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...

A stirring story of sports, patriotism and personal growth, Heading Home charts the underdog journey of Israel's national baseball team competing for the first time in the World Baseball Classic. After years of defeat, Team Israel is finally ranked among the world's best in 2017, eligible to comp...

When Boston bagel maker Larry Baras wanted to create a professional baseball league in Israel, his idea was met with incredulity, dismissal and even hostility. He attempted it anyway.

Among the ballplayers swept up in his unlikely quest: a 41-year-old father of three with a Peter Pan complex; a ...

Based on a true story, Extra Innings is a beautiful, powerful family drama that will have you laughing one minute and crying the next! Set against the enchanting backdrop of 1960's Brooklyn, Extra Innings tells the story of David Sabah who is caught between pursing his dream of playing baseball a...

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Discover the remarkable story of Bert Trautmann (David Kross, "The Reader"), a German soldier and prisoner of war who, against a backdrop of British post-war protest and prejudice, secures the position of Goalk...

How did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust, Israel national team and German Borussia Munchegladbach met in a match whose importance marked the beginning of the normalization between Israel and Germany. Through interviews with ...

“Little Victories” is the story of Tamar and Michal, two Tel-Avivian mothers and members of a catchball team, and of “Coach Moodie”, a charismatic and somewhat odd man, who is determined to release them from their net of daily battles and make them fall in love with a completely different net. Mo...

Whether you witnessed it live, learnt about it or never even heard of the Munich Massacre at all - this event changed your life. September 5th 1972, the tenth day of the Munich Olympics, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September stormed the Israeli athletes' quarters. The world watched live...

Yaron Zilberman's "wonderful, heartwarming" (LA Times) film Watermarks narrates the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Vienna sports club Hakoah. Founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade most Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athlete...

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 befo...

The 1972 Olympics in West Germany should have been a global sporting highlight. But the unthinkable happened early in the morning of September 5th, when Palestinian terrorists stormed the Olympic village and invaded the residential quarters of the Israeli delegation. This gripping feature-length ...

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...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going on for decades, with no end in sight. Fed up with one failed deal after another, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders agree to settle things once and for all... with a soccer match. One game. One winner. Losing side has to pick up and find a new home...

Contemporary ballet and environmental activism do not often go hand in hand. The Vertigo Eco-Arts Village, however, is a place where dance and ecology come together. The Eco-Arts village is an extension of the Vertigo Dance Company, the celebrated Jerusalem dance group founded by Noa Wertheim and...

Vasermil tells the story of three teenagers who live in a tough neighbourhood, growing up in an unforgiving environment, pinning their hopes on football as a way out. Shlomi, a pizza delivery boy, lives with his widowed mother, little sister, and step-father. Adiel, of Ethiopian descent, has to l...

Shlomi, the star player of a minor league soccer team, dreams of leaving his small hometown and playing for Maccabi Tel-Aviv. Unfortunately for him, his local team manager needs Shlomi to stay and help the team advance, in order to prove his worth to the league officials. When Maccabi Tel-Aviv sc...

In the middle of the Negev Desert lies the Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. Home to the football club HaPoel Be’er Sheva, the city has equal number of Muslim and Jewish residents and sits only 20 km south of the West Bank. Hapoel Be’er Sheva was plagued by a 40-year championship drought until a new o...

When the Fascists take over his country, Martin witnesses how members of the Jewish community, and his own family, are sent to work camps. Naive enough to think his future will improve, he volunteers to go to one of these camps. After luck saves him from almost certain death, he joins up the resi...

Forty-year old Roberto is learning the hard way that when it rains – it pours. Divorced with a failing business, Roberto spontaneously sets out with his spoiled young son Itai and his father Samuel, an enthusiastic soccer fan in his seventies, to the World Cup Games in Brazil. Their unplanned tri...

Kutsher's Country Club was the last surviving Jewish resort in the Catskills. One of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, Kutsher's was family-owned and operated for over 100 years, until its sale and demolition in 2014. Exploring the full Dirty Dancing-era Catskills experience th...

An Israeli comedy like nothing you’ve seen before! A hilarious and heart-warming tale about a coming out of a different kind: four overweight guys who learn to love themselves through the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling.

Herzl (Itzik Cohen) has been struggling with his weight ever since he was ...

Erez (Omer Perelman Striks, The New Black), a rising star in the Israeli swimming scene, arrives at a godforsaken training camp held in a boarding school, where the one to win the competition gets a ticket to the Olympics. There he meets the beautiful and talented Nevo, who awakens subconscious d...