Discover the inspiring, little-known story of Le Chambon, a Huguenot village in France who took in close to 5,000 Jewish children during the Holocaust at great risk to themselves. With little financial resources, an act of defiance and spiritual audacity, this small town makes its mark in the his...

When Jewish Federal Prosecutor Fritz Bauer sets out to root out Nazi war criminals in post-war Germany, he runs into an invisible conspiracy at all levels of government trying to block his way. So when Adolf Eichmann shows up in Argentina, Bauer turns to the Mossad instead...

An international po...

On the day Adolf Hitler comes to power, the German-Jewish family Glickstein comes together for a family dinner. Most of them however (like so many other Germans at that time) don´t take the Nazis seriously. When young Leah reveals her plans to emigrate from Berlin to Palestine, her family starts ...

Set in 1941, Wunderkinder tells the story of three exceptionally talented children who have to learn to use their musical skill, their undying friendship and all their courage to survive in the face of a grown up world gone mad.

The young and highly talented violinist Abrascha (Elin Kolev) and t...

Budapest, 1936. The Hungarian prime minister returns from Germany in a coffin, his dream of making Hungary into a fascist state snuffed out—for now. Crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon has other things on his mind. A cynic who thinks he has seen it all, a tip leads him to an unusual crime scene in a s...

During the tumultuous 1943, against the backdrop of a German-occupied Thessaloniki, two star-crossed lovers struggle to surmount prejudice and fear, as the brutalities against the town's persecuted Jewish community escalate. Inspired by the book “Ouzeri Tsitsanis,” which is in turn based on the m...

This award-winning Latvian feature film offers a gripping account of Žanis Lipke, a blue-collar worker honored as one of the 'Righteous Among the Nations' for his heroic deeds during World War II. Despite his family’s hardship under successive Soviet and German occupations, Lipke embarked on a co...

Charlotte Gainsbourg ("Melancholia,” “Norman") stars in Promise at Dawn, the epic film adaptation of Romain Gary’s best-selling autobiographical novel.

From his difficult childhood in Poland to his adolescence under Nice’s sun, to his career in the air force in Africa during World War II... Roma...

Take a journey across three Odessas – from Odessa, Ukraine to “Little Odessa” New York and Ashdod, Israël – revealing the wanderings, hopes and illusions of the vanishing Odessa Jewish community.

CICAE Arthouse Prize | Berlin International Film Festival 2005
Cinmema du Réel Film Festival - Prix...

Cap or Kippah is about a child living in two worlds. In the one, he prefers to cover up the fact that he’s Jewish, in the other he comes clean about it.

Bram (14) keeps it a secret at his secondary school that he is Jewish, because he’s afraid he will get bullied because of it. He grew up in a ...

Award-winning filmmaker Michael Verhoeven ("The White Rose", "The Nasty Girl") goes on a search to unearth evidence documenting one of the greatest robberies in human history - the expropriation of assets from German Jews during the Third Reich.

This benefited virtually every German citizen. It ...

In the small Polish town of Ivansk, one word ignites a nationwide controversy. Most of Ivansk’s Jews were killed by the Nazis, and the headstones in the Jewish cemetery were plundered for construction purposes. A group of descendants of Ivansk Jews restore the town’s cemetery, retrieving what hea...

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Ondřej Trojan (Zelary) presents a fascinating historical drama revolving around the real-life figure of Zdeněk Toman, a Jewish high-ranking official in post-war Czechoslovakia who ran the secret police, helped the communist party to seize power, became a politica...

It’s been forty years since Jewish academic Albert Cohen-Berto last visited his home city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Upon returning, Albert reconnects with the love of his life, an Armenian woman named Araxi, rekindling their romance after so many years of Communist rule. As they revisit the political...

David and Elza, a brother and sister on the run from Nazi Germany find themselves in the train station of Sofia, Bulgaria, where they are adopted by a trio of travelling actors. Joining their act as they tour the Bulgarian countryside, these performers use their wit and charm to help the children...

In 1945, 25-year-old Hungarian man Miklós is being treated at a Swedish hospital after having been freed from a concentration camp. The doctors diagnose him with a severe lung disease and tell him that he has no more than six months to live. But he refuses to give up, wants to find a wife with wh...

On a summer day in 1945, an Orthodox man and his grown son return to a village in Hungary while the villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk's son. The townspeople – suspicious, remorseful, fearful, and cunning – expect the worst and behave accordingly.

A superb ensemble cast, lustr...

On a mission of vigilante justice, a young woman goes to extremes to seek reprisal against a suspected ex-Nazi, in the psychological thriller WINTER HUNT. Driving on a deserted highway through the German countryside, Lena (Carolyn Genzkow) arrives at the Rossberg’s remote estate as nightfall desc...

Take a traditional Jewish funeral whose rituals no one can quite recall, add a Yiddishkeit community in Paris - one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and top it off with an ensemble cast of dysfunctional siblings and spouses. What you get in the assured hands of director Idit Cébula (Two...

January 20, 2006: after dinner with his family, Ilan Halimi gets a call from a beautiful girl who had approached him at work and makes plans to meet her for coffee. Ilan didn’t suspect a thing. He was 23 and had his whole life ahead of him. The next time Ilan’s family heard from him was through a...

Chaim Topol and Isabella Rossellini lead a powerhouse cast in this Berlin Film Festival winning drama. A Jewish philosophy student (Laura Fraser, "Breaking Bad", 'Better Call Saul") accepts a job as a nanny with a Hasidic Jewish family in 1970's Antwerp, Belgium. She has little knowledge and symp...

Based on a true story, FANNY’S JOURNEY is an incredible tale of bravery, strength and survival, a story of a daring young girl who will stop at nothing and fear no one. In 1943, 13-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish chil...

Starring Christian Friedel (star of "The Zone of Interest")! | In the midst of WWII, a German couple, Fritz and Emma, agree to hide Albert, a Jewish refugee, at their remote farm in the Black Forest. Since his marriage with Emma has remained childless, Fritz uses this opportunity to suggest an un...

In April 1945, British producer Sidney Bernstein (and his friend/advisor Alfred Hitchock) began preparing a documentary from footage shot by cameramen accompanying troops as they liberated occupied Europe from the Nazis, revealing the atrocities committed at camps such as Bergen-Belsen with devas...