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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- As cowboys meet at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, they confront myths, old and new, to try and save the land they 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Summer vacation is over and 26 kids arrive to school fearful of their notoriously strict new teacher, Irena. Russian born Irena immigrated to Israel with her son and husband who died shortly after. She faces the challenge of teaching the third grade in one of the most difficult neighborhoods in Jerusalem where poverty, violence and unemployment are widespread. Using her unique approach, combining uncompromising discipline and love she propels a real change in the lives of her students. Following the course of the school year the film offers a window into the confines of a classroom.
- A popular radio show helps Nissim to win his girlfriend's heart again.
- Three students on the precipice between childhood and adulthood are studying at Østerskov Boarding School, one of the most unique schools in the world; here, classes are conducted through role-playing games, and the students are taught to come to terms with the trauma and their fluid selves through masquerades and metamorphosis. For two school years, the film follows the girls and their highly emotional adventure through puberty, self-discovery, and maturity, illuminating with a sharp, intimate, humorous as well as poignant gaze, the chaos, the anguish, and the inexpressible joy of the first years of one's youth. Fighting Demons with Dragons is an homage to uniqueness and the off-kilter situation in which we all find ourselves, while the students' insightful commentary on notions such as normalcy and mental illness are formulated with disarming simplicity and striking in their aptness, in a film that speaks to everyone who has ever felt odd at some point or another in their lives - in other words, to everyone.
- 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.
- Between autobiography and fiction, curiosity and despair, 'In Praise of the Day' is a bold homosexual film, taking place at the Independence Park in Jerusalem. Director Oren Adaf plays the lead role of a young man wondering around the park and looking for a phone. He meets the usual characters of the park and is willing to do anything to be able to call his traditional mother before Shabbat.
- 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'
- 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.
- The 20-member band Septentrional has been making music for 62 years as Haiti's most celebrated big band. This inspirational doc charts the history of Haiti from its independence from French colonialism to 2010's devastating earthquake-all set to the vibrant music of Septentrional and punctuated with personal memories.
- 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.
- A documentary on a peace movement made up of Israeli and Palestinian children.
- Their target was to blow up the Muslim Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Success would have probable meant a World War. This political-detective thriller tells the story of how the members of the largest terrorist organization of Israeli Right-Wing settlers has now become a dominant power within the current Israeli government.
- 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 Taste of Sky' delicately details the journey of two students from Gustu, the groundbreaking cooking school and fine-dining restaurant founded by Noma's Claus Meyer in La Paz, Bolivia.
- 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.
- Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary following Sandra during one pivotal year as she works to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links.
- In Deaf Jam, a Deaf New York City teen is introduced to sign language poetry and boldly enters the spoken word slam scene.
- In the middle of Colombia's humanitarian tragedy, a journalist fights to report and disclose the barbarity of the conflict.
- A camera in the hands of African Union soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia, captures the war on the jihadist militants in Al-Shabaab.
- 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.
- 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.
- The international World Pride event, planned for Jerusalem in 2006, is disrupted by orthodox Jews, evangelical Christians, and conservative Muslims, who are united by their dislike to LGBT events in the city they consider holy.
- Faced with a terminal diagnosis, a filmmaker enlists his family on an intimate and darkly humorous journey to help them come to terms with his illness.
- 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 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.
- What does it mean to give up one's life to another? Peter is the brother of Christine - he is born deaf and blind, and the family has therefore always had to see and hear the world for him. Today Peter is 30 years old, still living at home. His need for help and assistance is so specific that the family is having trouble finding a residence for him. So what will happen to him, once the parents are no longer here to take care of him - who shall assure him a dignified life? "He's My Brother" is a poetic film about the ties of blood and an incredible family dynamic. The film is told through the younger sister, Christine, who explores the role as sister and guardian, and what it actually means to have the responsibility of another life on her shoulders. She travels through a myriad of emotions, where she has to accepts her destiny - that she will be taking care of her brother when her parents no longer can.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Rest (2018) is a documentary by Ai Weiwei about refugees, who have arrived in Europe, the world's bastion of human rights, but now live in limbo within a disintegrating humanitarian aid system.
- 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.
- Follows the story of Jane Campion, the first-ever woman to win the Palme d'Or in 1993.
- It tells the story of Annina van Neel's as she works to reclaim and honor the neglected history of St. Helena after the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans are uncovered on the remote island.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A Fellini-Esq documentary that takes place in the West Bank city of Jenin and follows a local initiative to re-open the old and only cinema in the city. Cinema Jenin, founded in the 1960s, was once the largest cinema in the Palestinian territories. Today it stands as a hollow echo of its society. It is crumbling and seems just about to collapse; taking all the old stories it once contained crashing down with it. And yet, there are still hints of its glamor days for anyone to see. An extraordinary group of Palestinians hope to restore glory to the city and perhaps to themselves, embarking on an almost impossible mission to re-open the cinema.
- 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.
- Anjali Nayar and Hawa Essuman profile the life of Liberian activist Silas Siakor, a tireless crusader against illegal logging and a symbol of resistance for a new generation.