Ma’abarot
A stark and direct examination of the transit camps that were used to handle the surge of immigrants in post World War II Israel, Ma’abarot examines a matter believed largely forgotten by the public consciousness. Collecting lost footage and interviewing…
Kosher Beach
A short drive from the Orthodox city Bnei Brak, “Kosher Beach” is a gated and secluded, with dedicated days for women and men to bathe separately. Only a modesty fence separates it from the nearby secular beaches and their “taboo”…
The Rabbi from Hezbollah
From director Itamar Chen comes the story of Ibrahim Yassin. A man, born in a small village in Lebanon, a shepherd like his father before him, he faced hardship after hardship. But life would take him on a strange course…
Aulcie
Aulcie is the inspiring story of Aulcie Perry, the basketball legend who’s talent and inspired leadership led Maccabi Tel Aviv to the European Champion ship in 1977. But this documentary examines more than his basketball career. From his conversion to…
Golda
For the first time, witness Prime Minister Golda Meir, the only woman to ever lead Israel, speaks about her turbulent political career. Rare archival footage of a more candid conversation, shot after a television interview, is brought into the public…
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
The story behind one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when “tradition” was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations and religion were evolving. The film…
A Mirror for the Sun
A Mirror For The Sun documents the most harrowing adventure of the IDF’s first-ever Jewish Orthodox combat navigator, Tamar Ariel. After serving her tour and then two additional years of voluntary military service Tamar Ariel wished to broaden her experiences…
Homemade
Trying to preserve the legacy of a family falafel business, Motti and his son feed the people of The Prophets street. A captivating short piece showing a father and son relationship through the most famous falafel window in Jerusalem. This…
In Her Footsteps
Forced to flee Tal-a-Sabeh, a conservative Bedouin village, Rana and her parents find a new home in the nearby Jewish community of Omer. Rana’s mother, now having to make final arrangements due to terminal breast cancer, has a dying wish;…
The Ancestral Sin
The story of Israel’s “development towns” in a chilling documentary, as never told before: Testimonials and previously sealed transcripts reveal a method, an ideology and a cruel practice of law enforcement and decision makers behind the “population dispersal” policies in…
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