Kino Lorber (Firm)
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (156 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
For many Israelis, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 marked a grim turning point for their country. In the words of the commission set up to investigate the murder, "Israeli society [would] never be the same again. As a democracy, political assassination was not part of our culture." In the eyes of even more people, the murder ended all hope for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process through the Oslo Accords and altered the...
2) Alila
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (116 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
In ALILA, director Amos Gitai, has created an "engaging, subtly arresting drama" that examines the lives of a half dozen residents of a run-down Tel-Aviv apartment building. This Altmanesque panorama explores the loneliness and deep need for connection that exists behind the closed doors of those living on the margins. Nominated for a Golden Lion at the **Venice Film Festival**. *"An engaging subtly arresting drama. Captures the rhythms of the community...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (120 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ultimately consumed by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student. As the titular protagonist, Nira, discovers that her young student, Yoav, has an otherworldly talent for language and poetry, she slowly and progressively becomes interested in cultivating the boy's gift. But when fascination morphs into obsession, Nira pushes the boundaries of her relationship with the boy and his...
4) Synonyms
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (124 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
Winner of the Golden Bear at **Berlinale**, the latest from Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher) features a dynamic lead performance from newcomer Tom Mercier, whose feral intensity practically bursts out of the frame. Mercier plays Yoav, a disaffected young Israeli who flees Tel Aviv for Paris to start a new life. Desperate to erase his origins, Yoav sees becoming French as his only hope for salvation. Step one is to replace his language. From...
5) Omar
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing. Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the **Academy Awards.**. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the **Cannes Film Festival.** "*A story of love and betrayal set against political tumult and violence in Palestine, "Omar" is both classic and painfully present in its concerns.*"...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
Or, a pretty and popular Tel Aviv high school student, works nights at a neighborhood restaurant while taking her first tentative steps out of innocence and into first love. But Or's real full-time job is looking after her mother Ruthie. After 20 dehumanizing years of curbside prostitution, Ruthie's survival instincts have begun to deteriorate, and it's up to OR to see that mother and daughter don't both wind up on the street together. Or's love,...
7) Kippur
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
This film focuses on the presence of the human spirit in battle. Despite its extreme graphic depiction of war, the film was recognized as a major cinematic breakthrough. KIPPUR is a gut-wrenching journey through beautiful landscapes ravaged by gunfire, exploding mines, fear and desolation. KIPPUR takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. Although the story is told from...
8) Kadosh
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
Set in the Mea Sherim quarter of Jerusalem, an enclave of the ultra-Orthodox, KADOSH explores a hermetic world almost never seen on the screen. Here, for ten years, the pious Rivka has devoted herself to her husband Meir, but their marriage remains childless. Presumed barren, she is rejected by her community, which prizes children above all else. The story that follows relates the harrowing fate of Rivka, and also here beloved sister Malka, in love...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
Orna is the mother of three young children with a husband struggling to start his own restaurant. To help support her family Orna returns to the workplace, landing a job with a former army superior, Benny who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna embraces her new position and tries to balance its demands with her home life, she begins to experience escalating sexual harassment from her boss. Her rapid rise through the ranks and her...