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- DirectorJonathan GruberStarsMenachem BeginLooking back at his legacy in a new light, one of Israel's most venerated but complex and controversial leaders receives an incisive portrait. Menachem Begin was a proud pillar of the State of Israel, fiercely devoted to the Jewish people. Jailed in a Soviet gulag for pre-war Zionist activities and scarred by loss in the Holocaust, he founded the right-wing Likud party, and was vilified as a fascist and terrorist by critics. Yet Begin is remembered as among Israel's most democratic prime ministers for defending Jewish immigration and signing the historic peace accord with Egypt. Rarely seen archival materials and astute interviews offer rich, nuanced insights into a mesmerizing political figure born into war, but who never ceded the hope for peace.
- DirectorLevi ZiniStarsMenachem BeginMenachem Begin was the prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. He made peace, war, and changed the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East forever. A feature film based on the successful three-episode series.
- DirectorAyelet OfarimStarsTzahi GradHannan HeverDan MeridorThe Raven is a touching and exciting portrait of one of Israel's most contradictory figures. Born in Odessa, Jabotinsky was a brilliant writer and passionate spokesperson for Russia's ethnic minorities. Eventually refocusing his energies and skills to the Zionist cause, he established the controversial Revisionist Party. While Jabotinsky is often memorialized as a key founder of the Israeli far right, director Ayelet Ofarim presents a more complex portrait of his dynamic life and character, complimenting readings stunning animation and wonderful narration.
- CreatorLevi ZiniStarsLior SchillatDov WeissglasGilad SharonWhat led Ariel Sharon, known as a the 'Bulldozer', to be the first Israeli Prime Minister to begin shaping the borders of the State? In the east, the separation wall, in the south, the evacuation of Gush Katif settlements, and the building of fence on the Green Line, the border line up until 1967.
- CreatorAvi IssacharoffLior RazStarsLior RazItzik CohenNeta GartyThe human stories on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
- DirectorOren RosenfeldStarsAngel WoodlandWe go behind the scenes of 'Fauda' ('Chaos') to find out why this Israeli TV thriller is such a hit in Arab countries. How real is it in showing the world of Israeli Special Forces and Palestinian militants? Can a drama help bring real life enemies together?
- CreatorDana EdenMaor KohnOmri ShenharStarsNiv SultanShaun ToubShervin AlenabiA Mossad agent embarks on her first mission as a computer hacker in her home town of Tehran.
- DirectorYaron ZilbermanStarsYehuda Nahari HaleviAmitay Yaish Ben OusilioAnat RavnitzkiDetails the year leading to the assassination of Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), from the point of view of the assassin.
- DirectorSagi BornsteinUdi NirShani RozanesStarsUri AvneriYossi BeilinMeron MedziniThe eventful story of Golda Meir's term as Prime Minister of Israel - from her surprising rise to power and iconic international stature as "queen of the Jewish people", to her tragic and lonely demise.
- CreatorTawfik Abu WaelJoseph CedarHagai LeviStarsShlomi ElkabetzJohnny ArbidAdam GabayBased on the true events which led to the outbreak of war in Gaza 2014.
- CreatorLevi ZiniStarsRomy NeumarkDanny StegMenachem BeginMenachem Begin was elected prime minister in May 1977 and revolutionized the political and social reality in Israel. The series explores Begin's days in the Prime Minister's Office. With a wealth of archival materials and interviewees, who stood close to history, Begin presents a surprising and unfamiliar portrait of Israel's sixth prime minister.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsLiron LevoTomer RussoUri KlauznerWhen the Yom Kippur War breaks out, two Israeli soldiers find themselves unable to locate their unit. Eager to take part in the war effort, they join an airborne medical evacuation unit.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsAmos GitaiClara KhouryMakram KhouryIn his latest film, A Letter to a Friend in Gaza, Gitai pays homage to Albert Camus and explores the return to Palestinian villages while interjecting texts by Izhar Smilansky, Emile Habibi, Mahmoud Darwish, and Amira Hass.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsBill ClintonAmos GitaiTzipi HotovelyAmos Gitai returns to the West Bank to better understand the efforts of the citizens, both Israelis and Palestinians, to try to overcome the consequences of the 50-year occupation. Interspersing footage of his interviews with Yitzhak Rabin from the 1990s with the contemporary interviews of everyday citizens.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsAchinoam NiniMathieu AmalricLamis AmmarOn a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem's neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds are brought together.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsIschac HiskiyaYitzhak HizkiyaPini MittelmanItzhak Rabin's murder ended all efforts of peace, and with him the whole left wing of Israel died. The movie shows the last of his days as prime minister, and what led to his murder.
- DirectorGuillermo ArriagaHector BabencoÁlex de la IglesiaStarsYaël AbecassisDemián BichirRicha ChadhaThe first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof.
- DirectorLevi ZiniStarsAvi DichterGideon EzraCarmi GillonThe story of the abduction and attempted rescue of the late soldier Nachshon Wachsman is documented step by step.
- CreatorReinhardt BeetzDuki DrorItai LandsbergStarsThomas FriedmanBeau MarieAmos GiladThe story of Lebanon is one of ongoing tragedy. A march of follies orchestrated by heads of state, sects, and militias. The Palestinians, French, British, Iranians, Syrians, Americans, Israelis and the Lebanese themselves, have all, at one point or another, contributed to the country's tragic history. Caught up in the chaos were the Lebanese themselves - made up of different sects, religions, and ethnicities - writing their own history in a string of political assassinations, massacres, and betrayals.
- StarsIgal NaorNadia CohenTamir PardoEli Cohen, the spy who was larger than life. Many of the mysteries surrounding the super-spy have been revealed over the years, others we might never learn, but Cohen's courage and fate have returned to public consciousness lately. A new three-part documentary tries to give viewers a sense of what Israel's legendary "man in Damascus" experienced as a working secret agent and after his capture by the Syrians.
- CreatorMatti FriedmanIsrael RosnerStarsEhud BarakYossi BeilinShelly YehimovichAfter the first Lebanon War in 1982, Israel set up a security zone in south Lebanon and for a full generation of soldiers the IDF was there, with its best troops, fighting Hizbullah and Palestinian terrorists to protect Israel from attack. Tens of thousands of Israelis served there, hundreds of soldiers were killed and more wounded. And yet, this was a conflict without a name.
- DirectorRan TalStarsEhud BarakCan a leader succeed in influencing the world? Or is he, as any other human being, only a nutshell tossed to the waves of history with no ability to affect it? Tolstoy pondered this question in War and Peace. Ehud Barak, controversial former prime minister and a decorated commander on the battlefield, contemplates it in this film. Twenty years after he was forced to resign from the premiership due to the failure of the 2000 Camp David summit, 78-year-old Barak observes his own history and the history of the State of Israel with disillusioned clarity, while trying to figure it all out - "What if?"
- CreatorDaniel AmselAmit CohenRon LeshemStarsAvraham Aviv AlushLior AshkenaziShahar TavochOn October 6th 1973, the Middle East was shaken by the biggest war it had ever seen. A war that should have been the last one, and that forever changed the region.
- DirectorStephen LentiniStarsAmir YosmanMoshe GoldsmithLeah GoldsmithClosed-off to most of the world, the filmmakers were granted exclusive access to an isolated Jewish settlement in the Northern West Bank called Itamar which sits between two mountains- the Mountain of the Blessing and the Mountain of the Curse. On the night of March 11, 2011, two terrorists penetrated the security fence of the community, entered the home of the Fogel family, who were asleep in their beds, and brutally murdered the parents and three of their children, including a three-month-old who was nearly beheaded. THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE explores the aftermath of the crime and examines how the memory of that night still haunts the people of Itamar, and poses the question: Why would anyone choose to raise their family in such a dangerous place?
- CreatorHila BaharadArik BernsteinShai LahavStarsYaël AbecassisYossi AlfiSammy SmoohaA four episodes documentary series that unveils one of the most controversial topics in the history of the Israeli state. Rare archival materials and testimonials of former residents tell the stories of the 'Ma'abrot' (refugee absorption camps meant to provide accommodation for the large influx of Jewish refugees in Israel in the 1950s), and the institutional discrimination towards its inhabitants - Jewish immigrants from North Africa and Middle East.
- DirectorYossi AtiaDavid OfekStarsYossi AtiaLihi KornowskiItamar RoseA black comedy which follows Ronen Matalon's journey to overcome his anxiety of terror attacks. Ronen uses writing and guiding a tour of terror-attack sites along Jerusalem's Jaffa Street to try and break free from his trauma.
- DirectorGoldberg AyalThree 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.
- DirectorNurit KedarThe Israeli Defence Force operation "Cast Lead" in Gaza wasn't covered by the media due to military embargo. For the first time, Israeli soldiers who took part in the conflict in 2009 speak out about their actions.