This documentary film follows Cleo, Anita, and their fifteen children as they pursue a lifelong dream of communal life in the countryside. After years of preparation, the family builds “Vila Barolo,” a self-made utopia where they live, work, and grow together. But when one daughter researches the...

This documentary film follows Dana and Amit, who met at 25, married, and had two children. But soon after their second child was born, Amit embraced an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle while Dana remained secular. Deeply in love yet divided by faith, they face the challenge of bridging their growing diff...

This documentary film begins with a discovery: after her grandmother’s death, the director finds an old photograph inscribed “A week after abortion.” Knowing her grandmother could not conceive and had adopted her father, she embarks on a journey with no clear destination. Along the way, she uncov...

This documentary film takes viewers inside the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, a small but determined Tel Aviv–based NGO working tirelessly to defend the rights of undocumented people. Mostly led by women, the activists provide legal aid, navigate government bureaucracy, and spearhead public c...

Honorable Men is a gripping political thriller - style documentary by Roni Aboulafia, chronicling the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert - from the nation’s highest office to serving time in Maasiyahu Prison. With unprecedented access to Olmert, the film ...

Set against the backdrop of Israel’s shifting history from the 1960s to the early 2000s, this documentary traces the rise and decline of the Kibbutz volunteer movement. From the idealism of young foreigners seeking communal life, through the cultural clashes of sex, drugs, and rock & roll within ...

This documentary follows Bobby, who shortly after his father’s death returns to England and uncovers an old suitcase filled with documents revealing the story his father never told — of escaping to England and the family he lost in the Holocaust. Seeking help, Bobby turns to Manuel, his German-bo...

In this documentary film, director Iris Zaki takes her father on a journey across generations and continents to explore their shared Jewish–Arab heritage, following the extraordinary story of her grandmother, Souad Zaki. A celebrated Jewish Arabic singer in 1940s Egypt, Souad starred alongside Um...

This documentary film follows Fadhumo and Helen, two refugee women—one in Tel Aviv, the other in Berlin—bound by friendship, resilience, and a shared struggle for dignity. Facing discrimination and displacement, they become powerful social activists, fighting to uplift women like themselves. Dire...

This touching documentary film follows Ravit, a woman who spends her days cooking for Tel Aviv’s homeless and her nights hugging abandoned babies in the maternity ward—offering them the warmth and human connection they need to survive. Though she never had children of her own, Ravit dedicates her...

This documentary film revisits what it meant to grow up on an Israeli Air Force base between the euphoria of the Six-Day War and the trauma of the Yom Kippur War. For the director, son of one of Israel’s most iconic commanders, cockpits and runways were a childhood playground. But years later, th...

This documentary film follows the director’s deeply personal journey into an exhibition of self-portraits by a celebrated painter—the man in every image is her father, though few know it. Born out of wedlock, she has been absent from the official narratives, unseen in catalogs or exhibitions. Rec...

This documentary film follows Osher, Michele, and Eitan—at-risk youth removed from their homes and raised in foster care. As they turn 18, their legal foster placement ends, and they face life on their own. A Waste of Space captures their first year of independence, as they confront past traumas ...

This powerful documentary explores the tragic and complex history of Lebanon—a nation shaped by endless foreign entanglements and internal divides. From Palestinian resistance and Syrian claims to Israeli wars and American failures, outside forces have long fueled the chaos. Yet it is the Lebanes...

In the following documentary film, Blind Spot explores a topic rarely discussed—fatherhood. Even after becoming fathers, Israeli men continue to carry the cultural weight of masculinity: what they must do, what they must not, and what defines them as men. The film follows a group of fathers to ch...

Award-winning writer Nir Baram grew up in a political household. Both his father and grandfather were members of the Knesset and Ministers in the Israeli Labor Party governments. As Baram begins to lose faith in even the possibility of a two-state solution, he decides to travel throughout the Wes...

This documentary film follows Johnny, who believes in Africa’s future and dreams of returning from Israel to bring modern fish farming to his homeland. His wife, Thérèse, sees no future there and is focused on securing a better life for their children—even if it means staying in Israel at any cos...

In this documentary film, a new municipal school—My Neighborhood—opens in South Tel Aviv to serve a diverse community, including children of African refugees. To make space, the city controversially clears part of the long-standing Orthodox school Roots. Just 40 steps apart, the two schools must ...