Films

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav (“Golden Silk”) was one of the most powerful and well-connected men in Israel. Having moved from the margins of Jewish Ultra-Orthodox society to the heart of the Zionist consensus and founded one of the largest charities in Israel, he was warmly accepted by journalists, politicians, and... the police.

Disenchanted Kazakh journalist balances supporting her activist lesbian sister while coping with a government that restricts freedom of speech to the point of absurdity.

Debbie celebrates her 51st birthday in a Mental Health Center. Riva, Debbie’s partner, arrives with Michal, Riva’s student in video-therapy, to make a small, intimate video with Debbie. Michal is drawn into Debbie and Riva’s world, but the narrative they present to her is full of gaps.

Through exclusive interviews and videos, the film documents the creation of the studios that made Jimi Hendrix’s dream come true: to work in a permanent and high-end facility.

A document of the last decade of singer-cum-activist Harry Belafonte’s life, the film sheds light on the power of art to change the world.

Hanan Al-Sanah grew up in a conservative Bedouin family. Despite the custom according to which girls have to study until ninth grade and marry at age 18, she was the only one who got to the university and acted for justice and women’s rights. Now, too, she has chosen to transcend the fear and do what’s right and just: she started a joint Arab-Jewish volunteer center in southern Israel active relentless to help both Jewish and Arab families get through the difficult wartime.

The film follows Taiwan’s first female president Tsai Ing-wen. Bristling with tension, it shows her navigating between her nation’s dreams and the interests of mightier powers.

The power of music to draw people together echoes in the Amadeo Roldán in Havana – an old and illustrious conservatory which paradoxically survives the economic siege of Cuba thanks to a North-American charity.

Every Sunday, the players Lions of Jerusalem football team meets for practice, only this time, coach Assaf has great news: “We’re going to the world championship!”. The film follows a team of homeless individuals who venture out on a once-in-a-lifetime journey: representing Israel in the Homeless World Cup Football.

Jamal Khalaily & Zohar Shachar: ABU FILM
Liat Kaplan: His Wife
Judy Herbstein: Hope on the Water
Hava Tizazu: SIN ON SIN
Liri Navon: Disconnect
Oz Zirlin: Homefront
Jonathan Omer Mizrahi: the Gaza Envelope project
Amit Ruderman: Bridal tears
Rami Fahel: Old Decorations
Asher Elias: Tikra
Judy Herbstein: Hope on the Water
Elkie Leonie Hershberg: The Traveler’s Prayer

Ofer Erez: Where there is Hope
Netta Roth: slippery slope
Tehilla Ruddell: A Place That Doesn't Exist
Daniel Siton: Sleep Well
Oriel Zieger: Poor Philanthropy

Brandon Scott was elected Mayor of Baltimore after the murder of George Floyd. Facing a hostile press, political rivals, and moral qualms, he leads real change in a divided city.

A glimpse into the world of Demis Hassabis, from his childhood as a talented chess player to founding a leading AI company, and into the moral dilemmas this technology raises.

In the 1994 post-martial law period in Taiwan, the students were in the midst of protest. Frustrated by the culture of implicit obedience in school, Chi-wei (19), a female college student, joins the strike to fight for freedom of expression.

Anna, an investigative journalist, becomes pregnant following a rape. At the same time, she becomes attached to a Roma family, and delves into the mysteries of their culture, on her way to forgiveness

At the Israeli-Egyptian border, a Jewish woman waits for her Arab partner for a romantic getaway that puts their relationship to the test.

Through the figure of a young Madagascan required to choose between avarice and political awareness, the film sheds light on the struggle for liberation in 1970s Africa from a contemporary perspective.

Hazal desperately wants to escape her dreary routine. For her 18th birthday celebration, she goes out to a Berlin nightclub. A tragic event changes everything and Hazal must run.

A family of refugees from Syria, an English teacher from Afghanistan and a border guard all meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis in Belarus.

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A child and his family shelter from the war in a metro station. He discovers a new world when he meets a girl and finds the courage to go out into the sun.

As a child, Sokina Taoon was a shepherd, no. 16 in the birth order of a family of 17 siblings. Together with her three children, she fled a violent reality, started studying, and became a key activist for Arab-Jewish coexistence in Israel and the principal of the bilingual school in the Galilee. Now, she has undertaken the task of a lifetime: act to prevent the opportunity for shared living from disappearing completely.

The film demonstrates how corporations deprive governments of revenue, and sheds light on the fight for justice in taxation.

In the fall of 1975, Iceland’s women went on strike, at home and at the workplace. This was one of the most effective protests ever: 12 hours that made history.

A moving political drama that tells the story of dissident journalist Lena and her husband Iliya, who face violent oppression in Belarus following the rigged 2020 elections.

Wilfred Buck’s is a member of an Indigenous people who coped with childhood traumas and found strength in the heritage of his forefathers and the ancient knowledge he now applies as a spiritual guide.

Inspired by true events, the movie describes a Danish family forced to choose between helping German WWII refugees and the national resistance.

Director Uri Barbash follows five conscientious objectors – two pilots and three ground force combatants, all reservists – who define their own boundaries of right and wrong: doubts, thoughts and conclusions, and the price of their choice. The film was originally produced for Channel 1 and shelved.

Between April and October 2024, the "Docummunity" project brought together five groups from communities in the Western Negev to embark on a transformative journey guided by five southern-based filmmakers.

European students who are sent to student exchange programs usually expect to be in a smiling sunny city, get to know a foreign culture and travel in a peaceful and colorful country. Ricardo, a 24-year-old student from the University of Siena, the main protagonist of the film by directors Matteo Delbò and Chiara Avesani, finds himself far from Europe: deep in the horrors unfolding in the Gaza Strip.

In 1958, Yugoslav nuclear scientists are exposed to radiation and are taken secretly to Paris, where they undergo a first-of-its-kind bone marrow transplant. The film highlights the nature of scientific progress as a double-edged sword.

2023 was a record year in criminal violence in Arab society in Israel. The film presents victims’ testimonies and calls upon the Israeli government to put an end to their neglect.

A brave Yazidi girl manages to escape ISIS captivity and searches for her lost family. Having managed to survive, she struggles with personal traumas and fights for justice for the Yazidi people.

In Putin’s Russia, a Nobel prize laureate journalist and his colleagues are fighting for the truth, facing censorship and imprisonment, against the background of the war on Ukraine.

Six female lookouts recount their trauma years after their discharge. Among them are the director and a lookout from the Gaza front, who, after the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, provides closure for all the lookouts who were killed and kidnapped and those who continue to serve and observe.

Tal Vinogradov: The View From My Window
Uri Wolf: BORDERS
Ifat Nener Orgad : We Have Sinned Before You-
Hofit Sigavi: Nissim
Brit Magari : Superstar
Lev Brodinsky: My Name Is Dania

A long-term documentation of Margo Ovcharenko, one the most significant photographer of her generation, forced into refugeehood by the Russian invasion of her homeland of Ukraine.

In the face of the horrors of the occupation and war in Gaza, The Other showcases another reality, an entire ecosystem of peacebuilders and activists in Israel/Palestine working together for a better future.

Venezuelan mothers struggle to protect the children amidst the collapse of the health and education systems, the hunger and violence, which threaten the future of an entire generation.