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- The unbelievable story of Chelly Wilson, who escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema empire in New York City in the 1970s.
- In the war of 1948 hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated. Israelis call it 'The War of Independence. Palestinians call it 'Nakba"'. The film examines one village- Tantura and why "Nakba" is taboo in Israeli society.
- H2 is the name given to the eastern part of Hebron, the only Palestinian urban area which remains under full Israeli military control, due to the presence of several hundred settlers. Here, along a one-Kilometer road, lies the Cave of the Patriarchs, where Jews and Muslims believe their common father, Abraham, is buried. Here the massacre of 1929, which some see as "year zero" of the conflict, took place; here the Jewish settlement movement was born; and a policy of ethnic separation was first tested and implemented. Through rare archive footage and interviews with Hebron's military commanders, "H2: The Occupation Lab" tells the story of a place which is both a microcosm for the entire conflict, and a test lab for methods of control implemented in the West Bank.
- For years the Mossad, Israel's legendary foreign intelligence agency, has been sealed off to the media. Now, for the first time since its founding, a dozen of Mossad's former spies give us a first-hand recount into their inner work and their moral dilemmas. Viewers are drawn into a personal account of the top-secret operations that have shaped Israel's past and may yet shape its future.
- A four part documentary mini-series that examines the mysterious murder case of Tair Rada, an Israeli high-school girl who was found brutally murdered in her school's toilets during an ordinary day.
- The epic behind-the-scenes story of the United States' 30-year effort to secure peace in the Middle East. Recounted from the unique perspective of the American mediators on the frontlines.
- Making a war is a storyteller's job. A good story is crucial to legitimize the use of military force. That's why militaries need strong promotion and Israel is a model country in promoting its military ventures. We've successfully colonized, occupied and overgrown, and only got stronger and more accepted amongst the nations. Our history as persecuted Jews, our enlightened democracy are both in use in our solid PR kit. But before pitching our story to the world, we need to pitch it to our children. As moral corruption linked with apartheid thrives, avoiding service becomes a threat. For some children we'll offer benefits, for most we'll sell fictitious promises. Every child is screened to serve with bearable pressure and an adjusted amount of exposure to violence. 'Innocence' tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service. Through a narration based on their haunting diaries, the film depicts their inner turmoil. It interweaves first-hand military images, key moments from childhood until enlistment and home videos of the deceased soldiers whose stories are silenced and seen as a national threat.
- A look at the life and work of Jewish-Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years.
- Two young men come running out of a dark alley, leaving behind another young man with his neck stabbed. The moment Danny received the message about the murder of Itzik, his only son, his life would never again be the same. Ten years of legal proceedings and new disclosures made during that time have slowly crumbled his faith in gaining justice. Along with the pain of his loss, he realizes that only he can find the truth of what happened that night. His journey in search of the truth reveals his complex identity for the first time: a spy who worked for the security services, an Arab who converted and became a practicing Jew, a man who felt pride, respect and sympathy for a country that has absurdly and horrifyingly betrayed him.
- Chronicles the attack perpetrated by a Palestinian group known as Black September at the Munich games Olympic Village in 1972, where they abducted members of the Israeli Olympic team.
- The 1992 crash of an Israeli Boeing 747 into an apartment building in Amsterdam remains a three decades mystery, fueled by unexplained illnesses, lost evidence, mysterious cargo, and one missing black box. An international thriller that chronicles how narratives are conceived and uncovers the hidden threads between business, politics, the military and us: the people.
- Having become a world star thanks to James Bond, Sean Connery, who died in 2020, has never stopped trying to shed the image of a sexy and slightly brutal macho that stuck to 007. A look back at an eclectic career, carried out with panache .
- It is by selling pens by telephone at the turn of the eighties that Johnny Depp, young punk rocker in galley in the City of the Angels, affirms to have begun his "training" of actor, inventing at the end of the wire of the different characters to deceive the boredom. But it is through Alison, his first wife, a make-up artist in Hollywood, that he enters as an anonymous mercenary in the bunkers of the dream factory, passing without being seen in a few second-rate films. The dazzling success of a series for teenagers, "21 Jump Street," catapults him to the top. "Cry-Baby" by John Waters, then "Edward Scissorhands" will make him a movie star.
- The historical story of Sayeret Matkal, the special forces elite unit of the Israel Defense Forces, is being brought to the public near the end of its seventh decade.
- A documentary about the making of the musical film Fiddler on the Roof (1971).
- December 2010. A prisoner is found dead in his cell at one of Israel's maximum security prisons, having hung himself after 10 months in solitary confinement, and under 24/7 surveillance. None of the guards knew his name, or the nature of his crime. They knew him only as "Prisoner X". The Israeli government placed a blanket gag order on the reporting of the story. The Prisoner's identity remained a mystery for another three years when an Australian journalist revealed the prisoner was Australian citizen Ben Zygier, an alleged Mossad agent. The film presents Ben Zygier's untold story, digging into the emotional, personal and political fallout of his story, but also poses the question: "What happens when you dare ask: 'What happened?'" Those close to him return us to Ben's childhood. A young Jewish boy growing up in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield. His faith firmly built into his identity; he attended a Jewish high school, and youth summer camps. These underpinnings would bring him to Israel, where his dual identity would begin. Testimonies paint a picture of a young agent whose ambition to excel did not match his actual skills, and that his mental fitness did not fit the profile of that required from a Mossad agent. The tension between the different, and at times contradictory versions of "Prisoner X"'s story, allows for dramatic storytelling and raises important questions of government transparency, and censorship, and the abuse of power "in the name of security".
- Jean-Claude Van Damme has enjoyed a dizzying career as a high-octane action movie star. The highs and lows of his eventful life are told with archive footage and contributions from those close to the much-loved Belgian actor.
- A cold murder-on-video case sets two friends on an investigative journey of their own. Snooping around the darkest crevices of Russia's Neo-Nazi underground, they are determined to find the murderers.
- Provocative in its cinematic simplicity, THE VIEWING BOOTH recounts an encounter between a filmmaker and a viewer, exploring the way meaning is attributed to non-fiction images in today's day and age.
- On the 60th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's passing, this documentary provides a unique portrait of the screen icon from her own perspective. In contrast to the many films made and books written about her, this one offers to give her back her voice, through the interviews she gave, the books she wrote and the fragments she left behind. For the first time, it will be a matter of understanding how Norma Jeane Baker created the iconic Marilyn Monroe. Because Marilyn was not born Marilyn, she became her.
- First time exposer - the enigma of Arthur Finkelstein one of the world's most influential political consultant.
- "The Hebrew Superhero" is a cinematic journey into the world of Israeli comics, directed by Shaul Betzer. The film explores the image of the Israeli hero and Israeli identity - from Uri Muri, the first Israeli comics hero created in 1936 by Aryeh Navon and Leah Goldberg, to modern-day heroes, such as Dudu Geva's giant yellow duck and characters by Shay Charka and Daniella London Dekel, among others. Israeli comics, which had long been on the sidelines of the country's culture, have become gradually more popular. They have also grown increasingly important in shedding light on the complexities and contradictions of Israeli identity.
- On July 21, 1973, the glorious Israeli Mossad suffered one of the greatest failures in its history, when a squad of Mossad operatives set out for Lillehammer in Norway to assassinate Hassan Ali Salameh, one of the leaders of the Black September organization, killing instead a local waiter of Moroccan descent, Ahmad Bushiki. Over the years, the Mossad claimed that this was an error in identification. However, fifty years later, the creators of "The Lillehammer Curse" reveal that the members of the squad were certain that they were killing the wrong person and that since then, the lives of those involved in the incident have changed beyond recognition; each with his own personal tragedy. This is the story of the biggest failure in the history of the Israeli Mossad - a thriller docu-drama reviling newly released details and deals for the first time with the personal and mental price the team paid for the fatal decision of the organization's leaders.
- Decades after leaving the entertainment world to become an ultra-Orthodox Rabi, Uri Zohar, one of the founders of Israeli cinema, is once again directing a film. With the help of a group of young film school graduates, Zohar directs a film about a successful dancer discovering her faith who, much like Uri Zohar's own personal story, finds herself torn between two opposing worlds - religion and art. On the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Uri Zohar shares his story for the first time. His life's milestones are accompanied by shots from his films, where there is almost always one protagonist, usually played by Uri Zohar himself, battling his inner demons.
- A minute-by-minute retelling of the Supernova Music Festival Massacre, which took place on October 7th.
- World renowned wildlife photographer Amos Nachoum has one final photographic dream remaining - to photograph a Polar Bear underwater, while swimming alongside it.
- 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.
- How did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust, against insurmountable emotional and political barriers and threats of terror, 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 former German and Israeli footballers, historians, and diplomats, along with rare archival materials, the film examines the power of personal friendships to bring down the wall between nations, and of football, to pave the way between adversaries.
- In recent years Anti-Semitism in France is on the rise. Charismatic leaders such as Dieudonne and Alan Soral, are no longer hiding in the shadows but displaying their agenda in public. Tension is felt on the streets of Paris, but the real battlefield is online, were hatred has no limits or censorship. This reality gives birth to a new kind of vigilante: A militant-Zionist hacker by the name of "Ulcan", who declares a one-man-war against the leaders of the Anti-Semitic movement - "The Patriot" is a dark tale of extremism and vengeance in the Cyber Age.
- A touching and humorous film about loss, life chances, love, family, illness, the end and the beginning. It is also about the search for roots and the therapeutic role of cinema, which can be an escape or create new worlds. This bittersweet family story is abundantly saturated with emotions, although its main character has serious difficulty with showing it. Oren was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and the fact that he is an adopted child makes it difficult for him to adapt. Suddenly, his life changes with the help of the camera, which becomes an extraordinary therapy tool assisting him on a long journey in search of his identity.
- The events on which the plot axis is based occurred in a town in the Galilee Mountains called Maalot in November 1961. In Maalot, like many other places in young Israel, immigrants from North Africa were sent to do workfare jobs. The work mainly consisted of digging pits intended for planting tree seedlings that will grow to become forests. The aim was to provide immigrants with livelihood and employment, but things got complicated. The immigrant workers' labor demands were constantly changing. When daily work quotas were set for digging 90 pits, everything exploded. Feeling humiliated and deceived, hundreds of immigrants protested and rioted against the decision. Police officers were called to the scene and in the clashes, many were wounded, and indictments were filed. One of the immigrants hung a sheet painted with a swastika on the roof of his house and was sent to prison. Similar uprisings began to emerge in many other places. The film describes the realities of immigrant lives, the intersection of cultures and the personal, familial, and national change that was imposed upon them and that still resonates today.
- The series follows five Israelis of Ethiopian descent, who encounter racism, overt or implied, on a daily basis. In each episode, the velocity and depth of this tough racism is exposed, in every aspect of their lives: on the street, on the bus, at work, at the education system, in the media, on television, in dealing with government offices and within the Hebrew university facilities.
- TV series explores life of the Israeli pop star Ofra Haza.
- A documentary that examines the mysterious murder case of Tair Rada, an Israeli high school girl that was found dead in the school toilets during an ordinary day.
- When fans of the football club of Beitar Jerusalem make their way to Teddy Stadium, they hardly ever notice Nadia as she enters and makes her way to a classical ballet studio beneath the bleachers. The ceiling trembles, the cheering fills the room, but the studio remains isolated from Jerusalem's reality. A decade ago Nadia and her mother, Nina Timofeyeva, a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Ballet, left Moscow for Jerusalem and set up the studio. It was a professional suicide. Ballet and football make for a surrealistic combination.
- Bobby finds a suitcase that tells the story of his family who died in the Shoah. He turns to his German-born friend who also has a family secret: his great-uncle was the Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan. Together they go on a voyage to Berlin.
- The news reports of Moti Kirschenbaum, whose immeasurable contribution to Israeli media still resonates to the present day, were broadcast over four decades on Israeli television. Over the years, many journalists considered him a beacon and followed in his footsteps. One such journalist, Ben Shani, proposed that he and Kirschenbaum set out on a journey in the footsteps of those mythological reports. Moti immediately agreed. No-one knew then that his days were numbered and that he would die suddenly, just before shooting was to start. The journey planned for two became one man's journey through the many stages in Kirschenbaum's life.
- 22 years after they established the women's organization Machsom Watch, its founders reveal what really happened at the checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank between 2002-2012. This is the story of a group of courageous women who dedicated their lives to safeguarding human rights and peace.
- The delicate street life of a group of Russian homeless emigrants is shattered when the "Korean", a violent drug addict, comes along and fights his way into the group. This is the chronicle of the tragic events that followed.
- "I do not feel old, I feel a young woman that something has happened to her that can not be corrected (by Julia Viner)" "How do we feel, at the age of 80?" Asks the 82-year-old director Lina Chaplin. This is the double journey of the director in the world of old age along with the three heroines of her film - Julia Weiner, 80, Naomi Polani and Dalia Golomb, 89.
- HaGashash HaHiver were an iconic Israeli comedy trio whose members were: Shaike Levi, Gavri Banai and Israel Poliakov, Produced by Avraham Deshe [Pashanel]. Yossi Banai, may he rest in peace, once said that there is nothing more Israeli than the HaGashash HaHiver. His younger brother, Gavri, was a member of the group, and Yossi himself wrote and directed some of the trio's greatest sketches. And yet, the equation of HaGashah = Israeliness, requires no protection. It seems that over the years it has become a convention, an axiom almost. In the new series we will examine, were the Gashash really the essence of Israeliness? Or did they serve an easy-to-digest dose of Israeliness in "as if" - to paraphrase one of their well-known sketches - such that all parties enjoyed believing that it was indeed real? Through multiple interviews, classic and newly discovered archival materials we try and decipher - if this is indeed a refined essence of Israeliness, what does it teach about Israeli society? And how do they stand the test of time today?
- Asaf, a chief content editor in the television industry, paralyzed on his left side, embarks on a journey to accept his disability. Asaf meets a group of disabled people who tell their stories and discuss their daily lives with incredible honesty, providing the viewer with a rare glimpse to the lives of people with disabilities.
- The saga of a restless and relentless Anglo-Jewish Family which according to it's 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.
- Can the Jewish people hold onto to their own sovereignty? As Israel approaches its 70th year, Rino Zror sets out to answer this question. He compares the current Jewish state and the previous historical ones. The film uses the past in order to examine the present.
- A journey into the Israeli public sphere where sociologist Gad Yair and photojournalist Alex Levac join in to try and understand some of the DNA of Israeli society.
- A visual archival montage of the late director and actress Ronit Elkabetz told through the Radical collection of her extraordinary wardrobe. "Je t'aime, Ronit Elkabetz" is a cinematic essay film about one of the greatest Israeli Filmmakers of all time. It reflects on the importance of a garment chosen to be worn by an individual but in particular, a woman. It is about the political essence of the garment and its ability to form a reality and transform it. One single garment can tell a collective story of those subjugated, oppressed and repressed in an unconventional, groundbreaking and sophis-ticated way. This is a story about the power of cinema, of clothes and of one unforgettable woman standing for and embodying the deepest human desire for freedom and liberty.
- Documentary on the life and career of Keanu Reeves.