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"Saint Clara"
1996
Directed by Ari Folman & Uri Sivan

Winner of six Israeli Academy Awards, this is the bewitching story of Clara, a 7th-grade Russian emigre at Golda Meier High School in a Negrev town, who has telekinetic and psychic powers. If she falls in love, she will lose her ability to predict winning lottery numbers. Things get complicated when she meets an anarchist rebel hunk at school. Based on a script by Czech playwright/novelist Pavel Kohout. "A knowing, witty homage to adolescence" (Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle). Hebrew with English subtitles.
85 minutes.