DOCUMENTARY FILMS

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
  • Love in Israel

    Israel is a country of extreme diversity. When people here fall in love, the mix can be both explosive and beautiful. Lure’s “Love In” is a series in that looks at the unique ways couples around the globe express their love for one another. In the episode “Love In Israel,” the director explores s...

  • To Be Like Avi

    The coming-of-age story of three friends - refugees who fled Africa and left their families behind, learn today in Israel and dream of following Avi: the only refugee who obtained Israeli citizenship and joined the IDF.

    Year: 2012
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Inbal Sprinzak Goel...

  • After Nadav

    Avi and Yuval’s relationship was solid, until the devastating news arrived. Their son Nadav, a soldier in the Israeli army, was killed in Gaza. For three years, they tried to cope with their individual pain, which slowly drove them apart. Then, at age 47, Yuval announced: "I want another child."
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  • The Art of Security

    They used to call him the Israeli "Rambo". But these days, not many would recognize that Marc Provisor has spent the past quarter-century working as one of Israel’s leading experts in combating terror.

    This program may contain strong language, nudity, and/or violence. Viewer discretion is advise...

  • Buried Alive

    The struggle of a middle-aged woman who sets out in search of her husband, a member of the Israeli Black Panthers who disappeared 20 years earlier under mysterious political circumstances.

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

    Year: 199...

  • The Optimist and the Buddhist

    After a separation of more than a decade, the conscience-ridden director of the film, returns to the kibbutz where he grew up to save his childhood friend who's become a reclusive handicapped refusing rehabilitation. The director devises a consistent and exhausting training routine with the aim o...

  • A Heartbeat Away

    Dr. Aki Tamir is an Israeli senior pediatric-cardiologist who leads a medical mission to Tanzania in order to perform heart surgeries on children. Out of hundreds of sick kids that travel the country to see Aki, he can chose only a few for a life saving operation. Things get complex when Aki meet...

  • I Saw Giraffes in India

    "The Giraffes", a wild Israeli folk-rock band, go on a magical musical tour across India with an intended climax show in Goa. But the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai take the journey off-track and send the band on a search for the thousands of Israeli backpackers who fled Goa in fear of another att...

  • Hummus Curry

    For many years now, traveling to India has been a rite of passage in Israeli life. 
"Hummus Curry" offers an intimate, funny and never-seen-before look into the lives of the local Indians living in a small village packed with Israeli tourists.

    This program may contain strong language, nudity, an...

  • A13901

    Two Holocaust survivors live in a tiny apartment. The film portrays the daily routine of a day in their lives, getting up and dressing up. Every little action takes an eternity, creating a flex in time.

    Year: 2017
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Tal Haim Yoffe
    Producer: Tal Haim Yoffe

  • Before My Feet Touch the Ground

    Summer 2011: 25-year-old Daphni Leef moves into a tent in the center of Tel Aviv to protest the cost of housing. Within a few days she becomes a leader and a face for the largest protest movement in the history of Israel. The film depicts the challenges a person at the forefront of a struggle mus...

  • The Hebrew Superhero

    This film explores the image of the Israeli hero in the world of comics — from the first comics hero created in 1936 until today. Israeli comics, after decades on the sidelines of the country’s culture, have become more and more popular. They have also grown increasingly important in shedding lig...

  • Clementine

    A fascinating investigation that mirrors the development of Israel itself. Shaking his own family tree in this beautifully-crafted documentary, Tal Yoffe discovers a pioneering kibbutznik filmmaker, a Czarist army officer, a Nazi-trained blacksmith, several war heroes, and a much-missed father.

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  • Last Journey Into Silence

    Filmed at the Shaar Menashe Hospital in Israel, this heartbreaking documentary examines the plight of elderly Holocaust survivors whose war-time experiences have left them unable to find inner peace.

    Year: 2001
    Languages: Yiddish & Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Shosh Shlam
    Writer: Shosh Shlam

  • Carnal

    All he wanted was to provide some years of decent life for farm animals no longer deemed "profitable" — an "animal pension." But it turned out more expensive than he thought.

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

    Year: 2019
    Language: He...

  • The Last Fisherman in the Sea of Galilee

    An intimate and spiritual encounter of a Japanese director and a member of the Makuya community, which believes in both the Old and New Testament, as he follows an Israeli fisherman in the Sea of Galilee. The director has had only one question since his childhood: Why did Jesus choose his first d...

  • The Legacy - Ben Zion Netanyahu

    A first glimpse into the life of Benzion Netanyahu, father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as a Zionist, an intellectual, and a world-renowned historian. The documentary was filmed just before Benzion died at the age of 102.

    Year: 2012
    Languages: English and Hebrew, English subtitles
    Direc...

  • Conclusive Evidence

    Get a behind-the-scenes look at Israel's forensic investigation unit, the men and women in white coveralls who walk around crime scenes like ghosts.

    This program may contain graphic images. Viewer discretion is advised.

    Year: 2016
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Nati Adler
    Produ...

  • The Binding of Yitzchak

    Did Yigal Amir know that during Israel’s Security Agency's initial interrogation, on the night he assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, he was almost killed by an agent charged with protecting him? It's the first time this story has been told.

    This program may contain strong language, nudity, and/or viole...

  • Next Generation

    This documentary tells the story of heroic people who rescued the entire Jewish population of Bulgaria during World War II. It isn't a historical film, but rather an emotional journey of the local survivors' direct descendants, who are looking for their family roots and long-lost ties with their ...

  • Married to the Marimba - A Street Performer's Life

    Documentary about an American-born Jewish street performer named Alex Jacobowitz who plays the Marimba on the streets of Germany dressed obviously as an Orthodox Jew. The film was made over a period of approximately 14 years, and follows Alex through Europe to South Africa, Australia, and the Uni...

  • The Stand-Up Comedians

    Get to know Israel's leading female comedians, as they work on their gigs and provide moving and amusing interviews about the hardships of breaking into an industry ruled predominantly by men.

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

    Year:...

  • Death in the Terminal

    After the controversial 2015 terrorist attack in Beersheba’s bus station, Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry set out to tell the story of the people caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Their testimonies are incorporated into security camera footage to present a surprising and complex picture th...

  • Rafting to Bombay

    While filming his father revisiting his childhood city of Mumbai, Israeli director Erez Laufer finds himself caught in the worst terror attack in the city's history.

    Year: 2009
    Languages: English & Hebrew, English subtitles
    Director: Erez Laufer
    Producer: Erez Laufer
    Writer: Erez Laufer