THROUGH THE DARKNESS THROUGH THE DARKNESS illuminates the relationship between two Jewish Austrian artistic geniuses: a story that would change their lives and modern culture forever. In 1907, the aspiring composer Arnold Schoenberg made friends with the brilliant and unknown painter Richard Gerstl. Gerstl and Schoenberg not only shared a passion for art, but also a love for...
The United States of Fashion Designer Elie Tahari Fashion Designer and Mogul Elie Tahari, has been living the American Dream for more than 50 years. He came to New York, from Israel, in 1971 with less than $100 in his pocket, slept on benches in Central Park, and went on to build a billion-dollar fashion empire. “The United States of Elie Tahari” is...
High Score After a young man is fired from his job as a result of his casually offensive behavior, he finds the perfect people to blame: minorities. Newly inspired by the white supremacist ideology of the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, we watch as he sinks into the darkest pits of the internet and takes the ideas he...
High Score After a young man is fired from his job as a result of his casually offensive behavior, he finds the perfect people to blame: minorities. Newly inspired by the white supremacist ideology of the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, we watch as he sinks into the darkest pits of the internet and takes the ideas he...
We Made Matzah Balls for the Revolution This is the story of a group of idealistic young people who in 1975 create a kosher restaurant based on values from: the “revolution” and the counter-culture of the 60s and 70s; the concept of justice in Jewish tradition; the Israeli kibbutz; the Eastern European shtetl; and a yearning for community. This restaurant, the Kosher...
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...
And the alley she whitewashed in light blue At a time of existential threat to the physical and human environment we live in, Architect/Director Nili Portugali takes us into a deeply intimate journey in the Kabbala holy city of Tsefat. A journey that unfolds gradually from her present holistic/Buddhist/scientific Point of View to a discovery of profound universal insights of: What is their...