Co-Starring Rutger Hauer! | This lavish romantic drama charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWII Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who ...

Winner of 4 Israeli Academy Awards, HERE WE ARE is a heartwarming father-son story from acclaimed director Nir Bergman (creator of the original "In Treatment").

Aharon (Shai Avivi, "Losing Alice", "One Week and a Day") has devoted his life to raising his son Uri (Noam Imber). They live together ...

How did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust, Israel national team and German Borussia Munchegladbach met in a match whose importance marked the beginning of the normalization between Israel and Germany. Through interviews with ...

Reut (Ania Bukstein, A Quiet Heart, Game of Thrones), a young prosecutor, takes over a sexual assault case based on the sole testimony of Efrat - a rebellious yet fragile victim, who lives with her wild female partner. Reut is reluctant, but as the trial progresses and Efrat collapses, Reut learn...

The rise of Nazi Germany destroyed the Minkowski family; philanthropists and members of Warsaw's elite society before the war. A work opportunity brings French opera conductor Marc Minkowski to the former home of his great-grandparents where he enlists the aid of Polish historians and descendants...

Notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel's first and only execution. Shalom Nagar, a religious Jewish ritual slaughterer and street philosopher who believes in charity, was chosen to be the hangman. This film reveals a complex portrait of a character who repeatedly finds hi...

In 1987, in a Viennese antique shop, hundreds of color slides from World War II were found. It turned out they had been made in the Lodz Ghetto by the Ghetto's chief accountant Genewein. The colorful world in the slides is set against vivid recollections of Arnold Mostowicz - a man who was a Jewi...

When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he left behind a mountain of personal debt, which forced his heirs to sell his beloved Monticello home and all of its possessions. THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO reveals the little-known story of the Levy family, which owned and carefully preserved Monticello for near...

In 1982, amid the Lebanese Civil War, Israeli pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff) is shot down over Beirut and is taken prisoner by inhabitants of a Palestinian refugee camp. Among the captors is ten-year-old Fahed, whose father obsessively tends to his prized, but sickly olive tree, refusing to replant i...

Acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox's moving and empathetic sequel to his 2002 classic "Yossi & Jagger" finds Yossi (Ohad Knoller, SRUGIM) leading a sad existence after losing his partner Jagger on the battlefield. A chance encounter with a middle-aged woman linked to his past shakes up his oth...

90-year-old Frau Stern is in remarkable shape for a woman her age. Her physical health is excellent, her daughter and granddaughter are doting on her, her hairdresser supplies her with recreational drugs and she is surrounded by friends who are still in their 20s. But the Holocaust survivor from ...

A thrilling cinematic journey from Israel to Baghdad in search of a missing father and a lost community. A young journalist from Baghdad sets out to write about Linda Abdul Aziz, who escaped from Iraq to Israel in the early 1970's, and about her father, who was kidnapped and disappeared and his f...

A charming documentary that showcases the vibrant wisdom and life lessons of a dozen diverse individuals between the ages of 90- to 99-years-old. Through the touching and open stories shared by the "cast" of "The 90s Club" (including beloved actor Dick Van Dyke, Holocaust survivor Art Gelbart, an...

Award-winning filmmaker Michal Vinik (Valeria Is Getting Married, Working Woman) tells the story of 17-year-old Naama, who spends most of her free time drinking and partying in the hopes of escaping from her parents' constant bickering, worsened by the recent disappearance of her AWOL soldier sis...

According to the Jewish religion, which also defines the national law in Israel, only the man has the power to grant a divorce. Women find themselves chained to their husbands against their will, even if the separation is mutual. The film follows several such ‘chained’ women in Israel together wi...

Love tests faith. Faith tests love. Interfaith marriage - how does that work? What about the in-laws? How to raise the kids? For 30 years, Catholics and Jews in Chicago have found that the answers don't have to be so hard - boundaries can be crossed - divisions healed. And the kids? We follow fiv...

Parisian drug dealer Alex finds hope for a new start when his cousin offers him a job in Israel. Now he must make the final score, while balancing a new romance with Jeanne (Adèle Haenel, "Portrait of a Lady on Fire") a past lover, a lifelong friendship and the addiction of his brother (actor/fil...

ChaiFlicks is proud to exclusively premiere the new 25th anniversary restoration of Oren Rudavsky and Menachem Daum's seminal film "A LIFE APART: Hasidism in America", available this Saturday, December 23rd!

Narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker, this groundbreaking documentary was...

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the holiest Christian site, is shared by six denominations 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, ...

Having survived the camps, 42-year old Aldo lives a solitary life as a doctor in Budapest. 16-year old Klara lives reluctantly with her great-aunt, holding on to hope that her father and mother will return. She meets Aldo, and soon the two of them find something in each other that has long been a...

Follow four agriculturalists in mythological Moshav Nahalal for a year as they work and complete a cycle of crops. ADAMA ("Farmers") introduces us to the Nahalal elders, who work until their dying day as they deal with inter-personal conflicts and the conflicts between man and land.

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MY NAME IS SARA tells the true life story of Sara Goralnik, a 13-year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is ...

This Cannes Film Festival favorite tells the story of an Algerian black marketeer (played by Tahar Rahim, breakout star of Academy Award-nominated film A PROPHET ) in Nazi-occupied France is arrested and agrees to spy on a local mosque, but he joins the Resistance after finding his loyalties torn...

When retired 68 year-old Meir discovers that his 30 years of planning the annual village celebration have been summarily discarded and the job has been given to inexperienced local teens instead, the ground beneath his feet begins to give way. In his effort to restore a sense of meaning and vital...

Featuring the final performance of Emmy Award-winner Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Pixar’s UP), TIGER WITHIN presents an unlikely friendship between a homeless teen (newcomer Margot Josefsohn) and a Holocaust survivor which sparks larger questions of fear, love, forgiveness, healing, and r...

Ariela, an Ethiopian girl, was adopted by director Avigail Sperber's parents. Each of her nine older siblings chose a unique path to follow. Only Ariela forces the family to contend with alcoholism, petty thefts, and prison. Will her family be able to love her unconditionally? As Avigail explores...

Winner of Five Israeli Academy Awards including BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR! | Yitzhak runs the turkey farm his father built after they emigrated from Iran to Israel. He hopes his 13-year-old son, Moti, will continue the proud family tradition, but his passion lies in fixing up cars. This rejection ...

Ten years after Ronit met her biological mother in Paris, she attempts to find ways to maintain a meaningful relationship with the woman who came to Israel from Paris in 1956, gave birth to her and gave her up for adoption. In a series of encounters with adoptees and their biological mothers, Ron...

Tsiporra Bat Israel is a member of the Black Hebrew Community of Dimona. After twenty-one years of marriage she wakes up one morning to learn that her husband, Hazriel, is marrying a second wife, fourteen years her junior, as part of the polygamy tradition of the Black Hebrews. This is a film by ...

Thirty years ago, the divorce of a woman (who later became a renowned author) and her husband (an esteemed rabbi)v shook the religious city of Bnei Barak and affected the lives of their seven children. One of the couple’s daughters embarks on a journey among the ghosts of her childhood, trying to...

Watch Now Exclusively on ChaiFlicks! | American radio host Martin Goldsmith never knew what happened to his parents before they escaped from Germany in 1941. Both were talented musicians, but after the Nuremberg Laws were enacted in 1935 they were only able to perform as members of the Jewish Cul...

Four men whose combined intellect does not reach into the triple digits decide to steal a safe full of foreign currency - not from a local bank, but from the police station. Based on a real-life incident, the screenplay for this slapstick comedy-drama was co-written by policeman / playwright Haim...

Set in contemporary Tel Aviv, six best friends gather to watch the wildly popular UniverSong competition. Appalled by the Israeli entry, they decide to create their own on a mobile phone. Unbeknownst to them, their performance is seen by the UniverSong judges and selected as Israel's entry for ne...

March 2020, COVID-19 is at its peak. The ultra-Orthodox Sasson family live in a tiny apartment in Safed, Israel and find themselves in uncharted territory – the father, Gili, has tested positive, and has infected his wife and a few of their children. The new imposed reality threatens Gili’s core ...

During the Holocaust, there was no other city in Europe where Germans, Poles and Jews lived so closely together and yet worlds apart as Lodz. Several times a day for four years, the Line 41 streetcar passed through the Lodz Ghetto, but would never stop, making the suffering of the Jewish people a...

Moshe Safdie: The Power of Architecture is a film portrait of the dynamic, Canadian-Israeli architect who first burst on the world stage while still in his twenties with the groundbreaking building, Habitat '67. It begins with Safdie's early years in Haifa, his move to Montreal at the age of 15, ...

Shmuel (Geza Rohrig, Son of Saul) a Hasidic cantor, distraught by his wife’s untimely death, struggles to find religious solace while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert (Matthew Broderick, The Producers), a community college biology ...

Two beautiful young teachers in Brooklyn - one an Orthodox Jew (actor/director Zoe Lister-Jones, "Life in Pieces") and the other a Muslim - cross boundaries and flout conventions when they forge a powerful and lasting friendship, bonding over their shared experiences of "arranged marriages" throu...

Funny, witty, bold and revealing, the creators of "Senior Moments" document intimate meetings with ten resilient elderly folks surviving old age with a vengeance. The film cohesively samples a cultural variety of personalities in modern-day Israel and provides an inspiring outlook on what it mean...

Three very different brothers – Alon (34), a no-nonsense Israeli Army officer; Benni (30), a brilliant electrician; and Idan (22), a wimpy field trip guide – must navigate a series of mistakes and mishaps in an attempt to bury their beloved grandmother in the cemetery of her kibbutz. Since winnin...

From award-winning director Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree, Shelter) comes the story of Eyad, a Palestinian Israeli boy given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his schoolmates within Israeli society, he falls i...

Gil is the grand-daughter of Holocaust survivors, Kat the granddaughter of a Nazi officer. Through them we meet other young men and women whose grandparents were murdered or prosecuted during WWII. Many have decided to move back to Germany...but why? This revealing film explores the challenges an...

The Jewish Cardinal tells the amazing true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church, Lustige...

THE SECRET is the fascinating story of Polish citizens who learn, often after living a lifetime as Christians in a Communist nation, that they are indeed of Jewish origin. Trapped between the familiar Polish world and an alien Jewish world, these “new Jews” often find themselves adrift in a count...

Set against the backdrop of the kibbutz movement's glorious 100-year history, Inventing Our Life reveals the heartbreak and hope of Israel's communal living experiment as a new generation of women and men confront an essential question: can a radically socialist institution survive a new capitali...

Legendary Israeli musician David Broza is renowned for his sharing his musical gifts with the world for over four decades. In this touching documentary film, Broza sets off to record a new album with American, Palestinian and Israeli musicians, bridging the gap between the people and defying the ...

Cleo fulfilled his dream: to leave the big city with his wife and fifteen children, to establish a family commune on a farm in Brazil. Exploring their family roots leads the children to discover their surprising heritage, which undermines the existence of the communal paradise.

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Sixth grade student Ellie experiences the hardships of moving to a new country when, in sixth grade, her family moves from Israel to the United States. As she struggles to make friends and learn the language, she meets an unlikely friend in Thuy — her Vietnamese classmate who is also a recent imm...

When three siblings gather to mourn the death of their mother, they learn something very unexpected about the real identity of their father. Determined to discover the truth, the three unlikely traveling companions set off on a journey from Israel to Paris to find out more about themselves than t...

Renowned filmmaker Avi Nesher’s The Other Story tells a suspenseful, poignant, and humorous story through the eyes of two rebellious young women from two troubled families that tangle in the most unexpected ways in Jerusalem. As the characters’ warring personal convictions and intimate anxieties ...

Thomas, a young German baker, is having an affair with Oren, an Israeli married man who has frequent business visits in Berlin. When Oren dies in a car crash in Israel, Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking for answers regarding his death. Under a fabricated identity, Thomas infiltrates into the li...

The three Darwish brothers, who immigrated from Iraq to Israel in the 50’s, established the family factory “Fantasia” - a menorah factory. For a time period of 50 years they designed, manufactured and shipped Chanukah menorahs for the entire world and now…the family factory is about to close down...

Hannah Arendt, one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, both lived through and wrote about the open wounds of modern times. Her insights about the nature of evil, origins of totalitarianism and plight of refugees sound today more relevant than ever. The deep humanistic message at...

Anat (Naama Preis, winner of the Jerusalem Film Festival award for Best Actress) has never been able to reach her father’s exacting musical standards, and now her family's hope of producing a musical prodigy rests on her unborn son. When the baby is born deaf, she cannot accept it and resorts to ...

A devout woman is living with her family in the Jewish cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives. During the day, while her husband and children are at school, she is left alone in the mountain. She goes for walks in the cemetery, trying to escape the endless house work.

One night, out of frustra...

As the son of the Imam of the local Brooklyn mosque, eleven year-old Daud has to juggle the high expectations of his Father (actor/comedian Maz Jobrani) and his feelings of isolation and difference– even from his peers in the Muslim community. Through an innocent act of good faith, Daud inadverte...

Ron is intelligent, charming and full of life, but every day, his movements are increasingly limited by cerebral palsy. This, while he watches his twin run and play soccer with their brother. The film follows this remarkable family’s struggles as the parents do everything in their power to raise ...

We have all heard of the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Mount Meron, but many of us do not understand the appeal of the place and the meaning of the faith that causes hundreds of thousands of people to ascend to the tomb all year long. The film presents a poetic and intimate observation of th...

Winner of Five Israeli Academy Awards including Best Picture! | The Human Resources Manager of Jerusalem's largest bakery is in trouble. When one of his employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a suicide bombing, the bakery is accused of indifference, and the HR Manager is sent to the victim's h...

82-year-old Elisheva Rise passed away. As her children clear out her home, they find journals she secretly wrote to each of them documenting their lives from their birth until her last day. Every evening she would sit in her kibbutz home and write to her 7 children, whom she had never hugged nor ...