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- City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland together with her family and go to... Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become aware of their and their family roots.
- After being raped by a stranger, a young ultra-orthodox woman awaits a Rabbinical decision about whether or not her husband should divorce her. Jewish law states that "If the wife of a Cohen (descendant of a priest) is raped, she is forbidden to her husband." Cohen's Wife is a provocative modern day portrait of a couple torn between religious law and marital devotion.
- The only product the Gaza strip exported - as of 2006 - were strawberries. This film shows the daily struggle of Gazan strawberry farmers who try to grow, export and sell their product against all odds.
- This is the story of three orphaned kids who in the end of the war (WWII) return home to discover they have no home and no parents. With no family left, they realize the only safe haven for them is Palestine. After a journey of two years across a shattered Europe, and with help from the French government they finally reach the shores of southern France. There embarking on a river boat called 'President Warfield' to an unforgettable journey on the high seas. There the English Navy destroyers rammed the Exodus time and again until they had to surrender, plowing slowly to the port of Haifa. Immediately thereafter being deported back, this time on deck of three English ships (floating Gail) to Germany to a place they all know too well, concentration camp.
- The Black Panthers in Israel are the social movement of second generation Mizrahim in Israel - Jews originating from Arab and Muslim countries. The uprising of the Black Panthers in the early 1970s had a radical effect on Israeli society. It signaled an awakening of Mizrahi cultural consciousness that continues to this day. The movement took the Mizrahi/class struggle out of its local and nationalist Jewish framework, linking it to the civil rights struggle in the United States, Third World Marxism, and, for the first time, to the Palestinian struggle in Israel. In this film, key leaders in the movement speak of the Mizrahi struggle in the 1970s and now, of the tragic role played by Shas in quelling that struggle, of the relationship between the occupation and oppression of the Palestinians, and the social and cultural oppression of the Mizrahim.
- Three couples share their homebirth stories. They present their deliberations and personal conclusion that homebirth is the most favorable birthing option. The movie shows various choices, including waterbirth, squatting, the use of a birthing stool, and more.
- Kobi (19), is about to get an excellence award in his Training Completion ceremony at the Army. His Family live in a Settlement near Nablus, and oppose serving in the IDF. During his weekend visit, Kobi invites his family to the Ceremony. To his surprise, he finds out that his family will be evacuated and his house is intended for destruction, as the army will come to dismantle the settlement as part of the peace process. Kobi must choose between his family and his ideal of serving in the army.
- With the invasion of Germany into the territory of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, a new stage in the history of the Shoah began, characterized by the massacres of Jews, exemplified in the Ukraine. "The road to Babi Yar" shows the events of the first 100 days of the occupation of Ukraine, during which the Nazis, with the participation of local residents, began killing Jews directly in their places of residence, as well as the evolution of the mass murder system in hundreds of killing sites, symbolized by Babi Yar. Conversations with historians, local residents - eyewitnesses to those events and Jewish survivors of the Shoah, presented in the film, allow us to recreate a comprehensive and painful picture of the fate of the Jews of Ukraine during the Shoah.
- The journey of 88 year old Samuel Wilinberg and Kalman Taigman two complete opposite personalities who happen to be the last two survivors of the Treblinka death camp. The film follows the men as they walk back on the grounds from which the fled 68 years ago. For the first time they go back together possibly for their last visit. Together they re-live, reminisce, laugh, cry, and even sing the Treblinka anthem. Kalman lost his mother in Treblinka, Samuel lost his two sisters. "God wasn't present in Treblinka" they both agree on while they are there.
- A look at how Israeli prisons have become the breeding ground for the next generation of Palestinian leaders as well as the birth place of future terrorist threats.
- On May 12, 2004 an IDF armored personnel carrier and its crew was destroyed. IDF went on a mission to extract and collect the human remains in order to ensure their proper burial in Israel. The soldiers searched the remains of the bodies in the sand were secured by a group of fighters barricaded in the houses of Palestinians. This is the story of Michael, a platoon commander, who leads his unit on a security mission from within a house overlooking the collectors of the human remains, which is populated by a Palestinian family. At his side Tomer - a military photographer who surprisingly shows up on the scene. Along with the existing difficulties and complex dialogue with the family, Tomer, the photographer, complicates an already complicated situation for the sake of values he believes in thus becoming a real security burden in terms of the responsibility of Michael, the commander. Their stay at the house is prolonged, food runs out, and the Palestinian youngest child suffers from an asthma attack induced by the dust and shelling. Based on Actual Events
- Dana and Amit met when they were 25, they married and had 2 children. Soon after their second child, Amit turned ultra-orthodox. Dana stayed secular. They are still very much in love. Will their love be able to overcome the growing gaps between them?
- Through personal interviews, conversation with teenage boys, meeting with experts and considerable humor and self exposure, Edan Alterman sets out to examine how height affects men who are shorter than others. Are shorter men funnier? Does short stature created tall character? Why do girls only want to date tall guys? And who do the short guys go out with? The film follows two short- statured boys who still dream of getting tall, and short- statured adults who have learned to live with a world that at times teases them but generally just blocks their view. Short is a personal, moving and entertaining documentary that will add a couple of inches to the ego of short people. "Short is just the film I was missing as a teenager. As the shortest kid in the class, I felt lonely and an outsider. I could only have wished that someone would have made a documentary about shorter than average people (5 foot 5, in my case) and answer the thousands of questions that tormented and frustrated me, but perhaps also made me who I am..." (Alterman)
- Mika, a penniless illegal immigrant from the FSU, is living with her baby daughter in a bomb shelter near the Machaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem. She speaks no Hebrew, and cleans stairwells in order to live. For food, she forages among the market leftovers. When the baby gets sick, Mika has no choice but to make contact with others and to solicit help from the men around her. Instead of kindness, Mika encounters only cynical exploitation.
- "I Was There in Color" is an extraordinary, never before seen story of the birth of Israel in color. The historic footage was shot by Fred Monosson, a Jewish-American businessman from Brookline, MA who died in 1972. Until this discovery, the history of Israel was captured only in black and white. Now, for the first time, Israel's history is told in color. "I Was There in Color" pays tribute to this unsung hero and to the many American Jews who volunteered and contributed so much to the realization of the creation of the Jewish State.
- Violence, threats of terror attack and condemnation from religious leaders plagued the 2006 Jerusalem Pride Parade. LGBT citizens of the state of Israel found themselves fighting for their right to exist as equal citizens. 'Pride,' by producers Igal Hecht and Lior Cohen, explore the struggles for legitimacy of the LGBT community in Israel.
- A revealing portrait of the head of an orthodox family still searching for religious identity and of his daughter, the director who is rediscovering him.
- The amazing story of the last remnant of the boxing team of Auschwitz, and a crew member of the Illegal Immigrant ship Exodus - 1947. He lay on the beach in Dunkirk when hundreds of thousands of British soldiers were evacuated to Britain.
- Code Name Silence opens a wound and reveals the best-kept secret of Israel's Ethiopian community, a secret which has been concealed for years. In 1985, Operation Moses brought some 8,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel via Sudan. Twenty years later, the journalist Danny Adino Abeba, ten years old at the time of the operation, sets about breaking a silence shared by community members, the Jewish Agency, and the Mossad (Israel Secret Intelligence Service). In order to carry out its daring mission, the Mossad chose members of the Ethiopian community and formed a rescue committee-the "Komita." This committee supervised the distribution of money, medicine, and food in the Sudanese-based transit camps. While most committee members endangered their lives and the lives of their families for the sake of the operation, other members terrorized their brothers in their most difficult hour. They are suspect of sexual abuse, doing favors when making immigration lists, and using Mossad money for personal aims. Everybody knew-and everybody kept quiet. Those responsible for the crime were never brought to justice. Code Name Silence is the story of heroes who abused their power and became criminals. At the same time, it reveals the pain of the victims and the scars still borne by thousands of Ethiopian Jews living in Israel today.
- Three funerals, three generations, two wars and one boyfriend waiting in Tel Aviv. A troubling portrait of the filmmaker, a son to one of the founding families of Metula (a town on the northernmost Israeli border). Against the backdrop of a family dealing with illness and death, the film's protagonist is repeatedly called for reserve duty as a Tank Commander in the Israeli army. Through use of archive footage of events filmed over the course of a decade, the tragic-comic clash between the filmmaker and the habit of obedience unfolds.
- Arises from the need of its author, to review their own prejudices. The documentary unfolds the history of Judeophobia and mutations from the Christian accusation of "deicide" until the emergence of the modern state of Israel.
- How can peace in the Middle East prevail, if it cannot in a family? More than 25 years have gone by since Yulie's brother turned into an ultra orthodox Jew and lost contact. This story is a persistent journey towards an understanding of people falling in love with religion. Following <> and <>, in <> Yulie tries to reunite her Israeli family, reflecting her personal story, yet again, on the collective.
- Few filmmakers have probed issues of Israeli nationalism and Israeli-Palestinian relations more completely or intimately than Tel Aviv-born Yulie Cohen. In My Israel, Cohen revisits her acclaimed trilogy My Terrorist (2002), My Land Zion (2004), and My Brother (2007) with new footage, fresh perspective, and her trademark fearlessness.
- From an apartment block in the "Nahalat Shiva" neighborhood in Jerusalem, the director brings to the screen the many different stories of the residents, of whom she herself is one. The residents come from all walks of life and represent a vivid cross-section of Israeli society: - a young orthodox bride anticipates her wedding while the elderly lady upstairs ruminates on widowhood; three students work out their differences while a young Russian man fights loneliness; a Filipino woman describes her love for Israel and hopes to extend her resident's permit, but without success. All bring to the film their individual interpretations of love, disappointment and hope.
- Dahlia went far following her grandmother's will. For years her grand mother's voice led her to a small island in South Korea, to the Hae-Nyo, "women of the sea". The Hae-Nyo earns their living by free diving to find sea food. Three times now, Dahlia has traveled alone to live with them for a few months. Her story is woven between Israel and Korea, between death and the comfort of working in the fields, between the fear of diving and the yearning for the sea.
- Olivia is a 12 year old immigrant from New York. She is trying to find her place in the new world she just landed in, Israeli society. Instantly she connects with Alem, an Ethiopian boy who sits next to her in class. It doesn't take long for her to realize that their friendship is social suicide. This is a story about alienation, friendship and home.
- Hemi, a 60 year old Bible teacher, discovers that the punk band his wife belonged to 30 years ago is getting back together.These echoes of the wild past, and the threat of its return, shake up Hemi's marriage and force him to reassess the prejudices of the religious community.
- This is the incredible story of an exceptional Test pilot. His exciting life story is intertwined with the history of Israel aviation. All his aviation accomplishments can be described as firsts. Danny Shapira, Israel's number one pilot and one of the world's finest. Shapira's flight log features thousands of daring and hair-raising flights, from some of which he nearly did not return.
- Ben is a 35 year old divorcee and failing comic book artist who works in an office. He and his 8 year old daughter Maya go on quest into the Dream Factory to find his broken dream and fix it.
- A new documentary sheds light on the life and death of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of Hebrew literature's greatest icons.
- Winding tells the story of the most infamous River in Israel, the Yarkon.
- While searching for the father who abandoned her as a child, a young woman steps through the looking glass into a world that is completely unknown to her.
- The year is 1993. Night-time. September 13 (The Oslo Agreement is signed in Washington - Rabin-Arafat handshake takes place during this night). The remains of a deserted Nahal settlement with social ambitions from the early 80s are scattered over mount Hazon (literal meaning: vision) in the lower Galilee.
- Lazer and Baila Hirsch, an older orthodox couple who have emigrated to Israel from America, struggle with financial hardship and general misfortune. Lazer, a Bretzlav Hassid, finds that his capacity for simcha (joy) is put to the test. The couple prays for a miracle, but miracles come in unexpected guises.
- A prison in Galilee is the setting for this film about a withdrawal and rehabilitation department for heavy drug addicts. The Last Chance is a powerful film that documents an all-too common social problem. It is also the compelling story of one man who will lose everything if he cannot find the strength to beat his addiction once and for all.
- Husband Uri is fighting in the second Lebanon war. Ruth is glued the radio, listening to the names of soldiers who have been killed. When Uri comes home on leave, the couple must delay their first embrace until after Ruth has immersed herself.
- Peek into the Orthodox Jewish ritual "mikvah" about the family purification bath after menstruating.
- A moving and thought provoking film about Eve, a teenager studying filmmaking at 'Hadash High school' in the prosperous northern part of Tel Aviv while living in Kfar Shalem, a poor neighborhood on the southern side of town. Eve and director Amir Har-Gil set out on a journey in which they document her family's life including her mother Nava who after being abandoned by her husband keeps a day job in a kindergarten and a night job as a cleaner; her brother Itzik who serves in an elite combat unit of the IDF; her sister Sari who begins to recognize the socio-economic gap between herself and her classmates at her new junior high school. Eve offers viewers an intimate account of her life which includes a temporary move to a Kibbutz, confronting students who ridicule her social status and her falling in love with a South African man about to leave Israel, and her, behind. In her sharp-witted manner, Eve confronts the prejudices immanent in Israeli society against lower classes and Mizrahi communities. Using a realistic 'direct cinema' style, the film unfolds the family's daily routine and reveals the caring relationship between the mother and her two daughters and her continues attempt to shield them from the deprived position they have in capitalist Israeli society
- Aunt Diya takes her nephew to an unforgettable journey to her birthplace.
- A love story between Shraga, a Holocaust survivor and the father of the director, and Ulla. Shraga escaped the Nazis but his family was murdered in Auschwitz. Ulla is the daughter of the manufacturer of the gas containers for Auschwitz.
- "In the Spring I bought myself a camera. The whole of our settlement was in bloom right then, so I filmed butterflies and flowers. But then everything changed, and there were other things to film." In "It Happened After the Spring", Menora Katsover, the daughter of a scion settler family who founded the Elon Moreh settlement in Samaria, documents the life of the settlement in 2001 in the shadow of the Al-Aksa Intifada.
- Lisa adopted Luz from Cambodia when she was three months old. At the age of 18, Luz begins the process of opening her adoption file, while at the same time Lisa is building a house and a family with her new husband. When Lisa gets pregnant and has a baby girl, she and Luz face new challenges; issues always just under the surface now compellingly rise: what is true motherhood? What is the significance of blood relation? And what is home?
- A group of English-speaking women from Gush Etzion decide to take a novel approach to the numerous Intifada attacks in the area: they will cope by writing a biblical musical - the story of Esther. In the midst of death and tragedy, the women, write, compose and choreograph a stage musical which eventually will be performed all over Israel.
- Avigdor is a tap dancer. In Auschwitz-Birkenau his dancing saved his life. Today, he is 88 and lives in a retirement home. When Avigdor dances on the parquet floor of his room, he laughs until he's out of breath, and with the last ounce of his strength he pushes his tired feet to do a few more steps. For Avigdor, dancing isn't a hobby and isn't therapy. It's the way to survive.
- Shirley, a 23 year old blogger, spends months in hospital waiting for a new heart. While she waits, she learns about the meaning of getting and giving.