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  • The Burdensome Stone

    The Foundation Stone - the "Holy of Holies" on Jerusalem's Temple Mount - is believed to be the spot where the world was created - and where it will end... In this breathtaking documentary, the secrets and forces clashing over this ancient stone are unraveled. Through a wide range of spiritual an...

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  • Menachem Begin - Peace & War

    This powerful film was produced in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt and presents a surprising and unfamiliar portrait of Israel’s sixth prime minister. Menachem Begin led Israel for six dramatic and tumultuous years, which produced waves that are ...

  • HAREDIM - Orthodox Quarantine

    March 2020, a mysterious virus is attacking humans all over the world, ripping many casualties. International and national Health Systems are helpless in the face of the virus and its morbid effects. In Safed, Israel, members of one Hasidic family find themselves in a completely unknown
    territory...

  • Box For Life

    Noah Klieger is the last living survivor of Auschwitz's boxing team and the oldest still active journalist in the world. In between, he saw from close up and survived many of the defining events of the 20th century, and some of the events he may have even steered a bit. 91-year old Klieger is a J...

  • Phoenix

    Phoenix, 32 years old, was born and raised in the African Hebrew Israelite community in Dimona, a small city in the desert of Israel. When he was only 3 years old, his father was expelled from the community to the USA, because he tried to reveal some of the innermost secrets of the community. As ...

  • Ben-Gurion, Epilogue

    This film brings to life a lost interview with one of modern history's greatest leaders, David Ben-Gurion. It is 1968, he is 82 and lives in the desert. Ben-Gurion's introspective soul-searching provides a surprising vision for crucial decisions Israel needs to make today. At the time of the glob...

  • Nazareth Cinema Lady

    This is the story of Safa Dabour, a religious Muslim from Nazareth, who established the first and only Arab cinematheque in Israel. Safa's father and husband passed away while she was a young mother to two young boys however years later she succeeded in taking charge of her own fate and freedom a...

  • On This Happy Note

    Anat Gov, one of the most influential playwrights in Israeli theatre, is preparing for her death. She asks Arik Kneller, an artists’ agent, to be the executor of her will. Arik struggles to accept the humor and serenity with which she faces her upcoming end. Anat, consciously accepting her nearin...

  • Four Mothers

    What does a mother do when her son is in danger? She pulls him out of the lion’s mouth. A female-driven, grassroots protest movement takes on the military establishment and challenges the patriarchal society of Israel to stop a bloody war that has been raging for years.

    Year: 2020
    Languages: Eng...

  • Cafe Nagler

    The director embarks on a journey following the story behind the famous,
    legendary "Café Nagler" – owned by her family during the 1920s in Berlin. Her grandmother follows the filming with great anticipation. However, the director discovers that the true story behind the café isn't as glamorous as...

  • Just the Two of Us

    "Just the Two of Us" tells the story of Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, both 88 years old, the last remaining survivors from the Treblinca extermination camp. On a moving journey they walk back on the grounds from which the fled 68 years ago. For the first time they go back together possibl...

  • A Lullaby For the Valley

    Eli Shamir paints the views from his studio – endless farm fields, ancient oaks and a generation of farmers disappearing from the Jezreel Valley. His large oils are prized by collectors worldwide. A chance encounter with one painting leads director Ben Shani to begin documenting Shamir at work. N...

  • 21 Days Inside

    The body of a two-year-old toddler is found at the bottom of a well at a Bedouin village in the Negev Desert. His mother is arrested the very same day, suspected of committing murder. During 21 days of detention and interrogation, police officers exploit her weaknesses in order to make her confes...

  • Rain in Her Eyes

    The Maoz Chaim children's house. 1943. A gunshot echoes, followed by silence. 11-year-old Dvora'le is orphaned. Her mother is found, shot in the head. Journeying into the past, the filmmaker returns to the childhood of his mother, author Dvora Omer, whose book touched the lives of generations of ...

  • From Slavery to Freedom

    FREE THIS WEEK - "From Slavery to Freedom" portrays the story of Soviet "Refuseniks" through the prism of Natan Sharansky's biography. In 1977, Sharansky, a famous human rights activist, was arrested on charges of spying for the USA, treason and anti-Soviet agitation. The film takes you back to a...

  • The Syrian Patient

    Under cover of darkness soldiers transfer wounded Syrians into Israel. Military ambulances bring these unknown wounded from the Syrian border. Most of them are unconscious. Maged has lost the lower part of his face. He is brought immediately to the operating room of Dr. Eyal Sela, the director of...

  • Rashbi's Secret

    We have all heard of the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Mount Meron, but many of us do not understand the appeal of the place and the meaning of the faith that causes hundreds of thousands of people to ascend to the tomb all year long. "Rashbi's Secret" presents a poetic and intimate observat...

  • Golda

    Shortly before her passing, Golda Meir was interviewed for Israeli television. After the shooting ended the cameras kept rolling, recording an intimate talk with the first and only woman to ever rule Israel. As she lit one cigarette off the other, Golda spoke freely, pleading her case for her ter...

  • Lost Mothers

    The film documents over a year of the support group meetings, in which the mothers reveal their most intimate feelings and memories, while also capturing the day to day life journey of each of them, a journey whose end is unknown and will hopefully see them reunite with the children they gave up....

  • The Children of Teheran

    The rescue of the Children of Teheran from the clutches of the Final Solution in Europe stands out as one of the key stories of rescue in the history of modern Zionism. This is the never-before documented story of the audacious rescue of 800 Jewish children from occupied Poland, through Tehran.

    ...

  • Free Flow

    Ahead of his father's release from prison, the virtual reality of the Parkour world in which Avshalom is a super hero, starts to crack. The inevitable upcoming showdown with the man he testified against, is going to dictate his mother's fate.

    Year: 2011
    Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
    Direct...

  • Cause of Death

    On the night of March 5th, 2002, a terrorist opened fire on diners in a Tel Aviv restaurant. Druze policeman Salim Barakat bravely stopped him, but was killed by the terrorist. For years, Jamal, Salim's brother, has been attending police ceremonies in commemoration of his brother. Suspecting they...

  • Yes, Miss Commander!

    This film chronicles the events in an Israeli military training camp for boys with a criminal background. What is extraordinary about the program is that the chief officers are all women. They give orders to the recalcitrant and rebellious boys and force them to do more push-ups if they do not do...

  • Exodus - The True Story

    This is the story of three orphaned kids who in the end of World War II return home to discover they have no home and no parents. With no family left, they realize the only safe haven for them is Palestine. After a journey of two years across a shattered Europe and with help from the French gover...

  • God's Messengers

    A first-time, powerful inside look at the group of Jewish settlers who inhabit the illegal outpost of Havat Gilad. They believe that they are the connector to the narrative of Jewish history. Religious devotion, and Zionist fervor propel this group towards violence and extremism. Despite daily sq...