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The Wanderer is Avishai Sivan's debut feature film. A film school graduate in 2001, his only film to date was a barely noticed documentary film. This tells the story of Isaac, a young yeshiva student, an only child to born-again orthodox parents. Trapped in a dysfunctional family and a failing body, Isaac finds refuge in wandering. Tormented by his newfound infertility, Isaac looks for answers in his father’s dubious past. Wandering through the backstreets of the city, he seeks deliverance.

Look for IFC's Arianna Bocco and SPC's Michael Barker and Tom Bernard to be battling it out for Samuel Maoz's Lebanon. It just received its world premiere in Venice yesterday. The verdict so far: Three reviews. Three thumbs up.

After a crazy year where they brought six or seven titles to Cannes (including Tulpan, Waltz with Bashir) in various competition categories, this year The Match Factory bring only a pair of titles in Ajami and Kinatay.

The mission that was started same time last year is just as important this year despite the final results. In hindsight, the 2nd edition of the annual Cinema Eye awards will probably be one of those rare years where the Academy Awards' Best Doc winner matches/mimics the one selected by this avant-garde award group. James Marsh’s Man on Wire was hailed as the Best Documentary film by just about everyone, so it was a non-surprise on who would claim the evening's top honor.

Many would say that at this year's Academy Awards got the documentary film category "right". The "right" doc film won and even the final nominees were worthy mentions. But all this doesn't make the Cinema Eye Honors mission less "important".