An Orthodox teacher and wigmaker embark on a journey to fulfill their dreams of making movies within their closed society. Like other Orthodox women who have made films for female audiences, they feel a need to express themselves despite rabbinical censorship.

Year: 2011
Language: Hebrew, Englis...

A vast and perplexing labyrinth lies right in the heart of Tel Aviv, at the Central Bus Station. Living in and around it are thousands of refugees, children of migrant workers with no identity of their own and impoverished Israeli families who feel like strangers in their homes. A gritty and mesm...

This is the fascinating story of Polish citizens who learn, often after living a lifetime as Christians in a Communist nation, that they are indeed of Jewish origin. Trapped between the familiar Polish world and an alien Jewish world, these “new Jews” often find themselves adrift in a country whe...

Since the first excavations began in the mid-19th Century, archaeologists have come to Silwan, a picturesque Palestinian village outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. There, they hunt for the legendary biblical city of King David. But in the last two decades, this obsession with antiqui...

Lior is a 20-year-old soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. One night, while she is the attending officer, Lior is forced to choose whether to remain loyal to the system, or surrender to her desires.

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Over the course of a year, a group of women in their 70s and 80s confront the intense demands of the art of dance and refuse to conform to any stereotypes about aging. They open up about their lives, rivalries and sexuality, and share an unquenchable thirst for life, art, and self-expression.

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A young woman who has been training to become a suicide bomber must choose between love for her son and her obligation to carry out an attack.

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Year: 2019
Language: Arabic, English subtitles
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Every week, 10 elderly gay men gather in a room lighten by neon lights in the LGBT Center of Tel Aviv. Being part of a community that sanctifies youth, this intimate space is these old gays' last and only shelter, where they can age and deal with aging openly. Instead of the typical sociological ...

Israel is a country of extreme diversity. When people here fall in love, the mix can be both explosive and beautiful. Lure’s “Love In” is a series in that looks at the unique ways couples around the globe express their love for one another. In the episode “Love In Israel,” the director explores s...

Ofira, a recently retired teacher, refuses to become a victim of routine life and decides to revive an old dream - becoming a painter. With no support from her family, Ofira faces the white canvas, when in fact she is facing herself, to paint the rest of her life.

Year: 2019
Language: Hebrew, En...

Four Israeli startup teams sacrifice their families, their friends, and their bank accounts to pursue their startup dreams. Throughout their journey, catch an intimate and exciting glance into how "Startup Nation" really works.

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They used to call him the Israeli "Rambo". But these days, not many would recognize that Marc Provisor has spent the past quarter-century working as one of Israel’s leading experts in combating terror.

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This is the modern-day Shakespearean tale about a legendary Tajik-Israeli musical family controlled by the charismatic patriarch, Papa Alaev. Only his equally strong-willed daughter Ada dares to resist his will. As Papa nears 80 and generations clash over new musical directions, the family show m...

Gabriela is thrilled when she finds a baby alien in the forest and calls her Revital. As Revital grows and develops into a little alien girl she finds it harder and harder to exist in a world so different from her. Gabriela does everything she can to put her daughter at ease and make her happy. B...

Adi Khavous, an artist who lives a vagabond lifestyle, left home in Israel and now lives in Canada as a solitary immigrant, pursuing his dream to break through as a rock-n-roll singer.

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Year: 2017
Language: H...

Hidden behind heavy metal doors of an old Jerusalem bomb shelter, lies a tiny animation studio. Every week, several children of Russian immigrants meet to create a colorful carnival of monsters and earthquakes. "Wild Kids" illuminates the subversive world of two talented teenage artists, Zalman a...

This is the story of Israel's toughest neighborhood through one night with a local cop. The neighborhood is home to the largest community of Ethiopian immigrants in the country and Rafi Mells is the only cop in charge of it. Unlike most cops, whose task is to maintain law and order, Rafi's work r...

Can you be a Catholic priest and an Observant Jew at the same time? Twelve years after he was ordained as a Polish Catholic priest comes the discovery that he was born to Jewish parents. The film follows his amazing journey: from conducting mass in a church in Poland, to life as an observant Jew ...

The Hebron garbage dump serves the Israeli settlements in the area and is a source of livelihood for 200 Palestinian families nearby. The violent daily struggle for scraps of metal in the dump distracts from other everyday pains, as they keep dreaming about success and education that would extric...

Israeli musician Felix Mizrahi takes us to his native Cairo in search of recordings by his brother, Faraq Ibrahim, a famous violinist who died tragically when Felix was a boy. During Felix's childhood, there were 200,000 Jews in Cairo; today the remaining families are counted on the fingers of on...

Rachel, an ultra-orthodox young woman, entered an arranged marriage ready to be a kosher woman doing the will of her husband. After her marriage fails and she gets divorced, she asks permission to remove her wig — an unusual move in the ultra-orthodox society. Facing the opposition from her paren...

A young woman, Zohara, has escaped the religious world of her family to live a secluded life in the desert. As she returns to see her family to participate in her sister's wedding, she encounters a young Bedouin Woman who is fleeing from an arranged marriage with her cousin. The two young women's...

Haim Hatuel started piercing his kids at the age of 5. Today, they are Israeli fencing champions. It all started a day after his release from the army, when he saw an ad that changed his life. He was accepted into a fencing academy, a social sport initiative aimed at turning street kids into law-...

Criminologist Dr. Dan Philipp has devoted his career to treating sexual offenders, yet this intense encounter with evil has not shaken his belief in the basic humanity of even the worst criminals. At 87, Dan travels to his hometown of Aachen, Germany, to attend a memorial ceremony for Gisela, his...