What fun, Independence Day has finally arrived!
One of the most fun days of the year is already here, the celebrations have begun - and what better way is there to feel Israeliness than to experience it through a good movie?
That's exactly why we're concentrating, and we've put together a list of some movies that are all blue and white and will make you feel especially festive.
"The Band"
The debut film by Avi Nesher, one of the most successful Israeli directors-screenwriters ever, is probably one of the most beloved films ever made in Israel.
With a huge star line that appears in it (among others, Gidi Gov, Tuvia Tzafir, Gali Atari, Dafna Armoni, Meir Suissa, Heli Goldberg and many more good ones), successful adaptations of well-known songs (and thanks to Lair Rosenblum for that) and a story about a bunch of ego artists brought For a screen a work that even if not perfect, is just so much fun to watch that it is impossible not to want to watch it again and again.
"Halfon Hill Does not Answer"
Another film that can be defined as one of the most beloved Israeli films, and rightly so.
This crazy comedy, which Assi Dayan directed alone and wrote with Naftali Alter, presents the life of the IDF reserve service a few months after the end of the Yom Kippur War.
On paper, it was possible to create from the story an exciting drama film full of criticism of the military, but Dayan and Alter chose to do it in a completely different way - through lots of humor and tons of sentences that have long since become a cult.
The members of the Pale Tracker Trio are, of course, the stars of the hill, and they are here at their peak in every possible way.
The fact that even so many years after the film came out there are still people quoting it quite a bit just proves how relevant the power of this film is.
"Orchestra Visit"
Another case of a debut film that became an Israeli classic immediately after its release.
The great talent of Eran Kolirin, director and screenwriter of the film, stands out from its first moment.
One can not miss the European influences of Kolirin, who allows himself to "pull" time in quite a few of the scenes, nor to "tick" them quickly to get to their point.
The film, which follows an Egyptian orchestra that accidentally arrives in an Israeli town in the Negev whose residents are trying to digest the situation they found themselves in, not only won critical acclaim and many awards, it also became a big hit - a rather surprising fact when it comes to the Israeli cinema landscape.
It is also worth noting that the film is working on a Broadway musical that has won 10 Tony Awards (the Academy Award for American Theater), including Best Musical.
It is also important to mention one of the most beautiful scenes that Israeli cinema has known in recent years, in which the commander of the Tawfiq Orchestra (played by Sasson Gabay) opens his heart to Dina (the amazing Ronit Alkabetz) - a scene that leaves no eye dry.
"Zero in human relations"
With more than half a million viewers in the cinema, Talia Lavie's great comedy has become a huge box office success that probably no one expected to happen - but reality has proven that as long as movies are excellent, audiences will reach them in large numbers.
So it is true that this is another military comedy, in this case one that deals with third female soldiers in the Shizafon camp in the Negev, but "Zero in Human Relations" is a laugh-out-loud comedy with a strong message about military culture in Israel in general and the attitude towards female soldiers and women in particular. the first one.
The fact that this film brought Nelly Tagar into our lives, and raised the profile of Dana Ivgi even more, is another of the many benefits of this film - and thanks to the excellent Talia Lavie, who created a purposeful display of everyone involved in the project.
"black"
Shmuel Hasfri's film follows the childhood memories of Heli (Hannah Azulai Hasfri, Shmuel's wife who also wrote the script), a young Moroccan woman who remembers her difficulty in accepting the magic rituals (the same black from the film's name) performed by her family.
While she is getting to know her older sister Pnina (played by Ronit Alkabetz), we watch a story about a family that was not usually seen on the big screen.
The book couple brought a film that examines the presentation of the hybrid identities of members of Israeli society as never before, and they did so in an extraordinary way, one that would feel like home to many who would connect to the story, and also to those who had never experienced black themselves.
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