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- Sees the discriminative tendencies in sports against LGBTQ people, and how a sportsman learns to accept and love himself despite that.
- December 2010. A prisoner is found dead in his cell at one of Israel's maximum security prisons, having hung himself after 10 months in solitary confinement, and under 24/7 surveillance. None of the guards knew his name, or the nature of his crime. They knew him only as "Prisoner X". The Israeli government placed a blanket gag order on the reporting of the story. The Prisoner's identity remained a mystery for another three years when an Australian journalist revealed the prisoner was Australian citizen Ben Zygier, an alleged Mossad agent. The film presents Ben Zygier's untold story, digging into the emotional, personal and political fallout of his story, but also poses the question: "What happens when you dare ask: 'What happened?'" Those close to him return us to Ben's childhood. A young Jewish boy growing up in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield. His faith firmly built into his identity; he attended a Jewish high school, and youth summer camps. These underpinnings would bring him to Israel, where his dual identity would begin. Testimonies paint a picture of a young agent whose ambition to excel did not match his actual skills, and that his mental fitness did not fit the profile of that required from a Mossad agent. The tension between the different, and at times contradictory versions of "Prisoner X"'s story, allows for dramatic storytelling and raises important questions of government transparency, and censorship, and the abuse of power "in the name of security".
- The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem - the most sacred place in Christendom - is shared by six different Christian sects: Greek Orthodox, Catholics, Armenians, Copts, Syrians and the Ethiopians - all of whom are constantly trying to maintain the ancient, fragile Status Quo. The guardians of the key to the Church are two Moslem families, both of which claim to be the key custodian. And one Israeli Police officer, Johnny, who's responsible for keeping the peace in the Church.
- A touching and humorous film about loss, life chances, love, family, illness, the end and the beginning. It is also about the search for roots and the therapeutic role of cinema, which can be an escape or create new worlds. This bittersweet family story is abundantly saturated with emotions, although its main character has serious difficulty with showing it. Oren was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and the fact that he is an adopted child makes it difficult for him to adapt. Suddenly, his life changes with the help of the camera, which becomes an extraordinary therapy tool assisting him on a long journey in search of his identity.
- The Muranow neighborhood in Warsaw was once a flourishing and important center of Jewish life. During World War II the neighborhood was turned into the Warsaw Ghetto. When the war ended, the neighborhood was rebuilt with the rubble of its own destruction. Today, thousands of Poles live in the green and spacious Muranow, yet its' dark past keeps haunting it. Polish residents claim that Jewish ghosts live in the neighborhood. At night they shake off the dust and ashes that cover them, and wander the streets they once lived in. Other residents think the ghosts are a metaphor for the life, culture, and memories of the Jewish people buried beneath the ground.
- The practices of purity and impurity are the hallmarks of mandatory law and practice in the Samaritan community and the Ethiopian community. The film looks at the Niddah customs in both communities, as we meet protagonists Yafit (47) and Mollya (44). They bring us into their homes and share their experiences of the rituals of Niddah in their respective communities.
- A non-functional relationship between a deaf child and his hard-working father, who struggles to accept his son's deafness.
- In 2008, at a top-secret facility in Virginia, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is working to uncover the criminal resources that feed the coffers of the Iranian-backed Shiite movement based in Lebanon. The DEA knows that the organization, in order to pursue its military and terrorist activities, is involved in cocaine and arms trafficking to the tune of a billion dollars a year. But because the investigation was getting dangerously close to the inner circle of power in Teheran, which Washington was trying to spare in order to save the Iranian nuclear negotiations, the censored agency did not obtain authorization to take action.
- Dr. Rudy was an iconic psycho-guru and founder of "The Rudy Psychoanalytic Institute" - the largest in Israel during the 70's. His controversial therapy methods forced him to fight for his reputation and the institute's survival. His demise raises questions regarding abuse of power and moral boundaries.
- Thousands of lonely Russian-speaking elderlies have become even lonelier due to the pandemic. Stuck at home on their own and unable to communicate in Hebrew, the situation has forced a double isolation on them. The radio, the TV and phone calls with volunteers are their only lifelines.
- At the age of 75, Geula broke up with her husband Arik, 77. A contractor was hired to build a wall that divided the family house in two, and each of them now lives in their own half. The director Shai Gal points his camera to his parents in an attempt to find out what happened to their love? Why did it take them 55 years to break up? And what does life look like on both sides of the new wall? This film is an intimate, funny, surprising and painful family journey about secrets, insults, desires, compromises, loneliness and parenthood. About the end of love. And what about your love life?
- Longing for Nadia and feeling guilt after she was raped and murdered by an unknown man, Alex slowly steps into her identity.
- As time draws closer towards the jail release of her violent husband, Kifaya Ayati, a resident of Acre, who has been brutally attacked several times, is looking for a way to survive. She paints women who have been harmed and murdered by their spouses and meets their sisters, mothers and daughters. Every meeting becomes a portrait of a murdered woman and an indictment against the Israeli society, police and courts.
- Judith Kahana grew up on the Samaria hills. She was considered a classic "Hill Top" girl: she participated in the resistence movement against the evacuation of Gush Katif, took part in the settlement efforts and was part of a movement of young people, for whom this land was sacred and priceless. But as she matured, something inside her broke and her feelings towards this land of bloodshed became more ambivalent. Judith sets out on a journey to find some answers to the questions that were bothering her: she confronts her mother, who had hoped that her daughter would continue in the path paved for her; she re-examines some of the religious leaders she so look up to, and who had betrayed her. Torn between the land, calling her to stay, and this new inner voice asking her to leave, she sets out to find a new home.
- A random trance party in a living room is fairly common when it comes to young people. But what happens when the young people are Israeli soldiers, when the living room is owned by a Palestinian family that is locked up in one on the rooms of the house? 18 years after serving in the army, Eran Paz finds a box of videotapes with rare footage of himself and his squad mates, invading Palestinian homes in the occupied territories. Now Eran sets out on a journey in the footsteps of the people, the memories and the places that inundate him and give him no peace.
- An experimental and intimate docu-art closely follows six years in the life of a unique family. This reflective self-documentation deals with the unbearable gaps between dreams and body limitations. Surprisingly, it might offer solace, or even raise a smile.
- A young Ultra-Orthodox woman is summoned by her autistic son's school. She comes, determined to fight for his place and her own.
- For the last thirty years David Talker has been father, heart, and soul of the cricket team Dimona Champions. He dreams of building the first cricket field in Israel, but his dream comes with a high price tag. Now that his team is about to fall apart he gazes courageously at his past and reconnects the pieces of his life.