Zion Avrahamian

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Filmography

Savage Weekend

Several couples head upstate to the country to watch a boat being built. Unfortunately they are stalked by a murderer behind a ghoulish mask.

6.0

April Fool

A modern-day children’s fairy tale that is also a parody of prank films which, in 1980s Israel, were a highly popular film genre. In the magical land of Bubble Gum where all children’s dreams are made, live two princesses: the kind-hearted Tzipi (Tsippi Shavit) and her wicked sister, Pitzi (Seffy Rivlin). Every year on 1 April (April Fools’ Day), the princesses’ birthday, the two hold a prank competition amongst themselves, with the winner getting to rule the land of Bubble Gum for one year. Rounding off Shavit and Rivlin’s adventure and prank fest is a talking robot and a group of children including one Natasha Braunstein – who will go on to become US actor Natasha Lyonne of Orange is the New Black and Russian Doll fame.

8.5

Little Man

Five reserve soldiers sleep with Sophie, a seventeen-year-old and member of a theatre group commissioned to entertain an armoured unit stationed on the Golan Heights. When she realizes that she is pregnant, only Shraga, a factory foreman, takes responsibility.

6.4

A Thin Line

Explores the relationship between an eleven-year-old daughter and her ailing mother, who is losing a grasp of reality in the surrounding environment of insensitivity and cruelty.

6.0

The Wooden Gun

The Wooden Gun takes place in Tel Aviv in the early 1950s and details the conflict between native-born Israelis and the newly arrived European refugees.

6.0

Messagest Hatzameret

A masseur has very capable "electrical" hands for the women who come to him. He begins to take a special interest in three of his clients to whom he offers treatment in a more intimate setting, his mother in-law's apartment. A series of misunderstandings, intrigues and some wrong timings lead him to be falsely accused of rape.

7.0

The Jolly Cobbler

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8.5

Dogs Are Color Blind

A couple finds themselves in a ransacked apartment after a robbery that sends them on a bizarre nighttime journey. The wife embarks on a passionate sexual adventure with a rude cop, and the husband meets a prostitute and her violent pimp. And that's just the beginning. A film in which several plot lines intersect, featuring cops and robbers, prostitutes and reformed criminals, sports fans, and dogs that... don't bark in green.

9.5

Amor

After Daniel travelled for a long period in Europe, he is coming back to his childhood home, in a small village in Israel. He wants to find Lilah, the woman of his life. Lilah, a former ballet teacher, has been paralyzed on her bed for three years. Daniel is going to commit something unbelievable out of love. The film deals with the conflict between religious tradition and the freedom to choose your fate.

6.3

Schwartz Dynasty

The Schwartz Dinasty belong to a long tradition of Jewish rabbis. The grandfathers took their faith and turned it into deeds coming to the Land of Israel to start a new life and build a country. Where are their descendants and how are they doing in the Israel of today?

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