DOCUMENTARY FILMS

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
  • Bronca

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    This documentary follows journalist Shlomo Slutzky as he pursues justice for his cousin, Dr. Samuel Slutzky, murdered during Argentina’s 1970s dictatorship.
    The prime suspect, Aníbal Gauto, accused of kidnapping, torture, murder, and the theft of babies, has been wanted by INTERPOL for 15 years....

  • The Journey of Vaan Nguyen

    The Vietnam War was traumatic, and shook the consciousness of the West. Millions of Vietnamese people fled their homes to the cruel sea to save their lives. The “boat people” who survived the journey and were given asylum in new lands, can now recount their ordeal. Decades later, some still have ...

  • That Orchestra with the Broken Instruments

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    This documentary film follows an extraordinary orchestra of 100 musicians—professional and amateur, young and old—who come together in Jerusalem for four days of rehearsals ahead of a one-time concert at the Mekudeshet festival. With broken instruments, different languages, and endless challenges...

  • Tunnel of Hope

    The painful memories and hopeful reflections of three generations of Jews tragically affected by the Holocaust, merge into one incredible narrative of perseverance and survival. In 1943, 250 Jewish slave workers successfully escaped from a Nazi labor camp in Novogrudok, Belarus, via a tunnel they...

  • Remembering Marrakech

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    This documentary film tells the story of the Jewish Mellah (quarter) in Marrakech—one of Morocco’s oldest. Through a collage of short documentaries created by students from Sapir College in Israel and MU6P University in Morocco, the film explores the Mellah’s rich past, its fragile present, and u...

  • Shai K.

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    This documentary film tells the untold story of Shaike Ophir, one of Israel’s greatest actors, often hailed as the “Israeli Charlie Chaplin.” A performer who collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock and Marcel Marceau, Ophir became a beloved star at home, yet few knew the man behind the thousand faces....

  • The Other City

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    This documentary film follows Livi, a photography student who, over the course of 12 years, documents her four closest friends—young artists in downtown Haifa, far from the Tel Aviv art scene. With intimacy and love, the film traces their pursuit of artistic dreams while grappling with economic h...

  • Razzouk Tattoo

    After becoming the sole heir of a 700-year-old dynasty of Christian tattoo artists from the Old City of Jerusalem who has tattooed pilgrims for hundreds of years with ancient olive wood stencils, Wassim Razzouk discovers an old book that implies that not all the stencils belonging to his family w...

  • Arik Lavie - Why Didn't You Say So?

    Yael Lavie, the daughter of Arik Lavie, one of Israel's most celebrated national singers, explores his turbulent childhood in Germany, the abandonment of his mother during the rise of the Nazis and his tortured relationship with women and his country.

    Year: 2017
    Language: Hebrew, English & Hebre...

  • Perón and the Jews

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    In this documentary film, Israeli-Argentinian filmmaker Shlomo Slutzky embarks on a personal journey to confront accusations against his late father, labeled a “Gorilla” in 1950s Argentina for alleged pro-military and anti-democratic views during the Perón regime. Through conversations with his f...

  • Israel Inside

    Explore the positive characteristics of Israeli society from a humanistic, psychological, and emotional perspective. This insightful and uplifting documentary sidesteps the usual conversation of politics, conflict and violence, and tells the story of the Israeli people – whose resilience has prop...

  • Our Natural Right

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    This documentary film revisits the historic hall in Tel Aviv where Israel’s Declaration of Independence was signed. Over seventy years later, the grandchildren of the original signatories gather to reflect on the legacy of their forebears and debate the unresolved questions that continue to shape...

  • Out Loud

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    This documentary film follows Omar, Muhammad, and Yazan—three 12-year-old boys from Lod, an Israeli-Arab city just minutes from Tel Aviv—as they face pivotal challenges in their final year of elementary school. Omar struggles with his father’s mental illness, Yazan with the consequences of his vi...

  • My Hero Brother

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    This documentary film follows a group of extraordinary young people with Down syndrome as they embark on a demanding trek through the Indian Himalayas with their brothers and sisters. Along the journey, old family tensions surface and the complexities of growing up alongside a sibling with specia...

  • Muranow

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    This haunting documentary film explores Warsaw’s Muranow neighborhood, once the site of the largest Jewish ghetto during World War II. Beneath its spacious streets and green courtyards lie the ruins of buildings and the unremoved remains of thousands of Jews buried under the rubble. The new neigh...

  • Ma’abarot

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    Ma’abarot is the first documentary film to thoroughly explore the story of Israel’s transit camps (1948–1952), where hundreds of thousands of immigrants from across the globe were housed on their way to becoming part of the young state. Though this period shaped Israeli society to this day, it ha...

  • Little Victories

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    This documentary film tells the moving story of Tamar and Michal, two friends brought together on an amateur catchball team during a turbulent time in their lives. Michal, the film’s director and a teammate, documents Tamar’s journey after losing her husband to a sudden heart attack. As Michal be...

  • Leaving Paradise

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    This documentary film follows Cleo, Anita, and their fifteen children as they pursue a lifelong dream of communal life in the countryside. After years of preparation, the family builds “Vila Barolo,” a self-made utopia where they live, work, and grow together. But when one daughter researches the...

  • Kinneret: Sea of Life

    In the most magical place in the land of Genesis, a story about a kitten who lost her mother and was left alone in the stormy jungle of life on the Sea of Galilee. An exciting cinematic drama, about the wildlife around the Sea of Galilee as never seen before. Twenty years of photography in an exc...

  • In Between

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    This documentary film follows Dana and Amit, who met at 25, married, and had two children. But soon after their second child was born, Amit embraced an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle while Dana remained secular. Deeply in love yet divided by faith, they face the challenge of bridging their growing diff...

  • How to Say Silence

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    This documentary film begins with a discovery: after her grandmother’s death, the director finds an old photograph inscribed “A week after abortion.” Knowing her grandmother could not conceive and had adopted her father, she embarks on a journey with no clear destination. Along the way, she uncov...

  • Hotline

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    This documentary film takes viewers inside the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, a small but determined Tel Aviv–based NGO working tirelessly to defend the rights of undocumented people. Mostly led by women, the activists provide legal aid, navigate government bureaucracy, and spearhead public c...

  • Honorable Men - The Rise and Fall of Ehud Olmert

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    Honorable Men is a gripping political thriller - style documentary by Roni Aboulafia, chronicling the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert - from the nation’s highest office to serving time in Maasiyahu Prison. With unprecedented access to Olmert, the film ...

  • Cinema Celebration - 50 Years of Israeli Cinema

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    A unique two part documentary that encompasses 50 years of Israeli cinema through dozens of interviews with the filmmakers who created some of the most important, beloved, locally and internationally successful movies in the history of Israeli cinema.

    Creators: Arik Bernstein, Noit Geva, Shai La...