
Anthem
Himnon
Director : Elad Keidan
Israel 2007 36 mins
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.
Ashkenaz
Director : Rachel Leah Jones
Israel 2007 72 mins
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...
Baghdad Twist
Director : Joe Balass
Canada 2007 34 mins
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...
Blessed is the Match
The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
Director : Roberta Grossman
USA 2008 85 mins
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.
Cup Final
Gmar Gavi'a
Director : Eran Riklis
Israel 1991 107 mins
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 ...
Description of a Memory
Director : Dan Geva
Israel 2006 80 mins
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...
Description of a Struggle
Description d�un Combat
Director : Chris Marker
France/Israel 1960 60 mins
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 Description ...
Emotional Arithmetic
Director : Paolo Barzman
Canada 2007 89 mins
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...
Etz o Palestine
Director : Nathan Axelrod, Yoel Zilberg, Uri Zohar
Israel 1962 80 mins
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...
Faces
Director : G Max (Gerard Maximin)
Switzerland/France/The Netherlands 2007 75
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?
Forget Baghdad
Director : Samir
Switzerland 2002 112 mins
'Jew' and ‘Arab' so often perceived and positioned on opposite poles, are labels that provide little room for hyphenated identities such as the ‘Arab-Jew'. In this cerebral documentary...
Foul Gesture
Tnu’a Meguna
Director : Tzahi Grad
Israel 2006 95 mins
Comedy, crime and drama combine in this feisty tale about what happens when the
small guy stands up to the bully and gets his revenge. On the morning of Holocaust
Memorial Day Michael Kleinhouse ( Gal Zaid), ...