Social Issues
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Esther, Emmanuel and Michal were born in Israel to migrant parents fro...
Ertz Ir / Scattegories
Director:
Yakie Ayalon
55 min.
This sociological journey back in time began over twenty years ago when several families were evicted from their home...
The Three Yossi
Director:
Yael Kipper, Ronen Zaretzky
85 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.
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.
“I was sixteen years old when my older sister Rachel moved to Kibbutz Neot Smadar. Many rumors spread about this secl...
Absolute Happiness
Director:
Aviv Or-Meshulam
60 min.
Ornit and Genendi are two brave Jewish orthodox women who refuse to participate in the cover-up of pedophilia in thei...
Unkept Secrets
Director:
Dalit Kimor
58 min.
A personal, intimate film, telling the story of a nuclear family that decides to become a surrogate family and help a...
Holding It In
Director:
Chen Rotem, Omer Yefman
60 min.
In the autumn of 2015, Israeli director Ronit Kertsner sees a YouTube-video that goes viral: Hans Breuer, Austria’s l...
Refugee Lullaby
Director:
Ronit Kertsner
72 min.
Without adequate medical resources in the Palestinian territories, patients requiring advanced treatments in Israel a...
Border Of Pain
Director:
Ruth Walk
50 min.
For 20 years, Jonathan, the filmmaker grew up in Jerusalem and in an Ashram in India, which he had to keep secret. In...
The Ashram Children: I Am No Body, I Have No Body
Director:
Jonathan Ofek
67 min.
Goddamned communist. Internal enemy. Privileged Tel Aviv Ashkenazi.
It seems Dov Khenin has been called almost ...
Comrade Dov
Director:
Barak Heymann, Uri Levi
75 min.
The village of Beit Jann in the mountains of the Galilee holds the highest record of high school graduates in Israel,...
One Hundred Percent
Director:
Yael Kipper, Ronen Zaretsky
70 min.
A cinematic puzzle made up of hundreds of Israeli feature films from the 1960's till this day. Fragments of shots, pi...
Shooting The Israeli Man (cut To The Chase)
Director:
Noit Geva
60 min.
Rajae Sanduka struggles with the daily hardships of a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem during the Holy month of the ...
The Ramadan Cannon Of Jerusalem
Director:
Nimrod Shanit, Atta Awisat
45 min.
21 days of detention and interrogation of a Bedouin woman accused of murdering her own son.
The body of a two-...
21 Days Inside
Director:
Zohar Wagner
65 min.
“Ma’abarot” is the first documentary project unfolding the story of the Israeli transit camps. The transit camps were...
Ma’abarot
Director:
Dina Zvi Riklis
84 min.
It’s only a half hour drive from Bnei-Brak, a closed Orthodox city, to Tel Aviv’s shore. But for the women going ther...
Kosher Beach
Director:
Karin Kainer
62 min.
Ravit spends all of her spare time hugging abandoned babies. Without human touch and the warmth of a hug, the abandon...
Alone Together
Director:
Maya Tiberman
54 min.
A 15-year-long documentation follows the gut wrenching story of an adolescent boy who discovers one day that he had b...
Best Unkept Secret
Director:
Ilan Mizrahi
57 min.
Tal left kibbutz and became religious with his family. 25 years later he gets divorced, Leave religion and returns to...
My Father’s Salad
Director:
Tal Paran
60 min.
The Aleppo Codex, aka The Crown, is considered the most accurate and valuable edition of the Hebrew Bible. After bein...
The Lost Crown
Director:
Avi Dabach
62 min.
The story of the chief Rabbi of Copenhagen’s Jewish community, who would come to be known as Rabbi Doolittle. Arrivin...
There Are No Lions In Tel Aviv
Director:
Duki Dror
63 min.
LEFTOVER WOMEN is how the Chinese describe educated women in their mid-20s who are still single. With
extraordi...
Leftover Women
Director:
Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam
84 min.
Phoenix, 32 years old, was born and raised in the African Hebrew Israelite community in Dimona, a small city in the d...
Phoenix
Director:
Anat Tel
69 min.
FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM portrays the story of Soviet "Refuseniks" through the prism of Natan Sharansky's biography. I...
From Slavery To Freedom
Director:
Arkady Kogan
84 min.
Noah Klieger is the last living survivor of the boxing team of Auschwitz and the oldest still active journalist in th...
Box For Life
Director:
Uri Borreda
60 min.
A group of remarkable young people with Down syndrome embark on a demanding trek through the Indian Himalayas, accomp...
My Hero Brother
Director:
Yonatan Nir
78 min.
Criminologist Dr. Dan Philipp has devoted his career to treating sexual offenders. The intense encounter with evil ha...
The Wounded Healer
Director:
Yochai Rosenberg
54 min.
On the night of March 5, 2002, a terrorist opened fire on diners in a Tel Aviv restaurant. Druze policeman Salim Bara...
Cause Of Death
Director:
Ramy Katz
79 min.
When El-Ad was a child, his mother told him: “Raising you is like raising three kids.” Ever since that moment, he fel...
The Sign For Love
Director:
Elad Cohen, Iris Ben Moshe
75 min.