Rotem Zissman-Cohen

Rotem Zissman-Cohen

Movies for Rotem Zissman-Cohen...

Offspring
Title: Offspring
Character: Ilana
Released: April 8, 2019
Type: Movie
A 32-year-old woman from an Israeli Sephardic community is childless but under constant pressure from her relatives demanding offsprings. She and her grandmother accidentally find themselves at the circumcision of a little child, and there someone tells her about a tradition quite strange to the outsiders: if a woman who cannot get pregnant eats the foreskin of a baby, life will take a turn for the better. Israeli director Shirley Sasson-Ezer shows intergenerational relationships that are full of love and are devoid of aggression and yet are still complicated by the insurmountable obstacles of differences in worldviews.
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Our Father
Title: Our Father
Character: Rachel Rachamim
Released: June 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Ovadia Rachmim is the strongest and most violent doorman of Tel Aviv night clubs. He and his wife Rachel are trying to get pregnant for 5 years. A small time gangster named Shalom, offers Ovadia a job, to be a debts collector, offering him a lot of money. Ovadia sees this as great opportunity to start an expensive private treatment for his wife. As soon as Rachel gets pregnant, he decides to stop working for Shalom. Shalom wants him for the most important mission. The mission in which Ovadia has to betray all his best friends. Now it's the time to pay the price of becoming a father.
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The Kind Words
Title: The Kind Words
Character: Dorona
Released: May 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Follows three brothers who are going to discover the greatest secret of their late mother. This trip is going to change their lives.
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Killing Jesus
Title: Killing Jesus
Character: Joanna
Released: April 5, 2015
Type: Movie
Jesus of Nazareth’s life and ministry were subject to seismic social and political events that led to his execution and changed the world forever.
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Hill Start
Title: Hill Start
Character: Reli
Released: October 4, 2014
Type: Movie
A Comic drama that tells the story of the Geva family - a bourgeois family from Jerusalem. When the mother of the family, Ora, goes into a coma after a car accident, the family members try to bring her back in every way possible.
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Haven
Title: Haven
Character: Keren
Released: September 20, 2013
Type: Movie
During the Second Lebanon War, Motti and Keren, a young orthodox couple from the North of Israel, looks for a place to stay to escape the bombings and stress of their hometown near the border. They end up at the heart of suburbia, in Tel Aviv, at the bourgeois apartment Yali and Boaz. The spacious apartment suddenly seems crowded and small when tensions between the couples begin to mount. The situation is further complicated as Keren's obvious pregnancy adds to the pain of Boaz and Yali, who cannot have children of their own. The shifting relationships between the four serve to examine the tensions and complexities of Israeli society today.
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Hunting Elephants
Title: Hunting Elephants
Character: Sigi
Released: July 3, 2013
Type: Movie
In this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank robbery in order to seek revenge on the institution for cheating the youngster after the death of his father.
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Title: פצועים בראש
Character: Naama
Released: June 12, 2013
Type: TV
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Valley Of Strength
Title: Valley Of Strength
Character: Rivka
Released: July 13, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of “Gei Oni” is an historical epic which interweaves the story of the first wave of Jewish European migration to Palestine, at the end of the 19th century, with an unusual love story between Fania, a young Russian immigrant, and Yechiel, a native Jew. Seventeen-year-old Fania, her baby daughter, her elderly uncle, and her emotionally impaired brother arrive at the port of Jaffa, having survived a pogrom in which all other members of their family were killed. Having no real choice, Fania marries Yechiel, a widower whose wife died of malaria, leaving him to care for their two children himself. The two set out to a small settlement near Safed, where Yechiel and a few other daring settlers are trying to cultivate the barren lands which they bought from local Arabs. Fania is burdened by a harrowing secret she is unable to share with anyone else. but unless her husband Yechiel shares her secret, their marriage cannot be consummated.
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God's Neighbors
Title: God's Neighbors
Character: Miri (as Rotem Zisman-Cohen)
Released: July 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Rules must be followed. For the "supervisors" of the Bat Yam neighbourhood in Israel, this means ensuring that women are dressed appropriately, that people respect Shabbat, or that Arabs from Jaffa don't enter the neighbourhood with music blaring from their cars. Avi, Kobi and Yaniv are young and know how to fight. They want to force their neighbours to become religious, without hesitating to be violent in the name of God. The inhabitants admire the gang and are afraid of them at the same time. One day a new girl, Miri, arrives. She is not familiar with the strict rules of modesty. The gang's leader Avi is going to be torn between his feelings for Miri and his dedication to the gang.
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The World Is Funny
Title: The World Is Funny
Character: Naami
Released: June 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Simple people struggle through extraordinary circumstances. Sometimes the only answer to any problem is 'The world is funny so we have to laugh.
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The Fifth Heaven
Title: The Fifth Heaven
Character: Berta
Released: October 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Maya, a beautiful, 13, arrives to an orphanage towards the end of World War II. She discovers who her true father is and has a forbidden relationships with an orphanage worker.
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Bein HaShmashot
Title: Bein HaShmashot
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Dusk presents several interlinked stories of Israeli reality, all occurring on the same day and all dealing with a crucial moment in the relationship between parents and children.
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Street Freedom
Title: Street Freedom
Character: Albert
Released: July 8, 2009
Type: Movie
Gur is in love with the beautiful, almost famous, and unreachable Ariel. For Ariel, Gur is nothing but an amusement pet that basically takes care of Rufus, her dog. Though this is one-sided love, Gur is happy. His gloomy calmness interrupted when Shila, the next-door salute girl losing Rufus by mistake. Gur and Shila ask for some help from Gur's muscular friend who is just recovering from plastic surgery. The trio goes out for an urban journey, to find Rufus the lost dog. The journey takes place in the surrealistic corner of the big city and slowly gets into the characters inner world through underground rave parties in the downtown to the wealthy houses in the uptown
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Lost Paradise
Title: Lost Paradise
Character: Woman
Released: March 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A man and a woman are tenderly making love in a one star hotel room. A moment later when they are both dressed up, the idyll that seamed authentic is now gone. A modern look at the story of Adam and Eve.
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Little Heroes
Title: Little Heroes
Character: Adva
Released: August 3, 2006
Type: Movie
A girl's heroic spirit and her faithful dog's phenomenal courage join to perform an impossible rescue! Snubbed by her small-town neighbors, Charley Wilson and her German shepherd Fuzz, meet a true friend in Alonzo - a gruff old farmer who admires Charley and Fuzz for their funny antics and sense of real adventure. When Alonzo finds himself in big trouble that threatens his very life, it's girl and dog to the rescue! Charley and Fuzz help the entire town see how prejudice hurts everybody, as they prove that miracles-the heroes-come in all sizes.
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Gift From Above
Title: Gift From Above
Character: Marita
Released: December 18, 2003
Type: Movie
A story with a bit of despair: six or seven families who live in the same blocks that surround a parking lot. And they are all involved in each other’s lives.