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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

This documentary film follows the director’s deeply personal journey into an exhibition of self-portraits by a celebrated painter—the man in every image is her father, though few know it. Born out of wedlock, she has been absent from the official narratives, unseen in catalogs or exhibitions. Rec...

In this documentary film, director Iris Zaki takes her father on a journey across generations and continents to explore their shared Jewish–Arab heritage, following the extraordinary story of her grandmother, Souad Zaki. A celebrated Jewish Arabic singer in 1940s Egypt, Souad starred alongside Um...

The thrilling true story of how underdog Maccabi Tel Aviv defied all odds to win the 1977 European Championship—uniting a nation and forever changing the face of Israeli sports.
"On The Map" is the first film to launch on IZZY as part of a 10-week tribute to award-winning Israeli filmmaker Dani M...

This documentary follows Bobby, who shortly after his father’s death returns to England and uncovers an old suitcase filled with documents revealing the story his father never told — of escaping to England and the family he lost in the Holocaust. Seeking help, Bobby turns to Manuel, his German-bo...

Set against the backdrop of Israel’s shifting history from the 1960s to the early 2000s, this documentary traces the rise and decline of the Kibbutz volunteer movement. From the idealism of young foreigners seeking communal life, through the cultural clashes of sex, drugs, and rock & roll within ...

This documentary film follows Osher, Michele, and Eitan—at-risk youth removed from their homes and raised in foster care. As they turn 18, their legal foster placement ends, and they face life on their own. A Waste of Space captures their first year of independence, as they confront past traumas ...