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- An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
- Food Matters examines how the food we eat can help or hurt our health. Nutritionists, naturopaths, doctors, and journalists weigh in on such topics as organic food, food safety, raw foodism, and nutritional therapy.
- Between April, 1975 and January, 1979, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people in Cambodia. Pol Pot promised an agrarian utopia but delivered a regime of mass-extermination, starvation and slaughter. This new film explores the life of Pol Pot, the ever-smiling, obsessively secretive leader of the Khmer Rouge.
- A documentary on the treatment of Palestianians by members of the Israeli army.
- Josh 'Skreech' Sandoval, a local skate legend and new father in Fullerton, California, has to come to terms with the fact that it's time to grow up and be responsible for his son and family.
- A film about senior citizens learning about computers from teenage mentors and the connections made both on and offline.
- An Israeli soldier describes his participation in covert revenge operations against Palestinians.
- In the summer of 2006, at the age of 28, I was suddenly drafted as a reserves soldier in the Second Lebanese War. Instinctively, I grabbed my video camera and thread a shoelace, securing it around my neck right next to my rifle. I said to myself this camera will be a tool with which to mediate between myself and the reality into which I was thrown - the reality of war. I was part of an artillery Regiment. As days went by, I understood that this war is not as it was planned. Mixed orders, more and more dead soldiers; mess and disorder came to be the words describing this war. And as long as this war evolved, bringing more chaos and destruction, I continued to use my camera and shoot. I film the faces of soldiers, exhausted and overwhelmed. I heard the soldier's desire to tell their story - to talk about what they have seen. The feelings were of a pointlessness war and a strong and clear failure. Months after the war ends, I was compelled to find the individuals who served with me. Those I followed during the war. Those I met accidentally while wandering, and whose faces and souls were burnt into my mind. They are my principal obsession and characters of the film. I followed them in their daily life. They recall the images of this war and how they currently relate to them. My characters and I went to this war naïve with a definite purpose. We woke up, shaken, in shock, with doubts and regrets. Each one of us, those who survived, paid a price.
- Ohad Naharin is Israel's "rock star" choreographer, and artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company. He specializes in getting world-class dancers to move from their guts-not the mirror-by teaching them what he playfully calls "Gaga" his unique language of movement. In this dynamic close-up documentary, veteran Israeli filmmaker Tomer Heymann renders a candid portrait of the movement and the man through an in-depth look at Naharin's rehearsal process with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet of New York City. Heymann masterfully elicits a series of "Notes on Dance"from his subject, climaxing in a denouement reminiscent of My Dinner with André in leotards and tights. See some of the world's greatest dancers let go of everything they know as they strive to fulfill Naharin's vision, and their own deepest desires.
- At thirty-two, Meni Phillip lost his religious faith. He left his career as a successful Jewish Hasidic singer, and got divorced. His outraged family disowned him. Alone, Meni set out on a painful struggle to regain his legal paternity rights to his five children. Soon thereafter, four of his ten siblings followed in his path and abandoned their orthodox religious lifestyles. The Phillip family became torn in half... Each of the siblings struggled with the painful process of detachment from religion and family. When the youngest sister suffered a breakdown and was hospitalized, Meni assumed his inevitable role as head of the secular family, while he desperately attempted to keep the family together.
- Aviv Geffen, the grandson of legendary Moshe Dayan and number one Israeli rock list, is rapidly becoming a mythic figure himself. He was the last person to embrace Rabin before that controversial politician was assassinated. The charismatic, bisexual singer-songwriter has rapidly become the Jim Morrison or Bob Dylan of his country, a voice that represents peace and integrity for a troubled young generation. Concert footage, kinetically edited and brilliantly shot, reveals the depth of feeling that many Israelis have for Aviv: hip, youthful women and men are clearly enamored of his presence. Directed by Tomer Heymann, this feature documentary follows the life of Aviv Geffen, a controversial Israeli singer whose liberal upbringing led him to refuse to serve in the Israeli military. Over the last six years, Geffen has become a spokesperson for the country's youth, and this film chronicles the rise of his career, his family roots, and how he finds the inspiration to write music.
- Seeing Israel through the eyes of seven different tourists from around the world.
- Director Isri Halpern sets out to search for the last known leopard in the Judaean Desert. For 18 months, Halpern searches for the leopard with his friend the zoologist Haim Berger, in an elusive and humorist journey, full of surprises.
- The story of Israel's premiere painter and artist - Menashe Kadishman
- 17 short documentaries portraying different people living in Ha'Tikva Neighborhood.
- 'A Man is not a cat - he who always falls on his feet is bound to get his heart broken'. Kineret documents her parent's intimacy from back in the days that her mother was a wild dreamful teenager and her father an aspiring athlete, till the present reality in which her father suffers from muscular dystrophy. She wanders 'How Much Love' one needs to sustain such a relationship.
- Roni Kuban conducts 24 hours interviews in a locked room with famous artists.
- Telephone calls between migrant workers in Israel and their loved ones, left overseas. The stories of distant - close relationships, and the struggle to maintain intimacy, love or parenthood under almost impossible circumstances.