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...

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...

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...

Shavuot - what is it? We went back to chat with the ever-patient and knowledgeable Rabbi Lisa Grushcow to learn about Judaism's (ahem) cheesiest holiday.

Created by Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman
Canada, 2025
Documentary, Comedy, Jewish Culture
English
7 minutes

The Jews and the Blues is a musical journey that along the way becomes something much more. My name is Drew Stone, I’m a documentary filmmaker, musician and talk show host born and raised in New York City. Join me as I follow my passion for music and adventure as I travel to Israel and discover h...

A journey through Kabbalah, heroin, chaos & redemption. The director’s mother married one of the greatest Kabbalists of our time, Rabbi Ashlag, 40 years her senior. He taught her the secrets of Kabbalah and passed away. Since then, she dreams of her son becoming a Messiah, but he ran away at the ...

A frightened look of a woman, from a rare self-portrait of a couple, leads the director to a shocking family story. Hidden secrets revealed when 65-year-old son, Simon, discovers that his father, the photographer Mundek Lukawiecki, and his mother, the housewife Hannah Bern, were the commanders of...

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...