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THE SYRIAN BRIDE - a tale of a Druze woman who lives with her family in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Her family makes plans for her to marry a Syrian television star from Damascus, but the wedding must take place at the border, and once she marries and crosses into Syria, she'll never be able to return home.
METALLIC BLUES - two Israeli car dealers, invest US $5,000 into a vintage limousine that they plan to sell in Germany for $50,000. But when they take it there, they run into problems with customs police, who are suspicious of Middle Easterners with a huge American gas guzzler.
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED - A young American Jewish mom begins an exhausting quest - aided by a naive Ukranian translator - to find the righteous gentile woman who saved his grandfather when his small Ukranian village (along with most of the populace) was obliterated during the Nazi invasion of Russia in 1941. This film is based on the novel by Jonathan Safron Foer.
39 POUNDS OF LOVE - This film is the inspirational and humorous non-fiction account of a remarkable man and an incredible journey. Ami Ankilewitz was diagnosed with an extremely rare and often fatal form of SMA/2 that severely limits his physical growth and movement, yet at 34 years of age, he continues to outlive a doctor's prediction of life expectancy by 28 years and counting.
USHPIZIN - It is Sukkot in Jerusalem's orthodox neighborhoods. A devout couple married nearly five years, childless and broke, pray for a miracle. Suddenly, miracles abound. The miracles, then become trials. Rabbinical advice, absolution, an effort to avoid anger, and a 1000 shekel citron figure in Moshe's dark night of the soul.
GO FOR ZUCKER - Two estranged brothers - one a hard-living former East German celebrity sportscaster now very much down-on-his luck, and the other, his quasi-Orthodox brother from the West - are awkwardly reunited when they learn that in order to share their mother's inheritance they will need to reconcile before burying her according to Jewish custom in her native East Germany.