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Home

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Home Constructors

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Home- Made Hero

From Tel Aviv University, a thrilling story of a mad woman soldier who kidnaps an innocent cab driver for a fatal mission.

A Home Movie

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A Home on the Range

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Home Port

After 30 years at sea, veteran seaman Aharon drops anchor in his old hometown to head up the Marine Department at Ashdod Port. Principled Aharon immediately butts heads with the port strongman, Azulay, a respected but unscrupulous local who defends the surly and lazy tugboat crew. As the battle escalates, it threatens Aharon’s safety and loved ones, and he must weigh the importance of his standards against questions of loyalty, love, and family.

Honorable Ambassador

Mickey Arbel, Israel’s ambassador to Cameroon, has brought Israel’s drip irrigation system to the impoverished African nation. But even though it would improve their crops, the farmers are not adopting the new technology. Part travelogue, part detective story, this humorous documentary follows Arbel as he traverses Cameroon’s lush jungles and rugged deserts to solve the mystery, and ultimately comes to a better understanding of its people.

The Hooper Bloob Highway

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Hot

When Eli, a young army officer returns home to a small desert town, things appear as stagnant as always. However, as news reaches Eli that his aunt has been raped, he decides to take the law into his own hands and things quickly get out of control. Screens with Death in the Terminal

Hot Bagels

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Hot House

Nearly 10,000 Palestinians are incarcerated in Israel today. Most Israelis regard these “security prisoners” as criminals but to the Palestinians they are freedom fighters, and martyrs. Granted extraordinary access to the highest-security institutions, filmmaker Shimon Dotan uncovers a startling truth: Israeli prisons have become a breeding ground for the next generation of Palestinian leaders and a hotbed for terrorist plots. —David Courier.

Hot Sugar's Cold World

Using a sound recorder he never leaves home without, modern-day Mozart Nick Koenig (aka Hot Sugar) creates one-of-a-kind music made entirely out of sounds from the world around him. Director Adam Bhala Lough (Bomb the System) masterfully uses Hot Sugar’s recorded sounds in his own sound design for the film to fully orchestrate the cold world heard through Hot Sugar’s ears.

Hotel Berlin

This “grand hotel” ensemble drama brilliantly treats the end of Nazism in swanky surroundings. While bombs fall, high members of the Reich rush through the hotel plotting to "prepare better for the next war." Peter Lorre and Raymond Massey are memorable as Germans with treasonous secrets. Co-screenwriter Alvah Bessie dared to depict fascism as likely to survive the war--the kind of thinking that would later find him and others blacklisted.

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Time of Klaus Barbie

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Hounds

After 16 years as a disaffected museum guard, Iris is finally offered a promotion. A careless mistake with a priceless work of art, however, forces her to decide how far she is willing to go to secure her rise up the social ladder.

House (Gitai)

House is Amos Gitai’s landmark 1980 documentary about a stone house in West Jerusalem that changed hands with changes in government. It was deemed too controversial by Israeli television, who produced the film but would not broadcast it. See also News from Home/News from House.

The House I Live In

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House of Z

This chronicle of the fascinating career of fashion designer Zac Posen, known to many as a celebrity judge on Project Runway, shows how Posen began designing as a teen. With his family’s support, he enjoyed a meteoric rise. Friendships with famous women (Claire Danes and Natalie Portman) helped catapult him to fame. But when his career stalls, Posen struggles with depression. His plans for a comeback will have audiences cheering for the likeable and talented artist.

The House on Chelouche Street

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How About Adolf?

What should have been a fun evening quickly gets out of hand when Thomas announces he and his pregnant girlfriend are planning to name their son Adolf. This scandalous news leads to bitter confrontation, with all kinds of secrets coming out.

How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Golem

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How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire

Preceded by Woody Before AllenAfter discovering the journals of his mysterious grandmother Maroussia, amiable English director Daniel Edelstyn sets off to Ukraine where he makes a startling discovery. In his family’s impoverished Russian village, he comes upon his great-grandfather’s vodka factory. Edelstyn returns to the UK with the wide-eyed ambition of importing his own brand of spirits and finds his life forever altered by the woman he never met.[MINIGUIDE 65/70]

How to Win Enemies

Take a classic Woody Allen–style antihero, add Alfred Hitchcock–level intrigue and a strong dose of Argentine sex appeal, and you have this comic, poignant and smart feature. Director Gabriel Lichtmann shows the complicated family relations of Lucas, a young Buenos Aires Jewish lawyer and a mystery buff (he even has a dog named Sherlock) as he solves the mystery of who conned him out of a down payment on a house. —Emily Kaiser Thelin

Human Remains

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Human Theories

Human Theories is a comedy comprised of interconnected scenes showcasing offbeat, amusing, failed attempts at connection in modern city life.

Hummus! The Movie

Where can you find the best hummus in the world? From Suheila, a single Muslim woman who is known for her legendary hummus, to Jalil, a Christian Arab hipster in Ramle who runs his father’s hummus joint, to Eliyahu, a born-again Orthodox Jew who owns a hummus restaurant chain, this fun and fascinating film about the highly competitive hummus restaurant business in Israel shows how powerful this chickpea spread can be. —Tamar Fox

Humoresque

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Humorist, The

In the midst of the collapsing USSR, the favorite stand-up comedian of the regime begins challenging censorshipIn 1984 Soviet Union, Boris, a Russian-Jewish stand-up comedian, is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities. Fame, combined with lack of personal freedom, is driving him crazy. Once the leaders who dictate what he can and can't joke about summon him to their villa, the comedian snaps. Armed with the exotic American notion of "insult humor", he takes his revenge.

Hundred and Two Mature: The Art of Harry Lieberman

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Hungry Hearts

This don’t-miss event combines a classic Lower East Side silent melodrama with a brand new commissioned score performed live on the Castro stage by the Moab Strangers. Composer Ethan Miller (Howlin Rain, Comets on Fire) and a slew of talented Bay Area psychedelic and folk heroes provide an inspired, cutting-edge soundtrack to the 1922 restored silent Hungry Hearts. The film is adapted from the short stories of Anzia Yezierska, a Jewish writer whose rags-to-riches tales of immigrant hardship led to her nickname, the Sweatshop Cinderella. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn and shot on location in New York, Hungry Hearts is a vividly drawn portrait of a struggling Jewish family, at once tragic and richly comic.

I Am - You Are [2006]

Seven short films from the award-winning youth media program run by Gilli Mendel at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, I Am You Are brings together young Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers from the Jerusalem area to make films and help break down walls of misunderstanding and fear that exist between them. Preceded by Gary’s Story, the newest documentary from SFJFF’s New Jewish Filmmaking Project, about a young Russian Jewish immigrant to San Francisco.

I Am Von Höfler Variation on Werther

I Am Von Höfler, found-footage alchemist Péter Forgács’s 15th film in the “Private Hungary” series, is a breathtaking fusion of home movies by Hungarian Tibor Von Höfler—son of a Christian industrialist father and a Jewish mother—and photos, letters and contemporary interviews. Von Höfler, a bon vivant, chemist, piano-playing dilettante and cad, was spectator to a history that included the German invasion of Hungary, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of Communism.

I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here

Guided by her grandmother’s unmarked photographs, an American college student journeys through Romania, searching for the village her family once called home.

I Heart NY

A short film about the creator of the infamous I Heart NY logo and his struggle to find love for the city in a trying time.

I Like It a Lot

Principal cast: the director’s two-year-old, Ella; a chocolate ice cream cone; and a clean white shirt.

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