Adaptation to Darkness

A biographical and psychological portrait of Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, a man of extraordinary abilities but very little conscience: a brilliant physician and a pioneer of psychiatric research, but also an elusive con artist who became the only Jew in history convicted of Nazi war crimes. The film traces his journey from a small town in […] >>

Two Legacies

Yosef and Bracha married when they were 12 in Sana`a, Yemen and lived together for close to 70 years. Yosef became absorbed in his books, while Bracha took care of the needy. Before he dies, Rabbi Yosef Kapach hands his granddaughter Einat, director of the film, a bundle of pages which uncover a secret he […] >>

The Material That Love Is Made Of

In the winter of 1992, a New York scientist isolated the material that love is made of: it is an unbelievable hormonal matter composed of three chemical elements. Ten years after that discovery, director Ari Folman goes out on a two-year journey in an attempt to investigate the material love is made of, as it […] >>

The Last League

“The last league” is a documentary series that follows team owners, coaches, players and fans in four different teams competing for the last league of Israeli Soccer. The Druze and Muslims in the north and the Jews in the south, all of them share the desire to rise from the last League to the upper […] >>

Warm Snow

“Warm snow” is an animation short about the relationship between a father and his grown up daughter. It starts out in an ordinary situation with the father and daughter sitting at the kitchen table. The daughter is waiting for her food to get warm and is annoyed by her father’s questions and suggestions. The situation […] >>

Oasis

On her 34th birthday, Ronit, a solitary Ethiopian woman, spends the night with a stranger—a younger, injured trucker who, like her, carries the weight of loneliness. >>

After Counting All Votes

A young filmmaker is trying to make choices about his future while his country is in turmoil. As the political climate grows more volatile and right-wing activism gains traction, he questions his future in a country headed in a dangerous direction. Armed with a camera, he is concerned that he is documenting the end of […] >>

The Samaritan: A Biblical People

Good Samaritan laws protect do-gooders and Good Samaritan hospitals heal us. Samaritans appear in our holy texts— in the Bible, the Talmud, and the Quran. The Samaritan people today number 850 souls, down from a million in the time of Jesus. They are split between Israelis and Palestinians. The Samaritans may soon go extinct, a […] >>

The Avoidable War

During the October War of 1973, Israel’s military and political leadership, so confident of its superiority, suffered a nervous breakdown, as Israel faced a surprise attack by the Egyptian and Syrian armies. Senior officials, headed by Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan, devised wild and desperate ideas, among them the use of nuclear weapons. This 4-part […] >>

After Nadav

Avi and Yuval’s relationship was solid, until the devastating news arrived. Their son Nadav, a soldier in the Israeli army, was killed in Gaza. For three years, they each tried to cope with their individual pain, a process which slowly drove them apart. Then Yuval (47) announced: “I want another child.” The film follows the […] >>

Victor’s Curse

When my dying mother, Alegria, asks me, Meirav , a former detective, to stop the curse on the family, and on my brother Victor, I give her my word. My mother doesn’t remember that the curse already took my brother’s life. As I try to understand what this terrible thing was that my grandfather Victor […] >>

Three Minutes to Four

Part of “Moments, Israel 2002“: Until now, only the Palestinian suicide bombers are filmed before carrying out their attacks. Here is an opportunity to meet the Israeli casualties before they die. >>

Our Son

In the middle of the day a young Haredi woman is called in to her son’s school because there’s a problem. She comes, determined to fight for his place and her own. >>

Child Mother

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, […] >>

The Gaon Family Show

To all, it appeared as if I grew up in a normal home: a house on a Moshav, with sprinklers watering the yard. My Mother was a kindergarten teacher, and my Father was a farmer. In the nineties, my parents decided to give up their orchards. Instead, they opened a business selling gasoline to other […] >>