“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

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 ...

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...

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, ...