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…
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…
A poetic documentary about the first woman rabbi in the world, Regina Jonas, ordained in Berlin in 1935. The inspiring story of a woman with a calling who was not easily accepted by her male colleagues is beautifully narrated by Rachel Weisz.
Benny and Rachel Yafet are bereaved parents from the agricultural community of Nezer Hazzani. Lieutenant Colonel (and Rabbi) Raffi Peretz is in reserves and head of the pre-military training academy in Atzmona. These three strong and rooted individuals lived in Gush Katif until last August. The film…
"Maytal", the first film about Maytal, was filmed shortly after the terrorist attack at Dizengoff Center in 1996. Nine years later, I've resumed my documentation of Maytal at a point at which her life will once again undergo dramatic change. About a year and a half following the attack,…
A first glimpse into the life of Benzion Netanyahu, father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as a Zionist, an intellectual and a world renowned historian.
Only four biographical details are known about Rabbi Shalom Shabazi. We do not have any drawings describing his features. However, it seems that 400 years after his birth, Shabazy is still an extremely popular poet that keeps living in an entire community's collective soul. Who was Shabazy? A poet…
Ibrahim Yassin was born in a small village in Lebanon and was destined to follow in his father’s footsteps as a farmer and shepherd, but fate had something else in store. As the course of his life turns against him, death becomes his only wish. But just when it seems as if the story’s over,…
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the holiest Christian site, is shared by six dominations fighting each other for every square meter. Two Muslim families, guardians of the entrance key to the church, argue who is the true key custodian. Jonny, an Israeli police officer in charge, is trying…
En klang av tro är en existentiell och konstnärlig dokumentärfilm om det svenska kulturarvet och erfarenheten av att famla mellan mörker och ljus i jakten på något att leva för. I centrum står konstnären Caesar Ivarsson, som under sju år gestaltar…
Hosted by award-winning Israeli performer Dudu Fisher, Baltic Truth unveils the tragic and little-known story of the first months of World War II in the Baltic States — when nearly the entire Jewish population of Latvia, and Lithuania was annihilated through face-to-face executions, one bullet…
ニュースの向こうにある物語 「エピソード1:アハマドの物語」に続き公開するのは、 「エピソード2:ミュージシャン・アハマドのメッセージ」です。 撮影は7月12日、「無名兵士公園」の避難民キャンプで生活するミュージシャン、 アハマド・アブ=アムシャが子どもたちに音楽を教える様子を捉えました。
