Shamir, His Way The film reveals for the first time the extraordinary life of Yitzhak Shamir, a ground-breaking leader who has impacted the entire Middle East region for decades. 1991 – a pivotal year that started with Iraqi missiles launched on Israel and has ended with the consequential Madrid Peace Conference. It was also the last year Yitzhak...
Shtetlers Shtetlers tells the secret story of small Jewish towns in the former Soviet Union. These towns, or shtetls as they were called, were once home to the largest Jewish population in the world. Only a few survived the Holocaust, and those that did were all located in the territory of the modern Ukraine and Moldova....
A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL: Three Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL is an eye-opening portrait of three Bulgarian Jews – Chaim Zemach, a cellist; Robert Bakish, an engineer; and Misha Avramoff, a social worker on the Lower East side of Manhattan in New York – as they struggle to place their unusual experiences during World War II into the more common narrative...
Commandment 613 Rabbi Kevin Hale joyfully practices the sacred craft of a Torah scribe, bringing new life to scrolls saved during the Shoah. As his work takes him to communities now entrusted with the scrolls, he reflects on his own path to faith and practice.
Code Name: Ayalon The never before told David vs Goliath tale about how a small group of Jewish teens took on millions of foes arrayed against them and won! We hear in their own words the unbelievable story behind Israel’s miraculous victory during the War of Independence and meet its young unsung heroes.
Remembering: The Maurits Kiek Story (46 min) “Herinneren: Het verhaal van Maurits Kiek…Remembering: The Maurits Kiek Story” presents one man’s courage to return to Nazi-occupied Europe and serve as a covert MI-9 agent. His unwavering determination to stand up, in the face of overwhelming odds, and fight the perpetrators of evil was acknowledged in Den Haag, The Hague, in 2015. He is...
Violin The world of the film forms around a unique musical instrument and its incredible journey, that involved witnessing all the horrors of the war. It opens in a violin shop, where at the beginning of the 20 century an instrument was created as a present for a Jewish boy. It ends many years later by...
Witnesses The film tells about the history of the Holocaust through the stories of its unwitting witnesses… Through the history of a pair of women’s shoes, which begins in the shop’s show-window and ends in the show-window of Auschwitz.Through the history of the German Shepherd puppy, which turns into a killer. Through the history of the...
Shoes The film unfolds during 30-40-s of last century and follows a story of a pair of women’s shoes – from a store’s window to the common grave at the Auschwitz concentration camp. There are no dialogues in the film and no faces are shown.