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…
You Only Die Twice
Israeli documentarian Yair Lev’s powerful project becomes personal when he films his own investigation into his grandfather’s identity. After Lev’s mother runs into some difficulty surrounding an inheritance, the family discovers a former president of an Austrian Jewish community with…
Cause of Death
From accomplished documentary director, Ramy A Katz comes a film that strives to shed light on a decade old mystery. A terrorist opens fire in a restaurant in Tel Aviv. A Druze police officer, Salim Barakat, stops the terrorist but…
It’s About Time
For Israelis, time ticks double speed, pursued by a glorious past, a dubious present, and an uncertain future. This uncertainty threatens adults and challenges youth. A very human story about people who wonder if they have used time to its…
It Kinda Scares Me
Documentary filmmaker Tomer Heymann turns his unflinching lens on a group of delinquent Israeli teenagers in a small town near Tel Aviv. Working together on the creation of a play, these troubled young men reveal the anxieties and aspirations shared…
On The Front Line
A rare opportunity to observe Israeli society as it appears through the eyes of a group of politically divergent young people awaiting the start of their military service in the IDF. In the course of a year of community service…
Tikkun
Providing an insider’s view of the lives of ultra-orthodox women, this film introduces us to Rebbitzen Leah Kook. Who is this woman? A religious missionary? An actress? A motherly housewife? What is the source of her power? This rare documentary…
Le Grand Akshan
Director and screen writer Ron Goldman unfolds the amazing story of his great-grandfather, an ardent Zionist and business man, who was determined to save his family from Nazis and fulfill his passionate dreams.
Purity
An engaging and thoughtful documentary about three women who examine the laws and rituals regarding family purity and sexuality within the Jewish Orthodoxy. “…Because it’s made by an orthodox Jewish woman it offers a point of view not usually seen…
