
The Battle Of Cable Street
Director : Yoav Segal
UK 2006 10mins
Blurring the line between live action and animation, this is a remarkable re-telling of a seminal event in Anglo-Jewish history. A young boy is taken inside the magical world of his own sketchbook by his grandfather, and...
The Comet Model News
Director : Nancy Kapitanoff
USA 15min
Flying was all the rage in 1929, two years after Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic, when two high school students from a Chicago slum, opened the Comet Model Airplane Co. See how the boys turned a few sticks o...
The Last Jews of Baghdad
Director : Carole Basri, Adriana Davis and Bryan Durr
USA 105mins
In 1950, Iraq was home to 160,000 Jews. Today just 22 remain.This is the first documentary that captures this community...
The Substitute
Director : Talya Lavie
Israel 2005 19 mins
Zohara is a female soldier in an isolated military base in Israel. She hates every minute and cannot wait to leave. But her hopes are shattered when her new substitute appears to be suicidal. Instead of leaving the base, Zo...
The Syrian Bride
Director : Eran Riklis
Israel/France/Germany 2004 97mins
Winner of numerous international awards, from Best Film at the Montreal Film Festival to Public Choice Award in Locarno, The Syrian Bride is one of Israel’s best quality features in recent years. Young bride Mona knows that...
The Tribe
Director : Tiffany Shlain
USA 2005 18mins
What can the most successful doll on the planet show us about being Jewish
today? Narrated by Peter Coyote, the film mixes old school narration with a
new school visual style.
today? Narrated by Peter Coyote, the film mixes old school narration with a
new school visual style.
Three Mothers
Shalosh Imahot
Director : Dina Zvi-Riklis
Israel 2006 106mins
Sixty years ago, triplets Rose, Flora and Yasmin were born into a wealthy Egyptian-Jewish family and blessed in person by King Farouk.Today, in Israel, they live together in an apartment without men and without children.
Tomorrow We Move
Demain On Déménage
Director : Chantal Akerman
France 2004 110mins
As in the best French comedies, social barriers do not exist and strangers become best friends within a few moments. Charlotte is an author who is trying to write an erotic novel whilst living with her widowed mother in a c...
Watermarks
Director : Yaron Zilberman
Austria 2004 80 mins
Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Hakoah (“The Strength" in Hebrew) was founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Para...
What A Wonderful Place
Eyze Makom Nifla
Director : Eyal Halfon
Israel 2005 105mins
Israel’s 2005 Oscar entry highlights the difficulties foreign workers experience in contemporary Israel. This multi-lingual ensemble film speaks eloquently about something common to us all: the need for human contact.
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