Human Interest & Social Issues
Robin is pregnant, but does not wish to become a mother. Katerina is not able to have a child, even though she wants ...
Stray Bodies
Director:
Elina Psykou
109 min.
As a bleeding tension arises between Palestinians and Israel and while preparations begin for the first-ever Israeli ...
Drawing Territories
Director:
Tuvi Arbel
51 min.
I Shall Not Hate follows the uncharted path of Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, The first Palestinian doctor who worked in an ...
I Shall Not Hate
Director:
Tal Barda
92 min.
Sapir Berman is part of the global revolution that is taking place today in professional sports all over the world in...
Sapir
Director:
Liran Atzmor
70 min.
The Afro-American Michelle fights tirelessly to prove the innocence of her imprisoned husband in order to share a hap...
For The Time Being
Director:
Nele Dehnenkamp
90 min.
HOME SWEET HOME is a film about the invisibility of domestic violence.
Director Annika searches for clues & int...
Home Sweet Home
Director:
Annika Mayer
68 min.
The documentary provides a unique glimpse into the struggle for democracy in Belarus and the lives of three women aft...
Who, If Not Us? – The Fight For Democracy In Belarus
Director:
Juliane Tutein
77 min.
Quietly and discreetly, the French director Sarah Mallégol follows a group of thirty-something protagonists who survi...
Kumva – Which Comes From Silence
Director:
Sarah Mallégol
108 min.
Yael Lavie & Gonen Ben Itzhak's film " Whatever Happened to George Halil " begins
one day in 1988, when Geo...
What Ever Happened To George Halil?
Director:
Yael Lavie
65 min.
Four women who served in the IDF, are now contending with PTSD as a result of their service. Their efforts to lead a ...
Women In Battle
Director:
Lee Nechushtan
70 min.
The film’s author is against the military aggression launched by his country. He leaves Russia and travels to Germany...
When We Return
Director:
Vladimir Nepevny
82 min.
A hip-hop documentary about Samuel and Isaac, South Sudanese teenagers, who grew up in Israel as asylum seekers and g...
Homeboys
Director:
Tamar Goren
59 min.
Souad Zaki was a famous Jewish Arabic singer in 1940s Egypt, starred in films alongside Umm Kulthum and became famous...
Egypt, A Love Song
Director:
Iris Zaki
74 min.
Unveiling a previously untold narrative, our film uncovers the captivating story behind "The Voice of Israel in Arabi...
Radio Propaganda
Director:
Ofer Pinchasov
82 min.
In a society governed by tradition, a young Orthodox couple defies norms to integrate their autistic son. As they ris...
The Three Of Us
Director:
Henya Brodbeker
80 min.
22 years after they established the women's organization Machsom Watch, its founders reveal what really happened at t...
The Checkpoint Women: Memories
Director:
Eliezer Yaari
59 min.
Arthur J. Finkelstein, the Jewish American political consultant, is a figure shrouded in controversy. Finkelstein is ...
The Consultant
Director:
Eado Zuckerman
72 min.
Kochava Levi, a 31-year-old housewife of Yemeni descent, was taken hostage during an attack on the Savoy hotel in Tel...
Savoy
Director:
Zohar Wagner
78 min.
Anibal Gauto, a suspect of crimes against humanity, such as kidnapping, torture, murder, and theft of babies, during ...
Bronca
Director:
Shlomo Slutzky, Tomer Slutzky
70 min.
In September 2016, four Palestinian children from the Aida refugee camp, on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the West Ba...
Two Kids A Day
Director:
David Wachsmann
55 min.
What is it like to suddenly become trapped inside your own body? To hear your loved one's parting from you as if you ...
44 Hours
Director:
Rotem Gross
83 min.
A touching and humorous film about loss, life chances, love, family, illness, the end and the beginning. It is also a...
I Am Not
Director:
Tomer Heymann
96 min.
The tape-recorded words “erase it” take on new weight in the context of history and war. When the state of Israel was...
Tantura
Director:
Alon Schwarz
94 min.
Documentary about Azmi, 56, who was addicted to drugs, ran a prison sentence for drug trafficking, and came out with ...
Gangster Chocolate
Director:
Anan Barakat
60 min.
After becoming the sole heir of a 700-year-old dynasty of Christian tattoo artists from the Old City of Jerusalem, wh...
Razzouk Tattoo
Director:
Orit Ofir Ronell
68 min.
For 12 years, Livi, a photography student, documents her four closest friends - young artists in downtown Haifa, far ...
The Other City
Director:
Livi Kessel
72 min.
In the past 30 years, Yossef Khourie has worked in the chaotic watchmaker’s shop he inherited from his father. Yosef ...
Lost Angeles – Documentary Musical
Director:
Sharon Yaish, Golan Rise
76 min.
Diana, Linoy, Rona, Shelly, Rocha and Liat openly speak about their life in prostitution: from the initial lure, thro...
The Prostitution Monologues
Director:
Tamar Yarom
65 min.
A powerful, intimate story about an aging grandmother, filmed by her 13 year old grandson who documented her last pha...
Savta
Director:
Hanan Yehiely
51 min.
An eccentric pilot in the British Armed Forces and his young wife flee a devastated post-WWII Europe and arrive in Ei...
The Camera Of Doctor Morris
Director:
Itamar Alcalay, Meital Zvieli
74 min.
In Neot-Semadar, a unique alternative community in a remote desert area of Israel, every couple of years all the memb...
Moving On
Director:
Maya Mcmanus-Ronen
72 min.
Anyone who has ever been taught about the Holocaust has learned that six million Jews were killed under Nazi rule. In...
The Round Number
Director:
David Fisher
60 min.
When Raffael Lomas, Israeli artist and TED Fellow, travels to Uganda to make art with South Sudanese children raised ...
8000 Paperclips
Director:
Nitsan Tal
60 min.
The film first reveals the struggle to close the strip clubs in Tel Aviv, from the point of view of the strippers and...
The Last Lapdance
Director:
Isri Halpern
80 min.
Suleiman El-Abid was sentenced to 27 years in jail for the rape and murder of Hanit Kikos, based on his confession al...
The Reason Why
Director:
Julie Shles
94 min.
Composed entirely of videos uploaded to social media in 2020, VIRAL tells the story of a new generation, coming of ag...
Viral
Director:
Udi Nir, Sagi Bornstein
87 min.
“State of emergency” is seven years in making independent documentary, made under the strict eye of the “IDF Home-lan...
State Of Emergency
Director:
Idan Glikzelig
68 min.
“What if women ruled the world?” Yael Bartana stages the question in her performative ‘Two Minutes to Midnight’, wher...
Two Minutes To Midnight
Director:
Yael Bartana
47 min.
After being severely injured in the Second Lebanon War that left him unable to move and speak, Jonathan Levin didn’t ...
A Reason To Live
Director:
Arik Alon
55 min.
Four years in the life of Muhammad "Misha" Alsheikh, a talented teenage pianist from Ramallah, who is the son of a Pa...
The Pianist From Ramallah
Director:
Avida Livny
60 min.
The unknown story about rescuing thousands of Jewish refugees in Albania in WWII. Annie Altaratz goes with her daught...
The Albanian Code
Director:
Yael Katzir
55 min.
Asaf, a chief content editor in the television industry, paralyzed on his left side, embarks on a journey to accept h...
Perfect
Director:
Yaniv Segalovich
90 min.
The Muranow neighborhood in Warsaw was a flourishing and important Jewish center. During World War II the neighborhoo...
Muranow
Director:
Chen Shelach
70 min.
Three Italian Israeli brothers set off on a journey through Tuscany,
in search of a cave where they hid as chil...
Shalom Italia
Director:
Tamar Tal-Anati
70 min.
The hero of this story is not a famous man. He has won no awards and you probably have never heard his name. Yet, Yos...
Bitter Honey
Director:
Udi Kalinsky, Revital Oren
55 min.
“The Red Scarf” is the story of a film director in communist Soviet Union, author of many documentaries that became p...
The Red Scarf
Director:
Peter Mostovoy
54 min.
Cleo fulfilled his dream: to leave the big city with his wife and fifteen children, to establish a family commune on ...
Leaving Paradise
Director:
Ofer Freiman
90 min.
Esther, Emmanuel and Michal were born in Israel to migrant parents from Nigeria. In a moment of despair, they were to...
Ertz Ir / Scattegories
Director:
Yakie Ayalon
55 min.
26 women who directed feature films in Israel are sharing their own personal experience of sitting in the Director’s ...
In The Director’s Chair Sits A Woman
Director:
Smadar Zamir
59 min.
“The Little Things” tells the story of a unique bond between Michal, a documentary director from Tel Aviv and Yudal’...
The Little Things
Director:
Michal Aronzon
70 min.
This sociological journey back in time began over twenty years ago when several families were evicted from their home...
The Three Yossi
Director:
Yael Kipper, Ronen Zaretzky
85 min.
A random trance party in a living room is fairly common when it comes to young people. But what happens when the youn...
And I Was There
Director:
Eran Paz
65 min.
Osher, Michelle, and Eitan were taken out of their homes as children and transferred to foster families. Their biolog...
A Waste Of Space
Director:
Noam Demsky, Ido Bahat
59 min.
“The Prophet and The Space Aliens” follows Rael, who after an alleged encounter with extraterrestrials – that appoint...
The Prophet And The Space Aliens
Director:
Yoav Shamir
86 min.
Israel is a war-ridden country that has claimed tens of thousands of victims. Over the years the public has leaned on...
Four Mothers
Director:
Rephael Levin, Dana Keidar Levin
70 min.
The film tells the stories of LGBT men and women who, for religious reasons, decided to marry against their own sexua...
Marry Me However
Director:
Mordechai Vardi
63 min.
At the age of 80, Captain Meirson embarks on his last sail at open seas on his hand-made boat.
Surrounded by th...
Coda For A Captain
Director:
Keren Alexander
60 min.
Three decades after she arrived in Israel from the city of Derbent in the Caucasus, Sarah debates whether she should ...
No Hard Feelings
Director:
Arthur Abramov
70 min.
“I was sixteen years old when my older sister Rachel moved to Kibbutz Neot Smadar. Many rumors spread about this secl...
Absolute Happiness
Director:
Aviv Or-Meshulam
60 min.
Ornit and Genendi are two brave Jewish orthodox women who refuse to participate in the cover-up of pedophilia in thei...
Unkept Secrets
Director:
Dalit Kimor
58 min.
Much has been written and filmed about the border crossings between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the injusti...
Crossings
Director:
Itzik Lerner
88 min.
When fans of the football club of Beitar Jerusalem make their way to Teddy Stadium, they hardly ever notice Nadia as ...
Underground Ballet
Director:
Lina Chaplin
53 min.
Sarah has been refused a divorce for two years, Noa has been waiting for three years, and Oshrat for nine years. T...
Divorce Denied
Director:
David Ofek, Mia Webb
59 min.
The remarkable and controversial story of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rise to power, reflected throug...
King Bibi – The Life And Performances Of Benjamin Netanyahu
Director:
Dan Shadur
87 min.
Yehoshua Elizur is a settler who lives in the West Bank. Accused of killing a Palestinian, he failed to show up on th...
Chasing Yehoshua
Director:
Shay Fogelman
90 min.
A personal, intimate film, telling the story of a nuclear family that decides to become a surrogate family and help a...
Holding It In
Director:
Chen Rotem, Omer Yefman
60 min.
In the autumn of 2015, Israeli director Ronit Kertsner sees a YouTube-video that goes viral: Hans Breuer, Austria’s l...
Refugee Lullaby
Director:
Ronit Kertsner
72 min.
Ultra-Orthodox women are forbidden to run for Israeli parliament. One woman is determined to change this historic ban...
Women Of Valor
Director:
Anna Somershaf
77 min.
The Dead Sea - the lowest place on earth and one of the wonders of the world - is dying. Three historic enemies join ...
Dead Sea Guardians
Director:
Ido Glass, Yoav Kleinman
90 min.
Omar, Muhammad and Yazan are three 12-year-olds from Lod. The boys are in their last year of elementary school, begin...
Out Loud
Director:
Tamara Mamon
58 min.
Without adequate medical resources in the Palestinian territories, patients requiring advanced treatments in Israel a...
Border Of Pain
Director:
Ruth Walk
50 min.
The story of A.B. Yehoshua, the greatest Israeli writer living today – who is dealing with a serious illness, widowho...
The Last Chapter Of A.b. Yehoshua
Director:
Yair Qedar
57 min.
“I learned something about my writing since my son, Uri, was killed – there’s one way we’re able to comprehend the sl...
Grossman
Director:
Adi Arbel
54 min.
On December 15, 2010, a prisoner was found dead in his cell at one of Israel's maximum security prisons. The Prisoner...
Prisoner X
Director:
Hilla Medalia
100 min.
The story of Dani- a Parkinson's patient who discovering research that can help millions of patients around the world...
My Disease Our Revolution
Director:
Nisan Katz
52 min.
Arabs and Jews have lived in ongoing conflict for over a century. A group of dreamers decided to challenge everything...
Children Of Peace
Director:
Maayan Schwartz
55 min.
For 20 years, Jonathan, the filmmaker grew up in Jerusalem and in an Ashram in India, which he had to keep secret. In...
The Ashram Children: I Am No Body, I Have No Body
Director:
Jonathan Ofek
67 min.
Rabbi Meir Kahane began his career in the USA, where he founded the Jewish Defense League. As the league's violent ac...
The Prophet
Director:
Ilan Rubin Fields
68 min.
Itamar Rose, a satirical-activist creator and a failed YouTuber, sets out to uncover the secret of how a video goes v...
100 Million Views
Director:
Itamar Rose
58 min.
Goddamned communist. Internal enemy. Privileged Tel Aviv Ashkenazi.
It seems Dov Khenin has been called almost ...
Comrade Dov
Director:
Barak Heymann, Uri Levi
75 min.
The village of Beit Jann in the mountains of the Galilee holds the highest record of high school graduates in Israel,...
One Hundred Percent
Director:
Yael Kipper, Ronen Zaretsky
70 min.
Fadhumo and Helen are two refugees seeking sanctuary, one in Tel Aviv and one in Berlin, each coping with discriminat...
An Ordinary Life
Director:
Gili Danon , Efrat Shalom Danon
55 min.
Johnny believes in the future of Africa. He lives in Israel, but dreams of returning with modern fish farming techniq...
A Fish Tale
Director:
Emmanuelle Mayer
52 min.
Rajae Sanduka struggles with the daily hardships of a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem during the Holy month of the ...
The Ramadan Cannon Of Jerusalem
Director:
Nimrod Shanit, Atta Awisat
45 min.
21 days of detention and interrogation of a Bedouin woman accused of murdering her own son.
The body of a two-...
21 Days Inside
Director:
Zohar Wagner
65 min.
“Ma’abarot” is the first documentary project unfolding the story of the Israeli transit camps. The transit camps were...
Ma’abarot
Director:
Dina Zvi Riklis
84 min.
It’s only a half hour drive from Bnei-Brak, a closed Orthodox city, to Tel Aviv’s shore. But for the women going ther...
Kosher Beach
Director:
Karin Kainer
62 min.
Ravit spends all of her spare time hugging abandoned babies. Without human touch and the warmth of a hug, the abandon...
Alone Together
Director:
Maya Tiberman
54 min.
A 15-year-long documentation follows the gut wrenching story of an adolescent boy who discovers one day that he had b...
Best Unkept Secret
Director:
Ilan Mizrahi
57 min.
Four Israeli teenagers undergo the process of life and identity changing gender transformation in a country where mil...
Transkids
Director:
Hilla Medalia
50 min.
The story of the chief Rabbi of Copenhagen’s Jewish community, who would come to be known as Rabbi Doolittle. Arrivin...
There Are No Lions In Tel Aviv
Director:
Duki Dror
63 min.
LEFTOVER WOMEN is how the Chinese describe educated women in their mid-20s who are still single. With
extraordi...
Leftover Women
Director:
Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam
84 min.
The Admor of Sanz-Klausenburg was a rabbi who experienced personal devastation and despite this succeeded in rehabili...
Hidden Face
Director:
Eyal Datz
54 min.
Rachel, an ultra-orthodox young woman, entered an 'arranged' marriage ready to be a "kosher" woman doing the will of ...
Covered Up
Director:
Rachel Elitzur
52 min.
A group of remarkable young people with Down syndrome embark on a demanding trek through the Indian Himalayas, accomp...
My Hero Brother
Director:
Yonatan Nir
78 min.