Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi
A tongue-in-cheek look at the high-pitched celebrations swirling around Israel’s 50th Anniversary. This film walks the line between fact and fiction in a delightful and thought provoking examination of contemporary Israeli society.
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Natalie Portman, in her directorial debut, also writes and stars in this adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Amos Oz. A moving tale of the founding of the state of Israel as recounted through events in Oz’s own life. The story begins…
The Polgar Variant
The extraordinary story of three Hungarian-Jewish sisters who were raised in Communist Budapest of the 1970s to be chess masters. The Polgar sisters did not choose to become the heroines of this story. It was their father, who, driven by…
Life in Stills
A photo shop owner and and her grandson join forces to save “The Photo House,” the last original photo shop in Israel, and the nearly one million negatives that document the country’s defining moments. Despite the generation gap and many…
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