Wolbrom: My Father’s Hometown in Poland The director’s account of her discovery of the hometown in Poland her father fled to escape Nazi persecution and annexation during the Holocaust. In 2005, the director and her husband took an emotionally wrenching journey back to her father’s hometown of Wolbrom to capture eyewitness accounts of the removal and extermination of the town’s Jewish...
8000 Paperclips When Raffael Lomas, Israeli artist and TED Fellow, travels to Uganda to make art with South Sudanese children raised in Israel and deported back to Africa, he forges unexpected connections and wrestles with the question – what is the real value of art? In a complex and layered story, 8000 Paper Clips explores the value...
The Barn The Barn reveals one man’s story of survival in the face of unspeakable evil, one family’s unflinching bond in their quest for the truth, and one generation’s determination to preserve the legacies of the last survivors. Somewhere in a remote town in Ukraine lies a secret hidden beneath the ground, buried under a barn, where...
Big Sonia For years, Sonia Warshawski (92) has been an inspirational public speaker at schools and prisons, where her stories of surviving the Holocaust as a teenager have inspired countless people who once felt their own traumas would leave them broken forever. But when Sonia is served an eviction notice for her iconic tailor shop (in a...
Sahara Zahara Abu Jamal, 19, lives in the territories, She is engaged in a match for old man from Israel. Zahara decides to try and torpedo the engagement meeting. During the search of the security check in the darkest and most gray place, She reveals her sexuality whit Shani the checkpoint commander.
CHICHINETTE: THE ACCIDENTAL SPY The untold story of Marthe Cohn, a feisty young woman who joined the French resistance during WWII. Using the German language skills she attained during her upbringing in Alsace on the French/German border, Marthe – code name Chichinette (Little Sparrow) – crossed back and forth across the border bringing back invaluable intelligence. After keeping silent...
Remembering: The Maurits Kiek Story “Herinneren: Het verhaal van Maurits Kiek…Remembering: The Maurits Kiek Story” presents a young Jewish man’s courage to return to Nazi-occupied Europe where a reward for his capture “dead or alive” had already been posted. He served as a covert MI-9 agent and engaged in saving the lives of allied airmen and others regardless of race,...
unkept secrets What happens to a mother of eight, Jewish Orthodox woman, leading a quiet life, when she finds out one day, the admired rabbi, teacher of her sons, has been sexually abusing them since their Bar-Mitzva? Ornit, a 42 year-old ultra-Orthodox woman, had to face this question and against her will, became a hero overnight. She...