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 ...

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

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

“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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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