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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Pomegranates and Myrrh

    Mature, powerful début, dedicated to Palestine, tells of love in occupied Ramallah, without unnecessary sentiment. Young married couple Ziad and Kamar
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  • Waiting for Sancho

    With this title referring to Beckett, VIFF programmer and director Mark Peranson sketches the evolution of Albert Serra’s masterful El cant dell ocell
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  • Skim Milk & Soft Wax

    Dani Leventhal goes looking for the land of milk and honey.
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  • Almost

    Film maker travels for a film to Uganda, where she falls in love with unexpected consequences. Poetic and sober documentary passages are juxtaposed an
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  • The Band’s Visit

    An Egyptian police band arrives in Israel for an initiation ceremony but gets stranded at the airport. In the heart of the desert, in a…
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  • Vasermil

    Powerful film début from Israel. Three boys from different backgrounds have to take a soccer match to a successful ending, but wrestle with the
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  • Hamdi and Maria

    The story behind the headline. The Palestinian Hamdi and his daughter survived a bomb attack that wasn’t aimed at them.
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  • Ziva Postec. La monteuse derrière le film Shoah

    Shoah, the monumental Holocaust documentary by Claude Lanzmann, was edited by Ziva Postec. In this documentary, she emerges from the director’s
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  • Tel Aviv on Fire

    Comedy about a TV employee who tries to influence a romantic soap manages to capture the Arab-Israeli conflict in a surprisingly witty way.
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  • God of the Piano

    Concert pianist Anat goes to extremes to ensure her son follows in the footsteps of her demanding father, a famous composer.
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