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- Tala, 33, an Israeli offbeat musician, just had her first baby. Desperate to make a living and support her kid with no father in the picture, she takes up a job at the "Milky Way". In this dairy for breast milk, you can get the best newly mothers can offer: vegan, high-rate of protein, with top-quality essential nutrients milk. In this dystopic dark comedy, Tala embarks on a journey navigating the complexities of motherhood, while taking a glimpse into the wealthy lives she is supplying.
- Over the span of fifty years, the Israeli military censorship secretly copied soldiers' personal letters, extracting their views on the most contentious issues facing Israeli society. The findings were presented to leaders in a top-secret report identified as "The Soldier's Opinion."
- The film tells the story of how, 30 years ago, the divorce of a woman who went on to become a renowned author, and her husband, an esteemed rabbi, shook the religious city of Bnai Barak and affected the lives of their seven children. It follows a family divided between the two conflicting worlds of the Ultra-Orthodox and the secular. One of the couple's daughters embarks on a journey among the ghosts of her childhood, trying to reunite her fractured family and, finally, to start one of her own.
- Suleiman El-Abid was sentenced to 27 years in jail for the rape and murder of Hanit Kikos, based on his confession alone. A few days after reenacting the crime he retracted his confession and has been claiming innocence ever since. Did he receive a fair trial or did the justice systems incriminate him to whitewash their own failures?
- In 2007 Livi, a photography student, moves into an empty building in downtown Haifa. Just before her loneliness urges her to leave, Shahar, Zvi, Iddo and Talia move into that very building - young artists themselves. The friendship ignites in an instant and when Zvi can't pay his rent, they decide to rent a space together, half of which will be Zvi's dwelling and half - an art gallery and bar. The joint work thrives and their voice is heard across the distance, but cracks begin to show, the gallery closes and they disperse. For 12 years, Livi follows their journey to fulfill their dreams as they face the reality of livelihood difficulties, manic depression and alcoholism, unfolding both intimately and lovingly, revealing the story of five friends and their maturing process.
- The Raven is a touching and exciting portrait of one of Israel's most contradictory figures. Born in Odessa, Jabotinsky was a brilliant writer and passionate spokesperson for Russia's ethnic minorities. Eventually refocusing his energies and skills to the Zionist cause, he established the controversial Revisionist Party. While Jabotinsky is often memorialized as a key founder of the Israeli far right, director Ayelet Ofarim presents a more complex portrait of his dynamic life and character, complimenting readings stunning animation and wonderful narration.
- The Sea of Galilee, also known as the Kineret, is famous for its biblical and historical significance, as well as its beauty. Located in northeast Israel, the freshwater lake is home to many distinctive fauna and flora species, including the native swamp cat. The lake also offers temporary sanctuary to the millions of birds who fly across Israeli skies on their biannual Europe to Africa journey.
- "Anusim" - They are everywhere - Ultra-Orthodox Jews. They cannot be identified. Within them there is a struggle between the inner truth and the outside world. How did they become "Anusim"? Why are they and not others? The common line is a basic requirement in Orthodox society. You have to be 'someone' to take a step that takes you out of the line you were born into. Anusim are talented people, often with a rebellious personality. Years of research often make us indifferent to human encounters, not in this case.
- 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.
- Eyal has been in love with Hila for 3 years. They accidentally met online. He is a filmmaker; she studies to be an actress. He knew he fell in love with her from the moment he saw her. On set, he is relaxed and natural, but when they are alone...he becomes shy and is lost for words. He decides to go on a surreal and crazy trip to the Balkans to learn about free spirit and Joie de Vivre from his admired director, Emir Kusturica. Despite the difficulties, he manages to find Kusturica and ask him to play a role in a film he's directing; perhaps this will help him to summon the courage to tell Hila how he felt.
- Yamna is an 82-year-old miracle-worker and righteous woman from Sderot. The film depicts her unique character and rituals, her eastern culture and her effort to bequeath her mystical power to the next generation Yamna's story is told through the people who come to her for help as we are offered a glimpse into some of her secrets. Yehudit, 40, whose biological clock is running out, hopes that Yamna can help her become pregnant after conventional fertilization treatments have failed. Dudu, Yamna's grandson, asks her for help with finding success in the music industry. Yamna's daughter, Shula, has the technical know-how of her mother but is still searching for the special spark she needs to honor her birthright and become a righteous woman.
- For her 70th birthday, Yardena Arazi embarks on a journey with her cousin Tamar in the footsteps of their mothers and heroines - Yvette and Fanny Loinger. During the journey they uncover the stories of other Jewish women who all endeavored for one cause - saving hundreds of Jewish children. The story of the Loinger family, to which Yardena's mother was born, is rare and unique - unbeknownst to the Nazis, four members of one family rescued hundreds of Jewish children from death and risked their lives in doing so. The fact that three of them are women makes this story even more astonishing. A story about the fortitude of women in impossible circumstances.
- HIDDEN BATTLES, a feature length documentary, is a dramatic and deeply personal film about the psychological impact of killing on the lives of five soldiers. Representing a cross section of nationalities, gender, class and race, these soldiers reveal intimate memories about the central act of war, the killing of another human being. How do these individuals make sense of what they have done? What happens when time challenges their carefully constructed stories? Consciously apolitical but deeply psychological, Hidden Battles examines the strength and struggles of men and women who kill and how they create a life for themselves afterward.
- Five penniless citizens set on a crusade against the most powerful figures of the financial system In Israel - and beat them. After his girlfriend is issued with an illegal repossession order, attorney Barak Cohen launches a public campaign against the heads of Israel's banking industry. That was the backdrop for the suit filed against Cohen and his fellow activists. The severe criminal charges were straight out of racketeering case but Barak and his friends remained undaunted. For them, this was a golden opportunity to turn the tables and transform the trial into an indictment of Israel's banking sector, proving that when you believe you are right, you are destined to win the fight.
- Unes is paralyzed after a massive stroke. He lies in bed in the family's living room, watching the live feed from security cameras installed at the perimeter of his home - a matter of protection after several assaults on the family. "We are guilty, we've brought a shame on ourselves," this is how Unes summarizes decades of collaboration with Israeli security forces and helping Jews to buy land from Palestinians.
- The journey of a young artist Dita, who will be challenged to give away her biggest treasure - a secret formula of an indigo color, to save her friend Adela, that mysteriously disappeared.
- A journey of a man and a woman who found themselves in a parallel world - an endless arid desert. With no identity or memory, they cling to the visionary dreams they each have at night, trying to find who they really are.
- When I married Enrico Macias's daughter, I had no idea that thirty years later I would still be angry at him for turning our wedding into a huge show. Re-watching the film of the wedding, I realize that this is really when I began to 'start a family': two sons, a separation, three daughters, another separation, a bereavement. At my shrink's grave, I attempt a kind of inventory. What did our fathers and mothers leave us? And what will I leave to my children?
- The story of Mundek Lukawiecki and his wife Hannah Bern, who fought the Nazis with the Polish partisans and hid in the forests. Mundek not only employed his bravery and cunning, but also his Leica camera, giving us a rare glimpse into the life of the partisans.
- In November '77, after years of war, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat landed in Israel with a message of peace and a promise to take back the occupied Sinai soil. Nelson, who feared losing his holiday village on the Sinai border, went to war to preserve his bohemian holiday village. He harnessed his comrades at the top of the government to protect the small country he had built. The affair, which lasted nearly a decade, is a web of political intrigue that forced Israel into an entanglement that endangered peace with Egypt. Nelson's Last Battle is an absurd look at the conflict in the Middle East through a square kilometer of passion.
- An intimate coming of age drama documents four teenagers, outstanding athletes living in a prestigious sports academy, where the intense daily routine forces them to sacrifice youth in favor of success.
- All her life Jane rebelled against the conventions of Georgian Patriarchal society. After years, just before becoming a mother, Jane returns with a camera to try understand her mother and her self, in relation to the men of the family.
- For the first time on screen, second-generation children of Holocaust Survivors open up about their abused childhood suffering.
- On January 15, 2019, Gadi Eizenkot completed four years as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and 40 years of service in the IDF.
- On Friday, June 16, 1933, while walking with his wife Sima on the beach in Tel Aviv, Chaim Arlosoroff - a promising leader and a rising star in the Zionist movement - was shot dead at the age of 34 by two unknown assailants. The assassins quickly fled through the side streets of the city, taking with them the answer to a question that has been left unresolved to this very day: who killed Arlosoroff? Now, 85 years later, it is time to revisit the investigation and dust off the past.
- This sociological journey back in time began over twenty years ago when several families were evicted from their homes. They got together and squatted in an abandoned building in Jaffa for two years. The children of all ages who lived there grew up around violence, poverty, and drugs-but also solidarity. They saw the power of people fighting the establishment for their right to a home. They became documentary subjects for the first time in 1999, in Yael Kipper and Einat Fishbein's film The Two Yossi (screened at the very first Docaviv Festival). Now, their journey continues: what has become of them? What chances does a poverty-stricken child have to make it in the world?
- Five elderly women create a dance performance, sharing their thoughts and feelings.
- Dani Lev gives Olga, a beautiful pregnant woman, a ride to the hospital. There he is mistakenly considered as the newborn's father. Now his life become hell by everybody (wife, children, neighbors, colleagues, lawyers and policemen). To stop this Dani takes a DNA test. The test uncover him as barren. So who is the father of his children?
- Composer Andre Hajdu has six sons: religious and atheists, left and right wing, intellectuals and businessmen, and himself, a complete piece torn apart, containing the source of all those contradictions which exist between his sons, managing to channel them into his troubled musical work.
- Rise and fall of a proud Bulgarian family of bakers that immigrated to the newborn state of Israel.
- From Baruch Goldstein's massacre in Hebron, March 1994 (where 119 bullets were fired) to the fatal 3 bullets that killed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995, this documentary examines the right-wing extremists in Israel and their ideology.
- Memories of the Eichmann Trial includes reminiscences by trial witnesses, Holocaust survivors, Israelis of the second generation, and others who were directly involved in the Eichmann case. Prominent among them are Henryk Ross, a Polish Jew who, with the help of his wife Stefania, took clandestine photographs of life in the Lodz Ghetto while carrying out Nazi orders to record information about Jews on their way to the death camps; and Rafi Eitan, who led the operation to capture Eichmann in Argentina, in 1961. Broadcast only once on Israeli television in 1979, Memories of the Eichmann Trial was rediscovered and restored in 2011.
- The film follows Julia, a Russian Immigrant, and her 5 years old daughter, who live on the border between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, 4 km from Gaza city, in Kibbutz Nir-Am. Because of its close proximity to the border, Kibbutz Nir Am has the highest ratio of rocket hits per square kilometer, and the least time for advance warning - less than18 seconds from the time the" Red Dawn" siren is sounded. This is a intimate and surprising story of a mother and daughter, who raise each other in their barbed wired fenced Garden of Ede, In spite of Israeli helicopters soaring above their heads, and Palestinian rockets falling in their yard
- This historic document of Palestine during the tumultuous 1920s includes footage from three rare films by Ya'akov Ben Dov, the father of Hebrew cinema. Preserved in a joint project by the National Center for Jewish Film and the Israel Film Archive, these works include Return to Zion (1920-21), The Rebirth of a Nation (1923), and Romance of Palestine (1926). Considered lost for more than 70 years, the films depict the early builders of the Zionist vision who pioneered the Third Aliyah and the Fourth Aliyah and contain images of settlements and activities in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Rishon le Zion and Old Jaffa. From this rare archival footage, director and scholar Ya'akov Gross has created a vital and accessible look at a formative period in Israeli history whose legacy continues to influence Israeli politics today.
- On the morning of April 12, 1996, a bomb exploded in an East Jerusalem hotel room occupied by Hussein Mikdad, a Lebanese Muslim recruited by the Hezbollah militia to carry out a deadly terrorist attack against Israel.
- A journey to the backstage of the Declaration of the State of Israel: The last living witnesses to this historic event and the creators of the legend reveal what really happened during the 32 minutes of the ceremony and reflect on the place of the past in Israel today.
- An hour in a prison in Baer Sheva, Israel. The documentary follows the departure of the prison manager and the coming of a new one, and the stir the change makes for the prisoners. The movie also takes us through the high walls and cells and day-to-day prison life; with stories of some of the prisoners: a father and son together in one cell, another who wants to get married eyeing for a parole, a 30- year-old that spent most of his life in prison.
- Early documentary on Palestine, featuring the last appearance of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt.
- The film takes us into the angst of a young director at the premiere screening of his film.
- A painful drama behind seemingly happy smiles of old photos
- The personal journey of Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox film director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and family life. Rachel unveils the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice, for the first time, to their concealed inner world through the wig that covers up women's' hair.
- Uri and Neta, the owners of the Indian restaurant 24 Rupee in Tel Aviv, and Lilach, a photographer, decided to travel to India, in search for the Secret Ingredient in Indian food. This simple search after the secret ingredient in Indian food, leads them to encounters and experiences that only magical India can provide. The journey transforms itself to a surprising life adventure for all of them in the appearance of repressed memories, old wounds of betrayals, marriage, death and even madness, and becoming a search for the secret ingredient in their own lives.
- By the age of thirty he'd already become the most famous poet in the Jewish world. He spent very few years living in Tel Aviv, but he loved the city dearly. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1934. "King of the Jews" is a portrait of the most beloved Jew of his day, Chaim Nachman Bialik. Combining special animation, a voice track by Chaim Topol, rare archival footage, long-forgotten photographs, poems by Bialik performed by Ninet and interviews with the foremost Bialik researchers and fans in Israel and around the world, this film retells the story of the little boy from the shtetl, who became King of the Jews.