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An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Die tragischen Ereignisse des Massakers vom 7. Oktober auf dem Supernova-Musikfestival im Süden Israels, nahe der Grenze zum Gazastreifen, im Minutentakt.

In Jerusalem 1986, a 14-year-old boy shoots his family point-blank in their beds. Yet questions persist. In this docuseries, insiders come forward.

Renowned architect Ada Karmi-Melamede balanced family life and major projects in 1970s NYC before leaving to design Israel's Supreme Court. Her daughter's film explores their relationship and career-motherhood tensions

A group of Israelis and Palestinians come together in Oslo for an unsanctioned peace talks during the 1990s in order to bring peace to the Middle East.

On average, two Palestinian kids are arrested every night by the Israeli army. They are interrogated, tried, and sent to prison. TWO KIDS A DAY describes the use of minors' arrests to control and repress Palestinian society.

In Orthodox Judaism, men avoid looking at women while women practice modesty. Strangers must marry and consummate on first intimate meeting. The forbidden becomes sacred. People share feelings about matchmaking through wedding night.

In 1945 an SS officer was shot to death by a Jewish woman near the gas chambers in Auschwitz. The shooting was carried out by Francesca Mann, a ballet dancer from Warsaw. This act of heroism received no recognition due to the rumors that Francesca collaborated with the Nazis. Francesca left behind nothing but a few photographs, a few press articles and plenty of conflicting testimonies about her conduct during the war. The filmmakers weaved the historical stories and built the myth: Francesca.

The tragic love story of Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.

The film delves into an almost forgotten event that took place in Kfar Qasim in October 1956, when 47 innocent civilians were shot and killed by Israeli Border Police soldiers. Through a gripping narrative structure, like a suspenseful legal drama, the film unfolds the historical, political, and psychological reality that had shaped and triggered the event. A cinematic montage created by the intertwined plotlines, emphasizes immense gaps, conflicting narrative, and deep divides between Jews and Arabs who are destined to live together on the same land. If we begin to recognize these gaps, will there be hope for reconciliation?

How did a man in charge of 12 million slaves become "the good Nazi"? A cautionary tale about Albert Speer's 1971 attempt to whitewash his past with a Hollywood adaptation of his bestselling wartime memoir, "Inside the Third Reich".

CENSORED VOICES combines raw original recordings of Israeli soldiers recounting their fears and doubts following Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, using archival newsreel footage as a stark reminder of how far the region remains from peace.

Ari Nagel ist ein Serien-Samenspender und Vater von mehr als 100 Kindern. Aris Handlungen werden zu einer bedenklichen Gewohnheit, die die Beziehung zu seinem ältesten Sohn gefährdet.

When Irmy, a soon-to-be-dad comedian goes to his own father asking for money, he finds out that his only inheritance is a tiny piece of land in the occupied Palestinian territories. To make things worse, he also finds out that extreme-right-winged Jewish settlers have settled on his land and made a winery out of it. Together with his father, Irmy wages war on the settlers, army, and Israeli government and demands his land back. What begins as a personal quest to recover this contested piece of real estate quickly evolves into a humorous, activist adventure that exposes the mechanisms of the occupation.

Yaakov Smith was an ultra-orthodox married man with six children and a pillar of his community, when he left his family, his community, and Israel. It took him 20 years to return - only this time as an observant woman. The documentary by Rachel Rusinek and Eyal Ben Moshe touches honestly and openly on a subject that is both relevant and unspoken. It is also a film about self-acceptance, compassion, love, and family.

Gil Avni found himself in a Kafkaesque situation. He lies dying in the ICU, anesthetized and ventilated, diagnosed with cerebral edema. From the medical team fighting for his life and his closest relatives coming to say their goodbyes, Gil learns about his final hours. These 44 hours are told through his testimony and of those who were around him.

The true and stirring story about an Egyptian family that spied for Israel during the most tense and violent years in Israel-Egypt relations. "The Spy Family" is about an Egyptian family that spied for Israel, was caught and paid a heavy price. While in Egypt they are infamous, in Israel they are unremembered in the military heroic ethos. The film will lay bare the espionage affair and the family's personal story.

Chronicles the global race to research, develop, manufacture and distribute COVID-19 vaccines in the most enormous coordinated public health effort ever undertaken.

This uniquely telling film takes an entertaining and unsettling look into Chinese rehabilitation centers treating internet addiction, which the Chinese government has classified as a serious clinical disorder.

THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The 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. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight. In this now half-deserted village where Oleg and Alexandra are the only true constants in each other's lives, the film shows just how fragile, but crucial, close relationships are for survival. Through Oleg's perspective, the film examines what it means to grow up in a war zone. It portrays how a child's universal struggle to discover what the world is about grows interlaced with all the dangers and challenges the war presents. Thus, THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS unveils the consequences of war bearing down on the children in Eastern Ukraine, and by natural extension, the scars and self-taught life lessons this generation will carry with them into the future.

Many remember the evening of Rosh Ha'Shana 25 years ago, when the news announced that 26-year-old Inbal Perlmutter was killed in a car crash. Despite her young age, the rebellious rocker had already achieved fame as lead singer for Ha'Mechashefot. Her career, as well as her personal life, had been turbulent, up until the inevitable end. The film reveals for the first time her personal diaries, rare archival footage, and intimate encounters with those closest to her. Some of them were not aware just how powerful the beast of darkness lurking beneath the good fairy had become. If You Let Me Go dives into the depths of a groundbreaking musician's soul who herself plunged into the abyss, leaving a profound mark on Israeli music and culture.

The career of Israeli photo reporter Micha Bar-Am, born in Berlin in 1930, thus becomes an assembly of iconic snapshots, enlargements and contact sheets which serve as the score for two voices.

A random trance party in a living room is fairly common when it comes to young people. But what happens when the young people are Israeli soldiers, when the living room is owned by a Palestinian family that is locked up in one on the rooms of the house? 18 years after serving in the army, Eran Paz finds a box of videotapes with rare footage of himself and his squad mates, invading Palestinian homes in the occupied territories. Now Eran sets out on a journey in the footsteps of the people, the memories and the places that inundate him and give him no peace.

Winding tells the story of the most infamous River in Israel, the Yarkon.

Criminologist Dr. Dan Philipp has devoted his career to treating sex offenders and sex workers. His professional life has involved an encounter with evil, insanity, and transgression. Dan contends that society's attitude towards sex offenders is hypocritical and fearful of meeting the perversion that lurks inside us all. Dan's routine is interrupted when he is invited to his native city of Aachen, to a memorial ceremony for his childhood friend Gisela. The return to Germany reveals a dark secret from Dan's past, compelling him to face formative events experienced as a child fugitive in the woods. His journey sheds new light on his professional choice and obsession with human evil.