini and his wife Nella are a pair of working-class Italians who years ago swore allegiance to the Communist party. With M...

    Bella ciao
  • 2024
    Tshuva

    Tshuva (2024)

    Tshuva

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    Following his brother's suicide, Avihu encounters a mesmerizing transgender woman who is a vivid mirror image of his brother. Together they embark on a transformative journey, compelling Avihu to confront his deep loss....

    Tshuva
  • 2005
    Live and Become

    Live and Become (2005)

    Live and Become

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    In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy....

    Live and Become
  • 2017
    Driver

    Driver (2017)

    Driver

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    A driver in the ultra-Orthodox community takes his daughter on his nightly journey, exposing her to the more questionable members of this pious society in the dark alleys of Bnei Barak....

    Driver
  • 2007
    Without Me

    Without Me (2007)

    Without Me

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    Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children....

    Without Me
  • 2007
    Surviving with Wolves

    Surviving with Wolves (2007)

    Surviving with Wolves

    6.22007HD

    In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her sa...

    Surviving with Wolves
  • 2012
    Aya

    Aya (2012)

    Aya

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    When Thomas Overby mistakenly believes Aya is his assigned driver, she spontaneously decides to go along with the charade and drives him to Jerusalem. A stiff and guarded pianist, Overby is intrigued by the impulsive though melancholy Aya. As they sl...

    Aya
  • 2014
    That Lovely Girl

    That Lovely Girl (2014)

    That Lovely Girl

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    Moshe and Tami are a couple, Moshe is in his fifties and Tami is in her early twenties. They live together in a cruel and violent relationship, from which Tami seems unable to set herself free. Tami and Moshe are father and daughter......

    That Lovely Girl
  • 2013
    Hunting Elephants

    Hunting Elephants (2013)

    Hunting Elephants

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    In this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank robbery in order to seek revenge on the institution for cheating the youngster after the death of his father....

    Hunting Elephants
  • 1992
    Tel Aviv Stories

    Tel Aviv Stories (1992)

    Tel Aviv Stories

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    Three stories about three women: one is trying to find the right guy; one is trying to get a divorce from her runaway husband so she takes hostages; one turns Tel Aviv upside down in order to save a kitten trapped in a storm drain....

    Tel Aviv Stories
  • 2008
    The Seven Days

    The Seven Days (2008)

    The Seven Days

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    The Ohaion family is mourning the death of one of their relatives. In keeping with tradition, they gather together in the home of the deceased and stay there for seven days. Forced to put up with one another day and night, the brothers and sisters so...

    The Seven Days
  • 2014
    Dancing Arabs

    Dancing Arabs (2014)

    Dancing Arabs

    6.42014HD

    A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s....

    Dancing Arabs
  • 2003
    Alila

    Alila (2003)

    Alila

    5.22003HD

    Life in a Tel Aviv apartment complex, an urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover Hezi—who's older, balding and married—rent a room to have an affair, wh...

    Alila
  • 2014
    Words with Gods

    Words with Gods (2014)

    Words with Gods

    5.72014HD

    The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it rel...

    Words with Gods
  • 2000
    Maria Figlia del Suo Figlio

    Maria Figlia del Suo Figlio (2000)

    Maria Figlia del Suo Figlio

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    This téléfilm film on the life of Mary, Joseph's wife and Jesus' mother, from the conception of Jesus to the Assumption into heaven at the side of her son, is a biblical story....

    Maria Figlia del Suo Figlio
  • 2021
    Legend of Destruction

    Legend of Destruction (2021)

    Legend of Destruction

    6.22021HD

    What had initially started out as a Jewish revolt against the Roman occupation, quickly turned into a fierce civil war. The combination of religious messianic zeal and the friction between social classes proved disastrous and resulted in the destruct...

    Legend of Destruction
  • 2012
    Lullaby to my Father

    Lullaby to my Father (2012)

    Lullaby to my Father

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    The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give form to this architecture. We follow the journey of Munio, my father, born in 1909 in Silesia, Polan...

    Lullaby to my Father
  • 1999
    Kadosh

    Kadosh (1999)

    Kadosh

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    The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain childless. The...

    Kadosh