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Amos Gitai: Territories - Field Diary/Arena of Murder Part of Israeli director Amos Gitai's TERRITORIES series, this set of documentaries examines the territories occupied by the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as well as the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. While both moving, the first piece (FIELD DIARY) created so much controversy, it caused Gitai to be exiled from his own home for a period…    more      Amos Gitai: Territories - House/A House in Jerusalem Part of controversial Israeli director Amos Gitai's TERRITORIES series, this set of documentaries examines the lives of several people living in West Jerusalem at a building deserted by a Palestinian doctor during 1948. A HOUSE IN JERUSALEM visits the same structure and neighboring community 18 years later…    more      Amos Gitai: Territories - Wadi 1981-1991/Wadi Grand Canyon 2001 Part of controversial Israeli director Amos Gitai's TERRITORIES series, this set of documentaries examines the relationships and tensions between several Palestinians and Israelis over a 20-year period in Wadi Rushmia…    more      Amos Gitai: Territories 3 Pack Acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai presents TERRITORIES, a set of six documentaries. This 3-pack contains all three releases in the series. FIELD DAY/ARENA OF MURDER: This set of documentaries examines the occupied territories during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as well as the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. While both moving…    more      Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi A coming-of-age teen comedy, the Israeli BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI eschews scatological humor for a warm, melodramatic humanism. Shlomi is a young man who has become the linchpin of his dysfunctional family--he does the cooking, he cares for grandfather, he mediates between feuding parents. He spends so much time caring for others that…    more      Campfire Israeli Academy Award-winning director Joseph Cedar wrote and directed this intelligent, carefully crafted film. It follows Rachel (Michaela Eshet), a widowed middle-aged mother struggling to find her place in Israeli society in 1981, during the early days of the Israeli settlement movement…    more