UnReined TThis documentary is the story of an Israeli equestrian champion from San Diego, who crossed taboo boundaries between Jews, Christians and Muslims, to build the first Palestinian Equestrian Team. Her story rides parallel with the growth of the State of Israel, its wars, its rapid economic growth, changing borders and external and internal conflicts. On...
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...
Elder Voices: Stories for These Times n a retirement community in New Jersey, Academy Award-winning filmmaker David Goodman recorded a series of interviews with the residents — Japanese Americans, European Jews, soldiers and peace activists who survived The Great Depression and World War II. They candidly discussed the values and principles of tolerance and mutual respect that were forged in their...
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...
In Your Eyes The film follows the less-known aspects of the lives of four “web stars” – Israeli YouTubers: Moti Taka, one of the busiest singers in Israel today, who visits Ethiopia for the first time with his mother Dalia. Suzi Boum, aka Lior Israelov, a successful, well-known drag queen, who was born and raised in a religious...
Comrade Dov Goddamned communist. Internal enemy. Privileged Tel Aviv Ashkenazi. It seems Dov Khenin has been called almost everything during his 13-year tenure as Member of Knesset for the Jewish-Arab party ‘Hadash’. For years, director Barak Heymann has been following this leading legislator, creating a film that examines the open wounds of contemporary Israeli society: from the...
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...