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- An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
- The tragic events of the October 7 massacre at the Supernova music festival in southern Israel, close to the border with Gaza, minute-by-minute. merely through festival survivor's camera footage, and terrorist's body camera recordings.
- The tragic love story of Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
- A group of Israelis and Palestinians come together in Oslo for an unsanctioned peace talks during the 1990s in order to bring peace to the Middle East.
- Crime boss or fearless dissident? The biggest cyber trial in the history of Israel will determine the fate of a former ultra-orthodox kid who transformed the drug-dealing business.
- How did a man in charge of 12 million slaves become "the good Nazi"? A cautionary tale about Albert Speer's 1971 attempt to whitewash his past with a Hollywood adaptation of his bestselling wartime memoir, "Inside the Third Reich".
- In the ultra-Orthodox community men are educated not to look at women or think about them and a girl practices modesty in clothing, actions and thoughts. Marriage requires complete strangers to suddenly encounter their partner for the first time in an intimate situation with only rudimentary information. According to Jewish law, they are required at that first intimate encounter to consummate the marriage. The forbidden becomes permitted, the impure pure, and modesty turns into full exposure. What was considered sinful transforms to the Holy of Holies. The film draws a portrait of a society and a place: women and men speak bravely about their hidden feelings during matchmaking, the engagement period, the guidance of brides and grooms, the canopy, the special "Yihud" room, until the morning after marriage.
- In 1945 an SS officer was shot to death by a Jewish woman near the gas chambers in Auschwitz. The shooting was carried out by Francesca Mann, a ballet dancer from Warsaw. This act of heroism received no recognition due to the rumors that Francesca collaborated with the Nazis. Francesca left behind nothing but a few photographs, a few press articles and plenty of conflicting testimonies about her conduct during the war. The filmmakers weaved the historical stories and built the myth: Francesca.
- THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight. In this now half-deserted village where Oleg and Alexandra are the only true constants in each other's lives, the film shows just how fragile, but crucial, close relationships are for survival. Through Oleg's perspective, the film examines what it means to grow up in a war zone. It portrays how a child's universal struggle to discover what the world is about grows interlaced with all the dangers and challenges the war presents. Thus, THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS unveils the consequences of war bearing down on the children in Eastern Ukraine, and by natural extension, the scars and self-taught life lessons this generation will carry with them into the future.
- In Jerusalem 1986, a 14-year-old boy shoots his family point-blank in their beds. Yet questions persist. In this docuseries, insiders come forward.
- CENSORED VOICES combines raw original recordings of Israeli soldiers recounting their fears and doubts following Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, using archival newsreel footage as a stark reminder of how far the region remains from peace.
- One season and one football team in crisis, as power, money and politics fuel a club spiralling out of control.
- Gil Avni found himself in a Kafkaesque situation. He lies dying in the ICU, anesthetized and ventilated, diagnosed with cerebral edema. From the medical team fighting for his life and his closest relatives coming to say their goodbyes, Gil learns about his final hours. These 44 hours are told through his testimony and of those who were around him.
- The film brings for the first time the story of the Israeli radio station Beit Shidir. With the establishment of the State of Israel and the immigration of Jews from Arab countries, the radio station was an active site for producing intelligence and political warfare against Arab countries in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. From the outside, it was a radio station that broadcast news and songs in Arabic, whereas in practice, the broadcasts were used by the administration for propaganda, psychological warfare, changing public opinion in Arab countries, and activating agents through codes implanted within the broadcasts. Soon the broadcasts became the most terrifying threat that agitated the rulers of the Arab world, and the broadcasters in it were named by the competing radio stations 'The Israel Broadcasting Corporation's Propaganda Orchestra'.
- This uniquely telling film takes an entertaining and unsettling look into Chinese rehabilitation centers treating internet addiction, which the Chinese government has classified as a serious clinical disorder.
- Chronicles the global race to research, develop, manufacture and distribute COVID-19 vaccines in the most enormous coordinated public health effort ever undertaken.
- Two men in suits shoot at the frightened crowd in a popular Tel Aviv cafe. No one escapes unharmed. All caught on security cameras, Closed Circuit deconstructs this event to give insight into the complex Israeli reality and the lasting trauma caused to those involved.
- On average, two Palestinian kids are arrested every night by the Israeli army. They are interrogated, tried, and sent to prison. TWO KIDS A DAY describes the use of minors' arrests to control and repress Palestinian society.
- The true and stirring story about an Egyptian family that spied for Israel during the most tense and violent years in Israel-Egypt relations. "The Spy Family" is about an Egyptian family that spied for Israel, was caught and paid a heavy price. While in Egypt they are infamous, in Israel they are unremembered in the military heroic ethos. The film will lay bare the espionage affair and the family's personal story.
- After being convicted of espionage, branded a traitor, and ostracized by her people, Israeli whistleblower Anat Kamm tries to rebuild her life in the United States. She graduates from Columbia University, but her ghost of her past still haunts her. Unable to find employment to extend her visa, she is forced to return to Israel. During her final months in the US, Kamm goes on a cross-country road trip, traveling from New York to California to meet Daniel Ellsberg (whistleblower of The Pentagon Papers). The trip is her last chance to enjoy her personal freedoms before returning to the inevitable reality of once again being "The Anat Kamm."
- Lost in Tel-Aviv is an animated documentary about the lives of the creators of the film, Guy and Netta Dimet. After working for many years in the promo industry the Dimets suddenly found themselves jobless. They decided to try to fulfill a dream - the making of an animation film for adults. Lost in Tel Aviv tells the story of their creative adventures giving the viewer a sense of this exciting metropolis.
- A thrilling reconstruction in so-called Rashomon style, with several eyewitnesses offering their own perspectives on a single tragic event.
- Conventional sins is a film exposing sexual abuse of children in the ultra-Orthodox community: A decade after he was banished from the Hasidic community he grew up in, Meilech reopens the diary he wrote when he was 15. The diary describes the abuse he went through at the hands of a network of ultra-Orthodox pedophiles. Together with a group of young actors who themselves grew up in the Hasidic community, Meilech attempts to reconstruct parts of the diary and tell his story, which the Hasidic community did everything to silence. Winner of Best Documentary in The Jerusalem Film Festival.
- Four Israeli teenagers undergo the process of life-and-identity-saving gender transformation in a country where military service is mandatory and Orthodox Jewish religion is the law.
- A Year of Hope is about life on the streets of Manila. You will hear the horrible stories of Pablo, Justin, and some of the other boys. Thankfully their lives change during their year in Stairway Foundation. It's an NGO located on an island in the Philippines far away from Manila. They're there to get a proper education, eat nutritious food, have fun, and be introduced to new things. But sadly even in a place like Stairway, the gruesome streets of Manila are still lurking in the backs of the children's minds.