Larry King was known around the world as the preeminent interviewer. From heads of state to the biggest celebrities, his curiosity, and non-confrontational style elicited surprising revelations—but what went on beyond the mic in King’s own personal life? This half-hour documentary explores two of...

“Ma’abarot” is the first documentary project unfolding the story of the Israeli transit camps. The transit camps were a controversial enterprise, housing hundreds of thousands of new immigrants from different parts of the world, transitioning them into becoming part of the Israeli cultural tapest...

Halit is very overweight. Still, she is a happy woman who has achieved professional success, has good friends and a loving life partner. At the age of 40 she begins to fear the future. The film follows the process of change Halit is going through and enables us to see her confronting her open wou...

Voted as America’s number one retirement home, the Palace in Miami is a buzzing and luxurious senior living community.

Like a cross between a luxury hotel and an Americanized palace of Versailles, the Palace wraps its residents in luxury, an army of devoted employees and a permanent party atmos...

In the picturesque Negev desert lays the Bedouin Village of El-Sayed that has the largest percentage of deaf people in the world. Through generations a unique sign language has evolved making it the most popular language in this rare society that accepts deafness as natural as life itself. The vi...

Israeli filmmaker Tamar Yarom dives into her own past as a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces. The resulting documentary echoes themes that resonate strongly to this day — the female perspective in the face of military machismo, the moral challenges and the responsibility placed on young Israe...

On Mount Gerizim, a community of 850 Samaritans and their 3,500-year-old biblical tradition struggle to survive. Endangered by the modern life surrounding them and strict customs on marriage within their religion, they try to prevent extinction and preserve the community, the Torah, and their Hol...

Winner of the Special Jury Award at DocAviv | A historical and dramatic legal documentary, The 1957 Transcripts dives into the almost-forgotten events that happened in Kfar Kassem in October 1956, where 47 civilians were killed by Israeli border patrol forces.

Weaving together contrasting narra...

Based on the multi-award-winning internet project on daily life in Gaza City in Palestine and Sderot in Israel, the film documents regular people in each town on the opposite side of the border over two months leading up to the 2008 Gaza War. The stories were aired on a website where users had ac...

Mira Segal wakes up screaming one morning to discover that her husband has disappeared. The police open a Missing Person file and advise her to wait. As weeks turn into months, Mira continues to search for him while exploring her own desires and the guilt of not wanting him back.

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The story of the Jewish Mellah (quarter) in Marrakech, one of the old ones in Morocco – about the rich past, the worrisome present, and the unknown future, as told in a collage of short documentaries by students from Sapir College in Israel and MU6P University in Morocco. A joint production in co...

An official DocAviv Selection | The story of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s unexpected rise to power and his dramatic fall from grace — from the highest office in the land to Ward 10 at Maasiyahu Prison. Set as a political thriller, this documentary follows the incredible events that...

Anyone who has ever been taught about the Holocaust has learned that six million Jews were killed under Nazi rule. In his signature personal style, David Fisher’s first- person historical investigation takes him as a second generation of Holocaust survivors, on a 12-year journey, far beyond stati...

Anat Gov, one of the most influential playwrights in Israeli theatre, is preparing for her death. She asks Arik Kneller, an artists’ agent, to be the executor of her will. Arik struggles to accept the humor and serenity with which she faces her upcoming end. Anat, consciously accepting her nearin...

Jaffa, once a major port in the Middle East and the sister city of Tel Aviv has grown into an international tourist center, a coveted destination and last but not least a true real estate gem. Tourists, partygoers and its residents are charmed by Jaffa’s oriental style and romantic authenticity, ...

Lea Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent demonstrators to armed militants. As a Jewish-Israeli lawyer who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years, Tsemel, in her tireless quest for justice, pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to...

A photograph discovered after her grandmother’s death sends a filmmaker on a journey to unravel her family’s deepest secrets. What she uncovers is a web of silence spanning three generations—marked by trauma, patriarchal control, and the pain of truths left unspoken.

How to Say Silence is an unf...

What happens to a mother of eight when she finds out that the admired rabbi, teacher of her three sons, has been sexually abusing all of them for years? Ornit, a 42-year-old ultra-Orthodox woman leading a quiet life, becomes a hero against her will when she has to face her sons’ abuse. Together, ...

Shortly after Israel's historic victory in the Six Day War of 1967, young author Amos Oz embarks on a peculiar mission: documenting what those soldiers who returned from battle felt about their role in the country's decisive victory.

While the nation brimmed with relief, joy and pride, many of ...

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On October 4th, 2001, a plane departed from Israel towards Siberia and exploded over the Black Sea. 51 Israeli citizens were on board, instantly making the disaster the country's biggest aerial disaster. One of them was 38-year-old Oksana Seltz...

Fadhumo and Helen are two refugees seeking sanctuary, one in Tel Aviv and one in Berlin, each coping with discrimination, otherness and a life away from home. The two close friends become social activists determined to assist women like themselves and to provide a better future for next generatio...

An official DocAviv Selection

Osher, Michelle, and Eitan were taken out of their homes as children and transferred to foster families. Their biological families are dysfunctional and absent. The foster families are supportive and stable, but this guardianship ends at age 18. The film follows the...

What does the wedding ceremony of two religious Jewish gay men look like? Or a family of two mothers and 4 children? Or the pregnancy of a trans religious man? The Holy Closet tells the stories of LGBTQ people who chose to remain religious Jews and to build their lives, relationships, families, a...