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...

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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, ...

Lous, the mother of filmmaker Oeke Hoogendijk, hasn’t left the house for decades. She has a recurring nightmare in which she doesn’t know how to get home, just like the day when as a Jewish girl she was deported. Scenes which at first sight seem very ordinary—an elderly woman in a living room wat...

The Dead Sea, shared by Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians – is a unique salt-lake, known for its exceptional geographical, biological, and historical value, and is the lowest point on Earth. Tragically, the Dead Sea is drying up, causing widespread damage, including huge sinkholes, abandoned ...

Shortly after his father’s death, Bobby returns to his native England and discovers a suitcase full of documents, letters and photos, documenting the story of his family who perished in the Holocaust – the story his father never told him. He turns to Manuel, his German-born childhood friend, to t...

Kibbutz volunteering began in an eclipse. The idealistic and rebellious 1960s generation was charmed by the old communist ideology as it came to life in the Israeli Kibbutz. The 1967 Six-Day War attracted a wave of support for Israel that the Kibbutz Movement saw as a miracle. When travel agencie...

In the southern region of Tel Aviv, the municipality has founded a new elementary school called “My Neighborhood,” which will bring together students from diverse backgrounds, including refugees’ children. In an outrageous move, they have cleared half of the buildings associated with the longstan...

In 2021, Israel’s baseball team competes in the Olympics for the first time. With no media allowed in the Olympic Village in Tokyo, the players record their own experiences. Mostly newly minted Israelis, they log unexpected battles against global anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Victory comes on t...

David, a sensitive, creative teenager, lives in Southern Israel with his ill mother, his father who gave up his dreams, and his young brother. He discovers an online writing forum and starts publishing his family stories under the fake identity of the rich kid “Nadav”. As he gets entangled in his...