Religion
Aysun Bademsoy's long-term observation of Turkish female soccer players in Berlin-Kreuzberg focuses on the next gener...
Game Changers
Director:
Aysun Bademsoy
86 min.
Following ethnographic films, photos and sound recordings from the 1960ies, the essayistic documentary traces taranti...
Tarantism Revisited
Director:
Anja Dreschke, Michaela Schäuble
105 min.
In “No Child Spared,” director Meni Philip lifts the veil on an ongoing system of abuse that exists in ultra-orthodox...
No Child Spared (the Heder)
Director:
Meni Philip
70 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.
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.
On the most patriotic week of the year, between Memorial and Independence Day, a young man who’s facing military PTSD...
Balcony
Director:
Elad Davidovitch Schicowich
50 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 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.
“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.
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.
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.
Ibrahim Yassin was born in a small village in Lebanon and was destined to follow in his father’s footsteps as a farme...
The Rabbi From Hezbollah
Director:
Itamar Chen
64 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 Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem, the most sacred place in Christendom is shared by diff...
There Is No Other Place (the Church)
Director:
Anat Tel
52 min.
The son of Brooklyn’s most admired and controversial Rabbi is excommunicated, and he is out for revenge. He reveals t...
In The Name Of The Father
Director:
Bat dor Ojalvo , Gal Goffer
90 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.
Yaakov Smith was an ultra-orthodox married man with six children and a pillar of his community, when he left his fami...
I Was Not Born A Mistake
Director:
Rachel Rusinek, Eyal Ben Moshe
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.
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.
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.
The Aleppo Codex, aka The Crown, is considered the most accurate and valuable edition of the Hebrew Bible. After bein...
The Lost Crown
Director:
Avi Dabach
62 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.
The Old City of Jerusalem, the land on which King Solomon, Jesus, Saladin Titus, and many others walked, continues to...
Between Walls
Director:
Rotem Zisman Cohen, Moris Cohen
75 min.