Knowledge Is The Beginning

Director : Paul Smaczny

Germany 2005 90mins

This documentary follows a unique musical collaboration, dedicated to furthering the cause of peaceful coexistence in the Middle East, bringing together young musicians from both sides of the divide: Syrians, Jordanians, Egyptians, Palestinians and Israelis.

KZ

Director : Rex Bloomstein

UK 2005 95mins

KZ offers a dramatically different and startlingly powerful exploration of a difficult and oft-explored subject, and is at once a timeless and contemporary film.

Late Marriage

Hatuna Meuheret 

Director : Hatuna Meuheret

Israel, France 2001 102 mins

Little Heroes

Giborim Ktanim 

Director : Itai Lev

Israel 2006 76mins

An exciting adventure story in which four children embark on a courageous journey together into the Negev desert. Erez, a young boy, struggles to cope with his father’s death and live up to his legacy.

Live and Become

Director : Radu Mihaileanu

France/Israel 2005 143 mins

An epic story of love, survival and identity. A Christian mother forces her nine-year-old son to declare himself Jewish in order to be included in Operation Moses.

Local Call

Ne Quittez Pas! 

Director : Arthur Joffé

France 2004 102mins

Since Felix Mandel’s father died two years ago, his Jewish consciousness has faded into the background. With a busy career as an astrophysicist and a hectic domestic life, Felix just doesn’t have the time to be Jewish as well.

Marock

Director : Laïla Marrakchi

Morroco 2005 100mins

Set in Casablanca in 1997, the film makes good use of period pop music and the fads and fashions of the nineties in Morocco. The city’s golden youth, the offspring of the rich, are enchanted with excess – romance, parties, friendship, music and fast cars. Meanwhile they are all approaching graduation and the anxiety of moving on after high school.

News From Home/News From House

Director : Amos Gitai

Israel/France/Belgium 2006 96mins

In this last film in a trilogy spanning over three decades, the microcosm that was presented in House is expanded as Gitai follows the different diasporas that are connected to the Jerusalem house.

Nina's Journey

Ninas Resa 

Director : Lena Einhorn

Sweden 2005 119mins

The film is based on the real-life story of writer-director Lena Einhorn’s mother, Nina Rajmic, who lived in Warsaw. When war broke out and the Nazis invaded, the family was moved to an apartment in the ghetto. Although their parents died, Nina and her brother Rudolf survived the war.

Only Human

Seres queridos 

Director : Dominic Harari and Teresa De Pelegri.

Spain, Argentina, Portugal, UK 2005 89 mins

Leni (Marián Aguilera) arrives home to introduce her fiancé Rafi (Guillermo Toledo) to her Jewish family for the first time. Her mother Gloria (Norma Aleandro), her promiscuous sister Tania (Maria Botto), Tania's contrary 8 year old daughter Paula, her recently orthodox brother David and her blind grandfather Dudu. Everything goes wonderfully until the lovers reveal that Rafi is Palestinian. With his future mother-in-law Gloria unhinged by the news, Rafi tries to ingratiate himself by helping in the kitchen. To make matters worse he accidentally drops the soup he was meant to defrost out the seventh floor window, hitting a pedestrian below. Rafi sneaks downstairs to check on the body and retrieve the soup. Having seen the victim, Rafi rushes upstairs not knowing what to do! As he returns to the kitchen he notices a family portrait of Leni's father, which bears a very close resemblance to the corpse lying outside.