Of the Sea is a female-driven surf film that follows a mother and her entrepreneurial efforts to raise awareness of the world’s plastic consumption. Of the Sea follows Katherine’s notable life as an entrepreneur, Vietnam-war refugee, and loving mother. Katherine’s life began in the…
One neighborhood, one cop, one night. The story of Israel's toughest neighborhood through one night with the local cop. The neighborhood is home to the largest community of Ethiopian immigrants in the country and Rafi Mells is the only cop in charge of it. Unlike most cops, whose task is to maintain…
Meet Menachem and Fred, an Israeli professor and an American space engineer, brothers who are now reuniting as adults. When they separated during the Holocaust, Fred moved to New York, changed his full name and raised all-American Christians; Menachem is a religious Jew and lives near his children and…
“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…
A vast and perplexing labyrinth lies right in the heart of Tel Aviv, the Central Bus Station. Living in and around it are thousands of refugees, children of migrant workers with no identity of their own and impoverished Israeli families who feel like strangers in their homes. A gritty and mesmerizing…
The story of 88 year old Samuel Wilinberg and Kalman Taigman, two complete opposites, who happen to be the last two survivors of the Treblinka death camp. In a moving journey they walk again to the place they fled from 68 years ago, sharing memories, laughter and emotional turbulence. Their journey ends…
Hadassa Hospital is located in the ethnically charged buffer zone between Jerusalem's Palestinian and Israeli communities. This is the story of its ER seen through the eyes of two female doctors, a Jewish immigrant from Chile and a Palestinian Israeli from the north of Israel.
Purim is the happiest day in the Jewish calendar. The film goes to the heart of the spirit of the festival: the injunction to have fun and revel is carried to full measure (and includes some good drinking tips). Ultra-Orthodox Jews are famously as strict about observing the rules of their faith as they…
Every week, 10 elderly gays gather in a room lighten by neon lights in the LGBT Center of Tel-Aviv. Being part of a community that sanctifies youth, this intimate space is these old gays last and only shelter, where they can age and deal with aging openly: from sexuality and body image at old age, to…
Shortly after World War II, over 1000 paintings were found in a cellar in southern France. The paintings were created by a young-Jewish artist called Charlotte Salomon. She painted her turbulent life story in a unique creation named: "Life Or Theater.” Death & the Maiden unravels the story…
Lacking adequate medical resources, patients in the Palestinian territories requiring advanced treatments in Israel are faced with a rigid bureaucratical wall. Ruth Walk’s documentary examines the interdependence of the Israeli and Palestinian health services and medical systems. Testimonies of…
At Noon Fell A Darkness, is a poetic profile of 15 prominent Icelandic musicians and poets as they travel home to Reykjavik for Sigur Ros' inaugural Norður og Niður festival in the winter of 2017-18. Winner of Best Feature Documentary and Best Cinematography at the Sonic Scene and Sound…
