Children of Peace

Arabs and Jews have lived in ongoing conflict for over a century. A group of dreamers decided to challenge everything they know about their nationalities and histories and founded a village in 1970s Israel as a social experiment. The film follows the many children who were brought up in this unique environment. In this bold […] >>

Don’t Cry for Me, Edinburgh

A fringe theater group that brings the stories of gay people in Israel to the stage takes on the Edinburgh Theater Festival in Scotland. This film follows the troupe from the birth pangs of their English-language production, through its trip to Scotland – the initial disappointments upon arriving there are swept away when the actors […] >>

Not A Minute More

Director Amir Stolar tries to recall the event of the day when his father abandoned him and fled the country, 12 years ago. His digging into this old wound blends with the inter-continental relationship he has with Victor, his Swedish partner. Gradually, things turn into a bureaucratic struggle intended to get Amir’s father to attend the […] >>

Muranow

Beneath the Muranow neighbourhood in Warsaw lay the ruins of houses once teeming with Jewish life and culture. While Muranow lives in the present, it seems that its buried past is swarming beneath. >>

Diplomat

A luxurious hotel turned absorption center, a place where time has come to a standstill. Eight floors, 700 rooms, 600 people. long corridors, a reception office, a club, green lawns and the vestiges of a pool. The Hotel Diplomat in Jerusalem was once a five-star hotel. For nearly 20 years it is home to 600 […] >>

Adani Dynasty

Located in the city of Rehovot lies the Marmorek neighborhood. Its Yemenite residents pride in the Hapoel Marmorek Soccer team with its director, Hanan Adani, 73. A veteran of many battles. Players and coaches alike have changed multiple times while he stays in a little room within the stadium dominating the group with an iron […] >>

Baba Luba

Famous Israeli singer Danny Bassan was born in Brazil and immigrated to Israel with his mother after they were abandoned by his father. Forty years later, in November 1994, Danny returns to Brazil to search for his father. This film, which follows his personal drama as it occurs, investigates concepts such as love, family and […] >>

The Way Home

Passing time fills a central role in The Way Home. Using old 8 mm. films and an intimate portrayal of the significant events in his personal life over the last fifteen years, director Tomer Heymann (It Kinda Scares Me, Paper Dolls, Bridge Over the Wadi), reveals a charged and surprising emotional world. Shooting with a […] >>

Mini DV

Home videos shot during his childhood send director Shauly Melamed on a downward spiral, inspiring a search for other LGBTQ adults who documented themselves during puberty. Shauly finds many such individuals who, in their youth, exposed their non-conforming identities without understanding the secrets the camera beheld. Tom, transgender, grew up in the Ultra-Orthodox town of […] >>

Start New Game

17-year-old Gil hates his life in the village he lives in. He lives with his Father, Avishai, and his 10-year-old brother, Yuval, who he blames for their parents’ divorce. He dreams of joining the army as a combatant, as an excuse to escape his life. One night, the brothers have an ugly fight about a […] >>

Hitler’s Children

The Hoess family did everything they could to ignore the horror. The windows were boarded up so that they couldn’t see the chimneys and the gas chambers from their mansion. Family photos show children playing outside and other idyllic scenes that don’t betray the presence of the camp. The only things they couldn’t ignore, explains […] >>

A Love Beyond Words

Through the striking cinematography of Nurit Aviv and a soundtrack composed of beautiful chanting and haunting silence, this film explores the mystery and discretion of forty silent nuns living at the Beit Jamal monastery near Jerusalem. The film attempts to deal with the cinematic challenge posed by their very silence and incorporates texts from the […] >>

A Visit to the Parents

My small and once close-knit has fallen apart. My father became religious, my mother converted to Christianity, my sister married a non-Jewish man and now my father hates her and won’t have anything to do with her or her daughters; I escaped all this and fled to Israel. After my divorce, I decided to return […] >>

Innocence

“Innocence” tells the story of soldiers who enlisted in the army despite their discomfort with the military world and contradicting conscientious values. Their story is told through narration based on writings found after they died during their military service. >>

UnNamed

August 1st, 2009. An armed man bursts into the “Barnoar”, an LGBTQ+ center, and opens fire. The bullet that hit me, turned my life. 13 years later, I embark on a journey to revisit old wounds, deal with the trauma and talk with my family for the first time about that evening and the secrets […] >>