Filmmaker Ori Sivan (co-creator of Israel's "In Treatment") presents a contemporary variation of the biblical story of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar. Sarah, a harpist of the Jerusalem Philharmonic Orchestra is married to Abraham, its conductor. When Hagar, a young Palestinian horn player joins the orc...

This coming-of-age story evokes the offbeat charms of "Juno" and "Sixteen Candles" as it tells the story of Libby, a shy, intelligent 13-year-old in California who is sent by her mother to live with her estranged father in Israel. It doesn’t take long for the serious-minded Libby to discover her ...

The Light Rail Red Line of Jerusalem’s tramway connects the city from east to west, from the Palestinian neighborhoods of Shuafat and Beit Hanina to Mount Herzl—a journey that comprises the culturally complex makeup of the city. This humorous and touching film, whose cast includes Mathieu Amalric...

Every week, 10 elderly gay men gather in a room lit by neon lights at the LGBT Center of Tel-Aviv. Being part of a community that sanctifies youth, this intimate space is these old gays' last and only shelter, where they can age and deal with aging openly: from sexuality and body image at old age...

Amos Gitai's KADOSH takes viewers inside the Mea Sherim quarter of Jerusalem, an enclave of the ultra-Orthodox almost never seen on the screen. Here, for ten years, the pious Rivka (Yael Abecassis, "Live and Become") has devoted herself to her husband Meir (Yoram Hattab), but their marriage remai...

17-year-old Tal has emigrated from France to Jerusalem with her family. She writes a letter expressing her refusal to accept that only hatred can reign between Israelis and Palestinians. She slips the letter into a bottle, and her brother throws it into the sea near Gaza, where he is carrying out...

Dana and Amit got to know each other at the age of 25. Two years later, they got married. Shortly before the birth of their second child, Amit becomes ultra-Orthodox, while Dana remains secular. Can their love overcome the growing gap between their ways of life?

Directed by David Ofek & Neta Sho...

During World War II, Eva lost her daughter and her baby granddaughter, Sarah, along with the rest of her family during a raid After the war, Eva worked to rebuild her life, becoming a Jewish literature teacher at a high school in Bordeaux, France. One day, Eva recognizes that her student's father...

Lior Ashkenazi ("Foxtrot", "Late Marriage") stars in DEAR GOD, which depicts romantic Jerusalem seen through the eyes of Aaron, a guard at the Wailing Wall. One day, a beautiful mysterious woman puts a note between the holy stones and Aaron decides to fulfill her deepest wish, while learning that...

Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943) was a prolific Warsaw-based artist who painted scenes of the Polish-Jewish community until he was murdered at Majdanek concentration camp. For more than a decade his great-granddaughter Elizabeth searched for his missing art, with remarkable and unexpected success. Spann...

Three children from the West Bank are smuggled into Israel, arriving at the doorstep of George and Rita's house in Jaffa, who disagree about how to respond to their arrival. Their mother is dead, and their father has been sentenced for life. George is afraid that hiding the children will endanger...

Fall in love with UNCHAINED's Aviv Alush in AN ISRAELI LOVE STORY, streaming now on ChaiFlicks!

Aviv Alush (The Women's Balcony, Valley of Tears, The Baker and the Beauty), Adi Bielski and Maya Wertheimer (The New Black) star in this powerful romance based on actual events set during the turbule...

Ravit spends all of her time spreading her love wherever it is needed. During the day she cooks for hundreds of Tel Aviv's homeless. In the evenings she hugs abandoned babies in the birthing ward. Without human touch and the warmth of a hug, the abandoned babies won't develop properly and can eve...

Warning: Contains Sexual Content | Acclaimed filmmaker Erez Tadmor (A Matter of Size) presents a comedy about the drama that comes with becoming parents. Liran (Roy Assaf) and Tali (Nelly Tagar, Zero Motivation) are a married couple in their thirties dreaming of having a child together. Pressure ...

Winner of the Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary! This intimate, revealing profile of best-selling children's author Dvora Omer, compiled by her son, is a moving eulogy to an Israeli cultural icon whose tormented past made sensitive topics accessible to generations of fans.

Directed by R...

An award-winning film about three secular women as they enter the Orthodox Jewish world. As they grapple or embrace, their experiences throw pat answers about tradition, community, and meaning into relief.

“Enlightening, engaging…Personalizes the often faceless tussle between secular and religio...

Suzan isn’t either-or. Suzan isn’t both. Not quite male, not quite female. Suzan was born with male genitals and reproductive organs. At 5 months old, Suzan’s parents decided their baby would be a female. At 35 years old Suzan discovers this for the first time.

Directed by Sharon Luzon
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A stirring tale set in a fantastical Paris where a concentration camp survivor reveals her past to her grandson. Valentin, a painter struggling to discover love and beauty, is reunited with his grandmother Nina. As they wander together through the capital, Nina unravels the past to her grandson, ...

Can one be a Catholic priest and an Observant Jew at the same time? Twelve years after he was ordained as a Polish Catholic priest discovers that he was born to Jewish parents. The film follows his amazing journey: from conducting mass in a church in Poland to life as an observant Jew in a religi...

An exploration of the moral and survival dilemmas in Auschwitz from the point of view of a deputy head of a block and a few of the prisoners from his block who survived the horrors of the camp, immigrated to Israel in the 40's and are still struggling to begin new life in the newborn state of Isr...

Deftly blending romantic comedy with the complexities of modern life (in a style reminiscent of Albert Brooks), BORN IN JERUSALEM AND STILL ALIVE is a sensitive and hilarious debut from director, writer and star Yossi Atia, featuring rising international star Lihi Kornowski (Losing Alice).

While...

Starring legendary German actress Hannelore Elsner ("To Life")! | There‘s a very good reason why you should let sleeping dogs lie, as 9-year-old Johanna discovers. Growing up a good Catholic girl in the provincial Austrian town of Wels in the late 1960s, she learns from her grandmother her family...

An award-winning cult classic from the production company of Monty Python's Eric Idle, this irreverent British comedy follows Leon Geller (Mark Frankel), a sensitive Jewish boy from London who accidentally learns that he is the product of a sperm bank mix-up proving that he is the son of a Yorksh...