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  • One Eye Wide Open

    Movie

    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...

  • Aida's Secrets

    Movie

    In this moving documentary, the discovery of records from WWII sparks a family’s quest for answers as two brothers separated as babies reunite with each other and their elderly mother, who hid more from them than just each other.Izak Szewelwicz was born in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp...

  • The Bankers Trial

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    Five penniless citizens set on a crusade against the most powerful figures of the financial system In Israel – and win.

    After his girlfriend is issued with an illegal repossession order, attorney Barak Cohen launches a public campaign against the heads of Israel’s banking industry.That was the b...

  • Picture This with Ben Shani | Stories from October 7th

    1 season

    Watch the complete season now exclusively on ChaiFlicks! | PICTURE THIS is a unique interview series, featuring 8 intimate one-on-one interviews hosted by veteran Israeli journalist Ben Shani.

    In this season dedicated to the October 7th attack in Southern Israel, each week Shani meets with some...

  • Mundane Sirens

    Movie

    This short documentary is an intimate look at the everyday moments in a Tel Aviv café in the immediate aftermath of the October 7th attack. The film captures the strength of ordinary people during a time of profound adversity and highlights the importance of routine in allowing people to maintain...

  • Little Victories

    Movie

    “Little Victories” is the story of Tamar and Michal, two Tel-Avivian mothers and members of a catchball team, and of “Coach Moodie”, a charismatic and somewhat odd man, who is determined to release them from their net of daily battles and make them fall in love with a completely different net. Mo...

  • Into The North

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    A group of Czech Jewish teenagers sets out on a journey to the North. Without their parents to look after them, they must rely on each other. That’s how their great adventure starts. They spend four years in Denmark, an oasis in the midst of raging WWII. More than seventy years later, they are re...

  • The Other City

    Movie

    In 2007 Livi, a photography student, moves into an empty building in downtown Haifa. Just before her loneliness urges her to leave, Shahar, Zvi, Iddo and Talia move into that very building – young artists themselves. The friendship ignites in an instant and when Zvi can’t pay his rent, they decid...

  • Razzouk Tattoo

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    After becoming the sole heir of a 700-year old of a dynasty of Christian tattoo artists from the Old City of Jerusalem who has tattooed pilgrims for hundreds of years, Wassim Razzouk sets out to complete the family’s collection of historic wooden stencils before they are lost forever. On his jour...

  • Saving Dror

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    “Saving Dror” is centered around a first-person testimony from Kibbutz Be’eri member Sagi Shifroni who endured the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel’s southern border. Shifroni’s Kibbutz Be’eri was at the epicenter of the October 7 attack, with over 100 of its members killed and 30 kidnapped by Hamas on t...

  • Inside The Mossad

    1 season

    Watch the Complete Series Now| Over the nearly seven decades of its existence, the Mossad has cultivated its image as a daring, all-powerful intelligence agency for which no ‘mission impossible’ exists. The four episodes of INSIDE THE MOSSAD bring the stories of dozens of former spy-chiefs and op...

  • Air Born

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    A fascinating little-known historical tale is stirringly recounted in AIR BORN, an inspiring documentary that brings the story of the children who grew up in Israeli air force bases housing projects of the 1960s and 1970s. In a civilian housing complex surrounded by a bustling military base where...

  • After Munich

    Movie

    Whether you witnessed it live, learnt about it or never even heard of the Munich Massacre at all - this event changed your life. September 5th 1972, the tenth day of the Munich Olympics, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September stormed the Israeli athletes' quarters. The world watched live...

  • Culinary Judaics Academy

    1 season

    Culinary Judaics Academy is an empowering and meaningful program for ALL in the Jewish world - no matter your age, affiliation or practice - which uses cooking as a vehicle to teach about Jewish values, holidays, Torah, Israel and more! Cook and learn together with the enthusiastic father-daughte...

  • Polonsky

    Movie

    The film portrays the renowned illustrator David Polonsky, during his work on a new children’s book. Along with his masterpieces: “Waltz with Bashir” (Winner of the Golden Globe) “The Congress” (Winner of the European Film Awards) and “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” (published all ov...

  • That Orchestra with the Broken Instruments

    Movie

    A broken string, fractured echo chamber, rusting valves. One brilliant conductor, three gifted composers, and 100 musicians meet for four days of rehearsals. They speak different languages. Their instruments are broken. An orchestra of professional and amateur musicians, young and old, prepare, a...

  • Family in Transition

    Movie

    The story of a family in Nahariya, a small traditional town in Israel, whose lives change completely after their father finally decides to tell his family that he's a transgender woman. Their mother chooses to stay with her spouse through the whole process, but just as it seems that life is back ...

  • Solomon Simon: Yiddish Writer and Pedagogue | Yiddish Book Center

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    The Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project presents a portrait of prolific writer and Jewish thinker Solomon Simon, through the lens of oral history.

    The prolific Yiddish writer Solomon Simon was born Shlomo Simonovich in a shtetl in what is now Belarus. At 13, he went to his first o...

  • The Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project

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    ChaiFlicks is proud to partner with the Yiddish Book Center to present a variety of documentary films from the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, including shorts featuring famed actor and director Leonard Nimoy (“Star Trek”).

    The Yiddish Book Center recovers, preserves, teaches,...

  • Who Will Remain?

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    The Yiddish Book Center presents "Who Will Remain?", a new feature documentary produced by The Wexler Oral History Project! | Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania, using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life...

  • Homeboys

    Movie

    Samuel and Isaac are South Sudanese teenage refugees who grew up in Israel but were deported. They now live in Uganda, and dream of making their musical talent known to the world. Amir, an Israeli musician, arrives to help them produce their music and put on an unforgettable show, within their co...

  • The Green Prince

    Movie

    Set against the chaotic backdrop of recent events in the Middle East, Nadav Schirman’s THE GREEN PRINCE retraces the details of a highly unprecedented partnership that developed between sworn enemies. In the style of a tense psychological thriller, this extraordinary documentary recounts the true...

  • Our Natural Right
    Movie + 1 extra

    Our Natural Right

    Movie + 1 extra

    Over seven decades ago, the members of the People's Council sat down to draft the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel. Every word and comma led to hours of debate. The declaration was signed, the State established, but the debate still rages. The grandchildren of the signers of the...

  • Reckonings

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    In the aftermath of the Holocaust, German and Jewish leaders met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and s...