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If you needed evidence that Israeli films are getting more attention worldwide, the Pioneer Theater in Manhattan's East Village is running a 10-day series called Homeland Insecurity: Documentaries from the New Israeli Foundation for Cinema & Television. The series features 20 documentaries and runs through April 9.
The films have all been shown here, at the country's cinematheques and theaters, and many have been in international film festivals. But it's unprecedented for a theater outside Israel to have such an intensive program of Israeli documentaries. The documentaries in the series are all from the past year or two, and include Purity, Anat Zuria's look at the religious laws of family purity; Do They Catch Children, Too? Hedva Galili-Smolinsky's film about the children of foreign workers; The Skies Are Closer in Homesh, Menora Hazani's portrait of Homesh, a community in Samaria; Good Morning, Jerusalem, Suha Arraf's look at the struggles of an aspiring singer in East Jerusalem; Aviv, Tomer Heymann's behind- the-scenes look at pop singer Aviv Geffen; Checkpoint, Yoav Shamir's film about IDF checkpoints; and Yulie Cohen Gerstel's My Terrorist, her reflection on the terrorist responsible for an attack in which she was a victim.
Several of the directors will be attending the festival, including Arraf, Ada Ushpiz (Blood...