A group of fat people from the Israeli city of Ramla is fed up with the sanctity of diets and the 'Dictatorship of the Thinness' of the diet workshop they participate in. They leave it and discover the world of sumo, where fat people like them are honored and appreciated. Through sumo they are connecting to themselves and to their fat body, each one in his own way.
Herzl an obese guy, starts to work as a dish washer in a Japanese restaurant in Israel. Herzl is exposed to the world of Sumo through Kitano, the restaurant manager, who was a Sumo coach in Japan and escaped to Israel, after he got involved with the Yakuza. Herzl falls in love with the Sumo world and wants Kitano to be the Sumo coach of his obese friends that gave up their diet. "A Matter of Size" is a movie about the coming out of the closet of fat people and about their ability to accept their fatness and relate to their body through the world of sumo. (Mature audiences, adult content, partial nudity)
The most honored film of 2011 tells the complex story of Fidelman, an old-fashioned wood restorer who is lost after his business partner of 40 years suddenly dies and the shop is on the verge of bankruptcy. It traces the shifting bonds between Fidelman, his son, Noah, and Anton, the secretive new assistant. Yaakov and Anton restore a 100 year-old Steinway, while creating a father-son dynamic that tests the relationship between Yaakov and Noah. (Mature audiences, adult content, partial nudity)
Lisa Gossels' highly acclaimed “My So-Called Enemy” is an emotionally-charged film about six Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls who participated in a leadership program called Building Bridges for Peace and how their transformative experience in the program meets with the realities of their lives at home in the Middle East over the next seven years.
A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.
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