DOCUMENTARY FILMS

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
  • The Darien Dilemma

    A father and his filmmaker son explore an untold story of 1,000 Jews stranded in the winter of 1941 on the frozen Danube, waiting a life-or-death decision to be taken by their would-be rescuer, senior Mossad agent Ruth, and her agents in a hotel room in Istanbul.

    This program may contain strong ...

  • Our Struggle

    Through the microcosm of one family’s history, "Our Struggle" offers a unique glimpse into the past, present, and future of the State of Israel, a continuum that is closely intertwined with our own past, and at the same time reflects the current areas of conflict between the societies, cultures, ...

  • One Day After Peace

    Born in South Africa during the apartheid era, Robi Damelin later lost her son, who served in the Israel Defense Forces. At first she attempted to initiate a dialogue with the Palestinian who killed her child. When her overtures were rejected, she embarked on a journey back to South Africa.

    This...

  • Torn

    Can you be a Catholic priest and an Observant Jew at the same time? Twelve years after he was ordained as a Polish Catholic priest comes the discovery that he was born to Jewish parents. The film follows his amazing journey: from conducting mass in a church in Poland, to life as an observant Jew ...

  • Jerusalem ER

    Hadassa Hospital is located in the ethnically charged buffer zone between Jerusalem's Palestinian and Israeli communities. This is the story of its ER, as seen through the eyes of two female doctors, a Jewish immigrant from Chile and a Palestinian Israeli from the north of Israel.

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  • The Dreamers

    An Orthodox teacher and wigmaker embark on a journey to fulfill their dreams of making movies within their closed society. Like other Orthodox women who have made films for female audiences, they feel a need to express themselves despite rabbinical censorship.

    Year: 2011
    Language: Hebrew, Englis...

  • The Impure

    "The Impure" was how the Argentinian Jewish pimps were called by the "normal" Jewish community. They were vicious organization leaders and brothel owners who practiced religious lives while trafficking thousands of unfortunate Eastern-European Jewish women. These women were unjustly also referred...

  • Voices From the Booth

    We meet them at school gates, in underground parking lots, at the entrances of shopping malls, and many other places. There are tens of thousands of security guards in Israel, most of Russian origin. Many of them used to be well-respected professionals or artists, yet immigrated to Israel at an o...

  • Saving the Hermans

    The Hermans with their three children set off on an adventurous trip from Thailand to Laos, Cambodia, China, Kazakhstan and from there, along the Silk Road to Cyprus. Their journey is a fulfillment of a dream and a chance to save their marriage. They fight and quarrel, laugh and cry. They meet ex...

  • My Home

    Minorities make up 20% of Israel’s population, with the Jewish majority referring to them collectively as “Arabs.” Many in Israel, and around the world, believe this minority to be hostile to the State of Israel. But there are Arabs who see Israel as a worthy place.

    Year: 2016
    Language: English,...

  • Seder Trek

    The director sets out to Nepal to shoot two different films: The first, about the largest Passover Seder in the world taking place in the Kathmandu Valley, and the second, a journey into the spectacular Nepalese Himalayan Mountains. What emerges is the seemingly impossible connection between thes...

  • Touching the Sky

    Female Israeli soldiers have had the right to apply to flight school for over twenty years. But only few have earned their wings, with the issue of gender still a major topic for cadets, officers and within society at large. We follow the young women who made it to the IAF’s most exclusive progra...

  • Thanks to Luck and Good People

    Eight decades after that terrible war, Irene's daughter retraces the rocky and impossible family's journey against all odds. In a journey that will cover thousands of kilometers, bombarded roads, conquered cities, pogroms, ghettos, and countless dangers, the family members tried to survive.

    This...

  • H.I.Jew Positive

    "I've got it... I am H.I.Jew positive," a young Polish student summed up his feelings when he found out he was Jewish. Stories like that abound in Poland as many people have discovered that their parents kept their true identity hidden from them — the fact they were Jewish, second and third-gener...

  • In the Shadow of King David

    Since the first excavations began in the mid-19th Century, archaeologists have come to Silwan, a picturesque Palestinian village outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. There, they hunt for the legendary biblical city of King David. But in the last two decades, this obsession with antiqui...

  • Be Fruitful and Multiply

    Man is commanded to procreate, but it is the woman who is the instrument for fulfilling this purpose. This film follows the stories of four Ultra-Orthodox women and the oppression in Ultra-Orthodox society which ignores their spirituality, emotional needs and inner world.

    Year: 2005
    Language: E...

  • State-Less

    Adi Khavous, an artist who lives a vagabond lifestyle, left home in Israel and now lives in Canada as a solitary immigrant, pursuing his dream to break through as a rock-n-roll singer.

    This program may contain strong language and/or violence. Viewer discretion is advised.

    Year: 2017
    Language: H...

  • Flood

    In the shadow of the flood that took place thousands of years ago, four characters, floating between Heaven and Earth, are confronted with the drought of their land and with the changes of nature.

    Year: 2018
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Ohad Milstein
    Producer: Ohad Milstein
    Wr...

  • One Eye Wide Open

    A fascinating documentation of the craft of artist Zvi Lachman during the years 1998 through 2008. Access into Lachman's inner world through his works of art reveals and surprisingly discloses that the point of origin of his work is very similar to the director's. To make room for the physical an...

  • On My Way to Father's Land

    A moving documentary account of a son's struggle to understand his father's past. The film takes us on two journeys: the first is to Vienna, where director Preminger's father returns to his childhood home to share stories of his youth during the Nazi occupation. On the second journey, we follow P...

  • There and Here

    This is the story of three ex-pilots and a navigator, all in their 80's, who in their youth embodied the perfect image of the model Israeli "Tsabar." The four decide to come clean about their true identities as Holocaust survivors and venture out on a journey throughout their lost childhoods, the...

  • The Secret

    This is the fascinating story of Polish citizens who learn, often after living a lifetime as Christians in a Communist nation, that they are indeed of Jewish origin. Trapped between the familiar Polish world and an alien Jewish world, these “new Jews” often find themselves adrift in a country whe...

  • The Light of Fire

    After losing 40 years of work in a sudden fire, American-Israeli artist Yoram Raanan begins painting again. But as surprising images emerge from his work, Yoram and his family are forced to realize how truly different everything has become. A film about heartbreaking loss and inspiring resilience...

  • I, the Aforementioned Infant

    The film depicts filmmaker Ronit Kertsner's personal journey 10 years after she met her biological mother in Paris, in an attempt to find ways to maintain a meaningful relationship with the woman who had come to Israel from Paris in 1956, gave birth to her, and then gave her up for adoption. In a...