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Five prominent Israeli poets present their POV on poetry, culture and life in a way never before seen. >>
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The Holocaust of the Jews in the former Soviet Union has remained a mystery even many decades after the war has ended. Due to ideological and political reasons, the Soviet regime did not recognize the unique and tragic nature of the extermination of Jews by the Nazis. It was only after the dismantling of the […] >>
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Obsessed with the disappearance of his uncle Yisral some 65 years ago, filmmaker Eran Barak returns to his family’s old neighborhood. In his search he turns to his various relatives: Uncle Gavriel, who was just released after 35 years in prison; Uncle Aryeh, wallowing in thoughts while lounging on his mother’s sofa; and uncle Uri […] >>
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Duma (dolls in Arabic) is based on stories of sexual abuse in Arab society in Israel. Abeer, the creator of a puppet theater show which deals with the subject of sexual abuse during childhood, decides to take her camera and journey from the north to the south of the country and document women who have […] >>
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Nominated for an Oscar®, the film is a deeply personal, first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. Shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel, the film was co-directed by Burnat and Guy […] >>
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“Air born” brings the story of the children who grew up in the air force bases housing projects of the 1960s and 1970s, in a civilian housing complex surrounded by a bustling military base where their fathers served. A childhood protected by a fence and a guard with an endless feeling of freedom and security, […] >>
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One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection between the dream and their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the […] >>
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After being kicked out of every school, 14-year-old Kiki is about to enter a closed institution for juvenile delinquents for violence offenses and drug trafficking. Just before, his sister Gal manages to convince the welfare authorities to give him one last chance: an experimental therapeutic journey in the desert. With the help of her friends, […] >>
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Ever since 17-year-old Rachel Levy, an Israeli, was killed four years ago in Jerusalem by a Palestinian suicide bomber, her mother, Abigail, has hardly found a moment’s peace. Levy’s killer was Ayat al-Akhras, also 17, a schoolgirl from a Palestinian refugee camp several miles away. The two young women looked remarkably alike. Through the personal […] >>
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The moment Neurobiologists discovered how to copy human memories to a hard drive, Mankind began abandoning the physical world for a virtual reality called Second Life. In the wake of a growing shortage in memory storage, it was decided to minimize human interaction, and speech was outlawed. When finally remained in the physical reality, only […] >>
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He calls himself TRA. He is 13, and he always was a little different. People tried to tame him. They hurt him quite a bit. “I was a fat kid who loved to daydream and draw fairies instead of playing soccer, and no one wanted to play with me. They bullied me, and then the […] >>
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From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to The Dress – 1969. Thomas returns to his apartment to collect the last of his belongings. Encountering the new additions to his old roommate’s life, he reminisces upon their complex relationship and looks for closure. >>
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These are the memories of a lost girlhood. When they were only five or six or ten years old, their parents snatched them from the playground and handed them to much older men to be married. They recall the violence and fear they were subjected to, the pregnancies at the age of eleven or twelve, […] >>
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Morad lived in an Arab village in the north of Israel. He was socially popular, loved by his family, an athlete, and a good student. One night, during the fall of 2006, he was cruelly beaten by his classmates, who mistakenly accused him of having an affair with their engaged cousin. Physically, he recovered within […] >>
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The fascinating story of the special friendship forged between two women: Perla Ubitsch, the last remnant of a family of dwarfs that survived Dr. Mengele’s cruel experiments in Auschwitz, and researcher Hannelore Witkovsky, a German Protestant born after the war. Filmed in both Germany and Israel, the documentary accompanies Hannelore on her quest to find […] >>