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Tattooed4Life A tattoo artist who survived the Nova Music Festival uses her needle to heal the open wounds of the October 7th massacre in Israel.
The Last Recordings A shocking documentary revealing the courageous and horrific experiences of Israeli youth trapped inside a shelter during the October 7th massacre.
Six Thirty (06:30) Capturing the immediate aftermath of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, 8 testimonies of survivors are interwoven with animations and simulations, vividly depicting the impact across eight critical locations.
Rashbi’s Secret (HaSod shel Rashbi) A poetic, intimate look at the women's section in the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Mount Meron. Around the Hebrew calendar, the personal stories of several women is woven into a cluster of authentic moments that take place in at the tomb.
Radio Propaganda (HaTizmoret) An Arabic radio station in Israel becomes a front for covert operations, using propaganda and coded messages to wage psychological warfare and challenge the Arab world's rulers
40 Steps An Orthodox school is divided in half for a new secular school. The two institutions must coexist in a shared playground, where their conflicting identities are put to the test.
DRAW FOR CHANGE! (Series) Six female cartoonists from Mexico to Syria defy censorship with powerful satire on social justice, facing threats and violence. Their stories of resilience, filmed by top female directors, showcase art’s role in activism and the unbreakable drive for truth.
A Symphony for a Common Man (Sinfonia de um homem comum) In 2002, Brazilian ambassador José Bustani, the first director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), tried to prevent Iraq’s destruction but was forced out by US pressure. Nearly twenty years later, Bustani and others look back.
We Iranian Women Through exclusive testimonies and clandestine videos, We Iranian Women gives voice to courageous women in Iran who risked their lives to share their stories. The film chronicles their ongoing battle against patriarchy, corruption, and rigid religious and ideological beliefs
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
A Deal with the Devil? An incredibly unlikely story of the most dramatic and controversial agreement of the 20th century: a deal made between the Nazis and Jewish leaders in Palestine to save German-Jewish lives.
Fouad Elkoury by Fouad Fouad Elkoury, a renowned Lebanese photographer since the 70s, captures Middle Eastern life amid war-torn Lebanon and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A new documentary offers an intimate look at his work, showcasing an emotional odyssey through exile, war, and resilience.
The Hostage Takers A film about the Islamic State members known as The Beatles who were the brutal prison guards of many western hostages including American war correspondent James Foley
Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution and Islam In the '60s, hippies ignited a sexual revolution. In 2020, Seyran Ateş, a Turkish-German feminist imam, faces fatwas and bullets for sparking a similar change in Islam. Her global journey fights extremism, fostering peace and love within the faith. Join her revolution!
Praying for Armageddon A political thriller that that goes inside the U.S. fundamentalist Evangelicals, revealing their power and influence on U.S. foreign policy, as they aim to fulfill the Armageddon prophecy and ultimately destroy our civilization
Closed Circuit Two men shoot at the frightened crowd in a Tel Aviv café. Shown through CCTV footage, the film tries to understand what really happened, and the trauma that followed.
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
A Common Goal The film follows three Muslim players of the Israeli National Football Team during the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying tournament.
Ghosts of Afghanistan The speed at which the Taliban have retaken Afghanistan has taken everyone by surprise. How could it happen? What went wrong with ‘the good war’? And what comes next? Graeme Smith returns to Afghanistan to see if there is hope for peace.
Tangled Roots A brief televised guide to the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A succinct, lucid summary and concise presentation of its basic concepts and decisive events, while laying them out on a timeline and a spatial map, related from a variety of viewpoints and positions
Golda The eventful story of Golda Meir's term as prime minister of Israel – from her surprising rise to power and iconic international stature as “queen of the Jewish people”, to her tragic and lonely demise
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
Slaves of the Sword: Yitzhak Rabin Rabin, the quintessential Israeli fighter, what drove him to turn diplomacy, to politics to the post of Prime Minister? Until Israeli militarism nurtured, among others, by Rabin, turned against him: he was assassinated by a Jewish fanatic
Slaves of the Sword: Moshe Dayan “Rocking the boat is his favorite tactic, to sway it sufficiently for the helmsman to lose his grip” Moshe Dayan an enigma- a warrior, a farmer, a man of the world? A non conformist who defied norms and conventions
The Age of the Generals: Begin I hope to be remembered as someone who prevented civil war- this is more important than having been the supreme commander of the underground movement, prime minister or the peace treaty with Egypt. Begin in his own words
Slaves of the Sword: Ariel Sharon Sharon incorporated reliance on naked, brutal power when dealing with the Palestinians. Deviant in his tactics, he has changed the map of Israel almost to the point of no return. Until he too became a victim of his own manipulations
The Inner Tour The Inner Tour is a sightseeing tour of the State of Israel of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. Tourists in their homeland. The windows of the bus serve as a two-way mirror at the Palestinian tourists, at Israeli society
Slaves of the Sword: Golda The ultimate Jewish Mother, Golda Meir, turned out to be the Israeli Iron Lady, neither more civilian nor more feminine in her decisions than her male counterparts. She continued the power politics of Israeli leaders and personified Israel’s unyielding stand
Rabin – Shivah in November Itzhak Rabin was assassinated in the middle of his groundbreaking peace initiative, by a political opponent. This is an authentic documentation of the immediate reactions of grief in Israel, before grasping that the course of history was forever changed
The First Sea A touching story from the midst of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Private Revolutions – Young, Female, Egyptian Courage, Will, and Sensibility
Dil Leyla At 26, Leyla is elected the youngest mayor in Turkey, in her hometown of Cizre, a Kurdish capital city near the Iraqi-Syrian border—a city she fled over 20 years ago, after her father was killed by the Turkish military
Beirut, La Vie en Rose We follow the lives of four members of the Lebanese Christian elite. In one of the world´s most politically unstable countries, they are the last representatives of a golden age they are reluctant to give up
Give Peace a chance: Political Route The path of political ideas, from Cairo to Jerusalem via Washington
Give Peace a chance: Writers speak An intellectual journey: Arab and Jewish authors discuss the utopian aspects of their work and present their views on how the situation in the Middle East could improve
War and Peace in Vesoul In the train on the way to the Festival in Vesoul, filmmakers Amos Gitai and Elia Suleiman talk about the subjects that preoccupy them: war and peace in the Middle East, their film projects, their cities, their private lives...
A House in Jerusalem Filmmaker Amos Gitai examines the new residents of a house he visited 18 years earlier
The Jewish Underground This political thriller tells the story of how the members of the largest terrorist organization of the Israeli Right Wing settlers have now become a dominant power within the current Israeli government
Latifa Latifa Ibn Ziaten is the story of a mother who becomes an activist
Peshmerga Bernard-Henri Lévy and a team of cameramen travelled the 1000 km of the frontline that separates Iraqi Kurdistan from Daesh's troupes
The Viewing Booth Would seeing how we see change the way we think?
Arna’s Children How the children of a Palestinian theater group got involved in the Intifada
Chasing Yehoshua Journalist Shay Fogelman of Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper has been circling the world and chasing every clue in his hunt for Yehoshua.
King Bibi The Life and Performances of Benjamin Netanyahu
Good Garbage The Hebron Hills garbage dump serves the Israeli settlements in the area and is a source of an eked-out livelihood for 200 Palestinian families.
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.
Isis, Tomorrow. The Lost Souls of Mosul Isis, Tomorrow traces the months of war through the voices of the children of militiamen trained to become suicide bombers, but also of their victims and those who fought them.
Yolki Palki Through the stories of Russian immigrants scattered across Israel and outside of it – the image of the last great wave of Russian immigration is unfolded in all its facets.
Human Flow When there is nowhere to go, nowhere is home. An epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei.
Hotline Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, a Tel Aviv based NGO, fights an uphill battle against the rising xenophobia and against the legislation which treats illegal border crossing as criminal offense.
Happy Purim Purim, the happiest Jewish holiday. The celebrations are intense and high energy and balanced by other more serious aspects of Purim - giving cash to those in need.
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
E-TEAM Going behind the lines to expose crimes against humanity with the E-Team - the most intrepid division of a respected, international human rights group.
National Bird National Bird follows the dramatic journey of three whistleblowers who are determined to break the silence around the secret U.S. drone war.
#chicagoGirl From her childhood bedroom in suburban Chicago, Ala’a, a 19-year-old American girl coordinates the revolution in Syria
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.
Promises The most widely used educational media tool teaching the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a beautiful and deeply moving portrait of seven children on both sides of the divide
War of Lies War of Lies is the story of an Iraqi refugee, whose information about portable weapons of mass destruction passed through the hands of the BND, MI6 and CIA.
Holy Fire The Old City of Jerusalem is in the heart of the Middle East conflict. Measuring just a single square kilometer, people from three of the world's great religions rub shoulders in four distinct quarters, against the backdrop of some of the holiest sites in the world.
The Judge Aharon Barak, controversial President of the Supreme Court of Israel and author of the Law syllabus staple, "The Judge in a Democracy", bares his soul on camera for the very first time.
The Women Pioneers The Women/Pioneers uncovers the passion, struggle and pain of the female pioneers who came to Palestine a hundred years ago with the dreams of creating a new world and a new woman
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”.
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.
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.
In Bed with the Arab Spring Women played key roles in the revolutions that swept the Middle East. In the aftermath of these political upheavals, they find themselves on the front line of the clash between traditionalism and secularism in modern Islam.
The Lab An investigative documentary revealing how the Israeli military occupation in Palestine has become a business rather than a burden.
Women of Hammas A rare insight into the inner workings of Hammas, from the perspective of some of the organisations most powerful female members.
Muezzin Following the recent phenomenon in Turkey in which muezzin's compete for the most powerful and beautiful call to prayer , this film investigates the phenomenon of individuality within Islamic culture.
Ford Transit Rajai, a Palestinian “service” taxi driver ferries his passengers between East Jerusalem and Ramallah. En route, he either gives you insight into the challenges faced by Palestinians under Israeli occupation or drives you crazy. Or both.
Art/Violence Inspired by characters from "Alice in Wonderland," "Waiting for Godot" and "Antigone," young Palestinian actresses deal with the military occupation and gender oppression, violence and grief, on stage and in life.
Luxuries A critical look at the Israeli control of the flow of goods into Gaza , revealing the absurdity and cruelty of a policy that attempts to distinguish between necessity and luxury.
Seeds of Summer Seven years after completing an IDF course for female combat soldiers, the director returns to the place where, for the first time, she fell in love with a woman – her commanding officer.
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.
No. 17 A search for the identity of an anonymous victim of a suicide bombing in 2002.
Wadi The first part of a trilogy about Wadi, a valley near Haifa where Jews and Arabs live in a state of fragile co-existence.
Jerusalem is Proud to Present Plans to hold the International World Pride celebration in Jerusalem in 2006 were disrupted by orthodox Jews, evangelical Christians, and conservative Muslims, united by their objection to LGBT events in the city they consider holy.
The Tale of Nicolai and the Law of Return With humor, irony and the unconventional fusion of different genre styles, the film tells the story of a Romanian worker who realizes his Jewish roots can change his life.

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