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- Red Penguins tells a story of capitalism and opportunism run amok - complete with gangsters, strippers and live bears serving beer on a hockey rink in Moscow. Shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Pittsburgh Penguins and the famed Red Army hockey team formed a joint-venture that showed anything was possible in the new Russia. Eccentric marketing whiz, Steve Warshaw, is sent to Russia and tasked to transform team into the greatest show in Moscow. He takes the viewer on a bizarre journey highlighting a pivotal moment in U.S. Russian relations in a lawless era when oligarchs made their fortunes and multiple murders went unsolved.
- The incredible trial of an appallingly ordinary man. Drawn entirely on the 350 hours of rare footage recorded during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in 1961, in Jerusalem, this film about obedience and responsibility is the portrait of an expert in problems resolving, a modern criminal. The film is inspired from the controversial book by Hannah Arendt : "Eichmann in Jerusalem, report on the banality of evil".
- The privatization of war has become big business. Cheap, outsourced labor is hired from the poorest countries. With US Department of Defense money, some private companies hire former child soldiers, despite an industry code of conduct.
- Palestinian testimonies collected after the second Intifada revealed a harsh daily life reality that, for Israelis, had always belonged to the "others" - the Palestinians - and hence was denied. A few years later, trespassing what had been taboo until then, Israeli officers who served during the Intifada told of their memories. Memories of violence, of suffering, of humiliation. The stories from both sides matched. Against the backdrop of local empty landscapes, an Israeli officer remembers... a Palestinian civilian remembers as well. A journey into the collective memory of Palestine and Israel takes place.
- A personal journey which is an attempt to understand the place of God in our lives. On that journey filmmaker Nati Adler tries to figure out what happened to him during one sleepless night and what it means to be a person that has God in his heart.
- Experts predict that the Ultra-Orthodox community - which is religious, anti-Zionist and insular - will become the State of Israel's largest sector within several decades. The documentary film "Ultra-Orthodox 3.0" brings us face-to-face with members of the community who waver between insularity and realizing that they may be the future leaders of the Zionist state.
- Documentary portrays what an eventual Palestinian-Israeli peace settlement could look like. The core idea is to examine, in an even-handed way, the aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians and to show that agreements are possible that do not threaten the national existence of either party.
- A critical review of the history of the Israeli "Burekas" films.
- a 22 years old Holocaust video testimony by Yudith Arnon a past choreographer and one of the first pioneers of the Israeli Dance, constitute a starting point to a nonlinear and unusual story line and explores new findings and personal artistic commentary by the director and the main characters in her private and professional life in order to preserve, understand and spread her life story. The movie combines both documentary and experimental aspects and style, dealing with question about memory, and the connection between body and movement. the film focuses on 3 stories from Yudith's Holocaust experience, her encounter with Dr Mengele, an unusual act of women reacting to cold and the last, her refusal to dance for the Nazis and the punishment that follow.
- Mini series focusing on the history of Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
- A holistic festival that takes place once a year in Israel. What started in 1993 as private party of a married couple and their friends, becomes a huge festival for over 25,000 people.
- The Junction is an obscure crossroad in the Gaza Strip, separating the Israeli settlement of Nezarim from the Palestinian refugee camp of Nussierat. Ringed by a teeming Palestinian neighborhood, the Junction became a battleground in September 2000 when the Second Intifada erupted. The violence destroyed many lives there, Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers. Once a busy intersection and a flourishing neighborhood, it is now a desert. The film reaches far into the social fabric of both Israelis and Palestinians to explore the culture of death which both stems from and feeds the violence currently consuming both societies.
- In the south of Tel Aviv lives a small community of Breslov Hasidim. Following the teachings of Rabbi Nachman, a Hassidic spiritual leader from the town of Breslov, Ukraine (1772-1810), their lives move between the public and open to their hidden and intimate, solitary dialog with God (hitbodedut).