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Footnote is Joseph Cedar's carefully crafted film about a complex father/son relationship between two scholars. The father has labored for years without much recognition. For the son, everything comes easily. The father takes great pride in once having been mentioned in a footnote of a book by a legendary academic.
This remarkable feature debut by Rama Burshtein –the first Orthodox woman to make a film meant for wide mainstream distribution – was picked up by Sony Picture Classics and was Israel's Official Submission for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012.
The Gatekeepers directed by Dror Moreh features unprecedented testimony by six men who oversaw Israel's internal-security intelligence operation from 1980-2011. The film was groundbreaking for its incredible access to the leaders of Shin Bet who speak openly about closely held state secrets.
This 2007 film directed by Eran Kolerin is now an award-winning Broadway Musical, so this is a great time to revisit this award-winning Israeli film. A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force arrives in the middle of the Israeli desert to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab Arts Center only to discover they have taken the wrong bus to the wrong destination.