This hip-hop documentary follows Samuel and Isaac, two South Sudanese teenagers who grew up in Israel as asylum seekers before being deported to Uganda in 2012. Living as refugees in a boarding school after surviving the civil war in South Sudan, they dream of sharing their exceptional musical ta...

This documentary film tells the story of the Ethiopian Jewish community, known throughout history by many names—derogatorily called “Falashas” in Ethiopia, “Black Jews” in the United States, and today “Ethiopian Jews” in Israel. But to themselves, they are Beta Israel, the House of Israel. Descen...

This documentary film follows musician and songwriter Chen Rotem, who dreams of becoming a surrogate, and her husband Omer Yefman as they embark on a life-changing journey with their two young children. When they discover close friends are searching for a surrogate, their relationships and bounda...

A rare self-portrait of a couple—photographer Mundek Lukawiecki and his wife Hannah Bern—leads their 65-year-old son Simon to uncover a shocking family secret. In this documentary film, Simon learns that his parents were not only Holocaust survivors but also commanders of a Polish partisan assass...

This documentary film, adapted from a groundbreaking web series, explores the lives of LGBTQ individuals who have chosen to remain devoutly Jewish while building families and communities. What does the wedding of two religious Jewish men look like? How does a family with two mothers and four chil...

This autobiographical documentary follows Yannai, whose mother—Holocaust survivor Faiga Ashlag—believed he was destined to be the Messiah and spread the secrets of Kabbalah. Instead, at 14, he fled to the streets of Tel Aviv, descending into heroin addiction. Filmed over more than a decade, the s...

This documentary film follows five penniless citizens who dared to challenge Israel’s most powerful financial figures—and won. It begins when attorney Barak Cohen’s girlfriend receives an illegal repossession order, sparking his public campaign against the banking establishment. Soon, he and his ...

This documentary film tells the moving story of Ron, a bright and lively boy whose body is slowly limited by cerebral palsy, even as he watches his identical twin run freely with their brother. The film follows the family’s daily struggles and unwavering efforts to raise three children who embrac...

This documentary film follows an extraordinary orchestra of 100 musicians—professional and amateur, young and old—who come together in Jerusalem for four days of rehearsals ahead of a one-time concert at the Mekudeshet festival. With broken instruments, different languages, and endless challenges...

This documentary film tells the story of the Jewish Mellah (quarter) in Marrakech—one of Morocco’s oldest. Through a collage of short documentaries created by students from Sapir College in Israel and MU6P University in Morocco, the film explores the Mellah’s rich past, its fragile present, and u...

This documentary film tells the untold story of Shaike Ophir, one of Israel’s greatest actors, often hailed as the “Israeli Charlie Chaplin.” A performer who collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock and Marcel Marceau, Ophir became a beloved star at home, yet few knew the man behind the thousand faces....

This documentary film follows Livi, a photography student who, over the course of 12 years, documents her four closest friends—young artists in downtown Haifa, far from the Tel Aviv art scene. With intimacy and love, the film traces their pursuit of artistic dreams while grappling with economic h...

In this documentary film, Israeli-Argentinian filmmaker Shlomo Slutzky embarks on a personal journey to confront accusations against his late father, labeled a “Gorilla” in 1950s Argentina for alleged pro-military and anti-democratic views during the Perón regime. Through conversations with his f...

This documentary follows journalist Shlomo Slutzky as he pursues justice for his cousin, Dr. Samuel Slutzky, murdered during Argentina’s 1970s dictatorship.
The prime suspect, Aníbal Gauto, accused of kidnapping, torture, murder, and the theft of babies, has been wanted by INTERPOL for 15 years....

This documentary film revisits the historic hall in Tel Aviv where Israel’s Declaration of Independence was signed. Over seventy years later, the grandchildren of the original signatories gather to reflect on the legacy of their forebears and debate the unresolved questions that continue to shape...

This documentary film follows Omar, Muhammad, and Yazan—three 12-year-old boys from Lod, an Israeli-Arab city just minutes from Tel Aviv—as they face pivotal challenges in their final year of elementary school. Omar struggles with his father’s mental illness, Yazan with the consequences of his vi...

This documentary film follows a group of extraordinary young people with Down syndrome as they embark on a demanding trek through the Indian Himalayas with their brothers and sisters. Along the journey, old family tensions surface and the complexities of growing up alongside a sibling with specia...

This haunting documentary film explores Warsaw’s Muranow neighborhood, once the site of the largest Jewish ghetto during World War II. Beneath its spacious streets and green courtyards lie the ruins of buildings and the unremoved remains of thousands of Jews buried under the rubble. The new neigh...

Ma’abarot is the first documentary film to thoroughly explore the story of Israel’s transit camps (1948–1952), where hundreds of thousands of immigrants from across the globe were housed on their way to becoming part of the young state. Though this period shaped Israeli society to this day, it ha...

This documentary film tells the moving story of Tamar and Michal, two friends brought together on an amateur catchball team during a turbulent time in their lives. Michal, the film’s director and a teammate, documents Tamar’s journey after losing her husband to a sudden heart attack. As Michal be...

A real-life Kafkaesque tale brought to life through docu-animation
Winner of the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2025 Haifa Film Festival, this cinematic adaptation of the bestselling book Kafka's Last Trial by Benjamin Balint unravels a century-old saga of betrayal, legacy, and justice. W...