Sigmund Freud: revolutionary genius far ahead of his time, or greedy, devious, charlatan? Dead since 1939, yet still considered to be "more alive than dead", Freud and the highlights of his prolific legacy are analyzed in this eye-opening "animated" documentary from Israeli filmmaker Tzaki Schiff...

In the Holocaust, a gifted Jewish physicist named Rudolph is forced to build a teleporter for the Nazis. Rudolph keeps telling his Nazi supervisor Heinz that the machine doesn’t work yet, but Heinz suspects he is hiding something. As Heinz is determined to squeeze the truth out by any means neces...

Tzvi is a police detective in 1950's Tel Aviv, responsible for interrogating “kapos” – Jews accused of assisting the Nazis during the Holocaust. Tzvi investigates the case of Yehiel Ingster, suspected of having been an extremely cruel and sadistic kapo. But when doubts arise as Tzvi begins to int...

This short documentary affords us an unusual and privileged view of the old city of Jerusalem, before and after the redevelopment of certain key sectors took place in the early 1970s. The man appointed to try to reconcile the need for change with traditional values is Montreal architect Moshe Saf...

Ten people - all poets, writers, or singers - speak of the relationship between Hebrew and the language of their childhood, a language whose music still echoes in them even if they no longer remember it. In this hour-long documentary, a series of portrait-like monologues reveals the far-reaching ...

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...

34-year old Zehava is attractive and successful, but perpetually unlucky with love. When she learns her mother is terminally ill and her dying wish is for Zehava to give her a grandchild, Zehava is left with no choice but to search for a man who will get her pregnant as quickly as possible. Of co...

What happens when a person is born a Hasidic Jew, but knows that they don’t belong?

Filmed in Montreal, New York and Israel. Leaving the Fold is a documentary film, which tells the story of five young people born and raised within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world who no longer wish to remain on t...

Meir Cohen is a decorated Israeli police officer who barely earns a living. His new assignment of deporting African migrant workers from Israel "of their own free will," teaches him foreigners aren't the only ones who have no future in his country. Filmmaker Noam Kaplan also delicately sketches t...

A 12-year old's obsession with filmmaking brings his Ethiopian immigrant family's struggles to life in the powerful Israeli drama ZRUBAVEL, the award-winning debut film from director Shmuel Beru.

Gite Zrubavel, a proud Ethiopian Jew, struggles to hang onto his traditions and control of his fami...

The saga of a restless and relentless Anglo-Jewish Family which according to its founding fathers, served as God's gift to Zionism, is exposed by the director, a member of the family himself, from an alternative humorous angle.

Nominated for Best Documentary | Israeli Ophir Awards 2015

Directed...

Kalman Delmoor Is an American born Scribe who sits in the Old City of Jerusalem at the Four Sephardic Synagogues. There he scribes, interacts with tourists, and runs workshops. He focuses his work on connecting content and imagery, micro and macro, in a smart and meaningful way that he hopes can ...

From the Emmy Award-winning director of "Unorthodox"! Ya'ara has everything: She is pretty, happily married and has excellent prospects for a university career. Yet when she meets the much older Arie, a friend of her father, her perfect world falls apart. She succumbs to his fascinating, erotic a...

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 ...

Take a journey across three Odessas – from Odessa, Ukraine to “Little Odessa” New York and Ashdod, Israël – revealing the wanderings, hopes and illusions of the vanishing Odessa Jewish community.

CICAE Arthouse Prize | Berlin International Film Festival 2005
Cinmema du Réel Film Festival - Prix...

In the dead of night, filmmaker Rana Abu Fraiha's parents left their house in the Bedouin village, Tel Sheva, and moved, perhaps 'fled', to Omer, a nearby Jewish town. For more than 20 years of life in Omer, Rana was convinced that she was like everyone else around them, till her mother became il...

Beloved Israeli-born storyteller Noa Baum's dialogue with a Palestinian woman weaves together heartfelt memories to create a moving testimony that illuminates the complex and contradictory history and emotions surrounding Jerusalem, for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

“The stunning result of B...

Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In contemporary Jerusalem, the Frankels are a close-knit Modern-Orthodox family. They lead an ordinary life until following a car accident, the father (Shmuel Vilozni) disappears. This documentary-style feature follows the Frankels' t...

During the 1920s, Café Nagler was the hottest place in Berlin. Director Mor Kaplansky embarks on a journey to find out what’s left of the legendary café owned by her family. After discovering that family myths don’t always match historical facts, she attempts to re-create her family’s past togeth...

Go deeper into the real-life world of "Unorthodox" in this critically acclaimed documentary that follows four Ultra-Orthodox women without the freedom to determine the course of their lives; instead they are dedicated to serving God via the womb - the perpetual cycle of pregnancy, birth and const...