A Lullaby for the Valley

A Lullaby for the Valley

Artist Eli Shamir paints the view from his studio balcony – fields stretching to the horizon, ancient oak trees, and a generation of farmers that is disappearing from the vistas of the Jezreel Valley. His large oils are treasured by…

Saul & Ruby's Holocaust Survivor Band

Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band

Holocaust survivors and musicians Saul (94, drummer) and Ruby (90, accordion), formed The Holocaust Survivor Band with a dream to one day perform their music in Poland – both their homeland and where they endured unimaginable trauma. Through the sharing…

Four Mothers

Four Mothers

Israel is a war-ridden country that has claimed tens of thousands of victims. Over the years the public has leaned on the ethos of sacrifice. Generations of mothers send their sons to war without asking questions. They play their assigned…

Rain in Her Eyes

Rain in Her Eyes

The filmmaker revisits the childhood of his mother, beloved children’s author Dvora Omer, whose tortuous life story left its mark on her writing and her relationships. At age 11, Dvora finds her self an orphan after her mother is found…

Marry Me However

Marry Me However

The film tells the stories of LGBT men and women who, for religious reasons, decided to marry against their own sexual orientation, to comply with Torah laws and be accepted into their families and religious communities. Some shared their secret…

The Dead of Jaffa

The Dead of Jaffa

Three children from the West Bank are smuggled to Israel. Without a mother and a father in jail, the siblings arrive at the home of George and Rita, an Israeli Palestinian couple who live in Jaffa. George is afraid that…

Murder at Cinema North

Murder at Cinema North

In 1957, young Holocaust survivor Tommy Blitz tries to rob the Cinema North cashier and in the process, he kills Italian-Jewish engineer Fidia Fiatelli. After a failed escape from jail, Blitz seeks forgiveness from Fiatelli’s widow Heinkeh, a German music…

Forgiveness

Forgiveness

Shaul and Nissan botch a bank robbery, but only Shaul takes the blame. Three years later, Shaul gets out of prison to find Nissan, now extremely religious, waiting for him. Nissan is seeking forgiveness, but Shaul only wants to get…