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The Five Houses of Leah Goldberg
She died more than four decades ago, but even today, Leah Goldberg is still an enigmatic figure – she is Israel’s most beloved poet, a powerful woman, who lived with her mother and never married, a woman who invented herself from the ashes of World War I through her magical poetry. The film is a […] >>
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For four years, the director documented Reut, a girl who was in an out of shelters, and ended up on the street. At the age of 17 Reut had her first son, who was taken away from her by social services. During filming, while fighting the State for custody of her son, she meets a […] >>
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80-year-old Tzvi tries to educate his rebellious grandson and takes him on a trip to the desert, only to find that the generation gap between them is as wide as the extreme sceneries surrounding them. The impossible journey comes to its end in the only imaginable way. >>
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Arabs and Jews have lived in ongoing conflict for over a century. A group of dreamers decided to challenge everything they know about their nationalities and histories and founded a village in 1970s Israel as a social experiment. The film follows the many children who were brought up in this unique environment. In this bold […] >>
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When my father, Meir Ariel, got into the Medical Cannabis Industry he never realized that after nine years he will be struggling to build the first production logistics factory of medical cannabis in Israel.And so, our family found itself joining my father’s dream and taking key roles in the company.This movie follows my father at […] >>
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Almost ten thousand Palestinians, designated by the Israeli government as “Security Prisoners,” are incarcerated in Israel today. Most Israelis consider them murderers and criminals, but most Palestinians regard them as freedom fighters. Granted rare permission to film inside the country’s highest security facilities, Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan shows everyday prison life, including biweekly family visits, […] >>
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This haunted Tarkovskian reverie drops us inside an Istanbul retirement home, where the battle-scarred residents bask in the camera’s attention. A creaky- voiced woman confides her personal account of the Armenian genocide. A sweetly deluded old Casanova still tries to charm and seduce. A blind photographer fiddles with his flash as he points his own […] >>
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My childhood’s landscapes – the hills of Latrun. The village “Oasis of Peace”, was established on hill 314, and founded on values of coexistence, understanding and acknowledging the Other. Ibrahim, a Bedouin shepherd, has lived there with his family for 51 years. In a settlement signed in 1999 between the village and the nearby Monastery […] >>
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The Susita is well known: for many years it was considered a groundbreaking Israeli invention in the world of industry that had put Israel on the map. Its fiberglass shell, made it an international vehicle. The young State of Israel was convinced it had started a revolution. The Golden Age of the first Israeli automobile […] >>
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Traveling on his scooter through Tel Aviv, filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe finds a discarded box of old photographs in a green dumpster. This docu-detective film, slowly unwinds a family history, beginning in Lodz, Poland, and traveling through the Siberian Gulag, a Samarkand sugar plant, a Ha’apala ship and the battlefields of the Sinai Peninsula. >>
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“A journey through Kabbalah, heroin, chaos and redemption. For 10 years I’ve filmed my mother’s and my own life change dramatically. Mom, a holocaust survivor, married Rabbi Ashlag when she was 45 and he 40 years older. He taught her the secrets of Kabbalah and then passed away. Since then mom, Rebbetizin Faiga, has been […] >>
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In the winter of 1941 on the banks of the Danube, one thousand Viennese Jews wait for their fate to be determined by Mossad agents in a hotel room in Istanbul. Originally, filmmaker Nachum Laufer intended to tell the story of how he fled from Europe with his mother. However, while researching, he came across […] >>
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Rabbi Meir Kahane began his career in the USA, where he founded the Jewish Defense League. As the league’s violent activities turned into terrorism, he was forced to leave America. In Israel, he became the most radical politician the state has ever known. He united the right and the left against him, and was banned […] >>