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Israeli cinema went through an important change after the 1990s. The decade had already seen filmmakers move away from directly talking about the political events around them and instead look at people, their identities and the communities they came from. Films such as Sh’Chur, Life According to Agfa, Song of the Siren and Yana’s Friends were looking at questions of immigration, ethnicity, sexuality, identity, and belonging. It was a cinema