Docaviv 2020 Program
As Lebanon today is on the verge of collapse, a look back into the country’s history explores how a small regional co...
Lebanon – Borders Of Blood
Director:
Duki Dror
90 min.
Salman Schocken was the King of department stores in Germany. Before WWII, he owned 22 department stores with 6,000 e...
Schocken, On The Verge Of Consensus
Director:
Noemi Schory
82 min.
“The Prophet and The Space Aliens” follows Rael, who after an alleged encounter with extraterrestrials – that appoint...
The Prophet And The Space Aliens
Director:
Yoav Shamir
86 min.
Artist Eli Shamir paints the view from his studio balcony – fields stretching to the horizon, ancient oak trees, and ...
A Lullaby For The Valley
Director:
Ben Shani
75 min.
At the age of 80, Captain Meirson embarks on his last sail at open seas on his hand-made boat.
Surrounded by th...
Coda For A Captain
Director:
Keren Alexander
60 min.
Israel is a war-ridden country that has claimed tens of thousands of victims. Over the years the public has leaned on...
Four Mothers
Director:
Rephael Levin, Dana Keidar Levin
70 min.
Three decades after she arrived in Israel from the city of Derbent in the Caucasus, Sarah debates whether she should ...
No Hard Feelings
Director:
Arthur Abramov
70 min.
A young filmmaker meets and follows Raya, a 94-year-old Soviet war heroine who fought in the Siege of Leningrad. As H...
The War Of Raya Sinitsina
Director:
Efim Graboy
88 min.
Seven young people share their love for Yiddish avant-garde poetry written during the interwar period - a period whic...
Yiddish
Director:
Nurith Aviv
60 min.
The film tells the stories of LGBT men and women who, for religious reasons, decided to marry against their own sexua...
Marry Me However
Director:
Mordechai Vardi
63 min.
A young Holocaust survivor who descends into crime; an Italian-Jewish engineer who wants to see a movie; a German Chr...
Murder At Cinema North
Director:
Avida Livny
75 min.
Kibbutz Maoz Chaim children’s house, 1943. A gunshot rings out, followed by silence.11-year-old Dvor’aleh is orphaned...
Rain In Her Eyes
Director:
Ron Omer
60 min.
Osher, Michelle, and Eitan were taken out of their homes as children and transferred to foster families. Their biolog...
A Waste Of Space
Director:
Noam Demsky, Ido Bahat
59 min.
In the busiest city of a bustling country, at the bustling Central Train Station in Tel Aviv, a piano is placed, allo...
Tuning
Director:
Ilan Yagoda
54 min.
The film tells the story of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s unexpected rise to power and his dramatic fal...
Honorable Men
Director:
Roni Aboulafia
120 min.
Raymonde—diva, queen, enigma, inspiration, survivor, widow, woman, and mother. Armed with a camera, Yael Abecassis fo...
Raymonde El Bidaoia
Director:
Yael Abecassis
78 min.
“Time Machine” goes back 30 years and depicts the narrative of Rockfour, one of the most significant rock bands in Is...
Rockfour: The Time Machine
Director:
Gad Aisen
90 min.
A random trance party in a living room is fairly common when it comes to young people. But what happens when the youn...
And I Was There
Director:
Eran Paz
65 min.
“Little Victories” is a dramedy-docu that tells the story of Tamar and Michal, two Tel-Avivian mothers and members of...
Little Victories
Director:
Michal Warshai Arluk
57 min.