DOCUMENTARY FILMS
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Why I Moved to Israel - Aliyah Story
In this short film, Noam Leibman answers the classic question that every Oleh Chadash is asked: "Why did you make aliyah?".
Year: 2022
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Long Live King David
Is the Biblical story of David's Kingdom indeed true? This question divides the academic world. Typical of the Holy Land, this academic argument has come to involve politics, religion, and many emotions. The film sets out on a journey to find the answer, and reveals unexpected findings about the ...
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Sustainable Nation
In a world where water is everything, three Israeli innovators are applying water technology to an increasingly thirsty planet.
Year: 2019
Languages: English & Hebrew, English subtitles
Director: Micah Smith
Producers: Rebecca Shore, David Coleman, Raphael Shore, Mitchell R. Julis -
MovieHomeboys
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This hip-hop documentary follows Samuel and Isaac, two South Sudanese teenagers who grew up in Israel as asylum seekers before being deported to Uganda in 2012. Living as refugees in a boarding school after surviving the civil war in South Sudan, they dream of sharing their exceptional musical ta...
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Yerusalem, The Incredible Story of Ethiopian Jewry
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This documentary film tells the story of the Ethiopian Jewish community, known throughout history by many names—derogatorily called “Falashas” in Ethiopia, “Black Jews” in the United States, and today “Ethiopian Jews” in Israel. But to themselves, they are Beta Israel, the House of Israel. Descen...
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The Pianist from Ramallah
This documentary film follows four years in the life of Muhammad “Misha” Alsheikh, a gifted teenage pianist from Ramallah, born to a Palestinian father and a Russian mother. Every piano lesson with his teacher Emma, a Jewish-Israeli who also immigrated from Russia and now lives in Jerusalem, requ...
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The Last Fighters
This film accompanies the six last surviving Warsaw Ghetto uprising fighters, all over 80 years old, between 2003-2006. Kazik Rotem, Masha Futermilch-Gleitman, Pnina Greenspan and Aharon Carmi live in Israel. Brunk Spigel lives in Canada . Marek Edelman decided to remain in Poland. Their memories...
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The Driving Spirit
Menora Hazani, the film's director, embarks on a revealing journey with her father Benny Katzover and his pioneering friends, the leaders of the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. Together they unfold the unique story of how a small number of resolved and determined young men decided and fi...
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Before My Feet Touch the Ground
Summer 2011: 25-year-old Daphni Leef moves into a tent in the center of Tel Aviv to protest the cost of housing. Within a few days she becomes a leader and a face for the largest protest movement in the history of Israel. The film depicts the challenges a person at the forefront of a struggle mus...
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Cafe Noah
In the 1950s Cafe Noah was one of the only places where Arabic music was performed. In the young state, this music was considered inferior - but there, some of the greatest musicians of the genre gathered to play together.
Year: 1996
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Director: Duki Dror
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MovieHolding it in
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This documentary film follows musician and songwriter Chen Rotem, who dreams of becoming a surrogate, and her husband Omer Yefman as they embark on a life-changing journey with their two young children. When they discover close friends are searching for a surrogate, their relationships and bounda...
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The Partisan with the Leica Camera
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A rare self-portrait of a couple—photographer Mundek Lukawiecki and his wife Hannah Bern—leads their 65-year-old son Simon to uncover a shocking family secret. In this documentary film, Simon learns that his parents were not only Holocaust survivors but also commanders of a Polish partisan assass...
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MovieThe Holy Closet
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This documentary film, adapted from a groundbreaking web series, explores the lives of LGBTQ individuals who have chosen to remain devoutly Jewish while building families and communities. What does the wedding of two religious Jewish men look like? How does a family with two mothers and four chil...
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MovieOut Loud
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This documentary film follows Omar, Muhammad, and Yazan—three 12-year-old boys from Lod, an Israeli-Arab city just minutes from Tel Aviv—as they face pivotal challenges in their final year of elementary school. Omar struggles with his father’s mental illness, Yazan with the consequences of his vi...
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My Herzl
In this intimate and surprising documentary, two brothers-in-law - one a filmmaker, the other a collector of Theodor Herzl's memorabilia - explore the legacy of Herzl's life and career.
Year: 2013
Languages: English & Hebrew, English subtitles
Director: Eli Tal-El
Producers: Tal-El Productions &... -
Lieber-Man
The meteoric rise of Avigdor Lieberman was the first sign of a new era in the state of Israel and with it, the fall of "the old elites," the right wing trend, and the emergence of "the second Israel" as the dominant political force. But Lieberman himself, who immigrated at the age of 20 without a...
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30 Kilometers Per Hour
A 29-year-old Israeli decides to fulfill a childhood dream to drive across Israel on an electric toy car. With the hope of understanding what he wants to do with his life, the young man goes on this journey to meet people who help him do just that.
Year: 2018
Languages: English & Hebrew, English... -
The Forgotten Ones
This documentary film sheds light, for the first time, on the little-known Holocaust of the Jews of former Yugoslavia, where 85% of the Jewish community was exterminated despite having faced little discrimination before the war. Through the eyes of Stella, an Israeli born in Yugoslavia, the film ...
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MovieThe Chaos Within
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This autobiographical documentary follows Yannai, whose mother—Holocaust survivor Faiga Ashlag—believed he was destined to be the Messiah and spread the secrets of Kabbalah. Instead, at 14, he fled to the streets of Tel Aviv, descending into heroin addiction. Filmed over more than a decade, the s...
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MovieIn Between
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This documentary film follows Dana and Amit, who met at 25, married, and had two children. But soon after their second child was born, Amit embraced an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle while Dana remained secular. Deeply in love yet divided by faith, they face the challenge of bridging their growing diff...
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MovieHotline
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This documentary film takes viewers inside the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, a small but determined Tel Aviv–based NGO working tirelessly to defend the rights of undocumented people. Mostly led by women, the activists provide legal aid, navigate government bureaucracy, and spearhead public c...
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MovieBronca
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This documentary follows journalist Shlomo Slutzky as he pursues justice for his cousin, Dr. Samuel Slutzky, murdered during Argentina’s 1970s dictatorship.
The prime suspect, Aníbal Gauto, accused of kidnapping, torture, murder, and the theft of babies, has been wanted by INTERPOL for 15 years.... -
MovieRemembering Marrakech
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This documentary film tells the story of the Jewish Mellah (quarter) in Marrakech—one of Morocco’s oldest. Through a collage of short documentaries created by students from Sapir College in Israel and MU6P University in Morocco, the film explores the Mellah’s rich past, its fragile present, and u...
