Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen

An intimate portrait of director Norman Jewison and the making of "Fiddler on the Roof.”

South Wind on Hilton Beach

How the Israeli surfers went from being outsiders fighting for their right to surf, to becoming the cultural heroes of the eighties.

Skate of Mind

The concrete kids refuse to commit and take responsibility, they live together in spite of their backgrounds and they have their on language and religion – Skateboards.

Levantine

Levantine thinker and author Jacqueline Kahanoff was the first to write of Levantine and Mizrachi identities, as no one before her had done. Tracing her footsteps, draws not only a portrait of an impressive thinker, but also discovers the fate of Levantine identity in Israel as a cultural option for pride and and honor.

Mekimi

Alma, a young and attractive media star living in Tel Aviv seems to have it all: money, fame, smart friends and a bright future ahead. Yet, she feels something is amiss in her life. One day, an anarchist film student, Ben enters her life and together they set off on a journey which eventually brings them to become religious and accept the ultra-orthodox life style.

Zohar- The Return

The riveting portrait of a filmmaker-turned-rabbi, who for the first time shares his own life story.

Gisi

The story of Gisi Fleischmann, a woman who believed she could stop the Holocaust if only she succeeded to raise enough money.

Alone

In a little Jerusalem apartment, surrounded by dolls and cats, Miriam Yalan Shtekelis wrote children songs that captured the hearts of generations of Israelis, Reuven Brodeski - created a russian legend on Shtekelis, using miniatures that were created especially for this film.

Yeshurun in 6 Chapters

As a radical and isolated poet, he broke the boundaries of language using Hebrew, Yiddish and Arabic in ways that no other did. Who was Avot Yeshurun, also known as Yehiel Perlmutter?

Vogel Lost Vogel

Who was David Vogel? the man who left behind novels and poems in a magnificent hebrew, describing sexuality and desire, roleplays and identities, like no other before him

Wild Kids

Tucked away in an abandoned shelter, “Wild Kids” create surreal and fantastic characters. For these children of Russian immigrant artists, radical animation films are a refuge from a hostile world.

Inner Flame (I to Eye)

Gali is a deaf dancer who dreams of being accepted into a well-regarded troupe of hearing dancers. She decides to go through the tryouts without any accommodations or barriers, hiding her deafness from the examiners and fighting for her place on an equal footing.

Magic Men

An elderly Greek man and his Hassidic rapper son embark on a journey with absurd encounters, which ultimately leads them to a final confrontation of father and son.

Rendezvous at Erasmus

Through a chance meeting two German soldiers- both artists - saved hundreds of Dutch Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

Silicon Wadi

Four Israeli startup teams sacrifice their families, their friends, and their bank accounts to pursue their startup dreams.

Hagiga: The Story of Israeli Cinema

A unique two part documentary that encompasses 50 years of Israeli cinema through dozens of interviews with the filmmakers who created some of the most important, beloved, locally and internationally successful movies in the history of Israeli cinema.

Death and the Maiden

The turbulent life story of Charlotte Salomon.

Clockwork Doll

The poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch emerges from an extraordinary, personal and uniquely wonderful place. The film weaves her poetry and biography into an intricate story, trying to solve the riddle of her life.

Fluchkes

Five elderly women create a dance performance, sharing their thoughts and feelings.

Happy Purim

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 are defiant to modernity, yet for this film they let the cameras explore their celebration with enthusiasm.

Arabic Movie

So many Israelis still wax nostalgic about that old Friday afternoon ritual, back in the times when television had just one channel; everyone would watch the Arab movie of the week.

Harmonia

Harmonia is a biblical adaptation to the story of Sarah, Abraham, Hagar, Yitzhak and Ismail from the book of Genesis, set in a world of a philharmonic orchestra in present Jerusalem.

Hope I’m In The Frame

A portrait of Michal Bat-Adam the first and only woman director in Israel to regularly create films since the 70s. The film intimately documents her and her husband director Moshe Mizrahi sharing the struggle to make films despite aging.

The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev

A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family, controlled by the charismatic, funny yet overbearing patriarch, Papa Alaev, who at the age of 80 is starting to lose his grip on the 'family business', sending them on a rigid and unsure transition from Monarchy to Democracy.

Kishon

"I was brought up and destroyed in a hell called Nazism. I was educated and raised by the Holocaust." (Ephraim Kishon)

The Raven – Ze’ev Jabotinsky

The Raven tries to fathom Jabotinsky’s deceptive character. The film follows his conflicted, controversial character, the meaningful choices, desires and abilities that eventually led him to end his life prematurely but left a huge mark on Zionism and Israel.

The Awakener – The Story of YH Brenner

six dead bodies were found near the Red House between Tel Aviv and Jaffa. One was the body of Y.H. Brenner, a brilliant author, the sharp critic of his generation, a man of ambiguous sexuality and the characteristics of a raging prophet; he was well known throughout the Jewish world

Zelda – A Simple Woman

She published her first book of poetry at the age of 53 and became a prominent figure in the field of Hebrew literature, living alone in Jerusalem, writing poems on pieces of paper, surrounded by a small court of lovers and admirers.

A Song of Loves

Rabbi David Buzaglo was the greatest Hebrew liturgical poet of the twentieth century. His poetry initiated an abrupt shift in Sephardic liturgical writing, but it also served as a vital link between the modern era and a tradition that dates back to Spanish Jewry’s Golden Age.

Miss Bluwstein Rachel

The life of Hebrew poet Rachel Bluwstein, known simply as Rachel, considered a national poet of Israel. Includes interviews with literary researchers, poets, historians, and biographers.

Bialik – King of the Jews

this film retells the story of the little boy from the shtetl, who By the age of thirty he’d already become the most famous poet in the Jewish world

The Seven Tapes

Wollach died young, leaving a legacy of urban myth, madness, and mystery around her eccentric personality. The film is based on seven tapes of interviews granted by Wollach before her death, in which she speaks of madness, drugs, encounters with God, and the dangers of writing

The Five Houses of Leah Goldberg

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.

One Eye Wide Open

Access into famous artist Zvi Lachman's inner world through his works of art reveals and surprisingly discloses that the point of origin of his work is very similar to the director's.

Taqasim

Taqasim, shot in the streets of Cairo, is a voyage to the hidden treasures of Arabic music and to the participation of Jewish musicians. With stylishly shot music and unforgettable back-alley jams played by Felix Mizrachi, Zehava Ben, Abraham Salman and others, this film brings classical Arabic music raw and captivating.

Cafe Noah

In Israel there were a bunch of phenomenal old musicians, who immigrated from Iraq and Egypt. They were masters of classical Arabic music. But at the age of 13, at my bar mitzvah, when my parents had hired them to play Arab music, I was terribly embarrassed. Years later, the same music sounded and meant something totally different for me.