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Kadosh (Sacred) - Amos Gitai

By Ankur Sharma | June 25th, 2008 | Category: Cinema, Israeli Cinema | No Comments »

Rules, especially those that are conceived when religion fornicates with extremism or orthodoxy, become the arrows that mutilate the heart and soul of love. Perhaps as many are killed by heart-breaks as they are by the evil of religious extremism.
Rivka and her husband Meir are childless, a curse that has caused them their happiness, [...]


The Wall - Simone Bitton

By Ankur Sharma | May 21st, 2008 | Category: Cinema, Israeli Cinema, World Documentary | No Comments »

What happens when a determined film-maker of mixed Jewish and Arab (imagine!) descent embarks on a journey to capture the creation of a concrete fence in a part of the world, where already impenetrable walls of communal hatred, historical animosity and religious conflicts have been around for decades?
Simone Bitton, a young dynamic filmmaker, goes on [...]