When the Fascists take over his country, Martin witnesses how members of the Jewish community, and his own family, are sent to work camps. Naive enough to think his future will improve, he volunteers to go to one of these camps. After luck saves him from almost certain death, he joins up the resi...

The son of a Polish emigrant provides perverse commentary over vintage footage from a nostalgic 1968 ball of emigrants, organized in the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Directed by Tel Aviv University graduate Jonathan Rozenbaum, this joking, autobiographical short film captures a bygone era with a str...

It should have been a wonderful evening. Stephan and Elisabeth have invited their family and friends over for dinner, but as soon as Thomas announces that he and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are planning to name their unborn son Adolf, things get out of hand. As the evening escalates, secrets are...

Little Jerusalem: that is how the locals refer to the town of Pitigliano in southern Tuscany, because of its striking resemblance to Israel’s ancient city. Through the medieval stone walls, the fascinating story of 400 years of harmonic co-existence between Jews and Christians is told for the fir...

When Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion, Jewish Canadian comedians and creators of the award-winning Yiddish series “YidLife Crisis”, travel to Poland in search of their Yiddish roots and Ashkenazi culture, they end up finding a unique Jewish community built by Poles looking to face their own complex r...

Sigmund Freud: revolutionary genius far ahead of his time, or greedy, devious, charlatan? Dead since 1939, yet still considered to be "more alive than dead", Freud and the highlights of his prolific legacy are analyzed in this eye-opening "animated" documentary from Israeli filmmaker Tzaki Schiff...

When Clara Greenspan left Montreal for Warsaw in June of 1938, she could never have foreseen that her destiny would soon become intertwined with the events unfolding in Europe. Set in Canada, Poland, Russia, and Germany, this award-winning documentary from filmmaker Garry Beitel reveals the histo...

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Discover the remarkable story of Bert Trautmann (David Kross, "The Reader"), a German soldier and prisoner of war who, against a backdrop of British post-war protest and prejudice, secures the position of Goalk...

A maverick prosecutor finds himself dragged into the investigation of a string of ritual killings rooted in Poland’s anti-Semitic past in the suspenseful detective thriller A GRAIN OF TRUTH. Based on the bestselling novel by Polish author Zygmunt Miłoszewski, this masterfully constructed whodunit...

You think you’ve heard every story about World War II? You haven’t heard this one!

Beginning in 2008, filmmaker Jonathan Durand began interviewing his grandmother about her childhood stories of growing up as a Polish refugee in East Africa. Say it again, “Polish refugees in East Africa.” It’s t...

When a world-famous conductor (Peter Simonischek, "Toni Erdmann") starts an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, it will take all his skill to inspire these talented young men and women to play in harmony.

"A revelation! Wonderful characters, genuine emotion, music and witty dialog... I love thi...

Hero or traitor? Rezso Kasztner, known as the Jewish Schindler, negotiated face to face with Adolf Eichmann, rescuing 1700 Jews on a train to Switzerland, and may have saved tens of thousands more lives. Yet Kasztner was condemned as a traitor in his adopted country of Israel; accused as a collab...

The legendary Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire, Downfall) stars as Sigmund Freud in this tender, heart-breaking story about one young man and his friendship with Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna. Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler!

Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to...

The legendary song "Gloomy Sunday" (famously recorded by Billie Holiday) inspires this marvelous love story with a twist. On the eve of World War II in the lush and romantic city of Budapest, three people are caught in a love triangle that will span the twentieth century, haunted by the song that...

A superlative saga of courage and compassion, Run Boy Run tells the extraordinary true story of a young Polish boy’s struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and maintain his Jewish faith through his intrepid will and the kindness of others. Escaping the Warsaw ghetto at the behest of his father, ...

Based on actual events, filmmaker Nicolo Donato tells the gripping true story of the courageous Danish fishermen (including Donato's own grandfather) who risked their lives to ferry Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Denmark to safety in Sweden. Internationally renowned actor David Dencik ("Chern...

In this riveting historical drama, 10 political activists (including Nelson Mandela and his inner circle of Black and Jewish supporters) face a possible death sentence for conspiracy to commit sabotage after they are arrested by the apartheid South African government during a raid in the town of ...

In 1944, 16-year-old Femma Swaalep ended up in extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The man responsible for the deportation of this half-Jewish girl was the German racial specialist Hans Calmeyer. Miraculously Femma survives the horrors, but recently the now 92-year-old is plagued by the knowle...

From the Emmy Award-winning director of "Unorthodox"! Ya'ara has everything: She is pretty, happily married and has excellent prospects for a university career. Yet when she meets the much older Arie, a friend of her father, her perfect world falls apart. She succumbs to his fascinating, erotic a...

Midway through a gruelling Orthodox conversion, Daniel and his fiancée Katherine are eager to gain the blessing of his intimidatingly large and loud Iraqi Jewish family. At their annual Rosh Hashanah feast, Katherine’s natural elegance and ‘English English’ heritage immediately endears her to the...

A three-year-old Jewish boy is smuggled into Buchenwald in a suitcase - the effort to hide him and keep him alive becomes a metaphor for the struggle to preserve their humanity among the inmates.

A gripping and touching drama starring Florian Stetter (German Oscar® Entry BELOVED SISTERS, STATION...

A powerful historical drama directed by Academy Award-winner Volker Schlöndorff ("The Tin Drum") and starring Ulrich Matthes (Downfall), August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds, A Hidden Life) and Bibiana Beglau (Crescendo).

Inspired by the true tale of a dissident priest's temporary furlough from D...