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17 Beginnings of Talia

Actress Talia Shapira was a colorful figure, hilarious and uninhibited. She left dozens of films and hundreds of notebooks behind when she died, and so much more besides. Twenty-five years later, her son, director Yoni Bentovim, tries to come to grips with that vast legacy.

7 Days in St. Petersburg

Liza is flying to Russia to bring her deserter son Leonid, whom she has not seen in twelve years, back to Israel. The seven days she spends there are like a brief leave from prison. Time is limited. Nothing is trivial.

Against Your Will

After Amit committed suicide in the army, the secretary of his parents’ religious kibbutz asked them to refer to what happened as 'a gun accident'. When their second son committed suicide, they refused to remain silent. They have now launched an effort to commemorate their two sons, even though their kibbutz considers suicide to be a source of shame and a sin.

Better Late...

After 15 years of failed attempts to have children, a couple entering their golden years finally conceives. Unfortunately, an unexpected turn of events changes all their plans.

Cobain: Montage of Heck

A raw and visceral journey through Kurt Cobain’s life and his career with Nirvana through the lens of his home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, and journals.

Concrete Love

Gottfried Böhm may be 93, but he is still the "Boss." He's the head of a multigenerational architectural firm considered one the most prestigious in the world. His three son are successful architects in their own right, but they still seek ways to extricate themselves from their father's shadow.

Etched in My Body

Shuly Barzilay’s story is incredible. Captivated by charismatic patriarch Goel Ratzon, she became his right-hand woman, financially supporting him and fulfilling his every whim. She even convinced her three daughters to become his wives.

Etoile

Etoile is an 11-year-old Jewish girl who lives with her family and her dog Rex in Casablanca. In the 1960s, following the kidnapping of Jewish girls from their neighborhood, the family decides to leave Morocco.

Family Matters

Thirty years ago, the divorce of a woman who went on to become a renowned author, and her husband, an esteemed rabbi, shook the religious city of Bnai Barak and affected the lives of their seven children.

Look at Us Now, Mother!

It takes candor, humor, and a whole lot of courage for Gayle Kirschenbaum and her mother Mildred to overcome the tense relationship that lasted a lifetime. They go on a trip to India, sign up for the same dating site, and even take part in couples' therapy together.

Marrying an Ice Cream Factory

A handsome, poor orphan marries into the Strauss empire. His son embarks on a personal journey to his parents' very different worlds. Looking at his family through a camera, he reshapes his memories.

Mazal Means Luck

The unique and emotionally-charged story of the director's family. She was raised by her grandparents alongside her parents - both of whom have disabilities.

Mend and Make Do

The life story of an elderly English woman is told in her own voice. On screen, a mélange of stunning animation techniques breathe life into even the most humdrum of objects, bringing us the loves, heartbreaks, and humor of an entire generation.

My Big Fat Cancer Wedding

While preparing for their wedding, Sivan Mor Goldman, a 29-year-old film director, and her fiancé Ronen discover that Sivan has a cancerous mass in her breast. With the help of a camera, family and good friends, they embark on a difficult and emotional journey, filled with challenges that they meet with humor and optimism.

My Love, Don’t Cross That River

After 76 years of marriage, an elderly Korean couple still shares a deep intimacy, full of concern and loving gestures. This stunning film follows them in the last months before their inevitable parting, which they believe will only be temporary.

Over the Years

Life goes on and the employees of a small Austrian textile factory that shuts down spend ten years trying to find a new routine, a new life. We meet them again every year, surprised to find that, after all, life is full of surprises.

Rich Hill

A Sundance Film Festival winning documentary on young rural Americans living in poverty. Three heartbreakinly charismatic boys struggle to survive in a nearly deserted small town. Despite the poverty, neglect and daily strife, they never loose their ability to love, dream, hope and make us laugh.

Saving Uncle Jacob

Sivan recruits his family of addicted smokers for a joint-quitting attempt in an effort to save his Uncle Jacob's life. An addictive, tragic-comic tale of the search for the last cigarette.

Shores of Light (Salento 1945-7)

Three women born in Southern Italy to parents who survived the Holocaust search for traces of the fascinating story of thousands of Jewish refugees, who found extraordinary warmth and empathy in southern tip of Italy.

Some Kind Of Love

After spending all their adult lives on what seems like different planets, an elderly brother and sister move in together and share a decaying family mansion. The camera exposes the tension and anger that exists between the two, but also a very touching kind of love.

The Bentwich Syndrome

The saga of a restless and relentless Anglo-Jewish Family, which according to the founders of the dynasty served as God's gift to Zionism and enlightened Judaism, is exposed by the director, a member of the family himself, from an alternative, implausible and humorous angle.

The Wolfpack

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. The Angulo children spent their entire childhood imprisoned by their father in a rundown apartment in Manhattan. They learned about the outside world from watching movies, and that was what encouraged them to finally break out and discover their own identities.

Time and Place, a Talk with My Mom

A few photos, that's all that was left of the stormy family life at Martijn Veldhoen's house: a philandering, narcissistic father and a mother who was to raise her four children by herself. He reconstructs their story using spectacular visual techniques.

Toto and His Sisters

Their mother is in jail and their uncles have turned their apartment into a drug den. Now Toto and his sisters struggle to survive on their own in a rundown Bucharest slum. The world may be harsh, but somehow they manage to find joy in it and even to dream of bigger things.

Twilight of a Life

Sylvain Biegeleisen's mother is 95, but in her thoughts she is still 20 - laughing, smoking, singing and kissing. In these heartwarming conversations between the director and his mother, even the inevitable subject of a final farewell is full of humor and love.

Viktoria

Victoria and I, her only son, examine our current and prospective position within the Holy Land of our times.