How did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust, Israel national team and German Borussia Munchegladbach met in a match whose importance marked the beginning of the normalization between Israel and Germany. Through interviews with ...

The rise of Nazi Germany destroyed the Minkowski family; philanthropists and members of Warsaw's elite society before the war. A work opportunity brings French opera conductor Marc Minkowski to the former home of his great-grandparents where he enlists the aid of Polish historians and descendants...

Notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel's first and only execution. Shalom Nagar, a religious Jewish ritual slaughterer and street philosopher who believes in charity, was chosen to be the hangman. This film reveals a complex portrait of a character who repeatedly finds hi...

In 1987, in a Viennese antique shop, hundreds of color slides from World War II were found. It turned out they had been made in the Lodz Ghetto by the Ghetto's chief accountant Genewein. The colorful world in the slides is set against vivid recollections of Arnold Mostowicz - a man who was a Jewi...

This inspiring documentary chronicles the life and career of renowned painter Jon Imber, who faced great adversity after being diagnosed with ALS. Director Richard Kane follows Imber as he remains determined to continue his work as an artist, despite his condition. Knowing what his fate holds, J...

When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he left behind a mountain of personal debt, which forced his heirs to sell his beloved Monticello home and all of its possessions. THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO reveals the little-known story of the Levy family, which owned and carefully preserved Monticello for near...

A thrilling cinematic journey from Israel to Baghdad in search of a missing father and a lost community. A young journalist from Baghdad sets out to write about Linda Abdul Aziz, who escaped from Iraq to Israel in the early 1970's, and about her father, who was kidnapped and disappeared and his f...

A charming documentary that showcases the vibrant wisdom and life lessons of a dozen diverse individuals between the ages of 90- to 99-years-old. Through the touching and open stories shared by the "cast" of "The 90s Club" (including beloved actor Dick Van Dyke, Holocaust survivor Art Gelbart, an...

ChaiFlicks is proud to exclusively premiere the new 25th anniversary restoration of Oren Rudavsky and Menachem Daum's seminal film "A LIFE APART: Hasidism in America", available this Saturday, December 23rd!

Narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker, this groundbreaking documentary was...

According to the Jewish religion, which also defines the national law in Israel, only the man has the power to grant a divorce. Women find themselves chained to their husbands against their will, even if the separation is mutual. The film follows several such ‘chained’ women in Israel together wi...

Love tests faith. Faith tests love. Interfaith marriage - how does that work? What about the in-laws? How to raise the kids? For 30 years, Catholics and Jews in Chicago have found that the answers don't have to be so hard - boundaries can be crossed - divisions healed. And the kids? We follow fiv...

Follow four agriculturalists in mythological Moshav Nahalal for a year as they work and complete a cycle of crops. ADAMA ("Farmers") introduces us to the Nahalal elders, who work until their dying day as they deal with inter-personal conflicts and the conflicts between man and land.

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Ariela, an Ethiopian girl, was adopted by director Avigail Sperber's parents. Each of her nine older siblings chose a unique path to follow. Only Ariela forces the family to contend with alcoholism, petty thefts, and prison. Will her family be able to love her unconditionally? As Avigail explores...

Ten years after Ronit met her biological mother in Paris, she attempts to find ways to maintain a meaningful relationship with the woman who came to Israel from Paris in 1956, gave birth to her and gave her up for adoption. In a series of encounters with adoptees and their biological mothers, Ron...

Tsiporra Bat Israel is a member of the Black Hebrew Community of Dimona. After twenty-one years of marriage she wakes up one morning to learn that her husband, Hazriel, is marrying a second wife, fourteen years her junior, as part of the polygamy tradition of the Black Hebrews. This is a film by ...