The Bands Visit is the heartwarming and poignant winner of the Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard prize - a mesmerizing and witty story of strangers in a strange land. A fading Egyptian police band arrives in Israel to play at the Arab Cultural Center. When they take the wrong bus the band members find themselves in a desolate Israeli village. With no other option than to spend the night with the local townspeople the two distinctly different cultures realize the universal bonds of love music and life. Set against a breathtaking desert landscape this cross-cultural comedy proves that getting lost is sometimes the best way to find yourself.
One elaborate lie from a young girl looking for work soon spirals out of control and becomes the biggest political story of the day in this thought-provoking thriller from director Andre Techine.
Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2015 and winner of two Ophir Awards; Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amselem follows one woman's anguished fight against Israel's archaic and antiquated divorce laws. Desperate to free herself from a loveless marriage an Israeli woman named Viviane Amselem files for divorce from her cruel and manipulative husband. But Israeli law and its Rabbinical court dictates that a divorce can only be granted under the husband's consent. Determined to obtain her dignity and freedom Viviane finds herself fighting an epic and deeply dramatic psychological battle against a profoundly absurd legal system and her cold and calculating estranged husband.
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