Yuri Foreman, the only Israeli to ever become a world champion boxer, has spent his life fighting for greatness—both inside and outside the ring. After losing his title in 2010, Foreman embarked on a profound spiritual journey, diving deep into the study of Judaism to uncover the connection betwe...

Coming June 22, as part of the Reboot x ChaiFlicks Short Film Festival | A short film directed by Peter Decherney that follows Rachel Namudosi (also spelled Namadosi), a Grammy-nominated singer and third-generation Ugandan Jew, as she balances raising her four children, making music, and leading ...

Part of the Reboot x ChaiFlicks Short Films Festival | Coming June 15

An intimate look at the non-conformists in the punk subculture who fought back against white nationalists and neo-Nazis in the 1990s. The film draws connections between those battles and the current rise in antisemitism and ha...

“Anne” is a film that aims to explore the nuances within cultural representation, in addition to the importance of why stories like Anne Frank’s continue to be told. Is it more important to accurately “be” something, or to accurately “represent” something? Is “authenticity” synonymous with percep...

Presented as part of the ChaiFlicks x Reboot Studios Short Program, curated exclusively on ChaiFlicks.

An acclaimed short film starring Swell Ariel Or (The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem), Arava follows two runaway teenage girls hitchhike through small-town Israel to a Northern Jewish sanctum in pur...

Angelina, the first Druze woman to attempt significant steps in the Israeli fashion world, finds herself in the middle of a complicated conflict in which the tradition and values of her society clash with her brave efforts to choose her own way in life. Lady Kul el-Arab which set out as a glamoro...

Tamara and Adam, a wild, unstable couple, are about to become parents and their life is a mess. Just before being evicted from their apartment in Tel Aviv, Tamara decides to search for their new home in Adam’s hometown Haifa. During one unforgettable day of apartment hunting, the journey to find ...

The Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, a small Tel Aviv based NGO, works around the clock. The activists give the refugees and migrants legal advice, help them deal with government bureaucracy and promote public campaigns for their cause. They are fighting an uphill battle against both the rising...

After WWII, Helene is ready to do anything to start a new life. As a young woman, she came to the exciting Berlin of the roaring 20s, wanting to become a doctor, and soon fell in love with a man named Karl. But the course of her life took a drastic, irreversible turn when the Nazis came into powe...

A touching family comedy and festival circuit hit, streaming exclusively on ChaiFlicks.

Tamás, a generous but stubborn boxing coach, gets along well with everyone but his own son, Iván. They have not spoken since Iván moved to Israel and became religious. When Tamás' beloved wife, Zsuzsa dies un...

Alexandria, Egypt. To save the synagogue of the once largest Jewish community in the world from being shut down, Ben, an ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn Jew visiting Jerusalem, is sent out to be the desperately needed tenth man for the ceremonies of Pesach. Having missed his plane and been kicked off the...

At the end of World War II, Nathan Hilu, the son of Syrian Jewish immigrants to New York, received a life-changing assignment from the U.S. Army: to guard the top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. This experience fueled a lifetime of artistic inspiration for Nathan, a virtually unknown ...

Women from various religious traditions rediscover and re-imagine the role of ancient sacred music in the modern world. Despite gender barriers, these female musicians make their voices heard to inspire universal connection and harmony.

Directed by Evan Beloff
Documentary
45 Minutes
English
Unit...

Over the course of two days – one in 1975 and one in 2022 – two older Jewish women bake bread in New York City. One has made challah millions of times before. For the other, her granddaughter, it’s her first time. As they bake, they both reflect on what they’re passing on to the next generation.
...

Nir Baram's father was a minister in Rabin's government. The one who signed the Osslo Accords. His grandfather too was a member of the Knesset. With his lineage on his back, Nir begins to question the political education he received at home. Is the two-state solution still possible?

Now a succe...

The official protocols of Prime Minister Golda Meir’s office from the time of the 1973 Yom Kippur War are released, revealing the true nature of her performance during the war.

These documents leave no room for doubt. Despite the conventional image of “Golda” and the myth of her shortcomings dur...

Neta, a rising star in the days after the Six-Day War, finds her husband came back from the war a changed man. She oscillates between her career, her personal life, and her struggling husband, as the country becomes a euphoric musical.

Israel, 2023
Musical
Hebrew with English subtitles
114 minutes

Based on a true story, of a Romeo and Juliet in 1942 — yet she was Jewish, and he, a Catholic. Annette and Jean wanted to get married, but Jean’s parents were opposed. Annette Zelman was reported to the Gestapo by her fiancé’s father and was sent to Auschwitz.

France, 2023
Drama
French with Engl...

Set in the holy Islamic city of Mashhad in 1930’s Iran, Mashhad follows Miriam, a young Jewish ghetto girl struggling to understand why her family conceal who they are.Produced by Reboot Studios (The Anne Frank Gift Shop) and inspired by creator Sarah Solemani’s (Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,...

In 1969, Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled hijacked an airplane full of civilians in Rome. This act of terrorism caught the world’s attention, turning Khaled into an icon for a new generation of Palestinian resistance.

Forty years later, Lina Makboul — a young Palestinian now living in Sweden ...

The Perfect Meal follows five leading international scientists who gradually uncover the secret mechanisms of the Mediterranean Diet and reveal how certain ingredients and combinations of plant based foods can protect us from obesity, cardiovascular diseases, cancers and brain- ageing.

The film ...

Streaming March 7th exclusively on ChaiFlicks | Watch the trailer!

A moving drama based on the true story of Martha Liebermann. In Berlin of 1943, upper-class widow Martha Liebermann must leave her homeland behind or risk deporation to the concentration camps. The reputation and valuable paintin...

Coming March 14th | An insightful documentary from renowned Israeli filmmaker Duki Dror (Inside the Mossad, Supernova: the Music Festival)

The story of Lebanon is one of ongoing tragedy. A march of follies orchestrated by heads of state, sects, and militias. The Palestinians, French, British, I...

The mikveh ritual is the final step in the process of joining the Jewish people. Converts, both men and women, are required to immerse themselves in the mikveh in the presence of three rabbinical judges, while the women wear nothing but a robe. This short documentary from religious filmmaker Nuri...

A deadly attack on the remote settlement of Itamar results in the murder of three members of the Fogel family. Since then, the Fogel tragedy has become emblematic of the bloody results of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as some of the poignant questions at its heart — of identity, belon...

A powerful and intimate film to watch this Valentine’s weekend, Revoir Paris is a moving meditation on grief, healing, and the importance of connections forged in tragedy. With a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score, Revoir Paris is a story told with sensitivity and restraint, and tenderness, with a superb ...

The young Jewish Austrian businessman Victor is a witness to how the prosecution of a Nazi crime perpetrated against his family unjustly fails in the courtroom. The political and legal system in 1960's Austria is still run by former Nazis and there is no avenue for Victor to change matters. When ...

Official Selection | Sundance FIlm Festival

Warsaw, December 1945: the second World War is finally over and French Red Cross doctor Mathilde (Lou de Laage) is treating the last of the French survivors of the German camps. When a panicked Benedictine nun appears at the clinic begging Mathilde to...

A touching animated film from UK artist Zoom Rockman, based on the true story of Holocaust survivor Ivor Perl.

Born in Hungary in 1932, Ivor Perl was only 12 years old when Nazi Germany invaded his country. Deported first to the Jewish ghetto, then to the concentration camps — Ivor and his olde...

Roger Peltzman transforms his one - man play, Dedication, into a deeply poetic, musical, and cinematic journey. Peltzman’s family fled Berlin for Brussels in 1933, and this story centers on his uncle Norbert — the finest pianist in Belgium, until he was murdered in Auschwitz at 21 years old. A si...

Documentary
Directed by Ofer Laszewcki, Dani Rotstein and Felipe Wolokita
Spain, USA, 2021
Spanish, English (with English subtitles)
63minutes

Two women from two different worlds meet in a hospital, moments after a terror attack in Jerusalem. The two are hiding a secret. While waiting and praying for a miracle to come they will get to know each other and learn about truth, faith and acceptance.

Drama
Directed by Miya Hatav
Israel, 2016...

Coming January 17 | An official DocAviv selection from executive producer Nancy Spielberg

Two men sit at a popular café in Tel Aviv. Moments later, they open fire on the shocked diners around them. One customer fights back. Others run to safety. No one escapes unharmed. Closed Circuit documents ...

Four generations, three funerals, two wars and a boyfriend waiting in Tel Aviv: in a tragic-comic clash between the filmmaker and the habit of obedience, Ayal is repeatedly called for reserve duty as a Tank Commander in the Israeli army.

Directed by Ayal Goldberg
Documentary
Israel, 2012
Hebrew ...

The story of eight Arab widows, uneducated and lacking vocational training, who have never had a job, and one day suddenly decided to jointly open a plant for the production of high quality pickles.

Directed by Dalit Kimor
Documentary
Israel, 2005
English, Arabic (with English subtitles)
59 minutes

Solheil is 15, when his Jewish-Iranian family moves to Wedding, one of Berlin’s multicultural, mostly Muslim, neighborhoods. While the other kids listen to hip hop music, and the Wedding Tigers gang dominates the city with their graffiti and start fights with other local crews, eager to fit in, S...

“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...

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...

A short mockumentary from the creator of the viral social media sensation Old Jewish Men (@OldJewishMen).

Dave Roffman — retired Long-islander, shvitzing aficionado and a Sauna Athlete — embarks on a quest to win the 2023 World Sauna Championships in Detroit. But the challenge is not without its...

Based on a true story. During the Passover holiday of 1980, a team of Palestinian terrorists breaches Israel's northern border, infiltrating Kibbutz Misgav Am with the intention of taking hostages. Unbeknownst to them, the kibbutz is partially deserted due to the holiday — leaving the children’s ...

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...

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...

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...

A WWII tragedy in a Polish village happens alongside the story of a wedding taking place in the same location 100 years later.

Drama
Directed by Wojciech Smarzowski
France, 2022
French (with English subtitles)
119 minutes

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.

Drama
Directed ...

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...

Michael and Dana are a married couple that lives an inert life, typical for young people in the big city. An unexpected crisis shakes their world and forces them to make a reckoning of their relationship and life choices. Their story is the story of contemporary Tel Aviv, its people, its voices, ...

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...

One war, ten days, three stories: the Old City of Jerusalem, at the dawn of a new Middle East. For the Brits, it’s the shameful end of 30 years Mandate. For the Jews, it’s the birthday of their State. And for the Palestinians, it’s a catastrophe. Only now, 60 years later, images can be shown from...

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...

Based on a true story, North Face is a suspenseful adventure film about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. Set in 1936, as Nazi propaganda urges the nation’s Alpinists to conquer the unclimbed north face of the Swiss massif – the Eiger – two reluctant German climbers...

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, ...

Based on the eponymous best-selling book by Rachel Seiffert.

Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, staunch Nazi believers, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, five German children —led by the eldest daughter, Lore — undertake a harro...

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...