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Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta) With their parents' divorce, a family is divided between the two conflicting worlds: that of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and of the secular
Family Affair At 10 years old, Chico Colvard accidentally shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family.
Family Matters (Mishpuche) A single hetrosexual woman teams up with a gay couple to form an alternative family cell.
Look, Soon You Won’t See Anything As a young architect, Baruch designed buildings across Israel. Today, not being able to recall it, he still feels compelled to create.
The Three of Us A young Orthodox couple is fighting to integrate their autistic son into society. To fulfill that dream, they are willing to risk everything, questioning their relationship, faith, and place in the world.
The Sign for Love (Ekh Mesamnim Ahava) Elad was born deaf to a hearing family. After his mother’s tragic death and the breakdown of his family, he makes the most important decision of his life: to become a father.
The Holy Closet (Aron HaKodesh) 7 stories of LGBTQ people who chose to remain religious Jews and to build their lives, relationships, families, and everyday activities according to the Jewish religion.
Generation Growth Generation Growth tells the story of Green Bronx Machine and its founder, Stephen Ritz, as they grow high performing public schools, happy & healthy children, empowered teachers, and equitable, resilient communities across the nation.
Monogamia Is there a way to keep the spark in a long time monogamous relationship?
My Name Is Happy Kurdish singer Mutlu Kaya’s journey from Turkey’s Got Talent star to shooting survivor fighting for justice against femicide. The documentary highlights her resilience as she heals, finds strength in her family, and empowers women through music and activism.
In the Name of the Father (Be-Shem ha-Av) This documentary unveils the Breslov Hasidic community’s inner struggles in Yavniel, Israel, following a leader’s death and shocking revelations of criminal activity. Survivors share untold stories of resilience amid intense spiritual and social turmoil.
I Am Maris: Portrait of a Young Yogi Tormented by mental illness, a teenage girl seeks peace through painting, writing, therapy, and yoga.
CACHADA – The Opportunity A stunningly honest portrait of five incredible women who offer poignant and unthinkable memories in a documentary full of emotion and hope.
To See You Again (Volverte a ver) Against a backdrop of epidemic levels of disappearances and deaths in Mexico—an estimated 360,000 have died since 2006—a group of women put pressure on the government in this powerful portrait of female solidarity.
Flee (with Audio Description) Amin had an extraordinary child refugee journey from Afghanistan. He is facing a painful secret he kept hidden for 20 years, threatening to derail his life and his soon-to-be husband
Of Medicine and Miracles Time is of the essence.
Rafting to Bombay In Rafting to Bombay, Israeli director Erez Laufer intertwines his family's historical escape from the Nazis with their experience during Mumbai's 2008 terror attack, reflecting on the enduring refuge Mumbai provided Jewish refugees during World War II.
The Mind Game At just 15, Sajid Khan Nasiri fled Afghanistan alone. After a two-year dangerous and hard journey, minutely documented on his phone camera, he arrives in Belgium to seek asylum. There, a whole new struggle begins. Intimate sequel to the prize-winning Shadow Game.
Cry of the Owl: The Himba in Namibia Cry of the Owl captures the Himba of Namibia, showcasing their struggle against modern threats while clinging to age-old traditions through the lives of three generations of women, illustrating their cultural resilience and the stark contrasts with the modern world.
Marrying an Ice Cream Factory Ranni goes on a quest to understand his father, a stern man who rose from orphanhood to lead a major Israeli food conglomerate. Uncovering old film reels, he navigates the fractured landscapes of his parents' lives, seeking reconciliation and a deeper grasp of family loyalty
All That Remains To Be Seen How do you prepare a child for the abstract fact that his world is turning black? ALL THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN is the story of a blind mother's efforts to teach her son that he shall live a life without fear, even through he soon will be blind too
A Space In Time A candid, lyrical, intimate portrait of one family's struggle to transcend a fatal muscle wasting disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which in turn becomes an unlikely celebration of the disabled life, the life cut short by rare disease.
The Lost Key / La Llave Perdida The Lost Key, an award-winning film featured on Netflix, reveals lost teachings to turn a sexual relationship into a healthy, spiritual experience where two people become One.
Beyond Utopia A suspenseful look at the lengths people will go to gain freedom, BEYOND UTOPIA embeds with a courageous pastor as he works tirelessly to guide various individuals attempting to flee one of the most oppressive places on Earth: North Korea
Summer Nights How does the world look through a 6 years old child's eyes?
Week 23 How far can one go based purely on maternal instincts
Weed the People Discover the powerful anti-cancer properties of cannabis oil in 'Weed the People.' Follow desperate parents fighting for their children's survival.
I’m Doing My Job I’m Doing My Job follows 6 young, female South Asian & Black emergency medical physicians’ lives throughout the pandemic in NYC.
Born Free: Birth in America If birth and pregnancy are a lens on how society values its women, why has it become a fight that American women are losing?
The Partisan with the Leica Camera A frightened look of a woman, from a rare self-portrait of a couple, leads the director to a shocking family story.
The Artist’s Daughter A visit to her father's exhibition of self-portraits renews the filmmaker’s relationship with him but not the way she expected.
Herd Ten year old Naama deals with a big philosophical question regarding life and death. Working on her father's ranch, that raises cattle for slaughter, makes her question the meaning of life
Housewitz In HOUSEWITZ, daughter and filmmaker Oeke Hoogendijk tries to find out the reason behind her mother’s categorically refusal to leave her house.
Marry Me However The film explores the lives Orthodox-Jewish LGBT members who willingly choose to marry heterosexuals and raise a heteronormative family, obeying the rules of their societies while denying their own identities
Holy Holocaust An unusual friendship between a white Israeli woman and a black German, who for 22 years believed that they could rise above historical, political, and geographical obstacles, until it explodes right in their sarcastic faces.
To Cure Longing At the age of 30, the filmmaker travels to Russia, along with his father, to meet his grandmother - a journey that will change his life.
Holding it In The story of a family who become a surrogate family for a couple that has lost all hope of having children.
Anxious Nation Anxious Nation looks deeply into the crisis of anxiety and mental health in America, especially its crippling impact on kids and families
Bad Axe A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump's rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive
A House Made of Splinters In this poignant and deeply intimate documentary 3 kids temporarily removed from their parents find friendship and flickers of hope inside the worn walls of a remarkable orphanage in Eastern Ukraine, as a group of dedicated social-workers create moments of joy and respite
Chasing Childhood All work and no play is no way for kids to grow up.
Flee Amin had an extraordinary child refugee journey from Afghanistan. He is facing a painful secret he kept hidden for 20 years, threatening to derail his life and his soon-to-be husband
Against the Tides A woman’s ambition, to swim all seven of the world’s most harrowing sea channels in a single year, tests both her athletic limits and her personal relationships
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time The life and insights of author Kurt Vonnegut
How to Say Silence An old photograph launches a cross-generational journey, revealing how national values were enlisted in early-days Israel for the patriarchal control over women’s bodies and wombs. With her grandmothers’ painful stories, the director breaks the bond of silence.
Ma’abarot – The Israeli Transfer Camps The film “Ma’abarot” is the first documentary project unfolding the story of the transit camps in a thorough and comprehensive way, unraveling the many stories of the camp residents.
Clean Hands What happens when your wildest dreams come true? From living on a garbage dump, a philanthropist builds them a house and farm. Shot over the course of seven years, ‘Clean Hands’ is an award-winning account of family, extreme poverty and the hope and innocence of children.
The World Beyond Silence Filmed over a year in twelve different locations, this film profiles the year when everything changed. Stories of hope, despair, and a feeling that everyone has had to face: the sense of our own mortality. Twelve intimate portraits from twelve places in a fragile world.
On the Line Every year, over 100,000 Mexicans living in the USA are deported. Many have grown up in America. Some can’t even speak Spanish. In a matter of days they are torn away from their loved ones and escorted across the border. Unable to return home or appeal their deportation.
Shadow Game Every day teenagers who have fled their war-torn countries try to cross Europe’s borders in search of a better life. They travel through a shadow world of minefields, bears, fast-flowing rivers, smugglers and border guards, desperately trying to win 'the game’.
Allen v. Farrow A look behind the years of sensational headlines to reveal the private story of the accusation of sexual abuse against Woody Allen involving his 7-year-old daughter with Mia Farrow.
Wake Up Stories from the frontlines of suicide prevention
RUTH – Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words The improbable story of how Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who couldn’t get a job after graduating at the top of her law class, became a revered Justice of the Supreme Court and icon for gender equality and human rights
Oh La La Pauline! It starts out like a fairy tale: there's a queen, a king and their beautiful children, Pauline, Anaïs and Guillaume. But it's a bit more complicated, a little more funky than that
Reunited Having fled from Syria two doctors and their kids get separated
Journey to Utopia A Norwegian family preoccupied by the global climate crisis decides to be the change they want to see in the world and move to an eco village in Denmark.
Duma An inner perspective into the phenomena of sexual abuse in Palestinian society
Once Upon a Boy The film gives us a rare and intimate view of family life, while navigating the universal experiences of a family, which have a unique experience of raising a child with special needs
Covered Up A personal journey by Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and head covering, records the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice to their inner world for the first time
Under the Boardwalk: The MONOPOLY Story A classic board game that has been played by over a billion people in the last 85 years, MONOPOLY® is a worldwide cultural phenomenon. "Under the Boardwalk" captures fascinating stories about the game and those who play it
Voices from El Sayed El Sayed village has the highest percentage of deaf in the world. Deafness is accepted as one’s fate. Allowing modern medical technology of Cochlear Implant to change the destiny of 3 years’ old Muhammed challenges tradition in this conservative community
My Fathers, my Mother and Me Growing up in the infamous Freidrichshof commune, Paul-Julien Robert looks at what the nature of family is
Una Primavera A daughter follows her mother with a camera on a personal journey through domestic violence, leading them both between the contradictions of family.
Are You Sleeping, Brother Jakob? A film about both farewells and reunion
Midsummer in Newtown A show of strength. An act of courage.
Bedlam An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
Resilience A one-hour documentary that delves into the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent toxic stress
Most Likely to Succeed A Provocative Look at the Future of Education
Where We Belong Two separate worlds emerge from what once was considered a unity.
The World According to Sesame Street The World According To Sesame Street explores the drama, challenges, and rewarding outcome as dedicated Sesame producers and local producers bring to life the world’s most watched children’s television program in Bangladesh, Kosovo and South Africa.
Mamacita Mamacita is the story of a Mexican matriarch who blows her family history wide open in a surprising documentary by her grandson.
Foster Every Child Needs A Family
House Call – Vika We follow the medical team aiding Vika, a single mother with cancer, during her final days.
Oleg and the War Follow 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg, who learns to navigate his childhood through the war.
Congo in 4 Acts A quartet of powerful, hard-hitting short films that lay bare the disturbing reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Broken Places “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Wall Filmmaker Moran Ifergan, takes us on a year-long journey into the women's section of prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, as she remembers the religion she left in her late teens.
America to Me Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Steve James examines racial, economic and class issues in contemporary American education in the multipart unscripted documentary series. Witness it through their eyes.
That Which I Love Destroys Me This unique and powerful film follows two Special Operations soldiers as they struggle with PTSD and reintegrating back into society in an uncensored look at the current epidemic of PTSD and severe mental trauma that create tremendous challenges for returning service members
The Distant Barking of Dogs This Peabody award winning film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war.
Race to Nowhere Featuring the heartbreaking stories of students across the country who have been pushed to the brink by over-scheduling, over-testing and the relentless pressure to achieve, “Race to Nowhere” points to a silent epidemic in our schools.
Not Alone In a world that is so connected, why do we feel so alone? Jacqueline Monetta asks teens to share their struggles with mental illness and suicide.
Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta) With their parents' divorce, a family is divided between the two conflicting worlds: that of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and of the secular
Into the North A coming-of-age story of young Czech Jewish refugees who were saved by Danish farmers during the WWII.
Torn Can one be a Catholic priest and an Observant Jew at the same time? 12 years after he was ordained as a Polish Catholic priest, Romuald Waszkinel discovers that he was born to Jewish parents, and that his name was Jacob Weksler.
Café Nagler During the 1920s, Café Nagler was the hottest place in Berlin. Mor, the film's director embarks on a journey to find out what's left of her family's legendary café.
World Class Kids "An Arab, a Jew, a Chinese, and a Philippine walk to school ..." It sounds like the beginning of an old joke, but instead these are some of the second-grade pupils attending an elementary school in the heart of Tel Aviv.
A Brave Heart Following the inspiring journey of 26 year old, 58 pound Lizzie Velasquez from cyber-bullying victim to anti-bullying activist.
The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia How can dyslexia, a persistent problem with learning to read, be as great a gift as it is an obstacle?
Life, Animated A documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams based on a book by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Ron Suskind.
Thank You For Playing How can a video game address the universal complexity of grief? THANK YOU FOR PLAYING explores how the fusion of art and technology can document profound human experiences in the modern age.
I Am Kuba A coming-of-age film, following Kuba, a twelve-year-old boy from Poland who is left to take care of his little brother Mikołaj (8) after their parents are forced to leave them to work abroad.
Trapped With U.S. abortion clinics are fighting to survive, what remains of a woman's right to choose?
3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets 3½ MINUTES: TEN BULLETS dissects the aftermath of the murder of 17-year-old Jordan Davis and the trial of Michael Dunn who, in 2012, shot him repeatedly at a Florida gas station for playing his music too loudly.
Children of the State How did 500'000 Russian orphans became the victims of international political power games?
Family Affair At 10 years old, Chico Colvard accidentally shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family.
The Crash Reel The Mind Has Mountains. Kevin Pearce is an unforgettable athlete with a comeback story with a difference.
Budrus It takes a village to unite the most divided people on earth. Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat.
A Place At The Table One nation. Underfed. Examining the issue of hunger in America through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity.
American Promise Success is our only option. Spanning 12 years in the lives of two middle class black families sending their sons to a prestigious Manhattan private school.
Connected An Autoblogography about Love, Death, and Technology. This is an exhilarating rollercoaster ride to discover what it means to be connected in the 21st century.
Like the Others "Like the Others" explores the delicate interplay of care and crisis at a Vienna child psychiatry center, revealing the struggle of patients striving to integrate into society amid mental health challenges.
The Look of Silence In this highly-anticipated companion to The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer offers another haunting look at the Indonesian genocide, this time from the perspective of the victims.
Karla’s Arrival Teenager Sujeylin Aguilar raises her newborn daughter Karla on the same streets she has been calling home for the past eight years. Mother and baby struggle to reach the little one’s first birthday.
Life Sentences An Arab man marries a Jewish woman and they live in quiet harmony within the Arab-Jewish community with their son and daughter. The family unit is broken when they discover that their Arab father is behind dozens of terror attacks.
Israel LTD “The Israel Experience" is one of the largest Zionist outreach projects in recent years, with the aim to create new allies for the government of Israel. To this end, it takes young Jews on guided tours of the “Holy Land”.
My Barefoot Friend Shallim is a rickshaw puller, an ordinary man with an old and tired rickshaw. He runs endless miles with it each day to allow him to support his family.
Poisoned A character driven film, following four Israeli boys from their high school graduation and deep into the army service. At the age of 18 they will all become the property of the national army.
Fortunate Son Over a decade ago, the filmmaker fell into a deep hole of drug use and nearly destroyed himself. Emerging clean but fragile, he remained isolated from his family for years. Recently he discovered how this shattered his parents' lives.
The Al-Mahdi Scouts The Al-Mahdi scouts are Shiite Muslims. An Islamic community, originally from southern Lebanon, who follows the prophet Mohamed and his descendants and whose lives are affected by the Israeli-Arab conflict.
Open Heart Eight Rwandan children leave their families behind to embark on a life or death journey seeking high-risk but potentially life-saving heart surgery in Sudan.
The Vanishing Spring Light Documenting the parallel decline of the ageing matriarch Grandma Jiang and the old neighborhood where she grew up – set to disappear under the inexorable forward march of gentrification.
Where is my Son? 'Hyo' is a Korean word meaning filial duty. It is a term rarely used these days, as traditional family values are rapidly changing.
My Thai Bride A personal and touching insight into the phenomenon of older western men marrying young Thai women.
State of Play Top video game players in South Korea can earn hundreds of thousands. But what happens to these young men's lives when play becomes work?
Char… the No Man’s Island Rubel is a fourteen year old boy smuggling rice from India to Bangladesh, crossing the river Ganga which acts as an international border between the two countries.
Blush of Fruit Tong Phuoc Phuc, has been praised as an anti-abortionist and a saviour to ‘fallen’ Vietnamese women and their unwanted children. With rumours of child abuse and profiteering, does this home offer the safe-haven which these women expect?
The Good Son The unbelievable story of 22 year old Or, who secretly finances his sex change operation in Thailand and then returns home as a woman to face her new life, her family and the cost of living her dream.
Lone Twin At the age of 20, director Anna Van der Wee lost her twin brother. By investigating the bond between twins, she hopes to understand what it means to be a twin, and what one looses when one of them dies.
Gypsy Davy When a blond Californian with Alabama roots becomes a Flamenco guitarist in Andalucian boots, fathering five children to five different women, what happens along the way and behind the scenes?
9 Years Later A mother who converted from Islam to Judaism returns to Morocco from her new home in Israel to re-connect with her son who she hasn't seen for 9 years.
A Hebrew Lesson A group of immigrants from all over the world come together in their Hebrew lessons, as they learn how to negotiate a new language, culture, and way of life.
Maori Boy Genius Two cultures collide in the life of Ngaa, a young Maori boy who displays a prodigious talent for politics and the aptitude to become a leader of tomorrow.
Teacher Irena Facing her own struggles as a widow in a new country, Irena turns her energies to address the struggles of others: her 26 third grade students growing up in one of the toughest neighbourhoods in Jerusalem.
Family Matters (Mishpuche) A single hetrosexual woman teams up with a gay couple to form an alternative family cell.
The Cemetery Club For over two decades, a group of women and men have been meeting weekly at Israel’s National Cemetery to debate philosophy, read poetry, eat lunch and determine the fate of the Jewish nation.

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