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  • Box For Life

    Movie

    Noah Klieger is the last living survivor of the boxing team of Auschwitz and the oldest active journalist in the world. In between, he saw first-hand and survived many of the defining events of the 20th century, and some of the events he may have even steered a bit. 91-year old Klieger is a Jewis...

  • Yana's Friends

    Movie

    This beloved Israeli classic from director Arik Kaplun explores the lives of Russian immigrants who land in Israel during the time of the Gulf War and must wrestle with the problems of immigrants everywhere: language, culture, money, jobs and love. As Scud missiles fly overhead, the beautiful, pr...

  • Three Films by Raphaël Nadjari

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    Raphaël Nadjari is a world-renowned French-Israeli director and screenwriter. Having spent over 20 years in the industry, Nadjari excels in bringing moving and courageous stories to life. Watch three of his award-winning films - A STRANGE COURSE OF EVENTS, AVANIM and TEHILIM - streaming now on Ch...

  • Ajami

    Movie

    Academy Award Nominee - Best Foreign Language Film! | Teeming with Palestinian illegal immigrants, Israeli Arabs, Christians and Jews, Ajami is a cloistered urban neighborhood as treacherous and potentially deadly as the front lines of Gaza. When a Bedouin extortionist is gunned down in self defe...

  • The New Black (Shababnikim)

    2 seasons

    THE NEW BLACK - known as Shababnikim in Hebrew - follows four rebellious students at a prestigious Orthodox Yeshiva in Jerusalem, as they try to reconcile their desire for modern life with their religious upbringings. This original comedy became an instant success in Israel, winning four Israeli ...

  • The Secrets

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    Preeminent Israeli filmmaker Avi Nesher ("Past Life", "The Matchmaker") presents THE SECRETS, a beautifully evocative exploration of the passage into womanhood. While studying at a women's religious seminary in Safed, Naomi (Ania Bukstein, "Game of Thrones", "A Quiet Heart") and her new friend Mi...

  • Checkout
    4 seasons

    Checkout

    4 seasons

    Watch Seasons 1-4 Now Exclusively on ChaiFlicks!

    Israel's #1 smash hit comedy series follows the hilarious antics of a diverse cast of customers and staff of a struggling Israeli supermarket. Headed by the overly eager general manager, Shira (Noa Koler, "The Wedding Plan", HBO's "Our Boys") and ...

  • Omar
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    Omar

    Movie

    Young Palestinian baker Omar (Adam Bakri) is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia in Israel. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. On the other side of the wall, the sensitive Omar becomes a freedom fi...

  • Bethlehem

    Movie

    Winner of 6 Israeli Academy Awards including Best Picture, BETHLEHEM tells the story of the complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer (Tsahi Halevi, "Fauda") and his teenage Palestinian informant. Shuttling back and forth between conflicting points of view, the film is a raw ...

  • Srugim
    3 seasons

    Srugim

    3 seasons

    Discover the Israeli series that became a cultural phenomenon! SRUGIM follows a group of young Modern Orthodox Jews living in present day Jerusalem navigate religious belief and the challenges of modern life in search of their own path towards love and family. With the best of intentions, they ea...

  • Starring... Shira Haas!

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    The whole world has fallen in love with Shira Haas following her Emmy-nominated breakout roles in "Unorthodox" and "Shtisel"! Discover two award-winning performances by Israel's hottest new international star streaming now on ChaiFlicks.

  • Renewal

    Movie

    Contemporary ballet and environmental activism do not often go hand in hand. The Vertigo Eco-Arts Village, however, is a place where dance and ecology come together. The Eco-Arts village is an extension of the Vertigo Dance Company, the celebrated Jerusalem dance group founded by Noa Wertheim and...

  • Broken Mirrors

    Movie

    Shadowed by a strict, military father who inflicts severe methods of punishment as a form of discipline, seventeen-year-old Ariella (Shira Haas, Unorthodox, Shtisel, Asia) commits a grave error that her father (Yiftach Klein, 7 Days in Entebbe, Fill the Void) isn't willing to punish her for. Seek...

  • Bobbi Jene

    Movie

    After a decade of stardom in Israel, American dancer Bobbi Jene decides to leave behind her prominent position at the world-famous Batsheva Dance Company, as well as the love of her life, to return to the U.S. to create her own boundary breaking art. Tracking the personal and professional challen...

  • Asylum City

    1 season

    A hit Israeli police thriller set in the back streets of Tel Aviv, starring Doron Ben David (Fauda) and Hani Furstenberg (The Loneliest Planet).

    A young activist is found dead and the main suspect is an asylum seeker from Africa who was seen leaving her apartment. Police Officer Anat Sitton lea...

  • One Week and a Day

    Movie

    A grieving father steals medicinal marijuana from a hospice, skips work and hangs out with his estranged neighbor's son, while his wife tries to get back to her daily routine as she fights off school teachers, stray kittens and dental clinic workers.

    "Uproariously funny and heart-wrenchingly mov...

  • 5 Broken Cameras

    Movie

    Academy Award Nominee - Best Documentary Feature (2013)! | An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost ...

  • Aviva

    Movie

    Aviva is a young Parisian who develops and online romance with Eden, a New Yorker. After a long courtship they meet in person and fall in love, settling into an intimate relationship that leads to marriage. But their lives are not without struggle - for inside both young lovers exist warring fact...

  • Yiddish

    Movie

    An expressive hybrid with roots in German, Hebrew, and Slavic languages, Yiddish has been shamed, banned, and nearly wiped out, but in fact it’s a vernacular with rich political, historical, religious, socio-economic and literary import. In Nurith Aviv’s unexpected, original documentary, seven yo...

  • Princess

    Movie

    *Parental Advisory: This film includes sensitive scenes including portrayals of violence and sex*

    In this bold, stunning film, 12-year-old Adar (Shira Haas, "Unorthodox", "Shtisel") and her stepfather (Ori Pfeffer, "The Testament") push their role-playing games into dangerous territory while he...

  • Moon in the 12th House

    Movie

    When a pair of estranged Israeli sisters—one who stayed at the childhood home to care for their debilitated father, the other who left for a new life in Tel Aviv—are reunited, they must come to terms with the circumstances that tore them apart.

    Directed by Dorit Hakim
    Israel, 2016
    Drama, Coming-...

  • Provence United

    Movie

    Shlomi, the star player of a minor league soccer team, dreams of leaving his small hometown and playing for Maccabi Tel-Aviv. Unfortunately for him, his local team manager needs Shlomi to stay and help the team advance, in order to prove his worth to the league officials. When Maccabi Tel-Aviv sc...

  • Hats of Jerusalem

    Movie

    A visitor to Jerusalem is immediately struck by the incredible variety of people--of different ethnicities, nationalities and religions--who throng the narrow passageways of the old city. It soon becomes clear that specific groups within this crowd, almost all of whom sport headgear of varying sh...

  • African Exodus

    Movie

    Seeking safety and asylum, some 60,000 Africans have fled to Israel over the past decade. The country, founded as a haven for persecuted Jews in the aftermath of the Holocaust, has no policy, infrastructure or political will to handle this wave of migrants. 'African Exodus,' a documentary film by...