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Dir.: Dalit ArnoldIsrael 20081 minutes

"History" is a poetic-minimalist video based on excerpts from Shimon Edaf's song, in which he describes Sderot, his hometown.

Dir.: Levi ZiniIsrael 199572 minutesHebrewEnglish subtitles

A musical journey to Sderot in the mid-1990s, a provincial southern town in which most of the inhabitants are immigrants from North Africa. 

“Small Town Melodies” focuses on the boys and girls of second-generation immigrants. Young people who want to fulfill their dreams while managing complex relationships with their parents and with Israel as they experience it. Among these young people, Shimon Adaf, one of the top Hebrew writers today, the rock band “Sfatayim” and its leader Haim Oliel, one of the first heroes of the blooming music scene that swept the city, Miri Bohadana, “Israeli girl of the year” in 1995 who’s now a TV talent, and alongside them many more parents, children, and what comes between them.