Sometimes even the most unassuming of days takes a surprising turn, as one middle-aged suburban bachelor finds out in this wry short from Jerusalem’s Sam Spiegel School of Film & Television.

A pleasing well-paced film that looks at the parallel lives of two young women who meet and become friends whilst teaching at a college in Brooklyn, New York. One of the women is an Orthodox Jewess and the other a tra...

An eye opening saga about Israel’s ethnic economy, this is a fascinating study of Ashkenazi culture and people. What happened to the Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe when they came to settle in the Middle Eas...

Born in Baghdad in 1966, Montreal-based filmmaker Joe Balass takes a fascinating look at his native Iraq and the fate of its Jewish community through the eyes of his mother Valentine, almost four decades after they fl...

Hannah Senesh was just 22 when she parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe with a small band of Jewish volunteers from Palestine: the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust.

From the macabre, animated comedy of Gary & Mildred to the vivid portrait of a once thriving Jewish community in Baghdad Twist, this year’s short films offer a treasure trove of unexpected encounters.

A powerful anti-war film by the acclaimed Israeli director Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree). When Cohen, an Israeli reservist soldier, gets tickets to the World Cup Final in ...

Inspired by Description of a Struggle, Chris Marker’s 1960 cinematic essay on the new state of Israel, filmmaker Dan Geva sets out to address the state of the nation half a century on. With great...

Pioneer of the essay film style, enigmatic French auteur Chris Marker (La Jetée, Sans Soleil) visited Israel in the late 1950s. Turning his camera on the fledgling state, the resulting documentary Descri...

Melanie Winters (Susan Sarandon) is a survivor of Drancy, a transit camp set up outside Paris during the Nazi occupation. Now middle-aged, she is married to David (Christopher Plummer) and dotes over her son, Benjamin...

Masterfully edited from hundreds of hours of raw material, filmed by Nathan Axelrod, one of the pioneers of the Israeli film industry who documented the beginning of the Jewish state in Palestine. In these treasures f...

What happens when a French street artist decides to get up close to Palestinians and Israelis, take their photos and then produce enormous posters and paste them on the two sides of the Wall of Separation?