Exclusively for ChaiFlicks subscribers! | Filmmaker and Holocaust scholar Boaz Dvir is the Director of the Hammel Family Human Rights Initiative and the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Initiative at Penn State University. Using the ChaiFlicks series ANTI-SEMITISM: 2000 YEARS OF HI...

Haim Hatuel started piercing his kids at the age of 5. Today, they are Israeli fencing champions. After his release from the army, Haim joined a fencing academy aimed at turning street kids into law abiding citizens. Over the next 45 years, Haim has built a fencing empire in Acre - but just befor...

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...

A 2022 Emmy winner for Best Historical Documentary, this is the true story of the Neiger family's miraculous escape from certain death by the Nazis during World War II. A story of endurance, unity and hope.

Directed by John Rokosny
United States, 2021
Documentary
English
73 minutes

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...

In the late 1970's, after thousands of years of praying and longing for Jerusalem, the first Ethiopian Jews arrived in Israel. Was it worth it? in this film the question is posed for the first time to the children of Ethiopian Jews. Their parents tell stories of immense bravery, and of incredible...

In this hilarious comedy of hair-brained disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert (Louis de Funès), a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab revolutionary. The two dress up as Hasidic Jews in order to evade the police and a band of assass...

Filmmakers Terri and Paul Bachow tell the stories of four survivors who lived outside of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. They describe how lucky you had to be to survive. To survive you had to be lucky at least ten times, although often what turns out to have been lucky was often a ...

The story of the pork industry in Israel, an industry that has raised ethnic tensions and heated struggles over the country's short history. Sitting firmly between Israel's most essential identity issues and the fundamental right to freedom of choice, how did the unsuspecting pig turn into such a...

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...

Patrick Bruel (Sabrina, Paris-Manhattan) stars in this heartwarming adaptation of Joseph Joffo’s enduring memoir which tells the story of the Nazi occupation through the eyes of two young Jewish brothers in German occupied France who, with a mind-boggling mix of mischievousness, courage and ingen...

Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Hilla Medalia (Dancing in Jaffa) takes you inside Hadassa Hospital, located in the ethnically charged buffer zone between Jerusalem's Palestinian and Israeli communities. This is the story of its ER seen through the eyes of two female doctors, a Jewish immigrant fr...

Director Shachar Zefania set out to Nepal to shoot two different films: The first, about the largest Passover Seder in the world taking place in the Katmandu valley, and the second, a journey in the spectacular Nepalese Himalayan mountains, a breathtaking trek to Gokyo peak. Preparations for the ...

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...

Featuring Shecky Greene, Howie Mandel, Shelley Berman, Gilbert Gottfried, David Steinberg, David Brenner, Marc Maron, and more!

Insightful and often hilarious, When Jews Were Funny surveys the history of Jewish comedy, from the early days of Borsht belt to the present, ultimately exploring not j...

The Sea of Galilee, also known as the Kinneret, is famous for its biblical and historical significance as well as its beauty. Located in northeast Israel, the freshwater lake is home to many distinctive fauna and flora species, including the native swamp cat. Filmed over twenty years, director Mo...

Go inside the Hasidic world and the life of Maimonides in this fascinating discussion with Uri Rosenwaks, award-winning creator of the acclaimed Israeli series KINGDOMS and THE GREAT EAGLE - available now exclusively on ChaiFlicks!

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 ...

How did a controversial rabbi who passed away more than 200 years ago become the most influential figure on the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews? How did a small cult of persecuted devotees who were nicknamed “The Dead Hasidim” become the biggest spiritual movement in Judaism today? OUR RAB...

Every day, Catholic Poles discover that their parents kept their true identity hidden from them - the fact they were Jewish, second and third-generation to Holocaust survivors. It happens to people of all ages from all socioeconomic backgrounds, in villages and in big cities. These are The New Je...

An ordinary American teenager faces extraordinary challenges when he sets his heart on donating equipment to young Cuban baseball players—an act of thanks to the country that saved his grandfather during the Holocaust. A heartfelt journey that shows just how difficult and complex it can be to do...

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...

William Stern leads a quiet life with his wife, Elizabeth, and their son Adam. But then a telegram announcing the arrival of Clovis Fishermann, William's cousin, throws a spanner in the works. William hasn't heard from Clovis for thirty years and is overjoyed at the news, for in their younger day...

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
Israel, 2...

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...

Throughout history, Kabbalah was studied by only the most holy Talmud scholars. The misinformation, innuendo and prohibition surrounding Kabbalah kept its wisdom from most Jews; many were even unaware of its existence. In KABBALAH ME, co-director Steven Bram embarks on a spiritual investigation t...

On the hundredth anniversary of the British invasion in 1917, Remember Baghdad is the untold story of Iraq, an unmissable insight into how the country developed from a completely new perspective – through the eyes of the Jews who lived there for 2,600 years until only a generation ago. With vivid...

Germany is one of the most democratic societies in the world, and has the fastest growing Jewish community in Europe. This never could have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories, the film explores the country's transformation from silence about the Holocaust to facing it head on.

Direc...

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...

Follow three Holocaust survivors on a six-day trip across Poland as they re-visit the death camps they were imprisoned in. From the killing field of Majdanek to the infamous Auschwitz camp, the survivors tell their stories and share their lives with the younger generation in order to make sure hi...

A family-friendly animation film narrated by Ed Asner! Over the last three decades, the beloved children’s book by Marvell Ginsburg has been a powerful resource for Holocaust education. The Tattooed Torah brings to life the true story of the rescue and restoration of a small Torah from Brno, Czec...

For over 50 years, the Catskill Mountains of New York State were the summer retreat of millions of Jews, mostly of Eastern European origin, from New York City. The “Borscht Belt” – as it was affectionately known – became the model for vacation practices throughout the United States, and the train...

Filmmaker Danae Elon returns to Jerusalem after living abroad for several years. 'P.S. Jerusalem' is about a family's personal journey to establish themselves in Jerusalem in a quest to find a place they can call "home."

"A cross between home movie and documentary essay, P.S. Jerusalem emerges a...

Psychologist and author Paula J. Caplan grew up listening to - but not remembering - stories her beloved father, Jerome A. Caplan, told annually about being Captain of an all-Black battery in The Battle of the Bulge. Bewildered at her inability to remember those stories, she met with and listen t...

In 2005, the elderly Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem was accused of selling properties to Jewish Settlers. He was deposed and confined to his room in the Old City for eleven years. Documentarian Danae Elon (Another Road Home, P.S. Jerusalem) forges a special relationship with ...

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...

In 1939, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two young émigrés from Berlin, founded the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records in New York. The label dedicated itself exclusively to the recording of American jazz music and developed its own unmistakeable recording style and sound. Blue Note Records di...

The personal journey of Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox film director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and family life. Rachel unveils the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice, for the first time, to their concealed inner world through the wig that covers up women's' hair.

Directed by...

A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a legendary Tajik-Israeli musical family controlled by the charismatic patriarch Papa Alaev. Only his equally strong-willed daughter, Ada, dares to resist his will. As Papa nears 80 and generations clash over new musical directions, the family show must go on...

Starring Amos Tamam (Netflix's "The Girl From Oslo")! | Israel 1973. Six years after the Six Day War, Menashe is still deeply traumatized by his experiences as a soldier. He withdraws from society and spends hours aimlessly driving around in his red pickup. His young wife Daphna and their 10-year...

A filmmaker goes on a search to discover how a beautiful hand made birthday book came to be within the walls of a concentration camp, who its makers were, and how it came to survive the horrors of war and decades after to end up in the Holocaust memorial in Montreal. This feature documentary is t...

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...

The meteoric rise of Avigdor Lieberman was the first sign of a new era in the state of Israel - and with it, the fall of "the old elites," the right wing trend, and the emergence of "the second Israel" as the dominant political force. But Lieberman himself, who immigrated at the age of 20, withou...

ChaiFlicks is honored to be joined by renowned Israeli journalist Anshel Pfeffer for a very special discussion about today's Israeli elections and the film KING BIBI!

Anshel Pfeffer is currently a senior correspondent for Haaretz and Israel correspondent for The Economist. He is the author of a ...

Andrey (Vlad Dubinsky) is a young immigrant living with his little sister in the slums of the city of Ashdod and struggling to assimilate into Israeli society. He forms a hip-hop band with his three best friends with dreams of taking part in a local hip-hop competition, but the realities of life ...

Michael Aloni (Shtisel, Plan A), Mike Burstyn (Sallah), Liraz Chamami (Asylum City) and a bevy of Israeli talent star in this outrageous dark comedy! | A boorish Israeli-American couple plan a Sabbath dinner party for a group of fellow ex-pat friends and family in their Hollywood Hills mansion. W...

Filmmaker Robert Mugge pays tribute to hundreds of American performers who assisted the military in World War II with rare period performances by beloved Jewish artists such as Jack Benny, Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye and Mel Blanc, plus Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Frances Langford, the And...

Set in Polanco (a Jewish quarter of Mexico City), family and friends sit shivah for their beloved patriarch Moishe, forcing them to confront each other - including a Catholic ex-lover, an Orthodox ex-convict grandson and a troupe of mariachi musicians. MY MEXICAN SHIVAH is a hilarious comedy abou...

Orthodox women Ruchama and Tikva embark on a journey to fulfill their dream of making movies within their closed society. Like other orthodox women who in recent years have started making films for strictly female audiences, they feel a strong need to express themselves despite strict rabbinical ...

Narrated by Susan Sarandon! | At 100 years old, Professor Irwin Corey finally reveals the magic behind his subversive and sophisticated double-talk. Irwin and his chain-smoking wife, confidante and #1 fan, Fran, afford filmmaker Jordan Stone intimate access to their lives and the inner workings o...

Two pre-teen girls meet through a digital educational project in Israel. Samar's father comes from the Palestinian Occupied Territories. Linor's family was evacuated from a Jewish settlement. Only 67 kilometers apart, yet an ideological gulf stands between them.

Directed by Nitzan Ofir
Israel, 2...

The pomegranate is the fruit of the land, a symbol of rejuvenation and rebirth. It is also a euphemism for a hand grenade. From the Academy Award-nominated director of 'The Restless Conscious' comes a suspenseful, multi-layered documentary centered on a group of young people born into a violent, ...

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to "Eyes Wide Open," celebrated Israeli director Haim Tabakman’s new film EWA is a moving drama about married life and the secrets couples keep from each other. When farmer Yoel finds out his wife Ewa owns a property he didn’t know existed, her hidden life comes ...

When best-selling author Joshua Foer began to build his first sukkah, a small hut that Jews build and dwell in every fall for the holiday of Sukkot, he wanted to move beyond the generic plywood boxes and canvas tents that have become the unimaginative status quo. And so was born the design compet...

Katherine Mitchell (Linda Thorson), a widowed yet vibrant senior, wasn't looking for love a second time - not at her age, and certainly not with grumpy Isaac Shapiro (Stuart Margolin). Despite the nosey bunch of seniors in the residence where Katherine convalesces after breaking her hip, she and ...