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- The tragic love story of Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
- Escaping from postwar Europe, Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann establishes a new life in Argentina, where he meets fellow Nazi Willem Sassen. Together, they record a comprehensive account of his career.
- From the time she was two years old and until she turned 18, they had a ritual: Dad asked (and filmed), and Ella answered. What do you dream about? What scares you? What do you think about our relationship? This is a little story about growing up and the love between father and daughter.
- An in-depth look into the unique bond between Evangelical Christianity and the Jewish State.
- AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is the spearhead of the pro-Israeli lobby in the U.S. What started out as a liberal grassroots organization, has become one of the most influential lobby organizations in America. For the past 60 years, AIPAC has maintained a strict "no interview" policy, but now, for the first time, the founding fathers of AIPAC are speaking out - granting us full access to the untold story of the organization and to the turbulent relationship between Israel and the US.
- A body of a two-year-old toddler is found in the well of a Bedouin village located in the Negev Desert. His mother is arrested the very same day, suspected of committing murder. During 21 days of detention and interrogation, police officers exploit her weaknesses in order to make her confess to the crime. The film is comprised of police archive materials and original reenactments techniques, thus recounting the horrific life story of a traditional Bedouin woman.
- The story of Lebanon is one of ongoing tragedy. A march of follies orchestrated by heads of state, sects, and militias. The Palestinians, French, British, Iranians, Syrians, Americans, Israelis and the Lebanese themselves, have all, at one point or another, contributed to the country's tragic history. Caught up in the chaos were the Lebanese themselves - made up of different sects, religions, and ethnicities - writing their own history in a string of political assassinations, massacres, and betrayals.
- The film tells the stories of LGBT men and women who, for religious reasons, decided to marry against their own sexual orientation, to comply with Torah laws and be accepted into their families and religious communities. Some shared their secret with their partners, some kept it hidden, and some lied even to themselves. After their divorces, they confront the conflicts they repressed: their faith and religious laws; children, family and community; exposure to society and search for a partner. The characters experience a journey of self-acceptance and social activism, as they try to affect a change in their religious environments. The film also follows the women who married and divorced homosexual partners, as well as rabbis and psychologists who seek a solution to an unsolvable conflict.
- The film tells the story of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's unexpected rise to power and his dramatic fall from grace, from the highest office in the land to Ward 10 at Maasiyahu Prison. Set as a political thriller, it follows the incredible events that elevated him to power and set the stage for his epic fall, creating a portrait of a multi-faceted man and providing a behind-the-scenes look at the mechanisms and machinations that control politics, justice, war and peace.
- Three decades after she arrived in Israel from the city of Derbent in the Caucasus, Sarah debates whether she should immigrate again, this time to America. She hopes to find happiness there, but more importantly, she is seeking to escape from her complicated, abusive relationship with her husband, and the suffocating, Sisyphean routine her life has taken in Israel. Arthur, the director, accompanies his mother on a journey to the landscapes and memories of his childhood, set against the clashing cultures of a family shaped by immigration and violence. Dreams of a better life in America lead to a journey that offers a glimmer of hope and the promise that Sarah's shattered past can be mended. But will that promise really be kept?
- A young filmmaker meets and follows Raya, a 94-year-old Soviet war heroine who fought in the Siege of Leningrad. As Head of the World War II Disabled Veterans Club in her city, she introduces him to a vanishing generation in Israel. Her own fighting spirit and willpower are still fierce. As Raya faces the loss of her last comrades and her health deteriorates, the two become involved in a spiritual process that awakens the young woman within her; Through her eyes and dreams, they create their own reality in which time and age lose all meaning. Their growing closeness transforms a film about war and loss into a mystical story of love and friendship.
- Raymonde - diva, queen, enigma, inspiration, survivor, widow, woman, and mother. Armed with a camera, Yael Abecassis followed her mother and stepped into a world where she had always been a stranger. "You know, daughter, Morocco is a kind of therapy," Raymonde says, and for the first time, they embark on a journey together: from a childhood in the mellah of Casablanca to the dunes of Ashdod and back to Morocco, where the mother became the legendary Raymonde El Bidaoia - a world-famous Moroccan singer. As they journey, Yael discovers a woman who articulates her weaknesses and the complexities of her choices with keen self-awareness, even when mother and daughter are transposed, twined together by guilt, admiration, pain, and above all else - limitless love and music.
- A young Holocaust survivor who descends into crime; an Italian-Jewish engineer who wants to see a movie; a German Christian who forgives her husband's murderer because of her Buddhist faith; and a Jewish woman who carries on an affair with a Nazi and exposes members of the resistance so that she and her children may survive: their fates intersect when two bullets are fired into a queue of people waiting to see "A Man Escaped" at Tel Aviv's Cinema North in 1957.
- Imagine what your life would look like without the fear of growing old. The Physical Immortality Group garnered a lot of popularity in Tel Aviv in the late 1980s, and functioned as the Israeli branch of The Eternal Flame - an American group that believed in eternal life. People from the outside snickered, but members of the group were steadfast in their beliefs and were determined to live together forever. Their international success halted in its tracks once the group's leaders, living as a polyamorous throuple, broke up. The film is told through the eyes of the director, Ranni Midyan, a former member of the Israeli group. Several years after leaving the group, he revisits the heartwarming story of the group that has since revived and is active to this day.
- A random trance party in a living room is fairly common when it comes to young people. But what happens when the young people are Israeli soldiers, when the living room is owned by a Palestinian family that is locked up in one on the rooms of the house? 18 years after serving in the army, Eran Paz finds a box of videotapes with rare footage of himself and his squad mates, invading Palestinian homes in the occupied territories. Now Eran sets out on a journey in the footsteps of the people, the memories and the places that inundate him and give him no peace.
- The film tells the story of how, 30 years ago, the divorce of a woman who went on to become a renowned author, and her husband, an esteemed rabbi, shook the religious city of Bnai Barak and affected the lives of their seven children. It follows a family divided between the two conflicting worlds of the Ultra-Orthodox and the secular. One of the couple's daughters embarks on a journey among the ghosts of her childhood, trying to reunite her fractured family and, finally, to start one of her own.
- Israel is a war-ridden country that has claimed tens of thousands of victims. Over the years the public has leaned on the ethos of sacrifice. Generations of mothers send their sons to war without asking questions. They play their assigned roles. This film tells the story about the first time a female civil movement challenged that prevailing ethos in Israeli history when mothers to soldiers protested against the ongoing war in Lebanon. Its a film about a groundbreaking female protest in a struggle for peace. A feminist movement that inspired masses and was able to end war.
- Rabbi David Buzaglo was the greatest Hebrew liturgical poet of the twentieth century. Born in Morocco in 1903, his literary output had a major impact on a community of hundreds of thousands of people. From his prolific period in the Diaspora to the years he spent in a ruptured Israel, Buzaglo's 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. But Buzaglo was more than just a great poet. The actions he took at seminal moments in history had a critical impact in shaping the identity of Maghreb Jews. This film is an intimate look at Buzaglo's life and career, from its roots in the rich tradition of Hebrew poetry in Morocco through the liturgical revolution in Israel.
- Patient-doctor relationships are always complex, but when the patient cannot talk or make decisions for himself it becomes particularly complicated. This is the everyday reality for the protagonists of this film: Ariella, a veterinarian, and Shmulik, the chief caretaker of a wildlife hospital. A parallel universe with its own questions and rules. Through love and Sisyphean labor they try to treat their patients, as they are confronted with issues that are also applicable to life outside the clinic walls. Is every life a life worth living? When does help ultimately prolong the suffering? And most of all, when is the right moment to let go?
- Criminologist Dr. Dan Philipp has devoted his career to treating sex offenders and sex workers. His professional life has involved an encounter with evil, insanity, and transgression. Dan contends that society's attitude towards sex offenders is hypocritical and fearful of meeting the perversion that lurks inside us all. Dan's routine is interrupted when he is invited to his native city of Aachen, to a memorial ceremony for his childhood friend Gisela. The return to Germany reveals a dark secret from Dan's past, compelling him to face formative events experienced as a child fugitive in the woods. His journey sheds new light on his professional choice and obsession with human evil.
- Kibbutz Maoz Chaim children's house, 1943. A gunshot rings out, followed by silence.11-year-old Dvor'aleh is orphaned. She was told that her mother was killed by a stray bullet during weapons training, but soon begins hearing the word "suicide" whispered among the kibbutz members. Dvora is deeply troubled: was it an accident or was it suicide? If it was suicide, how could her mother leave her alone in the world like that? Only years later does Dvora discover the truth. Journeying to the past, her son, the filmmaker, revisits the childhood of a mother with "rain in her eyes", as she described herself - a mother whose tormented life story shaped her writing and her relationship with her children and family.
- Follows Yudale, a religious youth from the settlements, as he experiences a crisis of faith. As he receives a camera from Michal, a Tel Aviv director who teaches him how to film, Yehuda documents his life on the line between the settlement Tko'a and Tel Aviv: his final conversations with his dying father-Rabbi Menachem Fruman- their joint study, and saying goodbye to him. When his father dies, Yehuda chooses to take off his kippah. During the year of mourning, he continues to document his life outside the religious world: exploring Tel Aviv, talking to Michal, and his new perspective on his family and their way of life. Elisheva, a newly observant Jew orphaned from her mother, comes into his life as a soul mate exactly at the moment when he loses hope of finding his way.
- 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 three children who are happy with their lot, despite the unfathomable gap between them. A daring trip to the US to undergo a complex surgery to halt the progress of the disease reveals different approaches to life as well as the incredible power to live with one's fate.
- Gush Etzion Junction, between Jerusalem and Hevron: Ali Abu Awwad dedicates his family's field as a Palestinian Center for Non-violence. Despite his life experience, four years in an Israeli prison, his mother's five year sentence, a brother killed by an Israeli soldier- Ali creates "Roots" with local Israeli settlers, advancing responsibility and grassroots work to enable political reconciliation.
- Salman Schocken was the King of department stores in Germany. Before WWII, he owned 22 department stores with 6,000 employees. He possessed a unique collection of 60,000 rare books in German and Hebrew and founded a modern, Jewish publishing house. He was the lifelong supporter of Shmuel Yosef Agnon and he owned the Haaretz newspaper which still survives on the border of consensus. He supported secular, Jewish culture and identified with humanist, liberal Judaism, a relic of 19th century Europe. Today, in an age of unscrupulous market economy and militant Judaism, Salman Schocken's ways point to an alternative, perhaps not entirely lost.
- At the heart of the Central Train Station in Tel Aviv stands a grand piano. It watches over the traffic moving to and from the docks, seemingly hearing and seeing everything from its own point of view. For some, the piano is a regular stop on their commute. Others, occasional travelers, encounter it in this unexpected space, inviting them, subject to their will. There, in the most bustling place is a piano that makes people take off their earphones and take part in something magical that requires no words. The piano is unplugged, the people unplug. How many of those who sit and play manage to transcend the external noise, reflecting in a different and challenging way the reality we live in, allowing us to look into ourselves?
- Anastasia was the 12-years-old victim of sexual molestation. Her aggressor, Doron - the dwarf neighbor. Ten years after testifying against him, Anastasia meets Doron, marries him, and has his child.
- By the age of thirty he'd already become the most famous poet in the Jewish world. He spent very few years living in Tel Aviv, but he loved the city dearly. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1934. "King of the Jews" is a portrait of the most beloved Jew of his day, Chaim Nachman Bialik. Combining special animation, a voice track by Chaim Topol, rare archival footage, long-forgotten photographs, poems by Bialik performed by Ninet and interviews with the foremost Bialik researchers and fans in Israel and around the world, this film retells the story of the little boy from the shtetl, who became King of the Jews.
- Rise and fall of a proud Bulgarian family of bakers that immigrated to the newborn state of Israel.
- In the dimly lit caverns of this Armenian salt mine, 230 meters underground, a doctor in a lab coat and a safety helmet orders her patients to hop and swing their arms. In this magically bizarre world, mineral-rich air is supposed to cure their respiratory problems.
- This film tells the story of playwright Hanoch Levin by visiting the key moments in his life and meeting with the people closest to him: his three wives, four children, and siblings. The complex personality of an artist committed first and foremost to his work is expressed in each of these complicated relationships, so brimming with love.
- "Broke" is the story of four successful women in their fifties, who believed in education and hard work. They did all the right things, but still lost their jobs and joined the circle of poverty. Though at their prime in terms of ability and experience, the world seems to have lost interest in them. The very idea that "there is no such thing as an embarrassing job" becomes a cruel fact when a former manager, accepts work as an assistant at a day care center or as a cleaner. These women show what life looks like when people become "poor"; they feel overwhelmed by anxiety, worried that they still have thirty years ahead of them with no pension, no property and no way to make a living. Struggling to survive economically and maintain their self-esteem, they must fight to reinvent themselves.
- Osher, Michelle, and Eitan were taken out of their homes as children and transferred to foster families. Their biological families are dysfunctional and absent. The foster families are supportive and stable, but this guardianship ends at age 18. The film follows the three over the last year of foster care and the first year of independence. The threat of the loss of familial support affects all aspects of their lives. Past trauma and dislocation erupt from time to time affecting the relationship of the three friends.
- In Marguerite Duras' chilling story, thousands of antelopes from all over the continent gallop towards an inevitable fate. A meeting between humans and nature in mesmerizing drone footage from YouTube slowly raises poignant questions: who is surveilling whom, where are we headed, and what fate awaits us in a world such as this?
- A profound journey trying to defy what is commonly known about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- "Little Victories" is a dramatic-comic film that tells the story of Tamar and Michal, two Tel-Avivian mothers and members of a catchball team, and of "Coach Moodie", a charismatic and somewhat odd man, who is determined to release them from their net of daily battles and make them fall in love with a completely different net. Moodie is convinced that they can handle everything, and they start to believe him. As training becomes more intense and the team starts to win, life summons them both trials and challenges: Tamar is trying to cope with being a widow, Michal is fighting cancer, and they learn that if they want to become real players, on the court and in life, the most important thing is to keep playing.
- Captain Meirson sets out on his final sail at the age of 80. He watches his hand-made boat rocking on the waves. Like him, the boat is creaky, dilapidated and pushed to its limits. Meirson's voyage is dependent on no place, time, or destination; his aim isn't to reach any particular place, and perhaps not even to return. He battles neither a massive wave nor a great whale; his battle is against the dilapidated body of the boat and his own unwillingly faltering body. Coda For a Captain is an intimate, speechless travelogue that unravels the final chapter in the life of a man who refuses to accept what is less predictable than the wind and more frightening than the waves - growing old.
- 73 years after the birth of Israel and the "Nakba" ('catastrophe'), Rothschild 16, where Israel's declaration of independence took place, is still a popular location for different tour guides who highlight diverse narratives of the event. The film discusses the formation of memory surrounding a historical site with a dual meaning.
- This sociological journey back in time began over twenty years ago when several families were evicted from their homes. They got together and squatted in an abandoned building in Jaffa for two years. The children of all ages who lived there grew up around violence, poverty, and drugs-but also solidarity. They saw the power of people fighting the establishment for their right to a home. They became documentary subjects for the first time in 1999, in Yael Kipper and Einat Fishbein's film The Two Yossi (screened at the very first Docaviv Festival). Now, their journey continues: what has become of them? What chances does a poverty-stricken child have to make it in the world?
- A Japanese director is on a search for a contemporary fisherman in the Sea of Galilee. He meets with Menachem Lev, a rugged "kibbutznik" fisherman. The director documents him for a year and compares him to Peter, who was a fisherman and the first disciple of Jesus. During filming, the relationship between the director and the Israeli fisherman is strengthened.
- "Time Machine" goes back 30 years and depicts the narrative of Rockfour, one of the most significant rock bands in Israel. Formed in Holon by members Eli Lulai and Baruch Ben Izhak in 1988, Rockfour reached local success with the release of "The Man Who Saw It All" after which they began writing in English. In 2000, seeking world success, the band embarked on a four-year journey of intense touring throughout the USA. At a crucial moment in the midst of the American tour and following an emotional turmoil, lead singer Eli Lulai decides to quit the band and instantly returns to Israel, leaving the rest of the members to complete the tour as a trio. After a decade of absence and after the band continued its musical creation without him, Lulai returns to Rockfour, causing great excitement amongst Rockfour fans. Nevertheless, no one can guarantee a happy end.