Alon Dahan

Alon Dahan

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The Dead of Jaffa
Title: The Dead of Jaffa
Released: July 29, 2019
Type: Movie
With their father in prison and mother dead, three children from the West Bank are smuggled into Israel and taken to the house of their distant relatives, George and Rita, in Jaffa. Rita, who longs for a child, embraces them as her own but George is wary of the grave legal implications their actions might have. Meanwhile, a British film director recreates 1947 Jaffa outside George and Rita’s house. When their present-day reality meets the historical events that led to it, tragedy ensues.
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Herod Islands
Title: Herod Islands
Character: Grandpa
Released: August 16, 2018
Type: Movie
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Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story
Title: Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story
Character: Fatso
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: Movie
In his short stories, Israeli writer Etgar Keret mixes fantasy and reality. His own life story also comes across as a modern fairy tale. In this hybrid documentary, the filmmakers investigate why storytelling is essential for Keret's survival.
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Our Father
Title: Our Father
Character: Shalom Rozenthal
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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Anna
Title: Anna
Released: December 31, 2015
Type: Movie
On a hot summer day, Anna embarks on a little journey in the deserted desert town she lives in. She tries to find a man to give her a comforting touch, even for a brief moment .
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A Matter of Size
Title: A Matter of Size
Character: Gidi
Released: April 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramle are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they belong to. When Herzl (155 kilos), the main protagonist, loses his job as a cook and starts working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant in Ramle he discovers the world of Sumo where large people such as himself are honored and appreciated. Through Kitano (60 kilos), the restaurant owner, a former Sumo coach in Japan (who is supposedly hiding from the Yakuza in Israel), he falls in love with a sport involving "two fatsos in diapers and girly hairdos". Herzl wants Kitano to be their coach but Kitano is reluctant - they first have to earn their spurs. "A MATTER OF SIZE" is a comedy about a ‘coming out’ of a different kind - overweight people learning to accept themselves.
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Title: The Island
Character: Bob
Released: October 28, 2007
Type: TV
An Israeli tv show about 6 kids who discover one day, under an asteroid attack on earth that kills everything but them what their true destiny is- to save the world. Together they go through an amazing ride that includes supernatural powers, time travel, teleportation, joined enemies, hope and love. A highly popular tv show among the Israeli population.
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The Syrian Bride
Title: The Syrian Bride
Character: Arik
Released: November 11, 2004
Type: Movie
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.
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The Holy Land
Title: The Holy Land
Released: April 4, 2001
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age saga set against the tense backdrop of Arab-Israeli politics. Mendy is a young Rabbinical student whose mind is too full of curiosity about the world that exists outside the restrictions of Orthodox Judaism. Recognizing his distraction, Mendy's teacher suggests that he visit a prostitute to get it out of his system. But on a fateful night, when he meets Sacha, a captivating Russian expatriate, who works in a Tel Aviv bordello, his appetite for outside experience only grows stronger.
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haneelam
Title: haneelam
Character: psychologist
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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Urban Feel
Title: Urban Feel
Released: February 14, 1999
Type: Movie
An estranged couple receives an unexpected visitor who throws everything in their family off balance.