Itzhak
If there is anybody who personifies the resilience, the vision and ultimately the contribution of the Jewish people, it’s Itzhak Perlman. The violin is his chosen instrument, the vehicle he has used to overcome his own challenges and express himself…
Muhi
Muhi is a brave and spirited 7 year old Palestinian boy, caught between two homes and two peoples and the inevitable politics of an age-old conflict. A team of filmmakers spent the last six years chronicling his childhood “trapped” in…
Ben-Gurion, Epilogue
In the great depths of the archive, six hours of interview footage was discovered of one of modern history’s greatest leaders- David Ben-Gurion. It is 1968 and he is 82 years old, five years before his death. He lives in…
Missing Father
Decades after the death of Israel’s legendary but discredited Lieutenant General David Elazar (Dado), his youngest son launches a personal investigation into the life of the national celebrity and military genius. Now a father himself, Yair Elazar feels compelled to…
Voices from El-Sayed
The Bedouin village of El-Sayed in the picturesque Israeli Negev desert is home to the largest percentage of deaf people in the world. In this community, deafness is seen as the norm rather than as a disability and the members…
Precious Life
After losing two infants to an inherited immunological disease, a Palestinian woman turns to Israeli physicians in the hope that they can save her third sick child through a bone-marrow transplant. The film-maker finds himself drawn deeper into this complex…
The Settlers
Shimon Dotan’s provocative documentary about Israeli settlers in the West Bank is sure to spark conversation. Dotan turns the camera on the settlers themselves and asks the question, “What is a settler?” What we hear is a diversity of responses, ranging…
Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?
This humorous and sensitive documentary follows one man’s struggle for acceptance in the face of seemingly impossible odds. Saar Moaz, an HIV-positive gay man, dares to face his homophobic Orthodox family that 20 years earlier banished him from the kibbutz. Now living…
On The Map – Gratz College
In 1977, the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team prevailed over CSKA Moscow (known in the West as Red Army), a team that refused to play against Israel. Moments after this highly charged and historical win, Israeli-American basketball hero Tal Brody…
Aida’s Secrets
This documentary digs up the 70-year mystery of one Israeli gardener’s genealogy. Adopted out of a displaced person’s camp as a child, Izak partners with Yad Vashem (the global Holocaust remembrance organization), the genealogy group MyHeritage, and documentarians Alon and…
