Politics and Prostitution: Israeli Filmmakers Chart Broad, Gritty Territory
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Israeli directors are working harder to fit lifelike characters around bigger themes of sexual and religious politics in their films.
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Since its debut at the Cannes film festival in May, director John Cameron Mitchell's film "Shortbus" has been labeled many things for its full on depictions of sex including porn for everyday audiences.
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Tens of thousands of Israelis of Iraqi descent have the right to vote in the Jan. 30 elections &#151; including a former defense minister and a comedian known for his sidesplitting imitations of Saddam Hussein &#151; but it's hard to find anyone interested in actually casting ballots.
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In some ways, this glossily enjoyable movie, which takes place in a Lebanese beauty parlor, is a lot closer to Hollywood than Beirut.
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This six-part documentary portrays the world of the brothel in terms of its hierarchies and feuds and both its inclinations and aversions toward sorority.
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The combativeness of Brian De PalmaÂs committed admirers often reveals more about the nature of cinephilic ardor than it does about the filmmaker himself.
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A new documentary examines the alternating periods of acceptance, achievement and virulent discrimination faced by Jews.
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'Blood Diamond' tries to mix African politics and action.
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When it comes to power games, some in Hollywood are beginning to learn a basic lesson of digital politics: the Internet plays rough.
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A Palestinian suicide bomber is the unlikely star of a new Israeli film billed by its director as an effort to destroy prejudices that fuel conflict in the Middle East.
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The latest work of Sayed Kashua, an Israeli-born Arab journalist and author, is a situation comedy that deals with Israeli societyâs prejudices through the eyes of a Muslim Arab family.
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In â9 Star Hotel,â the Israeli filmmaker Ido Haar draws us into the precarious world of young Palestinian construction workers scrabbling to survive.
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An Israeli documentary over military actions  in Sinai in 1967 causes a firestorm of protest in  Egypt. But both governments would prefer to ignore  the matter
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What happens when idealism becomes power? That question is the driving force of Jeremy Kaganâs inert yet strangely compelling film âGoldaâs Balcony.â
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Sex is easy in the world of John Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus," where the deed is as explicit as many hardcore porn flicks. It's emotional connections that are tough to come by.
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A campus comedy with a dirty mouth and a surprisingly wise mind, âFreshman Orientationâ uses identity politics as a road to romance and emotional maturity.
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Documentarians say that the upswing of activism in filmmaking is not merely an election-year phenomenon.