Michal has been bed-ridden for over three years. She suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The uncurable disease prevents her from normal functioning. Between hospital stays, Michal is also a wife and mother of two children. While her adolescent daughter is helping her father to take care of the house, Michal is accompanied by her 7-year old son. The boy does not understa...
No Jewish divorce is complete without the man literally giving the woman her freedom back. Divorce Denied follows several 'chained' women together with Batya Kahana Dror, a religious lawyer, who embarks on a struggle against the rabbinical courts. She believes the laws must be changed according to our time.
Poignant meditation on family, loss, and the mental maps of homelessness. The film navigates the intimate lives of 5 brothers and their mother, over the course of a decade, through the pains of exile and the joys of family bonding. Exploring the politics of belonging, displacement, and homosexuality, the film examines the hard decisions one Israeli family has to make and the in...
Kibbutz Maoz Chaim children's house, 1943. A gunshot rings out, followed by silence.11-year-old Dvor'aleh is orphaned. She was told that her mother was killed by a stray bullet during weapons training, but soon begins hearing the word "*******" whispered among the kibbutz members. Dvora is deeply troubled: was it an accident or was it ******* If it was *******, how could her m...
Director Ilan Ziv traces the origins of antisemitism in France from the Middle Ages to the Dreyfus Affair. Combining personal and collective narratives, Ziv showcases how the depiction of "the Jew" in society established an ideology of hate that eventually led to the Holocaust. In the aftermath of the war, a devastated France continued this ideology of antisemitism that set the...
Raymonde - diva, queen, enigma, inspiration, survivor, widow, woman, and mother. Armed with a camera, Yael Abecassis followed her mother and stepped into a world where she had always been a stranger. "You know, daughter, Morocco is a kind of therapy," Raymonde says, and for the first time, they embark on a journey together: from a childhood in the mellah of Casablanca to the du...
The story focuses on Newark's Baraka family and its involvement in social activism, poetry, music, art and politics.
Fifty years after Slow Down by Avraham Heffner won a prize at Venice Film Festival, top alumni of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School challenge the 1968 legendary black and white thirteeen-minute short, which penetrates the essence of a quarrel and reconciliation between an elderly couple in Tel Aviv of 1967. The voice over stream of consciousness of the ******e's poignant se...
The film follows three protagonists who have bound their lives together. Elad is a young man who went in for a simple operation but ended up disabled. Despite his plight he chose life. Rinat, his former girlfriend, came back to him after the operation and married him. For ten years they were unable to bear children. Einav, a single mother, chooses to be a surrogate mother for f...