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 father's homeland, while revealing the unknown history of Bulgaria during the Second World War.
This program may contain strong language, nudity, and/or violence. Viewer discretion is advised.
Year: 2019
Languages: English, Hebrew & Bulgarian, English subtitles
Directors: Niya Aleksandrova, Ayelet Heller
Producers: Dimitar Gochev, Zafrir Kochanovsky
Writer: Niya Aleksandrova
A cinematic journey into the world of Yona Wallach, an Israeli poet, whose radical life and poetry ended with her death at an early age, leaving behind a myth and a trail of admirers.
Year: 2012
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Director: Yair Qedar
Producer: Yair Qedar
Writer: Yair Qedar
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The incredible story of Avraham Sutskever, the greatest Yiddish poet, who saved manuscripts from the Nazis, survived WWII due to Stalin's special rescue plane, testified in the Nuremberg Trials, and died anonymously in Tel Aviv.
Year: 2018
Languages: Yiddish & English, English subtitles
Dire...
Director Rafael Balulu goes on a journey in the footsteps of the Levantine thinker and author Jacqueline Kahanoff. Through encounters with her elderly friends in Paris, leading intellectuals in the Mizrachi discourse in Israel and fascinating Levantine women artists, he not only draws a portrait ...
