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...

Based on a true story, this action packed drama follows the life of Norwegian WWII hero Max Manus, once of the country's most celebrated resistance fighters.

After fighting Soviet Russia during the Winter War in Finland, Manus returns to Norway to fight the Nazi invasion of his country. Stringi...

What happens to a mother of eight when she finds out that the admired rabbi, teacher of her three sons, has been sexually abusing all of them for years? Ornit, a 42-year-old ultra-Orthodox woman leading a quiet life, becomes a hero against her will when she has to face her sons’ abuse. Together,...

In 1988, George Halil — a Lebanese Christian working covertly with the IDF — left his home to meet his handlers in Israel. From that day forward, he vanished without a trace. Following Israel's withdrawal from embattled southern Lebanon, his family moves to Israel but fails to learn what happened...

A Cannes Film Festival selection, streaming exclusively on ChaiFlicks starting Saturday, July 12.

In 1975, Pierre Goldman, a fiery and controversial figure of revolutionary left-wing activism, was put on trial in France. Accused of multiple crimes including two murders, Goldman proclaims his inn...

Shortly after Israel's historic victory in the Six Day War of 1967, young author Amos Oz embarks on a peculiar mission: documenting what those soldiers who returned from battle felt about their role in the country's decisive victory.

While the nation brimmed with relief, joy and pride, many of ...

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On October 4th, 2001, a plane departed from Israel towards Siberia and exploded over the Black Sea. 51 Israeli citizens were on board, instantly making the disaster the country's biggest aerial disaster. One of them was 38-year-old Oksana Seltz...

Fadhumo and Helen are two refugees seeking sanctuary, one in Tel Aviv and one in Berlin, each coping with discrimination, otherness and a life away from home. The two close friends become social activists determined to assist women like themselves and to provide a better future for next generatio...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short!

A dark comedy that imagines a meeting between two representatives of the Anne Frank House and the New York design firm they’ve hired to help them renovate the gift shop to appeal to young people. What follows is an absurd and uns...

An official DocAviv Selection

Osher, Michelle, and Eitan were taken out of their homes as children and transferred to foster families. Their biological families are dysfunctional and absent. The foster families are supportive and stable, but this guardianship ends at age 18. The film follows the...

What does the wedding ceremony of two religious Jewish gay men look like? Or a family of two mothers and 4 children? Or the pregnancy of a trans religious man? The Holy Closet tells the stories of LGBTQ people who chose to remain religious Jews and to build their lives, relationships, families, a...

Shavuot - what is it? We went back to chat with the ever-patient and knowledgeable Rabbi Lisa Grushcow to learn about Judaism's (ahem) cheesiest holiday.

Created by Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman
Canada, 2025
Documentary, Comedy, Jewish Culture
English
7 minutes

The Jews and the Blues is a musical journey that along the way becomes something much more. My name is Drew Stone, I’m a documentary filmmaker, musician and talk show host born and raised in New York City. Join me as I follow my passion for music and adventure as I travel to Israel and discover h...

Signing his own death wish, a concentration camp prisoner (Ido Samuel, "We Were The Lucky Ones", "FBI: International", "Fill the Void") sabotages the construction of the V-2 bomb against the Nazi's, while American soldiers struggle to advance against the Germans.

Directed by Valerie McCaffrey wi...

A journey through Kabbalah, heroin, chaos & redemption. The director’s mother married one of the greatest Kabbalists of our time, Rabbi Ashlag, 40 years her senior. He taught her the secrets of Kabbalah and passed away. Since then, she dreams of her son becoming a Messiah, but he ran away at the ...

Nyosha is a ten year old girl. She dreams of buying a pair of shoes during the reality of a pitiless war. She believes that because of her shoes, she will stay alive. A range of animation techniques brings together the dream and the reality and tells Nyosha’s story, based on the true story of Hol...

A frightened look of a woman, from a rare self-portrait of a couple, leads the director to a shocking family story. Hidden secrets revealed when 65-year-old son, Simon, discovers that his father, the photographer Mundek Lukawiecki, and his mother, the housewife Hannah Bern, were the commanders of...

A woman joins a guided tour of an exhibition by a famous painter. The man in the self-portraits is her father, but only a few people know that. She contacts the artist for the first time in a decade and shares her idea of making a film about their relationship, rekindled by his artwork. Excited, ...