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- Julius Klausner and Robert Graetz, German Jewish industrialists, defied the odds to build their economic empires from scratch. In 2016, a letter listing looted artworks from WWII brings their two grandchildren on a poignant journey to reclaim their lost art. Their lawyer, Fritz Enderlein, is an 88-year-old German lawyer who fought in the Wehrmacht and now works tirelessly to restore looted works of art to their rightful owners, decades after they were taken. Together, they navigate a complex web of bureaucracy, concealment, and denial as they delve deeper into the world of art.
- My younger sister, Racheli, a confined artist, keeps her "masterpiece" jewelry hidden and unsold. As she shares feelings of isolation and despair, I persuade her to showcase in Tel Aviv Artists Market, offering to document her with my camera. It's my chance to break-free from post-divorce "Tinder" obsession, seeking the ideal fluent, sporty partner. An old love-triangle resurfaces in our journey, threatening to unsettle us. With cinematic language that intertwines with Racheli's jewelry, we examine the sisterhood-power: Can it transform change, help confront past secrets, and shape our life choices?
- Abraham Pesso, a renowned painter and sculptor, decides to fulfill an old dream and paint a portrait of supermodel Naomi Campbell. Campbell, of course, has never heard of Pesso or his complex creative process. But when he learns that Naomi is planning a visit to Israel, his dream seems to be within his grasp.
- At the heart of the Jezreel Valley in Galilee, on the football fields of Nahalal flourishes a very special youth football team. The unique soccer squad consists of 13 year-old players from different Israeli backgrounds and cultures, sharing their skills on the grounds of the oldest collective agriculture community, the 'Moshav Nahalal' founded in 1921. Jews, Arabs, Christians and Circassians all play together at the Maccabi Haifa-Nahalal football youth academy. True coexistence lives and breathes every day through that passion for the beautiful game demonstrated by these young men and their families.
- Two young social activists arrive to the great master Yair Zaban, who devoted 70 years of his life to the struggle of improving the social conditions and the political situation in Israel. They engage on a journey in which they will learn how to change reality.
- Yosef and Bracha married when they were 12 in Sana'a, Yemen and lived together for close to 70 years. Yosef became absorbed in his books, while Bracha took care of the needy. Before he dies, Rabbi Yosef Kapach hands his granddaughter Einat, director of the film, a bundle of pages which uncover a secret he has kept close to his heart his entire life: the secret of the theological war that split the Yemenite Jewish community. The documents tell of his persecution as a young orphan by the Jews of Yemen, a persecution that continues until the day he dies in Israel. Having read these words, Einat sets out to understand why he chose her to pass on the legacy and how he managed to turn his life around from such a lonely point and become a world-famous Jewish philosopher.
- In this intimate portrait, Alice Shalvi shares her thoughts and memories of her public and private life, from her childhood in Essen to her present-day success as a leading Israeli scholar, feminist, and peace activist.
- The Prime Minister's Wife is the story of a woman who is trying to hold on to her identity in a stormy life she never wanted to enter. The film is told from the point of view of Aliza Olmert, the Israeli former Prime Minister's wife. It spans the events during the term of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, from his rise to power in 2006 until his resignation in 2008, and records their highest and lowest moments, mirroring the political ups and downs of Israel during those three years. The Prime Minister's Wife is a political film, but also a very personal one. Ultimately, it is a film about the rise and fall of an ambitious, brilliant politician, seen through the eyes of his wife.
- On the backdrop of 2008-2009 Gaza War at Hanukkah, eight stories of love and compassion take place alongside the border.
- The hero of this story is not a famous man. He has won no awards and you probably have never heard his name. Yet, Yosef does one of the most important things a person can do today for the environment: He is a beekeeper. The documentary illustrates how terrible and cruel today's world is for the bees. Most of the world's city-dwelling human beings have not (yet) experienced the destruction we have wreaked on the planet for the past 100 years. But for people like Yosef, who try to live in harmony with nature and earn their living from it, this devastation is an everyday reality.
- Khaled Abu Ali, a Sufi Muslim, is an actor and director at the Acre Theater Center. Searching to find the connection between God and man, he is prepared to die at any given moment. Noam and Tzvika, religious Jewish theater actors, want to produce a play about the rebuilding of the temple and they ask Khaled Abu Ali to direct the play. They are committed to increasing consciousness about the rebuilding of the temple on the ruins of the Al Aksa Mosque, the fifth holiest place in Islam. However, the work does not proceed as planned and Khaled tries to find uplifting moments with "Al Dervish" through Sufi music, regularly attends the Sufi Dhiker ceremony in the mosque, and abides by the rule, "Do good even unto he that wrongs you".
- A 1996 terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv left 27-year-old Maytal Lederman critically injured and took the life of her brother Asaf. This documentary follows Maytal over a period of eight months in an Israeli rehabilitation hospital, as she struggles to cope with her loss and rebuild her life with her husband Steve. Emotionally affecting yet unsentimental, this portrait of one woman's trauma provides an unforgettable human perspective on the tragic consequences of Middle Eastern conflict.
- NOA was chosen to sing at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Away from the Israeli public eye NOA, is considered to be the leading Israeli singing artist abroad. She has no need for the international stage of the Eurovision circus, but unlike most of her colleagues, Achinoam is determined to take a stand. She requested to perform along with Israeli-Arab singer Mira Awad, representing their common wish for co-existence between their two nations. Shadowed by the 2009 Gaza war and despite opposition from the political left wing, they set out on a journey climaxing at the Moscow contest in May.
- The little orphan-girl who survived a harsh life and finally became the sculptor-poet Miriam Chalfi - refuses to let me, her daughter, make a film about her. I finally crack the taboo - and during 24 years of work the film tries to decipher the riddle of the Hidden Fountain.
- An intimate couple's portrait follows my pregnancy from it's very beginning. At 21 weeks we are told that our baby may have a serious disorder. We receive medical opinions and struggle to make a decision, until we do. Between a simple dream of having a baby and us hitting the shore of reality, hard, a film was born.
- The action of Hatzalah, a non profit emergency medical organization in Israel, funded exclusively by donations. A start-up of a new kind at the service of life.
- 'A Man is not a cat - he who always falls on his feet is bound to get his heart broken'. Kineret documents her parent's intimacy from back in the days that her mother was a wild dreamful teenager and her father an aspiring athlete, till the present reality in which her father suffers from muscular dystrophy. She wanders 'How Much Love' one needs to sustain such a relationship.
- My 94-year-old grandmother, Tosha Krasucky, only wants to die. But before she moves on to the next world, she needs to release a skeleton from her closet. Three years ago, she invited my father for lunch and while he was eating, she dropped the bomb and told him: "Alon, you are an adopted child." After stripping him from his past and memories, my father had a psychosocial crisis. So my father and I decided to search our biological family. From Tel Aviv to Lodz, Alexander Krasucky looks for proof of his existence.
- Avant-Garde Jazz Duo "Dex and Coman" go to play a show in a nursing home.
- Part of "Moments, Israel 2003 - I have a Dream." All of a sudden I'm starting to realize what draws me to this place. The dream is getting clearer. I want to wake the city up. I want to make a movie here. To bring back the atmosphere that was here when Kazablan was filmed. Maybe even an action film - a period action film.
- The movie describes the line up in front of the Ministry of Interior building in East Jerusalem, where Palestinians face difficulties in actualizing their rights and be recognized residents of the State of Israel.
- Director Isri Halpern sets out to search for the last known leopard in the Judaean Desert. For 18 months, Halpern searches for the leopard with his friend the zoologist Haim Berger, in an elusive and humorist journey, full of surprises.
- 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.
- The movie 'Two Flags', set in the time of WW2, tells in a voice that speaks to children and adults, the story of a small group of underdog kids fighting to save their home from their local bully. This kid's fight turns into full blown war led by the underdog's leader, Yashek, an immigrant boy from Poland who escaped Nazi Europe looking for a better life in Israel.
- A Tale of Two Pandemics - a riveting documentary film by Yair Agmon, who had full access to the largest hospital in Israel during the very early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- In 1999, after a 23-year absence, gifted musician Ahuva Ozeri is planning a comeback. She's recording a new album - The Bells are Ringing. Ahuva, considered the queen of the Middle Eastern music, sits at home and makes a living as a cook at a meat restaurant. She hopes to break out again with the new album. But at the end of the recording, she is diagnosed with throat cancer and undergoes surgery where her vocal cords are cut. She loses her voice forever, but the album is very successful. It managed to cross audiences and becomes a consensus. This film is based on rare never before-seen materials, sketching her life's course.
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- The story of the 'Seekers', young men from kibbutz in the Galilee, searching for their place in the world while shattering all that they were brought up on.
- A documentary on the life, works, and death of Hezy Leskly, a controversial homosexual, choreographer, multi-media artist, and poet who died of AIDS in 1994.
- Study of the 86-year-old Tel Aviv poet.
- Rise and fall of a proud Bulgarian family of bakers that immigrated to the newborn state of Israel.
- 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.
- "Gazoz" tells the story of a date over the course of one evening in the streets of Tel Aviv, between two people in their 60's, Peter and Lily, who were matched up by Lily's daughter, Nelly. Lily has been keeping a secret for decades.
- Eight women on the margins of Israeli society are thrown together during the course of a school year at Tel Aviv's oldest beauty school. Amidst the combs and colorings, these women present a microcosm of modern-day Tel Aviv -- native Israelis and new immigrants, Asians and Africans, among them women struggling with cancer and personal loss. As they learn to create beauty without, each woman undergoes a powerful transformation within.
- Tamar Ariel grew up in a religious home. Encouraged to follow her dreams, she joined the IDF air force, where she served as the first-ever Jewish Orthodox combat navigator. In 2014, she traveled to Nepal, where she found herself in a life and death struggle against the elements.
- Halit is very overweight. Still, she is a happy woman who has achieved professional success, has good friends and a loving life partner. At the age of 40 she begins to fear the future. The film follows the process of change Halit is going through and enables us to see her confronting her open wounds with courage in front of the camera. In a world where everyone wants to be thin, what will be Halit's choice? Her journey will change her world.
- BlackSmile Challenging Himself To Create A 49 Minutes Movie Full Of YouTube Content
- The film follows Rinat, Elad, and Einav. Elad was left disabled after an operation. He and his wife Rinat bond with Einav as they enter the surrogacy process. The film follows their touching, surprising journey