A woman joins a guided tour of an exhibition by a famous painter. The man in the self-portraits is her father, but only a few people know that. She contacts the artist for the first time in a decade and shares her idea of making a film about their relationship, rekindled by his artwork. Excited, ...

Lous, the mother of filmmaker Oeke Hoogendijk, hasn’t left the house for decades. She has a recurring nightmare in which she doesn’t know how to get home, just like the day when as a Jewish girl she was deported. Scenes which at first sight seem very ordinary—an elderly woman in a living room wat...

The Dead Sea, shared by Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians – is a unique salt-lake, known for its exceptional geographical, biological, and historical value, and is the lowest point on Earth. Tragically, the Dead Sea is drying up, causing widespread damage, including huge sinkholes, abandoned ...

Shortly after his father’s death, Bobby returns to his native England and discovers a suitcase full of documents, letters and photos, documenting the story of his family who perished in the Holocaust – the story his father never told him. He turns to Manuel, his German-born childhood friend, to t...

Kibbutz volunteering began in an eclipse. The idealistic and rebellious 1960s generation was charmed by the old communist ideology as it came to life in the Israeli Kibbutz. The 1967 Six-Day War attracted a wave of support for Israel that the Kibbutz Movement saw as a miracle. When travel agencie...

In the southern region of Tel Aviv, the municipality has founded a new elementary school called “My Neighborhood,” which will bring together students from diverse backgrounds, including refugees’ children. In an outrageous move, they have cleared half of the buildings associated with the longstan...

In 2021, Israel’s baseball team competes in the Olympics for the first time. With no media allowed in the Olympic Village in Tokyo, the players record their own experiences. Mostly newly minted Israelis, they log unexpected battles against global anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Victory comes on t...

David, a sensitive, creative teenager, lives in Southern Israel with his ill mother, his father who gave up his dreams, and his young brother. He discovers an online writing forum and starts publishing his family stories under the fake identity of the rich kid “Nadav”. As he gets entangled in his...

In the spring of 1945 a train deporting hundreds of Jewish prisoners gets stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army. Confined with each other and in a context of deep mistrust, desperation and revenge, an unexpected friendship emerges between Russian sniper Vera, village girl ...

Academy Award nominee Elliott Gould stars in this animated adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel by Michel Kichka. In 1960’s Belgium, Michel and Charly enjoy a happy childhood - but their mysterious father refuses to speak about his past. The two brothers imagine him as a great adventurer, pi...

It is 1942 and the western edge of the USSR is under German occupation. In the region, local partisans are waging a brutal battle against their foreign enemies. Sushenya, an innocent rail worker, is arrested with a band of saboteurs when a train is derailed not far from his village. The German o...

The acclaimed director of THE CAKEMAKER, Ofir Raul Graizer, presents his award-winning film, AMERICA! When a swimming coach from Chicago returns to Israel after ten years away, a visit to a childhood friend and his fiancée will set a series of events in motion that will change everyone's lives fo...

Wilm Hosenfeld is known as the Nazi officer who saved "The Pianist" Wladyslaw Szpilman (played by Adrien Brody in the Academy Award-winning Roman Polanski film), but his German hometown from which he ran the local school and went to the war, still refuses to recognize him as a hero.

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Living with King David is no fun. Just ask the people of Silwan, a Palestinian village outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Since the first excavations began in the mid 19 the century, archaeologists have come to this picturesque village hunting for the legendary biblical city of King ...

Gisi Fleischmann believed she could stop the Holocaust if only she succeeded to raise enough money. She led a resistance group in Slovakia which tried to stop the transports to Auschwitz by bribing Nazi officials. Her story has been almost forgotten until the Slovak National Theatre staged a play...

After his father is accused of having been “another gorilla Jew” in 1950s Argentina (a reactionary who supported the 1955 military coup that deposed the democratically elected government of Juan Perón), Sergio “Shlomo” Slutzky decides to investigate his father’s past and discovers a young Jewish ...

For 2500 years, the Jews of Ethiopia believed that they were the last Jews on Earth. Deeply connected to their faith, YERUSALEM brings to life the long, dramatic and tumultuous journey of this community as they finally find their way back to the heart of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.

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Omar, Muhammad and Yazan are three 12-year-olds from Lod. The boys are in their last year of elementary school, beginning to confront the challenges of life: Omar will deal with his father’s illness, Yazan will need to overcome the consequences of his violent behavior and Muhammad will prepare to...

Paris, 1941. When the Nazis invade France, a Jewish jeweler (Daniel Auteuil, Caché) is forced to make a false agreement to sell his shop and home to his assistant to save his business. Unable to escape with the rest of his family, he is forced to hide in the basement of his own house, with dire c...

Shlomo Slutzky, an Argentinean immigrant to Israel, follows the traces of his cousin Samuel who was murdered by the 1970’s Argentinian dictatorship. Shlomo’s journey takes a sharp turn when he discovers that one of the suspected murderers – Interpol fugitive, Aníbal Teodoro Gauto – has found shel...

Brasil Paralelo presents its new production, an international film about the war between israel and Palestine, which presents an unprecedented and unfiltered view of the conflict in the Middle East. This is not just a conflict over territory, but a profound clash between values, histories, and wo...

Acclaimed French actress Camille Cottin (Call My Agent, House of Gucci, Stillwater) stars in this odyssey of six Jewish children in August 1942 who are forced to take refuge where no one will ever think to look for them: amidst the Louvre Museum artworks hidden in the Château de Chambord.

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A fascinating documentation of the craft of artist Zvi Lachman during the years 1998 – 2008. Access into Lachman’s inner world through his works of art reveals and surprisingly discloses that the point of origin of his work is very similar to the director’s. To make room for the physical and ment...

An ode to filmmaking. A still photographer’s car breaks down en route to his wedding. Before him, a bride waits on a balcony – in her wedding gown. The photographer observes reality through his windscreen as it becomes interwoven with the world of film in his imagination, through a series of refe...