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- This in-depth portrait of Mikis Theodorakis explores the roots of the life and work of Greece's legendary composer whose music became identified with the struggles of a nation torn by war and strife in the 20th Century.
- A JEWISH LIFE records the fateful events and twists in the life of Marko Feingold, depicting his survival in what must have been the darkest epoch of history. His own life story to his understanding of the present day.
- Lati is only eight years old, but he already has a heavy load on his shoulders. Born in Tel Aviv to a Senegalese father and a Belarusian mother, he is heir to the throne of a Senegalese tribe. But he is also a typical Israeli child; a fan of McDonald's and especially of the local basketball team. . He is now about to travel to his kingdom for the first time where over one million of his subjects await his return. Told with a light, comic tone, this film highlights the personal cost of globalization and the dilemma we face as we straddle the crossroads of tradition and modernity.
- Two men, one woman and a baby is the formula for this alternative family. Dafna, a straight single woman, teamed up to have a baby with Itamar, a gay lawyer, and Kai, his German partner. Tensions grow throughout the pregnancy, and eventually erupt after the child is born - causing confrontation and separation. For over two years the film follows the characters as this fascinating story unveils.
- According to a Biblical saying, the children are punished for their parents' sins. But, is this the case with the orphans that ISIS suicide bombers left behind in Iraq? The directors traverse the devastated city of Mosul, recently liberated, and follow the ISIS orphans and their fate in the aftermath of war, as they examine whether Iraq will be able to accept them in an attempt to reconcile the population or vengeance and retaliation will prevail. Children deprived of their innocence, trained to fight and become suicide bombers, might still have hope for a better future. As long as the rule "an eye for an eye" doesn't apply, leading to a further generation blinded by hatred.
- A Film about Zen - by Mira Arad 53 min. - Israel 2004 Synopsis Zen is the name I gave a 2-month- old Labrador dog that I raised until he was 18 months old, knowing I would have to part with him at that time. Zen was raised to become a guide dog. Departure time arrives and Zen is moved to the kennels for his training. I find the departure almost unbearable. My soul has grown attached to Zen's. I decided to shoot a film about Zen. I figure that this way I will be able to accompany Zen throughout the training procedure until he leaves for his new home with his blind owner. I begin observing and raising questions about the nature of the relationships between people, dogs and Zen...
- It's Sabbath eve. Rachel sneaks out of her religious parents' house to go out with her secular friends. On their way to the party an accident happens and Rachel must face the consequences of her decisions.
- Chasing Yehoshua begins in the West Bank during September 2004 when Yehoshua Elitzur, a settler who shot an innocent Palestinian taxi driver dead, was found guilty and put under house-arrest until the court's verdict. On the day of the verdict Yehoshua doesn't show up - From that point on, Shay Fogelman, who covered the story for "Ha'aretz," will do anything to find Yehoshua. The journey will carry Shay across continents, to places he never thought he would find himself, and to the realization that he's probably the only person who is still chasing Yehoshua.
- More than 70 years ago, the Kiel gynecologist Carl Clauberg tried to sterilize hundreds of girls and women in the German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on behalf of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler. Many died as a result of the inhuman experiments. The last survivors tell of the terrible experiences they had in the camp.
- A forbidden journey across the border heightens the tension between Eran, an Israeli musician, an Ali, a young Palestinian. Eran's naivety and Ali's fears meet along their journey to a wedding in Jericho as nothing is sure that they will even reach their destination.
- A documentary on a peace movement made up of Israeli and Palestinian children.
- A building in Israeli Hebron, which has been deserted by its Palestinian occupants, is called 'The Mute's House' by the Israeli soldiers stationed there and by the tour guides who pass by daily. The building's only occupants are a deaf woman, Sahar, and her 8-year-old son, Yousef. The family's unique story, in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, unfolds through the eyes of the young and charismatic Yousef, as he goes through his daily routine on both sides of the torn city.
- Maya is unwilling to come to terms with the fact that her relationship with Tamar has ended, and will do anything to stop her from leaving the country, even at the risk of life itself.
- The painful personal stories of five Palestinian kids, ages 7-17, open a window into the world of Palestinian minors - trapped within the violence, humiliation, and daily confrontations with soldiers and settlers - while remaining children in every way. Each child finds his or her own way to cope and to construct emotional and political worlds in an impossible situation.
- A groundbreaking series about the lives of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians, "Ordinary People" is among the most ambitious joint Israeli-Palestinian productions to date. Each episode follows a simple formula - the story is played out in one day and tracks three conflicting characters that come into contact with each other during the 24-hour period. The result is a fascinating, fresh and insightful look at the stories of the day.
- When Monica was born the parent thought she was a boy., and called her Morten. Now she has have had a cosmetically and gender changing operations . This is all shown on camera in this documentary.
- An unemployed film director hears strange things from his father: while serving in the legendary Jewish Brigade in the Second World War his father, now eighty-two, may have left some flesh and blood "souvenirs" to the Dutch girls. Here starts Sleiman and Sahar's journey together from Israel to the Netherlands, a real road-movie. The father follows his earlier path through the war-ravaged Europe, and the son traces his father's wartime girlfriends and the possible consequences of the affairs.
- A biography of the Moroccan Israeli singer Raymond Abecassis.
- Ishaq Omar is a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who just wants to play a game of soccer with his friends. However, the Israeli separation wall built around his house turns a simple trip to the village square into a rather difficult endeavor. Will he make it on time? Offside takes the absurdity of the Israeli occupation and filters it through the apolitical perspective of a young boy.
- Along father Abrahams footprints throughout the Middle East, you find lovers and neighbours from a patchwork of religions. They all consider Abraham their father.
- What if you could turn back the clock and watch the minds forming of those who would create political zeitgeist shifts in the future - the US's first black President Barack Obama, South America's first indigenous President Evo Morales, or Denmark's first female Prime Minister Thorning-Schmidt. MAORI BOY GENIUS does just that. Future leader Ngaa Rauuira is railing against his people's statistics of uneducated youth, 40% of prisoners, alarming suicide rates and a dying language. His tribe believes he will save them. At 16 he studies politics at Yale, his family of 8 facing his US$35,000 education bill. Within a year he is leading a major protest and being asked to stand for Parliament. ONCE WERE WARRIORS depicted urban Maori 16 years ago. This is the surprising update.
- Inspired by characters from 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Waiting for Godot' and 'Antigone,' young Palestinian actresses deal with the military occupation and gender oppression, violence and grief, on stage and in life. Following the lead of their beloved director and peace activist, Juliano Mer-Khamis, who was murdered on April 4th, 2011 outside the Freedom Theater in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank, they use their imagination in an unpredictably brutal environment creating an artistic rebellion; a vivid and brave portrayal of a young, active generation of Palestinians.
- In the middle of Colombia's humanitarian tragedy, a journalist fights to report and disclose the barbarity of the conflict.
- Repercussions of the recent economic recession have reverberated across the globe. However, not all of the effects have been entirely negative; many have managed to turn economic crisis into opportunity. From California to Europe to Dubai, the filmmakers embark on a black-comic road trip, meeting a quirky cast of characters who have managed to turn a profit from the market's collapse.
- A film that reveals the personal stories of Americans willing to risk their lives for a country that criminalizes the act of coming out. Current and veteran gay soldiers reveal how "don't ask don't tell" affects them during their tours of duty, as they struggle to maintain a double life. The film also follows gay veterans and young organizers turning to forms of personal activism to overturn the policy.
- Leading up to the Olympics in Sochi, a law banning 'propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to minors' was passed in Russia. Gay Olympians were confronted with a tough decision: whether to protest in defense of their Russian comrades or compete in silence. Featuring world medalist Johnny Weir, Billie Jean King, Greg Louganis, Martina Navratilova, Simona Meiler and others.
- The story of Latifa Ibn Ziaten is the story of a mother who becomes an activist. When her son is assassinated by a terrorist, her world falls apart. Instead of giving up hope, she decides to take action, defend disadvantaged youths, and fight hatred with love.
- Follows three Hamas women to try and understand why an Islamist political party, operating in a very conservative society, allows its women to become political, social and even military leaders.
- The story of the kidnapping of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and her assistant Clara Rojas. Both of them spent six years in the jungle before their rescue.
- 2020 was the year when people all over the world were forced to stop adapting to a new everyday life. The pandemic creates fear, uncertainty and new ways of living. In We stay at home, 11 children and young people from different countries around the world take us on their individual journeys with Covid 19 as a common backdrop. Regardless of whether you are a thirteen-year-old from France, a nine-year-old from Brooklyn or a nineteen-year-old from Brazil, you can be torn between the same frustration and hope that the pandemic will soon be over. And share common dreams about what youth should be like. Lilou (15) spends long days in lockdown with her goats and dogs in the countryside of Spain. Mohammed (17) from Bærum sets out on his life's first forest trip when everything else is closed. The young people in the film have to adapt to many changes as a result of the virus. In parallel with Covid-19, big existential questions arise about what kind of world we actually live in. In the USA, the entire country is in an uproar after the murder of George Floyd, in Brazil the death toll is rising daily, and yet people are encouraged to live as normal. But what is normal now? Eleven young people from eight different countries deal with the crisis in different ways. Through their own footage, we get to see how thoughts and reactions to isolation, illness, home-schooling, racism and heartbreak unfold. They long to breathe freely, to be with friends and to no longer be afraid. Because in the background lies the fear of infecting a family member or other people in the risk zone like a quivering nerve. Alecsander (19), who lives outside Rio de Janeiro, has severe bronchitis so he has not been out since March 14, and is starting to go "crazy" from being "closed". Audra (17) in New York is upset and shocked by racism and violence after the brutal murder of George Floyd. Clyde (9) from Brooklyn is frustrated by not knowing anything about his future. When does school start again? When can he finally move back home to Brooklyn and his friends? And will things ever really go back to normal? A warm film about being human seen through the eyes of the young, at a time in history when the world was thrown into a pandemic that will affect us for a long time.
- Snow Monkey is an epic portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films: vibrant, colorful and infused with the violence they experience on a daily basis.
- In June 2002, a bus on its way from Tel Aviv to Tiberius, was bombed and 17 people were killed. Of the dead, 16 were identified. Number 17 wasn't. The filmmakers document the search to identify the man no one identified as missing.
- Filmed over the course of two years, "Our City Dreams" is the story of a woman's struggles and successes as an artist in New York City.
- A popular radio show helps Nissim to win his girlfriend's heart again.
- Approximately 20,000 Russian houses, businesses and private land have been victims of hostile seizures annually by an organized corporation of criminal bosses, politicians, oligarchs and men of law - the 'Raiders'
- This film is about the world's most radical idea - freedom - and how it is transforming the world. It is about how people all over the globe - from Tunisian rappers to Indian comedians, from America's #BlackLivesMatter activists to Hong Kong's students - are joining the struggle for freedom.
- Unique in the genre of exploration and adventure films, ICE PEOPLE takes you on one of the earth's most seductive journeys-Antarctica. Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Anne Aghion spent four months "on the ice" with modern-day polar explorers, to find out what drives dedicated researchers to leave the world behind in pursuit of science, and to capture the true experience of living and working in this extreme environment. And, as it turns out, the film also witnesses one of the most significant discoveries about climate change in recent Antarctic science. Intense public focus on climate change has turned the shores of Antarctica into a new tourist mecca, making the earth's coldest continent the hot place to be. But, inland from the penguins and ice floes is a magical Antarctica of volcanoes, boulder-strewn valleys and ominous glaciers. Only a small number of scientific research teams get there, braving severe conditions to learn about our planet's history, and make predictions about our future. ICE PEOPLE heads out into the "deep field" with noted geologists Allan Ashworth and Adam Lewis, and two undergrad scientists-in-the-making, where they scour across hundreds of miles to find tiny, critical signs of ancient life. Their findings would give the first evidence of a green Antarctica over 14 million years ago, that disappeared with a sudden shift in the temperature of the continent. The most authentic film about life on the ice since the trailblazing expeditions to Antarctica chronicled nearly a century ago, ICE PEOPLE conveys the vast beauty, the claustrophobia, the excitement and the stillness of an experience set to nature's rhythm.
- A camera in the hands of African Union soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia, captures the war on the jihadist militants in Al-Shabaab.
- A poetic view of Russian animation and of cultural and social transformations Russian society has been gone through. It is about multi faceted and humorous animation, almost never exposed to western eyes.
- Deferred adolescence, instant "Israelis," love, disillusion, alcohol, drugs, and xenophobia. This film spends a year with a group of immigrants aged 17 to 21 at the Carmiel absorption center.
- The Pearl is a cinematic and intimate profile of 4 transgender women that come out in their senior years. Set in logging towns in the Pacific NW the visceral, observational story explores what it means to leave behind living as a man.
- With passion, the three members of the Harting family make a living singing a cappella ballads in the Montreal metro. All three are blind and haunted by the tragic drowning death of the only seeing member of their family, Hassan. Enter Russian mystic and cult-like leader Grigori Petrovich Grabovoi, who promises to help his followers regenerate and resurrect the dead. For the Hartings, Hassan's resurrection is their only hope for completing their family once more. With intimate access and unflinching observations, the film chronicles the Hartings' attempts at dealing with their collective grief. What emerges is a highly unusual family portrait of three complex yet lovable characters.
- A Hebrew Lesson is a humorous, smart and exciting mosaic of a mixture of immigrants of various nationalities and their teacher. It is a film that gets under the skin of its participants as well as that of the audience. One of those whose characters won't let you go even days after having seen it - and actually you don't want them to leave. Chin left her daughter in China and came to Israel to make a living there. She cleaned Ehud's house, and they fell in love. Sasha never considered immigrating to Israel. But four years after his wife left Russia with their daughter, he understood that life without his child would be worthless. He abandoned a thriving business, only to find himself in Tel Aviv's worst neighborhood. Marisol grew up as a Jewish princess in Lima, Peru and came to Israel to learn something about life. An unplanned pregnancy alters her plans. These and other characters meet in a Hebrew language Ulpan, where their personal stories melt with the complexities of Israeli reality. The immense effort of learning a new language is revealed through their encounter with a strange culture and an unfamiliar environment. Israeli society is revealed through the foreigner's eyes. This gaze - at times funny, at times sad - paints daily reality with irony. But beyond the obvious differences, the human common denominator of longing and love triumphs time and again.