OpenDor Media explores the challenging concept of "narratives" — how different people and groups can have different perspectives about historical events. Here they delve into the establishment of the State of Israel, which opens the door for big questions about Israel’s story, people, and future.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Producer: OpenDor Media
Isaac Bashevis Singer, the famous Yiddish writer and Nobel Prize winner, wrote with a "harem" of dozens of translators behind him. Today nine remain to tell his story. Intimate interviews and exclusive archival footage combine to portray the story of an author who charmed his audiences, just like...
After their mother passes away, the film’s director and his three sisters are charged with going through their late mother’s house. The house is filled with hundreds of books, photo albums, and trinkets, and soon find a dark family secret in an envelope.
Year: 2011
Language: Hebrew, English subt...
Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala shi...
