200900:46:21The challenges and joys of homebirthhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/at-home-in-waldo-maine/345EnglishNicolle LittrellWomenFamilyAt Home in Waldo, Maine presents the homebirth experience of the Weavers–Melinda, Jerry, Ravi, and Gideon–a family living in midcoast Maine. The film observes Melinda's approaching delivery in the context of the Weaver's daily activities and documents the prenatal planning and supports the family receives from their professional midwives.The Weavers are (semi) homesteaders, home/internet-based entrepreneurs, homeschoolers–and rock and rollers (their band is Odlaw and their song, "Learn to Love" is featured in this film)!This 46-minute film is both an intimate document of their experience and an exploration of the relationship between how we live and how we birth.A film by Nicolle Littrell201700:42:26 Part 1 : How has the Bauhaus school shaped the world we live in today? https://movie-discovery.com/movie/100-years-of-bauhaus-part1/1129EnglishArts and Culture"The Code" is the first part of Bauhaus WORLD. The search for the secret of Bauhaus’s enduring success leads all the way to Japan - a journey illustrating how the forced closure of the school that drove the movement into exile served to spread its philosophy around the world.The three-part documentary Bauhaus WORLD marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of Germany’s best-known art, architecture and design school, the Bauhaus. Exploring the legacy of this iconic German institution, our film crew travelled the world, meeting architects, artists, urban planners, doers and dreamers. Do the Bauhaus’s social ideals and design principles still shape how we live today?New approaches to education and training, architecture, painting, dance and design were explored and developed at the Bauhaus. Its founder and director Walter Gropius attracted the leading creative figures of the era, including Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Anni Albers, Josef Albers and Gunta Stölzl. Today, Bauhaus is considered the birthplace of Modernism and has become a byword for sleek, functional design.  Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus school moved to Dessau in 1925 and then to Berlin, where it was forced to shut in 1933 after Hitler seized power. Most of its artists, architects and visionaries emigrated, fanning out and spreading the Bauhaus doctrine around the world.Filmmaker Lydia Ranke and her team travelled the world to make the three-part documentary Bauhaus WORLD. Alongside the Bauhaus sites of Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, they visited cities such as Tokyo, Amman, Tel Aviv, New York, Chicago, Mexico City and Medellín, talking to experts from architects Norman Foster and Tatiana Bilbao to architecture critic Mark Wigley, furniture designer Yinka Ilori and fashion designer Kasia Kucharska. 201700:42:26Part 2 : Is it to blame for the modern world’s obsession with design?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/100-years-of-bauhaus-part2/1132EnglishArts and Culture"The Effect", takes viewers on a journey from Dessau to New York, Älmhult in Sweden and Ulm in Germany to examine the influence that Bauhaus still exerts on art, design and architecture around the globe. Nowadays the name of Bauhaus has been transformed into a brand. Is it to blame for the modern world’s obsession with design?New approaches to education and training, architecture, painting, dance and design were explored and developed at the Bauhaus. Its founder and director Walter Gropius attracted the leading creative figures of the era, including Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Anni Albers, Josef Albers and Gunta Stölzl. Today, Bauhaus is considered the birthplace of Modernism and has become a byword for sleek, functional design. Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus school moved to Dessau in 1925 and then to Berlin, where it was forced to shut in 1933 after Hitler seized power. Most of its artists, architects and visionaries emigrated, fanning out and spreading the Bauhaus doctrine around the world. Filmmaker Lydia Ranke and her team traveled the world to make the three-part documentary bauhausWORLD. Alongside the Bauhaus sites of Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, they visited Tokyo, Amman, Tel Aviv, New York, Chicago, Medellín and Mexico City, talking to experts from Norman Foster and Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao to architecture critic Mark Wigley, furniture designer Yinka Ilori and fashion designer Kasia Kucharska. 201700:42:26Part 3 : Do the Bauhaus’s social ideals and design principles still shape how we live today?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/100-years-of-bauhaus-part3/1133EnglishArts and CultureThe third and last part of bauhausWORLD, "The Utopia", explores the influence of the Bauhaus philosophy on today’s globalized society. What is its legacy? What became of its utopic visions of the future? Do they still have relevance in the 21st century? We find out if the questions that Bauhaus posed have been answered, and if we can still learn from the solutions it proposed 100 years ago.The three-part documentary bauhausWORLD marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of Germany’s best-known art, architecture and design school, the Bauhaus. Exploring the legacy of this iconic German institution, our film crew traveled the world, meeting architects, artists, urban planners, doers and dreamers. Do the Bauhaus’s social ideals and design principles still shape how we live today? New approaches to education and training, architecture, painting, dance and design were explored and developed at the Bauhaus. Its founder and director Walter Gropius attracted the leading creative figures of the era, including Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Anni Albers, Josef Albers and Gunta Stölzl. Today, Bauhaus is considered the birthplace of Modernism and has become a byword for sleek, functional design. Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus school moved to Dessau in 1925 and then to Berlin, where it was forced to shut in 1933 after Hitler seized power. Most of its artists, architects and visionaries emigrated, fanning out and spreading the Bauhaus doctrine around the world. Filmmaker Lydia Ranke and her team traveled the world to make the three-part documentary bauhausWORLD. Alongside the Bauhaus sites of Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, they visited Tokyo, Amman, Tel Aviv, New York, Chicago, Medellín and Mexico City, talking to experts from Norman Foster and Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao to architecture critic Mark Wigley, furniture designer Yinka Ilori and fashion designer Kasia Kucharska. 201500:23:47Every Second Countshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/11-minutes-en/701EnglishEnglishHagai AdorianWomenMaale FilmsWarFictionA military ambulance is called to evacuate a seriously wounded young soldier and bring him to a helicopter pad where he will be taken to hospital. Aboard the ambulance is a staff of three young soldiers, one of whom is Karen, a young female paramedic on her first tour of duty. Faced with life and death decisions in the ambulance, Karen will either succeed in bringing her emotions and fears under control -- or fail, and be responsible for the death of a fellow soldier.A film by Hagai Adorian  Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200900:40:10The story of an integrated boarding school for Jews and Arabshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/16-documentary/343EnglishEnglishKatie GreenMaale FilmsDocumentaryChildren and AdolescentsTwo Jewish boys and two Muslim boys are sharing a room at a boarding school in Jerusalem. All are 16 years old . David, from an orthodox Jewish home, wants to give up religion. Mohammad, a traditional Moslem, is brilliant but keeps failing his exams. Majdi and Guy are both homesick, but for different reasons. Each of the boys must carve out a niche for himself during the painful process of growing up.A film by Katie GreenAwardsAvi Chai Foundation Prize for "Jewish Experience"FestivalsFestival of Jewish Film, Jerusalem, 2003Gerona Jewish Film Festival, Spain 2004"Parting of the Ways" screening and panel, Channel 2, 2005   Produced by Maaleh Film School200800:45:18An exploration of the most contentious piece of real estate on the face of the Earthhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/35-acres/211EnglishEnglishIgal HechtJewish way of lifeWarReligionAn exploration of the most contentious piece of real estate on the face of the Earth. Holy for both Jews and Muslims, the Sharam El Sharif/Temple Mount is one of the most volatile areas in Jerusalem. Many say that those who control it, control the entire land. This film investigates what's happening in those 35 Acres by documenting Palestinians and Israelis, whose entire lives revolve around the area.A film by Igal HechtRead a review of the movie in our blog200600:57:43Documenting immigrants deportation to reduce violencehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/52-50-en/1675EnglishEnglishUri Bar-OnDocumentary filmsImmigration & absorption52-50 is a documentary of the activist genre, which means that by making the film, there is an aspiration to make a change.Some activist documentaries aspire to bring a change to the current legislation. Others wish to change public opinion or raise awareness.This documentary was initiated in order to achieve an immediate effect: to reduce the violence inflicted on its protagonists, foreign workers in Israel, some of them overstayed their visas or infiltrated the country.During the video-shooting period, volunteers, students of Tel Aviv university, set out to document arrests of foreign workers in Tel Aviv area.We need to pause here and discuss the term "foreign workers". They are called "asylum seekers", "refugees", "work-immigrants", "illegal residents" etc. - The term chosen, usually gives a hint about the person who uses it and his or her opinion about the topic. On this website, we present films who represent opposed, sometimes totally polarized sides. We respect everyone of them. We will be using "foreign workers" here, just the director did.The creator of the film, filmmakers Uri Bar-On, heard that some of those arrests involve violence inflicted on the foreign workers by the immigration authorities. He knows he cannot stop or prevent the arrests, but wishes to at least reduce or eliminate the apparent violence by being there with a camera. For that, he needs volunteers. A group of students from Tel Aviv university agrees to join the mission with cars and video cameras. Of course, there is some apprehension and they fear they would be arrested themselves, although it is totally legal to document police actions in public areas.The film documents the whole operation, from the recruitment of the students to the actual filming, along with meeting the foreign workers and hearing their stories.201000:38:19Sometimes you have to leave in order to come backhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/71-square-meters/8EnglishEnglishEliran MalkaMaale FilmsFamilyFictionSometimes you have to leave in order to come back. You have to forget in order to remember. Chezi goes to his deceased parents' house the day before the bulldozers will raze it to the ground. It is the last 24 hours: 24 hours to remember his mother, his father, Bjorn Borg, an old Mezuza.Director: Eliran Malka  Produced by Ma'aleh Film SchoolAwardsThe Audience Favorite, International Student Film Festival, Tel Aviv 2010First Prize for short drama, Religion Today Film Festival, Trento Italy 2011FestivalsCrossRoads International Film Festival, Mississippi, USA199800:14:24Aya drives everybody crazy the day before her wedding, trying to control all aspectshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-bridal-breeze/156EnglishEnglishOr MenachemWomen And GenderMaale FilmsSpiritualFictionAya, a dedicated kibbutz girl, drives everybody crazy the day before her wedding. Will it be windy, or rainy or both? Assistants run back and forth with chairs and tables, trying to please her every whim, as each new weather forecast changes her opinion about how the wedding should be set up. In the end, one small detail is forgotten, and Aya's wedding ceremony is blessed with weather that no one could possibly have predicted.A film by Or MenachemAwardsAward of "Senunit" Foundation for Encouragement of Young TV Artists, for the Drama Film, from the Second Israeli Television Authority, Israel 1998.FestivalsIsrael Film Festival, Los Angeles 1998, New YorkSurprise International Film Festival, Taiwan   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201200:56:26Untold Stories from the Band of Brothershttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-company-of-heroes/1472EnglishWarHistoryA Company of Heroes features interviews with many of the men not focused on in the book "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose or in the television mini-series by the same name. Never before seen video and photos are also included in this film. Easy Company, the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, widely known as the "Screaming Eagles," remains one of the most revered combat units in U.S. military history. The Army company's legendary exploits in World War II inspired Stephen Ambrose's book, Band of Brothers and the Emmy-winning HBO miniseries of the same name. Following two years of hard training, the soldiers of Easy Company parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and, later, into Holland for Operation Market Garden. They fought their way through Belgium, France and Germany, survived overwhelming odds, liberated concentration camps and drank a victory toast in April 1945 at Hitler's hideout in the Alps. In 2009, twenty of the few remaining survivors from Easy Company shared their rarely told stories of sacrifice and courage for Marcus Brotherton's oral-history book project, We Who Are Alive and Remain, Untold Stories From the Band of Brothers. In this film, those same veterans, along with the families of three deceased others, recount the horrors and the victories, the bonds they made, the tears and blood they shed and the friends they lost.201700:26:21Farmers struggle for compensation after an oil spill.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-crude-injustice/1109EnglishEnglishJane HammondDocumentaryEnvironmentPoliticsOn August 21, 2009 a blowout in the Montara oilfield, off the West Australian coast, caused millions of litres of crude oil to spew into the Timor Sea. The oil continued to pour into the ocean for more than 70 days creating a massive slick that covered an estimated 90,000 square kilometres. Across the sea in West Timor unaware of the unfolding disaster seaweed farmers started to notice strange changes in their crops. Within a few weeks their seaweed industry had been destroyed and their fish stocks had crashed. But the polluting company, PTTEP AA, denied any responsibility for the impacts of the spill on the people of West Timor and claimed the oil had never made landfall. Eight years on the people of West Timor are still waiting for justice.200700:17:37An orthodox couple who emigrated to Israel from America struggle with many challengeshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-jerusalem-tale/159EnglishEnglishTehila Wiesenberg-KaiserJewishRelationshipMaale FilmsLazer and Baila Hirsch, an older orthodox couple who have emigrated to Israel from America, struggle with financial hardship and general misfortune. Lazer, a Bretzlav Hassid, finds that his capacity for simcha (joy) is put to the test. The couple prays for a miracle, but miracles come in unexpected guises...A film by Tehila Wiesenberg-KaiserFestivalsHaifa Film FestivalVancouver Jewish Film Festival   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200400:26:14Can Chava fall in love with a disabled guy?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-little-bit-different/162EnglishEnglishRacheli Sheinfeld GadotJewish way of lifeCouplesMaale FilmsFamilyChava, an ultra-orthodox young woman, called off her engagement a year ago. Now a new match has been suggested for her. The introduction is made, but Chava experiences a sharp disappointment. Can she put aside her prejudices to give love a chance to grow?A film by Racheli Sheinfeld GadotFestivals:Jerusalem Film Festival 2004Toronto Jewish Film Festival Canada 2004Israeli Friends Film Festival, Bratislava Slovakia 2004Montreal Jewish Film Festival Canada 2004Religion Today Film Festival, Trento Italy 2004Jewish Film Festival London 2004   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200500:51:18The untold story about north African Jews under Nazi regimehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/qot-common-fate-en/935EnglishEnglishSerge AnkriZvi Shefy, Alan Jacobowitz, Nani WellerDocumentary filmsHistoryHolocaustEthnicityThis 2-part documentary film tells the little-known story of the Jewish communities of North Africa (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco) during World War Two, revealing how, had fate not intervened, it was only “a matter of time” until they would share the fate of their co-religionists in Europe.Through archival and contemporary footage and stills, extensive interviews with surviving eyewitnesses and historians, as well as computer-generated animation, the film depicts Jewish life in North Africa and describes the evidence of plans by German and Italian occupiers to carry out “the final solution” far from the shores of Europe.It describes the institution and impact of racial laws, property confiscations, and the establishment of forced labor concentration camps in Italian-occupied Libya, German-occupied Tunis and under the Vichy regimes of Algeria and Morocco. It relates the general suffering, and death, of North African Jews as the result of starvation, disease and violence directed against them. It brings to light the stories of North African Jews deported to Germany concentration camps in Europe.While the encounter of North African Jews with the Holocaust and Nazi Occupation differed from that of European Jews, this film attempts to create a unified sense of Jewish history and peoplehood, by posing the question: was the “final solution” in North Africa only “a matter of time”?200500:50:36The untold story about north African Jews under Nazi regimehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/qot-tripoli-bergen-belzen-en/934EnglishEnglishMarco CarmelZvi Shefy, Alan Jacobowitz, Nani WellerDocumentary filmsHistoryHolocaustEthnicityThis 2-part documentary film tells the little-known story of the Jewish communities of North Africa (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco) during World War Two, revealing how, had fate not intervened, it was only “a matter of time” until they would share the fate of their co-religionists in Europe.Through archival and contemporary footage and stills, extensive interviews with surviving eyewitnesses and historians, as well as computer-generated animation, the film depicts Jewish life in North Africa and describes the evidence of plans by German and Italian occupiers to carry out “the final solution” far from the shores of Europe.It describes the institution and impact of racial laws, property confiscations, and the establishment of forced labor concentration camps in Italian-occupied Libya, German-occupied Tunis and under the Vichy regimes of Algeria and Morocco. It relates the general suffering, and death, of North African Jews as the result of starvation, disease and violence directed against them. It brings to light the stories of North African Jews deported to Germany concentration camps in Europe.While the encounter of North African Jews with the Holocaust and Nazi Occupation differed from that of European Jews, this film attempts to create a unified sense of Jewish history and peoplehood, by posing the question: was the “final solution” in North Africa only “a matter of time”?201200:50:51Love, terror, life and death and shape the first two years of their marriagehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/point-of-light-en/93EnglishEnglishAriel ChenJewish way of lifeCouplesWomenMaale FilmsReligionImmaterialLove and terror, life and death, commitment and the longing for a child shape the first two years of marriage for the director and his wife.Director: Ariel ChenScreenings & Prizes: Best Documentary, Ma'aleh Ceremony 2012   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School 200600:25:39A Yom Kippur prayer from the perspective of a guy with special needs. https://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-pure-prayer/158EnglishEnglishSara Beck DorJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsFamilyReligionSpecial NeedsIt is nearly Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement), and the synagogue is still short of a tenth man to make up the quorum for communal prayer. Schwartzman has no idea what to do. Rosa, his wife, has a solution - to bring Menachem, their special needs son, to the synagogue. Menachem is 30, but he has never taken part in communal prayers.A film by Sara Beck Dor   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201700:23:47Motherhood, against all oddshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/ray-of-light-en/1360EnglishEnglishLihi SabagWomenMaale FilmsFamilyMichal, herself raised in a harsh socio-economic reality, has been a single parent to her baby daughter, Keren Or, since she was seventeen. Against the depressing background of the housing projects of Afula and Jerusalem, and caught in the day-to-day battle to survive financially and maybe even find love, unexpected developments plunge Michal into deeper crisis and call into question everything she believes in about parenthood, family and identity. Yet despite it all she shows an extraordinary resilience in her aspiration to be a caring and responsible mother and to provide for her child the life that she herself never received.Director: Nava Lihi sabag  Produced by Maaleh Film School200500:32:11Three sisters during a highly tense Shabbos at their Mother'shttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-shabbos-mother/157EnglishEnglishInbar NamdarJewish way of lifeWomenMaale FilmsFamilyFictionThree sisters — a radio broadcaster who has abandoned her traditional roots, a religious woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, and the film's heroine, who is struggling to conceive a child—gather at their widowed mother's house for the Jewish Sabbath.A film by Inbar NamdarAwardsFirst Prize, Jewish Film Festival, Jerusalem Israel 2005Best Female Film, Religion Today Film Festival, Trento Italy, 2005Best Drama, Sichuan Film Festival, China 2009FestivalsWomen Film Festival Rehovot, Israel 2005Jewish Film Festival, Palm Beach USA 2006Israel Film Festival NY, LA & Miami 2006Jewish Film Festival, Seatle USA 2006International Film Festival, Syracuse USA 2006   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201700:42:29A Jewish orthodox guy's journey to relationshiphttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/single-with-god-en/1243EnglishHebrew (modern)Nadav GedaliyahJewish way of lifeCouplesDocumentary filmsFamilyBiographyGedalia (26) is a bachelor, disconnected from his parents, blogger and a musician with split personality: in the evenings he records music and a video journalist for a popular newspaper. In the afternoons and on Shabat he's an ultra-orthodox yeshiva student and in the mornings he's an instructor and mentor for youth in a religious boarding school.The girls are not interested in this strange guy. So he decides to build himself a smart and cool image by exposing his life in his blog.It just doesn't work...In order not to break down, he preoccupies himself in music composition. And in order to be famous and find love, he interviews celebrities for the newspaper.Then, he starts dating one of his blog readers and offer her marriage in a blog post. Will she accept it? And will he resolve his relations with his parents?A film by Nadav GedaliaVery funny. Very emotional. Very sad. Very optimisticYael Mishali , writer It'a hard not to appreciate the courage and even the humblenessMordi Miller, Small World (Olam Katan) magazine   201500:23:47A portrait of the greatest Hebrew liturgical poet of the twentieth centuryhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-song-of-loves-rabbi-david-buzaglo/709EnglishEnglishRafael BaluluYair Qedar, Michal Weits, Gili NadavDocumentary filmsHistoryBiographyArts and populre CultureRabbi David Buzaglo was the greatest Hebrew liturgical poet of the twentieth century. Born in Morocco in 1903, his literary output had a major impact on a community of hundreds of thousands of people. From his prolific period in the Diaspora to the years he spent in a ruptured Israel, Buzaglo’s poetry initiated an abrupt shift in Sephardic liturgical writing, but it also served as a vital link between the modern era and a tradition that dates back to Spanish Jewry’s Golden Age. But Buzaglo was more than just a great poet. The actions he took at seminal moments in history had a critical impact in shaping the identity of Maghreb Jews. This film is an intimate look at Buzaglo’s life and career, from its roots in the rich tradition of Hebrew poetry in Morocco through the liturgical revolution in Israel.A film by Rafael Balulu | Producer: Yair Qedar | Ha-Ivrim (The Hebrews) SeriesRead a review of the film in our blog 201700:23:47A personal, creative documentary of a Druze filmmaker living in the Golan Heights, about isolation and longing to a homelandhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/state-of-siege-en/1086EnglishEnglishWaseem SafadiDocumentaryWar And ConflictEthnicities20,000 Druze live in the Golan Heights. They identify themselves as Syrians. After the breakout of the war in Syria, the community was torn not only with conflicts that were associated with the occupation. They were divided between being pro or against president Assad regime, but also found themselves faced with more existential questions, of identity and fate.We set out on a journey with director Waseem Safadi, born and raised in the Druze village Majdal Shams (Tower of the Sun) in the Golan Heights, to discover the inner world of the Druze. We meet with different personalities from the area and experience the absurd and unique reality of the Druze community, living near the lines of ceasefire between Syria and Israel.A film by Waseem Safadi 201300:18:25A legend about a world without rainhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-story-about-rain-en/101EnglishEnglishBracha YanigerCouplesMaale FilmsArts and Popular CultureImmaterialIn a world without rain, an artistic couple discovers that they have the power to create water. The man’s special powers challenge the couple’s relationship.A film by Bracha YanigerAwardsBest Social Film, Ma'aleh Graduate Ceremony 2013Best Narrative Short at the Peaceonearth film festival, ChicagoBest Asian Film award at the International Student Film Festival, Beijing, 2014   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201600:29:59 A young man is torn between his desire to conform and his desire to experiment with academic and creative boundarieshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-street-allegory/85EnglishEnglishMatan PinkasCouplesMaale FilmsArts and Popular CultureImmaterialA psychological and emotional journey that takes place in the interiors and exteriors of the city of Jerusalem. The film's young protagonist searches for his inner voice while the world around him expects him to travel established and recognized routes. Academia meets the street. Inner authenticity wrestles with the voices from outside. The classic and the well-tried are challenged by the new and the alternative. Study and knowledge collide with experimentation and experience. How do you find your way? Director: Matan Pinkas   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201500:27:22The story of a woman in the orthodox process of conversion through different points of viewhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-tale-of-a-woman-and-a-robe/235EnglishEnglishNurit Jacob Yinon, Aluma FilmsJewishWomen And GenderHuman RightsReligionNurit Jacobs Yinon"A Tale of a Woman and a Robe: Ritual Immersion of Female Converts", 30 min' documentary that tells the story of a woman in the orthodox process of conversion through a different point of views, which is based on a video art that was awarded as the winner of the 2013 Israeli Documentary Forum. Shown first at the "Zaritsky Artists House" in Tel Aviv as part of a groundbreaking exhibition and was widely quoted and reviewed in all Israeli media. The project is dealing with the ritual bath (mikveh) performed by women converts in the presence of a rabbinical court made up of three male judges. This occasion can be emotionally exciting as the woman is accepted into the Jewish religion. On the other hand, it causes embarrassment due to the immodesty involved in the situation.Based on the video art which was awarded the Best Film, Free Style Category, Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum 2013A film by Nurit Jacob YinonFestivals and Exhibitions:* The Zaritsky Artists House Tel Aviv 2013* The Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival 2014* EPOS / The International Art Film Festival / Tel Aviv Museum of Art201300:27:43Sometimes you just can’t go back homehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-visit-to-my-parents-en/111EnglishEnglishHebrew (modern)Alon RabinovichMaale FilmsDocumentary filmsFamilyReligionAn evil spirit descends on my small, warm family. My father became a religious Jew. My mother converted to Christianity. My sister is married to a non-Jew and my father rejects her and the family. I fled from the horror and came to Israel. After my divorce, I decided to deal with my traumatic past, to return to Russia, to mend the shattered pieces of my family. Will I succeed in recovering a belief in love?a film Alon Rabinovich   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201300:16:38A Jewish religious woman finds sisterhood and a common spiritual world with nunshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-walled-garden/105EnglishEnglishEfrat CohenJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsFamilyReligionEfrat, a religious woman, who did not grow up religious, is married to a Rabbi and raising three daughters. Curiosity leads her to a Jerusalem monastery where she connects with several nuns. She is sure that the pastoral atmosphere, the quiet and solitude allow them to live a perfect religious life. A dramatic event in Efrat’s life and the nuns’ openness leads Efrat to understand, to find answers.A film by Efrat Cohen   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200500:18:33A surprising loyalty between a Holocaust survivor and his Filipino caretakerhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/a-maiseh/160EnglishEnglishYitzchak SverdlovMaale FilmsFamilyImmigration & absorptionSenior CitizensThe warm relationship between Mendel, an elderly Holocaust survivor, and his Filipino caretaker, Jose, is tested when Jose does not have a work permit and the police begin searching the neighborhood for illegal foreign workers.A film by Yitzchak SverdlovAwardsSpecial Award, Jerusalem Film Festival 2002Second Prize, Jewish Film Festival, Jerusalem 2002FestivalsJerusalem Film Festival 2002Jewish Film Festival Jerusalem 2002Gerona Film Festival, Spain 2003International Student Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel 2004   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200900:30:23My grandparents say goodbye to Tel Aviv, which was their home for more than 70 yearshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/about-time/154EnglishEnglishEster Miriam BrandesMaale FilmsFamilySenior CitizensOn the banks of the Yarkon River, my grandparents say goodbye to Tel Aviv, which was their home for more than 70 years. They are moving to Jerusalem. During the measuring and the packing, the worrying and the cookie-baking, I document their unusual world: a world colored by assertiveness, sacrifice, and love.A film by Ester Miriam BrandesBest Documentary Film, Ma'aleh Graduating Ceremony 2008   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201400:55:38The Incredible Escape of Jewish-American B-17 Pilots from Nazi-Occupied Europe in WWIIhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/above-and-beyond/1481EnglishJim KarpeichikWarHistoryThe Incredible Escape of Jewish-American B-17 Pilot Bruce Sundlun from Nazi-Occupied Europe in World War II. During overseas active duty beginning in June 1943 Bruce Sundlun, a Jewish-American college student, served as a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot in the England-based 384th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force at Grafton-Underwood Air Base. Sundlun's plane, the Damn Yankee, was shot down over Nazi-occupied Jabbeke, Belgium on 1 December 1943 after being damaged by flak and attacked by German fighter planes following the bombing of Solingen, Germany, on the "Yankee's" 13th mission over Europe. Five of his crew were killed, four others captured by the Germans. Above and Beyond is Bruce Sundlun's amazing escape from occupied Europe in World War II, filmed on location in Belgium and narrated by Sundlun's own daughter, Kara, who travelled back to the village of Jabbeke in Belgium, to re-trace her father's footsteps in World War II.201000:59:51A humorous, almost fantastic, story about a friendship between a Sufi Muslim and two Orthodox Jewshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/abu-ali-and-the-holy-temple/264EnglishEnglishVered OsmanArts and CultureReligionA humorous, almost fantastic story about a friendship between Khaled Abu Ali, a Sufi Muslim - artist, musician and theater director and two Jewish orthodox theater players, in their mutual project - rebuilding the third Holy Temple in Jerusalem through a theatrical show. The famous Israeli-Arab conflict is presented from an angle never seen before.A film by Vered Osman198700:58:16A film About Women Growing Oldhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/acting-our-age/828EnglishMichal AviadWomen And GenderSenior CitizensAn antidote for American culture's one-dimensional image of older women, this movie offers empowering insights about women and ageing for every generation. The director follows six ordinary women in their 60's and 70's, who share their lives. In candid interviews that tackle a range of thought-provoking topics, including self-image, sexuality, financial concerns, dying, and changing family relationships, members of the group display both a vibrant strength of spirit and inspiring zest for life.A film by Michal Aviad200500:30:36A small synagogue community is torn around questions of modernity and preservationhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/addes/152EnglishEnglishAvital Livneh LevyJewishMaale FilmsIsraeli SocietyHistoryThe renovation of a 100-year-old Jerusalem synagogue on the occasion of its upcoming centennial celebrations ignite a conflict over old and new, identity and obliteration of memory, the living and the dead.A film by Avital LivnehFirst Prize, DocAviv Student Film Festival Tel Aviv 2005FestivalsStudents Film Festival, Lodge Poland 2004San Fransisco Jewish Film Festival 2006Argentina Jewish Film Festival 2006   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201901:12:45Personal stories of adoptionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/adoption-diaries-en/1620EnglishEnglishWomenDocumentary filmsFamilyWith a rare candor, Adoptive Diaries shows the process of adoption from the beginning and details the process as it advances in an intimate, honest and thought-provoking manner. Three stories are told with moments of optimism, fear, lows and highs. The film consists of video clips taken by parents during the process. The footage reveals rare and intimate moments, including a peek into the children’s homes in Russia, their first meeting with the child , arrival to Israel, the meeting with the extended family, and life itself. The parents share their brave introspective thoughts with the camera with the perspective of years as a family with the child that joined.200800:55:09Kurt Masur, one of the world's great Maestros, challenges and teaches the next generation of young musicianshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/adventures-in-listening-kurt-masur/177EnglishEnglishAmit BreuerAmit Breuer, Ayelet Heller, Isabel Iturriagagoitia, Claudio Kahns, Yoel DarBiographyArts and CultureMusicKurt Masur, one of the world's great Maestros, challenges and teaches the next generation of young musicians and conductors by stretching their limits and transforming their perspectives and abilities. For these fortunate young students, these are lessons they will draw on for the rest of their lives. Shot over a few years the film follows Masur's masterclasses around the world. The film is a carefully constructed collage organically interweaving Masur's teachings and his personal life experiences into a comprehensive emotional portrait of one of the most respected music conductors of our time.The film accompanies Masur on this personal journey as he moves between different locations and cultures. We travel from a masterclass that takes place in Breslau (Wroclaw) Poland, to Bridge - a short distance from Masur's beloved childhood home; and from Campos De Jordao Brazil to New York's Manhattan School of Music each time capturing intimate moments with unprecedented access to the great Maestro. Adventures in Listening captures the mysterious power of the Conductor and the psychology and emotional depth of the art of conducting—the magical authority that connects music with musicians and audiences worldwide in a timeless and masterful fusion.A film by Amit Breuer200901:29:10Exploring the lives of teenagers from New Orleans following the disastrous hurricane Katrinahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/after-the-storm/207EnglishHilla MedaliaHuman RightsArts and CultureChildren and AdolescentsMinoritiesAfter The Storm captures the lives of the kids and crew as they turn a gym into a theater, come together as a company, and create hope and purpose in the midst of devastation and despair. The film follows the production of the musical Once On This Island at the St. Marks Community Center in New Orleans as it moves from the first round of auditions to the opening night performance and then on to a sold-out Off-Broadway theater in New York City.The film explores the cultural landscape of New Orleans as seen through the eyes of a dozen teenage actors. As this creative journey unfolds, the young actors open up their hearts and homes to the film crew and reveal their personal stories of day-to-day survival in present-day New Orleans. It is from their perspective that we see this unique American city still struggling to piece itself back together two years after the hurricane. An emotional and entertaining experience celebrating the spirit and culture of New Orleans, this film is about how the power of story can bring a community together. The focus of the film is not on the storm's devastation, but rather on how these storm-tossed teens are moving on with their lives after having lost everything.A film by Hilla MedaliaFilm Festivals & Awards:Audience Award (Woodstock Film Festival, Heartland Film Festival)Crystal Heart Award (Heartland Film Festival)MoMa NYCOutfestHawaii Film Festival201500:52:19A serious dilemma for grieving parents that forces them to reconsider the way they confront their painhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/against-your-will/288EnglishEnglishAssaf BanittJewish way of lifeDocumentary filmsFamilyGilles and Esther Alexandre struggle with the loss of two sons to suicide committed during their military service, as well as with the resulting condemnation by the religious kibbutz in which they live. The community regards suicide as a sin and a source of shame and expects the grieving parents to swallow their pain. However, the Alexandres refuse to succumb: they launch a public campaign to reshape Jewish Orthodoxy's discourse on suicide. Now, their youngest son Binyamin is preparing to enter the army and wants their permission to join a combat unit. Loyal to his community's standards, Binyamin implores his parents to find another way to commemorate his siblings. All of this poses a serious dilemma for the grieving parents and forces them to reconsider the way that they confront their pain.A film by Assaf Banitt AwardsFedeora Jury Special Mention, Docaviv International Film Festival, May 2015 FestivalsSanta Barbara International Film Festival, USA, 2016Official Competition- Docaviv International Film Festival, May 2015201800:04:15Understand exactly what is aggregate demand with this concise and clear presentationhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-aggregate-demand-en/864EnglishEnglishEconomyPresentationsUnderstand exactly what is aggregate demand with this concise and clear presentation by economist Mahadev Bahety.Learn what is the difference between domestic demand for goods and demand for domestic goods and learn how to evaluate them. Presenter: Mahadev Bahety200600:51:12A biographical movie about poet Agi Misholhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/agi-mishol-documentary/1730EnglishHebrew (modern)Ruth WalkWomenDocumentary filmsBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureFor the past 30 years, Agi Mishol has lived in Kfar Mordechai, near Gedera, a place she calls "the most natural for me." In her yard, figs and pomegranates are being harvested for market.She writes in the morning, usually between 8 and 9 a.m., while her mind's alpha waves are still in a dreamlike state. It is then that a poem emerges, often in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee. She sits in her kitchen, writing on a simple sheet of paper.She cares for a menagerie of animals: three dogs (Vashti, Arthur, and Libby), six cats, rabbits, and a duck. "They're the reason I don't travel abroad," she says. "It's the responsibility."She remembers every poem she has written by heart:I woke up wrong,poorly developed.I was supposed to be glossy,but I came out matte."Agi Mishol belongs, without a doubt, to the great lineage of Hebrew women poets—Leah Goldberg, Dahlia Ravikovitch, and Yona Wallach," wrote the critic Dan Miron. In one of her poems, she wrote, 'With a single step, I could connect earth to heaven.' In the same way, the film seeks to bridge her earthy, sensual, and distinctly local Israeli world with her celestial, metaphysical one.To date, Agi Mishol has published seventeen books of poetry. She is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the prestigious Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award in 2019.A film by Yael Perlov and Ruth Walk, it is part of the series A Room of One's Own: Women Writing.***About the Series:A Room of One's Own: Women Writing is a series about women whose lives are dedicated to the craft of writing—women for whom writing is not just a profession, but an existential necessity.In 1929, the English author Virginia Woolf wrote in her book, A Room of One's Own, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." It is remarkable how relevant these words, written decades ago, remain today. The five women featured in this series exemplify the very struggles Woolf alluded to. To make writing the center of their lives, they face a relentless and often bitter struggle for personal and financial independence, frequently making social and familial sacrifices along the way.The series consists of five episodes, each dedicated to one woman. It captures a day in her life within her natural environment—her "room of one's own." This space encompasses her writing desk, her social circles, and her daily routines. Through this lens, the series delves into the unique thoughts and characteristics that define her as a writer and explores how the act of writing propels her life forward.The common thread uniting these women is the profound importance of the written word in both their intellectual and practical lives, and the inherent struggles that arise from this commitment.By observing their daily lives, the films decode why writing constitutes their entire world and examine the interplay between their texts and their lived experiences. The series aims to sketch a portrait of the woman behind the words. In one of her stories, Orly Castel-Bloom wrote, "I live on paper." This sentence, reflecting a deep-seated need to write while also ironically hinting at the perceived "unreal" nature of a woman's life lived solely "on paper," captures the series' goal: to showcase the authors' devotion to their craft while simultaneously emphasizing the reality and significance of their lives. The series reveals women who live not just "on paper," but in the world, fully realizing their inner selves and spirits.199900:39:53Alexander Rodchenko, the Russian avant-garde artist, abandoned painting in the early 1920s in favour of photographyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/alexander-rodchenko-and-the-russian-avant-garde/224EnglishMichael CraigHistoryArts and CultureAlexander Rodchenko, the Russian avant-garde artist, abandoned painting in the early 1920s in favor of photography which he believed would better express the new visual and social realities emerging at that time.A film by Michael Craig201800:27:38Liam reflects on his previous female identityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/almost-liam-en/1382EnglishEnglishSapir rokachMaale FilmsDocumentary filmsLGBTBefore leaving for Germany where he will undergo irreversible surgery, Liam reflects on his previous female identity.Raised in an Orthodox Jewish family, Liam came out as transgender while he was serving as a woman soldier in the IDF. In this film, which includes his private videos documenting some of the most profound changes that he undergoes in body and mind, Liam reflects on his journey and takes leave of his family before emigrating to Germany, where he will undergo irreversible surgery.Screenings and PrizesIMPACT Doc Awards, USA, Excellence AwardWarsaw Jewish Film Festival 2019 - First Prize, Best Documentary ShortHaifa Film Festival, Israel DOCNYC, USAAmerican Documentary Film FestivalLos Angeles Jewish Film FestivalTel Aviv LGBTQ festival, TLVFestTwin Cities Jewish Film FestivalBerlin Jewish Film FestivalGirona Film Festival, SpainHong Kong Jewish Film FestivalSan Diego Jewish Film FestivalPalm Beach Jewish Film Festival, USASan Luis Obispo Jewish Film Festival, USAAthens Short Film Festival, Greece 201100:30:05A rare glimpse into the lives of three divorced Ultra Orthodox women https://movie-discovery.com/movie/alone-en/151EnglishEnglishShmuel MinkovJewishRelationshipWomen And GenderMaale FilmsFamilyA rare glimpse into the lives of three divorced Ultra-Orthodox women, who tell about their daily hardships, fears, and diminished status in the eyes of the community. Above all, their dearest wish is to marry again.A film by Shmuel MinkovBest Documentary, Jewish Film Festival Jerusalem Cinemateque 2012    Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200901:26:10A portrait of the renowned Israeli author Amos Ozhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/amos-oz-the-nature-of-dreams/228EnglishEnglishYonathan & Masha ZurIsraeli SocietyBiographyArts and populre CultureA portrait of the renowned Israeli author Amos Oz, following his memoir, "A Tale of Love and Darkness" and his political struggle for peace in the Middle East for the last years. Exploring the persona of Amos Oz, the film opens a rare window into the world as observed through the eyes of one of Israel's greatest authors. Oz is a man who, it has been said, knows Israeli society inside out - since he is an outsider, in a very profound sense, of all worlds. This is a journey in the footsteps of Amos Oz, his literary writing, and his political beliefs. The journey takes us through his memoir, "A Tale of Love and Darkness” and follows him over a period of two years in his efforts to promote the Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict..A film by Yonathan & Masha ZurThe film won the Special Audience Award for “Best Story Film” in "Film for Peace" Festival in Italy, September 2010.200700:38:03The difficulties of being both an Orthodox Jew and Gayhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/and-thou-shalt-love/4EnglishEnglishChaim ElbaumJewish way of lifeCouplesMaale FilmsLGBTSexual MinoritiesOhad, who is studying in the special 'Hesder' program for orthodox soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, experiences profound loneliness while he conceals from others that he is gay. After calling a religious hotline for advice, Ohad is convinced that he is 'cured'. Then Ohad's study partner Nir returns from the army. Ohad finds he can no longer evade the difficult questions, both within himself, and between himself and God.Director: Chaim Elbaum  Produced by Ma'aleh Film SchoolAwardsFirst Prize, Best Fictional Film, Maaleh Graduating ceremony, 2007First Prize, Best Drama, Jerusalem Film Festival (Wolgin) 2008Audience Award, International Student Film Festival, Tel Aviv, 2008First Prize, Best Short Film, The Jerusalem International Jewish Film Festival 2008First Prize, Best Israeli Short Film, FilmIsReal Amsterdam, May 2009Bronze Pheonix Award, Warsaw International Jewish Film Festival 2009201000:56:11Revealing the mystery and wild beauty of the ice continenthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/antarctica-ice-world-pioneers/1001EnglishDocumentary filmsLife and EnvironmentThe adventure begins with the 4600km journey from the southern tip of Africa - the mission: to construct a new and advanced research base (SANAE IV). This programme is a stunning visual Odyssey revealing the mystery and wild beauty of the ice continent. One of the most visually impressive parts of the journey is the navigation through one thousand kilometers of pack ice, which leaves an indelible memory in the minds of the pioneers. The slow forward thrust of the ship; the ice cracking and splitting beneath; has it’s own eerie, unworldly sound, and in the ship's wake the ice pack quickly joins and freezes solid once more. Antarctica has a wonderful history of men and women, all volunteers, who have travelled to Queen Maud land over the past forty years to establish, maintain and improve the research bases there. Antarctica: Ice World Pioneers is the celebration of human adventure, courage, ingenuity, determination and sacrifice in one of the most hostile parts of our planet.200000:23:47The iconic nature of love. In spite of all of the difficulties, the pair are united forever in death.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/antony-and-cleopatra-a-play-by-william-shakespeare/1453EnglishArts and populre CultureLiteratureShakespearean Drama of the Highest Quality Performed at an authentic recreation of The Globe. With performances by world famous award winning Shakespearean actors this series has recaptured the Elizabethan flavor of Shakespeare's own Globe productions by staging them just as they were seen in the 16th century. Two of history's most famous lovers are caught between their consummate love for one another and the struggles for power amoung the rulers of the Roman world. At the time of this play. Mark Antony, Octavius Caesar adn M. Aemilius Lepidus are the members of the triumvirate that rule the Roman world. Mark Antony is consumed with his love for Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt and spends much time with her to the exclusion of his duties as a Roman ruler. When rebellions rise against the triumvirate, Anthony returns to Rome to join the defense. In time, Antony returns to Cleopatra in Egypt. In a quest for sole power, Caesar follows and wages a fierce battle aganist him. Upon hearing a false report of Cleopatra's death, Antony falls on his sword. Cleopatra chooses to die from the bite of an asp rather than befall the fate of returning to Rome as Caesar's prize. 200300:39:39A film about Architecture and Russian Avant-Garde Art.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/architecture-and-the-russian-avant-garde/223EnglishMichael CraigHistoryArts and CultureMalevich thought that supramatism could transform the world in its entirety. This film by Michael Craig and Copernicus Films is part of a larger documentary film about Architecture and Russian Avant-garde art. Using computer generated material it shows how Malevich's black square came to bear on the development of modern architecture.A film by Michael Craig197500:15:41Mordechai Ardon, who belonged to the Bauhaus school, was one of the most influential artists in Israelhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/ardon-a-portrait-of-an-artist/348EnglishYona ZeritzkyDocumentaryBiographyArts and CultureMordechai Ardon, who belonged to the Bauhaus school, was one of the most influential artists in Israel and  for many years served as the director of art studies in the ministry of education. A film by Yona Zeritzky200701:00:05An unapologetically political film, which reflects a visual reality from the settlers' point of view, depicting scenes rarely seen in the mediahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/arise-from-the-dust/5EnglishEnglishMenora Katzover HazoniDocumentary filmsHuman RightsIsraeli SocietyWarIn 2005 the Government of Israel destroyed 25 villages in Katif (Gaza) and four villages in the northern Shomron of Israel.One of these was Homesh, a village populated by secular Jews. A number of young Jewish orthodox families joined the village during the difficult period of the Intifada. Menora Hazani, who was among those families, documented her personal perspective of the eviction. She documented the internal conflicts, the pain, the struggle, and finally the disengagement as it occurred.A film by Menora Katzover Hazoni201900:23:47A warm human being committed to getting at the truth of things and making sense of our lives on earth.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/aristotle/1553EnglishHistoryBiographyUndoubtedly one of the most remarkable men who ever lived Aristotle was so industrious in so many fields of science and philosophy that he can be daunting to approach. Film maker Malcolm Hossick here presents him as a warm human being like the rest of us but also someone of remarkable integrity - totally committed to getting at the truth of things and making sense of our lives on earth. Without Aristotle it's difficult to see how we would have got to the level of human development we have. In the complex world of today knowing something more of him can only help each individual to live out a fruitful life. The film covers such details of his everyday life as we have and sets him into the remarkable times in which he lived. When Aristotle arrived in Athens in 383 bc the democracy established there for over eighty years had already been driven out. But the philosopher Plato was there with his Academy and the new views on human life and the rights of the individual were still in place and the astounding evidence of the effect of the democracy in the arts was all around. Staggeringly beautiful buildings, statuary, paintings were everywhere. The new playwrights were thrilling their audiences in the theatres. It was an amazing time to be alive and Aristotle's astonishing talents helped him to make sense of it all and lay the groundwork for all who have followed in his wake trying to understand the remarkable world in which we humans find ourselves. Philosophy in its essence has to be expressed in terms we can all of us grasp - otherwise its not much use: here we turn over some of the essential elements of the matters that concerned Aristotle most of all - human behaviour - and the responsibilities towards society we all carry. It's a gripping and fascinating tale and the film makes quite clear why Aristotle made such a mark in his own day and speaks so powerfully to our own times.200600:16:10An ambitious army officer is forced to bridge the gap between his career and his familyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/army-dad-en/153EnglishEnglishYifat HajbiMaale FilmsWar And ConflictFamilyChildren and AdolescentsOn the exact date that Gideon, a tough young officer in the IDF, needs to prepare his recruits for a parade, his wife decides to bring their 6-year-old son to the base and leave him there. The clash between this naughty little boy and the military life of the army results in a number of comic and dramatic situations which force Gideon to bridge the gap that has existed for years between his family life and his army career.A film by Yifat Hajbi   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200700:51:18The story of Israel's "white folks"https://movie-discovery.com/movie/ashkenaz-en/922EnglishEnglishRachel Leah JonesDocumentaryIsraeli SocietyHistoryAshkenazim-Jews of European origin-are Israel's "white folks." Like most white folks in a multicultural society, they don't think of themselves in racial or ethnic terms because by now, "aren't we all Israeli?" Yiddish has been replaced with Hebrew, religion with secularism, exile with occupation, the shtetl with the kibbbutz, old-fashioned irony with post-modern cynicism and pale girls with dark curls by bleached blonds with a suntan. But the paradox of whiteness in Israel is that Ashkenazim aren't exactly "white folks" historically.A story that begins in the Rhineland and ends in the holy land (or is it the other way around?), ASHKENAZ looks at whiteness in Israel and wonders: How did the "Others" of Europe become the "Europe" of the others?A film by Rachel Leah JonesOsnat Trabelsi // producerGraduate of the Department of Film and Television at the Tel Aviv University. Chairwomen of the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers' Forum. Owner of Trabelsi Productions, which produces political and social films. Among the films she produced are international award winning films such as Arna's Children (director: Juliano Mer Khamis), Strawberry Fields, Ashkenaz, Pizza in Auschwitz, Jaffa, the orange's clockwork and the original ground breaking webdoc “Gaza-Sderot”. She initiated and directed the first International Human Rights Film Festival in Tel Aviv and Ramallah. In 2007 she was chosen by The Marker as one of 40 women who make change in society.200900:44:54Another story of homebirth, by Nicolle Littrellhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/at-home-in-morrill-maine/340EnglishNicolle LittrellWomenFamilyAt Home in Morrill, Maine presents the homebirth story of Gretchen and Danny, a couple living in a small rural community near Belfast, Maine.Both Gretchen and Danny have careers in "sustainability." Gretchen is a health coach and clinical herbalist with alive and awake healing arts. Danny is a solar energy specialist/contractor and co-proprietor(along with his dad, Chuck) of sundog solar store in Searsport, Maine. Gretchen connects her choice to have a homebirth with her family heritage and her upbringing, emphasizing deep and abiding connections to nature and the outdoors.This birth story highlights the love and connection between the expectant couple–how pregnancy and birth can be sensual and sexual–and also an intensely private experience.Gretchen and Danny were assisted by certified professional midwife chris yentes of first light community midwives and gina forbes, student midwife, doula and childbirth educator. Gretchen's mother, "Mo" and her sister, Holly were also key sources of support for this birthing mother.This story extends beyond the homebirth to the couple's wedding ceremony (deemed "love fest") showing the circle of love and support that surround Gretchen and Danny as they make their transition into their new life as parents of Yukon.A film by Nicolle Littrell200700:36:44The challenges, and joys of homebirthhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/at-home-in-northeast-harbor-maine/342EnglishNicolle LittrellWomenFamilyIt's the January full moon in Northeast Harbor, a beautiful coastal town in Downeast Maine. Though it's zero degrees outside, warmth and laughter radiate from the bedroom where Tammy is laboring. Tammy and her husband Tim are surrounded by family, friends and their professional midwives as she prepares to give birth to their third child at home.This is their second homebirth experience for this couple. Each time they were attended by Julie Havener and Chris Yeates of First Light Community Midwives.The birth is juxtaposed with scenes from a lively pre-natal visit and personal interviews. In these candid discussions, Tammy and Tim address important issues surrounding birth, including fear, personal and cultural expectations around birth, allowing others to help and how homebirth can be healing.This film shows how quality midwifery care and support--and a woman's intuition about and relationship to her own body--can make all the difference in her birthing experience. And the importance of family, laughter, and surrender.At Home in Northeast Harbor, Maine shows the intimate nature of this important family event, the challenges, and joys of homebirth.A film by Nicolle Littrell200800:19:59Another story of homebirth, by Nicolle Littrellhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/at-home-in-orland-maine/339EnglishNicolle LittrellWomenFamilyThis birth features the second homebirth experience for Valerie Bates and her husband, Todd Cotier. Valerie and Todd are both from Maine. Todd is a mechanic and Valerie, a stay-at-home Mom (for now!). They have three children, Austin, Cooper and Penelope. A family is an important centerpiece of their life.Val and Todd had a homebirth with their second child, Cooper, in November of 2008, which is featured in two other films in the At Home in Maine series: "At Home in Orland" and "At Home in Maine, Part III."With both homebirths, Valerie and Todd were assisted by Andrea Mietkiewicz, CPM and Evelyn Conrad, CD of Clear Light Holistic Midwives of Old Town, Maine.Valerie is almost two weeks "overdue" when she and Todd meet with Andrea for a prenatal visit at Andrea's home/office. The film presents a natural holistic model for how this midwifery practice addresses their client's concerns, focusing on the "mind-body" connection.Several days after this visit, Valerie has a very fast labor and births her daughter Penelope in the birth tub!Though Valerie's birth with Penelope is normal, Valerie begins to bleed heavily post-partum. The film shows how midwives are trained to address these kinds of complications.A film by  Nicolle Littrell200800:45:03The challenges, and joys of homebirthhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/at-home-in-winthrop-maine/341EnglishNicolle LittrellWomenFamilyJoyful, ripe, intense, real, it's the start of summer, on the eve of the solstice. At Home in Winthrop, Maine opens up possibilities of how rich–and raucous–birth at home can be.Jenn is supported by her professional midwifery team, her husband James and a circle of friends and raconteurs who revel in her beauty, strength and indefatigable spirit. when a woman is supported this way when she has this kind of confidence and strength of body and soul, birth becomes not just a celebration of life, but a work of art.Jenn is a mainly stay-at-home mother to her young daughter Sarah, who was born at a birth center in Maine. she works at a local bookshop part-time and is co-owner of potato, a cooperative store offering maine-produced goods. James is a social worker. the family lives in a small bedroom community about 10 miles outside of Augusta, maine, sharing their home with Jenn's mother Connie.The family was assisted by certified professional midwives (and naturopathic doctors) Sarah Ackerly and Josie skavdahl of northern sun family healthcare in Topsham, maine and also, krystel viehmann, student midwife.The couple is well vested in their community. Jenn participates in various town organizations, including the green committee. James is a loving father and supportive husband who likes to rock climb. their garden gets bigger every year. they say they're on a "five-year plan" to stay in maine, with the deadline up in november, but it doesn't appear they're leaving anytime soon. their roots grow deeper every day in the community where their son Robbie was born.A film by Nicolle Littrell200200:51:53A rare look into the lives of ultra-orthodox women, their activities and their grasp of their identitieshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/atonement-tikkun/251EnglishEnglishTaliya FinkelJewish way of lifeWomenImmaterialAnthropologyIf I saw someone screaming like my mother, I would think they were mentally disturbed if it wasn't 100% authentic..." So says the son of Rabbinate Lea Kook, a charismatic and controversial ultra-orthodox leader from Tiberius.This film offers a rare and intimate look into the world of ultra-orthodox women, documenting the Rabbinate intensively for two years. The filmmaker's unprecedented access captures a staunch believer in a prophecy the world refuses to hear, whose cooperation was a form of "Tikkun" (spiritual correction).By observing her from such a close distance, the viewer is left to confront the controversy surrounding Lea Kook: is her conviction genuine, or is it a calculated performance?A film by Taliya Finkel200901:18:43A inter-generation women's journey between Morocco and Israelhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/azy-ayima-en/975EnglishEnglishSami Shalom ChetritDikla PartoshDocumentary filmsHistoryEthnicityA journey into the life of the film director's mother, Yekut, from her adolescence in Morocco to the newcomers' city of Ashdod, Israel. A journey between generations and cultures and an exploration of the relationship between Yekut and son, between her poetry and his.The trigger and axis of the film is Yekut's graduation picture from her school in the Moroccan desert, 70 years ago.She embarks on a journey to find her classmates who live today in different corners of Israel and tell their stories and memoires. For the first time, in Hebrew mixed with Moroccan, their stories are intertwined together and are consolidated to a moving new story. Memories of childhood and adolescence in Morocco and the move to Israel, with crises and happy moments, are told from a feminine voice and perspective.A film by Sami Shalom Chetrit201501:27:38An ambitious group of younsters is running for gold in the world championship in breakdancehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/babylon-dreamers-en/317EnglishEnglishRoman ShumunovInbal CohenIsraeli SocietySportsAnthropologyThe film follows a group of young break-dancers who call themselves the “Unstoppabullz”, immigrants from the former Soviet Union who live in one of the toughest neighborhoods in the Israeli city of Ashdod. The group is like a family to its members, who decide to pursue their childhood dream – to compete in the break-dancing world championship in Germany. This decision presents a nearly impossible challenge for a group with so few resources. In documenting the group’s unique journey, we are exposed to our heroes’ dramatic personal stories: MIXER, 27, one of the leaders of the group, married with a two-year-old daughter and another baby on the way, decides to take in his little brother and sister (ages 10 and 11), since his alcoholic mother is incapable of caring for them. On top of all this, there is Mixer’s big dream, to succeed in break-dancing, his greatest passion. This is his art, his way of letting loose, striving for more, believing, hoping and dreaming. If he abandons the dream and settles for a life in Babylon, it would be like giving up on himself entirely. The decision to compete and the trip to Germany are, in a sense, Mixer’s war cry. POTTER, 21, is a conscripted soldier living with his mother, who has been struggling with mental illness for many years. Potter has developed remarkable adaptive strategies to survive the daily challenges of life with his mother, whose violent mood swings could lead her to snap at any moment. At times, Potter finds shelter in his grandmother’s house.The movie features rare glimpses into the street lives of these youngsters, unique underground rap scenes throughout the film. The songs are all original works written by RENAT and ROMA, two brothers and members of the band, a self-portrait of second-generation immigrants. The movie is a journey, intimately following the band and our two heroes, up until the wild moment when they make their dream come true and perform on the biggest break-dance stage in the world. A film by Roman Shumunov200900:56:28An honest investigation of the aftermath of the Gaza Disengagementhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/banished/210EnglishEnglishIgal HechtIsraeli SocietyWarBanished tells the story of the aftermath of the Gaza Disengagement. Director Igal Hecht completes his Disengagement trilogy which started with Qassam (2004) and Disengaging Democracy (2006). The film investigates in-depth what went wrong with the rehabilitation of those forcefully removed and why is it that the Israeli media has avoided the topic. True to his nature Hecht, does not shy away from asking the hard questions. The film has been in production since 2006 and includes interviews with Chaim Yavin, Gush Katif residents, Nitzan Chen and others. Israel's former foreign minister (Tzipy Livny) is also featured.A film by Igal Hecht201100:33:09Soldiers serving at a checkpoint face unexpected life threatening eventshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/barriers/10EnglishEnglishGolan RiseMaale FilmsIsraeli SocietyWarFictionUri, a young officer, together with two soldiers under his command, are manning a checkpoint in the territories. Two women from the 'Watch' organization try to interfere with their work. Uri is confused as he receives an order to close the checkpoint because of a bomb threat amidst the women's screaming. An unpredictable outcome ensues....Director: Golan Rise  Produced by Ma'aleh Film SchoolAwardsFirst Prize for Live-Action Shorts - Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2013First Prize for Short Drama - Jerusalem Film Festival 2011Best Film Intercultural Dialogue' at the International Munich Film Festival.201701:45:09Untold Stories of Japanese Whalinghttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/behind-the-cove/920EnglishEnglishKeiko YagiEnvironmentAnthropologyTHE JAPAN-BASHING, ANTI-WHALING DOCUMENTARY "THE COVE" WON AN ACADEMY AWARD IN 2010. BUT WAS IT ENTIRELY TRUTHFUL?THIS IS JAPAN'S FIRST ON-FILM RESPONSE TO THE COVE. AND MORE.Negative media coverage on the never-ending whaling issue prompted first-time documentary filmmaker Keiko Yagi to find out more about the topic. With no budget, limited experience in filmmaking, no fluency in English, but armed with a video camera and a strong desire to find out about the truth of the matter on whaling, Yagi started her research.What started out as a personal investigation triggered by childhood memories of whale dishes inevitably led her to the town of Taiji, the center of the whaling debate and the stage of THE COVE. What she found through her experiences there and elsewhere was a much bigger story than she had initially imagined."Behind THE COVE" is director Keiko Yagi’s attempt to present a comprehensive picture of the dolphin and whale hunting issues in Japan, which includes interviews of people on both sides of the whaling dispute, its sinister political side, what THE COVE could not offer, and a unique take on the topic.IMDbAn anti whaling group Keiko Yagi, Director // After working at Tokyo branches of Paramount Pictures, Keiko started her own company YAGI Film Inc.With a strong curiosity and adventurous spirit, Keiko has traveled to many wild unexplored regions, including the Amazon, the Galapagos, Cuba, Israel, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, and India, etc gaining opportunities to see Japan from the outside.Focusing on whaling issues, considered to be "taboo" in Japan, "Behind THE COVE" is director Keiko Yagi's first film, but was officially screened at the 2015 Montreal World Film Festival, one of the major films festivals of the world.197301:26:39A year before his decease, Ben Gurion recalls the great events that shaped his lifehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/ben-gurion-remembers-en/817EnglishEnglishSimon HeseraDocumentary filmsHistoryBiographyDavid Ben Gurion, the first prime minister of the state of Israel, recounts the events which shaped his political journey and those of the state he helped to establish. During the preparation of the film, Ben Gurion met with the leaders of the western world and Israel. A year after the pruduction ended, Mr. Ben gurion passed away. The film was supposed to be broadcast on October 6, 1973. In the morning of that day, the Yom Kippur war broke up and the film was burried in the basements of the Israel Broadcast Authority for 43 years, until it was restorated by the producer's daughter, Mooly Landesman, a filmmaker herself.Read a review in New York Times from October 8, 1973, 2 days after the alegged broadcast date201000:33:09The story of Netzarim community, through the eyes of a young girlhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/between-heaven-sand-en/1305EnglishEnglishYehudit PasalJewish way of lifeDocumentary filmsIsraeli SocietyPoliticsTo order a public screening / lecture together with the film: seret.hafaka@gmail.comMy sister Neta was then 19 years old, a graduate of the communications study course. She decided to start filming the Netzarim community the moment the Disengagement Plan was decided upon. During two years she filmed and filmed and filmed. How a community was buried under rubble. How a community decided to continue. How faith maintains life. How there's strength to begin anew. Three women opened their hearts and homes to her: Shlomit Ziv, Arielit Ben Tzvi and Ruti Fogel HYD. She joined them on a journey of faith and strength. They coped daily with the home, the children and society. They especially had to deal with their inner soul, feelings and choices in light of the difficult decree and the destruction. After two years, she packed up all 120 tapes she'd filmed in a box that collected dust over the years. The story of the Netzarim community was buried there, in her room. Until Ruti was murdered. That Saturday night Neta called me. 'Take the tapes', she said.' Tell the story'. 
This is the personal story of the Netzarim community that was uprooted from their homes and land in 2005 in accordance with the Disengagement Law and as part of the evacuation of all of the Gush Katif communities.
Throughout the making of this film I continually searched for the personal story, the one that touches one's heart. I found it with these three heroic women. They're strong. Brave. Shlomit, Arielit and Ruti – I will always carry with me the lessons I learned from how you persevered during this terrible crisis. I find myself remembering certain things you said as I deal with various difficult issues in my life. This film isn't about the expulsion, or about death or destruction. This film shows how to deal with a serious crisis. It's about picking up the pieces and choosing what to tell your child during the difficult hours. It's about the ability to take a break from all the chaos around you and to explain the ongoing process to yourself and derive strength to continue on your chosen path. This is a rare documentation of real-time coping; small, daily choices with monumental consequences. This is a story of love, femininity and gentleness, alongside strength and resilience. This is a real life story.
Yehudit Pasal - director"Moving and poignant…. As though I were personally experiencing the sights and the pain. Powerful!"
--Rama Burshtein ("Fill the Void", "Through the Wall"). We wish to thank you for this poignant meeting. I asked the girls how it was.                                                    
They said: How did they know they enjoyed it? Because they discussed it all night long. That means it moved us. Your speech was powerful. Charismatic. Each one in her own way. You awakened in us inspiration, humility, faith and trust in G-d, and love for art. From a Torah point of view which includes love of the Land. We learned what it means to live meaningful Israeli lives. May you continue to see success and growth, keep in touch."
--Limor Levkowitz Levan, Educational Director Kfar Pines Religious Girls' High-School199900:52:35Three daughters whose fathers had been killed in the war, tell their storieshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/between-two-fathers-en/863EnglishHebrew (modern)Mooly LandesmanWomen And GenderDocumentaryFamilyThree daughters whose fathers had been killed in the war during their military in the service, tell their stories. It's a movie about longing, about growing up with an adopting father and about memories.A film by Mooly and Tslil Landesman201500:25:39Anti-semitism unmaskedhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/beyond-paranoia-war-against-jews/831EnglishEnglishMonique SchwarzDocumentaryHuman RightsHistoryPoliticsUsing richly layered interviews with Jewish writers, academics, journalists and communal figures, acclaimed Australian filmmaker Monique Schwarz explores the history of anti-Semitism worldwide, exposing sinister new variations of the oldest hatred.Beyond Paranoia is a passionate, personal and fearless exposé of the emergence in our time of the “new anti-Semitism.” It is a wake up call to all who thought, “never again”.Jews in the West feel safe and accepted in the havens chosen by their parents and grandparents, many of whom were survivors of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust.Some Western Jews have lived in their home communities for hundreds of years. Yet in recent decades a rise in violence against Jews has forced Jews everywhere to hire protection for their institutions, schools and synagogues as unprecedented waves of anti-Jewish hatred spread throughout the East and West.This hatred is masquerading as anti-Zionism. Propaganda, half-truths and media bias have primed "politically correct" intellectuals to demonize Israel, the Jewish State. Left-wing politicians, media pundits, filmmakers, feminists, students and academics condemn Israel's response to defend itself in the name of anti-imperialism, antiracism and pacifism.Beyond Paranoia reveals that behind this intellectual smoke-screen lurks the familiar hatred of Jews as “other”; as the Christ-killers in Christianity, as the “Monkeys and Pigs” of the Quran, and as the secret, all-powerful international conspirators pulling the strings behind banks and governments.Beyond Paranoia fights back against these lies and accusations, It unravels the rich and complex tapestry of anti-Semitism that has been woven into human society over the centuries in both the East and West. It argues that the anti-Zionist and anti-Israel violence and hatred that we now see emanating from Islamic countries and from large sections of the West, is simply the same anti-Semitism that Jews have known for thousands of years.A film by Monique SchwarzIMDbSelected Interviewees:Professor Robert WistrichItamar MarcusProfessor Raphael IsraeliDr. Manfred GerstenfeldAharon AppelfeldTuvia TenenbomHillel NeuerProfessor Phyllis CheslerDr. Mordechai KedarDownload full press kit201600:51:18Searching for the unknown Holocaust in the former Soviet Unionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/beyond-the-nistru-en/1041EnglishEnglishBoris MaftsirZvi Shefy & Boris MaftsirDocumentaryHistoryHolocaustA documentary project by Boris MaftsirOn June 22, 1941 – The German and Romanian armies attack the USSR on the southern part of the front. The Romanians aimed to return to the Dniester River and regain control of Bessarabia and North Bukovina which were taken from them in the summer of 1940 by the Soviets. In late August 1941 the Germans grant the Romanian government the region on the east bank of the Dniester River, or as it is known in Romanian – Nistru. Hitler names this area – Transnistria. The film “Beyond the Nistru” depicts some of the Holocaust events that took place during the first year of the greatest patriotic war in Romanian occupied Soviet Union territories. Episode 1 – Revenge of the Romanians – Depicts the pogroms and assassination of Jews in Moldova (Bessarabia) from the onset of Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941 until the beginning of the deportation of Bessarabia and Bukovina Jews to Transnistria.Episode 2 – Purification – Depicts the deportation of Jews from Cernauti and other towns in Bukovina and their suffering and death until they reached the ghettos of Transnistria.Episode 3 – Typhoid Outbreak – The winter of 1941/42 in Transnistria and in the Bershad and Shargorod ghettos – the death of tens of thousands of Jews from typhoid, freezing cold and starvation. The project includes eight films. Click here to explore the full collection. http://www.holocaustinussr.com/** if you have an active subscription to the platform, you can skip the following message** The film is available for free, for personal viewing, which includes a watermark. To watch it, simply click on the Play button above.If you'd like to watch the film in higher quality and without a watermark, please click on Rent and choose the rental period.For institutional use and public screening, please click on Download and choose the appropriate license.201500:23:47A portrait of the Zionist national poethttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/bialik-king-of-the-jews/710EnglishEnglishYair QedarDocumentary filmsHistoryBiographyArts and populre CultureHe was the most beloved Jew of his time. 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1934 in Tel Aviv. he became the Zionist national poet at the age of 30 – who was Chaim Nachman Bialik, also known as the King of the Jews? Using an especially designed animation for this film, a narration of Bialik by Chaim Topol (Fiddler of the Roof), and early 20th century music sung by Ninnette, Israel's' most popular singer, the film unveils the story of this once very known and loved man who layed the layers for Israeli culture.A film by Yair Qedar | Producer: Yair Qedar | Ha-Ivrim (The Hebrews) SeriesRead a review of the film in our blog 201900:23:47An unnerving, dramatic and powerful re-telling the events leading up to the death of the worlds most wanted manhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/bin-laden-the-war-on-terror/1487EnglishHistoryBiographyWar And ConflictThis documentary is at times an unnerving, dramatic and powerful re-telling the events leading up to and surrounding the death of the worlds most wanted man. This special includes a profile piece on Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda Mastermind, details of the bold military operation that found, hunted and killed Bin Laden in Pakistan, the angry reactions from Bin Laden supporters and the denial to the news of his death. It features the New York City focus on 911, War Terror (Past and Future), a profile of Osama Bin Laden, the hunt to find him and World reactions.201700:20:12Mystery and imagination surround what seems to be a simple building renovationhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/biography-en/1381EnglishEnglishArik KaufmanMaale FilmsSenior CitizensFictionA war widow writing her husband's biography suspects one of her neighbors of foul play.Miriam, an elderly war widow tormented by her young husband's death, surrounds herself with archival recordings and writes his biography in her crumbling apartment. Though she wishes only to be left alone to complete her task, her aggressive neighbors, hungry to evict her, have other ideas. 200300:52:23The film investigates the advances in the detection of and defence against biological attackhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/bioterrorism-the-truth/1025EnglishRachel Allen , Rachel HermerDocumentaryWar And ConflictScience And TechnologyIn the wake of September 11, the possibility of biological weapons being used as a terrorist attack has become a reality. 'Bioterrorism - The Truth' examines whether it could happen, how it would be executed and what we can do to protect ourselves from the consequences. Interviews include the Pentagon Chief of Biological Defence and Japan's National Institute of Infectious Diseases.Photo and poster credit: Cpl. Jake McClung201500:50:43The mysterious life and death of Tirza Atarhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/bird-in-room-he/1205EnglishHebrew (modern)Documentary filmsBiographyArts and populre CultureTwo poets, father and daughter, in a dangerous game of words. The mysterious life and death of Tirza Atar (1941-1977) - the daughter of poet Nathan Alterman, one of the all-time paragons of Israeli and Jewish culture. Atar composed hundreds of poems and song lyrics that penetrated the hearts of large audiences, wrote popular children’s books and translated plays staged in theaters. Nevertheless, her fragile, beauteous image and her short, turbulent life remain shrouded in mystery, many years after her tragic death at the age of thirty-six. The film fuses the fascinating parts of the life and work of this slight woman of prodigious talent, a kind of local princess, whose entire being and output were enmeshed in her complicated and charged relationship with her father, a national poet. The film includes brief enactments, with the participation of an actress, that converge - along with recollections, song segments and photos from her private family albums - into a multilayered emotional and lyrical journey that illuminates not only the life and work of Tirza Atar but also the life and work of Alterman. A film by Ari DavidovichREVIEWSFrom characters to narrative to visuals, this is an outstanding documentary on every level.Aaron Howard, JHVA heartfelt movie, filled with sacred moments. Davidovich succeeds in both the selection of the protagonists as well as in the framework in which he tells this drama. The great eagle and the little sparrow get along very well in this intimate display-window.Gidi Orsher / GALAZ Radio“With tears in my eyes I've watched this wonderful, heartbreaking and so very beautiful, smart and humble film. Young Tirza, Tel Aviv, Alterman and such a great poetry. What an amazing culture was created in 70 years. Run!”Igal SarnaFestivals and AwardsSpecial Mention - Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa, IsraelUK Jewish Film FestivalHouston Art Film Festival, USAMaster of Art Film Festival, Sofia, BulgariaDoku.text Film Festival, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem200400:26:42A bittersweet film about love and Israeli songshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/birkonim/149EnglishEnglishMichal Brunschwig LeviMichal Brunschwig Levi, Rivka ImbarJewishRelationshipMaale FilmsFictionBirkonim are the little booklets containing Grace After Meals which are given out at Jewish Wedding Celebrations. They usually bear an individual design or logo chosen by the Bride and Groom, the date of the wedding and the names of the newlyweds.Tzippi, a young architect, is still waiting for her young husband, from whom she has been separated, to return to her. When he calls her up and asks for a meeting she is sure that he is finally coming back to her.A bittersweet film about love, wedding booklets and Israeli music from another age.A film by Michal Brunschwig Levi   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School199900:52:00Miri and Amit are about to have their first child – away from the interfering elements of a traditional hospital birthing centerhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/birth-dialogue/179EnglishEnglishMiri Urman and Amit MillerWomen And GenderFamilyHormones, anxiety and lots of unknowns blend together as Miri and Amit are about to have their first child – away from the interfering elements of a traditional hospital birthing center. This is a story about a couple living a non-traditional lifestyle, making uncommon choices from having a home birth to raising their child in the middle of the hustle and bustle of Tel Aviv. Take an intimate journey with the parents-to-be as they document the months leading up to their home birth, as well as the delivery itself.A film by Miri Urman and Amit MillerFestivals:Ecocinema, The International Ecological Film Festival, Tel-Aviv, Israel, May 2007. The 10th International Women's Film Festival, Seoul, Korea, April 2008. The Motherbaby International Film Festival, Hamilton, Bermuda, September 2008. The VIII Flaheriana International Documentary Film Festival, Perm, Russia, September 2008. The Motherbaby International Film Festival, Traverse City, Michigan, USA, October 2008. 1st China International Environment Protection Film Festival, November 2008201000:29:12An empowering birth filmhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/birth-of-a-family/323EnglishChristina Montano and Nielsen J. van DuijnWomenDocumentary filmsFamilyThis dynamic film portrays the strength of childbirth from a father's perspective as well as shows how fluid and empowering birth can be for the birthing woman. Watch how the entire family embraces the process of birth. What would it be like to give birth naturally in a completely relaxed atmosphere without unnecessary intervention, surrounded by people we love and choose to be with? Birth of a Family is a beautiful film which shows and tells the story of one family's four home births over a twelve-year span.A film Directed by Christina MontanoFestivals:Motherbaby International Film Festivals: Traverse City Michigan, Costa Rica, Hamilton BermudaMidwifery Today Conference: King of Prussia Pennsylvania, Moscow Russia, Strasbourg FranceMANA conference: Monterey, California201300:26:01Will Blockchain fulfil the hope to transparent, democratic alternatives?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/bitcoin-blockchain-and-the-dream-of-new-money/1122EnglishEconomyThe 2008 financial crisis spread distrust in banks and sped up the acceptance of new kinds of money. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin now promise to provide transparent, democratic alternatives. Startups in the Philippines are disrupting old structures.More than 50 million Filipinos are unbanked. FinTech startups are now giving them access to money. With little access to formal banking services, millions in the Philippines can’t save money, take out loans or perform other simple financial transactions. Now FinTech startups are raising levels of financial inclusion. Founders here believe the country is ripe for change, and that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin will provide the momentum. Blockchain ambassador Lina Seiche, the founder of Blockchats, is working for change through Bitcoin and decentralized networks. SCI founder Miguel Cuneta is helping that change along by offering services like bill payment, e-commerce, cashless transactions, and of course, cryptocurrency wallets. He’s enabling people in the unbanked market - like waste-pickers - by helping them participate in the world of digital commerce. Founder David Kath is aiding them as well by eliminating middlemen in the plastic industry with technology that allows waste-pickers to triple incomes. Turned into digital tokens in an e-wallet, plastic has become their money.200901:15:46Two Haredi women are banned by their communities because they chose to disrespect bus segregationhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/black-bus/249EnglishEnglishAnat Yuta ZuriaAnat Yuta Zuria & Sigal LandesbergJewishWomen And GenderHuman RightsReligionIdentitySarah writes a harsh blog about the bleak lives of Haredi women. Shlomit is an independent photographer who documents violent incidents on segregated buses on which women are required to sit at the back. Both of them were banned by their communities because of their desire to live normal, unsuppressed lives. These young women operate entirely alone and pay a very high price for violating the number-one rule of Haredi society: "Never air dirty laundry in public". As they expose the violence of Haredi fanatics, acting in the name of modesty, they are punished by persecution and vilification. What will happen to them when they can no longer bear being shunned by their own family and friends? Which way will they choose? Where will they go? Black Bus "Soreret" tells the story of their single handed and courageous attempts to document and lead to a change in the Haredi society from which they have fled.A film by Anat Yuta ZuriaAwards & Festivals: First Prize, Haifa International Film Festival, IsraelBerlinale Film Festival, Forum of New Cinema, Germany200900:20:46The conflicting demands of love, war and religion test the strength of a bond during the 2nd Lebanon warhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/blessed/150EnglishEnglishHadas Kahan-SchlisselJewishRelationshipMaale FilmsReligionRuth's husband Uri is fighting in the Second Lebanon War. Ruth has glued the radio, listening to the names of soldiers who have been killed. When Uri comes home to leave, the couple must delay their first embrace until after Ruth has immersed herself in the ritual bath, the Mikveh. The couple is caught in a web in which the conflicting demands of love, war and religion test the strength of the bond between them.A film by Hadas Kahan-Schlissel   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School199800:10:16A comedy with a moral lessonhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/blinker/148EnglishEnglishAmichai GreenbergMaale FilmsA comedy of morals about a man who broke a blinker and didn’t leave a note.A film by Amichai Greenberg   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200401:02:29https://movie-discovery.com/movie/blood-engagement-documentary-english/1711EnglishEnglishAda UshpizShula Spiegel and Ada UshpizWomenHuman RightsChildren and AdolescentsThe personal story of two Ethiopian prisoners – one who murdered his girlfriend, the other who stabbed his wife 12 times – is the beginning of a year-long journey following the victims and their families. Thus, the weakest link in the Ethiopian community’s immigration crisis in Israel is slowly exposed: domestic violence.80% of Ethiopian prisoners in Israeli prisons have been convicted of violent crimes against women. In a reality of unemployment, poverty, alienation, detachment, foreignness and racism, the decline of the traditional power of the man as the head of the family is one blow too many for him. As the Ethiopian woman is conquered by the taste of freedom for women in Israeli society, the man clings to the privileges granted to him by tradition and refuses to let go of his grip on the only small piece of God left for him: his wife. The result of the collapse of an entire conceptual world in a heartbeat is often fatal: murder and suicide.Through the specific story of immigration and family violence in the Ethiopian community, a cultural gap is also revealed, which raises critical questions about democracy, tradition, permissiveness and the cruelty of the law, from the perspective of those born into a traditional, clan-based society.Blood Engagement won an honorable mention at the Doc Aviv Festival and was screened at many other film festivals, including the Human Rights Festival in Barcelona, ​​the Munich Documentary Festival, the Astra Anthropological Festival in Romania and more.200900:22:49Ep1 : The story of the murder of mother of three Isabelle Lewishttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/bodies-of-evidence-ep1/1014EnglishJane Sayers, Steve RaninDocumentary filmsCriminologyAn incredible series that explains how the bodies of murder victims can tell stories that can help to catch their killers. An astonishing variety of gruesome clues left on the body help give specific information that leads investigators towards the killer. The pattern of wounds, the contents of the stomach, the degree of decomposition, even the insects at the murder scene all help identify the culprit.Programme 1 Tell Tale Twist : The story of the murder of mother of three Isabelle Lewis, the police investigation to catch her killer and the invaluable work of the pathologist and forensic scientists to provide the evidence needed to convict him.200900:23:05Ep.5 : How forensic dentistry became the key to the case?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/bodies-of-evidence-ep5/1019EnglishJane Sayers, Steve RaninDocumentary filmsCriminologyAn incredible series that explains how the bodies of murder victims can tell stories that can help to catch their killers. An astonishing variety of gruesome clues left on the body help give specific information that leads investigators towards the killer. The pattern of wounds, the contents of the stomach, the degree of decomposition, even the insects at the murder scene all help identify the culprit.Programme 5 - The Jawbone Mystery : The tragic story of the murder of a young boy by a paedophile, and how forensic dentistry became the key to the case.200900:22:24Ep.6 : How the police and forensic scientists were able to prove guilt?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/bodies-of-evidence-ep6/1020EnglishJane Sayers, Steve RaninDocumentary filmsCriminologyAn incredible series that explains how the bodies of murder victims can tell stories that can help to catch their killers. An astonishing variety of gruesome clues left on the body help give specific information that leads investigators towards the killer. The pattern of wounds, the contents of the stomach, the degree of decomposition, even the insects at the murder scene all help identify the culprit.Programme 6 - The Morphine Murderer : The amazing story of a woman who survived her husband's attempts to murder her, just as he had murdered his first wife a few year's before. The programme explains just how the police and forensic scientists were able to prove his guilt.200900:23:11Ep.2 : The disturbing story of the murder of an innocent childhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/bodies-of-evidence-ep2/1016EnglishJane Sayers, Steve RaninDocumentary filmsCriminologyAn incredible series that explains how the bodies of murder victims can tell stories that can help to catch their killers. An astonishing variety of gruesome clues left on the body help give specific information that leads investigators towards the killer. The pattern of wounds, the contents of the stomach, the degree of decomposition, even the insects at the murder scene all help identify the culprit.Programme 2 The Scent of Evil : The disturbing story of the murder of an innocent child by her adoptive father, the lengths he went to try to dispose of the evidence, and the amazing teamwork of the police, pathologist and forensic experts which secured a life sentence.200900:23:05Ep.3 : The intriguing story of an unsolved suspicious deathhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/bodies-of-evidence-ep3/1017EnglishJane Sayers, Steve RaninDocumentary filmsCriminologyAn incredible series that explains how the bodies of murder victims can tell stories that can help to catch their killers. An astonishing variety of gruesome clues left on the body help give specific information that leads investigators towards the killer. The pattern of wounds, the contents of the stomach, the degree of decomposition, even the insects at the murder scene all help identify the culprit.Programme 3 The Sex of the Skeleton : The intriguing story of an unsolved suspicious death, focusing on the various techniques employed by the police and forensic experts to get an identification of the victim.200900:23:06Ep.4 : The fascinating science of forensic entomologyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/bodies-of-evidence-ep4/1018EnglishJane Sayers, Steve RaninDocumentary filmsCriminologyAn incredible series that explains how the bodies of murder victims can tell stories that can help to catch their killers. An astonishing variety of gruesome clues left on the body help give specific information that leads investigators towards the killer. The pattern of wounds, the contents of the stomach, the degree of decomposition, even the insects at the murder scene all help identify the culprit.Programme 4 The Silent Witnesses : The fascinating science of forensic entomology is explained in this story of the murder of an elderly lady, which was solved by evidence provided by insects.201700:50:00There is no access to Deir Yassinhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/born-deir-yassin-en/1605EnglishEnglishNeta ShoshaniRotem Faran, Olivier MilleDocumentary filmsHistoryWar And ConflictThe first Arab village to be conquered in ‘48 has been fenced off when the government's ‘Kfar Shaul’ mental hospital was founded on it in '51. This film tells the metamorphosis account of that piece of land. Dror get to Kfar Shaul to receive his mother's records. While he is trying to unveil the secrets of his past the filmmakers try to reveal the secrets of their founding fathers. For the first time they talk - the Lehi and Irgun fighters that occupied the village, the Haganna spies that were sent after them and the Gadna youth that buried the corpses. Through their memories the complete Israeli narrative of the Deir Yassin conquest is exposed.A film by Neta ShoshaniIMDbDeir Yassin Massacre: What really happened? - opinionIsrael Medad - Jerusalem PostPhoto by Tamara Erde 200901:10:33The incredible story of an exceptional test pilothttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/born-to-fly/9EnglishEnglishUri BorredaWarHistoryBiographyThe incredible story of an exceptional test pilot. His exciting life story is intertwined with the history of Israel aviation. All his aviation accomplishments can be described as firsts. Danny Shapira, Israel's number one pilot and one of the world's finest. Shapira's flight log features thousands of daring and hair-raising flights, from some of which he nearly did not return.A film by Uri BorredaThe story of Danny Shapira  - the Jerusalem PostDanny Shapira in Israeli F-15 Eagle Units in Combat (book)Danny Shapira in Operation Diamond (Israeli Air Force website)201701:10:33Becoming a boxer during the Holocaust saved his lifehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/boxing-for-life-en/751EnglishEnglishUri AckermanHistoryBiographyHolocaustThis is the story of a 16 year old boy from Belgium, who was faced with the choice of boxing for survival. The story makes a curious turn at the boxing ring, where he meets Victor "Young" Perez, a Tunisian born Frenchman, and the first ever Jewish World Flyweight Champion, who had become a legend during his time. The story becomes more amazing when it becomes apparent that the entire story takes place at the Auschwitz Death Camp.The Jewish boy's name is Noah Klieger, who is today 82 years old; a highly reputable reporter for the Yediot Aharonot daily newspaper; a reporter for the French Sports Magazine, L'EQUIPE; a former editor of the Sports Section of Yediot Aharonot; as well as a former chairman of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Team. The story is based on Noah's book "Dozen Rolls For Breakfast "A film by Uri Borreda201500:23:47A portrait of Y.H. Brenner, a brilliant author and a sharp critic of his generationhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/brenner-the-awakener/713EnglishEnglishYair QedarYair Qedar, Michal Weits, Gili NadavDocumentary filmsBiographyArts and populre CultureIn 1921, six dead bodies were found near the Red House between Tel Aviv and Jaffa. One was the body of Y.H. Brenner, a brilliant author, the sharp critic of his generation, a man of ambiguous sexuality and the characteristics of a raging prophet; he was well known throughout the Jewish world. An official report, written but sealed shortly after these events, was discovered only recently. It features in this film, along with animated sequences by David Polonsky (“Waltz with Bashir”), conversations with Brenner scholars, rare period stills, and selections from his works.A film by Yair Qedar | Producer: Yair Qedar | Ha-Ivrim (The Hebrews) SeriesRead a review of the movie in our blog 200601:01:21The story of a conjoint bi-national, bi-lingual school inside an Arab villagehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/bridge-over-the-wadi/324EnglishEnglishTomer HeymannIsraeli SocietyChildren and AdolescentsEducationFor the first time in Israel, a group of Arab and Jewish parents decide to establish a conjoint bi-national, bi-lingual school inside an Arab village. The film follows the school's first year and portrays through the personal stories of its characters, how complicated and fragile is the attempt to create an environment of co-existence against the backdrop of the complicated reality around.201300:26:13Eyal's family is scared to see him transforming into an orthodox religious. Will they reach an understanding?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/bringing-the-wind/113EnglishEnglishNoam KeidarJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsFamilyReligionFiction Eyal returns home from a trip to India. While traveling he has made the decision to become religiously observant. Initially, he delays revealing this to his family but soon he can no longer hide it from them. His secular parents are scared and shocked by the change in him. The transformation is hardest for Eyal's father, who has long planned that his son will join him as a partner in his successful law firm. No longer able to bear conflict and pain at home Eyal leaves to take refuge in a Breslov Hassidic community. It is in this totally unfamiliar environment that he must somehow build the bridge that will lead him back to his family.A film by Noam Keidar   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201200:14:49Preparing for the moment of confessing a dark secrethttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/broken-arrow/92EnglishEnglishAmos GilesMaale FilmsImmaterialSpecial NeedsMomo, a lonely and troubled puppeteer, seeks help and acceptance in a therapy group for social misfits, preparing for the moment he will confess his dark secret.Director: Amos Giles   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201100:26:08Shirley is waiting for a heart transplant to save her lifehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/broken-heart/147EnglishEnglishEfrat KaufmanWomen And GenderMaale FilmsIdentityShirley, a 23-year-old blogger, spends months in hospital waiting for a new heart. While she waits, she learns about the meaning of getting and giving.A film by Efrat Kaufman   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201200:33:46A young girl floats between heaven and earthhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/brown-blue-en/94EnglishEnglishHila AttiasWomenMaale FilmsImmaterialFictionA cloudy future, flowering balls a reality as the basis of dreaming; In one moment of poetry, a young girl floats between heaven and earth.A film by Hila AttiasRead a review of the movie in our blog   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201300:58:18Efforts to recover lost spiritual teachingshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/buddha-in-suburbia/1089EnglishPhilosophyThis film tracks the extraordinary journey of 40 year old Lelung Rinpoche, one of Tibetan Buddhism’s three principal reincarnations, as he sets out to gather the lost teachings of his faith and return to his homeland. For the past seven years, Lelung Rinpoche has been living in North London, in the garden shed of one of his students. He runs a dharma or teaching centre, which is attended by British followers. Now a British passport holder, he embarks on a mission to find previous Lelung’s teachings, and those who hold the key to unlocking their secrets. His fascinating odyssey takes him to India, Mongolia and China as he tries to find a way back home to Tibet. Along the way, Rinpoche meets some of Tibetan Buddhism’s most senior teachers, including the Tibetan Prime Minister in exile.This documentary follows Lelung Rinpoche as he takes on the most daunting of tasks: to recover lost spiritual teachings before they disappear for eternity whilst taking the right steps on his own path towards enlightenment. 200100:19:14A mother sets out on a journey to the valley where her son was murderedhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/by-way-of-the-wadi/164EnglishEnglishBilha BachrachMaale FilmsDocumentaryWar And ConflictOhad was murdered by terrorists at Wadi Qelt, a nature reserve of exceptional beauty and home to a number of Christian monasteries, not far from Jerusalem. Five years later, the director Bilha Bachrach, Ohad's mother, sets out to wander in the Wadi, with no fixed intention. This external journey of rocks and stones becomes an internal journey of memory and longing, as Bilha finally arrives at the exact spot where her son was killed.A film by Bilha BachrachScreenings & Prizes:"Neighbours" International film festival Haifa 2001International Students' Film Festival Belgrade 2001International Students Film Festival Ogsburg Germany 2001   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201700:50:17Is Zoophilia so different from other, more “acceptable” forms of animal exploitation?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/carnal-en/925EnglishEnglishAvner MatsliachAvner MatsliachDocumentary filmsHuman RightsPsychologyLife and EnvironmentAll I wanted was to provide some years of decent life for farm animals no longer deemed 'profitable': an "animal pension". But this turned out more expensive than I thought. One financing option was that this pension would provide sex services for tourists known as 'zoophiles'. That way I could afford more animals, giving them much better life conditions than they had in the farming industry. Challenging my digestive system, I filmed this journey, facing the cruelty and complexity of our carnal society, questioning moral tolerance and double standards.  Read a review of the film in HaAretzA film by Avner MatsliachDirector Avner Matsliach // Photo by Rafi ShlushAvner Mastliach // director, producerBorn in Jerusalem, Israel. Father of two. Ethical Vegan. Director, scriptwriter and novelist. Graduated from the full program of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film and Television School.Along with having a wide background in film and television, also published a novel "The Last Creation" in 2010.198400:15:41A biography of Israeli born artist Moshe Castelhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/castel-a-portrait-of-an-artist/353EnglishEnglishHebrew (modern)Yona ZareckyDocumentaryBiographyArts and CultureA biography of Israeli artist Moshe Castel, whose wall reliefs appear on many buildings in IsraelA film by Yona Zarecky201500:22:41Ep. 5 - The eyes are the windows to the soulhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/chasing-happiness-ep5/952EnglishAngeline SweePsychologyFamilyTo philosophers, the eyes are the windows to the soul. To doctors, our eyes are the window into our bodies and state of health. To us, our eyes are the windows to the world.This episode of Chasing Happiness explores the important and most crucial linkage to happiness - our eyes. They are the windows to our souls because what we see, we believe, we emote, we become.This episode sees Adrian undergoing a retinal test. He is also blind folded and deprived of his sight for an entire morning before he heads off to talk to the top eye surgeons and doctors.Our eyes reveal more than we realise and it is our window to happiness. Of the five, sight is perhaps one of the most important, if not privileged, sense we possess. It is a complex and intricate process of gathering, focusing and translating light into images.So how can we keep ourselves happy, and in good cheer then? By keeping our eye… on the ball, of course.Awards : Winner Best Lifestyle Programme - BANFF World Media Festival 201500:22:42Ep. 6 - why don’t we all laugh a little more?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/chasing-happiness-ep6/953EnglishAngeline SweePsychologyFamilyMusic pushed Beethoven to the brink, and then brought him back from the edge. In the final episode of Chasing Happiness, Adrian will listen to music, and endeavour to find out why it makes him rather happy.Hooked up to 6000 electrodes, which measures his brain waves and heart rate while listening to a series of music, Adrian discovers how his brain and body reacts to music.Studies have shown that simply hearing laughter is enough to make us laugh and join in the fun. The funny thing is that humans are the only species that laughs, and laughter is actually a complex response that involves many of the same skills used in solving problems.In addition to the domino effect of joy and amusement, laughter also triggers healthy physical changes in the body. So why don’t we all laugh a little more? In this episode, funny man Adrian explores the world of laughter, sounds and music. He will get his very first dose of laughter therapy.It is indeed happily ever after for Adrian.Awards : Winner Best Lifestyle Programme - BANFF World Media Festival 201500:22:41Ep. 4 - Are certain people more resilient to stress and thus happier people? https://movie-discovery.com/movie/chasing-happiness-ep4/951EnglishAngeline SweePsychologyFamilyIn this edition of Chasing Happiness, we will focus on different parts of our brain and how it correlates to happiness. Are certain people more resilient to stress and thus happier people?In sync with the digital age, Adrian will get to play with some high-tech digital toys that will pierce through his skull and allow us to see the different emotional soft spots of his brain. He undergoes a brain imaging exercise to explore the relationship between our brain and our ability to cope with stress. After all, a stress free Adrian is more likely a happier Adrian.This episode will also address depression, which is the natural polar opposite of happiness. Prolonged depression can cause structural changes in our brains. So when do we tackle depression?Adrian has another ace in hand - positive psychology. This is a fairly recent branch of psychology. It acts as an important counter-part to psychology and psychiatry. More than looking at what causes depression, positive psychology looks at what makes people thrive and flourish.Awards : Winner Best Lifestyle Programme - BANFF World Media Festival 201500:22:41Ep. 3 - The importance of a solid exercise routine in making us happy.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/chasing-happiness-ep3/950EnglishAngeline SweePsychologyFamilyHappiness comes in many forms – from the warm hug of a loved one to a delicious plate of food. But what exactly is happiness? Is it linked to our genetic makeup, and how can we measure it?This episode of Chasing Happiness sees Adrian literally on the run and chasing happiness. Following last episode’s food-emphasis, we learn about the importance of a solid exercise routine to accompany a good diet if we all want to be happy troopers. This episode captures the linkage between motion and happiness.Adrian goes into the science behind exercise and happiness. What happens physiologically when we exercise? What is a runner's high? When does the brain release the ‘feel-good’ hormone - endorphin - into our system? Does the more sedentary yoga routine elicit the same “feel good” hormone?  Is team sports more superior than solitary sports such as running in terms of the euphoria or Adrenalin rush associated to overall well being and happiness when we engage in this activities? Adrian undergoes an intensive work out, a camaraderie- building soccer session as well as a seemingly relaxing yoga session to unearth the secrets of exercise and happiness.Awards : Winner Best Lifestyle Programme - BANFF World Media Festival 201500:22:40Ep.2 - Can good food make us happy? - https://movie-discovery.com/movie/chasing-happiness-ep2/944EnglishAngeline SweePsychologyHappiness comes in many forms – from the warm hug of a loved one to a delicious plate of food. But what exactly is happiness? Is it linked to our genetic makeup, and how can we measure it?Can something as basic as food make us happy? If so, why? We sit down over lunch with experts to find out how food affects our mind and our level of happiness, perceived or other wise. We uncover the science of ‘sugar rush’ and ‘sugar crash’, learn how serotonin works to affect our mood and find out what type of diet can boost our positive vibes. Not to forget sugary sweets and treats, Adrian finds out about the energy boosting effect commonly known as ‘sugar rush’ that can give us a temporary high and the inevitable ‘sugar crash’ that follows. Then with the help of dietitians and food scientists, Adrian demystifies the relationship between food and happiness. What does the body emote when there is over supply of glucose or under supply? Does carbohydrate intake affect our moment to moment happiness. What is Serotonin and how is it linked to happiness and better moods? Are vegan diets or popular low carbohydrate diets mood enhancers or dampeners? Adrian gets right to the belly bottom of things on Hokkien Mee and HappinessAwards: Winner Best Lifestyle Programme - BANFF World Media Festival 201500:23:04Ep.1 - Is there a gene responsible for happiness? https://movie-discovery.com/movie/chasing-happiness-ep-1/943EnglishAngeline SweePsychologyHappiness, it comes in many forms and takes on infinite guises. But what exactly is happiness? Can it even be defined? What is the science behind happiness? Is it linked to our genetic make up? Is there such a gene as a happy gene?In this episode, we investigate how genome typing test can see if a person has the “ happy” gene. We find out how much being happy is a genetic disposition and how much of it comes from personal graft! Through interviews with doctors and researchers, we explore potential ways of measuring happiness – and maximising it! Awards : 2013 Winner Best Lifestyle Programme - BANFF World Media Festival201201:12:54The extraordinary personality and biography of Rabbi Shagar, told by his pupil, filmmaker and Rabbi Vardihttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/chasing-the-shadow-en/984EnglishEnglishDocumentaryBiographyReligionA personal cinematic journey of director Rabbi Mordechai Vardi, following the decease of his teacher, Rabbi Shagar from cancer at age 57.As a pupil who felt rejected, the director finds himself in an unsolved position and now, after Rabbi Shagar passed away, he sets out to scrutinize the relationship between a rabbi and a his pupil. could that relationship exist, in general, without being complex? Rabbi Mordechai Vardi is the rabbi of Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim and a director, scriptwriter and head of script-writing department at Ma'aleh school of Television, Film, & the Arts.Read more about Rabbi Shagar (Shimon Gershon Rosenberg)200600:22:27A radio host tries to change her life on airhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/cheftzi-on-air-en/117EnglishEnglishDalit Eliraz-OchanaRelationshipMaale FilmsFictionChefzi is a radio broadcaster who offers romantic advice to her single, female callers. One night, she decides to take her own advice and proposes marriage on live radio to her boyfriend Yonatan. To Chefzi's surprise, her theories don't work in practice and her world begins to collapse.A film by Dalit Eliraz-OchanaAwards:First Prize for short film, Seoul Women Film Festival 2006Promised Director, International Students Film Festival Tel Aviv 2006   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201600:51:18Episode 1: Galloping Horse, Stubborn Bullhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/chiefs-of-general-staff-en-1/1005EnglishEnglishTor Ben MayorDocumentaryWar And ConflictHistoryBiographyPoliticsThe wars and the peace agreements, the casualties, the parents and the protests, the loneliness and the responsibilities, the decisions and the criticism, the general staff and the government, the politicians and the agendas, the threats and risks, the dilemmas, the disengagement, the fate of country and the judgement of history.Twenty chiefs of the general staff shaped the Israeli Defense Forces – IDF, since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, commanding thousands of combatants and leading countless operations, while remembering those who never came back from the battlefield.Twenty chiefs of the general staff, confronting the political considerations and trying to retain a moral code in tough times. Six of them are interviewed in this series, others have passed away.For the first time in history, the chiefs of the general staff of the IDF are sharing with us their experiences, thoughts and memories.Each episode deals with a different theme, trying to analyze the complexity of the CGS role: to what extent, beyond the military operation, is the army responsible for preserving democracy? Should it be involved in the educational system? And why are so many retired CGS seem like natural candidates to be prime ministers of Israel?The story is told first hand by former CGS, along with their family members, close friends, academic researchers, political leaders and journalists, thus enabling us to explore reality from all aspects. With the participation of former CGSs Ehud Barak, Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon, Dan Halutz, Gabi Ashkenazi, Benny Gantz, Shaul Mofaz, former security minister Moshe Arens, General (ret.) Dan Tolkovsky, General (ret.) Amram Mitsna, General (ret.) Shlomo Gazit, Brigadier-general (ret.) Dr. Dov Tamari, Dalia Rabin, Omer Bar-Lev, Yael Dayan, Gidi Elazar, Adv. Zvia Gross, Prof. Itzhak Greenberg, Dr. Uri Milstein, Eitana Padan, Ron Ben-Ishay, Prof. Orna Sasson-Levi, former IDF spokeswoman Ruth Yaron, Avner ShalevCreators: Raz Hazon, Zvi Shefy, Tor Ben Mayor201600:51:18Episode 3: Restraint is Power Toohttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/chiefs-of-the-general-staff-en-3/1007EnglishEnglishTor Ben MayorDocumentaryWar And ConflictHistoryBiographyPoliticsThe wars and the peace agreements, the casualties, the parents and the protests, the loneliness and the responsibilities, the decisions and the criticism, the general staff and the government, the politicians and the agendas, the threats and risks, the dilemmas, the disengagement, the fate of country and the judgement of history.Twenty chiefs of the general staff shaped the Israeli Defense Forces – IDF, since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, commanding thousands of combatants and leading countless operations, while remembering those who never came back from the battlefield.Twenty chiefs of the general staff, confronting the political considerations and trying to retain a moral code in tough times. Six of them are interviewed in this series, others have passed away.For the first time in history, the chiefs of the general staff of the IDF are sharing with us their experiences, thoughts and memories.Each episode deals with a different theme, trying to analyze the complexity of the CGS role: to what extent, beyond the military operation, is the army responsible for preserving democracy? Should it be involved in the educational system? And why are so many retired CGS seem like natural candidates to be prime ministers of Israel?The story is told first hand by former CGS, along with their family members, close friends, academic researchers, political leaders and journalists, thus enabling us to explore reality from all aspects. With the participation of former CGSs Ehud Barak, Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon, Dan Halutz, Gabi Ashkenazi, Benny Gantz, Shaul Mofaz, former security minister Moshe Arens, General (ret.) Dan Tolkovsky, General (ret.) Amram Mitsna, General (ret.) Shlomo Gazit, Brigadier-general (ret.) Dr. Dov Tamari, Dalia Rabin, Omer Bar-Lev, Yael Dayan, Gidi Elazar, Adv. Zvia Gross, Prof. Itzhak Greenberg, Dr. Uri Milstein, Eitana Padan, Ron Ben-Ishay, Prof. Orna Sasson-Levi, former IDF spokeswoman Ruth Yaron, Avner ShalevCreators: Raz Hazon, Zvi Shefy, Tor Ben Mayor201600:51:18Episode 5: The Protector of Democracyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/chiefs-general-staff-en-5/1008EnglishEnglishTor Ben MayorDocumentaryWar And ConflictHistoryBiographyPoliticsThe wars and the peace agreements, the casualties, the parents and the protests, the loneliness and the responsibilities, the decisions and the criticism, the general staff and the government, the politicians and the agendas, the threats and risks, the dilemmas, the disengagement, the fate of country and the judgement of history.Twenty chiefs of the general staff shaped the Israeli Defense Forces – IDF, since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, commanding thousands of combatants and leading countless operations, while remembering those who never came back from the battlefield.Twenty chiefs of the general staff, confronting the political considerations and trying to retain a moral code in tough times. Six of them are interviewed in this series, others have passed away.For the first time in history, the chiefs of the general staff of the IDF are sharing with us their experiences, thoughts and memories.Each episode deals with a different theme, trying to analyze the complexity of the CGS role: to what extent, beyond the military operation, is the army responsible for preserving democracy? Should it be involved in the educational system? And why are so many retired CGS seem like natural candidates to be prime ministers of Israel?The story is told first hand by former CGS, along with their family members, close friends, academic researchers, political leaders and journalists, thus enabling us to explore reality from all aspects. With the participation of former CGSs Ehud Barak, Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon, Dan Halutz, Gabi Ashkenazi, Benny Gantz, Shaul Mofaz, former security minister Moshe Arens, General (ret.) Dan Tolkovsky, General (ret.) Amram Mitsna, General (ret.) Shlomo Gazit, Brigadier-general (ret.) Dr. Dov Tamari, Dalia Rabin, Omer Bar-Lev, Yael Dayan, Gidi Elazar, Adv. Zvia Gross, Prof. Itzhak Greenberg, Dr. Uri Milstein, Eitana Padan, Ron Ben-Ishay, Prof. Orna Sasson-Levi, former IDF spokeswoman Ruth Yaron, Avner ShalevCreators: Raz Hazon, Zvi Shefy, Tor Ben Mayor201600:51:18Episode 2: Lonely at the Tophttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/chiefs-general-staff-en-2/1009EnglishEnglishTor Ben MayorDocumentaryWar And ConflictHistoryBiographyPoliticsThe wars and the peace agreements, the casualties, the parents and the protests, the loneliness and the responsibilities, the decisions and the criticism, the general staff and the government, the politicians and the agendas, the threats and risks, the dilemmas, the disengagement, the fate of country and the judgement of history.Twenty chiefs of the general staff shaped the Israeli Defense Forces – IDF, since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, commanding thousands of combatants and leading countless operations, while remembering those who never came back from the battlefield.Twenty chiefs of the general staff, confronting the political considerations and trying to retain a moral code in tough times. Six of them are interviewed in this series, others have passed away.For the first time in history, the chiefs of the general staff of the IDF are sharing with us their experiences, thoughts and memories.Each episode deals with a different theme, trying to analyze the complexity of the CGS role: to what extent, beyond the military operation, is the army responsible for preserving democracy? Should it be involved in the educational system? And why are so many retired CGS seem like natural candidates to be prime ministers of Israel?The story is told first hand by former CGS, along with their family members, close friends, academic researchers, political leaders and journalists, thus enabling us to explore reality from all aspects. With the participation of former CGSs Ehud Barak, Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon, Dan Halutz, Gabi Ashkenazi, Benny Gantz, Shaul Mofaz, former security minister Moshe Arens, General (ret.) Dan Tolkovsky, General (ret.) Amram Mitsna, General (ret.) Shlomo Gazit, Brigadier-general (ret.) Dr. Dov Tamari, Dalia Rabin, Omer Bar-Lev, Yael Dayan, Gidi Elazar, Adv. Zvia Gross, Prof. Itzhak Greenberg, Dr. Uri Milstein, Eitana Padan, Ron Ben-Ishay, Prof. Orna Sasson-Levi, former IDF spokeswoman Ruth Yaron, Avner ShalevCreators: Raz Hazon, Zvi Shefy, Tor Ben Mayor201600:51:18Episode 4: Uniforms and Suitshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/chiefs-general-staff-en-4/1011EnglishEnglishTor Ben MayorDocumentaryWar And ConflictHistoryBiographyPoliticsThe wars and the peace agreements, the casualties, the parents and the protests, the loneliness and the responsibilities, the decisions and the criticism, the general staff and the government, the politicians and the agendas, the threats and risks, the dilemmas, the disengagement, the fate of country and the judgement of history.Twenty chiefs of the general staff shaped the Israeli Defense Forces – IDF, since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, commanding thousands of combatants and leading countless operations, while remembering those who never came back from the battlefield.Twenty chiefs of the general staff, confronting the political considerations and trying to retain a moral code in tough times. Six of them are interviewed in this series, others have passed away.For the first time in history, the chiefs of the general staff of the IDF are sharing with us their experiences, thoughts and memories.Each episode deals with a different theme, trying to analyze the complexity of the CGS role: to what extent, beyond the military operation, is the army responsible for preserving democracy? Should it be involved in the educational system? And why are so many retired CGS seem like natural candidates to be prime ministers of Israel?The story is told first hand by former CGS, along with their family members, close friends, academic researchers, political leaders and journalists, thus enabling us to explore reality from all aspects. With the participation of former CGSs Ehud Barak, Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon, Dan Halutz, Gabi Ashkenazi, Benny Gantz, Shaul Mofaz, former security minister Moshe Arens, General (ret.) Dan Tolkovsky, General (ret.) Amram Mitsna, General (ret.) Shlomo Gazit, Brigadier-general (ret.) Dr. Dov Tamari, Dalia Rabin, Omer Bar-Lev, Yael Dayan, Gidi Elazar, Adv. Zvia Gross, Prof. Itzhak Greenberg, Dr. Uri Milstein, Eitana Padan, Ron Ben-Ishay, Prof. Orna Sasson-Levi, former IDF spokeswoman Ruth Yaron, Avner ShalevCreators: Raz Hazon, Zvi Shefy, Tor Ben Mayor202001:02:29A distressing portrait of a lost childhoodhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/children-documentary/1704EnglishEnglishBilal SaedHuman RightsChildren and AdolescentsWar And ConflictThe Israeli authorities had observed minors who take an active part in the Intifada (uprising), especially with knives. Those minors are arrested and interrogated. Ada Ushpiz, a renowned and sensitive filmmaker and a journalist, succeeded in approaching the kids and families up close and gain their cooperation and trust. She accompanied the dubious insurgents over several years and intimately documented the events.An amazing and moving documentary masterpieceMDR TV, BerlinMore than two hours with Palestinian children and their families, shot over years, masterly put together by a director with a point of view and big heart for the kidsFilmkommentaren.dkHeart BreakingDoc EuropaDocumentarist Ada Ushpiz has created a distressing, intimate studyScreen DailyWatch an interview of film director Ada Ushpiz with film critic Avner Shavit, in the framework of the Jerusalem Film Festival (Hebrew with English subtitles)Ada Ushpiz - film directorAda Ushpiz is a renowned Israeli film producer and director. She graduated in Philosophy and History from Tel Aviv University and worked as a journalist for many years, specializing in politics. She has directed numerous documentaries, including Detained (2001), Bloody Engagement (2004), Desert Brides (2008), Good Garbage (2012) and Vita Activa, The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015), an intimate portrait of Hannah Arendt. 200701:00:00Growing up in the Kibbutz, told by the first generation of childrenhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/children-of-the-sun-en/1171EnglishEnglishRan TalIsraeli SocietyAnthropologyChildren of the first kibbutzim in Israel were born in the early 20th century to youthful parents, full of hope. They have been called “Children of the Sun”, because they considered them children of the “Sun of Nations” Revolution in Israel. They were born into a utopia and were destined to become the “New Man”. They were educated in an ideological society that aspired to replace the traditional family with the collective one, to subjugate the will of the individual in favour of the common good and a life of equality.“Children of the Sun” tells the story of the journey in search of a society’s memory and the concepts that have passed from the world. The film is a collage comprised of over eighty amateur films. Rare footage that was shot at the kibbutzim between 1930 and 1970, rare recordings and conversations with family and friends.The tapestry of rare materials from which the film is compiled creates both a very personal and very public story, a form of super story about one of the most fascinating myths of the Zionist movement in the Land of Israel..A film by Ran TalREVIEWSA Mosaic of Mibbutz MemoriesHaaretz"Children of the Sun" shinesJerusalem PostClick here for more reviewsAWARDSAudience Award  – Israfest Festival, NY, 2008Grand Prix  – The 6th Warsaw International jewish Film Festival, Poland, 2008Best Best Documentary Award  - The 6th Warsaw International Jewish Film Festival, Poland, 2008Best Sound  – The 6th Warsaw international Jewish Film Festival, Poland, 2008Best Documentary  – The Israeli Academy Awards, 2008FIAT Award for Best Use Archival Footage , 2008Best Documentary  – The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008Best Directing  – The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008Best Production  – The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008Best Editing  – The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008Best Original Score  – The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008Best Sound  – The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008Best Research  – The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008Walgin Award for Best Documentary Film  – The Jerusalem Film Festival, 2007Best Editing Award  - The Jerusalem Film Festival, 2007The Audio Visual Award  - The Jerusalem Film Festival, 2007201500:52:22The changing face of China is both intriguing and confrontational. https://movie-discovery.com/movie/chinas-3-dreams/1078EnglishEnglishNick TorrensDocumentary filmsFrom award-winning director Nick Torrens, this absorbing documentary about the changing face of China is both intriguing and confrontational.Once China’s ordinary citizens dreamed of a watch, a bicycle and a radio. Today they strive for wealth and a better life, often to the detriment of family and tradition. The generation gap widens as grandparents are reluctant to speak of their experiences during the Cultural Revolution and grandchildren are only concerned with material gains, saying, “I’d rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bicycle.”Confused by the expurgated history they learned at school, the subjects of this film are making their way with three new dreams to guide them: the dream of the present, to make China rich and powerful, the dream of the future, to find a personally better life; and the almost-impossible dream of the past, the dream of meaningful existence. Twelve years in the making and featuring rare archive and powerful personal testimony from former Red Guards, China’s 3 Dreams opens the door on the past and questions its impact on the present.201600:23:47A form of Chinese dance that draws sources from body movements and hints at the deep meaning of Buddhismhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/chinese-classical-dance-dunhuang-and-long-sleeve/1583EnglishMing Chen, Sandra Parks, Jack McNeillMing Chen, Sandra Parks, Stella XuArts and Popular CultureMusicSeries IntroWith beautiful sights and sounds, this series provides a rare glimpse into Chinese culture through the introduction of seven representative dance forms. It traces the historical and geographical roots of the dance traditions in China and looks into what inspires people to create dance, how contemporary artists breathe new life into the dance traditions, as well as the distinguishing features and techniques of each dance form. Featuring internationally recognized Chinese dance master, choreographer and director Yang Liping and internationally acclaimed dance choreographer Zheng Jigang.DescriptionDunhuang Dance is a form of Chinese dance that draws sources from body movements depicted in artifacts found in Dunhuang Mogao Caves. Located in Gansu Province of China, along the Silk Route, at the crossroads of trade as well as religious, cultural and intellectual influences, the seven hundred and thirty five caves are famous for their statues and fresco paintings, spanning 1,000 year of Buddhist art. Thousand Hand Guan Yin, a representative of Dunhuang Dance featured in this program is a contemporary creation conceived by the renowned Chinese choreographer, ZHANG Jigang, and produced by the China Disabled Performing Art Troupe. In this dance, a group of hearing-impaired dancers effectively utilize their body language to communicate the magic of "thousand hands" and hints at the deep meaning of Buddhism, its luminescence and boundless love. Long Sleeve Dance provides an overview of the historical development of Long Sleeve Dance, a dance form dating back to the 7th century B.C.E, a time that is known as the Spring-and-Autumn period in Chinese history. It introduces a handful of codified language of Long Sleeve Dance. Highlighted are the long Sleeve dance performances titled The Colors of Water choreographed by WANG Yukun and MIAO Xiaolong and Zhao Jun Departs the Frontier choreographed by JIANG Huaxuan. In Zhao Jun Departs the Frontier, LIU Min, a nationally acclaimed dance master, employes exquisite language of Long Sleeve to convey the conflicted emotions of ZHAO Jun (one of "The Four Beauties" known in Chinese History) as she Leaves her homeland and lavish lifestyle for the grasslands of the remote north as part of peace treaty. The dance tells an ancient story of loyalty, heroism and self-sacrifice for the common good.201600:23:47The historical and geographical roots of the dance traditions in Chinahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/chinese-ethnic-dance-dai-aini-tibet-inner-mongolia-han/1584EnglishEnglishMing Chen, Sandra Parks, Jack McNeillMing Chen, Sandra Parks, Stella XuArts and Popular CultureMusicSeries IntroWith beautiful sights and sounds, this series provides a rare glimpse into Chinese culture through the introduction of seven representative dance forms. It traces the historical and geographical roots of the dance traditions in China and looks into what inspires people to create dance, how contemporary artists breathe new life into the dance traditions, as well as the distinguishing features and techniques of each dance form. Featuring internationally recognized Chinese dance master, choreographer and director Yang Liping and internationally acclaimed dance choreographer Zheng Jigang.DescriptionEthnic Dance-Dai: Located in the southwest region of China, Dai people enjoy mild weather and beautiful landscapes of mountains and lakes. While the water splashing and dragon boating events held in their annual spring festival showcase the close ties between their culture and the land, the water running in the rivers and lakes has often been the inspiration for their dance creations. The dance presentation titled Playing with Water allows the audience to experience vicariously the heat of the sunlight and the crystal clear water streaming though the river. This dance captures the unique body movements of Dai Dance that reflects the cordial and gentle nature of this ethnic group. Ethnic Dance-Aini: Neighboring with the Dai group, Aini group lives primarily in and around mountains and canyons at an altitude of twenty-five to eighty hundred feet. They are famous for their production of Pu Er Tea. Dancing and singing are second nature to the Aini people. In this program, while listening to the folk song titled Magical Village by famous Aini singer MI Xian, the audience will enjoy Aini's cultural traditions of tea brewing and folk dancing by girls clapping to the rhythm and wearing spectacular ceremonial costumes. Ethnic Dance-Tibetan: Living on the Plateau, at an average elevation of over 12 thousand feet above sea level, the Tibetan people are known to be compassionate, bold, candid and devout. Most Tibetans practice Tibetan Buddhism. Just as the distinctive geographical and weather conditions in the region have influenced their dance movements, Tibetan's sacred religious beliefs and political climate have also had an impact. This program combines both Tibetan folk dance and stage dance performances of The Song of the Emancipated Serfs choreographed by XU Xiaoping of China Central University for Nationalities and Tibetan Mystery choreographed by YANG Liping (also lead dancer). In addition, Madam Yang provides insight into her artistic and casting choices for Tibetan Mystery.Ethnic Dance-Inner Mongolian: In this program, the ethereal voice of Buren Bayaer (a legendary Inner Mongolian Singer), along with the images of yurts and running horses, brings the audience to an otherworldly setting of Inner Mongolia. Inner Mongolians, in general, are known to excel at horse riding. The span of the great plain has cultivated the openness and strength in this ethnic group and nurtured their vigorous, bold and energetic dances. Distinguished Inner Mongolian dancers, Dun E Er and Si Qin Hua, demonstrate traditional Mongolian Horse Dance, Chopstick Dance and Bowl Dance. It features Leaping Horses choreographed by MA Yue of China Central University for Nationalities, a contemporary stage dance presentation inspired by Mongolian horse dance tradition. An interview with MA Yue provides an insight into the conceptual and artistic choices made in the creation of this dance piece.Ethnic Dance-Han: Han is the largest ethnic group in China, whose people inhabit the middle and eastern regions of the country. Han's folk dance tradition started on the streets in the 5th century as ritual events. Nowadays, this tradition named Yangko flourishes everywhere, on the streets, in classrooms and on stages. This program showcases a myriad of Yangko forms, both on and off stage, including Northeastern Yanko, Shandong Yanko and Shanbei Yanko, each has its distinctive features. The stage presentations of the Northeastern Yanko titled Happy Snow choreographed by WANG Xiaoyan and performed by MING Li of Shanghai Theatre Academy and the Shandong Yanko named Blossoms of Mountain Flowers choreographed by CHI Hong and MIAO Xiaolong and performed/produced by the Dance Department of Shanghai Normal University are stunning examples of this dance form.200400:56:16A film about a group of young Israelis that came to America to make some easy money and found them self working as ice cream car drivers in north Carolinahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/choco-banana-in-north-carolina/232EnglishEnglishNisan KatzDocumentaryImmigrationAnthropologyA film about a group of young Israelis that came to America to make some easy money and found them self-working as ice cream car drivers in north Carolina, and Without even knowing the language, they became the kings of the southern neighborhoods. See America through the ice cream truck window.A film by Nisan Katz201901:02:29https://movie-discovery.com/movie/cindy-film-shemer-gaon-en/1699EnglishEnglishShemer Gaon BarabaAdar Shafran and roni Abramovski // Firma פירמהWomenFictionZoologyNavit, a young dairy farmer in a village at the south of Israel drives together with her dad Victor to sell their cow Cindy to an Arab meat dealer. Navit, convinced that her dad thinks she is a pro dairy farmer, but she realizes that Victor brought her to the meeting for different reasons.Duration: 16 minutes // Narrative201500:53:19The film weaves Dahlia Ravikovitch's poetry and biography into an intricate storyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/clockwork-doll/290EnglishEnglishRuth WalkDocumentary filmsPsychologyArts and Popular CultureMusicThe poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch emerges from an extraordinary, personal and uniquely wonderful place. Other poets strive repeatedly to achieve all that is so naturally present in her poems" (Baruch Kurzweil, Literary Critic, 1959).Ravikovitch struggled with depression and fluctuated between intense vitality and eagerness to partake in any moral and political discussion, and deep loneliness that led to her attempting suicide. All of which is reflected clearly in her poems.The film weaves her poetry and biography into an intricate story, trying to solve the riddle of her life through people who knew her intimately as well as through rare archive material.A film by Ruth WalkFestivalsAustralia Israel Cultural Exchange- Palace Cinema, August 2015Docaviv International Film Festival, May 2015201300:13:31On the day of retirement, past and present begin to blurhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/closing-up-en/110EnglishEnglishAchva HershtikCouplesMaale FilmsSenior CitizensFiction Nahum, a 75-year-old picture frame shop owner. He wraps up and empties the contents preparing to close the shop. In the last few years, things were slow and people hardly came into the store. On the last day, there are customers and unexpected things happen. Nahum’s past and present begin to blur.A film by Achva Hershtik   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201800:42:26A labyrinth of dark tunnels - hard life in a coal mine.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/coal-mining-in-americas-heartland/1119EnglishAnthropologyEconomy"Wild, wonderful West Virginia” - that’s how the small state nestled in the Appalachian Mountains bills itself. This documentary reports on the daily struggle facing local coal miners hoping for help from Donald Trump; a sheriff combating the opioid epidemic that has already claimed thousands of lives; and a Cherokee environmental activist whose efforts have earned her intimidation and threats. The whistle of a locomotive at the front of an old coal train, quiet winding roads, and hardly a highway to be found - that’s still the image that many have of West Virginia today. But beneath the forest-covered mountains lies a labyrinth of tunnels just one meter high, in which miners still spend their entire working days toiling in the dark on their hands and knees. The camera team accompanies a traditional coal mining family as they go about their day. Together with the family’s two sons, Scott and Steven Lockhart, the crew ventures into the mine. Conversations with the miners reveal why people who had been lifelong Democratic Party supporters are suddenly placing their hopes for the future in Donald Trump. But the documentary also ventures beyond the coal mines to uncover the lesser-known sides of this Appalachian state - from snake-handling Pentecostal churches to the bluegrass and mountain ballads of Alan Cathead Johnston. We also speak with Sheriff Martin West, who sued the country’s three biggest pharmaceutical makers for their role in the opioid epidemic that has swept the region. And we meet another person who has decided to fight back: Maria Gunnoe, a young Cherokee activist who has dared to take on the coal barons that are ravaging the beautiful mountains of West Virginia.200000:23:47A provocative modern day portrait of a religious couplehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/cohens-wife/1EnglishEnglishNava Nussan HefetzJewish way of lifeCouplesWomenMaale FilmsFictionAfter being raped by a stranger, a young ultra-orthodox woman awaits a Rabbinical decision about whether or not her husband should divorce her. Jewish law states that 'If the wife of a Cohen (descendant of a priest) is raped, she is forbidden to her husband.' Cohen's Wife is a provocative modern day portrait of a couple torn between religious law and marital devotion.Director: Nava Nussan Hefetz  Produced by Maaleh Film School201700:19:30A young girl searches for the father who abandoned her as a childhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/cold-water-en/880EnglishEnglishTehila Peter-DanskerMaale FilmsFamilyFictionA young girl's search for the father who abandoned her as a child leads her to his present home and the discovery that he is now an ultra-Orthodox Jew. A film by Tehila Peter-Dansker  Produced by Maaleh Film School200500:18:24A romantic comedy with a poignant subtext about the engagement processhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/come-back-shulamit-en/146EnglishEnglishSheva Shrader-SabagJewish way of lifeCouplesMaale FilmsFamilyOn the way from a fitting for her wedding dress, Shulamit is involved in a car accident which results in amnesia. Shulamit can remember nothing related to her fiance or to her upcoming wedding. The wedding is due to take place in three weeks, and the families are in an uproar. A romantic comedy with a poignant subtext about the engagement process.A film by Sheva Shrader-SabagFestivalsIsraeli Film Festival NY, 2006Women's Film Festival NY, 2006   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201100:23:44When the rope begins tearing apart, the family needs to find a way to repair their relationshipshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/come-to-daddy/96EnglishEnglishDanny TzurMaale FilmsFamilyChildren and AdolescentsThe Heart of the Desert.Two brothers decide to go on a snap line in the dessert, on their mother's memorial day. The presence of their father, who is waiting for them at the bottom of the hill, is affecting their descent. When the rope begins tearing apart, the family needs to find a way to repair their relationships.Director: Danny Tzur   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201300:24:20A spiritual journey into the mind of a Yeshiva studenthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/cornerstone-en/129EnglishEnglishDavid TauberJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsIsraeli SocietyReligionFictionIdentityIn yeshiva when you're hungry eat. When you're tired sleep. If you're not hungry or tired, sit and learn. If you're not learning, what are you doing here? What happens when you are stuck between success and failure, between faith and doubt? What happens along the edges of the Beit Midrash (Study Hall)?A film by David TauberAwardsBest Drama, Ma'aleh Graduate Ceremony 2013Best Jewish Film, Ma'aleh Graduate Ceremony 2013   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200500:51:57A film about women, God and everything in between.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/covenant-brith/238EnglishEnglishNurit Jacobs YinonJewishWomen And GenderHuman RightsIdentityNurit Jacobs YinonA Jewish fetus grows for nine months in its mother's womb. Eight days after the birth, her husband must circumcise him. The husband blesses, while the mother remains a distant spectator upon the covenant that is made between her son and her Maker. The moment, which in reality lasts for a number of seconds, is just a tip of the tension between faith, religion and religious law, between cultural conventions and the most basic feelings of a mother, who in any other case would give her life to prevent her son from being hurt. The film focuses on the eight days between birth and circumcision, a week in which powerful emotions bring women to the heights of joy and the depths of pain, in which the extremities of the relationships with God are found. God who takes part in the creation, who determines one's fate, who is closer and further away than ever. Is there a way for a woman to worship her God? To love her God? To be angry at him? Covenant is a film about women, God and all that's in between.A film by Nurit Jacobs YinonFestivals: Best documentary film of Religion Today International film festival, Trento, Italy, 2006 Jersey Shore Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2007Nazareth International Human Rights Film Festival, Israel, 2006 Dickinson College, USA, 2007Austin Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2007Delray Beach Film Festival, USA, 2007Nazareth International Human Rights Film Festival, Israel, 2006Religion Today International Film Festival, Trento, Italy, 2006 Holy Land in the Heartland, USA, 2006 Sesily International Film Festival, Georgia, USA, 2006 Warsaw Jewish Motifs Film Festival, Poland, 2006 The Jewish Experience Section – The Jerusalem International Film Festival, 2005201800:52:33An inner look at the world of Jewish ultra orthodox women through hairhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/covered-up-en/1213EnglishEnglishRachel ElitzurJewish way of lifeDocumentary filmsReligionRachel, an ultra-orthodox young woman, entered an 'arranged' marriage ready to be a "kosher" woman doing the will of her husband. After her marriage fails and she gets divorced, she asks permission to remove her wig – an unusual move in the ultra-Orthodox society. Facing the opposition from her parents and society, she starts to question the religion’s attitude to woman and her own body and mind.A film by Rachel ElitzurRachel grew up in an ultra orthodox house and is a graduate of Ma'ale film school in Jerusalem.Today she manages the ultra orthodox Jewish film studies in Ma'ale film school and has completed her fiction film The Youngest (Mejinke). 200900:20:21A father and son try to bridge a long time gap between them during one weekendhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/cracks-en/145EnglishEnglishErez HadadJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsFamilyAaron decides to stay behind at the Yeshiva one weekend when all his friends have left to go home. He is surprised by the arrival of his father, with whom he has had no contact for some time. The prayers and meals which they share together over the Sabbath, are shadowed by tension and the embarrassing silences between them. The ice begins to break eventually, but too late, it turns out, for both of them.A film by Erez HadadFestivalsBest film on Jewish Issues, Ma'aleh Graduation Awards 2008International Film Festival, Haifa 2009Religion Today Film Festival, Trento Italy 2009   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200900:46:05In Cuba everything is expressed through musichttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/cuba-is-music/257EnglishEnglishIlian DjevelekovDocumentaryArts and CultureMusicAnthropologyIn Cuba, everything is expressed by music - the declaration of love and the rich harvest, the birth of a child and the loss of a donkey, the longing and the melancholy. The Cuban music is well-known all over the world but only a few people know what "son" and "bolero" mean when these styles emerged and where they originated from. Thanks to the great Bulgarian singer Yordanka Hristova we are opening the secret room of Cuban music and the forgotten files where the history of "son" and "bolero" is kept.A film by Ilian DjevelekovFestivals & Awards:Sofia International Film Festival 2009– Documentary Program Out of CompetitionTemecula Valley International Film and Music Festival, California 2009– Documentary ProgramBulgarian Documentary and Animation Film Festival "Golden Rhyton", Plovdiv 2009– CompetitionInternational TV Festival "Golden Chest", Plovdiv 2009– CompetitionEastSilver Film Market, Jihlava 2009– Nominated for Silver Eye AwardWorld Film Festival of Bangkok, 2009– Music and Dance SectionBulgarian Film Festival in New York, 2009Romanian International Film Festival, 2010– CineBlackSea Documentary CompetitionCinePecs International Film Festival, 2010– Focus SectionInternational Festival of Films about Music KAMERaTON, Poland 2011– Main Competition200600:53:05The personal stories of American Veteranshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/d-day-the-price-of-freedom/1469EnglishWarHistoryFive D-Day veterans return to Normandy and re-visit the locations they landed on June 6, 1944, sharing their own very personal stories of war. New England region Emmy Awards for writing and photography.201000:32:44Eli, an air force pilot, is grounded and only his son, Tomer, can see his painhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/daddy-bird-en/143EnglishEnglishEliav MasonMaale FilmsWar And ConflictPsychologyFamilyChildren and AdolescentsFictionTomer is 8 years old. His father, Eli, is an air-force pilot. Eli and his friends know how to fly airplanes, how to navigate by the stars, and how to fight in the air. This is the stuff of bedtime stories, and Eli is the best storyteller in the world. One day Eli comes home from work and is no longer a pilot. But only Tomer knows the big secret – his father can fly without the help of airplanes or friends.A film by Eliav Mason   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201600:23:47This film explores the astonishing life and work Italian poet who have greatly influenced humanity at large.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/dante-the-first-renaissance-man/1528EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureThis film by Malcolm Hossick explores the astonishing life and work of the 14th century Italian poet Dante. He wrote in everyday Italian and was the first writer to explore the life of the individual in any depth. His ideas have filtered down through the ages and have greatly influenced humanity at large.201600:28:23Three women, unknown to each other, meet in tragic circumstanceshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/daughter-en/1111EnglishJayne Sarah PortelliWomen And GenderInspired by the tragic murders cases of Jill Meagher in Brunswick and St Kilda’s own Tracy Connelly, Daughter explores how women are viewed in society by following three opposing female characters on a Friday night out in St Kilda. The women vary in age, culture, wealth, education and social status, but their lives will become entwined and affected by an act of violence on this faithful night.200700:51:50In 1920 David Burliuk travelled to Japan ,where he cooperated with the emerging Japanese futurist movement on whom he had an enormous influencehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/david-burliuk-and-the-japanese-avant-garde/222EnglishMichael CraigHistoryArts and CultureThe fifth film in the documentary series by Copernicus Films about the Russian avant-garde. In 1920 David Burliuk travelled to Japan from Russia, where he spent two years before finally emigrating to America. Born in the Ukraine, David Burliuk was known as the Father of Russian futurism but after the revolution he and his family found it necessary to leave Russia. Whilst in Japan he cooperated with the emerging Japanese futurist movement with whom he had an enormous influence.A film by Michael Craig201400:23:47One of the most important days in world history is remembered by the people who were actually therehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/day-of-days-june-6-1944-american-soldiers-remember-d-day/1470EnglishWarHistoryThey were the best the United States had to offer and on June 6, 1944 their nation sent them through the gates of Hell in Normandy, France. They fought inland and on Utah Beach and faced murderous MG-42 machine gun fire, mortars and artillery on Omaha Beach. Day of Days June 6, 1944 is an opportunity to eavesdrop as one of the most important days in the history of the world is recalled by those who were actually there, did the fighting and witnessed the devastation.200600:45:34Understanding what a dyslexic person encounters in his or her life.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/decoding-dyslexia/982EnglishDocumentaryPsychologyScience And TechnologyFamilyEducationEight percent of the world’s population is estimated to be dyslexic. But very few people understand of recognise this condition.Decoding Dyslexia provides an experiential, first-person understanding of what Dyslexia is and the challenges a dyslexic person encounters in his or her life. Usually when people hear the word dyslexia they only think of the reading, writing spelling and maths problems a child is having in school. Some associate it with word and letter reversals, some only with slow learners and laziness.Decoding Dyslexia demonstrates through personal stories how some dyslexic people have suffered injustices, humiliation, and unfair treatment due to their condition.Conversely, we meet successful dyslexic adults who use the positive side of their dyslexia without even realising it. They simply think they have a knack for doing something, without realising that their special talent comes from the mental functions that prevent them from being able to read write or spell very well.Decoding Dyslexia will change viewers perspective of dyslexia from disability to gift by explaining in an accessible way both the negative and positive sides of the condition.201400:41:59Stories from court, told from the perspective of the Public Defensehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/defense-files-death-en/1220EnglishEnglishMoish goldbergAmiqam GoldmanDocumentary filmsHuman RightsCriminologyAn unprecedented documentation of the Public Defense work in Israel. The six episodes series follows public attorneys and their defendants, revealing human stories and moving emotional dramas.Won the Israeli Documentary Film Forum Award for Best Documentary SeriesA series by Moish GoldbergRead here about the Public Defense in Israel (Wikipedia)The Public Defense in the Ministry Of Justice (English)201400:41:59Stories from court, told from the perspective of the Public Defensehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/defense-files-family-en/1221EnglishEnglishMoish goldbergAmiqam GoldmanDocumentary filmsHuman RightsCriminologyAn unprecedented documentation of the Public Defense work in Israel. The six episodes series follows public attorneys and their defendants, revealing human stories and moving emotional dramas.Won the Israeli Documentary Film Forum Award for Best Documentary SeriesA series by Moish GoldbergRead here about the Public Defense in Israel (Wikipedia)The Public Defense in the Ministry Of Justice (English)201400:41:59Stories from court, told from the perspective of the Public Defensehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/defense-files-monet-en/1228EnglishEnglishMoish goldbergAmikam GoldmanDocumentary filmsHuman RightsCriminologyAn unprecedented documentation of the Public Defense work in Israel. The six episodes series follows public attorneys and their defendants, revealing human stories and moving emotional dramas.Won the Israeli Documentary Film Forum Award for Best Documentary SeriesA series by Moish GoldbergRead here about the Public Defense in Israel (Wikipedia)The Public Defense in the Ministry Of Justice (English)201400:41:59Stories from court, told from the perspective of the Public Defensehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/defense-files-rehab-en/1222EnglishEnglishMoish goldbergAmiqam GoldmanDocumentary filmsHuman RightsCriminologyAn unprecedented documentation of the Public Defense work in Israel. The six episodes series follows public attorneys and their defendants, revealing human stories and moving emotional dramas.Won the Israeli Documentary Film Forum Award for Best Documentary SeriesA series by Moish GoldbergRead here about the Public Defense in Israel (Wikipedia)The Public Defense in the Ministry Of Justice (English)201400:41:59Stories from court, told from the perspective of Public Defensehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/defense-files-women-en/1219EnglishEnglishMoish goldbergAmiqam GoldmanDocumentary filmsHuman RightsCriminologyAn unprecedented documentation of the Public Defense work in Israel. The six episodes series follows public attorneys and their defendants, revealing human stories and moving emotional dramas.Won the Israeli Documentary Film Forum Award for Best Documentary SeriesA series by Moish GoldbergRead here about the Public Defense in Israel (Wikipedia)The Public Defense in the Ministry Of Justice (English)201400:41:59Stories from court, told from the perspective of the Public Defensehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/defense-files-young-en/1223EnglishEnglishMoish goldbergAmikam GoldmanDocumentary filmsHuman RightsCriminologyAn unprecedented documentation of the Public Defense work in Israel. The six episodes series follows public attorneys and their defendants, revealing human stories and moving emotional dramas.Won the Israeli Documentary Film Forum Award for Best Documentary SeriesA series by Moish GoldbergRead here about the Public Defense in Israel (Wikipedia)The Public Defense in the Ministry Of Justice (English)202000:23:47https://movie-discovery.com/movie/democracy/1554EnglishHuman RightsHistoryThe short-lived democratic system of Ancient Greece gave way to three major dramatists: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. This film examines the dramatist culture of Ancient Greece, the role its government played, and the freedom of speech delivered onstage; a brief overview of Greece's early political history is given. The evolution of theater and drama were forever changed by the three tragedians studied200801:26:58This is the story of three relatively educated and independent Bedouin women trying to survive, each in their own way, a life of polygamy.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/desert-brides/33EnglishEnglishAda UshpizWomenDocumentary filmsHuman RightsFamilyMiriam El Kwader, a Bedouin wedding photographer, and mother of seven, living in an unknown and neglected Negev village, reveals through her camera lens, the world of Bedouin weddings; the most distressing issue revealed is polygamy. This is the story of three, relatively educated and independent women, trying to survive, each in their own way in their world – a life of polygamy. One is a "first wife", living in constant fear that her husband will bring home a second wife. The other two are pushed into marrying already married men and become "second wives", forced to cooperate within a structure they despise or are afraid of. The family tragedies presented in this film, highlight the strength and survival of the social structures and their injustices; leaning usually on the victims' partial cooperation.A film by Ada Ushpiz Awards:Winner - DocAviv International Film festivalWinner- Israeli international Women's Film FestivalWinner- Best Cinematography, Israeli Academy Documentary awardsIMDb201200:55:15The film focuses on the leader of World War II's "Band of Brothers" and the leadership skills he possessedhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/dick-winters-hang-tough-honoring-leadership-on-d-day/1473EnglishWarHistoryNarrated by Emmy Award-winner Damian Lewis, who played Richard D. Winters in HBO's Band of Brothers. Tells the story of the building and dedication of the Richard D. Winters Leadership monument in Normandy, France in June of 2012. The film focuses on the leader of World War II's "Band of Brothers" and the leadership skills he possessed. A never before seen interview with the late Major Winters is utilized, as well as interviews with the "Band of Brothers" who are still alive. The film also touches on the relationship the Major had with those in Normandy post-WWII, including the family who has owned Brecourt Manor for centuries. Brecourt was the location of famed assault (then) Lt. Winters led on D-Day to take out the four German 105mm guns firing on American troops landing on Utah Beach.201700:25:56Working Online and Traveling the World https://movie-discovery.com/movie/working-online-and-traveling-the-world-digital-nomads/1149EnglishAnthropologyEconomyWorking online whilst traveling the world sounds like a dream job for many people. But what exactly is a digital nomad? Pete and Supi live as digital nomads.  They travel the world permanently, work on the road and are always online. Their lives epitomize the digital revolution and how it is changing how we work live.  Many people dream of living and working on the road - a dream that has come true for Pete and Supi. Driven by a passion for travel, they set out to escape the dreary routine of everyday life. They want to achieve maximum self-fulfilment without big safety nets and full-cover insurance, in a nomadic world of adventure. Pete is a DJ, so parties and big cities are a defining part of his life, whereas Suparni aka Supi is the opposite; she’s looking for spirituality and awareness. The two show us the huge spectrum of opportunities that the world of the digital nomad has to offer. Despite their fundamental differences, they both earn their living by working remotely. The digital age has made this way of life possible: without the Internet, it would be almost unthinkable. But their lifestyle does have its limits, as is becoming especially evident to Suparni with her plans for parenthood. But it's hard to find someone you love who also loves the same sort of lifestyle, and the constant travel is a big obstacle.200601:20:42What happened to Israeli democracy before, during and after the historical 2005 Gaza Disengagementhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/disengaging-democracy/209EnglishEnglishOfri Segev, Lior Cohen and Igal HechtIgal Hecht & Talia KleinHuman RightsIsraeli SocietyWarDisengaging Democracy, from award-winning documentary filmmaker Igal Hecht, takes a rare and provocative look at what happened to Israeli democracy before, during and after the historical 2005 Gaza Disengagement.A film by Igal HechtFestivals:2010 Hamilton Jewish Film FestivalShowcased at Harvard University Aired Nationally on CTS Television and i-channel in Canada201200:42:59Ep1 : The surprising renaissance of the leeches in Western medicine.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/disgustingly-healthy-leeches/1003EnglishEnglishDocumentaryScience And TechnologyMedicineDisgustingly Healthy tells the story of the riveting rise, the dramatic fall, and the surprising renaissance of the leech and the maggot in Western medicine.More and more doctors worldwide are now advising their patients to set their repulsion aside in order to see these creatures for what they really are – a wonder of nature, and the perfect healers.From diabetes, wounds that will not heal and limbs that are about to wither away to the agonizing pain of arthritis – leeches and maggots have the power to heal and bring relief, and they might even have more in store than we know of today.201200:43:15Ep.2 : The surprising renaissance of the maggot in Western medicine.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/disgustingly-healthy-maggots/1004EnglishEnglishDocumentaryScience And TechnologyMedicineDisgustingly Healthy tells the story of the riveting rise, the dramatic fall, and the surprising renaissance of the leech and the maggot in Western medicine. More and more doctors worldwide are now advising their patients to set their repulsion aside in order to see these creatures for what they really are – a wonder of nature, and the perfect healers.From diabetes, wounds that will not heal and limbs that are about to wither away to the agonizing pain of arthritis – leeches and maggots have the power to heal and bring relief, and they might even have more in store than we know of today.202001:12:45Stories of women who are denied divorce for religious reasonshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/divorce-denied-en/1615EnglishHebrew (modern)David Ofek, Mia WebbWomenDocumentary filmsReligionSarah has been refused a divorce for two years, Noa has been waiting for three years, and Oshrat for nine years. The freedom of these women and hundreds more in Israel is in the hands of their husbands and the rabbinic courts. According to Jewish religious law, which is also the national law in Israel, only the husband has the power to grant a divorce. Women find themselves chained to their husbands against their will, even if the separation was mutual. Batya Kahana Dror is a religious woman and combative lawyer, daring to rebel against the Orthodox Jewish courts. She believes the laws must be changed according to our time. She fights for the freedom of Sarah, Noa, Oshrat, and many more.201700:41:59DNA stores information biologically. Why not use it for computers?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/dna-hard-drives/904EnglishScience And TechnologyPresentstionsDNA is a digital medium. It is a sequence of discrete alphabet of 4 letters, instead of zeros and ones like in your computers or cellphones. If we could manipulate that DNA, we could put a message in it. We could use DNA to store information in a much more efficient way than we do today. This presentation by Nick Goldman from the European Bioinformatics Institute in the UK, explains how.Storing DNA information on DNA is pretty simple: it is done in nature anyway. But could we store ANY information on DNA ? That was the purpose of the experiment. Opportunities are enormous: one petabytes can be stored in a tube the size of a human finger. But challenges are great too: the code has to be divided to many fragments, residing each in a different DNA molecule.Presented by Nick Goldman in the World Economic Forum201800:03:41Is blockchain a necessary solution for any business?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/do-you-really-need-blockchain/869EnglishEnglishScience And TechnologyPresentstionsDo you really need blockchain for your business? Many people will answer "yes" instantly. Blockchain is a hype, but is it really advantageous?  Shyam Sunder Verma from Readybytes discusses the pros and cons of using blockchain: the scenarios in which it can solve issues and help overcome challenges against cases where it might incur additional costs and even a risk.200000:25:03Aunt Diya takes her nephew to an unforgettable journey to her birthplacehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/doda-diya/163EnglishEnglishMoshe HuriJewishMaale FilmsFamilyImmigrationAnthropologyI've been living with my aunt (Doda) Diya for six months now and that's what she says every time I complain I'm a penniless student. Doda Diya, a widow who leads a simple life, had waited 40 years to fulfill her biggest dream; returning to Jerba, a tiny island off the south of Tunisia where she grew up, to celebrate a memorial event for a righteous woman along with hundreds of other Jews.A film by Moshe HuriAwards:Special Award, Jewish Film Festival, Jerusalem 2001Festivals:Haifa International Film Festival 2000Jewish Film Festival, Bryton England 2000Israeli Film Festival, NY, LA, Miami USA 2000Students Film Festival, Belgrade Yoguslavia 2000Events:New Delhi, India 2001Jewish Museum, Paris 2002   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201000:54:15The extraordinary life of Justice Michael Kirbyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/dont-forget-the-justice-bit/191EnglishDaryl DelloraLGBTHuman RightsHistoryBiographySexual MinoritiesFilmed during and after his time on the High Court of Australia, this documentary about Justice Michael Kirby explores the personal, moral and spiritual convictions of one of our most compassionate and incisive legal minds.Michael Kirby was recently listed by the Bulletin magazine as one of the top ten creative minds, then again in the top 100 of the most influential Australians of all time and more recently Who Weekly put him as one of the top 25 of the most beautiful people – certainly a unique honour for a High Court Judge. But Michael Kirby is a unique man. In 36 years as a judge, he repeatedly did the one thing that judges are not supposed to do – he spoke publicly on an enormous range of social, political, scientific, economic, religious and humanitarian issues. He has spoken out again and again, to say he is prolific is a gross understatement. His web-site lists 2338 speeches, all written on top of a full-time job as a judge.Many in the legal profession and the wider community think he speaks too much. Some believe he was unable to keep his personal views out of the courtroom – that he dragged his own personal agendas onto the bench and that he was an “activist judge” trying to change the law rather than simply declaring it. But at different times Kirby’s independent position has alienated radicals, progressives and conservatives alike. Michael Kirby is a complicated man and difficult to characterize in simple terms. He has been described as a monarchist; too radical, too conservative; a parliamentary supremist, a populist; a nationalist, an internationalist; religious, a secularist; and a humanist. And although apparently contradictory he is all at once all these things.Michael Kirby reveals himself in this film through a long-form interview in a way he has never done before. Another contradiction for a man who has been so media friendly throughout his professional life is that, in many ways, he has been intensely private and guarded about his personal life. It was only nine years ago that, at the age of 61, he publicly revealed for the first time that he had been in a homosexual relationship since 1969 with partner Johan van Vloten. Even Kirby’s closest colleagues and friends were shocked. Justice Michael McHugh who had known Kirby since the early 1970s and who sat with him on the High Court said: “he had no idea there was a long term relationship”.This film represents the first time Johan van Vloten has spoken publicly about their life together. This film shows the public face of Michael Kirby on the High Court, the private face at home with his father Donald, his late mother Jean, his partner Johan and his siblings. It also reveals the spiritual side and his lasting connection to Anglicanism.A film by Daryl Dellora201500:55:55One of history`s greatest military missionshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/dolittles-raiders-a-final-toast/1482EnglishWarHistoryHosted by Gary Sinise. The bottle of 1896 Hennessy Cognac was uncorked in front of hundreds of people. The surviving World War II veterans from one of history's greatest military missions were about to raise their silver goblets one last time ending a decades long tradition. It was time for the veterans to hold this final toast. They could wait no longer. Their numbers had dwindled to just a few. Many of the names of the 80 flyers who took part in the April 18, 1942 raid on Japan may not be familiar to most, but collectively they will always be known in history as the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders. Long ago these American flyers, aboard 16 B-25 bombers, had accomplished a daring mission that changed the morale of an entire nation. The aviators, led by famed commander Lt. Col. James Harold Doolittle, had taken the fight directly to the enemy for the first time in World War II and delivered payback for Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.201300:20:44An exploration of the role of birth doulas both inside and outside of the birth roomhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/doulas-a-documentary/201EnglishEmily RumseyWomenDocumentary filmsFamilyA Documentary explores the role of birth doulas both inside and outside of the birth room. Explaining both the logistics and the intricacies of doula care, this film not only educates expectant parents but also celebrates the process of supported birth. This movie is an ideal educational tool for childbirth educators, clinics, nursing schools, medical schools, and midwifery programs who wish to inform their patients or students about the value of doula care.A film by Emily Rumsey201701:18:51Searching for the unknown Holocaust in the former Soviet Unionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/drawers-of-memory-en/1043EnglishEnglishBoris MaftsirZvi Shefy & Boris MaftsirDocumentaryHistoryHolocaustA documentary project by Boris MaftsirIn the sixth film of the project about the Shoah in the Former Soviet Union, filmmaker Boris Maftsir sets out on a journey to uncover the memory of the Holocaust in Latvia, where he was born and grew up until he made aliya to Israel in 1971. The drawers of memory open as the search exposes the complex history of the Jews of Latvia: before, during and after the Holocaust.First drawer  - an unusual attempt by a group loyal to the memory of the victims to put together a full and detailed list of all the Jews who were in Latvia on the eve of WWII.Second drawer  - the work of Latvian “guardians of memory” who have taken on the idea of remembering the image of their Jewish neighbors who are no longer.Third drawer - a personal drawer of Boris Maftsir who learns and discovers his own memories of the Holocaust.  The project includes eight films. Click here to explore the full collection. http://www.holocaustinussr.com/** if you have an active subscription to the platform, you can skip the following message** The film is available for free, for personal viewing, which includes a watermark. To watch it, simply click on the Play button above.If you'd like to watch the film in higher quality and without a watermark, please click on Rent and choose the rental period.For institutional use and public screening, please click on Download and choose the appropriate license.201800:42:25Cleverly weaves a wide canvas story within the fabric of an intimate personal portrait.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/dream-empire-chinas-real-estate-bubble/1115EnglishEnglishDavid BorensteinJesper Jack, Christian von der ReckeEconomyIn 2012, as China was experiencing the biggest building boom in history, an enterprising young woman named Yana decided to capitalize on the climate of growth by mounting a business venture of her own. Her services catered to the needs of the real estate industry as she provided dancer, musicians, and attractive faces for public relations events. Dream Empire: China's Real Estate Bubble explores the country's economic roller coaster through the microcosm of Yana's personal struggles as an entrepreneur.Though her homeland was over 2,500 miles away, Yana was drawn to become a part of the action in Congqing, China. She was not alone. Countless migrants from all regions of the world made a similar leap to pursue lofty dreams.The real estate market promised an entry into a new stratosphere of class for these dreamers. But as one observer remarks early in the film, the path to success was paved with potential potholes that few could recognize through the manufactured glitz of the moment.Through her entertainment booking services, Yana sold a facade of luxury she herself was so desperate to attain. We see her fighting to find her bearings in a fiercely competitive world, and how she combats her partners' underestimating her simply because of her gender. A crisis of conscious struck her when she realized the facade was actually the reality. Many of the new housing developments stood empty, and were used simply as trading vessels for wealthy investors. With the main cities overstuffed with construction, the developers moved out into the countryside where they were free to construct one gleaming metropolis after another with no regard for the lifelong citizens they were uprooting in the process.This real estate boom was never designed to benefit the lower classes; it simply existed to bolster the already stuffed pocketbooks of the wealthiest elite. As the film reaches its conclusion, Yana has to decide whether she wants to continue playing a role in the selling of an empty promise.Dream Empire: China's Real Estate Bubble cleverly weaves a wide canvas story within the fabric of an intimate personal portrait.201800:42:26How is the agriculture industry changing as digital technology develops?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/drones-robots-and-super-sperm-the-future-of-farming/1153EnglishEconomyThe future of farming: Driverless tractors, drones and robots. How is the agriculture industry changing as digital technology develops?Unmanned tractors controlled via GPS; drones that kill vermin in the fields from above; and highly efficient bull sperm used to produce genetically optimized calves. This is not science fiction. It’s the future of farming, today. "Smart farming" is the agricultural industry's new buzzword. A survey of almost 600 German farmers has revealed that more than one in two now uses digital solutions to optimize their harvests. Fierce regional and global competition, declining subsidies, higher standards of food quality, environmental protection, and increasing demand are forcing farmers to be highly efficient. This documentary looks at three examples of "smart farming" in Germany. Breeding consultant Johanna Schendel creates optimized dairy cows by selecting the right bull semen. Asparagus farmer Heiner Bartels uses a smartphone to calculate the optimum time to harvest. And drone pilot Bernd Meyer is out to fight pests in maize fields from the air. All three are trying to use modern technology to modify nature to fit the needs of our society. But where are the limits?200500:59:52The fascinating story of a talented photographer, a deserter from the Nazi party, who married Jewish womenhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/dunkel-last-film-en/1348EnglishHebrew (modern)Zarhi WilnaiDocumentary filmsHistoryFamilyBiographyThe film uncovers the fascinating story of Fred Dunkel, a German Christian photographer, producer and businessman, who was married to a Jewish woman and was forced to leave Nazi Germany in the 1930's for Palestine (today's Israel), along with his wife and daughter.Dunkel, who was a member of the Nazi party, was declared deserter by the German authorities.  The film participated in Jerusalem International Film Festival and in festivals around the worldIn Israel, he worked as a photographer and director and was recruited for Zionist propaganda. He also provided shooting and editing services to different institutions and private parties, British and Jewish alike. In his work, Fred Dunkel documented the development of the settlement period in Israel, from the 1930's to the establishment of the State of Israel. After the death of his first wife, he married Martha, a Czech immigrant and Holocaust survivor, who had come to Israel at the outbreak of the Second World War.At the age of 57, Dunkel becomes a father, but just a month later, he suffers from a fatal heart attack, during the bombing raids of the Israel War of Independence.A film by Tali OhaionFred Dunkel on wikipediaTel Aviv in the 1940's, by Fred Dunkel, from the Spielberg Jewish film Archive Participated in Jerusalem film festival, Palermo FF, Bar Montenegro FF, Frankfurt Jewish FF.  201300:52:32The Compelling Story of Two Airborne Medics & their Heroic Acts During D-Dayhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/eagles-of-mercy/1480EnglishWarHistoryTwo American 101st Airborne (Screaming Eagles) medics caught in a church in Normandy, France during the opening hours of D-Day. Outside a savage battle raged all around them. The church changed hands several times with American and German forces over-running the village of Angoville-au-Plain. Inside the small church the wounded wore both Allied and Axis uniforms and civilian clothing. The American medics, Robert Wright and Kenneth Moore of the 2nd battalion, 501st PIR, treated all who were brought into the 12th century Norman church, no matter whether they were friend or foe.200100:21:17On reaching her 18th birthday, Eicha decides to formally change her name and try and establish a new identityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/eicha-en/265EnglishEnglishLaizy ShapiraJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsFamilyChildren and AdolescentsIdentityEicha is a young religious girl living on a settlement.  Her unusual name, Eicha, is the Hebrew title of the Biblical scroll of Lamentations, read once a year on the 9th of Av to commemorate the destruction of the Temple 2000 years ago.  On reaching her 18th birthday, Eicha decides to formally change her name and try and establish a new identity, but the process turns out to be more complicated than she expects...A film by Laizy ShapiraAwards:Best Film, Students Film Festival, Tel Aviv 2002Best Editing, Cinema Festival, Italy 2001First Prize, Zoe Internet Film Festival 2004Festivals:International Film Festival, Jerusalem 2001Humour Film Festival, Umberia Italy 2001Students Film Festival, Belgrade 2001Jewish Film Festival, Palm Beach USA 2001Short Film Festival, Potsdam Germany 2002Israeli Film Festival, NY, Chicago, Miami 2002Overlook Festival, Milan Italy 2002Michoalis Festival, Letter to Man, Saint Petersburg, Russia 2002"Next  Screen" Festival, Tel Aviv 2002 Students Film Festival, Tallinn Estonia 2002Jewish Film Festival, NY Jewish Museum 2003Israeli Film Festival, Paris France 2003Montplier Film Festival, France 2003Capabelio Film Festival, Rome, Italy 2003Karlovi Vari Film Festival, Czech Republic 2003Jewish Film Festival, Pittsbourgh, USA 2003Jewish Film Festival, Rochester USA 2003Jewish Film Festival, Pleasantville USA 2003Jewish Film Festival, Vankouver, Canada 2003Mishkolts Film Festival, for young directors, Hungary 2004Students Film Festival Tel Aviv 2004Students Film Festival, Prishtina Kosovo 2004 Zoe International Film Festival 2004Short Film Festival, Bosan, Korea 2004   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201500:50:38The courage and determination of a handful of scientistshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/element-112-the-marinov-affair/243EnglishEnglishDror ShostakScience And TechnologyFamilyThere are some people whose curiosity and the quest for knowledge does not let them linger about idly and becomes the journey of their lives. This is the story of the courage and determination of a handful of scientists who pursued their research for over forty years in the face of widely accepted norms. Their research was led by the Israeli physicist, native of Jerusalem, former Palmachnik and kibbutz founder, Professor Amnon Marinov.The film tells a story that made waves in the scientific community and has not yet come to its conclusion. In addition, it provides a rare opportunity to reveal a fragment of the conduct of a powerful community that is usually hidden from public sight.The film was made by Amnon Marinov's daughter. After his passing, she found herself immersed in his extensive archives, trying to sort out the puzzle of her father and his collaborators' pioneering research. Forty years’ worth of documents called out as a silent testimony to their tenacious struggle within the scientific community. With the enthusiasm of some of his collaborators, and with an urge to bring to life his outstanding personality, they succeeded to tell his unique story by making it into this inspiring film.A film by Dror Shostak200300:31:33Elyokim a brilliant talmudic student, is in love with Rachel, the daughter of his Rabbihttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/elyokim/266EnglishEnglishMiri BockerJewishRelationshipMaale FilmsFictionAnthropologyElyokim, who is an ultra-orthodox and a brilliant talmudic student, is in love with Rachel, the daughter of his Rabbi. The social conventions which govern Elyokim's world mean he will never be formally introduced to Rachel. Elyokim takes matters into his own hands.A film by Miri BockerAwards:Special Award, International Film Festival, Haifa Israel 2002First Prize for short film, Jewish Film Festival, Jerusalem 2002First Prize, Israeli Film Festival NY, LA 2003First Prize, Girona Film Festival, Spain 2003First Prize, Yidish Film Festival, Berlin Germany 2003Script Prize, Student Film Festival, Tel Aviv 2004Festivals:Jewish Film Festival, Jerusalem Israel 2002International Film Festival, Haifa Israel 2002Israeli Film Festival, NY, LA 2002Girona Film Festival, Spain 2003Yiddish Film Festival, Berlin Germany 2003International Student Film Festival, Tel Aviv 2004Student Film Festival, Beijing China 2004Jewish Film Festival, Pitigliano Italy 2004Jewish Film Festival, Chicago USA 2006   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200100:17:03A soldier falls in love with the settler he has to evacuate, and the story becomes complicated...https://movie-discovery.com/movie/evacuation-order/267EnglishEnglishShoshi GrinfeldCouplesMaale FilmsWarFictionOn a little hilltop in the Samarian hills, a pretty young settler lives alone in her caravan. A man and woman soldier are sent to inform her that the caravan is illegal and is being dismantled. The man soldier falls in love with the settler, and the story becomes complicated...A film by Shoshi GrinfeldFestivals:Jewish Festival in Ventura, California 2010Los Angeles Festival 2010Students Festival in Helsinki, Finland 2005Washington Jewish Festival, SCREENING ROOM, 2005New Rochelle Festival, USA 2004Pristina Festival, Kosovo 2004Miskolc Festival, Hungary 2004Israeli Australia Festival 2004Westchester Jewish Festival, USA 2003Capalbio Cinema Festival, Rome 2002Seoul Festival for Women films 2002Haifa Festival 2001   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School199500:25:39Men, brotherhood and army reserve from the perspective of a womanhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/ever-shot-anyone-en/829EnglishEnglishMichal AviadDocumentaryWar And ConflictThis documentary explores Israeli male culture from a woman’s point of view, as the director joins a military squadron in their operational reserve duty. The participated in many film festivals and was aired on television in Canada, Israel, Holland, Denmark, Russia and other countries.A film by Michal Aviad200901:10:33The Ship that Launched a Nationhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/exodus-true-story-en/1370EnglishEnglishUri Borreda, Itzik LernerHistoryHolocaustFor a certain generation, the story of the Exodus, the ship that carried 4,500 Jewish refugees from post-war Europe to Mandatory Palestine, encapsulates the essence of Israel’s creation – a journey, an exodus – from the hellish depths of the Holocaust to the exhilarating heights of independence and nationhood.None of the 4500 holocaust survivors who embarked the ship Exodus in Sete south of France could in his or her wildest dream imagine that the unforgettable journey in high seas will end up back in the land of horror, Germany.This is the story of three orphaned kids who in the end of the war (WW2) return home to discover there is no home, no parents. No family left. They realize the only safe haven for them is Palestine (Erets Israel). After a journey of two years across shattered Europe and a big help from the French government, they finally reach the shores of southern France. They embark on a river boat called "President Warfield" to an unforgettable journey in high seas where English navy destroyers rammed the Exodus time and again until they had to surrender, plowing slowly to the port of Haifa. Immediately after being deported back, this time on deck of three English ships (floating Gail) to Germany to a place they all know too well, a concentration camp.  On the day the Exodus arrived all shattered with three dead and hundreds injured on deck, the UNSCOP committee and recommended to the U.N. to establish a Jewish state in Israel. The survivors of the Exodus with their spirit, determination, endless faith and bravery, have proved the main factor in the establishment the state of Israel.Read more about the story of Exodus in The Librarians blog201200:52:27facing death is hard, but facing life after facing death is harderhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/facing-life-after-facing-death/1092EnglishCriminologyWe follow the plight of Duma Kumalo as he is wrongly convicted of murder, spends time on death row, and is finally granted a reprieve moments before he is to hang. A harrowing account of human suffering and as he says, 'facing death acing death is hard, but facing life after facing death is harder'.201200:25:04Trying to survive the harshness of working class povertyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/fair-fight/114EnglishEnglishOrtal SharvitMaale FilmsFictionDogfights, a brother who gambles, debt, and violence threaten the life of a young boy and his dog, trying to survive the harshness of working class poverty.A film by Ortal SharvitRead a review of the movie3 in our blogAwards: Best Film, Ma'aleh ceremony 2012   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200900:41:03A spiritual journey through Judaism and music influenced by the Torah (Bible)https://movie-discovery.com/movie/faith-singers/280EnglishEnglishIgal HechtJewishSpiritualMusic"Faith Singers" is a spiritual journey through Judaism and music influenced by the Torah (Bible). It follows two artists living in the Holy Land who express their Jewish faith to audiences through Reggae and Hip Hop. No Politics, just spirituality and music!A film by Igal Hecht201100:29:12Tension rises between a mother in crisis and her teenage daughterhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hothouse-maale-en/670EnglishEnglishLeah FleishmanWomen And GenderMaale FilmsFamilyFictionThe anticipated visit of their grandmother is ruining the life of a mother and her teenage daughter. When the electricity stops, and the flowers they ordered do not arrive, they need to draw closer to each other and solve their problems.A film by Leah Fleishman   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200200:31:47A makeshift family of disparate people living in accordhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/fat-cows-lean-cows/337EnglishEnglishMeni EliasHilla Medalia, Neta Zwebner-ZaibertFamilyAnthropologyIn a world torn by race and social classes, "Fat Cows Lean Cows" portrays another possibility: that of disparate people living in accord. Yossi, an Israeli, has owned a dairy farm near Gaza for nearly 50 years. He and his longtime workers, an Arab named Ibrahim and Eddie, from Thailand, have created a makeshift family. Eddie, with his inquisitive mind, stimulates discussions about Israeli and Arab history, all the while yearning to be with his young son. Ibrahim, the father of seven, escapes into Edith Piaf records to stave off his familial separation. Yossi, the patriarchal figure, gives everything he has to the farm and his workers, but his health and the future of the farm are in question. "Fat Cows Lean Cows" tenderly documents this improvised family's attempt to survive in a chaotic and unstable world with beautiful and nuanced storytelling to say that yes, we too can get along.A film by Meni Elias202500:33:09After his film 'Single with God', Nadav pursues his quest for enlightenmenthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/father-with-gos-documentary-english/1710EnglishHebrew (modern)Jewish way of lifeDocumentary filmsFamilyNadav Gedalya (33) is an experienced musician and journalist. He has been noted in the media as one of 30 desirable bachelors. His personal film "Single with God" where he tells his story of getting married without being part of a defined religious sector, became very popular and has thousands of views. Nadav's self confidence increases even further when he receives his MA in the Humanities with honors, establishing him as an accomplished writer with his own column. His eldest daughter Talia, (4), praises his fatherhood and shines until Eden arrives, a sensitive and gentle boy that completely undermines Nadav's self-confidence. Nadav soon discovers that despite all of his success, he has no idea how to calm his new son who is now a two year old toddler who has a hard time dealing with life, stubborn and crying over every little thing (with some resemblance to his dramatic father). Nadav is conflicted: he is unable to restrict the child since he does not want to upset him, but at the same time he cannot live in peace with the chaos at home. He is depressed, feeling guilty and ashamed and this leads him to stay in his room and later to escape to spend time with friends. He is shocked at the intensity of the complex fatherhood he is suddenly dealing with, reminding him that he is incompetent in the most natural and important role, that he never imagined could be this hard. In contrast, parenthood comes naturally and easily to his wife Hila. This leads to him feeling jealousy towards her. On a tiring journey to get away, Nadav finds himself feeling shame and guilt. He is supposedly doing "what is required of him", working and helping at home but he feels an emptiness inside. He believes and knows there is a different kind of fatherhood, much more present and loving but has no way of obtaining it. The unpleasant feelings, together with the escape to "happier" places outside, create inner pressure that is hard to reduce and Nadav (who constantly films the occurrences) is shown feeling physical pain, dizziness and a real fear that he could die from this. He has trouble determining what he feels, but it looks and feels bad, especially as it is so hard to define. Gradually, through his funny 4 years old daughter Talia, Nadav rediscovers fatherhood with Eden, who reminds him of himself, feeling pain and fleeing to his creativity and career in order to feel his worth. Once he understands this, Nadav chooses to be reborn and connect to his authentic roots and to draw strength from them. He never thought he would cry so much in the process, until all the parts of him that were in hiding, open up and heal. Nadav "burns" in a tunnel of negative feelings, making his way towards his child's heart. He discovers the true, pure, loving child beneath the cynicism, the pretension and the external self-confidence. The process appears to be painful and the tears flow endlessly, but the primordial-modern insistence on natural and sincere bonding with his son Eden, motivates him to stop running from what he feels and to love purely, without applause and an audience, unconditional, as he never imagined he could love. This effort to connect to fatherhood is extremely surprising, as Nadav discovers that as a result his children are blooming, writing songs with a fascinating sub-text that has to do with his life.About the filmmakerNadav Gedalya - filmmaker, actor, musician and journalist, known for his unique personal writing and directing style. In the last 15 years, he had created hundreds of articles and reports on culture, philosophy and media for leading media outlets, as well as books he has published. He played on television and has independently produced a range of projects, including the successful film, "Single man with God" (42 minutes), the online series "Giladi will sell you", the film "Pension" (20 minutes, drama), a personal music album, singles and music videos. 201500:22:26Episode 1 : A simple way to make bio-fuel https://movie-discovery.com/movie/fill-my-tank-ep1/1038EnglishScienceEnergy consumption is out of control. Our non-renewable fossil fuel supplies are getting dangerously low, and we’re still using more and more every day!  Fossil fuels release CO2 gasses, polluting the air we breathe. How can we fuel our future without it costing the world?Episode 1 :Intrepid environmentalist, Sean Lee-Davies, prepares himself for the green road trip of a lifetime. He discovers a simple way to make bio-fuel from used cooking oil and decides to take the idea on the road - all 2000 km from Singapore to Cambodia!Winner Best Infotainment - Asia Rainbow TV Awards201500:21:50Episode 6 : Can we save our non-renewable resources?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/fill-my-tank-ep6/1077EnglishScienceLife and EnvironmentEnergy consumption is out of control. Our non-renewable fossil fuel supplies are getting dangerously low, and we’re still using more and more every day!  Fossil fuels release CO2 gasses, polluting the air we breathe. How can we fuel our future without it costing the world?Episode 6 :It’s a momentous ending to an epic trip for environmentalist, Sean Lee-Davies.  After weeks of driving from Singapore, it’s time for him to hand-over his beloved bio-fuel converter to the orphanage in Siem Reap.  Cambodia’s everyday energy challenges become all too clear.Winner Best Infotainment - Asia Rainbow TV Awards201500:22:16Episode : 4https://movie-discovery.com/movie/fill-my-tank-ep4/1069EnglishScienceEnergy consumption is out of control. Our non-renewable fossil fuel supplies are getting dangerously low, and we’re still using more and more every day!  Fossil fuels release CO2 gasses, polluting the air we breathe. How can we fuel our future without it costing the world?Episode : 4In Thailand, Sean Lee-Davies visits one of the world’s oldest rainforests, fights Bangkok’s traffic on a green energy moped and continues his hunt for waste cooking oil to fuel his car for the rest of his eco-roadtrip towards Cambodia.Winner Best Infotainment - Asia Rainbow TV Awards201500:22:21Episode 5 : Are there no limits to the ingenuity!https://movie-discovery.com/movie/fill-my-tank-ep5/1076EnglishScienceLife and EnvironmentEnergy consumption is out of control. Our non-renewable fossil fuel supplies are getting dangerously low, and we’re still using more and more every day!  Fossil fuels release CO2 gasses, polluting the air we breathe. How can we fuel our future without it costing the world?Episode 5 : Nearing the end of his 2,500km road trip, Sean Lee-Davies finally crosses the Cambodian border. But there is still much to learn about green energy at a French eco-resort, a rice farm and a floating village.  There are no limits to the ingenuity!Winner Best Infotainment - Asia Rainbow TV Awards201500:22:27Episode 2 : Can he save the world, one drop at a time?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/fill-my-tank-ep2/1067EnglishScienceEnergy consumption is out of control. Our non-renewable fossil fuel supplies are getting dangerously low, and we’re still using more and more every day!  Fossil fuels release CO2 gasses, polluting the air we breathe. How can we fuel our future without it costing the world?Episode : 2Malaysia brings more than Sean Lee-Davies bargained for.  On the first leg of his bio-fuelled mission from Singapore to Cambodia he finds himself stranded in Kuala Lumpur.  Not what he expected in a country that is the largest producer of palm oil in the world!Winner Best Infotainment - Asia Rainbow TV Awards201500:22:42Episode 3 : Which findings proved to be a bigger adventure?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/fill-my-tank-ep3/1068EnglishScienceEnergy consumption is out of control. Our non-renewable fossil fuel supplies are getting dangerously low, and we’re still using more and more every day! Fossil fuels release CO2 gasses, polluting the air we breathe. How can we fuel our future without it costing the world?Episode : 3Blow darts, pig manure, and a glorious Penang sunset are all on the agenda for Sean Lee-Davies this week as he continues his road trip from Singapore to Cambodia.  Finding used cooking oil to make bio-fuel for his 4WD is proving to be a bigger adventure than he planned!Winner Best Infotainment - Asia Rainbow TV Awards201200:57:14La realidad virtual del mundo del Avshalom empieza a derrumbarsehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/freeflow-es/1235EnglishSpanish; CastilianRamy A. KatzIsraeli SocietyFamilyChildren and AdolescentsSportsEn vísperas de la salida de prisión de su padre, la realidad virtual del mundo del “parkour” en el cual Avshalom es un superhéroe, empieza a derrumbarse. La inevitable confrontación con el hombre contra quien testificó s.Click here for the English version of the filmDirector: Ramy A. KatzFestivals and Awards:The Other Israel's Award for an Israeli Documentary Film - Haifa International Film Festival. Prvi Kadar- Grand Prix for best documentary of 6. International festival of documentary and short movie "Prvi kadar"- East Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzegovina.Belgrade Docu & Short Film Festival 2012-Official selection.Other Israel Film Festival(New York)-Official selection.Tranzyt Film Festival 2012-Official selection. Warsaw Jewish Film Festival 2012-Official selection. Addis Ababa International Film Festival 2013.200500:50:14A Jewish religious orthodox actress, playwright and comedian challenges the traditional Jewish perspective on women https://movie-discovery.com/movie/for-making-me-a-woman/261EnglishEnglishYoram SchafferJewishWomen And GenderIsraeli SocietyArts and CultureHadar Galron (formerly Nurit), is a Jewish religious orthodox actress, playwright and comedian. In her artistic work, she challenges the traditional Jewish perspectives on women and their role in the family and the Jewish life, while choosing to remain religious.A film by Yoram Schaffer201201:38:54A hope to establish a moral and just societyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/four-horsemen/877EnglishArts and CultureimmaterialAnthropologyAn award winning independent feature documentary which lifts the lid on how the world really works.  FOUR HORSEMEN is free from mainstream media propaganda -- the film doesn't bash bankers, criticise politicians or get involved in conspiracy theories. It ignites the debate about how to usher a new economic paradigm into the world which would dramatically improve the quality of life for billions.As we will never return to 'business as usual'  -- 23 international thinkers, government advisors and Wall Street money-men break their silence and explain how to establish a moral and just society. 199500:19:44A futuristic drama about a religious family living on a settlementhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/fragments-of-a-dream/268EnglishEnglishYakov FriedlandJewishMaale FilmsWar And ConflictFamily"Fragments of a Dream" is a futuristic drama about a religious family living in Judea-Samaria in a period when the fate of the settlements is uncertain. The film expresses the changes occurring in the lives of the protagonists, in the relations between them and in their outlooks. Questions are raised of belief and identity in Jewish life, in relation to the State of Israel as the beginning of the Messianic era, as opposed to the post-Zionist era.A film by Yakov FriedlandAwards:Citation by the Israeli Association of Film Directors, 1995Second Prize for Fiction Films, Magnes Jewish Video Competition, Berkeley 1997Festivals:Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel 1996Magnes Jewish Video Competition, Berkeley 1997Boston Jewish Film Festival, USA, November 1998Public Screenings:Cambridge University, England, November 1998London, England, December 1998.   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201601:19:30Fighting for freedom of speech around the worldhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/free-speech-fear-free/1169EnglishHuman RightsPoliticsDirector Tarquin Ramsey started his cinematic journey at age 15, asking only one question: what is free speech?It all began after meeting Sri Lankans in North Sri Lanka immediately after the civil war. Four years later, the film was shown in its first festival and won the top award.Ramsey speaks to CIA whistleblowers, famous actors, investigative journalists, world renowned hackers and other free speech advocates. He takes us on his journey of understanding the true meaning of freedom of speech and the threats facing its extinction.A film by Tarquin Ramsey202300:57:43A Six-Part Documentary Web Serieshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/freeeom-farm-sanctuary-6-episodes/1669EnglishEnglishTaliya FinkelCouplesWomenDocumentary filmsIdentityThis optimistic and profoundly moving documentary invites us to follow the journey of the unique relationships that develop between the 'imperfect' farm animals rejected from the food industry rehabilitated at Freedom Farm Sanctuary in Israel, and their "imperfect" human volunteers marginalized by society, who deeply relate to them, and go above and beyond to care for them. With sensitivity, humor, and love, this documentary reminds us of the real meaning of the word compassion, and shows us where the path to healing ourselves and the world begins.Each chapter in the series documents the story of a different volunteer and animal, and follows their journey of getting to know one another and building trust.Winner of: 2021 Best web- series, Israeli Documentary Film Awards 2021 Best documentary series, Minnesota web fest, USA2021  Best unscripted series, SeriesFest, Denver USA2021 Best web- series, Paris Art and Movie Award festival, France2021   Best web series, Changing Face, Sydney Australia2021  Excellence in Internet television award, DC Web Fest, Washington USAProduced for KAN Israel Broadcast Corporation. Directed by TALIYA FINKEL201100:56:39Avshalom awaits his father to be released from prison while developing his Parkour abilitieshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/freeflow/244EnglishEnglishRamy A. KatzIsraeli SocietyFamilyChildren and AdolescentsSportsAhead of his father's release from prison, the virtual reality of the Parkour world in which Avshalom is a superhero, starts to crack. The inevitable upcoming showdown with the man he testified against, is going to dictate his mother's fate.The father's arrest three years ago shocked the Gil family. The father was sentenced to three years in jail, and Riki (42) remained the sole provider for her family of eight. The court banned Avshalom's father from seeing his children. In 10th grade, Avshalom dropped out of school and was unable to keep a job. As his childhood world collapsed, Avshalom started creating an alternative reality for himself in which he was a superhero.The film accompanies the internal and external conflicts Riki and her son, Avshalom, experience during nine months the family's father returns home. Ahead of her husband's release from prison, Riki seeks to clear her husband's name and fights to maintain the disputed truth, that she was the one guilty of splitting up the family, and the absent father was the victim. Now She will have to deal with a man who returned home after three years in prison.A film by Ramy A. KatzFestivals and Awards:The Other Israel's Award for an Israeli Documentary Film - Haifa International Film Festival. Prvi Kadar- Grand Prix for best documentary of 6. International festival of documentary and short movie "Prvi kadar"- East Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzegovina.Belgrade Docu & Short Film Festival 2012-Official selection.Other Israel Film Festival(New York)-Official selection.Tranzyt Film Festival 2012-Official selection. Warsaw Jewish Film Festival 2012-Official selection. Addis Ababa International Film Festival 2013.200700:15:10Twelve-year-old Roni is sent by her mother to a weight-loss summer camp for fat children https://movie-discovery.com/movie/full-of-life/194EnglishEnglishTamar Ben BaruchMaale FilmsChildren and AdolescentsTwelve-year-old Roni is sent by her mother to a weight-loss summer camp for fat children - the "Full of Life" camp. Roni, who is angry and rebellious, would normally find solace in the swimming pool, but the camp shares its pool with a professional children's swim team, and Roni is ashamed to get in the water. Here Roni meets the team champion Yotam, who hates swimming but has no choice but to compete. A gentle bond is formed between the children which gives Roni the confidence to come to terms with her weight.A film by Tamar Ben BaruchFestivals:Saint-Petersburg Film Festival, Russia 2007International Student Film Festival Tel -Aviv 2008Jewish Film Festival Palm Beach 2009Jerusalem Children Film Festival 2010   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201201:00:00The stories of captivating and touching individuals in a national parkhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/garden-of-eden-en/1183EnglishEnglishRan TalIsraeli SocietyAnthropologyDuring the spring, summer, fall and winter seasons of one full year, the film documents the park’s transformation, and with a spectacular expression of cinematic beauty, it tells the stories of the people who visit the park and work therein: Yaacov, whose wife left him and who has since been living a sad and lonely existence; Athir, who is planning to move to Canada because life in Israel does not enable him to reach his full potential; Yael, who was forced to wed at the age of 13 and suffered many years of physical and mental abuse; Itzhak, who has yet to recover from the death of his brother in war and seeks a refuge from the mourning in the cool waters. These are but some of the captivating and touching individuals which the camera encounters. Director Ran Tal, who dismantled and reassembled the myth of the kibbutz in his film “Children of the Sun”, studies the innermost parts of Israeli society with humor, beauty, pain and compassion in the least expected location – a recreation park.​​​​​​​​​A film by Ran TalREVIEWSA touching documentaryHaaretzA film which is all about observance and attentivenessWallaClick here for more reviewsAWARDSBest Director  - Jerusalem International Film FestivalBest Feature  - Mediteran Film Festival - Grand PrixBest film  - Miradas Doc, SpainBest Documentary  - The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2013Best Editing  - The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2013Best Sound  - The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2013Best Original Score  - The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2013Best Photographing  - The Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2013200500:52:02The arrival of foreigners to a village has created both an opportunity and a a frictionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/gatos-cats-en/203EnglishEnglishHebrew (modern)Gali MeiriArts and Popular CultureSportsAnthropologyGatos deals with the mutual influence of two cultures. Twenty-first-century technology and economy enable Western tourists to travel all over the world. The arrival of these tourists to developing regions creates a social and cultural friction point follows four young Brazilians from a village that was just recently discovered by tourists. It shows the immense influence that tourists have over the lives of locals, and the difference between the way tourists conceive locals and the reality that is filmed. The arrival of foreigners to the village has created a new variety of options for self-fulfillment that doesn't go hand in hand with the economic and social possibilities of the locals. The documentary focuses on the frustration created by the gap between their new desires and their actual status. The Capoeira-local martial art and dance that was created by the slaves in colonial Brazil are used as a metaphor. The same martial art that freed the slaves' hundreds of years ago is still practiced today by their descendants, and serves them, as well, as a way out of the life of poverty.A film by Gali MeiriFestivals:Globians® world & culture Documentary Film Festival 2008 Germany200200:51:18Life in spite of everything: a story of two citieshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/gaza-sderot-en/859EnglishEnglishRobby Elmaliah, Khalil al MuzayyenOsnat Trabelsi, Arik BernsteinDocumentary filmsHuman RightsWarPoliticsThe film "GAZA SDEROT" started as a web project documenting the life of people in Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel) every day for two months. The stories were aired via the Internet on a specially designed website and users had access to these contents which included the videos, blogs, forums, links etc.On year later, the film goes beyond a reconstruction of what was filmed for the website. it is a new point of view, one year after the war.  The underlying point of view is really in the essence of what all the characters were telling us in their stories: the situation cannot go on as it is, something needs to change. The characters did not imagine this war while we were following them although some of them had a sense some kind of cataclysm was coming. This loads each and every story a new and very powerful meaning.Film's websiteProduced for ARTE, with the participation of Sapir College Sderot & BetselemNominated for the Emmy AwardOsnat Trabelsi // producerGraduate of the Department of Film and Television at the Tel Aviv University. Chairwomen of the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers' Forum. Owner of Trabelsi Productions, which produces political and social films. Among the films she produced are international award winning films such as Arna's Children (director: Juliano Mer Khamis), Strawberry Fields, Ashkenaz, Pizza in Auschwitz, Jaffa, the orange's clockwork and the original ground breaking webdoc “Gaza-Sderot”. She initiated and directed the first International Human Rights Film Festival in Tel Aviv and Ramallah. In 2007 she was chosen by The Marker as one of 40 women who make change in society.200100:56:06It examines the complex dimensions of the dark side of human naturehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/genocide-in-the-first-half-of-the-20th-century/1465EnglishHistoryHolocaustIntroduced by Academy Award-winning actor John Voight, this award-winning series presents the definitive, most comprehensive overview of the history of genocide. With the aid of an impressive array of scholars, experts, eyewitnesses, and survivors from around the world, the programs examine the complex dimensions of human nature's darkest side. State-sanctioned violence has always existed, but technological advances have facilitated its use as a viable means of exerting political power. This documetnary continues the examination of the history of genocide, focusing on the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, the 1923 Rosewood Massacre, Stalin's forced Ukrainian famine, the Japanese Rape of Nanking and the Holocaust. A host of survivors, experts and scholars include Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking; Yehuda Bauer, former head of the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel.201300:20:25What will happen when his girlfriend discovers the truth?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/getting-serious/98EnglishEnglishMatan GolombJewish way of lifeCouplesMaale FilmsReligionA Jerusalem romantic comedy about a young moderately orthodox man who pretends to be more religious than he is. What happens when his girlfriend discovers the truth?A film by Matan Golomb   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200000:21:37During a national service, Shira attempts to help a 14 year old student in crisis. But things go wrong...https://movie-discovery.com/movie/girl-at-risk-en/878EnglishEnglishRaaya Vardi TabulYair Menahem Mizrahi Gefen Chen Zionׁ- ARIELWomenMaale FilmsFiction19 year old Shira is doing her National Service at a high school. Annoyed that she has been given no serious responsibilities, she attempts to help a 14 year old student in crisis, and is forced to pay a price for her naivety..Director:  Raaya Vardi Tabul  Produced by Maaleh Film School201900:14:14A story about alienation, friendship and homehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/give-it-back-en/1197EnglishEnglishRuchama ErenhaltMaale FilmsImmigration & absorptionChildren and AdolescentsFictionEducationOlivia is a 12 year old immigrant from New York. She is trying to find her place in the new world she just landed in, Israeli society. Instantly she connects with Alem, an Ethiopian boy who sits next to her in class. It doesn't take long for her to realize that their friendship is social suicide. This is a story about alienation, friendship and home. A Film by Ruchama Erenhalt  Produced by Maaleh Film School201800:42:26A film about a 2000-year old legend.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/golem-and-its-impact-on-art/1128EnglishArts and populre CultureOriginating in Jewish folklore, the mythical and magical figure of Golem has inspired generations of artists. A film about a 2000-year old legend.The Golem returns again and again, especially in times of crisis. The story of the artificially created giant that carries out the orders of its creators has endured for centuries and inspired generations of artists. This documentary follows the Golem from its creation as part of Jewish mystical rituals to its popularity in films and literature. From the Talmud and the Bible through Goethe to science fiction films, the Golem has constantly evolved over the centuries, mirroring the fears and longings people had at the time. According to legend, the Prague Rabbi Löw formed the Golem out of clay: today California artist Joshua Abarbanel creates his legendary superheroes from wood. With fascinating images from the Israeli desert, Prague and Silicon Valley, this film takes an exciting journey through 2,000 years of cultural history that the age of artificial intelligence and robots has done nothing to diminish. Filmmakers Torsten Striegnitz and Simone Dobmeier meet artists and scholars who have a very special relationship with this most prominent of Jewish legends. Director Dominik Graf, for example, is currently working on a film about the Golem. For him, the Golem is a symbol for a being that knows more about humans than humans know about themselves. Manfred Hild, head of the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory in Berlin, where they developed Myon, a robot that even takes part in an opera. "Golem - The Legend of Man” looks at the Jewish origins of this myth and the fascination it has exercised on man since the very beginning.201201:02:29https://movie-discovery.com/movie/good-garbage-documentary-english/1707EnglishEnglishAda Ushpiz and Shoh shlamHuman RightsChildren and AdolescentsWar And ConflictIn the suburb of Yatta village near Hebron, in the heart of desolate rocky grounds, lies one of the biggest garbage dumps in the West Bank, which serves the district of Hebron and the settlements of Kiryat Arba, Havat Ma’on, Susia and Carmel. At dawn, and sometimes during the night too, a few dozens of Yatta’s inhabitants await the settlers’ garbage trucks. Most of them are children and teenagers between 9 and 16, who compete who will set upon the unloading trucks first and gather, among the dirt and stench, anything from coke cans to broken TVs, anything that has recyclable iron. “The good garbage” is the one coming from Kiryat Arba: electrical appliances, like mixers, TV parts, refrigerators; even old clothes. Garbage trucks coming from Palestinian villages in the district of Hebron are usually not awarded with the same enthusiasm and are not treated at all by some. Sometimes trucks arrive at night too, and the children - awaiting them inside improvised tents made of clothes from the garbage dump - use the darkness to burn tires and extract the iron out, taking the risk that soldiers will show up and chase them.  During morning hours, children, youngsters and adults continue to arrive. Some descend the hills by foot after a two hours walking, others wander on donkeys or by cars. Those are the unemployed people of Yatta. Most of them are ex-laborers in Israel, whose entrance permits have been revoked due to wide limitations on entrance permits to Israel or due to criminal reasons, such as: involvement in car theft in Israel, selling firearms to the Tanzim and more. According to locals’ estimates, about 200 Palestinians from Yatta earn their living, barely and miserably, from “the garbage of the Jews”. A sort of improvised domestic retailing evolved around the garbage dump. The iron is sold to dealers in the village center, who in turn traffic it to a dealer in Ashkelon; but clothes and other objects are passed on to the women in the house, who wash them, fix them, and sell them cheaply.  Eventually the iron may end up in China or somewhere else.Within a radius of 2-3 km, between piles of garbage scattered on some hills, lies a violent instinctive world full of battles for subsistence, poverty, degradation, games of honor, along daily confrontations. When a truck arrives from the settlements, the violence grows. Children hang from the crane to rummage through the loader before it throws from above packs of wet black garbage, which cover those who are near the truck. Shoving, fighting, for every piece of iron. Within this micro cosmos, a tangled system of weak and strong was formed, sometimes on a family basis, sometimes based on dependence relationships of adults against children.The film unfolds the stories of Haron, 11 years old, Ibrahim, 17 years old, Yosef, 40 years old, and Bedawi, 60 years old, a representative mosaic of characters, revealing a routine of a personal and family war of existence in the reality of occupation. Their personal stories touch on the common pains of the occupation: the fate of a father with a child who sold land to Jews, a mother who was prevented from reuniting with her family in Jordan, a young son of a father serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison, and illiterate and hard-working parents, who are forced to encourage their children to work in the garbage dump, but at the same time dream of seeing them win for a matriculation certificate, in the hope that they will break the cycle of poverty. In Yata occupation is present every moment between the four walls of the house, even when the soldiers are only in the entrances of the village.Watch a Q&A session between Michael Moore and co-director Shosh Shlam Winner of Best Documentary in Magnolia film festival.Winner of Best Cinematography, the Documentary Forum201100:31:41A yeshiva student falls in love with his grandfather's beautiful Indian caregiver https://movie-discovery.com/movie/good-guy/269EnglishEnglishNoam YellinekRelationshipMaale FilmsSenior CitizensFictionA young yeshiva student falls in love with a beautiful young Indian caregiver in his grandfather's house.A film by Noam YellienkScreening & Prizes:"Jewish Eye" Film Festival, Ashkelom October 2012Religion Today Film Festival, Trento Italy October 2012   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201100:31:41A yeshiva student falls in love with his grandfather's beautiful Indian caregiver https://movie-discovery.com/movie/good-guy/684EnglishEnglishNoam YellinekRelationshipMaale FilmsFamilyIdentityA young yeshiva student falls in love with a beautiful young Indian caregiver in his grandfather's house.A film by Noam YellienkScreening & Prizes:'Jewish Eye' Film Festival, Ashkelom October 2012Religion Today Film Festival, Trento Italy October 2012   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200701:00:00A biography of world music master Yair Dalal https://movie-discovery.com/movie/yair-dalal-music-documentary/1168EnglishEnglishEhud TomalakBiographyMusicEthnicitiesLike the historical “Perfume Road”, it is a musical journey of Yair Dalal - from the Persian Golf to Jaffa, from antiquity to modern times, from playing with Bedouins in the desert to nomination of the BBC World-Music Award.Inspired by his music Masters-ancestors from Iraq-Babylon he vows to carry on their vanishing legacy.  A native “Middle-Eastern Israeli”, Yair struggles for recognition in his roots and convictions by establishing his music school so to realize a social-cultural bridge between East and West.A film by Ehud Tomalak and Amos MichaeliWith: Yair Dalal, Duby LenzThe Alol Ensemble: Yair Dalal - Oud, violin, singingAvi Agababa - PercussionErez Munk - PercussionAsaf Zamir - PercussionHaim Ankri - VocalsEli Benakot - EwiAriel Elayev - AccordionHeleil Al’Aweiw - Bedouin fluteAtiah Shlive- GurunYotam Haimovitz - SitarEyal Sella - Clarinet, flute  Guest players:  Awad Shlivi - Sumsumia, Abu Yusef  - Rababa,  Muhammad GarbiaYair Dalal website 201700:57:38Searching for the unknown Holocaust in the former Soviet Unionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/gotenland-en/1044EnglishEnglishBoris MaftsirZvi Shefy & Boris MaftsirDocumentaryHistoryHolocaustA documentary project by Boris MaftsirIn November 1941, the German  Army occupied the Crimea peninsula.In a short time, murderous Aktionen of the Jews begin - as in the rest of the Soviet occupied territories.The Nazis planned to turn the Crimea into an inseparable part of the Third Reich - they called it GOTENLAND - the land of the Goths.The shores of Crimea were supposed to be the shores of a German Riviera.German families were to settle in vast estates on the peninsula.The Nazi idea was not realized.But one part of the plan - the total murder of the Jews and members of the Crimean community - was carried out.The seventh film in a documentary project by Boris Maftsir talks about the uniqueness of the tragedy of the destruction of the Crimea Crimchaks community and the liquidation of the Jewish kolkhozes -  together with the other Jewish communities of the Crimea.The stories were  filmed in places and time analogous to the operations that took place in the winter of 1941-42 and in the summer of 1942.  The project includes eight films. Click here to explore the full collection. http://www.holocaustinussr.com/** if you have an active subscription to the platform, you can skip the following message** The film is available for free, for personal viewing, which includes a watermark. To watch it, simply click on the Play button above.If you'd like to watch the film in higher quality and without a watermark, please click on Rent and choose the rental period.For institutional use and public screening, please click on Download and choose the appropriate license.200500:33:09A sensitive film about the final stop for terminal patients - the hospicehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/grace-hessed-en/1245EnglishEnglishIlan YagodaDocumentary filmsSenior Citizens“You know, I feel as if I’ve known this place since I was born. A home. I say that this is a place of life. Everything here is alive. Even death is alive...”The final stop for terminal patients beyond the reach of medical treatment, a hospice provides palliative care to patients determined to die with dignity. Filmmaker Ilan Yagoda takes us inside the stories playing out at an Israeli hospice, where the average stay is a modest 14 days. Alternately inspiring and heartbreaking, this poignant verité-style doc carefully follows six families as they attempt to say goodbye to their loved ones. The stories are personal, but common: a man who believes he was struck ill as punishment for leaving a fallen comrade on the battlefield; a woman who realizes she has walked through a loveless life; a son struggling to let go of his father. Yagoda eschews interviews and voice-overs, but his portraits are still intimate, candid and deeply familiar. In Grace, we find that the search for solace and the yearning for reconciliation can be quiet, beautiful, haunting and common to us all.A film by Ilan YagodaThe result is a stylish, soulful piece, which succeeds in impressing upon the audience the grace of forgiveness. There is no present reality in this film, but it nevertheless is deeply relevant. This is not a statement on the here and now, more a statement on several eternal questions. Time OutThrough the lens of Ilan Yagoda, the last 14 days of those cancer patients seem full than ever. humour, love, introspection and a truthful preparation for separation from the loved ones are all part  of life in the house of death. Yagoda serves us with 78 minutes of love, compassion and an empowering lesson in saying goodbye. Hanna KleinmannPrizes and AwardsWinner of the Editing Award,  Docaviv film festival, IsraelScreened in HotDocs film festival, CanadaScreened in Viosion du Reel, SwitzerlandParticipated in Input conference, Taiwan201000:57:43The story of a Hip-hop group of Israeli-Ethiopian youth from the southhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/green-yellow-red-en/826EnglishEnglishDavid GavroYael ShavitImmigrationMusic"There are only 3 ways to get out of this town: excel in sports, be a prominent musician or in a coffin." Thats how the movie Green Yellow Red starts.In over three years, director David Gavro followed a hip hop group of Israeli Ethiopian young artists from a small town in southern Israel. For them, hip hop is way to define their identity, which was erased since the Jewish Ethiopian community came to Israel. And it's also a way to get out of where they live.a film by David Gavro202300:20:59A personal journey in an attempt to control consumerism and social mediahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/guide-for-the-courageous-observer-documetary/1688EnglishEnglishNadav GedaliaDocumentary filmsArts and Popular CultureIdentityA journey of personal observing, beyond the addictive screens, towards meaning.A young Israeli journalist disconnects from the screens that are running his life and sets out on a journey of personal observing in the public sphere. On this humoristic journey through the streets, he gradually discards his cynicism and is surprised to discover the beautiful, natural and powerful emotions concealed behind the screens of modern life.It is no secret that the noise coming from the screens surrounding us, has taken over a central part of our lives. We work, shop, sell, embrace, love, are angry and even "moved" through screens. In this manner, our attention is drawn towards continuous notifications, away from the potential good will we have within us.The possibility of living a truly exciting life is taken from us.Now, whoever attracts our attention the most, receives our heart, or important parts of it.What does our heart look like without the attractive screen nourishment? What does the world around us look like when we actually observe it? What are we missing out on when we connect to screens? "The Guide for the Courageous Observer" (Status film) is a simple film that is hard to define until you watch it.The film is made of short stories and statuses, joined together to create a 45 minute video, in five parts, presenting a personal journey of observing with humor and sincerity, offering new perceptions."The Guide for the Courageous Observer" is for those that wish to observe life itself, in the deep sense of it and to be moved by it.About the Film CreatorThe film's director is Nadav Gedalya, actor, musician and journalist, known for his unique personal writing and directing style. In the last 15 years, he has produced hundreds of articles and reports on culture, philosophy and media in leading media networks, as well  as books he has written. He has acted on television and has independently produced a range of projects, including the successful film, "Single man with God" (42 minutes), the online series "Giladi will sell you", the film "Pension" (20 minutes), a personal music album, singles and clips.201500:47:28Ep. 2 : What can be done to treat massive blood loss?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/gunthers-er-ep2/959EnglishDavid ColemanScience And TechnologyMedicineIn the second of this new series, the focus is on blood loss in which Dr Gunther von Hagens together with the British Red Cross explore the impact that accidents and assaults have on the human body, while also demonstrating what first-aiders, paramedics and physicians can do to try to preserve life. This programme explores the different ways we can lose blood, the effect such trauma has on the body and what can be done by doctors to treat it. Dr John Heyworth, A&E Consultant, Southampton University Hospitals Trust, is on hand to supplement von Hagens' dissections with medical facts, while British Red Cross first aid demonstrator, Emma Rand, demonstrates simple techniques for reducing blood loss before additional medical assistance is needed.201500:48:20Ep.1 : Problems affecting the number-one priority for doctors in ERhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/gunthers-er-ep1/956EnglishDavid ColemanScience And TechnologyMedicineIn the acclaimed follow-up series to Autopsy: Life and Death, Dr Gunther von Hagens recreates serious injuries on human bodies to reveal what happens to the body when faced with assaults or accidents and to show what first-aiders, paramedics and physicians can do to preserve life against the clock.First, he dissected human bodies to show how they work; then he did it to show how humans die. Now, Dr Gunther von Hagens, together with the British Red Cross, demonstrates how to save lives. In this new three-part series, von Hagens explores the impact that accidents and assaults have on the human body, while also demonstrating what first-aiders, paramedics and physicians can do to try to preserve life. In each film, von Hagens is joined by Dr John Heyworth, A&E consultant at Southampton University Hospitals Trust, who supplements the anatomy on display with illuminating commentary, based on his first-hand experience of a busy emergency department. Emma Rand, from the British Red Cross, demonstrates the simple first-aid techniques that could mean the difference between life and death. In tonight's opening film, von Hagens and his team will discuss and demonstrate the problems affecting the number-one priority for doctors in an emergency room: the airway.201500:47:50Ep. 3 : Injuries if not diagnosed promptly can impact victims quality of lifehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/gunthers-er-ep3/960EnglishDavid ColemanScience And TechnologyMedicineIn the acclaimed follow-up series to Autopsy: Life and Death, Dr Gunther von Hagens recreates serious injuries on human bodies to reveal what happens to the body when faced with assaults or accidents and to show what first-aiders, paramedics and physicians can do to preserve life against the clock.He is joined by Dr John Heyworth, A&E Consultant, Southampton University Hospitals Trust, whose illuminating commentary is based on his first-hand, front-line experience of a busy Emergency Department. And for the first time, von Hagens has teamed up with the British Red Cross, whose representative, Emma Rand, demonstrates simple First Aid techniques that could mean the difference between life and death.The concluding episode of Dr Gunther von Hagens' focuses on injuries that, if not diagnosed and treated promptly, can lead to permanent damage and a dramatic impact on the victim’s quality of lifeJoining forces with the British Red Cross, von Hagens examines injuries to the  skeletal system and investigates the causes and consequences of brain damage. Dr John Heyworth, A&E Consultant, Southampton University Hospitals Trust, is on hand to supplement von Hagens’ dissections with medical facts.200700:23:47Chabad shluchim are for life. Or until the Messiah comeshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/good-shabbos-vietnam-en/1650EnglishHebrew (modern)RussianYael Leibovitch and Ido ZandJewish way of lifeDocumentary filmsReligionIn Chabad, the shlucim (emissaries, representatives) are in a mission for a lifetime. This documentary is about a young couple, which are not only sent for lifetime, but in a totally different country, to which they have no family or any other connection. Not to its culture, neither to it history or language. Menachem and Racheli are sent to Vietnam, to be Chabad shluchim. The film accompanies them in the most sensitive period: their arrival and their absorption. During this period, they encounter everything from hunger to a cold welcoming and indifference from their surroundings. Years had passed since the production of the film. The Chabad community in Vietnam is flourishing. Menachem and Racheli are still there -:) As said, it's a mission for life.What are ShluchimChabad in Vietnam200800:57:43Strong bonds are created between the Israeli director and the Korean free divershttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/women-of-the-sea-en/835EnglishEnglishDahlia GerstenhaberWomen And GenderDocumentaryAnthropologyIdentityWalking in the footsteps left by my grandmother's will, a voice echoed within me for years leading me to a small island in South Korea, to the Hae-Nyo, Women of the Sea. The Hae-Nyo are women who make their living free diving, gathering seafood from the ocean. While they are working in the fields, in the sea, when they are together in their dive club, laughing, shouting, chattering and gossiping, they are enveloped in a warm and embracing relationship. They have converted life's hardships into a source of feminine strength. My story is laced between Israel and South Korea, between death and the solace of working in the field, between the fear of diving and the yearning for the ocean. Three times I traveled alone to Korea, to live with these women and be a Hae-Nyo - a journey that changed my life. Dahlia Gerstenhaber201501:12:54A colourful journey through the history of Israeli cinemahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hagiga-part-1/299EnglishEnglishNoit GevaMoshe Edri, Leon Edri, David ZilberDocumentary filmsHistoryArts and Popular CultureThe forefathers of Israeli cinema - Ephraim Kishon, Uri Zohar and Menachem Golan – came to cinema from the world of entertainment. These filmmakers stepped into the tiny, emerging film industry with practically no money – but with a keen sense of what their audience would like. Armed with humor, chutzpah and courage, they managed to make international headlines, including Oscar nominations and prizes at Cannes. The movies of the 1960s and the 1970s become more and more ambitious. These films present a portrait of the newly formed Israeli society –  a melting pot of immigrants and soldiers where irony and underdogs were the true heroes.A film by Noit GevaAwards & Festivals:Toronto JFF, Canada, 2016Australia International Jewish Film Festival, 2015LA Israeli Film Festival, 2015Jerusalem International Film Festival, 2015201501:13:05The successes of Israeli cinema in the 1960s and the 1970s made way for a period of confusion and disappointment within the 1980shttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hagiga-part-2/300EnglishHebrew (modern)Noit GevaDocumentary filmsHistoryArts and Popular CultureThe successes of Israeli cinema in the 1960s and the 1970s made way for a period of confusion and disappointment within the 1980s. But this era also ushered in something new. The fallout after the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin, coupled with the development of commercial television and the emergence of Israeli filmmaking schools, spurred a generation of highly creative artists. Dozens of movies are produced each year, and the creators become more diverse: women, religious, and Palestinian filmmakers begin to find their voices, and new genres emerge. Films such as ‘Late Marriage’, ‘The Band’s Visit’, ‘Waltz with Bashir’ and ‘Footnote’ garner international success, and Israeli directors become known throughout the world.  Israeli cinema continues to react to the social, military and political reality, although at times, in delay. The Lebanon War, the murder of Rabin, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the widening social gaps within Israeli society present the backdrop for controversial films that receive international praise and criticism.A film by Noit GevaAwards & Festivals:Toronto JFF, Canada, 2016Australia International Jewish Film Festival, 2015LA Israeli Film Festival, 2015Jerusalem International Film Festival, 2015200100:22:01A dramatic event will force Yael to choose between two menhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hallel/169EnglishEnglishLiat Vagshel CohenRelationshipWomen And GenderMaale FilmsFamilyAs the result of a small car accident, Yael, an orthodox married woman undergoing fertility treatment, meets the young secular owner of a bookstore. Through her new friendship with him, she is drawn into a world of poetry and prose, a world she has not previously known. This world becomes a great comfort against the background of her infertility and the resulting strain on her marriage. Her caring husband is pushed to the sidelines, and only a dramatic event will force Yael to choose between the two men.A film by Liat Vagshel Cohen   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200400:15:41An optimistic short comedy about mother, Passover and lovehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hametz-leaven/347EnglishEnglishItzik YuvalJewishRelationshipFamilyIt is Passover Eve, a few hours before the festival is due to begin. The famous Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv is due to play the semi final against Barcelona. Rubi, a divorced 45-year-old sports teacher who lives with his mother, is dying to watch the game, but to please his mother, he must first do the ritual of "Bedikat Hametz", a thorough check of all the rooms in the household to ensure that their home is free of foods forbidden on Passover. The sudden appearance of Ruth, a vacuum cleaner saleswoman on the doorstep, alters everybody's plans for the evening.A film by Itzik Yuval201301:03:03A biography of one of the prominent founders of Gush Emunimhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hanan-porat-settled-faith-documentary-english/1708EnglishEnglishHebrew (modern)Gil MezumanGil MezumanHistoryBiographyHanan Porat became the leader and symbol of the settler movement in winter, 1975. He was carried on the shoulders of dozens of men in Sebastia, in the heart of Samaria, after Rabin’s government authorized the establishment of a settlement in Elon Moreh, caving to the pressure of the settlers, led by Porat.  history changed: in 2025, around half a million Jews live in dozens of settlements throughout the West Bank.In winter 2010, Hanan is diagnosed with cancer. He knew his days are numbered and set out on a journey through the key stations in his life. Hanan Porat: Settled in Faith is a historical document, personal and national. It presents the soul searching of Porat and of the entire Gush Emunim movement: was it a right choice to dedicate his life to public activity instead of Torah study and spirituality? Did the political path which he chose prove itself? What was the price exacted by the settlement enterprise? Will the destruction of the Jewish settlements in Gaza be repeated in the West Bank?Screened at Jerusalem Jewish Film FestivalRead more about Hanan Porat:WikipediaWorld MizrachiThe Jewish Press201500:21:34A special needs woman has great spiritual depth and self-awarenesshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hanna-is-beautiful/81EnglishEnglishShira MeisharCouplesMaale FilmsSpecial NeedsAnthropologyHanna, a special needs 37-year-old who shows a moving and philosophical insight into her situation, lives in protective housing, following her daily routine and hoping for love. Earning well below the minimum wage in the kitchens of a government ministry, Hanna applies for a re-evaluation of her salary in the light of her high level of competence at work. The film accompanies her through her hardest and happiest moments.Hanna is an unforgettable character of great spiritual depth and self-awareness, who effortlessly demolishes all our preconceptions about special needs adults.A film by Shira Meishar Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200701:08:20She was saved during the holocaust by a priest who would become, years later, the popehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hanuzska-en/320EnglishEnglishNurit KedarBiographyHolocaustLike many other Jewish children, young Hanuzska was hidden in a monastery during World War II. She had hidden her Jewish identity and became a devote member of the monastery. A true friendship was created between her and the priest. Years later, as an Israeli who came back to her Jewish roots, she sets out on a journey back to Europe, where she will tell her story and the story of that priest, who became John Paul II, the Pope.A film by Nurit Kedar201200:25:18Two brothers struggle with a promisehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/happy-hanukah-bodenheimer/665EnglishEnglishHadas DissenJewishMaale FilmsFamilyChildren and AdolescentsReligionTwo young brothers struggle with a promise:'When the Messiah comes, the dead will arise and your father will come home.”A film by Hadas Dissen   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201200:58:02An incredible journey from the inferno of the battlefield back to the ocean of lifehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/happy-you-are-alive/677EnglishEnglishHilla MedaliaNeta Zwebner Zaibert, Ayelet Cohen & Liron Gross.War And ConflictPsychologyMusicIdentityFor more than two years the film crew captures Kobi Vitman, an inspiring musician, and Naftali Kinel's incredible journey from the inferno of the battlefield back to the ocean of life. Their stories expose the traumatic effects of war, both on the individuals and on society, raising questions and bringing awareness. The film captures Kobi's impulsive works of self-expression that grow to become War Rock Opera and Naftali's therapy with a PTSD expert psychiatrist Mooli Lahad. This film sheds light upon the roughest waters of life, and by doing so teaches us how from the most unimaginable pain we can find strength.A film by Hilla Medalia200100:22:45My life with a brother with special needshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hello-yaakov-hello-malka/685EnglishEnglishOfir SchteinbaumMaale FilmsFamilyChildren and AdolescentsSpecial Needs My special needs brother Elad is now 19. My parents are finding it harder and harder to take care of him, but as they begin to look for sheltered accommodation for him, they begin to realize how painful the upcoming separation will be.A film by Ofir SchteinbaumFestivals:International Student Film Festival, Belgrade Yugoslavia 2001Sprout Film Festival NY 2010   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200702:16:46Who was Herzl, the visionary of the state of Israel, beyond the myth?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/herzl-biography/712EnglishHebrew (modern)HistoryBiographyWho was the real Herzl? - Benjamin Theodore Herzl is considered the father of modern political Zionism, but in this 3 episodes series we get to know him more personally - his aspirations as a teenager, his literary works, the relations with his wife and parents and the tragedies. A highly aesthetic production, which includes dramatic reenactments.A film by Amnon Rubinstein 201001:05:08An intimate film about the psychological impact of killing on the lives of five soldiershttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hidden-battles/258EnglishEnglishDanae ElonVictoria Mills, Hayley Downs, Kathy Leichter, Lila YomtoobWar And ConflictPsychologyIdentity"Hidden Battles," a feature-length documentary, is a dramatic and deeply intimate film about the psychological impact of killing on the lives of five soldiers. How does killing change the person who pulls the trigger? "Hidden Battles" weaves together moments of reflection and realization from people who struggle with what it means to kill in all of its complexity. The film offers unique insight into the internal conflicts that veterans around the world continue to face long after they have left the battlefield.A film by Victoria MillsFilm Festivals and AwardsRhode Island International Film Festival, Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, Salem Film Festival, Santa Cruz Film Festival, Hearts and Minds Film Festival, Landlocked Film Festival, Festival un Film per la Pace, DocUTAH, Ridgewood Film Festival, Istanbul International Documentary Film Festival, Honorable Mention at the Columbus International Film and Video Festival.198900:27:14A biography of artist Iziash Hoffstatter, whose life was "an optimistic tragedy"https://movie-discovery.com/movie/hoffstatter-a-portrait-of-an-artist/352EnglishEnglishHebrew (modern)Jachin HirchDocumentaryBiographyArts and CultureIziash Hoffstatter, born in Poland and a Holocaust survivor. A renowned Israeli artist, worked as a night guard and defined himself as a "tragic optimist", due to his complicated, tough lifeA film by Jachin Hirch201600:23:47A touching encounter between accidental strangershttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/home-made-en/850EnglishEnglishShira MeisharMaale FilmsPsychologyFictionA restaurant owns, is supposed to be going home to her partner to celebrate her 50th birthday. She prepares to leave. Suddenly, two complete strangers arrive, one after the other. She chooses to spend the evening with them, in what becomes a touching  encounter. A film about the alternative life that resides in each of us.A film by Shira Meishar  Produced by Maale Film School199600:41:36Three couples share their unique homebirth storieshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/homebirth-stories/178EnglishEnglishMiri Urman and Amit MillerWomen And GenderFamilyThree couples share their homebirth stories. They present their deliberations and their decision-making process and their personal conclusion that homebirth is the most favorable birthing option for them. The movie shows various homebirth choices, including waterbirth, squatting, dry land birth, use of a birthing stool, and simply birthing in bed.A film by Miri Urman and Amit Miller200601:03:51Documenting the Lives of Security Prisoners in an Israeli Jailhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hothouse-home-of-security-prisoners/316EnglishEnglishShimon DotanDocumentaryWar And ConflictIsrael detains over 10,000 Palestinian prisoners. They are deemed "security prisoners" by the Israeli government, but, to many in the Palestinian world, they are viewed as leaders and martyrs for the crimes they have committed against innocent people. While some of the prisoners have renounced violence in favor of peace, many others are as dedicated to their causes as the day they were incarcerated and are creating virtual terrorist training camps within the prison's walls.A film by Shimon Dotan200600:56:01Documenting the Lives of Security Prisoners in an Israeli Jailhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hothouse-home-of-security-prisoners/697EnglishEnglishShimon DotanDocumentaryWar And ConflictIsrael detains over 10,000 Palestinian prisoners. They are deemed 'security prisoners' by the Israeli government, but, to many in the Palestinian world, they are viewed as leaders and martyrs for the crimes they have committed against innocent people. While some of the prisoners have renounced violence in favor of peace, many others are as dedicated to their causes as the day they were incarcerated and are creating virtual terrorist training camps within the prison's walls.A film by Shimon Dotan200500:30:00An intimate portrait of a family during the disengagement from Gaza Striphttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/house-103-en/142EnglishEnglishOhad DombMaale FilmsIsraeli SocietyWar And ConflictFamilyAugust 2005. The Tal family are living out their final moments in a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. "Disengagement", Ariel Sharon's political plan to evict the 22 Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip, will go into effect within a few days. The film is an intimate portrait of the family members' struggle to come to terms with their fate.A film by Ohad DombFestivalsInternational Jewish Film Festival, Argentina FICJA 2006SLEEPWALKERS International Student Film Festival, Estonia 2006First Time Director Film Festival, Singapore 2006NEIGHBOURS International Film Festival, Haifa Israel 2006THE JEWISH MOTIFF International Jewish Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland 2007   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201800:42:26Cashless Economy: Is Society ready for transformation?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/how-cash-is-becoming-a-thing-of-the-past/1112EnglishEducationWhat is a cashless economy?A system where no physical cash is in circulation is a cashless system. Payments are made through credit and debit cards, bank electronic fund transfers or virtual wallets.Cashless payments are on the rise. They are fast, easy and convenient. Worldwide, cashless transactions have become the norm. But Germany’s central bank and government are still clinging on to cash. Can they stop the move towards a cashless society? Our documentary shows who is behind the worldwide anti-cash lobby. Banks want to get rid of coins and bills for cost reasons, and politicians think less cash will cut the rug out from under criminals and terrorists. Central bankers want to abolish cash because it would make it easier for them to enforce negative interest rates. And digital payment companies like Paypal or Visa simply want to profit from money transactions and collect as much financial data about consumers as they can. Their aim is to gain complete control over our buying behavior. For example, the "Better than Cash Alliance" in New York is supported by financial corporations such as Visa or Mastercard. They say the more people that are integrated into the international financial system, the more growth and jobs it will promote. But as our financial behavior becomes more and more transparent, states are also using payment data to find out more about us. The ordinary citizen’s view of cash as a store of value, independent of third party interests, is being increasingly ignored. But for them, cash is and will remain a symbol of freedom.200601:21:44The true story of film industry outlaws Rupert Kathner and Alma Brookshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/hunt-angels/186EnglishAlec MorganHistoryArts and CultureHunt Angels is the true story of film industry outlaws Rupert Kathner and Alma Brooks, who in the late 1930’s began a movie-making spree that took on Hollywood barons, a police commissioner and the cultural cringe, all in their passionate pursuit to make Australian films. On the run from the police across thousands of miles, they would stop at almost nothing to get their films made.Ben Mendelsohn (Mullet, The Big Steal) stars with Victoria Hill (Macbeth) in his boldly inventive and witty celebration of the survival of Australian cinema in the face of Hollywood’s power and greed.A film by Alec Morgan201500:55:27 The untold story of the Mountain Jews community.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/i-am-a-mountain-jew/679EnglishEnglishNisan KatzImmigrationAnthropologyI am a Mountain Jew tells the untold story of the Mountain Jews community. The film follows a group of these young mountain Jews who immigrated to Israel many years ago and are now embarking on a journey to Caucasus to explore and connect with their roots. Having being subjected to stigmas about their so-called violent community all their life, they are determined to break the isolation and formalize their own identity and connection to Israeli society.A film by Nisan Katz200300:50:41Israeli reality as imagined through the eyes of a group of film directorshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/i-have-dream/312EnglishEnglishYoni ZiglerDocumentaryIsraeli SocietyWar And ConflictIsraeli reality as imagined through the eyes of a group of film directors.Produced by Matar Productions200301:04:04Israeli reality as imagined through the eyes of a group of film directorshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/i-have-dream/696EnglishEnglishYoni ZiglerDocumentaryIsraeli SocietyWar And ConflictIsraeli reality as imagined through the eyes of a group of film directors.Produced by Matar Productions200800:50:11Poignant comedy deals with the issue of fans confronting big business interests taking over footballhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/i-have-a-team-to-save/282EnglishEnglishHaim ShadmiDocumentarySportsPoignant comedy deals with the issue of fans confronting big business interests taking over football. Garage worker and Maccabi Tel Aviv supporter, Uri Mashiah, lives in Israel, has a passion for his team but feels it is underperforming because its billionaire owner is simply using it as a vehicle for his business interests. He realizes that all the things he loved about supporting Maccabi have all but gone. Uri tries to start up a campaign against the commercialisation of football. He believes that if fans all over the world carried out an international boycott one weekend then those running and ruining the game would start to listen. He produces some fliers, goes to a match and calls on Maccabi fans to boycott the game but with little success. Undeterred, he seeks inspiration from fans abroad and decides to travel to Europe for the first time in his life. He visits supporters of Fiorentina before moving on to Britain. His quest takes him to Anfield, only to find disillusionment there. Finally, he is advised that he will find what he is looking for at FC United - a true supporter-owned and run club. He finds his ideal amongst the fans at Gigg Lane. Haim, who also writes for the radical newspaper, Haaretz, will discuss the film and the issues facing Arab and Israeli football fans in the country.A film by Haim Shadmi200401:14:13A magical musical tour across Indiahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/i-saw-giraffes-in-india/234EnglishEnglishNoam PinchasArts and populre CultureMusicAnthropologyThe "Giraffes", a wild Israeli Folk-Rock band, go on a magical musical tour across India with an intended climax show in Goa. But the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai take the journey off-track and send the band on a search for the thousands of Israeli backpackers who fled Goa in fear of another attack. A musical portrait of the band and their charismatic lead singer, Gilad Kahana - a Rockstar, poet and a compulsive workaholic - who leads the band's attempts to change the Karma of the tour.A film by Noam Pinchas201000:55:23Pays tribute to unsung heros and to many American Jews who volunteered and contributed to the realization of the creation of the Jewish Statehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/i-was-there-in-color/184EnglishAvishai KfirJewish way of lifeIsraeli SocietyHistoryBiography'I Was There In Color' is an extraordinary and never before seen movie about the historical birth of Israel in color. The historic footage was shot by Fred Monosson, a Jewish American businessman from Brookline-Boston, who died in 1972, leaving in his basement ream of 16 mm film. Until that discovery, the history of Israel was only captured in black and white. Now, for the first time ever Israel's history is told in color.A film by Avishai Kfir201300:25:16Grandma Rebecca is forced to leave her home and memorieshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/i-will-see-you-again/109EnglishEnglishAchva HershtikMaale FilmsDocumentary filmsFamilySenior Citizens Grandma Rebecca is forced to leave her home and memories and move in with her children and grandchildren. The separation from her home and her life is unbearably hard. Her family guides her with love and sensitivity to a new future that also has room for her memories.A film by Achva Hershtik   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200900:15:35 The special relationship between an elderly father and his son who has Down's syndromehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/i-am-ready/273EnglishEnglishSpanish; CastilianEsther Siton-KatzMaale FilmsFamilySenior CitizensSpecial NeedsThe special relationship between an elderly father and his Down syndrome son breaks down when the father's memory begins to fail due to the onset of Alzheimer's disease.The collapse of their stable and happy routine force upon the two a painful resolution of their problems.A film by Esther Siton-KatzAwards:First Prize, Jewish Film Festival, Athens Georgia USA 2011Festivals:Jewish Film Festival Miami 2009Israel Film Festival New York 2009Festival for Special Needs Actors, Jerusalem 2009Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2010Moscow Special Needs Film Festival 2010Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival 2010Jewish Film Festival, Toronto Canada 2011   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200600:51:12Ida Fink wrote only in Polish, but touched many hearts all over the wordhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/ida-fink-the-garden-that-floated-away/1729EnglishHebrew (modern)Ruth WalkDocumentary filmsBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureThe film The Garden that Floated Away tells the story of Ida Fink, one of Israel's most distinguished authors. With her pristine Polish prose, she recounts the Holocaust era, touching upon its horrors without sacrificing elegance and beauty. The film highlights the profound connection between her life and the reality depicted in her work, reflecting the musical and cinematic qualities of her stories.Ida Fink's home in Holon is a tiny apartment, where a writing desk faces a balcony overlooking a garden. This is the garden she gazes upon while typing on her old Polish typewriter. It is also "the garden that floats away," the namesake of her story that portrays her childhood garden as a symbol of a life lost, never to be the same.Inspired by Ida's modest lifestyle, the film intimately follows her at 83 years old as she moves out of the apartment where she lived and created for 45 years. She and her 81-year-old sister are embarking on a new future together, sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv. It is the first time they have lived together since the war, when they wandered across Germany and Poland, posing as Polish farmhands and factory workers in a desperate attempt to survive. The film explores the price of that survival and the struggle to reclaim one's true identity after years of denying it.A film by Yael Perlov and Ruth Walk, it is part of the series A Room of One's Own: Women Writing.***About the Series:A Room of One's Own: Women Writing is a series about women whose lives are dedicated to the craft of writing—women for whom writing is not just a profession, but an existential necessity.In 1929, the English author Virginia Woolf wrote in her book, A Room of One's Own, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." It is remarkable how relevant these words, written decades ago, remain today. The five women featured in this series exemplify the very struggles Woolf alluded to. To make writing the center of their lives, they face a relentless and often bitter struggle for personal and financial independence, frequently making social and familial sacrifices along the way.The series consists of five episodes, each dedicated to one woman. It captures a day in her life within her natural environment—her "room of one's own." This space encompasses her writing desk, her social circles, and her daily routines. Through this lens, the series delves into the unique thoughts and characteristics that define her as a writer and explores how the act of writing propels her life forward.The common thread uniting these women is the profound importance of the written word in both their intellectual and practical lives, and the inherent struggles that arise from this commitment.By observing their daily lives, the films decode why writing constitutes their entire world and examine the interplay between their texts and their lived experiences. The series aims to sketch a portrait of the woman behind the words. In one of her stories, Orly Castel-Bloom wrote, "I live on paper." This sentence, reflecting a deep-seated need to write while also ironically hinting at the perceived "unreal" nature of a woman's life lived solely "on paper," captures the series' goal: to showcase the authors' devotion to their craft while simultaneously emphasizing the reality and significance of their lives. The series reveals women who live not just "on paper," but in the world, fully realizing their inner selves and spirits.199800:29:18A talented musician, an outspoken teenager, and suddenly - devoutly religioushttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/ido-en/272EnglishEnglishGilad GoldschmidtMaale FilmsFamilyReligionMusicThe charismatic leader of a punk rock band, Ido is a talented musician, an outspoken teenager, and suddenly - devoutly religious. Moving to the community of Beitar, he immerses himself in Jewish study, while his family and friends try to cope with his dramatic transformation. Following Ido for a year, this film vividly expresses his inner growth- and the reactions of those in the secular world he has left behind.A film by Gilad Goldschmidt Awards:Ma'ale School Award best film for 1998, presented by "Keshet", the Israeli second channel. Jury Mention Award, the 14th International Student Film Festival, Tel-Aviv 1998.Festivals:The 14th International Student Film Festival, Tel Aviv, June 1998.The Jerusalem International Film Festival, Wolgin Competition, July 1998.The 10th Boston Jewish Film Festival, November 1998.The IDA Documentary Film Competition, Los Angeles, October 1998.Israel Film Festival, Los Angeles 1998, New York 1999.Bergen county Israeli Film Festival, New Jersey, March 1999.Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Seattle, March 1999.She-Suchte International Student Film Festival, Potsdam Germany, April 1999.Magnes Jewish video competition, Berkely, U.S.A,1999Public Screenings:Fyherty International Documentary Film Seminar, Israel, October 1998.Cambridge England, October 1998London, December 1998.Israel Art Museum, Jerusalem, March 1999.   Film School 200301:10:35A deep cultural gap between the Yemenite families and the Yiddish Satmar Communityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/in-satmar-custody/689EnglishEnglishNitzan GiladiJewishHuman RightsFamilyImmigrationChildren and AdolescentsAnthropologyIn Satmar Custody reveals the story of the Jaradi's, a Jewish Yemenite family, one of many that were brought from Yemen to the US (Monroe, NY) by the Ultra-orthodox Satmar Community which operates a propaganda machine against the immigration to Israel.The story exposes a deep cultural gap between the Yemenite families and the Yiddish Satmar Community that became distractive and tragic to families who have traveled thousands of miles to an entirely different planet of their own, with strange rules, norms, morals and lifestyles.Still in Yemen, Yemenite Jewish families are brainwashed by skillful missionaries, unable to defend themselves in the eye of this intricate and deceptive operation. The film follows the life of Yahia and Lauza Jaradi who were brought from Yemen into the Satmar Community. It starts on the day that the Jaradi couple received an urgent phone call notifying that their two and a half-year-old daughter, Hadia, died in a hospital in Paterson, N.J. Through their search for their daughter's body, they are getting closer and closer to what seems as the very painful truth about her faith.A film by Nitzan Giladi Reviews:'A most stirring and disturbing film.....built like a thriller, in an atmosphere of mystery.' -Joan Dupont, The International Herald Tribune'The scene, straight from some shtetl described by Isaac Bashevis Singer, conceals a contemporary tragedy of ancient Greek proportions in director Nitzan Gilady's chilling and thoroughly engrossing documentary In Satmar Custody.' -Village Voice By Leslie Camhi'...Nitzan Gilady delivers a stranger-than-fiction story of group coercion with a poetic, elliptical style.' -The Boston Phoenix by Matthias Frey'In Satmar Custody has all the requisite elements- tension, pace, pain, despair, hope, voyeurism and above all, a wonderful sense of time and place...it is a sensitive, sad and sobering film, providing a glimpse into the world of Satmar Chassidic Society...Not to be missed!' -Ynet, Israel'Watching the film In Satmar Custody is both enraging and difficult, due to it having been made so well. A feeling of helplessness is mixed with hoping for a happy ending. The rage bubbles up simultaneously with waves of sympathy and mercy...' -Zman Tel Aviv, Israel'In Satmar Custody is a poetry filled with endless sorrow. An exquisite mixture of brave research, patient, talent and art. Not o be missed' -Yediot Acharonot, IsraelFestivals: (partial)Marseille Documentary Film Festival 2003Jerusalem Film Festival 2003IDFA 2003Golden Gate Competition – San Francisco International Film FestivalNewport Beach International Film FestivalPalm Beach International Film FestivalInput, BarcelonaMunich Documentary Film FestivalBeverly Hills Film FestivalToronto Jewish Film FestivalCork, IrelandCape Town World CinemaPioneer Theater, New York – A theatrical run 201100:31:46Tamar, a 17-year old girl, was raped, but doesn't dare to speak about ithttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/in-silence-en/139EnglishEnglishTom Dadon-MIshalyWomen And GenderMaale FilmsPsychologyChildren and AdolescentsFictionTamar, a well-adjusted 17-year old from a happy home, is raped at the religious girls' high school where she is a student. She becomes withdrawn and hostile, mystifying her parents who assume that this is normal teenage angst. The more Tamar's despair goes unnoticed, the more desperate she becomes.A film by Tom Dadon-MIshaly   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201300:03:20A thought provoking film about the national expropriation of grief from the familieshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/in-the-land-of-bereavement-en/964EnglishEnglishAvi HemiDocumentaryIsraeli SocietyWar And ConflictMemorial Day, “Good to Die for Our Country”, “Recalling the Dead” stickers, the national siren.Bereavement is the get together of the Jewish people in Israel. Nevertheless, it seems we never stopped for a minute to ask ourselves about the role of bereavement in our lives, who profits from it and who pays the price.In his film, The Land of Bereavement, director Avi Hemi sets out to scrutinize the ethos of bereavement with those who have to experience it in their personal lives, among them are writers Yoram Kaniuk and Ruvik Rosenthal. The personal tragedy, the expropriation of their grief for the benefit of the public and politicians, the uselessness of the national solemn ceremonies and the feeling of the never ending death, accompany their lives since the loss of their dearest. In the film they raise painful questions about the price of independence and the power of fate: is the loss of their beloved ones worthy for the existence of the state? What is so threatening in hearing different opinions and who’s afraid to find out there might be another truth?200700:44:11The factors that turn children into adult psychopathshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/in-the-shadow-of-feeling/988EnglishBryan LawDocumentary filmsPsychologyCriminologyAt age 14, a young Canadian boy named “Johnathan” decided to murder his friend and fellow schoolmate during a lunchtime recess. He later turned himself in, was found guilty of first degree murder, and is now serving a life sentence in a medium security prison. While on trial, “Johnathan” was labelled as a psychopath, a person with no ability to feel remorse or empathy for his actions.Psychopaths have a rich history in the media of being portrayed as mastermind serial killers and mass murderers. The real truth behind these individuals is much more frightening and serious than most people imagine. Psychopaths account for approximately 3% of society, and many of that percentage has never and will never see the inside of a prison cell. Psychopathic individuals hold many important posts in society such as business, corporate, politics and military. Although many of them will never commit actual crimes, they still leave an unmistakable mark on the people around them and a wake of broken promises and broken hearts everywhere they go.This film explores the factors that create psychopaths in society and the ways to identify these individuals. Factors such as genetics, parenting, and consumerism play vital roles in determining the interpersonal bonds that children form in the earliest years of life. Through interviews with professionals, doctors, and even a psychopath himself, the public can gain better knowledge of what causes children to develop into adult psychopaths and hopefully decide to stem these causes at their roots.200400:23:47The presence of William Shakespeare in the Stratford erahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/in-the-steps-of-william-shakespeare-london-and-stratford-1564-1613/1460EnglishArts and populre CultureLiteratureDiscover the kinds of plays performed at Stratford in Shakespeare's youth along with an introduction to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Shakespeare's London Years 1591-1613: Our British presenter, Rebecca Flynn, offers us a horseback journey into London and a walking tour over a dozen London sites that conjure up the presence of William Shakespeare during his London years. This program follows the trail and visits eighteen major sites associated with Shakespeare and his plays which include - the Tower of London; St. Paul's Cathedral; the Middle Temple for law students; George Tavern, a venue for outdoor plays; Southwark Cathedral, where his brother Edmund Shakespeare is buried; and the London Globe Theatre site. Shakespeare's Stratford Years 1564-1590: This Program conjures up the presence of William Shakespeare during his Stratford years by taking you on a walking, biking, and rowing journey around Warwickshire. It features the baptismal font and tomb at Trinity church, Shakespeare's Birthplace, the King Edward VI Grammar School he attended, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shottery, Wilmcote, Kenilworth Castle, the Mary Arden Farm, and many other important locations.201201:10:20One of the most captivating chapters in the development of modern architecture - the story of Erich Mendelsohnhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/incessant-vision/200EnglishEnglishDuki DrorHistoryArts and Popular CultureThis film is a cinematic meditation about the untold story of Erich Mendelsohn whose life and career was as enigmatic and tragic as the path of the century.He drew sketches on tiny pieces of paper and sent them, from the trenches to a young cellist, who was waiting for him in Berlin. She thought he was a genius and after WW1 she helped him become the busiest architect in Germany. When she planned to leave him, for a communist poet, he built a perfect house for her, entirely planned by him, from the lake view living room to the silver-wear and her evening gowns. When the Nazis came to power, they escaped the house and Germany forever. Erich and Louise Mendelsohn have wondered between continents, between world wars, between success and failure. The buildings that Erich built around the world, scattered as a trail of their journey, have changed the history of architecture.Award-winning filmmaker, Duki Dror (The Journey of Vaan Nguyen, Raging Dove) has created a spectacular interpretation based on Erich and Louise's relationship, for one of the most captivating chapters in the development of modern art.A film by Duki DrorAwards:Honorable Mention at the Jerusalem International Film Festival 2011Festivals:Potsdam, Germany, Film Museum Potsdam, June 2012Berlin Jewish Film Festival, June 2012Architecture and Design Film Festival, April 2012 Documentary Edge Film Festival New Zealand, April 2012 Denver Jewish Film Festival, March 2012San Diego Jewish Film Festival Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, February 2012New York Jewish Film Festival, January 2012Guangzhou 2011 International Documentary Film Festival, December 2011Washington Jewish Film Festival, December 2011Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, November 2011Saint Louis International Film Festival, November 2011 Weitzmann Institute, Rehovot Israel, October 2011San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, July 2011Jerusalem International Film Festival, July 2011201800:41:51Part 1 : The possible explanations for this widening gap.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/inequality-how-wealth-becomes-power-part1/1116EnglishEconomySocial JusticeWealth inequality is an issue throughout much of the world. Its prominence is particularly troubling in one of the wealthiest countries - Germany - as the divide between the rich and the poverty-stricken is rapidly deepening. The astute documentary Inequality: How Wealth Becomes Power examines the possible explanations for this widening gap.This documentary explores the question of inequality in Germany, providing both background analysis and statistics. The filmmakers interview leading researchers and experts on the topic. And they accompany Christoph Gröner, one of Germany’s biggest real estate developers, as he goes about his work. "If you have great wealth, you can’t fritter it away through consumption. If you throw money out the window, it comes back in through the front door,” Gröner says. The real estate developer builds multi-family residential units in cities across Germany, sells condominium apartments, and is involved in planning projects that span entire districts.  "Entrepreneurs are more powerful than politicians, because we’re more independent,” Gröner concludes. Leading researchers and experts on the topic of inequality also weigh in, including Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, economist Thomas Piketty, and Brooke Harrington, who carried out extensive field research among investors from the ranks of the international financial elite. Branko Milanović, a former lead economist at the World Bank, says that globalization is playing a role in rising inequality. The losers of globalization are the lower-middle class of affluent countries like Germany. "These people are earning the same today as 20 years ago," Milanović notes. "Just like a century ago, humankind is standing at a crossroads. Will affluent countries allow rising equality to tear apart the fabric of society? Or will they resist this trend?”201800:42:25Part 2 : Land of Inequalityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/inequality-how-wealth-becomes-power-part2/1117EnglishEconomySocial JusticeChristoph Gröner is one of the richest people in Germany. The son of two teachers, he has worked his way to the top. He believes that many children in Germany grow up without a fair chance and wants to step in. But can this really ease inequality?Christoph Gröner does everything he can to drum up donations and convince the wealthy auction guests to raise their bids. The more the luxury watch for sale fetches, the more money there will be to pay for a new football field, or some extra tutoring, at a children's home. Christoph Gröner is one of the richest people in Germany - his company is now worth one billion euros, he tells us. For seven months, he let our cameras follow him - into board meetings, onto construction sites, through his daily life, and in his charity work. He knows that someone like him is an absolute exception in Germany. His parents were both teachers, and he still worked his way to the top. He believes that many children in Germany grow up without a fair chance. "What we see here is total failure across the board,” he says. "It starts with parents who just don’t get it and can’t do anything right. And then there’s an education policy that has opened the gates wide to the chaos we are experiencing today." Chistoph Gröner wants to step in where state institutions have failed. But can that really ease inequality?In Germany, getting ahead depends more on where you come from than in most other industrialized countries, and social mobility is normally quite restricted. Those on top stay on top. The same goes for those at the bottom. A new study shows that Germany’s rich and poor both increasingly stay amongst themselves, without ever intermingling with other social strata. Even the middle class is buckling under the mounting pressure of an unsecure future. "Land of Inequality" searches for answers as to why. We talk to families, an underpaid nurse, as well as leading researchers and analysts such as economic Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz, sociologist Jutta Allmendinger or the economist Raj Chetty, who conducted a Stanford investigation into how the middle class is now arming itself to improve their children’s outlooks.201300:48:57Two dancer sisters and two musician brothers who come together to create a performance piecehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/inside-envelopes/247EnglishEnglishShelly KlingCouplesFamilyArts and populre CultureINSIDE ENVELOPES highlights Two dancer sisters and two musician brothers who come together to create a performance piece. This documentary offers viewers a glimpse into their creative process, replete with fiery arguments and moments of wordless beauty. Shelly King, a former dancer, has made a stirring, intimate portrait of acclaimed choreographer Keren Levi, a former member of the Kibbutz Dance Company and longtime resident of the Netherlands.Read a review of the film hereA film by Shelly Kling201500:12:01Late at night, a young woman finds herself accidentally locked into a public facilityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/inside-outside/296EnglishEnglishHebrew (modern)Shira MeisharMaale FilmsLate at night, a young woman finds herself accidentally locked into a public facility where she has stopped to do a pregnancy test. She is discovered by a Filipino cleaner and the two women, universes apart in age, background and socio-economic status, begin to build a gentle rapport through space under the door.A film by Shira MeisharScreenings & Prizes:Manhattan Film Festival 2015,California International Shorts Festival 2015,Peace On Earth Festival Chicago 2015,Atlanta Shortsfest Festival 2015, Gold medal,Spotlight Film Awards 2015,The Long Short Film Festival Tel Aviv 2016.   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200700:45:35Ep.6 : Why do some people develop into criminals, and others not?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/inside-the-criminal-mind-ep6/996EnglishMandy SherwoodDocumentary filmsPsychologyCriminologyWhat makes some people chose a life of crime?  Is it their upbringing?  Is it down to damage to the brain?  Is it because of the people they hang around with?  Or are they born with it?Prisoners and ex-offenders tell us what made them turn to crime.  “I turned to crime because I grew up with crime, from as far back as I can remember….all me family were criminals, all those around us were criminals, and that’s just the way of life it was at the time and that’s the way of life as I grew up.”  Jimmy, prisoner.Adrian Raine Professor in Neuroscience at UCLA in California tells us of studies he’s done which show that the brains of killers are different to the rest of us.  So is there a gene for crime?  Is it something that can be checked before birth?  Can criminals be eradicated? 200700:45:55Ep.5 : What is it like to have no freedom?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/inside-the-criminal-mind-ep5/995EnglishMandy SherwoodDocumentary filmsPsychologyCriminologyThe programme looks at the reality of life behind bars and the causes of prison stress. The psychological effects of a monotonous routine on both prisoners and staff are examined, and we look at the effectiveness of treatment programmes for problem prisoners.For some people prison is a way of life but for some it’s a terrifying experience.  “From the age of 15, my 15th birthday I got sent down and I've been out for 10 months in little breaks, couple of days, couple of months, since then, up 'til now.”  Jay, prisoner, aged 22.  What is it like to have no freedom, to have no say in when you eat, exercise, speak to your family?There’s plenty of stress inside and it can result in violence, riots and hostage taking.  We hear from Charles Bronson, Britain’s most disruptive prisoner who has fought his way through the system.What are the options?  Are there ways to change the behaviour of prisoners who cause trouble wherever they are put?  Hugh Collins a convicted murderer tells us how being put into a therapeutic community – a different regime from mainstream prison - changed him and helped him to become a free man.  “I’d have either been killed or I’d have killed a prison officer, the special unit rescued me….,There were 36 guys in the special unit and two have reoffended, considering they were all heavy guys, but you had to have a, I feel anyway, a desire to change.  I didn’t like what I’d done. You know, I grew up in a world of violence, I enjoyed the violence, but I never thought I'd kill somebody, and I felt a monster, you know, you never get rid of the guilt.”  Hugh Collins200700:46:04Ep.4 : How do psychologists decide who is safe and who is dangerous?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/inside-the-criminal-mind-ep4/994EnglishMandy SherwoodDocumentary filmsPsychologyCriminologyThere’s often no doubt when a suspect is arrested that they have committed the crime – especially if they don’t deny it.  But were they responsible for the crime?  If they had a psychiatric illness when they committed the crime then they are found to be not responsible for their actions and are sent to a secure hospital.  If they are just evil they are sent to prison.So who can say whether they are mad or bad?  Psychologists assess them and with the evidence the jury can decide.We look at cases including Eden Strang the Naked Samurai Swordsman who slashed his way through a church congregation.  David Copeland the London Nailbomber who’s actions resulted in the death of 3 people and horrific injuries to several others.  The Yorkshire Ripper, the serial killer of 13 women who brought terror to the north of England over a number of years.  Were these men mad or bad?200700:46:15Ep.1 : The art of criminal profiling and the people who conduct it.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/inside-the-criminal-mind-ep1/989EnglishDocumentaryPsychologyCriminologyDr Anne Tournay was at her first day of work in the Emergency Room in LA’s USC hospital when a gunman stormed in.  He shot three doctors at point blank range leaving them critically wounded and took Dr Tournay and a colleague hostage for 5 hours.We hear first hand the terror of that day in 1993 from Dr Tournay and we also speak to the LAPD psychologist and the LAPD lieutenant whose job it was to negotiate with the hostage taker the safe release of the hostages.In addition experts in the field – including the FBI – talk about the fascinating pyschology of hostage negotiation and we watch an FBI Hostage Negotiation course taking place.200700:45:06Ep.2 : How useful criminal profiling is to the police investigation.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/inside-the-criminal-mind-ep2/990EnglishMandy SherwoodDocumentaryPsychologyCriminologyA killer is on the loose. There are already 6 victims. There are no clues, no hard evidence. So how will he be caught to prevent a 7th death?In many serious murder cases profilers, expert psychologists help the police to build a profile of the killer. Is he male? Is he a loner? Was he abused as a child? Did he know his victim? Profiling is a tool which is used to get inside the mind of the murderer in order to catch him.In this programme we tell the story of a successful case where profiling has lead to an arrest. We also examine the case of Colin Stagg, charged with the murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common. A massive undercover police operation which lasted for 7 months led to his arrest. Paul Britton the psychologist who worked with the police has been accused of using profiling in a most dangerous way. Stagg’s conviction was quashed because of the way profiling was used to catch him and he is now a free man. No one has ever been arrested for the murder of Rachel Nickell.Amongst the list of experts we speak to is Robert Ressler a retired FBI profiler who was one of a team of people responsible for the creating the technique of profiling.200700:46:06Ep.3 : Tactics and psychology used in a Police Interviewhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/inside-the-criminal-mind-ep3/991EnglishMandy SherwoodDocumentaryPsychologyCriminologyIt’s frightening to think how easily any one of us could end up in a police cell facing a police interview – a drunken brawl, a car accident, not paying a bill.  We speak to prisoners and ex-offenders who tell us how it really feels to be banged up in a cell before going through hours of questioning.Psychologists talk about what an intimidating experience it can be for the suspect and the police talk about its importance in getting to the truth.Mark Cleary spent 10 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.  After being arrested for the murder of 10-year-old Wayne Keeton in 1985 he eventually confessed because after extensive questioning he felt drained and wanted to go home.  It’s a strange fact that many people when under the pressure of a police interview confess to crimes they haven’t committed.  How can the police tell if they are telling the truth?  How can the police tell if they are lying?2015Burglar Confessionshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/inside-the-mind-of-a-thief-burglar-confessions/1048EnglishDocumentary filmsCriminologyThis Allen Police Department exclusive interview of career home burglar, Michael Durden, will open your eyes on what criminals look for when choosing a target.1) What makes a neighborhood attractive to thieves? - 0:452) Does having a dog deter a burglar? 2:483) Do Neighborhood Watch programs work? 4:284) What makes a house attractive to a burglar? 6:125) Once a burglar targets a house, what's next? 11:286) Once a burglar is in the house.  How much time is spent inside? 24:497) How should homeowners hide valuables? 31:008) What can a homeowner do to not make their house an easy target to a burglar? 35:59Read more about the Durden case201101:01:21Rock and world music artist Dudu Tassa in search of the musical roots of his familyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/iraq-n-roll-en/1084EnglishEnglishGili GaonDocumentaryArts and CultureMusicSaleh and Daud (David) Al-Kuwaity were Jewish musicians, living in Iraq in the 1930s. They are considered the creators of modern Iraqi music, and two of the greatest Arab musicians in history. In Iraq, they were extremely respected, often performing in the court of the King. They established the National Iraqi Radio, and became well known in the Arab world. In the 1950s, they immigrated to Israel, where no one listened to their music. Their glory vanished and they felt that their music had betrayed them. They forbade their family members from becoming musicians and experiencing the same pain.Despite this strict command, two generations after the death of his grandfather Daud, Dudu Tassa has become a leading performer in today's Israeli rock ‘n' roll scene. He is the only member of his family who had the courage to become a musician, and now, he is venturing into the painful and challenging musical heritage of his ancestry. Dudu decides to release an album, taking the original music of the Al-Kuwaity brothers and playing their compositions in modern style and arrangement. Through this music, Tassa attempts to bridge time, space, and culture, and heal the family's pain.A film by Gili GaonIraq n’ Roll is a serious examination that follows contemporary rocker Tassa as he pieces together his forebears’ life stories—largely through conversations with relatives and others—and uncovers a half-forgotten archive containing their rare recordings, which later inspire his own innovative compositions.Video LibrarianContemporary Israeli musician Dudu Tassa encounters the Al-Kuwaity brothers and his family history through their music, creating a musical dialogue between the generations. Midnight EastDirector Gili Gaon follows the very engaging and talented Tassa as he thrills to discover archives of his family’s musical history.Film ForwardAwardsBest Documentary Award – Sole e Luna International Film Festival, Italy, 2012Gold Remi Award – WorldFest Houston, USA, 2012Special Ger Orchestra Award – Jewish Motifs International Film Festival, Poland, 2012Participated in Jerusalem Film Festival and broadcast in Israeli Channel 22 and Channel 10.IMDb201701:29:44The myth of life, death and heroism of Yosef Trumpeldorhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/good-to-die-en/1410EnglishHebrew (modern)itay Nevo LandesbergDocumentary filmsHistoryBiographyWar And ConflictGenerations of Israeli youngsters grew up on the myth and legend attributed to Yossef Trumpeldor “is it good to die for your country”. Was it his patriotic will or a spell for the next generations?Yossef Trmpeldor was a soldier, a combatant, an officer, a farmer, a Zionist leader and a socialist. He was a living legend and became a symbol for the whole Jewish-Zionist movement after his death in the battlefield.The film is a journey through the war victims of Tel Yossef, the kibbutz that was founded at 1921 and is called in memory of Trumpeldor. Telling their stories is done in parallel to investigating the myth and its roots. For many, it was clear that Trumpledor was fighting for life and for freedom. The answer to question “what do we die for” was obvious for year, but is it still so today?A film by Itay Landesberg Nevo201301:34:35Homemade films edited to a fascinating story which tells the story of the state of Israel along 7 decadeshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/israel-a-home-movie/176EnglishEnglishEliav LiltiIsraeli SocietyWar And ConflictHistoryStarting in the early 1930s, home movies were made by private individuals documenting their personal and family lives alongside historic events in Palestine/Israel. Each amateur cinematographer had a camera of his own, but each saw something different.A film by Arik Bernstein and Eliav Lilti200100:53:11An inner look at life in a Jewish settlementhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/it-happened-after-the-spring-en/140EnglishEnglishMenora Katzover HazoniMaale FilmsIsraeli SocietyWar And Conflict"In the Spring I bought myself a camera. The whole of our settlement was in bloom right then, so I filmed butterflies and flowers. But then everything changed, and there were other things to film."In "It Happened After the Spring", Menora Katsover, the daughter of a scion settler family who founded the Elon Moreh settlement in Samaria, documents the life of the settlement in 2001 in the shadow of the Al-Aksa Intifada.After graduating, Katsover went on to make two feature-length documentaries to complete the trilogy. The second in the series, "The Skies are Closer in Homesh" documents her marriage and the birth of her son in the relatively new and isolated settlement of Homesh. The film was shown at the DocAviv documentary film festival and on Israel's Channel 2 TV. The last film in the trilogy, "Arise From the Dust", documents the forced evacuation of Menora and her young family from Homesh, during the Disengagement of 2005.An unapologetically political trilogy, these films reflect a visual reality from the settler point of view, depicting scenes rarely seen in the media.A film by Menora Katzover Hazoni   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School2016https://movie-discovery.com/movie/j-cole-4-your-eyez-only/1136EnglishJ. Cole, Scott LazerArts and CultureMusicAn hour long special that combines documentary footage of Jermaine Cole's travels to various cities through the Midwest and the South that have personal or political resonance for him with in situ music videos that locate Jermaine Cole's songs as part of a larger conversation about black resilience and dignity under the conditions of white supremacy.199700:25:39Two cousins, best friends and one poetic, observational filmhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/jenny-and-jenny-en/1241EnglishEnglishMichal AviadAnat SperlingWomenFamilyChildren and AdolescentsJenny and Jenny meet everyday. Jenny and Jenny talk everyday. Jenny and Jenny write each other all the time. Jenny and Jenny have a broken heart. And happiness. They are 17 years old, cousins, born and raised in Bat Yam, a working class town south of Tel Aviv.The film follows Jenny and Jenny one summer in their lives, accompanies them when they wander between childhood and womanhood. The two girls live life of great passion and innocence all at the same time, in the blurred areas where reality and dreams mix together.How is the world deciphered in the eyes of Jenny and Jenny? What form does the feminine identity take in their eyes? What do they love and what they suffer from? A film by Michal Aviad199700:19:44This film reveals what happened to hundreds of Ethiopians on their difficult journey to Israelhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/jephtahs-daughter/274EnglishEnglishEinat KapachJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsFamilyImmigration & absorptionReligionThe year is 1984. A Jewish family is on its way by foot from Ethiopia to Sudan, from where they will board a plane for Israel. The father, whom the family's life depends on, is seized by brigands. Things change when his eldest daughter comes across the place. The story is typical of what happened to hundreds of Ethiopians on their difficult journey to Israel, in the 1980's, when they crossed the desert, in order to reach the Promised Land.A film by Einat KapachAwards:First prize of the City of Jerusalem for the Best Fiction Film, 1996Festivals:The 14th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, 1996The Boston Jewish Film Festival, USA 1998Henri Langolis International Student Film Festival, Poitiers France 1998.Student Golden Lion Film Festival, Taipei Taiwan 1999Israeli Film Week in Bonn, Germany 2001Sukagawa International Film Festival, Japan 2002Celebration of Jewish cinema, Jerusalem 1999Women Film Festival Rehovot Israel 2012   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201200:18:30Co-existence in highly tensed Jerusalemhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/jerusalem-er/52EnglishArabicEnglishYael PerlovYael Perlov and Kobi MizrahiWomenDocumentary filmsWarDr. Stalnikowicz runs the hospital ER along with Dr. Salameh, who is a Palestinian Israeli from the north. The two of them come in early each morning, and every day is confronted with new moments, both revelatory and shocking. A quiet day rarely exists.Dr. Salameh has wanted to be a doctor since she was ten years old as her grandfather was often ill. She decided to do her residency in Jerusalem before going back to the north, but she is concerned about being so far away from her parents. Dr. Salameh has more of an Israeli accent and isn't automatically identified as Palestinian-Israeli, so there are times when she hears racist comments at the hospital. Dr. Stalnikowicz moved to Israel from Chile in 1973 just six months before the military coup. She found work at the hospital, fell in love with it, and has never left. She doesn't find it difficult to work at the hospital on a personal level, but the geography makes it hard for both sides to communicate. As one patient puts it, everyone suffers in the hospital, regardless of which side they're on. Sometimes, Israeli soldiers arrive, creating feelings of antagonism, or what Dr. Stalnikowicz calls "silent violence." Patients from the occupied territories are often carried in by family members because ambulances can't reach them.There is a talk of Dr. Salameh running the ER in the future. Dr. Stalnikowicz tells Dr. Salameh that she wants to leave behind someone who can do good things, but Dr. Salameh isn't sure she would be comfortable after Dr. Stalnikowicz left. She also doesn't think she would be given the opportunity because she's Palestinian-Israeli.Dr. Stalnikowicz wishes that the hospital could serve as a microcosm for Israel. Dr. Salameh laments how far from reality that is. The two women drive home at the end of another day at the ER. JERUSALEM ER moves beyond bigotry and daily difficulties to expose an irrepressible dedication to providing equal heath care to Israelis. The hospital is proof of the capability of people from various beliefs to exist under one roof with a common goal in mind. Ultimately, the story moves deeper than the personal encounters of doctors and patients, as the internal frame of the hospital shows how differences can be set aside for the well-being of all individuals.A film by Hilla Medalia200601:21:50Behind the scenes of the World Pride events in Jerusalemhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/jerusalem-is-proud-to-present/233EnglishEnglishNitzan GiladyLGBTHuman RightsIsraeli SocietySexual MinoritiesIn the summer of 2006, Jerusalem was to host, for the first time in history, the World Pride events, which were to culminate in a traditional gay pride parade. The planned events stirred turmoil in the politically complex city, with Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious leaders banding together in an uncompromising battle against what they said would defile the holy city. On the other side stood the activists of the Open House, Jerusalems LGBT community center, who planned the events. Steadfast in the face of the heated and violent anti-gay sentiment, they had to deal with threats to much more than just their right to march.A film by Nitzan GiladyFestivals:Docaviv (ISRAEL)Cleveland International Film FestivalGuth Gafa (Ireland)PIFF (Provincetown, US)Banff World Television Film FestivalLondon Jewish Film FestivalFresco LGBT Film FestivalSeattle LGBT Film FestivalWashington Jewish film festivalNew York Jewish film festivalChicago LGBT film festivalAtlanta Jewish film festivalBoston LGBT Film FestivalPreview image: Nettadi201701:06:40The evolution of one of the most influential solo artists.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/john-mayer-someday-i-will-fly/1141EnglishArts and populre CultureMusicJohn Mayer: Someday I'll Fly chronicles the musical evolution of one of the most influential solo artists of his generation. Featuring rare demos, interviews and live performances; it is told in it's entirety from Mayer's perspective.Explore the full story and creative process of acclaimed, Grammy Award winning, guitarist and singer-songwriter John Mayer.201700:41:59A film about a man who fulfilled a dreamhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/joseph-and-josephine-en/1237EnglishEnglishRonit TayarDocumentary filmsBiographyArts and populre CultureImmaterialLife and EnvironmentAfter three years of dedicating my time, thoughts and money, I fulfilled a dream and turned a truck into a luxurious mobile home, the first of its kind in Israel.My name is Yosi Tayar (54) and until recently, I lived in Tel Aviv. Around me were concrete monsters that killed my skyline and blocked the sunlight. I’m single, a father to twelve year-old Shira, my daughter of whom I have joint custody. I work as an animator, surrounded by good friends, a loving family, and mother Geula; the closest person to me, who has a unique Tripolitan style talent to get on my nerves.At the age of fifty, a warning bell started ringing in my head, alerting me that it's time for me to mold new content into my life. One evening I saw a TV program about people who turn automobiles into mobile homes. The idea excited me, and with my ‘Peter Pan spirit’, I decided to build a mobile home and make a film in which I show life through the eyes of a man who wishes for freedom but is limited by conventional fences and Israeli reality. A new spirit swept through my life. It took me three years to build a house on wheels, and what years those were! Like Odysseus, making his way to Ithaca, to his beloved Penelope, so I moved toward the goal I set for myself. Like Odysseus, who overcame every obstacle on his way home, so I overcame any obstacle that stood in my way: the banks, who refused my mortgage requests, because what kind of guarantee is a home on wheels?! Friends who doubted, professional workers who did not meet deadlines and almost dismantled the project. The need to earn a living, that pushed me to work on television programs for children. My desire to be a super-dad for my only daughter. And my mother, close and loving, that never stopped worrying.I had no idea what a joy it would be to drive my home truck, Josephine, for the first time. So much pride, so much freedom. But I realized the significance of my achievement on the day my mother Geula, who did not believe in it and thought it was impossible, who begged me to stop wandering around and live like everyone else, who was so afraid of my failure, invited strangers to come in and see the house that her son built with his own hands. The success of my Josephine attracted other people like me, with mobile homes, and I found the ‘villages on wheels,’ a movement that seeks a change in lifestyle. But one Friday night I went to sleep in my truck and did not wake up. The autopsy report said, “A sudden death by fatal disturbances of heart rhythm.” My journey on earth ended, or perhaps is beginning againA film by Joseph Tayar and Ronit Tayar200700:52:02A film about Kandinsky and his pioneering work in abstract arthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/kandinsky-and-the-russian-house/221EnglishMichael CraigHistoryArts and CultureKandinsky and the Russian House is the 6th in a series of documentary films about the Russian Avant-garde. This clip is part of a larger film about Kandinsky and his pioneering work in abstract art at the beginning of the century in Russia and in Germany. Using archive footage and locations in Munich and Moscow this film follows Kandinsky's development of abstract art.A film by Michael Craig200600:08:43A clash between tradition and modernityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/kaparot-en/138EnglishEnglishKeren HakakJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsDocumentary filmsFamilyReligionLiat, a young woman from a traditional home, seeks independence and a new identity while she fixes up her rooftop apartment in Jerusalem. Liat has left home partly to distance herself from the heavy traditions her father has always imposed upon her.A film by Keren Hakak   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201000:55:31The story of the establishment of the grassroots Hapoel Katamon soccer team in th 1970'shttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/katamon-barcelona/285EnglishEnglishIdo Groner, Roi Ben AmiIsraeli SocietySportsAnthropologyThe story of Katamon is the story of thousands of football fans of a different species; residents of Jerusalem; some are secular or religious people, Arabs from East Jerusalem (and not only) Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews.All of them form a united community; different active and in a certain respect also revolutionary.As part of the production of the film, we accompany the person who founded the team in his journey to England, the homeland of football.The founder of Katamon arrives to meet the representatives of the two fan teams in England, Wimbledon and Manchester F.C. He comes to learn from them and their experience.The film attempts to understand the phenomenon and discover how hundreds of people manage together a football team.This is a romantic and revolutionary attempt to swim against the stream and revolt against the rich families. It is done with a pure motive of the love to a football team.A film by Ido Groner & Roi Ben AmiFestivals:Vancouver International Soccer Festival201000:19:00A 13 year old kid is frightened by his erotic dreamshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/keeper-of-the-covenant-en/120EnglishEnglishYosef NobleEliav Mason , Miryam AdlerJewishMaale FilmsPsychologyChildren and AdolescentsMatan's Bar Mitzva is two days away, the day he will become a man. For the past few months he was been disturbed by erotic dreams. Matters are made worse when Matan turns to a website for advice.Director: Yosef Noble   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201900:23:47An engaging documentary featuring amazing archival period footage of the Kennedy familyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/kennedy-the-legacy-an-unauthorized-story/1486EnglishHistoryBiographyAmericans are fascinated by the royal status of the Kennedys and their dynasty that has mesmerized generations. To this day, their legacy lives on. The Kennedy family has long been plagued by tragedy and scandal. Despite this, the Kennedy's have long been thought of as America's "Royal Family". They have also brought positive change to the world in often-difficult times. The many misdeeds and tragedies of this family, has only enhanced the world's affection towards them. The Kennedy Legacy is an engaging documentary featuring amazing archival period footage of the Kennedy family which, has been at the forefront of American consciousness since the sixties200500:49:30The story of the horsemen unit during the Israeli War of Independencehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/kiddo-en/263EnglishEnglishDanor GlazerYoram Schaffer & Roni BerkovitchHuman RightsWar And ConflictHistoryFamilyIt begins as a nostalgic family documentary about the adventures of Eliezer, the director's father, in the horsemen unit during the Israeli War of Independence. But as history unfolds, their relationship takes an unpleasant turn.A film by Ofra Shimoni-Shahor200000:23:47The tragic story of a weak, self-centered King whose terrible acts lead to his own demise.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/king-richard-ii-a-play-by-william-shakespeare/1451EnglishArts and populre CultureLiteratureShakespearean Drama of the Highest Quality Performed at an authentic recreation of The Globe. With performances by world famous award winning Shakespearean actors this series has recaptured the Elizabethan flavor of Shakespeare's own Globe productions by staging them just as they were seen in the 16th century. The tragedy of a self-centered weak King whose evil ways cause his own destruction. Richard II, a history based partially on "The Chronicles" by English historian Raphael Holinshed, is the saga of King Richard and his self-defeat. The King not only has enemies to fend off in Ireland but makes an enemy of Bolingbroke, his own cousin, by seizing his property. Bolingbroke, along with an army of discontented English noblemen, rebel and triumph over Richard. Richard surrenders his crown and is immediately imprisoned. Bolingbroke is crowned Henry IV and through a misunderstanding, Richard is murdered in prison. 201901:31:19L'histoire de la renouvellement des communautés Juive à Judée - Samariehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-driving-spirit-french/1319EnglishFrenchIsraeli SocietyHistoryBiographyPolitics« Nous nous sommes tapés la tête contre un mur, jusqu à ce que le mur se brise». Menora Hazani nous rapporte le témoignage poignant de son père et ses amis qui, après la guerre des six jours, ont réalisé leur rêve, le renouvellement d’une vie juive en Judée - Samarie. Un documentaire révolutionnaire. 200901:46:41The history of the legendary voice of Demetrio Stratoshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/la-voce-stratos/217EnglishEnglishHistoryBiographyArts and CultureMusicLA VOCE STRATOS is the first documentary to tell the history of the legendary voice of Demetrio Stratos his career as a vocalist, his deep collaboration with John Cage, his unsurpassed worldwide researches upon the mystery of the human voice. Demetrio Stratos was born in Egypt to Greek parents. He first came to Italy in the 1960s where he becomes the singer of I Ribelli, which had been the band of Adriano Celentano.In the 1970s he co-founded Area, one of the most provocative and innovative experimental European pop group. Area brought musical exploration directly to the streets and protest gatherings. The band combined rock, jazz, contemporary western music, ethnical themes and electronic sounds.Beginning with Area's experimental repertoire, and running parallel to this, Stratos engaged in a study of the voice as a purely musical and sound-producing instrument. His discography includes several voice-only records, while he started working with John Cage and other international artists, as he was able to express a very wide range of tonality, and was able to emit even three different pitched sounds simultaneously. He studied his own voice and his unique techniques in laboratories, together with physicians and phoniatrists.The paths followed by his voice lead us to discover the creativeness of Italian and European political and artistical movements of the 70s, whose heritage is often at the fundaments of today's society.A film by Luciano D'onofrio and Monica AffatatoFestivals:Bellaria 2009 (Italy)Latin Side of the Docs - Docs Buenos Aires 2009 (Argentina)Piemonte Movie 2010 (Italy)Sciacca Film Fest 2010 (Italy)ReCine - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Arquivio 2010 - BEST SOUND DESIGN (Brazil)201000:54:57A portrait of dynamic, restless and unique Haredi womanhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/lady-of-the-court-en/286EnglishEnglishAmnon BenjaminIdan Regev, Yael FeldboyJewish way of lifeDocumentary filmsIdentityRivka Paluch, the "Lady of the Court", an Ultra Orthodox woman of the Hassidic community and a political journalist in the past, was Prime Minister Sharon's advisor for religious affairs and the power behind the joining of the Haredi parties to Sharon's government. A dynamic, restless and unique woman.The film allows us a rare glance at Rivka's world, who at a bold and revolutionary step leaves her private kingdom out to the modern world and becomes a true bridge between the two worlds. With talent and belief in her way, Rivka becomes the first Haredi woman to join and advice Prime Ministers, a key figure in campaign management abroad, and all that while raising her seven children.While continuing her position in her family and within the Hassidic community, she's reinventing herself while paving her way back to the public and political arena. Another one of her complicated journeys is finding a match for her marriageable daughter. This journey takes us to an exciting reality, a forever tradition – the "matchmaking".A film by Amnon BenjaminFestivals:Shanghai TV Film Festival 2011Haifa International Film Festival 2010200000:15:41A journey between Israel and Berlin with Yigal Tomarkinhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/land-wind-and-rust-a-portrait-of-an-artist/350EnglishEnglishHebrew (modern)Amnon TeitelbaumDocumentaryBiographyArts and CultureA journey between Israel and Berlin with Yigal Tomarkin, a renowned artist. he was born to a Christian mother and a Jewish mother, hates and loves Israel and Europe, placed to which he is totally attached. A film by Amnon Teitelbaum199901:41:46The road the Israeli society has traveled through the decade between the Lebanon war and the Oslo agreementshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/last-resort/182EnglishEnglishAner PremingerHuman RightsIsraeli SocietyFictionIdentityThe year is 1993. Night-time.September 13 (The Oslo Agreement is signed in Washington – Rabin-Arafat handshake takes place during this night). The remains of a deserted Nahal settlement with social ambitions from the early 80s are scattered over mount Hazon (literal meaning: vision) in the lower Galilee. Noam Wax, the charismatic leader of the group, gathers his friends back on the mountain, using surprising and manipulative methods to rouse their interest. His purpose is to complete a documentary film about the settlement that will help him overcome the trauma and scars left over from those days. This is Noam's first contact with his friends after eleven years of silence, during which they didn't know where he was or what had become of him. The six friends rush to the mountain, only to be faced with the personal and ideological sense of betrayal Noam has been feeling since they broke apart. The same time, they are all facing their own crisis, related to unsolved issues dating back to time of the settlement. Their night together turns into a moral stocktaking, that reflects the road the Israeli society has traveled in the decade between the Lebanon war and the Oslo agreements, ending on a surprising and tragic note. "I have been meeting with the cast of the "Last Resort" for many months and it took a lot of hard intensive work to build the complex relations between the characters. We filled gaps stretching for eleven years in their lives, and using improvisations from our own experience gave life to the script until the actors could identify with the characters and bring them to life. This enriching stimulating work wove my fictional film and the documentary Noam Wax, the protagonist, is working on, into one entity" (Aner Preminger)A film by Aner Preminger200101:02:29Wheeler-dealer Samir Farhat took full advantage of Israel's military presence in Lebanonhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/lebanon-dream/240EnglishEnglishNurit KedarIsraeli SocietyWarWhen we first meet Samir Farhat, he is a successful Lebanese businessman profiting by importing luxury goods from Israel into Southern Lebanon during Israel's long military foray there (1982 to 2000). Farhat, a cross between Brecht's Mother Courage and a character in a Greek tragedy wears whatever uniform is convenient, be it from the Southern Lebanese or the Israeli army. His business acumen allows no room for morality and his politics consist of cultivating whoever happens to be in power. And yet he is fascinating, both because of his self-determination amidst absolute chaos and because his existence raises the question, Did he contribute to creating the war, or did the war create him? Nurit Kedar has fashioned a compelling documentary portrait of the profiteer she first encountered while filming Borders.A film by Nurit Kedar201800:23:47This film explores the life and work of the extraordinary man who painted the Mona Lisahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/leonardo-da-vinci-portrait-of-an-uncomfortable-genius/1522EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLeonardo is famous all over the world as the man who painted the Mona Lisa. But he was a very unusual painter. He did not complete many paintings and his interests ranged over a wide variety of subjects. He was very unorthodox in an age which was just opening up to the new renaissance ideas on science and beliefs. This film by Malcolm Hossick explores the life and work of this most remarkable man.202101:02:29The fantastic story of the poor immigrant who became a senior government ministerhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/lieber-man-avigdor-lieberman-documentary/1691EnglishEnglishNurit KedarIsraeli SocietyBiographyPoliticsThe meteoric rise of Avigdor Lieberman was the first sign of a new era in the state of Israel – and with it, the fall of “the old elites,” the rightwing trend, and the emergence of “the second Israel” as the dominant political force. But Liberman himself, who immigrated at the age of 20, without a penny in his pocket, remains a mystery. How did he make it? Is he corrupt or a victim? A racist or a pragmatist? And what lies behind his special relations with Benjamin Netanyahu, dating back to the eighties? Nurit Kedar’s film deciphers the Liberman story from a new perspective, one that has to do with the social changes that Israel underwent in the last two decade.A film by Nurit Kedar201700:22:24The five dangers humanity is facing today, that could lead to our extinctionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/life-on-edge/1021EnglishScienceLife and EnvironmentPresentationsSebastian Farquhar, Project Manager at the Future of Humanity Institute, of speaks about the 5 current dangers that could lead humanity to extinction.Red more here: https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/team/sebastian-farquhar/201301:02:29He is both a Jew and an Arab. And tornhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/life-sentences-documentary-en/1692EnglishEnglishNurit Kedar & Yaron ShaniIsraeli SocietyBiographyPoliticsAn Arab man marries a Jewish woman. They give birth to a girl and a boy and live in quiet harmony among the Arab-Jewish community. Nobody realizes that behind dozens of mysterious terror attacks which devastate the state of Israel in the late 60's, stands no other than the Arab father. When he is caught, his Jewish wife and kids become "the family of the Arab terrorist". The mother decides to flee the country with her kids and settle in, on the other side of the world, in the heart of the Jewish Ultra-orthodox community in Montreal, Canada. No one suspects the real identity of the boy and the girl who study together with other religious Jewish kids. When they grow up, the two will take opposite roads – She will become an ultra-orthodox Jew, and he will fall in love and marry his Muslim cousin. Mommy-Nimer-Shlomo-Solomon-Ahmed-Pinto is this lonely boy who had lived in many worlds, talked many languages and had many names. His sad view embraces humanity in compassion which can only be produced by his unbelievable story.   A film by Nurit Kedar & Yaron Shani200400:31:20What pushes a man towards his known death?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/like-a-dream-that-fades/161EnglishEnglishYochai RosenbergJewishMaale FilmsWar And ConflictPsychologyHillel Lieberman left his home for the last time two days before Yom Kippur. He was on his way to Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, which had been sacked, burned and taken over by an Arab mob on the eve of the 2nd Intifada. Wrapped in a Tallit, and without food or a weapon, he left his wife and children and walked out to his certain death. Yochai Rosenberg the director travels out to Nablus to try to find the no man's land that lies between faith, zealoutry, and madness.A film by Yochai RosenbergFestivals:"Friends" festival of Israeli Cinema, Slovakia 2004Mexico, 2004Festival of Religion, Trento, Italy 2004   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201000:50:27A touching father-daughter relationship and the story of the dying out Samaritan secthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/lone-samaritan/327EnglishEnglishBarak HeymannHeymann Brothers FilmsDocumentary filmsFamilyReligionAnthropologyThe Samaritans, a tiny religious sect, are dying out. But they still maintain extremely harsh rules against assimilation: if you leave the fold, you and your family are as good as dead. Israeli actress Sophie Tzedaka is one such woman. One by one, she and her three sisters became "Jews" and were excommunicated by their 700-person community. So was their father.“Lone Samaritan” is a touching father-daughter journey that transcends all beliefs. It explores universal issues of faith and modernity, the role of women in religion, and the individual’s right to forge an independent identity—especially when that means violating a tradition you still hold dear.Best Documentary Award - Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Canada, 2010Best Documentary Award - Filmmakers Forum Competition, Israel, 2010Creative Documentary award - Paris Human Rights Film Festival, France, 2011Best Asian Documentary Golden Magnolia Award - Shanghai TV Festival China, 2011Best of Category, Human Rights Issues - 8th Annual Montana CINE International Film Festival, USA, 2011Award-Winning Human Rights Film - Official Best Of Fest, USA, 2012Best Documentary  - PUFF Portugal Underground Film Festival, Portugal, 2012 ‘Outstanding Film’ Manny Award at the Take Two Film Festival, USA, 2013 Remi Award at the WorldFest Houston Film Festival, USA, 2013201800:23:47Is the story about King David true or a legend?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/long-live-king-david-en/1353EnglishEnglishIdo Zand and Yael LeibovitzIdo Zand and Yael LeibovitzDocumentary filmsHistoryReligionPoliticsKing David, the famed sovereign, united all tribes of Israel into one kingdom. The state of Israel sees itself as the successor this kingdom. However, a growing number of scholars now believe that the biblicle story about this kingdom is no more than a fable. This argument has come to involve politics, religion, and many emotions. Where famed biblical battles were once held, archeologists now vie for prestige and honor, left-wing and right-wing proponents wage ideological battles, and Palestinians and Jews fight for the land and for a place in history. Download the transcriptFind of Ancient City Could Alter Notions of Biblical David  / NY TimesKing David's Palace Is Found, Archaeologist Says  / NY TimesIsrael unearths a sacred Roman-era road in East Jerusalem, unsettling a Palestinian neighborhood  / Washington PostRESOURCES AND FURTHER EADINGDavid and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of Western Tradition // Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher SilbermanIn the Footsteps of King David: Revelations from an Ancient Biblical City // Yosef Garfinkel. Saar Ganor, Michael Hasel201500:07:19Psychological literature shows that we are more sensitive to small losses and than small gainshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/loss-aversion/764EnglishPsychologyEconomicsIn economics and decision theory, loss aversion refers to people's tendency to prefer avoiding losses to acquiring equivalent gains: it's better to not lose $5 than to find $5. Some studies have suggested that losses are twice as powerful, psychologically, as gains.Psychological literature shows that we are more sensitive to small losses and than small gains, with most people valuing a loss around 1.5-2.5 times as much as a gain. This means that we often turn down reasonable opportunities for fear of the loss. However, over the course of our lives, we will be exposed to many risks and opportunities and this invariably means that taking every small reasonable bet will leave us better off than saying no to all of them.200600:28:58A story of the unique relationship between a mother and her adopted daughterhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/luz-movie/173EnglishEnglishYael KanielWomenMaale FilmsDocumentary filmsFamilyImmigration & absorptionChildren and AdolescentsThis is the story of the unique relationship between Lisa and her adopted daughter, Luz. Unable to have children, Lisa adopted Luz from Columbia when Luz was three months old. The bond between them is special and despite their differences, the two have built a home which is loving and strong. Now 18 years old and troubled by questions of identity, Luz re-opens her adoption file while Lisa builds a home with her new husband. A dramatic new development in their lives threatens to destroy all the old bonds, and forces Luz and her mother to confront the basic questions: What is a home? What is motherhood? And what is the meaning of a blood relationship?A film by Yael KanielAwards:Best Short Film, International Film Festival Haifa 2007   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201200:25:18A complex relationship between a mother and daughterhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/ma-nishtanah-en/91EnglishEnglishEliraz ShohatJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsWarFamilyPassover eve. The last of the Hametz (leaven) is burned. The burden of emotion is heavy for a mother and daughter who must wrestle with the pain of a father and brother now gone, and with their loneliness.A film by Eliraz ShohatScreened at the Haifa Film Festival   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School 200000:23:47The destruction caused when ambition is not restrained by moral restrictionshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/macbeth-a-play-by-william-shakespeare/1452EnglishArts and populre CultureLiteratureShakespearean Drama of the Highest Quality Performed at an authentic recreation of The Globe. With performances by world famous award winning Shakespearean actors this series has recaptured the Elizabethan flavor of Shakespeare's own Globe productions by staging them just as they were seen in the 16th century. The Tragedy of a King so blinded by ambition and paranoia that he senselessly murders those in this path eventually leading to his own demise. Macbeth and Banquo, victorious generals in the army of Duncan, King of Scotland, encounter three prophesying witches on their journey home from battle. Macbeth's ambitions are kindled by the witches' prediction that he will someday be King. In an effort to hasten the prophecy, he and Lady Macbeth plot the murders of those in the way. Under the strain of the heinous crimes, Lady Macbeth dies adn Mabeth edges toward insanity. Macduff organizes a force to overthrow Macbeth. In the tragic climax, the two duel, Macbeth is killed and King Duncan's eldest son, Malcolm, becomes King. 200700:48:35A literary and dramatic analysis of the key elements in Shakespeare's most famous tragedyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/macbeth-the-tragic-pair-a-play-by-william-shakespeare/1463EnglishArts and populre CultureLiteratureABOUT THE PROGRAM: This program is an enormously valuable historical, literary and dramatic analysis of the essence of Macbeth showing how the significant parts of the drama tie together with scenes from the play. Our expert hosts Rebecca Flynn and Gary Taylor introduce Macbeth The Tragic Pair using the stunning backdrop of the Scottish Highlands to lift the veil covering the language, plot, themes, geographical and historical background to The Tragedy of Macbeth, first published in 1623. ABOUT THE PLAY: Macbeth is the shortest and most compressed in language, action and character development of the Shakespeare tragedies. At a heath near Forres, three Weird Sisters ("witches") meet with the King of Scotland (Duncan) and his General Macbeth, hailing Macbeth with a triple prophecy that ends with a promise that Macbeth with be king. After events occur supporting these prophecies, the ambitious Macbeth and Lady Macbeth work together to murder the King in their castle (Inverness). In time, the Tragic Pair are haunted by guilt, paranoia and isolation with Lady Macbeth taking her own life and Macbeth fighting to the last, even though he realizes the three witches had issued false and misleading prophecies. Both die and Scotland returns to normalcy with Duncan's son, Malcolm crowned at Scone, Scotland. ABOUT THE HOST: Rebecca Flynn, BA MA Oxford, has conducted numerous educational workshops at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-Upon-Avon and is former deputy Director of Education at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Gary Taylor, Florida State University, George Matthew Edgar Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, is (co-editor of the Oxford University Press 1986, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare). Includes Bonus Interview with Gary Taylor: Taylor discusses general topics including the Soliloguy, general text challenges, the authenticity issue and his discovery of a Shakespeare poem in 1986, Shall I Die, Shall I Fly.200900:54:40A detailed examination of the cult of Machttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/macheads/216EnglishKobi ShelyScience And TechnologyAnthropologyKobi Shely's feature-length documentary offers a detailed examination of the cult of Mac while exploring the possibility that the company previously defined by its unwaveringly supportive community is fast becoming just another trendy brand.A film by Kobi Shely201200:57:24A True Story of Courage, Leadership and Valor in World War IIhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/maggies-war/1471EnglishWarHistoryWe follow 94 year old 82nd Airborne veteran James "Maggie" Megellas from Wisconsin to Europe where he fought in some of the most savage battles of World War II. "Maggie" is the most decorated officer in the history of the famed 82nd Airborne Division.200401:35:50The untold story about the great animation industry in the Soviet Unionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/magia-russica/219EnglishEnglishYonathan & Masha ZurElena Kassavina & Natalya ChernishovaDocumentary filmsHistoryArts and populre CultureIn 1935, three Walt Disney films were screened in Moscow. Fyodor Khytruk, then a young art student, saw these films and didn't believe his eyes; he was convinced that he had seen a miracle unfolding before him. What he didn't know was that one day he himself would become one of the greats of Russian animation. Through his personal story, we discover a magical art form that remained closed behind the Iron Curtain for decades.Compared to the other arts – especially literature and Cinema – the animated films, considered a children's art form, passed relatively easily through the strict censorship of the Soviet Union. Like all Soviet institutions, the animation studios Soyuzmultfilm enjoyed full government support, a fact that provided the artists with generous production budgets as well as distribution in 112,000 cinemas around the USSR. This situation allowed for the development of a tradition of animation style that was not only for children.Magia Russica moves between the sights and sounds of the Russian landscape, and into those of the animated films themselves. The films reflected not only the difficult though humor-filled Soviet experience, but also the rich cultural heritage of Russia, with Pushkin as its spiritual father.Today, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, as Russia makes the transition into capitalism, the animation artists discover that the rules of the market and ratings are not necessarily less restrictive than ideological censorship.In a rare look into the artistic process, at the creation of magic, the artists share their ideas about art, about cinema and about the way in which these should be related to. Magia Russica is guided by the spirit of their words.Read a review of the movie in our blogA film by Yonathan & Masha Zur201201:16:45A humorous homage to the chickpea's most distinguished dishhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/make-hummus-not-war/187EnglishTrevor GrahamWar And ConflictAnthropologyCould a regional love of hummus be the recipe for peace in the Middle East? This was the question on director Trevor Graham’s mind when he set out to film Make Hummus Not War, a documentary about the Middle Eastern conflict you don’t see on the nightly news.One of the oldest known prepared foods in human history, hummus is claimed by multiple Middle Eastern nationalities. So when Graham, a self-described hummus tragic, learned of a 2008 Lebanese plan to sue Israel for acting as if it had proprietary rights over the dish, he was intrigued and hungry for more. With Israel, Lebanon and Palestine fighting once again — over who ‘owns’ the hummus heritage — he set off on a personal journey into a colorful culinary history.Make Hummus Not War is Graham’s humorous journey though the hummus bars and kitchens of, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and New York. Along the way, he encounters the doyenne of Middle East cuisine Claudia Roden, zealots, Jewish settlers, biblical characters, political activists, chickpea farmers, novelists and Sheiks, for whom hummus is a near religious obsession.A film by Trevor Graham197800:15:41Marcel Janco, an Israeli artist artist and one of the founders of the Dada schoolhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/marcel-janco-a-portrait-of-an-artist/349EnglishLeo FilerDocumentaryBiographyArts and CultureMarcel Janco  - a painter, sculptor, poet, architect and above all an artist of Dadaism and one of the founders of this universal school.A film by Leo Filer200100:46:33A journey of remembrance of the lives of Marta and Luis Valdez, two of Cuba´s forgotten musicianshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/marta-and-luis/259EnglishEnglishYoav ShamirBiographyArts and CultureMusicAnthropologyIn Cuba of the 1960s, she was a diva and he was the band leader. Today, they still live the love of their lives. Luis with melancholy, Marta with pragmatism. To the sound of Luis´ own music score, this film takes you on a journey of remembrance of the lives of Marta and Luis Valdez, two of Cuba´s forgotten musicians, once part of Luis´ famous band Luis Valdezy su conjunto, hugely popular in Cuba and well-known abroad. We meet them as they are now, in their run-down house in Central Havana which became for them a refuge from the changing reality forced upon them by the revolution. Luis teaches music to the local kids and Marta, once one of Cuba´s most desirable femmes-fatales struggles with daily life in the Cuba of 2001 - both of them trying to maintain a life detached from the world outside. They invite us with open hearts to listen to their story - their rise to fame in the late 50s, how they met and fell in love and their subsequent slide into obscurity. We follow these once-famous artists as they revisit the venues they used to play and feel with them the mixture of happiness and regret brought on by memories of a better time. Luis´ attachment to times past is complemented by his partner?s optimistic pragmatism and this film about the lives of these two old musicians gently allows them to commemorate and celebrate their love for each other.A film by Yoav Shamir201500:29:11Raising crucial, social and political questions about impossible ethical dilemmashttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/mazal-means-luck/84EnglishEnglishMazal Ben YishaiMazal Ben Yishai, Itzik HermanMaale FilmsFamilyBiographySpecial NeedsMazal Ben Yishai, the film's student director, was born to a special-needs couple and raised alongside them by her grandparents. Camera in hand, Mazal documents the nuanced dramas unfolding daily within her family and weaves into the archival footage shot by her grandfather over the years of her childhood. The result is a rare and moving documentary that raises crucial social and political questions about the impossible ethical dilemmas faced by Mazal as her grandparent's age and her parents become concerned about who will care for them in the future.A film by Mazal Ben Yishai   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201300:14:17The barber turns singer and trades in his scissors for a keyboard and microphonehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/melodico/256EnglishEnglishValerio CiriaciDocumentaryBiographyImmigrationMusicAnthropologyMelodico is a short documentary chronicling the story of Tony Maiorino, a modern day Italian immigrant living in the Bronx’s Little Italy. Tony’s a normal guy on the surface. He runs a barbershop, he raises his family, he has his vices, but Tony hides a passion: between customers, the barber turns singer and trades in his scissors for a keyboard and microphone. The film follows Tony after the announcement that he will be singing at the locally famous Feast of Saint Anthony, the largest Italian event in New York City. Tony’s journey to the stage portrays not only his life but that of an entire community in its search for solidarity within its traditions and its nostalgia for a landscape left behind.A film by Valerio CiriaciAwards: Best Student Film @ Short. Sweet. Film FestFestivals Screenings:Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (official selection) New Jersey Film Festival (official selection) Queens World Film Festival (nominated best short documentary)Bif&st Bari International Film Festival (official selection)ICFF Italian Contemporary Film Festival Via Emilia Doc FestBolzano Short Film Festival200900:14:54A mother and her only child try to cope with the death of the child's fatherhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/memory-game/195EnglishEnglishNaor GiladMaale FilmsFamilyChildren and AdolescentsA mother and her only child try to cope with the death of the child's father. While the mother throws out the father's belongings in order to try and move forward, the child collects them in a secret hideaway to try and store memories. Will this battle over loss and memory tear them apart or enable them to reconstruct their lives together?A film by Naor GiladAwards:Best Film on "Values in Society" M'aleh Graduation Ceremony 2008Third Prize, Jewish Film Festival, Athens, Georgia USA 2011Festivals:Israeli Film Festival, Nice France 2011   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200201:02:29Of manhood, disability and dancehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/man-on-wheels-doc-en/1701EnglishEnglishYahaly Gat - Muse ProductionsArts and Popular CultureDisabilityThe story of two disabled war veterans reveals their intimate relationship with their spouses and children. Using wheelchair dancing, they try to overcome their impaired sexual self-image and handicap.Merit Award - Superfest - International Disability Film FestivalThe uplifting "Men on Wheels" might make viewers feel like dancing and crying simultaneously.Hartford Jewish Film FestivalA moving documentary.Austin Jewish Film FestivalAn inspirational story.Detroit Jewish Film FestivalA revealing documentary.American Association of People and Disabilities200700:50:25Vsevolod Meyerhold, the Russian theatre director, devised the acting technique biomechanicshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/meyerhold-theatre-and-the-russian-avant-garde/220EnglishMichael CraigHistoryArts and CultureVsevolod Meyerhold, the Russian theater director, devised the acting technique biomechanics. Using actors this film attempts to recreate his ideas in the context of Russian Theatre of the 1920's.A film by Michael Craig200900:27:20Mika, an illegal immigrant from the Former Soviet Union, lives with her baby daughter in a bomb shelter https://movie-discovery.com/movie/mika-en/193EnglishEnglishMaya HatavWomenMaale FilmsHuman RightsFamilyImmigration & absorptionChildren and AdolescentsMika, a penniless illegal immigrant from the Former Soviet Union, is living with her baby daughter in a bomb shelter near the Machaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem. She speaks no Hebrew and cleans stairwells in order to live. For food, she forages among the market leftovers.When the baby gets sick, Mika has no choice but to make contact with others and to solicit help from the men around her. Instead of kindness, Mika encounters only cynical exploitation.A film by Maya HatavAwards:Best Fictional Film, Ma'aleh Graduation Awards 2008Festivals:Jerusalem Film Festival (Wolgin) Summer 2008"Panda Bear" Film Festival, Sichuan TV Festival 2009"Di Frost" Culture Film Festival Jerusalem 2010Labor Film Festival, Haifa Cinemateque 2010   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201400:05:46https://movie-discovery.com/movie/misconceptions-about-the-universe/772EnglishEnglishWomen And GenderMaale FilmsHuman RightsFamilyImmigration & absorptionChildren and AdolescentsAn expanding universe is a complicated place. During inflation, the universe expanded faster than light, but that's something that actually happens all the time, it's happening right now. This doesn't violate Einstein's theory of relativity since nothing is moving through space faster than light, it's just that space itself is expanding such that far away objects are receding rapidly from each other. Common sense would dictate that objects moving away from us faster than light should be invisible, but they aren't. This is because light can travel from regions of space which are superluminal relative to us into regions that are subluminal. So our observable universe is bigger than our Hubble sphere - it's limited by the particle horizon, the distance light could travel to us since the beginning of time as we know it.201500:23:47The life of Hebrew poet Rachel Bluwstein, known simply as Rachelhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/miss-bluwstein-rachel/715EnglishEnglishSivan ArbelYair Qedar, Michal Weits, Gili NadavDocumentary filmsBiographyArts and populre CultureDocumentary on the life of Hebrew poet Rachel Bluwstein, known simply as Rachel, considered a national poet of Israel. Includes interviews with literary researchers, poets, historians, and biographers.A film by Sivan Arbel | Producer: Yair Qedar | Ha-Ivrim (The Hebrews) SeriesRead a review of the movie in our blogParticipants and intervieweesDana OlmertAnat WeismanEli HirschUri MilsteinHaim Beʼermichael GluzmanMuki TsurNurit GreatzYehudith Ravitz 201600:42:26The film explores the regional and global consequences of this gender imbalance in Asia.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/missing-women-and-the-bachelor-timebomb/1120EnglishWomenToday, Asia is "missing” around 170 million women: 70 million in India, 50 million in China, 20 million in Vietnam, 10 million in Korea. The result of population control policies imposed by the West. The fight for women as tradable commodities takes on a new dimension. With the growing surplus of men, crime rates are rising and threatening the internal stability of these nations. Scientists expect other regions like Africa and the Arab world to follow suit as sex determination technology becomes ubiquitous and affordable. We are facing a humanitarian crisis which some scientists believe may threaten world peace. Zoning in on personal stories from South Korea, China, and India, the film explores the regional and global consequences of this gender imbalance in Asia. With previously unseen archive material and eyewitness reports, the film also looks back at the years after the Second World War and examines the dubious role of international organisations and their influence on worldwide family planning. A revelatory documentary that weaves together elements of politics, economics and medicine, showing women - both then and now - as the plaything of political and criminal interest groups.201501:12:54Amira stops hiding her mental illness and copes with it courageously together with her family https://movie-discovery.com/movie/mom-is-not-crazy-en/987EnglishEnglishRabbi Mordechai VardiJewishDocumentaryPsychologyAlready on their second date, Amira took Michael to meet her therapist, so that the therapist could explain him about her mental state. Michael wasn’t alarmed. They now have four children together and they live on the edge. Michael knows all the fastest routes to the emergency room and the psychiatric ward. Amira decided to stop hiding her mental illness (Borderline Personality Disorder) and to open up about her condition to her community. As a religious woman, she discovers that the restrictions of Jewish law make things especially difficult, but this only goads her to study the issues so that she can bring about a change in attitude among rabbis and the religious authorities toward people struggling with mental illness. This film tracks Amira’s dramatic struggle to stay alive, raise her children and examine what it means to be normal.A film by rabbi Mordechai Vardi201700:42:31Part 2 : Do greed and egoism drive our vision of a perfect life?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/money-happiness-and-eternal-life-greed-part2/1143EnglishPhilosophyWe're never happy with what we have. But excessive consumption is damaging our planet. Could greed lead to the collapse of the climate as well as our society?From Buddhists and bankers to Eskimos and psychologists, we explore the phenomenon of greed with people from all walks of life. How can it be defined? What makes us greedy? And what are the repercussions?People like to have a lot of stuff because it gives them the feeling of living forever," says American social psychologist Sheldon Solomon. He thinks we have to come to terms with our own mortality before we can break the cycle. Are there other ways to feel happy and content? Can we simply stop being greedy by changing the way we think? 201700:42:31Part 1 : Can money and power ever make us happy? https://movie-discovery.com/movie/money-happiness-and-eternal-life-greed/1142EnglishPhilosophyCan money and power ever make us happy? How much is enough? Our constant desire for more is part of our human nature.But is greed getting the better of us? Find out in GREED - A FATAL DESIRE.From Buddhists and bankers to Eskimos and psychologists, we explore the phenomenon of greed with people from all walks of life. How can it be defined? What makes us greedy? And what are the repercussions?People like to have a lot of stuff because it gives them the feeling of living forever," says American social psychologist Sheldon Solomon. He thinks we have to come to terms with our own mortality before we can break the cycle. Are there other ways to feel happy and content? Can we simply stop being greedy by changing the way we think? 202101:27:40The story of Jews who spy on fellow Jewshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/moses-spies-documentary-en/1763EnglishEnglishIsraeli SocietyWar And ConflictInformation is vital to preventing the next act of Jewish terrorism in Israel  - but at what cost?The film explores the lives of those working for the "Jewish Division" of the Israeli Shin Bet (GSS) or to put it simply: spies. While the GSS is widely known for its role as a counter-terrorism agency similar to the FBI or MI5, its mandate is also to thwart terror and safeguard the nation’s democratic foundations. And because threats to public safety and democracy can emerge from any group, regardless of religion or social background, the Jewish Division dedicates a portion of its operations to gathering intelligence within the settler communities of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).To get this information, the agency must recruit "insiders"—members of the community itself. Morally, the argument is clear: if a lead prevents a violent attack, the mission is justified.In reality, however, this means people are spying on their own friends. This creates a toxic atmosphere of mutual suspicion and crushing guilt for the agents. Watching a friend get arrested and imprisoned is never easy, even when their crimes are objectively indefensible.When these agents are eventually exposed, their entire social world collapses. They are cast out and treated as pariahs. Through stories like that of Ariel Gulli—an agent who fell into deep mental distress and took his own life - the film captures the agonizing dilemma between the necessity of stopping crime and the fundamental human values of friendship and trust.201800:52:02A one man campaign for prime ministerhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/mr-messiah-goes-knesset-en/1208EnglishEnglishRoy RahavDaria ArieliIsraeli SocietyPoliticsIlan Mashicha, aged 42, runs in the Israeli elections as the head of his own independent party. He crosses the country all alone with his old car, trying to promote his agenda and persuade the public with his ideas about the need to unify together and resolve the societal conflicts.Along the way, he meets with partners (who later quit), supporters and opponents.As Israel's absurd elections progresses, Mashicha's eccentric voice starts to sound saner than all the rest.A funny, yet touchy documentary about a person who lives in a construction site and who full heartedly believes he can and should become the prime minister of Israel, driven by good faith and dedication.A film by Roy Rahav and Shaked Kachlon200700:59:51A horrific shooting of a child turns out to be more complicated than seemed in the beginninghttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/muhammd-al-durrah-incident-spin-or-a-symbol/1013EnglishEnglishDocumentaryWar And ConflictIn October 2000, during the Second Intifada (Palestinian uprising) a TV camera team working for France 2 network captured what seemed to be the last minutes of a Palestinian child caught in the crossfire between Israelis and Palestinians.Since the event was videotaped, it created a shock and anger worlwide. President Clinton expressed his shock, Bin Laden called for revenge and a mob who was lynching IDf soldiers in Ramallah yelled "revenge for Al-Durrah." The kid, Muhammad Al-Durrah, became a symbol of Palestinian victimization and and apparently, another proof of IDF and Israel's cruelty.But was it really so clear cut?In the intensive crossfire, Palestinian fighters and IDF soldiers shot each other. So how do we know for certain that the kid was shot by an IDF bullet and not by a Palestinian one? - And even if the boy was shot by the IDF, was it really in cold blood, as reported on France 2, or accidently, just because he was there? - And why was he there in the first place? Why did the father of Muhammad took him to what was a battlefield for many hours before the incident? And maybe it was all staged? While the IDF and the Israeli government decided not to publicize the results of an internal investigation (probably because of a fear that a discussion would only ignite another wave of hate and accusations against Israel), a group of independent citizens set out to find out themselves what happened that day in Netzarim junction. They believe the accusation against the IDF was simply a modern blood libel. While investigating, they found out that the reporter, Charles Enderlin, was not even present at the scene in Gaza. He was in Jerusalem at the time of the videoshoot and wrote his narration, which stated that the boy was shot by IDF soldiers, only by relying on his camerman's testimony. That cameraman, Talal Abu-Rahma, was an active member of the Fatah Palestinian movement, not exactly a neutral journalist. As the investigation continues, they find more and more troubling evidence, which include the report of an independent French balistic expert, who stated that according to the angle of the IDF post, the boy couldn't have been shot by the Israeli soldiers. The movie, an investigative documentary, doesn't state clearly what happened at the day of the incident. It brings the voices of people who investigated the incident, while qutoing facts and hard evidence, without emotions and propaganda. Parts of the documentary are dedicated to what is called Pallywood, the media manipulation and scenes' staging, apparently carried out by Palestinians. With the participation of historian Prof. Richard Landes of Boston University and Gabriel Weimann of Haifa University, expert in terrorism and media. Read more about the Al Durrah incident201500:27:29 Vladimir, a 35-year-old Russian immigrant, works as a theater lighting technician and dreams of becoming an actor.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/muktzeh/86EnglishEnglishAlon RabinovichJewish way of lifeCouplesMaale FilmsArts and populre CultureImmigration & absorptionVladimir, a 35-year-old Russian immigrant, works as a theater lighting technician and dreams of becoming an actor. Before an important audition, he meets an old friend who has become religious, and who helps him begin to explore his Jewish identity. Vladimir’s attempts to return to his roots and fulfill his dreams of becoming an actor begin to threaten the one stable element in his life—his relationship with his wife.A film by Alon Rabinovich   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200600:56:00How and why music is good for our health?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/music-of-the-brain/1000EnglishEnglishDocumentaryScience And TechnologyArts and CultureMusicMusic affects our development from the womb to the grave. This documentary examines the role that music plays in developing our brains as humans. It looks at the influence of music on premature infants in neonatal intensive care wards and on growing children (including discussion of the Mozart effect), as well as exploring the role of music therapy for hospital patients and the elderly. Music is good for our health – as non-Western tribal cultures have always known – and this documentary shows you how and why. Featuring interviews with prominent international neuropsychologists, music educators and music psychologists, including Prof. Isabelle Peretz, Prof. Donald Hodges, Prof. John Sloboda, Dr Ian Cross and Assoc. Prof. Sarah Wilson.200400:57:01Yulie Cohen searches for her brother, who became ultra orthodox, with whom she lost contact 25 years agohttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/my-brother/170EnglishEnglishYulie CohenJewish way of lifeFamilyBiographyIdentityMore than twenty-five years have gone by since my brother turned ultra-orthodox Jew and there is no contact between us. Our Mom and Dad are over seventy-five years old and are about to sell the house we grew up in, and I recently got divorced after twenty years of marriage. Refusing to accept that one who believes in God is not willing to reach back to his sister although secular, I am reaching out for my brother trying to reconnect. I want to have a family again; I long for unconditional love. I do have two lovable and loving daughters, but I will soon have to let them go as they are nearing the age of eighteen. 'My Brother' is a three year journey, during which, through looking inward and outward, I find some major answers to my quest: I get to know my Jewish roots profoundly, I understand people's need to believe in God and why they fall in love with orthodoxy, and I find my own inner peace and unconditional love – no matter what. 'My Brother' takes place in the Jewish state of Israel in 2005 – 2007 where the orthodox population is growing and violence are being fed in the name of God.A film by Yulie Cohen200100:52:59In a small Menorah factory, a family secret is hiddenhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/my-fantasia/199EnglishEnglishDuki DrorWarHistoryFamilyEthnicityThe three Darwish brothers, who immigrated from Iraq to Israel in the 50's, established the family factory "Fantasia" - a menorah factory. For a time period of 50 years, they designed, manufactured and shipped Chanukah menorahs for the entire world and now...the family factory is about to close down.From this point in time, the director, who is the son of the youngest brother, is starting to embark on a journey that unravels the history of his family, going back 100 years. The story weaves memories from Iraq and Israel – two homelands, two languages, two identities, two enemies. The director is trying to reconstruct the narrative of his family, a narrative that has disappeared in the silence and shame that followed the family move to Israel. The father's silence is finally broken by the director's relentless inquiries, which reveal a story about five lost years of his father in the Iraqi prison.A film by Duki Dror200600:25:29From Hitler Youth to American Soldierhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/my-favorite-hitler-youth/226EnglishMo AbershiedWar And ConflictHistoryBiographyHolocaustHitler Youth to American Soldier. In 1930s Germany, Friedrich Karl Nischwitz was a student at a military school for the Hitler Youth. After 4 years of beatings and humiliation by his classmates and elders, Fred finally escaped to the USA. Friedrich Karl Nischwitz became Fred Curtis, a US citizen, who fought against the Nazis during World War II. After the war, Fred embarked on his greatest achievement, to become one of the founding fathers of the modern day computer hard drive. This is Fred's story.A film by Mo Abershied200800:58:21What does the Israeli flag mean to you?" A comedic heartfelt documentaryhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/my-flag/212EnglishEnglishIgal HechtChutzpa Productions & Igal HechtIsraeli SocietyOn the eve of Israel independence day, Canadian/Israeli filmmaker Igal Hecht travels from one end of Israel to the other for a period of six months asking Israeli's one simple question. "What does the Israeli flag mean to you?" In this comedic heartfelt documentary, Hecht explores the crisis of identity that many in Israel are now facing and offers an insight into what the future holds for the Nation of Israel.A film by Igal HechtFestivals and  Screenings:Detroit Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2010Buffalo Jewish Film Festival, USA, 20102009 Cape Windleand film festival2009 Toronto Jewish Film FestivalsJewish Eye Film Festival, Ashkelon, Israel, 2009United States Library of CongressUniversity of PennsylvaniaHarvard University200801:18:56The film is dedicated to Combatants For Peacehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/my-israel/167EnglishEnglishYulie CohenWomen And GenderWar And ConflictIdentityYulie Cohen loves Israel. It is the land of her ancestors, the land her parents fought for during the 1948 war and the land she herself served as an Air Force Officer during the Entebbe crisis. In 1978, working as an El Al stewardess, she survived a terrorist attack in London that killed a colleague and left her with shrapnel in her arm. In My Israel Yulie Cohen revisits her critically acclaimed trilogy; My Terrorist (2002), My Land Zion (2004) and My Brother (2007) with a new perspective and additional footage. Embarking on a difficult and emotional journey she attempts to free the surviving terrorist who attacked her, to question the myths of the state that she grew up in and to reconcile with her ultra-orthodox brother after 25 years of estrangement. My Israel is an account of remarkable courage and understanding set against the last turbulent decade of Israeli history.The film was screened in tens of universities including Yale, Rutgers, UC Davis, USC, Duke and many others.A film by Yulie Cohen200400:57:54A state of myths and sacrificeshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/my-land-zion/165EnglishEnglishYulie CohenWomen And GenderWar And ConflictFamilyIdentityWhat young woman would leave New York to have her first child in a war zone? Who would choose to give birth in a place where kids get blown up riding on school buses or sitting in cafés? Where thousands of eighteen-years-olds kill or get killed as soldiers? I am that woman. I went home to give birth to my daughters in Israel. I wanted to raise them in my land Zion, the land of my ancestors, the land that I love. Now, 16 years later, my daughters will soon be old enough to join the Army, and be forced to defend a state and its myths that are tearing my homeland apart. Why do I choose to stay?On a journey through rocks and fields, and across three generations of Israelis, I encounter the myths that shaped the state and me. I confront the actions of my parents and the hopes of my daughters. I visit a Holocaust survivor and hear the doubts of her son, a historian and a parent, like me. I confront a Jewish settler whose husband was killed by a militant Palestinian and I meet a Palestinian girl who lives in Israel.It was my choice to live in the land of my ancestors and now it is my daughters' home, too. A state of myths and sacrifices, where our sons and daughters still grow up to kill or get killed. How can I stay in a state that devours its children?A film by Yulie CohenFestivals and Screenings1. Adelaide International Film Festival AUSTRALIA Feb. '052. University Of East London Feb. '053. The Norwegian Film Institute Oslo, Apr. '054. Nansen Dialogue Project, Nansen Academy, Lillehammer, Norway, Apr. 05.5. Ecuadorian documentary film festival, Encuentros del Otro Cine, Quito, Apr. '056. Israeli/Palestinian Awareness Day College of the Atlantic, Maine US May '057. DocinEurope, the Italian meeting with European documentaries, Italy July '05.8. SønDok (SunDoc), EDN cinematheque Copenhagen Sep. 18th '05.9. Makor Theater NYC Oct. '0510. Hampton's Film Festival, Conflict and Resolution section, Oct. '0511. Siskel film center, Chicago Conversation at the Edge - Daniel Eisenberg, Professor, Film, Video, and New Media School of the Art Institute of Chicago Oct. '0512. University of Maine, Oct. '0513. Harvard University, Dr. Sara Roy Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Oct. 0514. The university of Notre Dame and Indiana University South Bend, Oct. 0515. International Mediterranean Film Festival Montpellier, France, 21-30 Oct. '05.16. Kassel Documentary Film festival, Germany. Nov. '0517. Middle East Studies Association USA – Annual meeting Nov. '0518. Global Cinema Café, Center for Action Research, sponsored by Princeton University International and Third World Centers. New Jersey, Dec. 05.19. The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Jan. '06.20. World Community Film Festival in British Columbia, Canada. Feb.'06.21. Festival "SguardiAltrove" (i.e."Sights on elsewhere"), in Milan, Italy. Feb. '0622. Unifem Film Festival, Florida, March '06.23. Voice Forward, Toronto. March '06. Stacey Donen & Amit Broyer.24. Vancouver Jewish Film Fest Apr. 0625. Toronto Jewish Film Fest May 0626. NYC, Makor at the Y92nd St. TIKUN, June 1st, 2006.27. International Festival of Humans Rights, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Oct. '06.28. University of California, Berkeley as part of the Spring 2007 Interdisciplinary Lecture Series of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Apr. 200729. Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, Nov. '07.30. Paris: an exhibit/event for the 60 years of coexistence in Israel-Palestine, with the City of Paris, in the Cite International des arts de Paris, June 2008.31. Jerusalem, a course of Van Lear Institute for Palestinians, Oct. '08.32. Berlin, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Nov. 23rd, 2008 event for the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel.33. Oslo, Paradise How? A Palestinian-Israeli Film event organized by the Norwegian Film Institute, Apr. 2009.200200:59:21A story about forgivenesshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/my-terrorist/166EnglishEnglishYulie CohenWomen And GenderWar And ConflictIdentityIn 1978, filmmaker Yulie Cohen was wounded in a terrorist attack by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. A stewardess for the Israeli airline El Al, she was attacked along with other crewmembers when getting off the bus to the hotel in London. In a remarkable twist of faith, twenty-three years later Cohen began questioning the causes of violence between Israelis and Palestinians and started to consider helping release the man who almost killed her, Fahad Mihyi. From the time she was a young girl, Cohen considered herself a staunch Israeli nationalist. Growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Israel (where her neighbors included future Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Arik Sharon, and military hero Moshe Dayan), she patriotically served in the military. After working as an Israel coordinator on a film shoot and visiting the occupied territories, Cohen came to realize that both Israelis and Palestinians played a role in perpetuating the cycle of hostility and bloodshed. It was her goal to stand up as a survivor and call for reconciliation on each side. An inspiring story of forgiveness, Cohen's poignant documentary is a moving testimony of human compassion and a call for peace.A film by Yulie CohenThe film was screened in more than 150 universities including Harvard, Yale, Rutgers, UC Davis, USC, Duke and many others.The Jerusalem Film Festival, 2002: "The Wolgin jury decided to award a special jury prize in the documentary category to My Terrorist directed by Yulie Cohen Gerstel "for the filmmaker's courage in striving for reconciliation in the face of violence and in documenting that struggle in an honest and sensitive manner."IDFA, Nov. 2002 Nominee for the Silver Wolf Award:"In My Terrorist, Israeli filmmaker YulieCohen Gerstel reveals how she, a former flight attendant became the victim of a terrorist attack, and how 23 years later, still haunted by the deadly assault, she's decided to help "her terrorist" get released from prison. It's an act of reconciliation, which is also politically very unpopular in Israel at this violent and volatile time. We applaud her courage for inviting us on her journey as she wrestled with and eventually overcame her own doubts". 201000:42:38A close look at a combat unit from 2002 till the 2006 Lebanon warhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/my-unit/215EnglishEnglishOded ZurOded Zur & Igal HechtDocumentaryIsraeli SocietyWar And ConflictMy Unit offers a no-holds-barred look at active combat through the eyes of an experienced Israeli soldier and the members of his unit. Filmmaker Oded Zur captures the life of his unit from 2002 all the way to the 2006 Lebanon War. The tension of dangerous patrols, stakeouts and guard duties and the friendship, trust and camaraderie that can only be forged in the heat of shared conflict and danger.A film by Oded Zur201000:50:41The story of the kidnapped Israeli soldier by Palestinian terroristshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/nachshon-waxman-countdown-to-death/283EnglishEnglishLevi ZiniDocumentaryIsraeli SocietyWar And ConflictThe story of the kidnapped Israeli soldier by Palestinian terrorists. A documentary thriller and a detailed investigative film, where real lives are at stake and every event is true.A film by Levi Zini200800:53:31The compelling story of the building and dedication of the first United States Navy monument in Normandyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/navy-heroes-of-normandy/1468EnglishWarHistoryThe compelling story of the building and dedication of the first United States Navy monument in Normandy, France and the personal stories of American sailors who lived through D-Day to see the memoriall's completion more than  six decades later.New England region Emmy Awards for writing and photography.201501:00:00An involuntary warrior and a woman in a men's world is creating an oasis of culturehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/nazareth-cinema-lady-en/819EnglishEnglishNurit Jacobs YinonNurit Jacobs YinonWomenDocumentary filmsHuman RightsBiographythe story of Safaa Dabour, a religious Muslim from Nazareth, who established the first and only Arab cinematheque in Israel. Safaa's father and husband passed away while she was a young mother to two young boys however years later she succeeded in taking charge of her own fate and freedom and established the cinematheque. Unfortunately it was all downhill from there…
A Muslim in Nazareth, an Israeli in the eyes of Arab countries, an Arab in Israel, and primarily, a single woman in a men's world, an involuntary warrior, she travels to bring Arab box-office hits from Arab countries alongside family films from the U.S, Europe and Israel, and seeks, against all odds, to create an oasis of culture for the society to which she belongs. This is a cinematic profile of a courageous woman whose path to freedom is interwoven with the battle for her own cinematheque.Winner of the Israeli Film Competition at the Epos International Art Film Festival 2016Official Choice at the Haifa International Film Festival, September 2015 Official Choice at the 'Other Israel' Film Festival at JCC Manhattan 2016A film by Nurit Jacobs YinonMovie's website page 201301:05:16Four women meet on the same bench, daily, to share their liveshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/neighborhood-en/1248EnglishEnglishIlan YagodaWomenDocumentary filmsSenior CitizensYou can't yell at a child. If you do, he's run out to his wife. But if you yell at your husband, he's come back. Always.On an old bench on the sidewalk just outside their homes, four elderly Yemenite women meet daily. Their modest immigrant neighborhood, a bit outdated, is like a time capsule. They still share recipes; gossip; aches, pains and troubles; and many stoic silences. If they keep their homes closed to a menacing world, the bench is where they open their mouths and hearts and minds. The bench is like a raft; a lifeboat in the seemingly un-navigable waters of modern alienation and postmodern puzzlement. Captured in the best tradition of engaged cinema verité, filmmaker Ilan Yagoda (Laureate, Israel’s 2012 “Cinema Arts Award”)—their real life neighbor, neither Yemeni nor female nor old—doesn’t “give them voice” so much as he gives us the eyes and ears with which to sense how life might feel on the social, political and cultural margins. A film by Ilan YagodaYagoda's 'Neighborhood' presents life as it is - reality, though not in the "Master Chef" sense of the word. The film is devoid of pretentiousness or a sensational plot.  Loneliness is depicted by pots that have grown smaller, like life itself ... It has made the four women no longer transparent. The film makes the viewer pause for a moment in their daily race and look at the women sitting on benches, see the world, the street and even us through their eyes and maybe learn something from this reflection. This is probably its greatest accomplishment.Tal Miller, Yedioth Aharonot Quiet, delicate and magicalAvi Mograbi, Filmmaker (Senior Lecturer, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design)A beautiful, special film planted firmly in the midst of a loud media landscape like an ancient, majestic olive tree.Aya Munster, BloggerPrizes and AwardsDocAviv International Film FestivalNominee, Israel Documentary Filmmakers’ AwardDays of Ethnographic Film FestivalFIFEQ, Canada 2014"Best Documentary" award and opening film, Delhi International film festival201800:16:3617 years old Ethan built his home by himself. It was demolished by the authoritieshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/never-locked-en/1387EnglishEnglishShira BiligShira BiligMaale FilmsDocumentary filmsPoliticsIn the settlement of Amona, Ethan built his own stone by himself. After legal procedures, the court decided to evacuate the place and its inhabitants and demolish his house. Screened inGirona Film Festivsal, SpainTel Aviv Students Film FestivalCinema Bus films  200700:22:22A tale of an unexpected New Year Resolutionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/new-years-resolution-en/137EnglishEnglishAyala Zamir GlickJewish way of lifeWomenMaale FilmsHuman RightsReligionOn the eve of the Rosh HaShana festival, a 38-year-old single woman announces to her orthodox family that she plans to have a child by artificial insemination. The family members react with shock and disbelief and the woman finds herself wavering in her resolve to carry out her New Year's resolution.A film by Ayala Zamir GlickFestivalsJerusalem Film Festival "Wolgin" competition 2007Jewish Film Festival, Palm Beach2009Jewish Film Festival, San Diego 2009Special Screening at the Israeli Parliament "International Woman Day" 2010   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200100:26:41Can Miki get past Carmel's defenses?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/newspapers-and-flowers/275EnglishEnglishMicha Ben ShacharJewishRelationshipMaale FilmsCarmel is looking for love but is tired of being judged by appearance and dress code. By the time she meets Miki, the newspaper boy, she is willing to hide certain details about herself in order to put him to the test. Can Miki get past Carmel's defenses?A film by Micha Ben-Shachar   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200300:51:41A radio host struggles to save drug addicts on a very special night showhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/night-watchers-en/311EnglishEnglishAmnon BinyaminDocumentary filmsHuman RightsIsraeli SocietyEyal, a war veteran and is a radio host in a night program, encourages drug addicts to call the studio and tell their story on air. Then they are sent to rehabilitation at the expense of the radio station.  His assistant goes out to find the drug users and reveals his own unique story as a former drug addict, who was himself saved by Eyal, the radio host.A film by Amnon Binyamin201300:30:00A special story about a very special personhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/niro-and-flika/108EnglishEnglishHai AfikMaale FilmsBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicNiro, an Arab farmer and a Jewish settler at the same time and a musician plows with his female donkey and supports himself by playing Arab music in the streets of Jerusalem. For his 40th birthday, he tries to reconcile with his father and wonders if he will find love or whether he will remain alone with his music and his donkey.A film by Hai AfikAwards: First prize for Best Short Film at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, 2014   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School202001:12:45A courageous woman, determined to change her life for the betterhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/no-hard-feelings-en/1613EnglishHebrew (modern)WomenDocumentary filmsFamilyImmigration & absorptionThree decades after she arrived in Israel from the city of Derbent in the Caucasus, Sarah debates whether she should immigrate again, this time to America. She hopes to find happiness there, but more importantly, she is seeking to escape from her complicated, abusive relationship with her husband and the suffocating Sisyphean routine her life has taken in Israel. Arthur, the director, accompanies his mother Sarah on a journey to the landscapes and memories of his childhood, set against the clashing cultures of a family shaped by immigration and violence. The dream of a better life in America leads to a journey that offers a glimmer of hope and the promise that Sarah’s shattered past can be mended. But will that promise really be kept?A film by Arthur Abramov201100:39:01Danny embarks upon a journey to learn more about his parents while he is preparing to get marriedhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/normal/270EnglishEnglishDanny TzurRelationshipMaale FilmsDocumentaryFamilyIdentity Much emotional pain has been buried in Danny's family history due to his father's brain damage after a horrific car accident and his parents' subsequent divorce. Feelings of sadness, helplessness, guilt and blame have permeated the family ever since. As he prepares for marriage, Danny embarks upon a personal odyssey to learn more about what happened to his parents, and about the strengths and limitations of a couple's commitment to one another. Slowly, the camera helps Danny to redefine his attitude towards his disabled father.A film by Danny Tzur   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201900:33:09The men who have helped Kim Jong Un keep his dream alivehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/north-korea-en/1306EnglishDocumentary filmsPoliticsNorth Korea is one of the poorest countries in the world, but its leader Kim Jong Un has still found the money he needs to finance a nuclear weapons program, despite the country's fundamental poverty and international economic sanctions. This documentary looks at how, and introduces the men who have helped Kim Jong Un keep his dreams of reaching nuclear power status alive. North Korea has not reined in its nuclear program, despite a number of UN resolutions that have tried to force it to do so. So how has the isolated country kept the program going despite sanctions? Every year Pyongyang sends millions of North Korean workers abroad, selling their services to over 40 countries around the world. And their salaries flow directly into Kim’s treasury. The only ones who know exactly how the system works are the men who have helped the North Korean government carry through the program for years. A film team spent years researching these men and their secrets - from bankers and diplomats to the laborers and specialists who worked abroad and whose wages flowed into the regime's coffers. Come and meet all the dictator’s men.201400:50:00A group of adolescents in a drama class trying to overcome stereotypes https://movie-discovery.com/movie/not-in-our-neighborhood-en/1639EnglishEnglishElla Zaharano GrinheuzElla Zaharano GrinheuzDocumentary filmsChildren and AdolescentsEducationShawn, Valeria, Ben Odel and Assa-el are teenagers imprisoned in stereotypes attached to them by the Israeli society conventions.An theatrical project allows them to set up a play based on their personal stories, with the hope that the message will come across to the audience and create an impact.Unfortunately, both the establishment and their families, although filled with good intentions, cannot overcome the stereotypes themselves. The kids find themselves trapped in a vicious circle, in which the supportive framework is an obstacle in itself.this is a story about adolescents who try everything they can to achieve grace and empathy from a rigid, traditional society, which cannot accept them as they are. Winner of best Israeli film in Epos film festival for the art.Screened at the Jewish film festival, London 201700:16:19Everyone is mourning her brother who died in the battlefield. Only Neta knows what he did to herhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/nothing-happened-en/937EnglishHebrew (modern)Meital MimonWomen And GenderMaale FilmsFictionKobi was killed during his military service. A direct hit from an RPG missile. During the preparation for the funeral and the mourning, his sister Neta can only remember one thing: how he raped her and how she wished he would die.Will she keep her secret to herself?A film by Meital Mimon Produced by Maale film school201600:52:46Revolutionary technologies that make use of the energy potential of the oceanshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/oceanic-electric-power/1006EnglishDocumentaryScience And TechnologyEnvironmentThe world needs energy. But what type of energy should be used and how should it be produced? That is a controversial question. Feverishly, scientists around the world are looking for solutions.Many see salvation in the worldwide use of a mix of renewable energies. Here, the interest and the knowledge of the general public concentrate mainly on energies that are obtained on the landmass of our Earth. This film shows revolutionary technologies that make it possible to meet large percentages of the worldwide energy requirements with the natural power and the energy potential of the oceans. Oceanic Electric Power shows these technologies using film, shot around the globe, of the most important sources of ocean power, and their inventors. Precise explanations provided by the internationally recognized expert on ocean currents Dr. Jochen Bard, University of Kassel, and the Berlin political scientist Dr. Hermann Scheer, who has received a number of awards, make it possible to estimate the impact of the technologies and to learn about the significance of the subject for our everyday lives.2014Why don't we all have Cancer ?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/on-dna-mutation/765EnglishScience And TechnologyMedicineHuman cells are produced, mature, and then die. Under normal circumstances, this process repeats itself every second of your lifetime. If the body’s cells do not die naturally when they are damaged or mutated, unnecessary clusters of old and new cells build up and tumors develop. Watch how DNA Mutation is working in our body and how cancer occurred in humans.199501:14:36A close encounter of a son's struggle to understand his father's unique pasthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/on-my-way-to-fathers-land/180EnglishEnglishAner PremingerHistoryBiographyHolocaustIdentityA moving documentary account of a son's struggle to understand his father's past. The film takes us on two journeys: the first is to Vienna, where director Preminger's father returns to his childhood home to share stories of his youth during the Nazi occupation. On the second journey, we follow Preminger's father as a young immigrant in Palestine where he became a member of the first Knesset, joined the Palestine Communist Party, and later resigned to establish the Hebrew Communist Party. Through interviews and archival material, the younger Preminger discovers his father's role in the politics and ideology debated in those days.A film by Aner Preminger200100:51:31An intimate portrait of renown Israeli Artist Zvi Lachmanhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/one-eye-wide-open/181EnglishEnglishAner Preminger, Ami DrozdAner Preminger, Ami DrozdIsraeli SocietyArts and CultureIdentityThe film follows Israeli Artist Zvi Lachman, during the decade 1998-2008. Lachman's sculptures and charcoal drawings involve processes of accumulation, addition, subtraction and erasure. Lachman's art is shaped by the tension between a liberal, secular worldview and between the religious roots of culture; between Israeli and Jewish identity; between a universal and international consciousness and the demands of a local identity. American critic Geoffrey Hartman describes Lachman as one of the best, if not the best sculptor working presently in Israel" (NY Arts)A film by Aner PremingerFestivals:"I've seen films" International Festival of films on Arts, Milano 2010Epos International Art Film Festival, Tel Aviv - Israel 2009Epos International Art Film Festival, Tel Aviv - Israel 2010200401:00:18Nocturnal scenes of a sniper patrol stealing through a Palestinian villagehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/one-shot/239EnglishEnglishNurit KedarIsraeli SocietyWarPsychology"It was just like a movie, I felt like I was God." This is not a quote from an astronaut looking down on our planet from a space station, but a sniper from the Israeli army. Incorporating unique footage, ONE SHOT shows which boys and men are behind the sniper rifles in the hills around Palestinian villages. The interviews leave a shocking impression when these men explain how they sometimes aimed their sights at innocent passers-by and excitedly realized they could now decide about life or death. The documentary contains nocturnal scenes of a sniper patrol stealing through a Palestinian village. And sure enough, sometimes it looks just like a computer game. The snipers explain that they do not see a human being through their sights, only a target. "At that time, we were emotionally handicapped," one sharpshooter says. The images were shot by the army and miraculously handed over to the filmmakers. The soldiers claim not to feel any guilt about the lives they ended, but the experiences did leave a lasting impression on one or two men. One or two, because most of them tell about their army years with unconcealed pride.A film by Nurit Kedar200500:24:29Kobi must make a choice between two women...https://movie-discovery.com/movie/one-too-many/276EnglishEnglishShaiya BernsteinJewishRelationshipMaale Films30-year-old Kobi is married to Rachel, who's been in a coma for 4 years following an accident. Kobi uses a little-known loophole in Jewish Law - the signatures of 100 Rabbis - in order to marry again, despite the fact that his first wife is not deceased. However, the first wife wakes up from her coma as he is marrying the second, and Kobi must make a choice between the two women...A film by Shaiya BernsteinFestivals:Ashdod Film Festival 2006Festival of Religion, Trento, Italy 2006   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200800:54:07Birth is Natural!https://movie-discovery.com/movie/organic-birth/328EnglishDebra Pascali BonaroWomenFamilyThe perfect film for all who are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant. Organic Birth is a 52-minutes film adapted and edited from 85-minutes award-winning documentary Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret.A film by Debra Pascali Bonaro201800:42:32Do consumers always get what it says on the label? How can authenticity be verified?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/organic-food-hype-or-hope/1121EnglishLife and EnvironmentEconomyThere is growing demand in the western world for organic food. But do consumers always get what it says on the label? How can authenticity be verified?Is organic food automatically healthier? Consumers are prepared to pay a significant premium for it. There are currently, however, no reliable tests for distinguishing organic from conventionally produced food. Farmers need to invest a great deal of time, energy and money to qualify as a producer of organic food. There is no proof, however, that organic food actually contains fewer contaminants than conventionally farmed products. There is no such thing as pollution-free food, and there are currently no tests available for reliably distinguishing between organic and non-organic food. That opens doors for lucrative labeling fraud, which in turn explains why there are far more organic eggs on the market at Easter than at any other time of the year. The statistics clearly suggest manipulation, but it is hard to obtain evidence due to the differences between the two production processes appearing to have little effect on the quality of the product. Irish dairy farmers, for instance, are not allowed to label their milk "organic" because the pasture land where their herds spend more than 300 days a year are treated with mineral fertilizers. Because cows are themselves bioreactors, however, the milk they yield contains no trace at all of fertilizer. On average, conventional Irish milk contains more omega 3 fatty acids and antioxidants than organic milk from Germany. The reason is the fodder; German organic farms may use only concentrates and silage as supplementary feed to increase milk output - which impacts negatively on the quality of the milk. This documentary looks at researchers who are studying potential ways of reliably distinguishing between organic and conventionally produced food. And that is no easy task. Nearly every foodstuff requires a specific test. But one thing is certain: organic farming makes a major contribution to human welfare - by helping to mitigate climate change, protect the groundwater, conserve nature and promote animal welfare.201101:25:03Witness the passion of birthhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/orgasmic-birth/326EnglishDebra Pascali BonaroWomenFamilyThe Orgasmic Birth Movie is joyous, sensuous and revolutionary presenting us the ultimate challenge to our cultural myths by inviting viewers to see the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights attainable through birth. Witness the passion of birth.A film by Debra Pascali Bonaro200000:23:47Jealousy attacks Othello, killing Desdemona and committing suicide.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/othello-the-moor-of-venice-a-play-by-william-shakespeare-copy/1457EnglishArts and populre CultureRelationshipLiteratureShakespearean Drama of the Highest Quality Performed at an authentic recreation of The Globe. With performances by world famous award winning Shakespearean actors this series has recaptured the Elizabethan flavor of Shakespeare's own Globe productions by staging them just as they were seen in the 16th century. Shakespeare's keen understanding of jealousy in love results in perhaps his greatest triumph as a stage play, and his prime example of the tragic hero Othello. Othello, a noble Moor has in his command lago, a lieutenant who is insanely jealous of Othello's success and higher rank. Othello elopes with his lover, Desdemona. At every turn Lago plots to exploit Othello, undermin his trust in Desdemona and deceive Othello into an all-consuming jealousy. Lago's successful conniving results in Othello smothering Desdemona in her bed-chamber. The story of Lago's diabolical treachery is revealed to Othello only after the murder. Othello wounds Lago in a vengeful fight, then kills himself.200801:09:40When Taliya was young, she never knew for sure whether her uncle was a KGB agent in disguise or a true member of the familyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/over-my-dad-s-body/253EnglishEnglishTaliya FinkelPsychologyFamilyBiographyIdentityA documentary thriller. When Taliya was young, she never knew for sure whether her uncle was a KGB agent in disguise or a true member of the family. Her father claimed that his brother had been murdered in a Ukrainian prison and substituted by an imposter from the KGB, forced on the family by the old soviet regime. Her father presented his claims in a way that made his family believe this unlikely story. After the tragic death of the father, the mystery surrounding his stories continued to grow. Five years after his death, filmmaker Taliya Finkel goes on a fascinating journey in order to unfold the mystery around her departed father. Guided by a private investigator, she travels from Israel to the Ukraine and back in a desperate quest to find proof of her father's story. During the voyage, Taliya investigates the thin line that separates imagination and reality, sanity and madness.A film by Taliya FinkelReviews:"It's a fascinating movie, a fascinating story...This movie may end up haunting me for a while"Jason Waches MoviesAwards:OVER MY DAD'S BODY- Winner of best foreign Documentary at WASHOUGAL International Film Festival, Washington USA, held at August, 2008OVER MY DAD'S BODY - has been awarded a prize by the competition jury.HIGHLY COMMENDED in the DOCUMENTARY AND FACTUAL category at Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival 2008Festivals:Reforming Reality film festival, Jerusalem 2010Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, Toronto, Canada WASHOUGAL International Film Festival, Washington USA, August, 2008XVI International Film Festival of the art of Cinematography PlusCAMERIMAGE, Documentary Panorama, Lodz, Poland December 2008San Fransisco Documentary Film Festival. Feature length documentary competition, October 2008Charlotte Film Festival, NC, USA. Feature documentary competition 2008DocSDF Official Selection to Best International TV Documentary 2008Washougal International Film Festival Washington USA August 2008BERLIN Jewish film festival, June 2008DOCOMENTA MADRID official selection, Original feature-length film competition 2008ZAGREBDOX Official Selection: ''Fathers and Children'' Competition, Croatia 2008DEREEL Independent International Film Festival Official Selection: Melbourne - Australia 2008International premier IDFA. Reflecting Images: Amsterdam International Film Festival - The Netherlands 2007Haifa International Film Festival Nominee for Israeli Best Documentary Awards - Israel 2007201700:10:46Young woman goes to meet the brother she has not seen for years, but cannot recognize himhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/paperock-en/1100EnglishEnglishHilel RateMaale FilmsLGBTFictionSexual MinoritiesAn ultra-Orthodox young Jewish woman agrees to meet her brother, whom she has not seen in many years. When she finally lays eyes on him she understands that, if she wants to reestablish the childhood bond between them, she must accept his new identity.A film by Hilel Rate  Produced by Maale film schoolParticipated and won prizes in many film festivals. Among them are:1st Prize TLV Pride Festival Tel Aviv 2017Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ International Film Festival 2017The Iris Prize Film Festvial Cardiff, Wales 2017The Peace on Earth Film Festival Chicago 2017The Pink Lobster LGBTQ Film Festival New Brunswick, Canada 2017NewFest LGBTQ Film Festival USA 2018201300:19:44The Israeli society is gathered onto one bus ridehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/passenger-en/112EnglishEnglishEliya TauberMaale FilmsIsraeli SocietyChildren and AdolescentsNitzan is a small teenager with a big bag. She is angry at the world and wants to be left alone. A strange bus ride brings her to encounters with unknown people and places. A journey into Israeli society through the eyes of an 18-year-old religious girl.A film by Eliya Tauber   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201900:33:09https://movie-discovery.com/movie/peaches-and-cream-gur-bentwich-film/1715EnglishHebrew (modern)Gur BentwichGur Bentwich, Ronen Sagi, Shlomo KramerBiographyArts and Popular CultureFictionAn existential comedy about a neurotic film director whose fears of failure, death, and losing control all surface on the night his new film is released: a hysterical, unforgettable night--at least for him and his eccentric friends.A film by Gur BentwichNominated for 11 Ophir Prize Awards"A wild, intensely personal, and hilarious nocturnal journey from an astonishingly talented and original creator."Yair Raveh // Cinemascope"In his new film, Bentwich reaches his artistic peak."Nathaniel Shlomovich // Haaretz"A colossal film – exhilarating, hilarious, profound. A masterpiece from a director at the peak of their powers."Doron Tsabari  // X"What an explosion of life and cinema this wonderful film is"Or Sigoli // Srita"This is one of the most engaging, genuinely heartfelt and great films ever made in Israel."Jonathan Gatt // Kan201700:33:09Shlomo decides to retire early and live the good life. But his life turn unexpectedlyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/pension-en/1247EnglishEnglishNafav GedaliyahFamilySenior CitizensFictionFollowing the sudden tragic death of wife, Shlomo (58) decides to retire early and live the good life. He quits his job in the gas station in which he worked for long years and is determined to enjoy.But apparently, he discovers that his life is not worth much without improving first his relationship with his children. Unfortunately, that relationship was based until today on materialistic matters, without expressing warmth and affection and it seems the distance cannot be bridged.A film by Nadav Gedaliyah201000:21:31Dafna arrives at her parents' home for a few days before her baby's brit (circumcision)https://movie-discovery.com/movie/persian-lullaby/277EnglishEnglishKeren HakakWomenMaale FilmsFamilyEthnicityDafna, the 40-year old single mother of a newborn boy, arrives at her parents' home a few days before her baby's brit (circumcision). Her father, an elderly Persian Jew, repeatedly snubs Dafna, noting coldly that "a baby needs a father." In the week leading up to the brit, past conflicts between Dafna and her father are revisited, and new tensions are heightened. Will Dafna's father agree to be the sandak (godfather) of his first grandson?A film by Keren HakakFestivals:Religion Today Film Festival, Trento Italy 2010Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival 2010Jewish Film Festival, Jerusalem 2009   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201700:33:09Emily suffers from social anxiety and is torn between her need to be alone and the desire for a relationshiphttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/pinprick-en/939EnglishEnglishMichal CohenWomen And GenderMaale FilmsFictionEmily (22) avoids social interactions. When she's caught in a social situation, anxiety takes over her and she hurts herself physically and concentrates in the pain.Until she meets Emma, which attracts her from first sight. Emma and Emily are entering a strange relationship, in which Emily is torn between her tendency to seclude herself and her desire to closer to Emma.A film by Michal Cohen Produced by Maale Film School200800:51:18A survivor of several concentration camps, convinces his reluctant children to spend a night in Auschwitzhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/pizza-in-auschwitz/242EnglishEnglishMoshe ZimermanHistoryFamilyBiographyHolocaustDanny Hanoch (74) is a Holocaust survivor. In his words, he has a BA (Bachelor of Auschwitz) and was fortunate to have a personal physician growing up: Dr. Mengale. This impressive man, who never sheds a tear, has succeeded in joining every possible delegation to Poland and the death camps, but failed to do one thing: convince his own children, Miri and Sagi, to visit the landscape of his lost childhood with him. In six days, inside one van, father, children and a film crew travel "that" Europe, traversing the terrain where Danny was forced to "camp" again and again. When they reach Birkenau, the "final destination", Danny wants to fulfill a life-long fantasy: to spend the night in his old barracks, on his old bunk, with his own children. A bitter argument ensues with the camp officer, and only after waving his number-tattooed arm, Danny gets his way. Around a slice of pizza, bought in the nearby town of Auschwitz, father and children have the inevitable blow-out filled with black humor and great pain.A film by Moshe Zimerman201200:56:10How do we measure our unsellable wealth? And how do we put a true price on our gains?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/planet-re-think/1033EnglishEskil HardtDocumentary filmsScienceLife and EnvironmentHow do we measure our unsellable wealth? And how do we put a true price on our gains?Economics and environmentalism – two studies often thought to be intrinsically at odds. But are they really so disconnected? An environmental documentary with a difference, Planet RE:think presents a compelling, inherent link between environmental destruction and the global financial crisis, illustrated in the fundamental fallacy of the GDP model in which we measure national wealth. A documentary conversation very much of our times, Planet RE:think asserts that the only way out of economic crisis and into ongoing stability, is actually through the practices of environmental sustainability.Leading world experts discuss the facts and theories interposed with stunning visuals captured around the globe. The documentary successfully takes us to small, local, personalised examples of man’s labours and their environmental effects, zooming out to illustrate a planetary impact, thus reminding us of the role we each play in a healthy happy world.As wars over water, oil and gas appear increasingly possible, Planet RE:Think investigates where we are failing and offers us hope for a future on a planet with finite resources.Winner Best Feature Documentary - Moondance International Film Festival202000:58:33How can one change reality despite being in a minority opinion?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/poetry-zaban-en/1401EnglishHebrew (modern)Rahel NehushtaiDocumentary filmsArts and populre CulturePoliticsTwo young social activists, Gali and Naama, embark on a journey with Yair Zaban and present him with challenging questions. Yair tells them about the struggles he was engaged in and the insights he gained.   To better focus on these issues, I integrated some Israeli Poetry Slam shots dealing with dilemmas Yair was engaged in.Participants: Yair Zaban, Naama Lazimi, Gali Har-Gil, many Israel Poetry Slam artists.Israel Poetry Slam artists: Yossi Tsabari, Lucy Ayoub, Tamir Aharoni, Yotam Manor, Yael Hetz, Alex Roitman, Asaf Shenhav, Yiftah Hayafoor Leibowitz, Tal Cohen, Yonathan Blumenfeld.201900:14:14Two brothers and one question of faithhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/possessed-en/1341EnglishEnglishAriel ParienteJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsImmaterialFictionIn the Israel of the nineties, Sami is the young son of Jewish Tunisian immigrants. He feels belittled by the attention lavished on his younger brother, Yudeh. One day the father insists that Sami take his brother to a movie. What follows will profoundly alter the two boys forever.A film by Ariel Pariente  Produced by Maaleh Film SchoolPrizes and AwardsMaaleh Graduation Awards 2018 - Best DramaTel Aviv Student Film Festival 2018Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival 2018Utopia Festival Tel Aviv 2018Near Nazareth Film Festvial 2018 - Best Student FilmJersey Shore Film Festival, USA 2019Prague Israeli Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2019=======200801:19:15Three funerals, three generations, two wars and one boyfriend waiting in Tel Avivhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/powder-en/241EnglishEnglishEyal GoldbergLGBTWarIdentitySexual MinoritiesAgainst the backdrop of a family dealing with illness and death, the film's protagonist, a leftist gay activist, is repeatedly called for reserve duty as a tank commander in the Israeli army.A film by Eyal Goldberg200200:33:09A mother to a special needs kid is torn between motherhood and careerhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/prague-a-mothers-conflict-en/902EnglishHebrew (modern)Katie GreenMiri Bocker Ella WatermannWomen And GenderMaale FilmsFictionSpecial Needs Hedva, a mother of 3 who paints Ketubot (decorative marriage contracts) is deeply committed to raising her Down Syndrome son and to supporting her husband's career. When Hedva is invited to exhibit her work in Prague, she discovers just how strongly the emotional entanglements of home, bind her to the household.A film by Katie Green Produced by Maale Film School200600:45:59Violence and condemnation from religious leaders plague the 2006 Jerusalem Pride Paradehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/pride-en/214EnglishEnglishLior CohenHuman RightsIsraeli SocietyViolence, threats of the terror attack and condemnation from religious leaders plagued the 2006 Jerusalem Pride Parade. LGBT citizens of the state of Israel found themselves fighting for their right to exist as equal citizens. 'Pride,' by producers Igal Hecht and Lior Cohen, explore the struggles for the legitimacy of the LGBT community in Israel.A film by Igal Hecht & Lior CohenFestivals:2007 Inside and Out GLBTQ Film Festival Reel Out!Halifax GLBTQ Film Festival. (HGFF)Aired on OUTTV in Canada and HERE TV in the U.S.200500:19:15A painful story of a prisoner of warhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/prisoner-en/136EnglishEnglishIsca GurMaale FilmsDocumentary filmsWarPsychologyFamilyYaakav Gur, the father of the film's director, was taken prisoner by the Egyptians in the Yom Kippur War. Yaakov's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was not diagnosed and treated for many years, resulting in significant dysfunction within the family. Isca Gur bravely decides to tackle her father on some painful realities concerning his years as a POW, breaking many years of silence.A film by Isca GurAwards:Best Documentary, Ma'aleh Competiton 2006   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201300:14:59The story of the hidden and forbidden Purim celebrations in the USSRhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/pur-en/838EnglishEnglishAnat VovnoboyJewishDocumentaryImmigrationThe film Pur portraits the phenomena of Purim Shpiels, traditional Jewish plays, that were conducted by Jewish activist in Soviet Russia. Acted out in violation of the strict Soviet regime, under great risk, the plays marked the beginning of a great dissident movement.  For decades, the soviet regime did everything in its power in order to destroy every trace of Jewish culture. Jewish leaders were arrested, and studies of Hebrew were considered a criminal offence.  Anyone who tried to violate the cultural hegemony of the communist proletariat was considered a traitor and treated accordingly.  By the middle of the 20th century, the majority of Soviet Jews assimilated to the extent that very few knew anything about their Jewish identity. With that,  their passport clearly identified them as Jews. This distinction allowed  the regime to conduct antisemitic policies that made it difficult for Jews to receive higher education, banished Jews from cultural institutions and encouraged violence against them. In the midst of this cultural wilderness, where most people lost any connection to their roots, a small group of dissidents began to rediscover for herself their Jewish heritage and take an interest in the Jewish tradition. They had no sources to learn from. Anyone who knew anything about Judaism was exiled or imprisoned long ago. Jewish books were destroyed or hidden away in inaccessible archives.The dissidents began to assemble small pieces of information from classical literature such as the writing of Thomas Mann, Shalom Aleichem or from the Bible. In those books, the dissidents discovered the tradition of  Purim Shpiel, a humorous and satiric play  based on the story of Megillat Esther. Crowded in small apartments, avoiding police inspections, the dissidents have begun to present Purim Shpiel shows that have spoken of their Jewish origin as well as criticized the authoritarian regime. The story of the book of Esther was perfectly suitable for that. Achashverosh, the stupid king and Haman his evil advisor symbolized the soviet rulers who are persecuting the Jews. Ester who was afraid for the life and the complacent citizens of Shushan, represented that majority of the soviet Jewry who have accepted the soviet hegemony whether from fear or sympathy. Their own inspiration came to the dissidents from the character of Mordechai, who courageously withstood the test of the complex reality and stayed true to his people and his tradition. The message of the shows was clear, in the same way that the Jews of Persia were threatened by a vast empire but have survived and flourished long after this empire was gone. Much in the same manner, the soviet empire is doomed to fall and those who will cling to their true identity rather than bow to the regime, will last long after the regime is gone. How far are we willing to go for our principels? For our heritage? Our identity? Our right to create and express?  Most of us give it up when those things do not fit  our daily schedule, when they require financial sacrifices or when they are not well accepted by our surrounding. The film Pur tells the story of those who were willing to give up so much to give cultural expression to their identity. The simple and amateur shows they created were the basis of huge dissident movement that eventually swept all of Russia.A film by Anat VovnoboyIMDbAnat Vovnoboy is a documentary filmmaker, journalist and video artist. She graduated with honors from the School of Visual Arts and her thesis film Gateway to Heaven, have won a number of awards in different film festivals. Anat’s video art work, Lullaby,  was commissioned by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and was later presented in Ackland Art Museum and the Andrea Meislin Gallery, in NYC. Today Anat works at the foreign desk of Channel 10 news in Israel and is pursuing an MA in Film at Tel Aviv University.   The film Pur was inspired by Anat’s personal experience and memories of the Purim Shpiel shows she was taken to by her parents as a little girl growing up in Moscow, Russia.199800:28:03A relationship between a boy, a girl and the boy's friend, during the celebration of Purimhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/purim-en/278EnglishEnglishJewishRelationshipMaale Films A relationship between a boy, a girl and the boy's friend, against the background of Purim. All three are in their late twenties, all three are religious, living different religious lifestyles, and in this context, the drama develops. Oded, the hero, finds himself between Ruthie, who "started with him" and intrigues him, and Shai, his close friend from the Yeshiva - his havruta. In the context of religious and personal differences, the relationship becomes increasingly complicated.   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200201:03:35This serious and important subject is conveyed by a soft and calm voicehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/purity-tehora/3EnglishEnglishAnat ZuriaJewish way of lifeCouplesWomenA peek into the Orthodox Jewish ritual 'mikvah' about the family purification bath after menstruating. This documentary film broke taboos and examined how the laws of Taharat Hamishpaha (family purity) shape women’s lives and sexuality within Orthodox Judaism.A film by Anat ZuriaPrizes and AwardsSpecial Jury Prize, Yamagata International Doc. Film Festival, JapanFirst Prize, FIPA International Festival. Audio-Visual Programs, FranceAward for Best Director, Munich Film Festival, GermanyDiscovery of the Year award, SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia)Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, purchased and exhibited201200:52:08After 20 years, Menachem comes back to the ultra orthodox community he grew up in, to confront the man who raped himhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/pursued-en/1073EnglishHebrew (modern)Menachem RothDocumentaryPsychologyBiographyMenachem Roth, the director of the film, was a victim of sexual assault when he was a young student in a  Hassidic yeshiva. Twenty years later, he decided to contact the abuser again and confront with him.In parallel, he documents the crisis in his split life between Hassidic and secular culture and between parallel romantic relationships.The result is a brave self portrait, in which the camera becomes both a capturing and liberating tool.A film by Menachem Roth and Ron OferRead a review in The Jewish EyeRead a review in Educational Media Reviews Online Read a review in HaaretzIMDb200500:43:20The story of the city of Sderot which has been attacked by thousands of Palestinian Qassam rocketshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/qassam/321EnglishEnglishOfri Segev & Igal HechtIsraeli SocietyWar And ConflictQassam tells the story of the city of Sderot and the people who live there. The city has been attacked by thousands of Palestinian Qassam rockets since 2001. The film was produced in 2004 and 2005. Sadly nothing has changed since. This documentary has been screened around the world including American and Canadian television.A film by Igal HechtFestivals2005 Darom Film Festival Aired nationally in CanadaAired on CTS Television & i-channelAired nationally in the U.S. on Shalom-TV200901:12:45Two creative women, trying to act in a conservative environmenthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/wueen-khantarisha-en/1611EnglishEnglishIsraela Shaer MeodedWomenDocumentary filmsArts and Popular CultureQueen Khantarisha presents two Yemenite writers in their sixties. As a songwriter and lyricist of love, Nomi is also behind some of the hottest hits that resonated in Yemeni clubs and weddings. The work of the other woman, a Jerusalem-born, religious, poet and writer, touches on demons, madness, rape, and rebellion and has garnered her community's denunciation. The film explores the personal costs of straddling the ambitions of creative expression and the restraints of conservative communities requiring subservience. One writes and composes love songs in Yemenite that are being sung in clubs, weddings and other events but only few know that she is writing them. The other writes provocative poetry and prose, she revolt in her past and her parents who oppressed her sexually and mentally. The film exposes the tension between the daily, personal struggle of these women. The struggle between the tradition they live and respect and that of their internal passion.Winner of best film in the Women's film Festival, Israel200700:30:40An immersive journey into the hidden meanings of fairy taleshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/re-enchantment/192EnglishSarah GibsonPsychologyArts and CultureSpiritualAnthropologyRe-enchantment is an immersive journey into the hidden meanings of fairy tales. Presented as an interactive multi-platform documentary project exploring why fairy stories continue to enchant, entertain, fascinate and horrify contemporary adult audiences. The Re-enchantment features a series of 10 x 3-minute animated documentaries (interstitials), which explore the themes at work in fairy tales. Each episode offers a rich visual design and presents a new way of thinking about these familiar and much-loved stories.A film by Sarah Gibson2014How business can be used to create value beyond profithttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/real-value/770EnglishEnglishJess BrokowskiDocumentaryFREEEconomicsFREE MOVIE. Real Value is an award-winning economics documentary that delivers a refreshing meditation on how business can be used to create value beyond profit; connecting motivational stories from social entrepreneurs working in agriculture, apparel, insurance, and biofuel, with the captivating science behind our perception of value from world-renowned professor of psychology and behavioral economics, Dan Ariely. The film serves as inspiration for any business owner, entrepreneur, or customer who is looking to better understand what happens when a business puts people, planet, and profit on equal footing.A film by Jesse Brokowski201200:21:31An ancient Christian ceremony from an artistic point of viewhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/red-cyrene-sons-of-the-same-earth/204EnglishEnglishGiacomo GianelliReligionSpiritualAnthropologyItaly. Dead Christ (Cerignola). Sorrows (Bitonto). Sorrows (Taranto). The Five Mysteries (Molfetta). Desolate (Canosa di Puglia): These processions represent an important part of Easter in Puglia. These processions of Puglia, in some way brought from Spain, have been merged and related with the territory of the host and after some time have been characterized by particular drama.A film by Giacomo Gianelli201700:33:09Liat decides to study music in Juilliard, despite her father's disapprovalhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/refrain-en/1164EnglishEnglishCalanit TayarWomen And GenderMaale FilmsFamilyFictionLiat wants to go to New York with her boyfriend Alon and study music in Juilliard. Her father, Shlomo, disapproves. Nevertheless, she decides to fulfil her dream.On the day of her fight, her father passes away. Will she respect her father's will or pursue her dream?A film by Calanit Tayar  Produced by Maale film schoolParticipated in The Los Angeles Women's Film Festival, Utopia FF (Tel Aviv) and the Jewish film festival in San Diego201600:23:47The personal stories of veterans and citizens who witnessed the surprise attack by the Japanesehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/remember-pearl-harbor/1485EnglishWarHistorySunday, December 7, 1941 was a beautiful morning on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. A few sailors and soldiers were already up and playing a game of football near Pearl Harbor. Others were sleeping in their barracks or aboard ships after a late night of partying in Honolulu. An unlucky few were wiping the sleep from their eyes and reporting for duty aboard their ship anchored off Ford Island in Pearl Harbor. Still others headed for adjacent Hickam Field or up north to Wheeler Field. Ship decks were being washed, planes wiped down and hangars swept. It was just another day in paradise. At 7:55 A.M. all that changed as the first Japanese planes dropped their torpedoes and bombs on a stunned American Pacific fleet. The United States had been violently thrown into World War II. Every sailor, airman, soldier and civilian who was in or near Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 has their own individual story of courage, fear, heroics or tragedy. No two stories from that day of infamy are the same. From sailors on the U.S.S Arizona and West Virginia on Battleship Row to pilots at Hickam and Wheeler Fields, to young children who were waved at by Japanese pilots flying over their homes, the memories remain vivid to this day. These are some of their stories from December 7, 1941. They will always Remember Pearl Harbor.201700:23:47This film explores how renaissance began and how it is effecting all our lives todayhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/renaissance-why-it-matters-to-the-world/1525EnglishHistoryArts and populre CultureThe Renaissance which began in Italy 600 years ago is probably the most important and astonishing event in human history. Until that time throughout the world tyrants and authoritarian religions controlled the lives of most human beings. War was the means of settling disputes. The lives of the majority of people counted for nothing. The Renaissance changed everything and its effect is now felt in every corner of the globe. This film by Malcolm Hossick explores how it began and how it is effecting all our lives today.201300:24:52Echoes of the wild past shake up Hemi's lifehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/revival-en/107EnglishEnglishNadav LazarJewish way of lifeCouplesMaale FilmsMusicThis is the story of Hemi, a religious, 60-year-old, Bible teacher. One day, he discovers that the punk band his wife was part of some 30 years ago is getting back together.Echoes of the wild past, as the reunion approaches, shakes up Hemi's life. His marriage is threatened along with his job and place in the religious community in which he lives.A film by Nadav Lazar   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200000:57:43A documentary about basketball and about empowering oneselfhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/rolling-en/855EnglishEnglishYossi RabachYoram Schaffer and Roni BerkovitchHistoryArts and populre CultureThe story of the Israeli basketball wheelchair national team. A film about basketball and about empowering oneself.The film follows the basketball team on their journey to the European championship and tells the personal stories of the players and how they came to participate in this unique and beautiful sport -- wheelchair basketball.A film by Yossi Rabach200000:23:47Shakespeare's tragic story of young love thwarted by a family feudhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/romeo-and-juliet-a-play-by-william-shakespeare/1456EnglishFamilyArts and populre CultureRelationshipLiteratureShakespearean Drama of the Highest Quality Performed at an authentic recreation of The Globe. With performances by world famous award winning Shakespearean actors this series has recaptured the Elizabethan flavor of Shakespeare's own Globe productions by staging them just as they were seen in the 16th century. Shakespeare's tragic story of young love thwarted by a family feud. Two rival Veronese families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are warned that their constant brawls must end and that death threatens anyone who disturbs the peace. Romeo the Montague heir attends a masquerade dance at the home of the Capulets, Romeo and Juliet, the Capulet's daughter meet and fall immediately in love. They arrange to be married in secret by Friar Laurence the next day. Romeo becomes embroiled in a fierce duel with Tybalt, a Capulet and now a cousin by marriage. He kills Tybalt and is banished from Verona. Juliet's father insists she marry. To help her avoid the impending marriage, Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion that makes her appear dead. Romeo, believing that Juliet is dead, drinks a poison and dies by her side. When she revives and sees Romeo dead, she stabs herself. Only after the double tragedy are the families reconciled.200800:23:47Provides insights, commentary and step-by-step performances of Shakespeare's famous tragedy of unfortunate lovershttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/romeo-and-juliet-the-tragic-lovers/1464EnglishArts and populre CultureRelationshipLiteratureRomeo & Juliet - The Tragic Lovers, offers insight, commentary and staged performances of Shakespeare's famous tragedy of star-crossed lovers. As a companion to the literary interpretation, actual dramatic scenes filmed in Verona, Italy are used as Shakespeare had intended in his original play. Scholar and host, James Bride, introduces factual information about Shakespeare's play by referencing a digitally enhanced version of the Prologue. Gary Taylor, Editor of the Oxford Editions of Shakespeare's Complete Works, offers an engaging dialogue about the historical background of exotic Verona, use of boy actors, staging challenges and 16th Century sacred and secular attitudes that influenced the writing of the play. Additionally, Judith Annozine covers the humor in this play providing insight into the characters and role of the Nurse and Mercutio in advancing the action. ABOUT THE PLAY: Romeo & Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare about two teenage 'star-crossed' lovers whose untimely deaths reunite their feuding families. An emotional powerhouse, this adaptation of the original story for the stage transports the audience to another time and place, 16th Century Verona, using Shakespeare's text and Elizabethan costumes and staging to enhance the drama. The civil strife between the Montague and Capulet houses provide the backdrop for the love story and tragic death of Romeo and Juliet, all of which take place within a condensed period in dramatic time of just four and one half days. Shakespeare's command of dramatic structure is evidenced by his juxtaposition of comedy and tragedy to heighten tension and expansion of minor characters - the Nurse, Friar Laurence, Mercutio and Tybalt, as well as sub-plots to embellish the story. The Tragic Lovers is an epic romance of tragic proportions that contains some of the most compelling and romantic verse ever written set against the erupting violence of feuding families and civil unrest. STUDENT & TEACHER BENEFITS: Dramatic performances are shot in Verona, Italy where the original play takes place using talented Shakespearean actors to portray these important roles. Relevant performance scenes highlight commentary for all Five Acts. The actors articulate words and thoughts clearly making the 16th century language easier to understand. Performance with an additional musical score enhances the varied scene moods. Assigned written exercises will significantly improve as students understand the characters, events, language commentaries and performance. ABOUT THE PRESENTERS: James H. Bride, Host, has produced and directed educational programs for the Apple Learning Series, Films Media Group, Columbia University Press, Thomson Learning and TMW Media Group. The Tragic Pair, The Tragic Lovers and In the Steps of Shakespeare, London & Stratford were produced exclusively for the TMW Media Group. Gary Taylor, Commentator, Florida State University, George Matthew Edgar Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, is co-editor of the Oxford University Press 1986 and 2005, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Judith Annozine, Commentator, is a graduate of Columbia University, former lecturer at Rutgers University and gifted actor. Her interpretations and explanations are important to understanding Shakespeare's humor and general information in the play. Includes Bonus Interview with Gary Taylor: Taylor discusses general topics including the Soliloguy, general text challenges, the authenticity issue and his discovery of a Shakespeare poem in 1986, Shall I Die, Shall I Fly.200700:18:38He beheld the face of death and dancedhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/rosenzweig-born-to-dance-en/135EnglishEnglishKeren HakakMaale FilmsDocumentary filmsBiographySenior CitizensHolocaustAvigdor is a tap dancer. In 1939 his dancing saved his life. Today, he is 88 and lives in a retirement home. When Avigdor dances on the parquet floor of his room, he laughs until he's out of breath, and with the last ounce of his strength, he pushes his tired feet to do a few more steps. For Avigdor, dancing isn't a hobby and isn't therapy. It's the way to survive.A film by Keren HakakFestivalsJewish Film Festival, San Fransisco 2009Documentary Film Festival, Guangdzo China 2009   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School202100:17:05Different perspectives on independencehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/rothchild-16-en/1446EnglishEnglishNoam IsraelDocumentary filmsHistory 74 years after the birth of Israel and the "Nakba" ('disaster') Rothschild 16, where Israel's declaration of independence took place, is still a popular location to visit. The film discusses the formation of memory surrounding a historical site with dual meaning.A film by Noam Israel 201300:25:39The turbulent life of Margot Klausner, one of the founders of the Israeli national theater and a poineer in Israeli cinemahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/saga-of-a-photo-en/928EnglishEnglishMooli LandesmanWomenDocumentary filmsHistoryBiographyArts and populre CultureThis story begins in a photo that was hidden away for some eighty years. For a frozen moment the photo exposed the joy of my grandparents' wedding in 1926 in Berlin. A moment later, everything will turn upside down.This is a story about love, a love story that crosses borders, a love story between a woman and two men, a love story between a woman and the theatre, between a woman and the Land of Israel, about a mother's love for her children and the price of all these loves.Mooli Landesman, directorRead a review of the film in Educational Media Reviews OnlineThe film participated in film festivals in Germany, Israel and Montenegro and won Best Author's Approach Award in TV Fest Bar200100:17:47An unfolding chain of events resulting in the discovery of Private Finkelstien's grave in a British War Ceremony in Israelhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/saving-private-finkelstein/344EnglishEnglishEliezer ShairaMaale FilmsDocumentaryHistoryWho would believe that the bite of a small dog would lead to the unfolding of a chain of events resulting in the discovery of Private Finkelstien's grave in a British War Ceremony in Israel?Who is Finkelstein and why was he, a soldier with an obviously Jewish name, buried under the sign of a cross?  My father is determined to get to the bottom of this mystery.A film by Eliezer ShairaAwardsBest Documentary, Ma'aleh Graduating Ceremony 2001Prize for Outstanding Director, Imperial War Museum, London 2002Thirs Prize for Best Documentary, DocAviv 2002 FestivalsBelgrade Student Film Festival 2001Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival 2001DocAviv DOcumentary Film Festival 2001"The Message of Man" Film Festival St. Petersburg 2002Karlovy-Vary Film Festival Czech Republic 2002   Produced by Maaleh Film School200400:50:12A dramatic year in the life of 20-year-old Arab rapper Samekh Zakhut, a.k.a Sazhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/saz-en/834EnglishEnglishGil KarniMeni EliasMusicEthnicityPoliticsWhen rap and the intifada get caught in a hand that holds a mike, songs that yearn to be heard beyond the ghetto walls of Israel emerge. The rage, the poetry, the girls, the confusion, the temptations of global media, and the idealism: they are all here in this story of a year in the life of 20-year-old Arab-Israeli rapper Samekh Zakhut (a.k.a. SAZ). This fresh, coming-of-age film brings to the screen the complexities of what it means to be young, talented, angry, and above all, idealistic in a place of fragmentation and separation. SAZ believes his art can not only change the world and inspire millions to reclaim their homeland, it may also free him from the ghetto, out of his mindless car mechanic job, and into the lucrative stage of global pop music. You’ll go up and down with SAZ, and you’ll meet his 80-year-old grandfather. Beneath the silence of his grandfather’s garden, after heated minds have spoken, if you listen closely, you’ll hear the unrelenting wheels of history churning and turning us ever so slowly into the uncharted fields of the 21st century.A film by Gil KarniScreened in Full Frame documentary film festival201000:23:47A detective story in the Yiddish theaterhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/schund-mystery-en/1649EnglishEnglishHebrew (modern)Yael LeibovitchYael Leibovitch & Ido ZandDocumentary filmsArts and Popular CultureThis documentary is humoristic (as anything which involves Yiddish should be) and yet -- looks like a detective story. It has all the necessary elements: grid, jealousy, passion, bankruptcy, fraud and above all - mystery.In Israel, until the later 1970's, Yissdih theater was extremely popular, actually more than than the Hebrew speaking one.  Yiddish speakers loved it. Because as the saying goes - "in Yiddish it sounds funnier".Inside this flourishing community, one actor was extremely popular: Michael Katsapp.He was charming and talented, but he was also broke. He adored art and was shocked and appalled when he saw how the low-level theater, the "schund" was popular among the wide public.Schund (pronounced shoond) means trashy, usually a name used for trash literature. In theater, it means melodramatic and overly romantic story, with impossible love, endless logging and lots of dances and singing.Michael saw success in his schund plays, but deep in his heart he despised it and dreamt of doing the more artistic theater.In order to make his dream come true, he started raising donations for a high quality Yiddish theater.He raised a good amount of money, but them, one day, he disappeared with all that money...With Lia Koening, Yaacov Bodo, Lea Szlanger and more200500:51:18A touching documentary about the lives and hopes of "extras" in filmshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/seconds-of-glory-en/974EnglishEnglishMarco CarmelDocumentaryArts and CultureThey dream to be discovered, to be the main cast. They believe they deserve more and inside their heart, they aspire for an Oscar. They are the "extras", the people who appear for a few seconds here and there on the screen in box office hits, commercials and corporate films.The film follows three extras and finds out who they are and what brought them to that career.This time, they are the protagonists.A film by Marco Carmel201600:01:11An inside look into the industry which forms relationship as a formulahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/seduction-ltd-en/836EnglishEnglishAnat VovnoboyScienceAnthropologyA documentary film about the Seduction community - an industry of workshops, books, and websites that teaches men how to succeed in picking up women. The industry takes the idea of self-improvement one step further, using ambition and competitive spirit to jump-start romantic success. As the men try to prove their masculinity, the woman they chase are treated as objects -- points in The Game, to be sought and collected.A film by Anat VovnoboyIMDb Anat Vovnoboy is a documentary filmmaker, journalist and video artist. She graduated with honors from the School of Visual Arts and her thesis film Gateway to Heaven, have won a number of awards in different film festivals. Anat’s video art work, Lullaby,  was commissioned by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and was later presented in Ackland Art Museum and the Andrea Meislin Gallery, in NYC. Today Anat works at the foreign desk of Channel 10 news in Israel and is pursuing an MA in Film at Tel Aviv University.   200401:00:02The Kafkaesque process of divorce for women in Israel where secular law does not existhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/sentenced-to-marriage-mekudeshet/2EnglishEnglishAnat Yuta ZuriaJewish way of lifeWomenDocumentary filmsThis internationally acclaimed and award-winning documentary exposes the Kafkaesque process of divorce for women in Israel where secular law does not exist, and divorce is dealt with according to the strict interpretation of the orthodox Jewish law. Filmmaker Anat Zuria, director of the award-winning documentary Purity, gained rare access to the rabbinical courts to follow two women caught in the demoralizing legal labyrinth. Though husbands can live with other women and even withhold child support, the wives are forbidden contact with other men. In some cases, these very modern, independent and well-educated women are forced to buy a divorce from their husbands for huge sums. As a result, thousands of Jewish women have lived in limbo indefinitely, both in Israel and in other communities around the world.A film by Anat Zuria“A brave film made with passion and commitment, that cries out against injustice, and which like some of the best documentaries gives a voice to the voiceless.”Jerusalem Film FestivalThe film, a legal drama, was shown at numerous international festivals, including IDFA Amsterdam, Film Independents Los Angeles Film Festival, the INPUT (International Public Television organization) conference in San Francisco and others. The film was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York.Among the international prizes Mekudeshet (“Sentenced to Marriage”) has won are:The Wolgin Award for Best Documentary – Jerusalem Film Festival 2004Honorable Mention – International Documentary Festival Amsterdam – IDFA 2004First Prize – Hot Docs festival in Toronto 2005200700:24:45Dramatic action altering the fabric of the family life foreverhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/separation-en/128EnglishEnglishTsofnat DavidAyala Zamir Glick, Tamar Ben BaruchJewish way of lifeCouplesMaale FilmsFamilyChildren and AdolescentsFictionDuring the Sabbath, 12-year-old Noa discovers that her parents are planning to divorce. In order to try and prevent this, and to protect her younger brother, Noa takes dramatic action which in the end will alter the fabric of their family life forever.A film by Tsofnat DavidFestivals24 Haifa Film Festival 2008"Panda Bear" Festival, Sichuan China 2009Special screening, Israeli Prliament, "International Woman Day" 2010   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200200:26:00Stories from urban Jerusalemhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/seven-stories/118EnglishEnglishAliza Binyamin GlissJewishMaale FilmsIsraeli SocietyAnthropologyFrom an apartment block in the "Nahalat Shiva" neighborhood in Jerusalem, the director brings to the screen the many different stories of the residents, of whom she herself is one. The residents come from all walks of life and represent a vivid cross-section of Israeli society: - a young orthodox bride anticipates her wedding while the elderly lady upstairs ruminates on widowhood; three students work out their differences while a young Russian man fights loneliness; a Filipino woman describes her love for Israel and hopes to extend her resident's permit, but without success. All bring to the film their individual interpretations of love, disappointment and hope.A film by Aliza Binyamin GlissAwards: First Prize, Jewish Film Festival, Girona Spain 2003   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200100:56:12What it’s like to be young, to be having sex, and to be paying the price.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/sex-lice-and-videotape/1010EnglishRelationshipChildren and AdolescentsMedicineSexually Transmitted Infections are on the up, and it is those aged 16 to 24 who are catching them most. 1 in 10 young people has Chlamydia, while half of the world’s HIV positive population is aged under 25.This observational documentary follows a group of young people over a 48-hour period. It takes them from the excitement of the club to the cold reality of the morning after – and a visit to the STI clinic. Both embarrassing and eye-opening, the programme follows them as they face the moment of truth: have they got an STI or not?Sex, Lice and Videotape discovers what it is like to be young, to be having sex, and to be paying the price. It asks the question: Why in an increasingly sexually aware age, when sex is more talked about than ever before, are STIs on the increase among teenagers and twenty somethings? Embedded within the programme is a message about safe sex, information about what STIs are, how they are caught, what the symptoms and treatments are, and how to avoid passing one on.201301:05:53A journalist researches about a young woman who escaped to Israel after her father was kidnapped in Baghdadhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/shadow-in-baghdad/302EnglishEnglishDuki DrorDuki Dror, Yael Shavit, Paul SaadounDocumentary filmsFamilyImmigration & absorptionA young journalist from Baghdad sets out to write about Linda Abdul Aziz, who escaped from Iraq to Israel in the early 70's and about her father, who stayed in Iraq, was kidnapped and disappeared and his fate remained unknown. The physical barrier between Linda, who is in Israel, and the Iraqi journalist, is broken by the Internet and suspicion converts into trust. Slowly they uncover the tragic end of Linda's father, as well as that of a whole Jewish community that thrived in Iraq for over 2000 years.A film by Duki DrorAwards:Nomination for the Fund for Santa Barbara's Social Justice Award for Documentary Film, Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2014 Festivals:Park East Synagogue, USA, December 2014UK Jewish Film Festival, UK 2014Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, USA 2014Iraqi Jewish Association Toronto, Canada 2014AICE Film Festival, Australia 2014Gold Coast Arts Center's- Great Neck Jewish series 2014Palm Beach International Film Festival, USA 2014DeBartolo Jewish Film Festival, USA 2014NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, USA 2014Washington Jewish Film Festival, USA 2014Santa Barbara International Film Festival, USA 2014Haifa International Film Festival, October 2013 Educational Screenings:Duke UniversityNYU LibraryUniversity of North CarolinaHarvard UniversityLibrary Of CongressUniversity of FloridaMichigan State University200801:26:38A chronicle of the life of women imprisoned for complicity in terror attackshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/shahida-brides-of-allah-en/237EnglishHebrew (modern)Natalie Assouline TerebiloWomenDocumentary filmsWarThe film chronicles the lives of women who are serving time in prison for complicity in terrorist attacks in Israel. The intimate portrait, filmed over the course of two years, tries to uncover the motivations behind the actions of these women.This film is structured as a journey into an unknown world. At every turn we receive new information and experience new emotions that make it impossible to remain coherent. We find ourselves liking these women, but we feel discomfort in the fact that we do. We want to pity them, but they are too strong for our pity. We get close to them, and a moment later we are thrown clear, horrified by their actions and their lack of remorse - fascinated at the same time… A portrait of women who believed they have nothing to lose, but the realty had another say.Director: Natalie Assouline TerebiloA partial list of film festivals and awards:Berlinale international  film festival 2008- Fiprasci awardPremios ondas  2008 –barcelona-best documentryInput –warsa 2008DOCSDF, International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City. Audience awardIAWRT AWARDS  2009 for TV documentaries-  CambodiaWarsaw Jewish film festival  2009-Best film200600:23:47The simple yet stunning reproduction of plays from cultures, beautiful costumes, accessible acting despite the language barrierhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/shakespeare-and-the-spanish-connection/1462EnglishArts and populre CultureLiteratureJoin the theater department of the University of California at Berkeley on an in-depth journey to the heart of William Shakespeare's plays. Simple but brilliant reenactments of plays from both cultures, featuring beautiful costumes and accessible acting make both worlds interesting and easy to understand despite the barriers of language. Shakespeare and the Spanish Connection is a must for students, teachers, and Shakespeare scholars of all ages. Experience the plays of traditional Spanish theater firsthand and see how they parallel many of Shakespeare's most famous works. See how these plays were brought to early California with the founding of the missions, and how many of these plays are still performed and remain an integral part of Spanish culture in modern-day America. See the archetypal "stock characters" of traditional Spanish theater manifest themselves in Shakespeare's plays... from the black hat villain (Don John in "Much Ado About Nothing") to the nag (Juliet's Nurse in "Romeo and Juliet") to the foolish braggart (Falstaff in "Henry IV," "Henry V" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor"). Watch scenes from these well-known characters alongside the scenes of Spanish theater from which they derive their roots. (N/P) Despite the obvious influence of Spanish theater and culture over many of Shakespeare's works, not one of his plays is actually set in Spain. "Romeo and Juliet" and "Much Ado About Nothing" are both set in Italy, while Falstaff had his adventures in Britain. But nevertheless, throughout all of Shakespeare's plays, the influence of Spanish theater and culture is evident. ABOUT THE HOST: Hugh Macrae Richmond has served as a professor at UC Berkeley since 1968 and Professor Emeritus since 1994. He is also director of the Shakespeare program there and is the author of numerous scholarly works including Shakespeare's Political Plays, 1967, and Shakespeare in Performance: "King Henry VIII", 1994.200400:23:47Months of planning, rehearsals, filming and post-production have created one of Shakespeare's greatest plays.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/shakespeares-globe-restored/1461EnglishArts and populre CultureLiteratureCelebrate Shakespeare's work in the original setting and open air acoustics for which he wrote his greatest plays. Witness this historically significant production of Much Ado About Nothing, the first recorded Elizabethan production on the newly rebuilt Globe stage in London. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Restored video documents eighteen months of planning, rehearsal, location work, and post-production by the University of California at Berkeley Shakespeare Program, culminating in the performance of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Visit the fully operational restored Globe Theatre on the Bankside of the river Thames, near its original site and experience how the reconstructed Elizabethan Theatre provides a venue for teaching and studying Shakespeare's plays in the ultimate authentic performance setting.201401:06:58The Life and Poetry of Erez Bittonhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/shattered-rhymes-en/929EnglishEnglishDocumentaryBiographyArts and CultureEthnicitiesA documentary portrait of the renowned Jewish-Moroccan, Israeli poet Erez Bitton. As in Bitton's groundbreaking poetry, Shattered Rhymes tells the collective story of Moroccan Jews in Israel through Bitton's poetry and his life's milestones throughout Israel for the last 65 years. Bitton's personal story includes his life changing tragic event and journey, since the moment he lost his eyesight at the age of 11. His blindness shades a unique light not only on his life, but on Israel's society, culture and politics which he discusses in the film.A film by Sami Shalom Chetritwww.shatteredrhymesfilm.comShattered Rhymes  was presented in several film festivals and events in the US, such as New York Sephardic FF and New York University and MSU Israeli FF. In Israel it was screened in Tor-Hazahav (Golden Age) Festival in Ashdod, Cinema South Film Festival in Sderot and Libi Bamizrah (My Heart is in the East) Festival in Tel-Aviv. The film was also broadcast on Israeli Channel 8, the documentary cable TV channel.201600:23:24A young war veteran fights his battle with PTSD by living in a carhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/shell-en/703EnglishEnglishHagai AdorianMaale FilmsWar And ConflictPsychologyAriel, a young veteran combat medic, is unable to the dispel terrible images of war that keep replaying themselves in his head. He drives aimlessly around the countryside, eating and sleeping in his banged up car. A film that pays tribute to the subtlety and damage of PTSD without a single shot being fired. A film by Hagai Adorian GabayParticipated in:DocAviv Documentary Film Festival 2016: Short Film Competition  Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200800:56:21The story of four refugees from Darfur who have found sanctuary in the Jewish state of Israelhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/shield-of-solomon/208EnglishEnglishIgal HechtHuman RightsHistoryImmigrationEthnicitiesThousands of men, women and children from Southern Sudan and the region of Darfur have been killed in what's described as the first genocide of the 21stCentury. The story of four refugees from Darfur who has found sanctuary in the most unlikely place, the Jewish state of Israel.A film by Igal Hecht200900:30:07A religious woman tries to take matters into her own handshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/shira-en/123EnglishEnglishMiryam AdlerJewish way of lifeCouplesWomenMaale FilmsFamilyFictionShira, a mother of five children, lives in a religious community. Her husband's expectation is that she will continue to bring children into the world. Shira begins to collapse under the stress of her responsibilities. She tries to take matters into her own hands.A film by Miryam AdlerFestivals Wolgin competition, Jerusalem Film Festival 2009Woman & Religion Festival, "Mavoy Satoom" organization 2010Special Screening, Israeli Parliament "International Woman Day" 2010Jewish Film Festival, Toronto Canada 2011Women Film Festival Rehovot Israel 2012   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200100:23:08In the light of the political events of 2000, a couple with a child, find themselves evicted from their settlement farm https://movie-discovery.com/movie/shira-and-fatti-dont-live-here-anymore/279EnglishEnglishSoshi GreenfeldMaale FilmsDocumentaryWar And Conflict In the light of the political events of 2000, Shira and Yehoshafat (Fatti), together with their one-year-old son, find themselves evicted from their settlement farm. This non-political film attempts to create an emotional connection between the film's characters and its viewers, even as the settler community becomes more and more marginalized and demonized by the foreign and Israeli media.A film by Soshi Greenfeld   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201800:20:21Children's TV star Shmelky wants to change his lifehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/shmelky-en/1389EnglishEnglishRaanan RosenbaumMaale FilmsArts and populre CultureFictionChildren's TV star Shmelky the Jewish Puppet comes to the realization that he wants to make a change and become a serious, respected theater actor. After his dream doesn't go as planned he embarks on a journey of self discovery.  Screenings and PrizesGirona film festival, Spain Moscow Jewish film festivalLos Angeles Jewish film festivalFestival du Cinema Israelién de Montreal, CanadaMerit Award in the Jewish competition, Best Shorts CompetitionAudience Award in Maale graduationFirst Prize, students competition, Nashville Jewish film festivalBest Shorts Film Festival La Jolla, USA 201800:20:12A Yeshiva dropout will do anything to return. And then everything gets messed uphttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/shmil-en/1385EnglishEnglishBaruch RosensteinJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsFictionShmil, a student in a prestigious Yeshiva, is kicked out. He's determined to get another chance, to win back his social status. His attempts bring him to a meeting with the Rabbi at his home at night time. And then things go out of control.Prizes and main film festivalsJewish Film Festival, Tel Aviv (Brodet Center)Jewish Film Festival, Boca Raton, Florida, USAInternational Carmet film festivalJewish Motifs International Film Festival, Warsaw, PolandGirona Film Festival, SpainJewish Film Festival, Hong KongVeritas Prize at the students Film Festival, Philadelphia, USAJewish Film Festival, Seattle, USA 200500:52:33A funny portrait about the majority of the population - short peoplehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/short-en/175EnglishEnglishIdan AltermanArik Bernstein, Alma FilmsBiographyChildren and AdolescentsAnthropologyIdentityA film by Idan Alterman, which shows the problem or the leverage of most of the population - the Shorts (Lowest). Funny and moving film.A film by Idan Alterman2015A discussion following the "Serial" podcasthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/should-journalism-be-objective/731EnglishArts and CulturePoliticsFREE VIDEO.  Journalists have been tasked with objective reporting for decades, but is that a realistic goal? Can any journalist be TRUELY objective? Is "Serial" an example of failed objectivism, or is it a reminder of its impossibility?Presented by Mike Ragnetta, PBS Idea Channel200700:57:51This touching film interweaves seven parallel stories of children on their way to and from school into one journeyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/sidewalk/198EnglishEnglishDuki DrorIsraeli SocietyChildren and AdolescentsAnthropologySeven parallel stories of children, making their way to school and back home, interweave into a cinematic poem about childhood. Alone, between the parent and the teacher, danger and curiosity, dependence and independence, children experience life unprotected and unrestricted. In the gap between the familiar and the unpredictable, between the trivial and the traumatic, the film traps pure and irreversible bits of time. The playful, the stressful, the cruel, the magical and the thrilling moments of this daily journey, become a lucid voyage of an illuminating and injuring experience.A film by Duki Dror201800:44:25Singapore dives deep into the latest innovationshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/singapore-city-of-the-future/1123EnglishScienceWith visionary thinkers and innovators as the guides, City of the Future: Singapore dives deep into the latest innovations and technology being created and implemented to blaze a path into the future.The Smart Nation program was initiated by Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in late 2014 with the goal of solving problems within the country by harnessing Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the innovative ideas of Singapore’s people.Singapore is a smart city known for its autonomous systems on security and maintenance, its forthcoming driver-less taxis, and soon enough, it’s going to get even more complex.200300:28:34In the midst of death and tragedy, a performance that wins the hearts of allhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/singing-through-our-tears-en/119EnglishEnglishAurital Maizel BittonWomen And GenderMaale FilmsWar And ConflictArts and CultureA group of English-speaking women in villages near Jerusalem decide to take a novel approach to the numerous Palestinian terror attacks in the area: they will cope by writing a biblical musical - the story of Esther. In the midst of death and tragedy, the women, write, compose and choreograph a stage musical which eventually was performed all over Israel.A film by Aurital Maizel Bitton   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201200:29:51Innocence and love between two sistershttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/sister-of-mine/131EnglishEnglishOshrat MeirovitchWomenMaale FilmsFamilyFictionSpecial NeedsLike all young ultra-orthodox girls, Ruchi, the favorite daughter of a Jerusalem family, dreams of becoming a wife and mother. But the fact that Ruchi's younger sister has Down's syndrome makes Ruchi an undesirable match, and in the end, Ruchi's parents take desperate and ethically questionable measures to marry her off. With all family members complicit in forcing Ruchi to buy into a miserable marriage, only her special needs sister sustains her with innocence and love.A film by Oshrat Meirovitch    Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200900:56:26Can you imagine finding love & success when you are 34 years old and are only 130 cm tall?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/small-world/196EnglishAdi FrustCouplesSpecial NeedsAnthropologyWe are all dreaming to succeed, find love, and realize our dreams. On the way we suffer from fear, rejection, and doubts. Can you imagine all of these emotions when you are 34 years old and are only 130 cm tall? Aaron Silberberg, our protagonist, is an intelligent, talented bachelor and a dwarf. He invites us to join him on his personal journey to the International Little People's convention in San Francisco, where we gained exclusive filming rights. It is an intriguing, exciting, and frightening journey but most of all it is a voyage deep inside Aaron's heart as he attempts to find true love.A film by Adi Frust201800:28:26One of the world’s biggest solar power plantshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/solar-energy-in-morocco/1152EnglishLife and EnvironmentSolar energy in Morocco is transforming the renewable energy scene. One of the world’s biggest solar power plants is situated in Morocco.Jaouad Ait Rebah changes a lot of people’s lives in the High Atlas Mountains - by bringing light where there is darkness. The Moroccan entrepreneur installs solar panels in the area’s picturesque, but remote villages. For the high-altitude residents, the difference is like that of night and day.The beautiful scenery is mostly lost on those living there. They live in extreme poverty. Many young people have left due to the lack of jobs. Now, however, the solar panels are modernizing the villages.  Jaouad Ait Rebah and his work symbolize the energy revolution that has been sweeping across Morocco in recent years. The country is leading the change to renewables in Africa, as is evident in Jaouad’s native Ouarzazate.The city is home to one of the biggest solar power plants in the world, comprising almost one million parabolic mirrors. King Mohammed VI. is investing $9 billion in the facility, which provides electricity to two million people. By 2040, Morocco aims to generate almost half of its power from renewable energy sources.Our team accompanied Jaouad Ait Rebah as he went about his challenging and laborious work, marveling at the scale of the enormous solar facilities, and asks to what degree King Mohammed VI.’s ambitious projects are actually trickling down to the little people.201000:56:45Following unique people across America who've retreated from societyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/somewhere-to-disappear/250EnglishFrenchLaure Flammarion & Arnaud UyttenhoveSophie Mas, Mas FilmsArts and CultureFor his project, «Broken Manual» the photographer Alec Soth traveled across America looking for people who've retreated from society. Some live in mountain cabins, some in caves, others in the desert. It is through Alec's eyes that we try to understand why those modern hermits want to escape. The photographer shows us a new fantasy, the dream to disappear.A film by Laure Flammarion & Arnaud Uyttenhove201800:33:09A woman leaves her life and religion to follow her beloved spousehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/sonia-tsofia-en/1396EnglishHebrew (modern)Ariel ParienteAriel ParienteJewish way of lifeCouplesMaale FilmsDocumentary filmsImmigration & absorptionSonia meets the love of her life, Ariel, who was stationed in a mission in her country. They begin a confidential relationship, until Sonia completes her conversion to Judaism.Life in Israel, Ariel's country, is new and strange to her: work, friends, language.Sonia embarks on a quest to find a place she can call home.A film by Ariel Pariente Produced by Maale201300:51:18The deadly journey of escape of Eritrean refugees in Sinai deserthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/sound-of-torture-en/827EnglishEnglishKeren ShayoOsnat Trabelsi, Galit CahlonHuman RightsImmigrationWhen Europe closed its borders in 2006, thousands of Eritrean refugees fled their military dictator-ruled country towards Israel. The only way out is across the Sinai desert in Egypt. There, many are kidnapped by Bedouin smugglers and taken to camps where they are tortured and raped as they are forced to call their relatives begging for ransom for their release.We follow Meron Estefanos, an Eritrean journalist-activist living in Sweden. On her radio program she talks to hostages in the camps while recording their pleas for help as well as their family members raising money for their release.We also follow two refugees that made it into Israel in their attempt to save their loved ones lives. Read a review of the film in our blogA film by Keren ShayoScreened in numerous film festivals, among them are IDFA, Goteborg International Film Festival, One World and many others. For a full list, enter the film's websiteWon Best Short Documentary film prize at Ofir (The Israeli Film Academy) Award, Best Debut Film DocAviv Film Festival Special Mention Award at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, Geneva and the Audience Award in Movies that Matter Film FestivalSupported and broadcast on NFCT, yes doco, ARTE-ZDF, SRF, SVT, VRT, Radio Canada.Keren Shayo // directorKeren is an independent filmmaker residing in Tel Aviv, Israel. She graduated from the cinema department in 'Tel – Hai' College in 2004 and since then has been focusing on social and political issues in her films.  She co-founded the nonprofit organization – 'ActiveVision' that aimed to bring the vision of migrants and refugees as a subject in the documentary act. Her short films 'House Arrest' and 'Ya shdad' have been screened at festivals around the world and won awards. She was the director of photography of various documentaries, among them the award-winning films 'Maria en Tierra de Nadie' and 'Refugees'. In 2013 her film 'Sound of Torture' was premiered at IDFA and was sold to 8 TV channels worldwide.Osnat Trabelsi // producerGraduate of the Department of Film and Television at the Tel Aviv University. Chairwomen of the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers' Forum. Owner of Trabelsi Productions, which produces political and social films. Among the films she produced are international award winning films such as Arna's Children (director: Juliano Mer Khamis), Strawberry Fields, Ashkenaz, Pizza in Auschwitz, Jaffa, the orange's clockwork and the original ground breaking webdoc “Gaza-Sderot”. She initiated and directed the first International Human Rights Film Festival in Tel Aviv and Ramallah. In 2007 she was chosen by The Marker as one of 40 women who make change in society.Meron EstefanosMeron Estefanos is an Eritrean journalist and human rights activist. She is a presenter for Radio Erena. Ms Estefanos is the co-founder of the International Commission on Eritrean Refugees, an advocacy organization for the rights of Eritrean refugees, victims of trafficking, and victims of torture. Ms Estefanos has been key to identify families through out the world who have been blackmailed to pay ransom for kidnapped family members, and was key witness in the first blackmail trial in Europe. She is a co-author of the books '' Human Trafficking in the Sinai: Refugees between Life and Death'' and ''Human Trafficking Cycle: Sinai and Beyond''.200701:10:26A story about crossing cultures and affirming identity in a globalized worldhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/soy-andina/225EnglishEnglishMitchell TeplitskyArts and CultureAnthropologyTwo New Yorkers journey to Peru to reconnect with roots and dance. Folk dancer Nelida Silva returns to her Andean birthplace to host the patron saint festival. Modern dancer Cynthia Paniagua embarks on her own journey after meeting Neli - determined to "quench a burning desire to know the real Peru, and unearth the mystery of the dances." Soy Andina is a story about crossing cultures and affirming identity in a globalized world.A film by Mitchell Teplitsky200500:18:36A difficult choice between a musical career and national servicehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/stand-at-ease-en/122EnglishEnglishBen KatzMaale FilmsChildren and AdolescentsFictionIdentityEighteen-year-old Noah is religious and torn between two worlds: his militaristic group of friends in the settlement where he lives and the rock band in which he is a drummer. When he gets a call-up for tryouts for an elite commando unit in the IDF, Noah must make a choice between his musical career and his national service. This wacky, edgy comedy has a bitter-sweet subtext about the effect of compulsory IDF service on the lives of young Israelis.A film by Ben KatzFestivalsIsraeli Jewish Film Festival Pittsburgh USA 2006International Student Film Festival Saint Petersburgh Russia 2006Jewish Motive, International Film Festival, Warsaw Poland 2006International Student Film Festival Tel Aviv 2006Jewish Film Festival, Chicago 2006   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201100:29:53Dudi decides to live his dream and become an actorhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/stand-up-en/130EnglishEnglishAsi TsobelJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsArts and populre CultureFictionDudi is learning in a yeshiva to become a school teacher. His wife doesn't know that he really spends most of his time trying to be a stand-up comic. He goes to a comedy club when he should be at the yeshiva. His friends from the yeshiva find out, and Dudi loses his best friend. He is now afraid that his wife will also find out. Dudi needs to decide whether tell his wife or keep his dream.A film by Asi Tsobel   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201800:56:03The story of Israel's Dignitary Protection Unithttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/srerile-zome-en/1321EnglishEnglishGil MezumanPoliticsFor the first time, the commanders and agents of the tell story of Israel's Dignitary Protection Unit in this documentary film.From the early days and the threats to assassinate prime minister Ben Gurion snd other prime ministers, until the murder of prime minister Itzhak Rabin and the introspection the organization had the go through, in what seems to be its biggest trauma and failure.A film by Gil Mezuman200600:51:18The story of a strawberry who yearned for independencehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/strawberry-fields-en/924EnglishEnglishAyelet HellerDocumentary filmsWarPoliticsEconomyThis is the story of a strawberry who yearned for independence. Imagine a story about hope, frustration, occupation, globalization and politics, and at its center a small red fruit-a strawberry. The mother plants arrive from Israel to Gaza, where in the fields of Beit Lahiya the plants are cultivated to produce the brilliant red fruit destined for marketing in Europe.In this fateful year in Gaza, filmmaker Ayelet Heller and her Gazan crew documented the agricultural cycle of the fruit and the political events that directly affected the lives of the farmers who cultivate it..Out of these green fields, red fruit, sky and ea, could emerge a pastoral image of farmers earning their livelihood by working the land. But in Gaza it is not the laws of nature that rule but those of the Occupation.A film by Ayelet HellerOsnat Trabelsi // producerGraduate of the Department of Film and Television at the Tel Aviv University. Chairwomen of the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers' Forum. Owner of Trabelsi Productions, which produces political and social films. Among the films she produced are international award winning films such as Arna's Children (director: Juliano Mer Khamis), Strawberry Fields, Ashkenaz, Pizza in Auschwitz, Jaffa, the orange's clockwork and the original ground breaking webdoc “Gaza-Sderot”. She initiated and directed the first International Human Rights Film Festival in Tel Aviv and Ramallah. In 2007 she was chosen by The Marker as one of 40 women who make change in society.200500:10:28Observation is a matter of heart and not just of the eyeshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/sugarless/79EnglishEnglishChaim ElbaumMaale FilmsFamilyChildren and AdolescentsSpecial NeedsOn the eve of his bar mitzva while busying himself with last-minute errands and fitting in a final practice of his Torah reading, Daniel goes out on his bike and is attacked by another child. When Daniel returns home it seems as if his father, who is blind, cannot perceive his distress, but this is not so. Daniel learns from his father that observation is a matter of the heart and not just of the eyes.2005, Drama, 10 minutes Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201800:33:09A young woman decides to stand up to her parents in lawhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/sushi-meatballs-and-everything-en/1180EnglishEnglishLiel GurRelationshipMaale FilmsFictionThe road to meatballs is paved with good intentions: A young woman decides to stand up to her loving parents in law, once and for all.A film by Liel Gur  Produced by Maale film schoolFestivals and PrizesLongShort Film Festival Tel Aviv, ISRAEL, Second PrizeNear Nazareth Film Festival, ISRAELAtlanta Jewish Film Festival, USA201200:27:51A revealing portrait of a father searching for religious identityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/sweet-sins-en/121EnglishEnglishRenana HermanJewishMaale FilmsDocumentaryFamilyReligionA revealing portrait of the head of an orthodox family, still searching for religious identity and of his daughter, the director who is rediscovering him.A film by Renana HermanFestivals:DOKUFEST Film Festival Bosnia November 2012   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201000:54:49A quest for finding true love in the estranged world of Internet datinghttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/taliya-date-com/252EnglishEnglishTaliya FinkelRelationshipWomen And GenderIdentityA creative documentary that tells the story of Taliya Finkel's quest for finding love in the estranged world of Internet dating. This quest is based on a mouse, a keyboard and Photoshop tricks.After every date, Taliya writes a "documentary poem". She easily transforms what most singles consider as distress into poetry and cinema.In this comic-tragic voyage with the guidance of her flat-mate Oded (extravagantly & cynically gay), she wanders from hope to humiliation and a few shabby Tel Aviv apartments. In addition, she drinks 45 cups of coffee (mostly soy latte) and gets involved with a few men and a single Husky puppy. The movie portrays the bizarre, as well as normal, aspects of internet dating that are well known to every single who plays the romantic internet game in order to snatch the ultimate prize: True Love.The movie may, at first glance, seem like a romantic comedy. Still, it also contains a feminist message and uses an unusual combination of methods such as documentation, poetry and acting; as may be expected of a film that describes the modern, yet chaotic world of Internet dating.A film by Taliya FinkelPrizes & Awards2011- Golden Remi Award winner Documentary section in World film International film festival, Houston, TX, USA.2011-. feature documentary Audience Award winner in Love Unlimited International Film Festival: Portland, OR, USA.FestivalsSan Francisco DocFest, USA. official section, 2011.Singapore International Film Festival, official selection, 2011.200900:40:10Reconnecting with your father at adulthoodhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/talking-with-my-father-en/298EnglishEnglishNoa NatanMaale FilmsDocumentaryFamilyWhen I was little and people used to ask me what my Dad did, I told them he was a vegetable retailer.  The neighborhood kids would laugh at me, knowing that he ran a simple market stall in the local souk.As an adult, I have taken my camera with me out to the market in my search of my lost connection with my father.  I have discovered a world which is both extraordinary and authentic.A film by Noa NatanAwardsBest Film on Israel & Zionism, Ma'aleh Graduation AwardsFestivalsInternational  Film Festival, Haifa Israel 2009Defrost Festival Jerusalem Israel 2010Israeli - Jewish Film Festival, Ramat-Hasharon Israel 2010   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School202200:23:47https://movie-discovery.com/movie/taste-of-france-alexandre-mazzia-am/1570EnglishEnglishArts and Popular CultureLife and EnvironmentLifestyleSeries IntroMeet 10 of France's most distinguished Michelin-starred chefs in this dynamic cooking series. Learn about how they work, live and stay curious in their pursuits of a sustainable approach to cooking perfection along with a learn-how-to-cook-like-a-master chef segment to prepare these haute-cuisine recipes in your own home. On our journey through France we'll explore the creative minds and environments of these entrepreneurial masterchefs. As we dive into their world we'll learn about their struggles to build their own culinary identities and how their early years, legacy, life values and devotion for quality have moulded them into becoming modern culinary legends. With passion for taste and perfection, they introduce us to the sustainable thinking that permeates their craft, from carefully chosen producers, sustainable food handling, to the palate of the guest.DescriptionIn this program we'll meet two Michelin star chef, Alexandre Mazzia at his highly acclaimed restaurant in Marseilles. His daily challenge is not lack of inspiration, but to filter the massive influx of ideas that runs through his head. He's meticulous and precise in his food crafting, which covers both an excellent taste and a mesmerizing beauty on the plate. We'll also get the exclusive opportunity to meet with a world-famous vegetable producer that supplies most of the three-star Michelin chefs all over France.202200:23:47Explore the secrets to chef's delicious foodhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/taste-of-france-moulin-de-lere/1569EnglishEnglishArts and Popular CultureLife and EnvironmentLifestyleSeries IntroMeet 10 of France's most distinguished Michelin-starred chefs in this dynamic cooking series. Learn about how they work, live and stay curious in their pursuits of a sustainable approach to cooking perfection along with a learn-how-to-cook-like-a-master chef segment to prepare these haute-cuisine recipes in your own home. On our journey through France we'll explore the creative minds and environments of these entrepreneurial masterchefs. As we dive into their world we'll learn about their struggles to build their own culinary identities and how their early years, legacy, life values and devotion for quality have moulded them into becoming modern culinary legends. With passion for taste and perfection, they introduce us to the sustainable thinking that permeates their craft, from carefully chosen producers, sustainable food handling, to the palate of the guest.DescriptionAt the feet of the Jura mountains, "close to nature" chef Fredric Molina built up an ideal family restaurant and earned his first Michelin star. Let's explore the secrets to his delicious food, his way of building a power team and how he finds harmony through the meditative picking of plants.202200:24:50Former MasterChef jury member shares her secrets and the principles behind refined French cuisinehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/taste-of-france-amandine-chaignot-pouliche/1576EnglishEnglishArts and Popular CultureLife and EnvironmentLifestyleSeries IntroMeet 10 of France's most distinguished Michelin-starred chefs in this dynamic cooking series. Learn about how they work, live and stay curious in their pursuits of a sustainable approach to cooking perfection along with a learn-how-to-cook-like-a-master chef segment to prepare these haute-cuisine recipes in your own home. On our journey through France we'll explore the creative minds and environments of these entrepreneurial masterchefs. As we dive into their world we'll learn about their struggles to build their own culinary identities and how their early years, legacy, life values and devotion for quality have moulded them into becoming modern culinary legends. With passion for taste and perfection, they introduce us to the sustainable thinking that permeates their craft, from carefully chosen producers, sustainable food handling, to the palate of the guest.DescriptionAfter working alongside some of the greatest names in the culinary world, former MasterChef jury member Amandine Chaignot opened her first restaurant called Pouliche. In this program she demonstrates the extent of her talent, serving refined vegetarian-focused cuisine. We'll get to know her secrets for stimulating flavors and the principles behind her raw, refined French cuisine.202200:24:50Antonin shares how his kitchen manages to match sustainability with elegance and excellence.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/taste-of-france-antonin-bonnet-quinsou/1577EnglishEnglishArts and Popular CultureLife and EnvironmentLifestyleSeries IntroMeet 10 of France's most distinguished Michelin-starred chefs in this dynamic cooking series. Learn about how they work, live and stay curious in their pursuits of a sustainable approach to cooking perfection along with a learn-how-to-cook-like-a-master chef segment to prepare these haute-cuisine recipes in your own home. On our journey through France we'll explore the creative minds and environments of these entrepreneurial masterchefs. As we dive into their world we'll learn about their struggles to build their own culinary identities and how their early years, legacy, life values and devotion for quality have moulded them into becoming modern culinary legends. With passion for taste and perfection, they introduce us to the sustainable thinking that permeates their craft, from carefully chosen producers, sustainable food handling, to the palate of the guest.DescriptionAntonin Bonnets cuisine has been described as "hypnotic", marrying many senses. His restaurant has an elegant down-to-earth and humble atmosphere, reflecting the essence of the life journey of the chef himself. In this program we'll get an insight of the importance of quality, as Antonin sources his ingredients with diligence. Making careful use of all elements, his kitchen manages to match sustainability with elegance and excellence.202200:24:50https://movie-discovery.com/movie/taste-of-france-clement-bouvier-ursus/1578EnglishEnglishArts and Popular CultureLife and EnvironmentLifestyleSeries IntroMeet 10 of France's most distinguished Michelin-starred chefs in this dynamic cooking series. Learn about how they work, live and stay curious in their pursuits of a sustainable approach to cooking perfection along with a learn-how-to-cook-like-a-master chef segment to prepare these haute-cuisine recipes in your own home. On our journey through France we'll explore the creative minds and environments of these entrepreneurial masterchefs. As we dive into their world we'll learn about their struggles to build their own culinary identities and how their early years, legacy, life values and devotion for quality have moulded them into becoming modern culinary legends. With passion for taste and perfection, they introduce us to the sustainable thinking that permeates their craft, from carefully chosen producers, sustainable food handling, to the palate of the guest.DescriptionUrsus started as a family business, a restaurant built by Clement Bouviers father, at 3000 meters of altitude in the Savoy region. In his quest to amaze his guests, Clement aims to always surprise, always exceed their expectations. By bringing the very forest to the table, both in his cuisine and in architecture, his visitors are in for a special and unique treat. We'll get to meet one of Clements favourite producers, that with a heart for quality and sustainable cultivation.202200:24:50https://movie-discovery.com/movie/taste-of-france-daniel-barratier-lauberge-sur-les-bois/1574EnglishEnglishArts and Popular CultureLife and EnvironmentLifestyleSeries IntroMeet 10 of France's most distinguished Michelin-starred chefs in this dynamic cooking series. Learn about how they work, live and stay curious in their pursuits of a sustainable approach to cooking perfection along with a learn-how-to-cook-like-a-master chef segment to prepare these haute-cuisine recipes in your own home. On our journey through France we'll explore the creative minds and environments of these entrepreneurial masterchefs. As we dive into their world we'll learn about their struggles to build their own culinary identities and how their early years, legacy, life values and devotion for quality have moulded them into becoming modern culinary legends. With passion for taste and perfection, they introduce us to the sustainable thinking that permeates their craft, from carefully chosen producers, sustainable food handling, to the palate of the guest.DescriptionDaniel Barratier has worked with some of the best chefs traveling the world, now he's back in his hometown, Annecy, the "Venice of the French Alps" were he invested in a true fine dining restaurant. We'll explore his life philosophy and also meet with his favorite pig farmer that started a trend that will change France forever.202200:24:50An informal yet elegant restaurant awarded with a Michelin star in Parishttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/taste-of-france-eric-trochon-solstice/1572EnglishEnglishArts and Popular CultureLife and EnvironmentLifestyleSeries IntroMeet 10 of France's most distinguished Michelin-starred chefs in this dynamic cooking series. Learn about how they work, live and stay curious in their pursuits of a sustainable approach to cooking perfection along with a learn-how-to-cook-like-a-master chef segment to prepare these haute-cuisine recipes in your own home. On our journey through France we'll explore the creative minds and environments of these entrepreneurial masterchefs. As we dive into their world we'll learn about their struggles to build their own culinary identities and how their early years, legacy, life values and devotion for quality have moulded them into becoming modern culinary legends. With passion for taste and perfection, they introduce us to the sustainable thinking that permeates their craft, from carefully chosen producers, sustainable food handling, to the palate of the guest.DescriptionToday we'll visit the wonderful city of Paris and the restaurant of Eric Trochon - Solstice - an informal yet elegant restaurant awarded with a Michelin star. We'll get to know about Trochons' passion for ingredients, such as radishes, their pairing with excellent natural wines and the importance of sauce in the French cuisine. We'll also learn how to make one of his tasty and impeccably crafted dishes!202200:24:50https://movie-discovery.com/movie/taste-of-france-matthieu-dupuis-baumal-chateau-de-la-gaude/1575EnglishEnglishArts and Popular CultureLife and EnvironmentLifestyleSeries IntroMeet 10 of France's most distinguished Michelin-starred chefs in this dynamic cooking series. Learn about how they work, live and stay curious in their pursuits of a sustainable approach to cooking perfection along with a learn-how-to-cook-like-a-master chef segment to prepare these haute-cuisine recipes in your own home. On our journey through France we'll explore the creative minds and environments of these entrepreneurial masterchefs. As we dive into their world we'll learn about their struggles to build their own culinary identities and how their early years, legacy, life values and devotion for quality have moulded them into becoming modern culinary legends. With passion for taste and perfection, they introduce us to the sustainable thinking that permeates their craft, from carefully chosen producers, sustainable food handling, to the palate of the guest.DescriptionWith the rich heritage and breath of history of Aix en Provence in southern France, Chateau de la Gaude is not only a beautiful castle, it also houses a haute cuisine restaurant which has a Michelin star. In this program we'll explore the story of the skilled Chef Matthieu Dupuis Baumal, his style of cooking and how he took his team to greatness in only a couple of months! We'll also visit one of the best olive oil producers in the world.202200:24:50The star-chef Pascal Barbot shares his secrets on how to cook like a starhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/taste-of-france-pascal-barbot-astrance/1573EnglishEnglishArts and Popular CultureLife and EnvironmentLifestyleSeries IntroMeet 10 of France's most distinguished Michelin-starred chefs in this dynamic cooking series. Learn about how they work, live and stay curious in their pursuits of a sustainable approach to cooking perfection along with a learn-how-to-cook-like-a-master chef segment to prepare these haute-cuisine recipes in your own home. On our journey through France we'll explore the creative minds and environments of these entrepreneurial masterchefs. As we dive into their world we'll learn about their struggles to build their own culinary identities and how their early years, legacy, life values and devotion for quality have moulded them into becoming modern culinary legends. With passion for taste and perfection, they introduce us to the sustainable thinking that permeates their craft, from carefully chosen producers, sustainable food handling, to the palate of the guest.DescriptionIn today's program we will visit the star-chef Pascal Barbot, who became independent at age twenty-seven. Reservations at his 2 star Michelin-awarded restaurant Astrance are booked months ahead. Pascal is truly passionate about cooking and puts emphasis on perfection in everything that he and his team does. He loves surprises, and also offers his customers this delight, with his surprise menu. In this program we'll get to know Barbot and the values that permeate his work and relation with his producers and learn his secrets on how to cook like a star!202200:24:50A unique story of father and son of how they have elevated home cooking to exceptional levelshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/taste-of-france-rene-maxime-meilleur-la-bouitte/1571EnglishEnglishArts and Popular CultureLife and EnvironmentLifestyleSeries IntroMeet 10 of France's most distinguished Michelin-starred chefs in this dynamic cooking series. Learn about how they work, live and stay curious in their pursuits of a sustainable approach to cooking perfection along with a learn-how-to-cook-like-a-master chef segment to prepare these haute-cuisine recipes in your own home. On our journey through France we'll explore the creative minds and environments of these entrepreneurial masterchefs. As we dive into their world we'll learn about their struggles to build their own culinary identities and how their early years, legacy, life values and devotion for quality have moulded them into becoming modern culinary legends. With passion for taste and perfection, they introduce us to the sustainable thinking that permeates their craft, from carefully chosen producers, sustainable food handling, to the palate of the guest.DescriptionIn this program we'll get acquainted with the unique story of self-taught Rene and Maxime Meilleur, father and son running a three-star Michelin restaurant in Saint-Martin-de-Belleville in the Savoy region. As they put incredible focus in their craft, they have elevated home cooking to exceptional levels, while at the same time building their luxury hotel all by themselves. We'll also meet the only producer in the region that still holds up the old tradition of producing sheep's cheese.201900:42:26The truth behind Dr. Mengele's expreriments in Auschwitzhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/victim-of-the-nazis-en/1307EnglishDocumentary filmsBiographyHolocaustEva Mozes Kor was experimented on as one of Dr. Josef Mengele's twins at Auschwitz. After decades of anguish, she decided to forgive the Nazis - and came to be one of the best-known and most-active Holocaust survivors in the world. At the age of 10, Eva Mozes Kor became a victim of Josef Mengele, the doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp notorious for his barbaric experiments on twins. Eva and her twin sister Miriam lost both of their parents and two older sisters in the Holocaust; only Eva and Miriam survived. Eva later married an American and moved to the United States to begin a new life. In 1984, she founded the organization CANDLES together with the help of her sister Miriam. The name is an acronym for Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors. Working with the organization, Eva was able to locate 122 other survivors of Dr. Mengele’s horrific experiments around the world. In 1995, Eva also founded CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center to educate the public about eugenics, the Holocaust, and the power of forgiveness. That same year she publicly forgave the Nazis for what had been done to her - a decision that brought her international attention. Eva circled the globe delivering her message of peace, kindness, healing and self-empowerment for future generations. Her lessons went far beyond her own experience, addressing current global atrocities and two of the biggest problems facing today's youth: bullying and discrimination. Eva Mozes Kor died on 4 July 2019 in Krakow.202301:02:29https://movie-discovery.com/movie/tethys-sea-film-en/1696EnglishEnglishShemer GaonArts and Popular CultureSenior CitizensFictionAn optimistic story about the last day of Absalom's lifeDuration: 30 minutes // NarrativeParticipated and screened in Haifa International Film Festival, Tel Aviv international Festival, Spiritual Film Festival Tel Aviv, The Five Lakes Film Festival in Germany and in the Ophir film competition of the Israel Film Academy.200100:56:51A look at the new Israeli sub-culture, that has developed in India.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/thank-god-for-india/230EnglishEnglishNisan Katz, Nisansun Productions & Zusman ProductionsArts and CultureSpiritualAnthropologyThank God for India is a documentary that deals with the generation gap between young Israeli travelers in India and the conformities of society in Israel today. The film also takes a look at the new Israeli sub-culture, that has developed in India, as a result of this gap. We see that for the young Israelis, India is a kind of journey into adulthood, a place, where for the first time in their lives, no one is there to tell them what to do - no parents, no army officers, no social constrictions or conformities. The film was broadcast on channel 8 in Israel and was screen at some major film festivals around the world.A film by Nisan Katz198800:51:26An engaging account of women and work against the backdrop of world warhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/thanks-girls-and-goodbye/188EnglishSue Maslin & Sue HardistyWomen And GenderWar And ConflictHistoryThanks Girls and Goodbye is a documentary about a group of women who worked on farms during the Second World War in Australia – ‘the land girls’. Officially established by the government in 1942, the Australian Women’s Land Army was set up to help fill the shortage of manpower on farms. Its story is symbolic of a far greater number of women who participated in the vital war activity of food production at home. Through interviews with former Land Army members, combined with home movies, photographs, original Land Army songs and archival newsreels, Thanks Girls and Goodbye presents an engaging account of women and work against the backdrop of world war.A film by Sue Maslin, Sue Hardisty201100:23:47A portrait and biography of the woman who became Israel's most beloved poethttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-5-houses-of-lea-goldberg/714EnglishEnglishYair QedarDocumentary filmsHistoryBiographyArts and populre CultureLea Goldberg was a prolific poet, author, playwright, translator and researcher of literature. Her writings, regarded as classics of Israeli literature, remain extremely popular among Hebrew speakers where she is considered the feminine equivalent of Bialik.Although Lea Goldberg died years ago she is still an enigmatic figure – a powerful woman who lived with her mother and never married, a woman who reinvented herself from the ashes of the First World War and became Israel's most beloved poet.The film is a cinematic fantasy in five acts using animation, effects, still photos, original music and interviews which, taken together, celebrates the story of L.Goldberg.A film by Yair QedarRead a review of the film in our blog 201800:42:06Why remained untouched by Modern Civilization?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-akha-tribe-in-laos-between-tradition-and-modernity/1147EnglishAnthropologyThe Akha in Laos live almost untouched by modern civilization. They still adhere to their archaic customs. But they are on the verge of upheaval. Cut off from the rest of the world, without a paved road, the village of Peryensang Mai has remained almost untouched by modern civilization to this day. Its inhabitants are from the Akha tribe, and they seem to live in a different time: Their language isn’t even written down; their everyday life is defined by the laws and rituals handed down from their ancestors such as animal sacrifices to ward off bad luck. This adherence to customs that are often quite brutal endows the Akha’s lives with stability and direction. The women of the village have a particularly busy life. Because the Akha are largely self-sufficient, their tasks range from agriculture to housework and making traditional clothing. This documentary tells the story of the Laovan family. Mother Yeapheun has always had to work hard to support her large family. Her husband is the village elder and ensures the Akha observe the strict laws and commandments. The couple and their eldest children cannot imagine life beyond the mountaintop, so the family is pinning its hopes on youngest son Kienglom, who has been going to school in a nearby town since he was eleven years old. Like many mountain tribes in Laos, the Akha are facing a difficult choice: between a move down into the valley, which would mean they would have electricity, running water and better medical care - but also abandoning their ancient rituals. The film takes the viewer on an emotional journey of discovery to a tribe torn between tradition and modernity and facing the need to reinvent itself in today's world.2017https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-bayesian-trap/779EnglishEnglishcouplesSpecial NeedsAnthropologyBayes' theorem or rule (there are many different versions of the same concept) uses both in mathematics and statistics, and to solve real-world problems. Bayesian inference has been used to crack the Enigma Code and to filter spam email. Bayes has also been used to locate the wreckage from plane crashes deep beneath the sea.Watch the video to understand this theorem.200300:25:39The history of the social struggle that marked a deep social change in Israeli society is told first handhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/black-panthers-israel-en/957EnglishEnglishSami Shalom Chetrit and Eli HamoSami Shalom Chetrit and Eli HamoDocumentary filmsIsraeli SocietyHistoryEthnicityIn the beginning of 1972, a group of youngsters, sons of Jewish immigrants (Olim) from Arab countries, formed the Israeli Black Panthers movement, protesting against discrimination against Mizrahi (Jews originated from Arab countries) by the establishment.It all began in Musrara, a Mizrahi slum in the eastern part of Jerusalem and quickly spread all over Israel.In those years, Israel was divided: the economy and power was dominated by Ashkenazi (European Jews), while Mizrahi Jews were exploited as cheap laborers. 80% of welfare supported families were Mizrahim. About 20% of Mizrahim lived 4 people per room. 55% of Mizrahi youth dropped out of school. The rest studies in low vocational programs. The Black Panthers were the groundbreaking catalyst for the Mizrahi struggle in Israel. Israel before March 1971 was a different Israel than that of after March 1971. The Panthers contributed to unmasking the economic and social relations in Israel and revealed it to be a sheer battlefield. Israel, before the appearance of the Black Panthers, refused to admit its policy of inequality and denied its oppressive treatment of Mizrahim.The film tells the story of the Israeli black Panthers, based on the leaders' memories, which is connected to today's reality.A film by Sami Shalom Chetrit and Eli HamoClick to download: The personal memories of the era and a historical review of the Black Panthers in Israel, by Sami Shalom Chetrit, PhD200501:03:51A biography of the legendary artist Kadishmanhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-blue-lamb-en/314EnglishEnglishDanni Dotan and Dalia MevorachDocumentaryBiographyArts and CultureManashe Kadishman, sculptor, painter and Israel Prize laureate, is a natural film hero, primitive man in the modern world, a giant in little white pants, half a child and half an old man, half a genius and half a clown. Kadishman doesn't hide from the camera. He appears in the film in all his complexity. On the one hand, a successful artist whose works are presented and sold around the world; on the other hand, the appearance of one of Tel Aviv's homeless.5 A.M. We enter Kadishman's bedroom; he is surrounded by teddy bears and toys. At 5:30 he arrives to the swimming pool. In the dressing room, he and his friends, old and naked, embrace in unabashed joy. At seven he is in his studio, painting another sheep's head, part of a flock of thousands he has painted in his lifetime. Kadishman has devoted his life and art to changing Israeli reality, with a system of powerful Israeli symbols: the ram looking down over the dead Isaac; a mother lifting her son heavenward; sheep heads; ravens pecking; symbols that become familiar art icons around the world. But Kadishman is frustrated by his inability to change the reality in which parents sacrifice their children every day in endless war. Night, Kadishman, defeated, orphaned, longing for the world of his childhood, reads aloud a parting letter to his children but knows that he must get up it the morning to paint another A film by Danni Dotan and Dalia Mevorach201000:41:21Senior kibbutz members fighting to retain their last symbol alivehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-breakfast-parliament-en/132EnglishEnglishGolan RiseMaale FilmsIsraeli SocietySenior CitizensAnthropologyEvery morning, veteran members of Kibbutz Ein Tzurim get together in the empty dining room. Here their "parliament" reverently discusses the inner politics, gossip, and agricultural developments of the kibbutz, as well as the upcoming 60th-anniversary celebrations. When the kibbutz votes to stop serving breakfast, the parliament members embark upon a struggle that will bring the kibbutz's entire existence into question.A film by Golan Rise   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201800:42:26A Game of No Ruleshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-deceptive-promise-of-free-trade/1127EnglishEconomyGlobal trade is a hot topic at every G7 summit in Canada. Is free trade truly free - and fair? What roles do US, economic powerhouse China, and the EU play in global trade? When it comes to global trade, it would seem that trickery, threats and deception are the order of the day - yet all this takes place largely beyond the reach of the public eye. Donald Trump has made "America First” his agenda and rallying cry. Along with aiming sharp criticism at global export champion Germany, Trump has also introduced punitive tariffs and warned of further measures. Will this fresh wave of protectionism lead to economic isolationism and threaten global free trade? And what about those for whom free trade’s promise of prosperity increasingly rings hollow? Around the world, many people have come to regard themselves as the losers of globalisation. If the true winners of free trade and globalisation are not ordinary citizens, has the time come to revise the liberal orthodoxy of free trade? This documentary visits Germany, Switzerland, the United States and Cameroon to explore these issues by way of some everyday examples, including the trade in onions, floor tiles, and bicycles.201700:22:16The video which predicted it all very accuratelyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-decline-of-kmart-and-sears/1070EnglishEconomyCase StudiesOn May 2017, Company Man described very accurately the situation of Kmart and its parent company, Sears and predicted - "Kmart is soon going to be gone. Sears as well."Photo credit200000:13:50Benzi found an original way to commemorate his deceased brotherhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-diary/80EnglishEnglishTami AvnonMaale FilmsWarFamilyBenzi is a 13-year-old boy who is due to reading segments of his dead brother's diary at the memorial ceremony. But Benzi loses the diary beforehand and is at a loss as to what to do.A film by Tami AvnonFestivals:Israeli Film Festival, New York Los Angeles USA 2000Children Film Festival, Tel Aviv 2006    Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201100:32:55A clash between a soldier's loyalty to the state and the loyalty to his family https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-divide-en/99EnglishEnglishTzvi Yehuda HerlingMaale FilmsWarFamilyKobi has joined the army despite his parents' opposition. He returns to his home in the hills of Samaria for Shabbat just before he is to be given the award for Outstanding Soldier at an upcoming IDF ceremony. There he discovers that the army has given the order for his family's eviction.A film by Tzvi Yehuda HerlingScreenings & Prizes:Jewish Eye Film Festival, Ashkelom October 2012Louisville KT Jewish Film Festival February 2013San Diego Jewish Film Festival 2013   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201500:40:10A comics book illustrator enters one of his creationshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-dream-factory-en/752EnglishEnglishMichal Pinsky-Gross and Jonathan GrossMaale FilmsFictionBen is a technical illustrator who spends his days drawing nuts and bolts and his nights painting colors and dreams. His ambition to publish his comic book meets with frustration and failure until his little daughter, Maya, takes him on a magical journey to the sinister interiors of his own creation —the Dream Factory.  Produced by Maaleh Film School201900:48:20The story of the renewed settlement of Judea and Samariahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/driving-spirit-en/1318EnglishEnglishMenora HazaniMenora HazaniIsraeli SocietyHistoryBiographyPoliticsDirector Menora Hazani documents the Settlement Revolution in Judea and Samaria, led by her father Beni Katzover and his friends. The film reveals how the spiritual connection to the Holy Land motivated a group of young men and women with no financial means or political standing to make history. The film begins in the days after the Six Day War, during which Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, Sinai, and the Golan Heights were liberated and stood empty of Jewish settlers. Under pressure from the countries of the world, the Israeli government began to promote a territorial compromise. While this was going on, students from Yeshivat Merkaz Harav in Jerusalem decided to act, and to immortalize the connection between the Jewish nation and the areas of Judea and Samaria.In April 1968, they secretly held a mass Passover Seder in an Arab hotel in Hebron, informing the government the following day of their decision to remain and live in the city. The 1929 massacre of the Hebron Jews by local Arabs, still fresh in Israeli memories, prevented the Israeli government from evacuating them. The government decided to allow them to remain in Hebron as a yeshiva, moving them to the military administrative building in the city. After three years of public struggle for the right to settle the city, to establish sources of employment and to pray at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, they won their first victory, and the Israeli government built them the town of Kiryat Arba, next to Hebron.After celebrating this achievement, Beni Katzover and his good friend Rabbi Menachem Felix could not bear the fact that Samaria was still empty of Jews. In 1972, they established a group of families who decided to settle Samaria, called the Elon Moreh group. The group made seven attempts to start living in the area, but was forcibly evacuated each time by the Israeli government. The eighth time, the settlers were joined by thousands of supporters, including Knesset members, rabbis, and spiritual leaders. The government could no longer stop them and the first Jewish settlement in Samaria was established inside an army base. Dozens more Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria followed, as well as three cities, in which hundreds of thousands of Jews live. The vision of the leaders of the movement became reality: the connection between the Jewish nation and the biblical Land of Israel became an established fact.The film puts politics aside and proves why spirit and faith are a force that accomplishes the impossible.199900:50:00The Dybbuk possessed their soulshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/dybbuk-opera-yiddish-en/1607EnglishEnglishRachel MichaeliDocumentary filmsArts and Popular CultureA Jewish tale of exorcism, love and passion between the dead and the living.The opera The Dybbuk by the American composer Solomon Epstein is based on S. An-Sky’s 1920 Yiddish play, which has become a legend in Jewish culture.The opera was world premiered in 1999, Israel, and is apparently the world’s first original yiddish opera.  The Dybbuk is a tale, which takes place in a small Jewish town where the souls of both the living and the dead transcend their respective realms. Leah falls in love with Hanan, a Kabbalah student. Soon after Hanan is overcome by powers beyond his control and dies, a male voice emanates from Leah’s body. The spirit of Hanan has taken control of her in the form of a demon, a dybbuk, and refuses to leave. An especially riveting moment occurs when Leah, the soprano, is singing, but Hanan's tenor voice is heard, and an elusive vocal exchange begins. Music: This is a contemporary opera which reflects the music of the period when the play was written. In addition to Debussy’s and Bartok’s spirit, The Dybbuk of Solomon Epstein leaves space for the Jewish musical tradition. The production is an abridged version in three acts. Italian book by Aloma Bardi, "Esotismi musicali del Dibbuk" (2014) dedicated a chapter to the opera, and appears on the front cover. University of Naples.A film by Rachel MichaeliOne of the most original and interesting projects this yearOpera Magazine, UKA remarkable operatic performanceForward, New YorkClick here for more details and a full list of credits 201600:51:18Searching for the unknown Holocaust in the former Soviet Unionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-eastern-front-en/1040EnglishEnglishBoris MaftsirZvi Shefy & Boris MaftsirDocumentaryHistoryHolocaustA documentary project by Boris MaftsirThe city of Pushkin near Leningrad-St. Petersburg. The main square of Catherine Palace at the foreground. The Palace is the most popular tourist destination for those coming to St. Petersburg and the square is the site where in 1941 Nazis executed a group of men, women and children. They are buried somewhere under the concrete square.This is the opening of “Holocaust. The Eastern Front”, the second film in a documentary project by filmmaker Boris Maftsir about the Holocaust in the regions of the former Soviet Union.Background: the German occupation on the Eastern Front was the widest and deepest and extended well into what is Russian Federation territory.In the film there are five stories from different parts of Russian Federation territories where painful memories from “the unknown Holocaust” are revealed.Chapter One: the action in which hundreds of Jews from Pushkin (near Leningrad) where shot to death. This killing took place in the park of the famous Catherine Palace.Chapter Two: the murder of Jews in the village of Lyubavichi in November 1941. This is the place from where the original Chabad Rabbis are from.Chapter Three: the action in August 1942 in Rostov-on- Don, the largest city in south Russia.Chapter Four: the fate of the Jews who escaped or were  evacuated to the far away Caucasus s region in 1941, and in the summer of 1942 were trapped and killed under German occupation.Chapter Five: the story of the miraculous rescue of the Mountain Jews of Caucasus in the city of Nalchik, the capitol of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic in the Northern Caucus. The project includes eight films. Click here to explore the full collection. http://www.holocaustinussr.com/** if you have an active subscription to the platform, you can skip the following message** The film is available for free, for personal viewing, which includes a watermark. To watch it, simply click on the Play button above.If you'd like to watch the film in higher quality and without a watermark, please click on Rent and choose the rental period.For institutional use and public screening, please click on Download and choose the appropriate license.199800:56:26The triumphant, exhilarating and then the tragic course of the design and construction of the Sydney Opera Househttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-edge-of-the-possible/190EnglishDaryl DelloraHistoryArts and CultureJorn Utzon was awarded the first prize in an international architecture competition to design an Opera House for Sydney. In 1957 he flew to Australia to begin work on the construction of the greatest building Australia has ever seen and, indeed, one of the finest achievements of modern architecture. Utzon was forced from the project in 1966 and has never returned to Australia. What defeated him in the end was politics. This film charts the dramatic course of the creation of a masterpiece and includes a rare interview with Jorn Utzon as he reflects on his role in the compelling story of the conception and construction of the Sydney Opera House.Jorn Utzon, the Danish architect of the Sydney Opera House lives in Hellebaek, Denmark in a modest house he built himself. Utzon is now 90 years old. In a distinguished career, he has received every major architectural award, the Alvar Aalto Medal, the Order of Australia, the Sonning Prize, the French Legion of Honour and, recently, the Keys to the City of Sydney. But in February 1966 it was a very different story. In that month his nine years’ work on the Opera House came to an end. He wrote to the then NSW Minister for Public Works, Davis Hughes, the historic words “you have forced me to leave the job”. Utzon fled Australia with his young family in April 1966, he has never returned.This beautifully photographed film charts the triumphant, exhilarating and then the tragic course of the design and construction of the Sydney Opera House. For the first time in 25 years, Jorn Utzon appears in a lengthy interview speaking in English. Four of his colleagues, from the international and close-knit team of architects he assembled to work on the project, also appear for the first time on film.All Australians and much of the rest of the world are familiar with the unique profile that is Jorn Utzon’s shell concept for the Sydney Opera House but very few have ever entered the building. Those that do venture inside often speak of an ambivalence towards the interior architecture. Utzon, of course, left the project before he could begin work on the interiors — they were finished by his successors the Australian team of Peter Hall, David Littlemore, and Lionel Todd.One claim was that Utzon had no plans for his interiors, yet in 1973 the State Library of NSW took delivery of thousands of drawings which reveal his concepts. Many models too were built which show Utzon’s unique ideas for his interiors. Almost all these models mysteriously disappeared after Utzon left Australia but for the first time, with archival footage that has never before been seen on Australian television, this film shows details of these intricate and breathtaking models.Finally, Utzon himself argues that the building should be respected now for what it is and not what it could have been had things gone differently. He implores the Australian Government to inscribe the Sydney Opera House on the World Heritage Listing in order to give it lasting international protection.This is a gentle portrait of a man and his most enduring work. The tragedy is there, a testament to what could have been, but so too is the antidote — the subtle and glorious vista on Bennelong Point.A film by Daryl Dellora201001:00:00Do we exist beyond the electric interactions of brain tissues?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-electric-mind/6EnglishEnglishNadav HarelDocumentary filmsPsychologyScienceDo we exist beyond the electric interactions of brain tissues? Our love, body movement, memory, depression, or religious beliefs - all are expressed electrically in our brain. This film follows people suffering from brain disorders, who are undergoing groundbreaking medical treatments involving the electric stimulation of the brain. The prospect of manipulating our minds with machines has for decades been considered science fiction, but the accelerating advancements of brain sciences today are materializing into a genuine cure for the millions of people suffering from brain disorders. 'The Electric Mind' raises significant questions about man machines interfacing, ethics and technology, our body, and the mystery of our mind.A film by Nadav HarelFestivals and AwardsDocAviv Film Festival, Israel 2010 WINNER Best Research Award - Docaviv Film FestivalPariscience 2010 Official selection, Margaret Mead Film Festival 2010 New York Museum of Natural History Official selection , Randezvous With Madness Film Festival 2010 Official selection, Sao Paolo International Film Festival 2010 Special Screenings Harvard Medical School Mass. General HospitalFaculty screening School of Visual Arts, Master program201700:50:00Eight teenagers follow the track taken by thousands at the end of the Holocausthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-escape-en/1603EnglishEnglishMeni EliasDocumentary filmsChildren and AdolescentsHolocaustThe film "The Escape" is first and foremost a road film. A journey that follows a unique, original and almost impossible story.Eight outspoken teenagers of varying backgrounds and identities from all over Israel embark on a personal and fascinating journey following "The Escape Movement". The term "The Escape" was given to the 4 year journey of Jews from Europe to Israel, right after the end of World War II. Some of them tried to go back to their homes, only to find out the anti-Semitism is not over. They wandered all around Europe, some of them stayed in Displaced Persons camps (DP camps) while others were in constant move towards the land of Israel, guided and helped by aid organizations.The film is a historical film, but not in the regular sense of the term. Throughout the 14 day and 14 night journey, the teenagers visit places rich with memories, meet with witnesses and survivors and hear their personal stories, and experience coincidental and non-coincidental meetings with the local population. Each meeting and personal story sheds light on one aspect of the multifaceted movement of "The Escape".A film by Meni Elias 201900:33:09With power (of AI) should come responsibilityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/ai-ethics/1308EnglishDocumentary filmsPhilosophyScience and TechnologyMankind is still decades away, if ever, from self-learning machines that are as intelligent as humans. But already today, chatbots, robots, digital assistants and other artificially intelligent entities exist that can emulate certain human abilities. Scientists and AI experts agree that we are in a race against time: we need to establish ethical guidelines before technology catches up with us.  to be more precise, the fear is not form the machines: they will not take over. The fear is from the humans controlling them.While AI Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber predicts artificial intelligence will be able to control robotic factories in space, the Swedish-American physicist Max Tegmark warns against a totalitarian AI surveillance state, and the philosopher Thomas Metzinger predicts a deadly AI arms race. But Metzinger also believes that Europe in particular can play a pioneering role on the threshold of this new era: creating a binding international code of ethics.201201:27:49Where the personal gets politicalhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-face-of-birth/329EnglishGavin BanksAleksandar Vasiljevic, Kate Gorman and Gavin BanksWomenScienceFamilyChildren and AdolescentsThe Face of Birth is a documentary that examines contemporary birthing practices through the personal stories and journeys of women who choose to have their babies at home. Featuring some of the world's top childbirth experts, The Face of Birth gives us the 'big picture' of the importance of respecting and protecting a woman's right to choose how, where and with whom she gives birth.A film by Gavin Banks & Kate Gorman201701:12:40Amidst daily terror attacks, a group of Palestinians and Jewish from northern Judaea try to form a dialog and coexistencehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-field-en/1024EnglishEnglishMordechai VardiMordechai VardiJewish way of lifeDocumentary filmsWarGush Etzion Junction, between Jerusalem and Hevron: Ali Abu Awwad dedicates his family’s field as a Palestinian Center for Non-violence. Despite his life experience, four years in an Israeli prison, his mother’s five year sentence, a brother killed by an Israeli soldier- Ali creates “Roots” with local Israeli settlers, advancing responsibility and grassroots work to enable political reconciliation. The director, a resident of Gush Etzion, accompanies the initiative for 2.5 years and documents the changes transpiring on both sides. In 2015, Etzion Junction suffers a wave of violence and the activists face a reality where their own relatives are being attacked.A film by Mordechai Vardi200500:22:49Embarrassment casts a shadow on the wedding nighthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-first-night-en/134EnglishEnglishChen Galon KleinJewish way of lifeCouplesMaale FilmsFiction20-year-old Emunah, an orthodox bride, accompanies her new husband to their new home on the night of the wedding. Emunah awaits the wedding night with hesitations and expectations. To her disappointment, the first night unfolds completely differently to how she has imagined. Lack of experience, embarrassment and the gap between imagination and reality, all cast their shadow on the wedding night and on the following days. Can this young marriage survive its first week?A film by Chen Galon KleinFirst Prize, Festival of Religion, Trento, Italy 2006   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201500:21:05Erupting, unexpected violence is raising questions about fear and ethicshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-french-revolution/83EnglishEnglishHai AfikCouplesMaale FilmsPsychologyFictionA noisy disturbance from some youths on the street erupts into Noni and Tamar’s home, shattering their evening. The violence that ensues raises questions for both of them about fear and ethics, testing the relationship between them to the limit.A film by Hai AfikShortlisted for the 44th Student Academy Awards,  2017   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School 201700:05:04The pioneering woman who coined the term Radioactivityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-genius-of-marie-curie/786EnglishWomenScienceBiographyPhysicsMarie Skłodowska Curie’s revolutionary research laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemistry, blazing trails in oncology, technology, medicine, and nuclear physics, to name a few. But what did she actually do? Shohini Ghose expounds on some of Marie Skłodowska Curie’s most revolutionary discoveries. 201600:16:45A young woman wishes to fulfil her father's will and become a gravedigger, like him https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-gravediggers-daughter/721EnglishEnglishShira GabayJewishWomen And GenderMaale FilmsFamilyFictionA young woman wishes to fulfil her father's will and become a gravedigger, like him. Will she succeed in overcoming traditional conventions and the objection expressed by her family and surroundings? Produced by Maaleh Film SchoolThe film participated in more than 20 film festivals around the world201601:47:33Searching for the unknown Holocaust in the former Soviet Unionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-guardians-of-remembrance-en/1039EnglishEnglishBoris MaftsirZvi Shefy & Boris MaftsirDocumentaryHistoryHolocaustA documentary project by Boris MaftsirIn the “The Guardians  of Remembrance”, the first film of the project, Boris Maftsir offers a comprehensive and accurate picture of the events of the Holocaust in Belarus. The  Guardians  of Remembrance depicted in the film are both Jews and non-Jews, including local individuals striving for commemoration. The film “The Guardians  of Remembrance” was filmed at the actual murder sites and precisely captures the sense of time and place of the tragic events. The project includes eight films. Click here to explore the full collection. http://www.holocaustinussr.com/** if you have an active subscription to the platform, you can skip the following message** The film is available for free, for personal viewing, which includes a watermark. To watch it, simply click on the Play button above.If you'd like to watch the film in higher quality and without a watermark, please click on Rent and choose the rental period.For institutional use and public screening, please click on Download and choose the appropriate license.202101:12:45The international phenomenon and the story of Jaffahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/guide-to-gentrification-en/1652EnglishEnglishKeren Shayo, Lavi VanounouDocumentary filmsFamilyChildren and AdolescentsGentrification is a widespread phenomenon around the world: old and neglected neighborhoods in potentially good locations are discovered by middle and upper class hipsters, people which have a good sense for design and a smart reading of the urban future. Those people start to move in. Being aware of their rights, they demand the municipality to improve the roads, pavements, education and personal safety. The neighborhood starts to look good. More like-minded people are moving in. Real estate entrepreneurs follow and the prices begin to rise...Older tenants cannot afford the increasing rental and leave. Then, the owners receive buying proposals to which they cannot refuse. The neighborhood changes its face and its characteristics.  There are paradoxes in gentrification. One of the is that the authenticity of the place is gone, as the people who created it are had to leave.And there's the aspect if social justice: people who lived in the neighborhood for many years, cannot afford to stay in their houses.Does it have to be that way? - In many cities around the world, municipalities find ways to secure the living of the existing population or at least parts of it.In Jaffa, a suburb of Tel Aviv by the beach, it wasn't solved, according to this film. To make things even more complicated, the issue has also become a matter of nationality.2018To ban or not to ban? This is the questionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/gun-control-debate/860EnglishDocumentary filmsHuman RightsPoliticsPLAYLISTAmerica is divided between those who support gun control and those who oppose it. Arguments are strong, although decisions are not necessarily taken according to the rationality of those arguments. Watch this playlist, in which we present different perspectives of this heated debate. 201001:01:17A clear alternative voice from the margins of society carrying a deeply humanistic and universal messagehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-hangman/227EnglishEnglishNetalie BraunNetalie Braun & Avigail SperberJewishHuman RightsIsraeli SocietyHistoryHolocaustIn a small desolate abattoir, on the outskirts of Holon's "Samaritans' Market", an elderly Yemenite of seventy-three, slaughters chickens and sheep for a living. His name is Shalom Nagar. The abattoir - an amalgamation of rusty chicken coops and corrugated iron shacks attracts an odd but loyal crowd from the area, who between slaughters gather around to discuss life. Like the local barber, Shalom the slaughterer is happy to lend an ear, so people confide in him and even ask for his blessings. Wise Shalom, is a good listener who knows how to react, comfort, amuse, reconcile but mostly capture his audience with thrilling stories of his past: his random and traumatic summon to be Eichmann's hangman, his becoming newly religious, his difficult childhood in Yemen, his witnessing of Goldstein's massacre in the Tomb of the Patriarchs and his later disillusionment and departure from the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron. Shalom keeps his current hardships to himself. His son Noam was recently diagnosed with an advanced cancerous growth in the brain. Shalom, who escorts him devoutly to the hospital for chemotherapy, is desperately looking for a cure and is concerned about his survival. His characteristic faith and humor are being put to the test again, perhaps the hardest one yet. The film focuses on the life of Shalom Nagar, Eichmann's hangman turned slaughterer, a street philosopher who works miracles and believes in charity. His life encapsulates the story of Israel from the perspective of the other- the marginalized Sephardic prison warden, forced to do the dirty work of hanging the archenemy and carry a national burden that dramatically shaped his life. His dedicated heart-wrenching care for his dying son and his colorful bloody job in the abattoir that brings up stories of his past create together a fascinating and complex portrait. His voice, yet unheard, from the edge of Israel's historical events, unfolds them from a different perspective: A clear alternative voice from the margins of society carrying a deeply humanistic and universal message.A film by Netalie Braun201600:23:47The dancers hints at the deep meaning of Buddhism, its luminescence and boundless love.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-heritage-of-chinese-culture-and-dance-classical-dance-dunhuang/1466EnglishMing Chen, Sandra Parks, Jack McNeillMing Chen, Sandra Parks, Stella XuArts and populre CultureMusicDunhuang Dance is a form of Chinese dance that draws sources from body movements depicted in artifacts found in Dunhuang Mogao Caves. Located in Gansu Province of China, along the Silk Route, at the crossroads of trade as well as religious, cultural and intellectual influences, the seven hundred and thirty five caves are famous for their statues and fresco paintings, spanning 1,000 year of Buddhist art. Thousand Hand Guan Yin, a representative of Dunhuang Dance featured in this program is a contemporary creation conceived by the renowned Chinese choreographer, ZHANG Jigang, and produced by the China Disabled Performing Art Troupe. In this dance, a group of hearing-impaired dancers effectively utilize their body language to communicate the magic of "thousand hands" and hints at the deep meaning of Buddhism, its luminescence and boundless love.201100:45:30An insider's exploration into the lives of three prominent settler leaders and their battleshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-hilltops/213EnglishEnglishIgal HechtIsraeli SocietyWar And ConflictOn the hilltop overlooking the Palestinian city of Nablus, sixty-six-year-old Settler Daniella Wise looks at an advancing force of Israeli soldiers. They have come to destroy her illegal outpost. She rallies her own little army of followers as the Israeli Army nears. A few moments later a violent battle begins. This is a daily reality of life on the hilltops of the West Bank. The Hilltops is an insider's exploration into the lives of three prominent settler leaders and their battles to hold on to what they perceive as their biblical heartland. The reality of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict unravels in front of the lens as the viewer gets a rare, no-holds-barred look into the lives of the West Bank settlements and those who stare down the future of the Middle East peace Process from up on their Hilltops.A film by Igal HechtFestivalsIsraeli Documentary Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary, 2012Detroit Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2012Santa Barbara International Film Festival, USA, 20122011 Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, USA, 2011HotDocs, Toronto Canada, 2011201600:51:12An epic series about archaeologyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/between-independence-and-destruction-8/1567EnglishEnglishTuvi ArbelDocumentary filmsHistoryFrom the 63 BCE to 73 ADThis episode brings together the dramatic events that took place from the conquest of the land by Rome in 63 BCE - until the fall of Masada in 73 AD. In those 110 years, Herod built magnificent buildings, a rebellion took place, the reasons for the destruction were sown and a new religion emerged, beginning with the activities of a young Jewish prophet from the Galilee.These are the most fateful years for Judaism, described in the episode dealing with Herod, the rebellion, the destruction and the appearance of Jesus.Using senior archaeologists and historians, animations, aerial photographs and archival materials, the film reveals lesser-known aspects and insights and reaches hidden archaeological sites that have not yet been seen.What characterizes Herod's art of construction, water works and leisure sites and what social, cultural and economic change did he bring to Israel under the influence of Rome? What did the three pilgrimages look like in Jerusalem? What really happened in the temple and how was a social gap created that gave rise to fraternal wars and messiahs like Jesus?Did the artist of the engraving of the Temple Menorah that was discovered in a synagogue in Migdal actually see the Temple Menorah? Are new Jewish findings from the first century in the excavations in Nazareth from the house of Jesus? What is the probability that the Church of the Sepulcher is indeed the burial place of the Christian Messiah and what were the burial methods during the Second Temple period?What were the real reasons for the Roman revolt? Was it because of the hatred of brothers that Jerusalem was destroyed? What is the chilling evidence discovered in the excavations that complete the descriptions of the horror of the siege, the famine and the bloodshed? Was there even mass suicide in the cities that the Romans besieged or is the story a figment of Joseph's imagination and a literary genre?The episode was shot in Jerusalem, Herodion, Gamla, Capernaum, Magdala, Yodfat, Caesarea, Nazareth and Bethlehem.It reveals new archaeological findings, such as the engraving of the temple lamp on a stone table from a synagogue in Magdala on the Sea of ​​Galilee, Jewish remains two hundred meters from the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth, Jewish stone vessels from the homes of the wealthy in Jerusalem and Jewish burial mounds in the recesses of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In Herod's palace in the Herodion wall paintings and un-excavated caves are revealed and endless discoveries from the sunken port of Caesarea.201800:51:12An epic series about archaeologyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-holy-land-from-monarchy-to-exile/1542EnglishEnglishHagar KotDocumentary filmsHistoryFrom the 10th century to 586 BCEIn the 10th century BC, the Kingdom of Judah begins its growth around the city of Jerusalem, which spreads to the back of the mountain and the lowlands in the shadow of its older sister in the north: the Kingdom of Israel.The process of monumental construction of palaces in Jerusalem and in Lachish, the second largest city, testifies to the growth and expansion of the kingdom whose southern border reaches the city of Beer Sheva and donkey caravans carrying copper from the mines in Timna and Pinan that were controlled by the Edom kingdom.New discoveries about altars destroyed during the reign of King Hezekiah in the 8th century serve as stirring evidence of the beginning of a religious reform, which culminated a few decades later, in the days of King Josiah, "the absolute righteous".During the 7th century, the Assyrian conquest did not stop the kingdom of Judah, and it became a vassal of the king of Assyria. The Assyrian army destroys all the cities in its path and turns towards Jerusalem. But surprisingly, the city of Jerusalem remains alone and is not occupied. The Assyrians leave her unscathed. The Bible tells how God's angel struck the Assyrian army, and this event is the beginning of the process of the city's sanctification and the beginning of the construction of the myth about the spirit of God protecting it. The historical facts present a different version.After the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel in 720 BC, refugees arrive to the Kingdom of Judah, which tries to appropriate areas of the obliterated kingdom. The "Assyrian Peace" period begins, in which the vassal kingdom of Judah prospers.During these years, the book "Deuteronomy" was discovered or written, which brought about social and religious reform and marked the beginning of God's work, as we know it today, and the beginning of socio-moral religious legislation.Ancient tombs are discovered and in them, the first "Priestly Blessing" in ancient Hebrew writing.International upheavals lower the Assyrian Empire and raise the Babylonian Empire. The Babylonian army advances towards Judah, and King Zedekiah of Judah makes an alliance with Egypt, "a broken reed support".In 586 BC, the Babylonians conquer the city of Jerusalem, burn and destroy it. The first temple is burned, and no trace of it remains. The last king of the House of David, the nobles and the intellectual elite are sent into exile, and the poor are left to guard the ruined cities until the return of the people from Babylonian exile.201800:51:12An epic series about archaeologyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-holy-land-regional-superpower/1541EnglishEnglishHagar KotDocumentary filmsHistoryFrom 1000 to 720 BCEBetween the biblical axis and the extra-biblical archaeological and written findings, dramatic events took place from the 10th century BC to 720 BC that influenced and shaped the political and religious discourse to this day: The Kingdom of Israel as a regional power.About three thousand years ago, in the 10th century BC, the northern region of the Land of Israel was ruled by the Northern Kingdom of Israel, which stretched at its peak from the northern Galilee along the coastal plain and across the eastern Jordan, its southern border was a weapon of the Kingdom of Judah and its branches reached as far as the Sinai desert.The Bible says that the kingdom of Israel arose after King David's kingdom was torn in two during the time of his grandson Rehoboam, the son of King Solomon.Historical evidence describes the powerful royal houses that ruled the kingdom: the dynasty of King Omri, who establishes his rule in a military coup and establishes a new capital - the city of Samaria - where the splendor and greatness of a rich and cosmopolitan kingdom appeared.During the time of Ahab, the son of Omri, the kingdom grows into a rich regional power, with the largest army in the Levant, which manages a system of alliances and conquests with its neighbors in the north: Tyre, Sidon and Aram Damascus, in the east: Moab and Ammon and in the south: the Kingdom of Judah.The relations of the Kingdom of Israel with the Kingdom of Judah - the southern and smaller sister - are relations of patronage and political-state influence, sometimes through diplomacy and sometimes through force.When the main threat to the Levant region appears in the form of the Assyrian Empire, King Ahab very wisely makes an alliance with the neighboring kingdoms to fight the Assyrian army invading the region.Yoram, the son of Ahab, the last king of the house of Omri, died in a battle against the Assyrians, and the general Yehu, who was a commander in his army, took power. In 842, Yehu destroys the house of Omri and establishes a magnificent dynasty that brings the kingdom to a peak of growth.The Assyrian Empire continues its inevitable expansion and destroys all the cities of Israel, including Megiddo (Armageddon), where according to the New Testament, the world will come to an end. In 720 BC, the Assyrians destroy the capital city of Samaria, discover the aristocracy and the intellectuals and wipe out the kingdom of Israel without revival. Thus, after about two hundred years of greatness, only the name 'Israel' remains as a national historical souvenir.A dramatic episode in the history of the Land of Israel and the people of Israel, accompanied by rare aerial photographs, photographs in Jordan and throughout the kingdom and unique archaeological finds.201600:51:12An epic series about archaeologyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-holy-land-rome-in-jerusalem-9/1568EnglishEnglishOmer YefmanDocumentary filmsHistoryThe Land of Israel under the wings of the empire. From the 73 AD to 313 ADIn the winter of 73 AD, the tenth Roman legion marches to Masada. The goal: the elimination of the last rebels in the Land of Israel. Later, the first Israeli archaeologists in the State of Israel will uncover the bones of the rebels, and Masada will become a symbol of heroism.The failure of the rebellion and the destruction of the Second Temple bring Judaism in the Land of Israel to an identity crisis that threatens to erase the Jewish people from history. The crisis gives birth to the essentials of today's Judaism: Rabbinic religion, which is based on Halacha, prayer and knowledge without the need for worship, sacrifices and one physical place for it, which is no longer a necessity.In those years, the Roman Empire enters a long period of silence. The Jews are in a precarious economic situation. Their leadership is loose, but their faith is strong; The destruction of the year 70 is not enough and new national aspirations are already growing among the Jews which are generating a new rebellion among the Romans. It will be headed by a charismatic leader, and his name is Shimon Bar-Kochva. Its goal: renewed national independence, as in the days of the Temple. At first the rebellion was successful thanks to sophisticated guerrilla warfare. The Roman army suffers many losses, and only after three bloody years wins the war. Again, many victims and destroyed villages, cities and students' midrash houses.Following the Bar Kochba rebellion, the Jewish leadership decides not to rebel anymore. A period of national passivity begins. The construction of the country is renewed without hindrance. The Romans pave a system of roads that connect all the cities of the province and build public buildings, markets and baths. Leisure culture is a central part of the lives of the Empire's residents, and it also has an impact on its Jewish residents in all walks of life. This places the Jewish leadership in front of a great contradiction: Roman paganism is not compatible with the Jewish religious prohibitions. But in practice it seeps into the Jewish tradition and religion.At the beginning of the third century, the process of editing the Mishnah by Rabbi Yehuda HaNassi ends. A founding move of a 'little temple' that will replace the temple. The relationship of the Jewish leadership with the Roman government reaches a harmony that has never been known before.Towards the end of the third century, the Roman Empire falls into a leadership crisis. Its citizens are looking for meaning and an answer to their spiritual needs, beyond 'bread and circuses'. They find in Christianity, a beaten and persecuted religion, an answer to their heart's desire. Emperor Constantine recognizes in the church a unifying force. He makes Christianity a permitted religion and paves the way for it to become the largest religion in the world.The film was shot in Jerusalem, Tzipori, Beit Shaarim, Megiddo, Capernaum, Beit Shean, Mtzipor Givat Broshim, excavations of the remains of Bar Kochba Rebellion fighters' camps and the ruins of Atri in the Judaean Lowlands.In the episode, rare archival films from Masada excavations and the refuge caves where the Bar Kochba fighters lost their lives.We will also be exposed to many organic findings, such as fabrics, shoes and personal items that will allow us to touch the people who lived here, in the Land of Israel, about 2000 years ago.201800:51:12An epic series about archaeologyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-holy-land-the-dawn-of-nation/1540EnglishEnglishRon Kachlili and Yifat QedarDocumentary filmsHistoryFrom 1200-1000 BCEThe glaring absence of significant archaeological findings makes it difficult to expand the factual discussion regarding controversial issues, such as the invasion of the Hebrews led by Yehoshua ben Nun into the land of Canaan and of course the battles for control of the land, which were conducted according to the Bible for about 200 years and are detailed in the books of Yehoshua and Judges. In this episode, the biblical axis collides again and contradicts with the archaeological axis. However, evidence of the huge fire that consumed Hazor - the fortified city in Canaan - and a surprising discovery, which links cult sites on Mount Ebal with what is described in the book of Joshua, once again fuel the discussion about the kernel of truth in the biblical stories. Excavation tours at Mount Ebal, Tel Akziv, Lachish, Ashkelon and Gat bring to life the war drama that was associated during the settlement period and the constant struggle against powerful enemies such as the Amalekites and the Philistines, whether they were active in that period or whether they were only in terms of a biblical allegory. Photographs in the Elah Valley, Shiloh, the City of David in Jerusalem visually illustrate the gap between what is written in the Bible and scientific knowledge.Mainly, the episode focuses on the development of the methods of government in Hebrew Canaan. It began with the leadership of the warlord Yehoshua, through the era of the tribal judges and ended with the declaration of Beit Shaul as the first Israeli royal house. The love-hate relationship between the members of the House of Saul and the members of the House of David who deprived them of power are at the center of the turmulant history of the days of the United Kingdom of Israel, which emerged against the backdrop of a temporary political decline in the regional empire of Pharaonic Egypt.The enigma of the conquest of fortified Jerusalem, and the story of the founding of the first temple by Shlomo ben David - which archaeological science casts serious doubt on their actual occurrence - constitute a climax in the drama surrounding the war of faiths between monotheism in the style of Abraham and Moses and paganism in its Canaanite style. The site of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is not accessible for excavation. Its size and wealth as it is expressed in the biblical story, has not yet been proven and researchers are debating whether it is suitable for a small "kingdom" that has just been established. The episode was filmed in the Tel Hazor National Park, Eizabat Zerta, the Department of Archeology - Tel Aviv University, Mount Ebal, Tel Tzfit, Tel Azkah, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Khirbat Kaifa, the City of David, the Promenade of the Walls, the Temple Institute, the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem and the Antiquities Authority warehouses in Beit shemesh.201800:51:12An epic series about archaeologyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-holy-land-the-dawn-of-faith/1539EnglishEnglishRon KachliliRon KachliliDocumentary filmsHistoryFrom 3300 to 1200 BCEAbout 6000 years ago, civilization began to take shape. In the area of ​​the fertile crescent, the first kingdoms were established, the cuneiform script was opened, the principles of law were created. At the same time, in Egypt, the pharaohs formed their first empire. Man founded the period known today as the Early Bronze Age.About 3000 years ago, Abraham, the father of the Hebrew nation according to the Bible, began his physical journey from the light of the Chaldeans, on the banks of the Euphrates River, to the land of Canaan, and at the same time he also began his metaphysical journey - from tangible pagan worship to belief in one abstract God.These two axes of progress - the historical and the biblical - do not necessarily overlap, but both are reserved a senior place in this episode, which begins with the legendary reign of Gilgamesh, King of Arch (Somer), during which the work of powerful rulers such as the King of Babylon and the pharaonic Ramses is also detailed.The enigma of Abraham and his descendants, the sons of Isaac and Jacob, gains new validity with the disclosure of the findings about the invasion of the Hyksos warriors into the Nile Valley and the fact of the presence of the tribe of Hebiru (Hebrews) among them. These nomadic tribes were expelled from Egypt about 2500 years ago, and this act is actually the factual basis of the Haggadah about the exodus of the Hebrew people from Egypt under the leadership of Moses.The episode progresses through time in an intelligent mix between myths and facts, between legends and archaeological discoveries; From the al-Amarna documents, which focus on the presence of Egyptian rule in Canaan, through stone inscriptions, which were inscribed in the ancient Hebrew script, to the stories that have been linked around the status of Mount Sinai. All of these help in clarifying the spiritual process that underpinned the development of the monotheistic faith.In order to create the necessary balance between the mythical aspect and the scientific aspect of the episode, the camera goes to the remains of sites in Haran, Turkey, from where Abraham began his journey to Canaan according to the Bible, as well as to excavation sites such as Tel Hazor, Tel Megiddo and Tel Arad, which were the first state cities in Canaan, and from there To the Gihon Spring in Jerusalem, the Israel Museum, the Antiquities Authority warehouse in Beit Shemesh, Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and more.201800:51:12An epic series about archaeologyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/holy-land-dawn-of-man-ep-1/1534EnglishEnglishRon KachliliRon KachliliDocumentary filmsHistoryThe land bridge between the African continent and the continents of Asia and Europe - aka the land of Canaan - served as a necessary transit station in the process of the spread of the human race from its ancient origins in Africa to other parts of the world.For hundreds of thousands of years, representatives of all the stages of prehistoric human development walked in Canaan, today the Land of Israel: the ancient upright man (Homo Erectus), the Neanderthal man and the contemporary intelligent man (Homo Sapiens), which some Israeli researchers claim, according to the research - National, because he was born here, unlike his brothers who were born, as mentioned, in Africa. Each and every stage of human evolution, left its own unique remains and signs: skulls, bones, work and hunting tools, remains of food and burial customs. All of these can be seen today at well-known sites Such as Mount Carmel, Jordan Valley, Rosh Ha-Ein, Bnot Ya'akov Bridge, Tel Jericho and more.Archaeologists, anthropologists, researchers from the natural sciences and the leading intellectuals in Israel, have joined together in this episode to describe the beginning of the human adventure in the Land of Israel, a region of land that in those distant ages was a forested area, full of huge prey animals and its surroundings full of flowing water.The taming of nature, the discovery of fire, the domestication of agricultural crops and animals, the transition from the life of hunters to small hunters who wandered in groups without hierarchy to permanent settlements - as well as the buds of the artistic or ritual creation - are presented in this episode in spectacular photographs spanning the entire length and breadth of the Land of Israel (Gesher Bnot Ya'akov, Ovadia, The Magic Cave in Rosh Ha'Ein, the state treasure warehouses in Beit Shemesh, Barkat Ram in the Golan Heights, the Israel Museum, the Museum of Ancient Man in Maayan Baruch and more). The video-shoots also arrive Africa, the place of origin of Lucy, who is considered the first upright woman in history.201800:51:12An epic series about archaeologyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-holy-land-the-last-kingdom-7/1566EnglishEnglishUri Shin ShidorskiDocumentary filmsHistoryFrom the 332 BCE to 4 ADThe seventh episode in the series on the history of the Land of Israel describes the turbulent period that the residents of the Land had experienced through since it was conquered by Alexander the Great, who brought with him a new cultural line, through the establishment of the Hasmonean state until its fall.Host Merv Batito meets with the researcher Dr. Doron Ben Ami, who is responsible for the discovery of an amazing finding that was uncovered in these very months and explains the Hellenistic control over the area of ​​the Temple: the "Hakhara" fortress, which until the time of Shimon the Tarsi, none of the Hasmonean leaders was able to conquer.Participants: Dr. Guy Stibel - Department of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Prof. Roni Reich - Archaeologist, Haifa University, Prof. Daniel Schwartz - History of the People of Israel, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Hanania Hizami - Archeology Committee, IOS Civil Administration, Prof. Oren Tal - Department of Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Yoaz Handel - historian and publicist, Prof. Boaz Zissou - Land of Israel and Archeology Studies, Bar Ilan University, Dr. Hagi Sefer - Historian, Prof. Boaz Zissou - Studies of the Land of Israel and Archeology, Bar Ilan University, Dr. Yeftah Shalu - Archaeologist, Israel Antiquities Authority, Dr. Doron Ben Ami - Director of Givati ​​Parking Excavations, Israel Antiquities Authority, Professor Uriel Rappaport - Historian, Dr. Adolfo Roitman - Director of the Book Hall and Curator of the Yehuda Scrolls, Panina Shor - Curator of the Judean Desert Scrolls, Israel Antiquities Authority, David Mbaruch - Senior Curator of the Hellenistic Period, Israel Museum.201800:51:12An epic series about archaeologyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-holy-land-the-return/1543EnglishEnglishAvi HemiDocumentary filmsHistoryFrom the 586 to 332 BCEIn 538, Cyrus sent representatives from Babylon to Judea to renew Jewish religious worship - and created a turning point in Jewish history.Marev Batito, the host of the film, explores the period when existential questions of the Jewish people were asked, which accompany us to this day: Who is a Jew? What is our degree of openness to foreign culture? This is a time when the inhabitants of Judah distanced themselves from religion, disdained the holy service. The wealthy of Jerusalem used to marry their children in mixed marriages, in order to strengthen their economic ties, and the spiritual deterioration reached a new low. The episode traces the character of Ezra, the spiritual leader who brought with him money from the community of exiles. He succeeds in gathering around him supporters who will bring about the most profound change in Jewish society and defines a set of laws according to which Judaism is practiced to this day.Compared to Ezra, Nehemiah, who came after a few years to lead on behalf of the Persian ruler, had very wide authority. He returned the spiritual center to Jerusalem, overthrew the status of the rich and the old religious priests and sought to maintain a Halacha state. He alienates from the Jewish community those who do not come from the holy seed and creates frustration among the old inhabitants of the land. The conflicts that arose as a result of his enterprise, alongside his achievements that stand to this day and are carried out in practice among the believers, will seal this episode. With writer Yochi Brandes, Merav Batito raises questions about the morality of the laws that excluded the Samaritans from the Jewish people, alienated foreign women from the Jewish community and broke up families. Do we really have to understand the text literally?201200:24:13A talented musician and ex-combat soldier fights for his family and his sanity https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-house-on-the-water/89EnglishEnglishOmer RegevCouplesMaale FilmsWarPsychologyA talented musician and ex-combat soldier fights for his family and his sanity when the effects of his post-traumatic stress disorder threaten to destroy his life.A film by Omer Regev   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201800:10:12Is immigration good or bad for society, for economics?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-immigration-debate/861EnglishDocumentaryHuman RightsPoliticsEconomicsPLAYLISTPeople move from one country to another incessantly. Today more than ever in history. Some flee, escape from dangers of death, other want to change or improve their lives. Is immigration good for the society? For the economy? What does it do to national identities? Should immigrants assimilate in their new home? Can countries refuse to accept refugees? Can they set priorities for immigrants? Should immigrants get any help? Do immigrant foster innovation? Arte they a burden on the healthcare system and the social welfare services or are they contributing more than they consume? And most importantly is it possible to generalize at all? In this playlist, we gathered here as many different views as we could find.2018Every second of your life you are under infection attackhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/immune-system-bacteria-infection/1032EnglishDocumentaryScience And TechnologyMedicineBacteria, viruses, spores and more living stuff wants to enter your body and use its resources for itself. The immune system is a powerful army of cells that fights like a T-Rex on speed and sacrifices itself for your survival. Without it you would die in no time. This sounds simple but the reality is complex, beautiful and just awesome. An animation of the immune system.Creator: Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell201300:14:33A past terror event haunts a bride at her weddinghttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-invitation-en/104EnglishEnglishRuth Grosberger HaratsCouplesMaale FilmsPsychologyImmaterialFictionNoa survived a terror attack in which her boyfriend Udi was killed. Five years later, on her wedding day, Noa discovers Udi among the guests...A film by Ruth Grosberger HaratsAwards: Best Drama, Ma'aleh Graduate Ceremony 2013   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School 201701:02:29Of compassion and friendship, in one of the complex places in the worldhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-island-documentary-adam-weingrod/1703EnglishEnglishSenior CitizensMedicineAn Intimate look at the complex human mosaic of the French Hospital St. Louis in Jerusalem.The hospital, managed and run by nuns, is an island of compassion and grace, symbolically located exactly in the border between East and West Jerusalem opposite the old city walls. The old mosaic on its walls embodies the diverse lives that pass through this building.The film provides an intimate rare look at the patients and the personnel in the hospital.The Island was screened in film festivals around the world and won many prizes. 201700:23:47The movie explores how humans have created "art" since the beginning of time.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-janus-effect/1527EnglishHistoryArts and populre CultureThe film traces how humans beings have made 'art' from the earliest recorded times. Until the fundamental changes in the way human societies viewed themselves we know as the Renaissance, artists were the servants of the rulers. This is true of all human groups throughout the world. Now in the age of individual freedom artists have come to enjoy a new role. The film explores this change and how art has come to be such a powerful and fruitful force in our daily lives.201700:50:00Newcomers from Ethiopia tell for the first time about their journey and the hardship they underwenthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/jerusalem-dream-en/1601EnglishEnglishMeni EliasDocumentary filmsImmigration & absorptionEthnicityIn the late 1970's, after thousands of years of praying and longing for Jerusalem, the first Ethiopian Jews arrived in Israel.Was it worth it? in this film, the question is posed for the first time to the children of Ethiopian Jews. Their parents tell stories of immense bravery, and of incredible tenderness. Words shifting between the great happiness of village life and their longing for Jerusalem. They chronicle disappointment and resentment.Their journeys were physically dangerous and their spirits were constantly challenged. A first-time recounting of the improbable journey Ethiopian Jews undertook in order to reach their Jerusalem dream.Winner of best sound design, the Israeli Documentary Forum annual competition200501:10:20Originally Vietnamese Vaan grew up as an Israeli girl. Will she be able to find her identity?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-journey-of-van-nguyen-en/986EnglishEnglishDuki DrorDocumentaryImmigrationIdentityHoiami Nguyen never imagined that he would end up so far from his home village of Bong Son in central Vietnam. Political circumstances and the roulette of life have washed him to the shores of Israel. The penniless Vietnamese refugee became a father of 5 Hebrew speaking Israeli daughters. His daughter - Vaan, describes her parents' ordeal using a razor sharp language in her blog. She feels trapped in circles of identity that will never meet. Caught between her wild and stormy Israeli spirit and the expectations to be modest and obedient Vietnamese at home, there is unbridgeable abyss. When her father returns to his family in Vietnam, Vaan finds herself absorbed into his tragic story - a cruel tale of loss and survival. Hoimai's dream of return sends Vaan to look for a brighter future in the new-old country. She joins him in trying to reclaim the lands of the family, in the remote village at the heart of the Vietnamese jungle.A film by Duki DrorWon the Remi Award in Houston World FestScreened in various festivals, including National Geographic Al Roads, IDFA and others201800:28:26Does North Korea intend to give up its nuclear weapons program?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-kim-dynasty-in-north-korea/1118EnglishHistoryPoliticsKim Jong-Un and Donald Trump held a  summit meeting in late February in Vietnam. At their June 2018 summit, they agreed to work toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. But does North Korea intend to give up its nuclear weapons program? Some attribute the recent chain of events to the long-term stability of North Korea's ruling dynasty. North Korea has consistently refused to give up the nuclear program that it has been pursuing since 1962. Washington has been equally consistent in changing its policies toward Pyongyang. And what will become of the US commitment to protect South Korea and Japan? Our report outlines the history of North Korea's nuclear program, and also explains how the US has helped to enhance Pyongyang's strategic position. Every recent US administration - from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump - has changed the country's policy toward North Korea. American presidents come and go, but the Kim dynasty remains in place.201500:55:52When money threatens to affect ideologyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/kosher-kibbutz-en/1514EnglishEnglishDocumentary filmsIsraeli SocietyReligionKibbutz Beit-Alfa, Israel's first Hashomer Hatzair, the socialist-Zionist secular movement, kibbutz, is dealing with a conflict that is shaking its value system to its very core. Economic hardship is forcing the kibbutz residents to reach a difficult decision: Should the dining room become Kosher? Yet this struggle is but small in comparison to the collapse of the Kibbutz's socialist ideals and the demise of socialism elsewhere.An entertaining and fascinating documentary that moves alternately from sweet to bitter and from bitter to sweet.A film by Hagit LironPRESSFrom Cowshed to SynagogueHa'aretz, by Noa ShpigelNo More Bacon for YouHa'aretz, by Judy Maltz200501:30:39The story of a hard detoxication department in a prison. And a last chance for the prisonershttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-last-chance-prisoners-en/858EnglishEnglishMooly LandesmanDocumentary filmsPsychologyThis is the story of the human spirit's journey from its very lowest point to the height of self and social awareness. The journey takes place in a hard drug detoxification department - at the Tsalmon Prison. The department includes Jews and Arabs who share a common fate; their relationships are totally detached from everything happening outside the prison walls. Dr. Talina Wincor is manger of the department. A woman within a world of men, she paves her way into the souls of her prisoners with a gentle touch and a firm hand. Slowly but surely, the clichés and slogans fade away, exposing the core of the prisoners' souls and their choice emerges: to work toward a new life, or return to the cycle of crime and drugs. In the framework of the treatment, two brothers meet. The younger is about to be released from the prison; the older one, who introduced his younger brother to heroin at the age of 14, remains in the department to deal with his past and his actions.A film by Mooly and Tslil LandesmanWinner of Haifa International Film Festival200200:33:09A journey into the Judaean Desert, to find the last known leopardhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/last-leopard-en/1238EnglishHebrew (modern)Documentary filmsZoologyDirector Isri Halpern sets out to search for the last known leopard in the Judaean Desert above the Dead Sea.For 18 months, Halpern searches for the leopard with his friend the zoologist Haim Berger, in an elusive and humorist journey, full of surprises.A fi9lm fill of love to nature, mystery and to the less known part of the Israeli society. Not really a nature movie, but rather a film about human natureAsaf Gefen - Maariv200501:03:51He was Hitler's Bodyguardhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-last-witness/7EnglishEnglishYael Katz Ben ShalomDocumentary filmsHistoryThe man who lived in Hitler's court, working as his telephone operator and bodyguard, tells about the final years of Hitler's life and about his last hours.A film by Yael Katz Ben Shalom201201:32:46After 200 driving lessons and numerous failed tests, Layla is about to give up on her dream to drivehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-lesson-en/248EnglishEnglishAnat Yuta-ZuriaSigal Landesberg & Anat Yuta-ZuriaWomen And GenderHuman RightsFamilyIdentity200 driving lessons and numerous failed tests later, Layla, an Egyptian-born Arab, is about to give up on her dream to drive. An encounter with Nimar, the number-one Palestinian driving expert in Al Quds, rekindles her hopes. Nimar and Layla, two strangers in one town, embark upon a mutual journey to learn how to drive. Gradually, the car turns into a "confessional," and Layla shares her secret life story with Nimar. But Layla's broken home, and her musician daughter's doomed love story may thwart Layla's chance to drive when the journey hits a rocky road."The Lesson" follows this exceptional drama for two years: the story of an Arab woman fighting for her independence in a city where the drive for independence has become, for many, an unachieved dream.Jury remarks: A remarkable documentary and visually striking filmA film by Anat Yuta-ZuriaAward: Best Documentary at the Haifa International Film Festival201600:40:59The extraordinary life and remarkable and continuing success of a well-known writerhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-edgar-allan-poe/1475EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureEdgar Allan Poe was born in Boston the son of actors David and Elizabeth Poe. His father disappeared when he was three and his mother died a year later. He was adopted by a Richmond, Virginia family called Allan. When he was 17 he was disowned by his foster parents. He was determined to be a writer and through many difficulties he succeeded ibecoming one of the first great imaginative writers in the United States. This film by Malcolm Hossick covers his extraordinary life and goes some way to explaining his remarkable and continuing success. It is followed by a brief overview of his work.200400:35:48Lawrence was a prolific author of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays, and reviews.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-dh-lawrence/1501EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureLawrence was born into the family of a coal miner in 1885. His remarkable achievement in becoming one of the most successful novelists of his day is explored in this film by Malcolm Hossick. Not only did he make it as a writer but in his honesty and open mindedness he had a huge effect on the way novels are written in general. The film is followed by a brief overview of his work. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. His father was a coalminer and his mother a schoolteacher. He went to Nottingham University College. He began a teaching career in London but in 1812 became a full-time writer. He went off with the aristocratic German wife of his professor at Nottingham. After a turbulent but ultimately successful career which included taking up painting,he died of tuberculosis when he was forty-five. The film covers his life and background.200100:23:47The film traces his successful and industrious life and ends with an overview of his workshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-emile-zola/1521EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureZola was born the son of an Italian engineer. He early determined to be a writer and via work with the publishing firm Hachette, he began writing the many realistic novels with which he made his mark. His work was very popular with a wide audience and he was seen as a champion of democracy and the people. He was exiled for the stance he took against the government at the Dreyfus trial. The film traces his successful and industrious life and ends with an overview of his works.201900:29:25Traces the life and literary career of author using portraits and views of places associated with his lifehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-ernest-hemingway/1496EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureTraces the life and literary career of Ernest Hemingway, using portraits and views of places associated with his life. "Enigmatic and intriguing, Hemingway is one of America's favorite authors. His dramatic understatement, dialogue and use of heroes made for great human interest.200500:34:11The film follows his early life and the influence he has had on world theatre through his workhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-eugene-oneill/1503EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureO'Neill was born in 1888 into a theatrical family. He got a good education but led a turbulent existence until he finally began to have some success with the plays he wrote for the tiny theatre in Providence Massachusetts. The film follows his early life and the influence he has had on world theatre through his work. It is followed by a brief overview of his work. O'Neill's father was a successful actor and as a child he was loved and cared for. He spent his youth rebelling against everything and finally settled down to become America's first serious dramatist of international stature. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1936. The film covers his life and background.201700:33:01The life and career of one of the greatest American writers of the 20th centuryhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-f-scott-fitzgerald/1478EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureF. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul Minnesota into a fairly well-off family. He began his first novel while at Princeton University and very shortly after leaving it was accepted by Scribners and successfully published. He went on to be the prophet of the Jazz age of the twenties but his popularity declined. He is now recognised as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. This film by Malcolm Hossick covers his life and background and ends with an overview of his work.202000:33:48A German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literaturehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-franz-kafka/1498EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureFranz Kafka was born in Prague, still under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was well educated and from an early age he determined to become a writer. He worked in an insurance company and in his ample free time wrote a number of remarkable novels and short stories. His heroes are all struggling to find themselves against a background of the totalitarian state or tribe or religion, and his name has become synonymous with the idea of modern man and his struggle to maintain his individuality. The film traces his unusual life and is followed by a brief overview of his works.201800:23:47An Austrian Romantic composer who was a prolific figure in classical music historyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-franz-schubert/1546EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicSchubert was born the son of a schoolmaster in a suburb of Vienna. He became a singer in the choir of the court chapel. His precarious life struggling to live from his compositions was enlivened by the group of friends among whom he lived and who supported him and valued his work. He achieved little outside recognition in his own time and died of typhus at the tragically early age of 31.The film ends with a brief overview of Schubert's work useful to experienced music lovers and newcomers alike. On the soundtrack some of his most characteristic compositions are played by members of the Elysium Ensemble.201100:23:47A Polish-born pianist and composer of matchless genius in the realm of keyboard musichttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-frederic-chopin/1532EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicThe Polish composer Frederic Chopin is unique in that he composed almost exclusively for his own instrument, the piano. As a pianist he was self taught and had an astonishing talent for improvisation. As a composer he was a perfectionist in the classical mould and his wonderful compositions ensure that he is one of the best loved names in world music. The DVD traces his short life and includes an overview of his musical works.200600:23:47Blessed with great wit and the ability to work hard, he became the most prominent dramatisthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-george-bernard-shaw/1508EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureShaw was born into a protestant family in Catholic Dublin. His family was slowly sliding down the social ladder. He left school at 15 to become a clerk. Then aged twenty three he went off to London to become a writer. Blessed with a brilliant wit and a capacity for hard work he became the most prominent dramatist of his age. The film covers his life and background. Shaw was born into a protestant family in Catholic Dublin. His family was slowly sliding down the social ladder. He left school at 15 to become a clerk. Then aged twenty three he went off to London to become a writer. Blessed with a brilliant wit and a capacity for hard work he became the most prominent dramatist of his age. The film covers his life and background.202000:35:58This film records her life and remarkable achievements in a field previously dominated by menhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-george-eliot/1476EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureGeorge Eliot was born Mary Anne Evans in 1819 near the small town of Nuneaton in Warwickshire. Her father ran the estate of the local landowner. She had an excellent education in local schools and took up journalism. She began writing novels when she was over 30 and became one of the most celebrated and influential writers of her age. The film by Malcolm Hossick traces her life and her remarkable achievements in fields until then dominated by men. It is followed by a brief overview of her work.200600:23:47A composer of the late Baroque era, was known particularly for his operas, oratorios, and instrumental compositionshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-george-friderick-handel/1533EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicHandel was born in the small German town of Halle. His father was Surgeon to the local ruler a certain Duke of Weissenfels. From an early Age he displayed a precocious musical talent. His local church organist was a fine musician and teacher so Handel's talent was carefully nurtured. After a spell playing the organ in a local church he left for Hamburg determined to become a composer of operas. He met with immediate success, a success which He enjoyed for the rest of his life. He settled in England and became a national institution. The film outlines his life and is followed by a brief overview of his works.201800:23:47This film by follows the life and work of an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critichttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-george-orwell/1504EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureThis film by Malcolm Hossick follows the life and work of George Orwell. Orwell was born in India and educated at Eton College. In 1922 he went out to Burma as a police officer. He returned to England in 1927 and determined to be a writer. He was interested in politics and the lot of the poor in society and his works reflect this interest. Just as he was becoming a successful novelist he died of tuberculosis. Many rate him as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. The film is followed by a brief summary of his works.201700:23:47This film traces his interesting and eventful life and is followed by an overview of his work.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-giacomo-puccini/1537EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicPuccini was born in Lucca in Italy to a musical family and went on to write some of the best loved operas of all time. Born in the beautiful old Tuscan city of Lucca in 1858 you could argue Puccini was destined to be a composer. For generations his family had been at the centre of musical life in the city. Few could have prophesied the phenomenal success he enjoyed in his day and his works are still as popular as ever. This film by Malcolm Hossick traces his interesting and eventful life and is followed by an overview of his work.201700:23:47One who rose from poverty and obscurity to become one of the greatest opera composers of all timehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-giuseppe-fortunino-francesco-verdi/1550EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicThe film by Malcolm Hossick tells the remarkable story of Verdi - who rose from poverty and obscurity to become one of the greatest opera composers of all time. It is followed by an overview of his work. Verdi was born in the tiny and remote village of Roncole near Busetto a town in the then principality of Parma, Italy. With the help of a local businessman he was given a good general education and under the local organist a fine training in music. In spite of terrible setbacks in his personal life he went on to become one of Italy's most successful composers of opera. The video traces his career and development over a long life and many operas. He never stood still and in his later years he produced some of his finest work. The video ends with a brief overview of his compositions.200800:23:47One of the most admired composers in the musical canonhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-gustav-mahler/1536EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicGustav Mahler: Mahler was born into a poor family in a small town in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His astonishing musical talent carried him from there to the heights of music in his day as a conductor and composer. His vast musical landscapes have made him into one of the most admired composers in the musical canon. This film by Malcolm Hossick traces his remarkable life and is followed by a brief overview of his works.200500:38:42The greatest dramatist of his age and the Father of modern dramahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-henrik-ibsen/1493EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureHenrik Ibsen was born in the small coastal town of Skien in Norway. His family were middle class burghers. He worked as an apprentice to an apothecary before going to Oslo to study. He began writing plays which found little favour in Norway. He lived and wrote for about 30 years in Italy and Germany and became recognised worldwide as the greatest dramatist of his age and the Father of modern drama. The film traces his life and is followed by a brief overview of his works.201900:36:51An American-born British author considered key figures in the transition between realism and modernism.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-henry-james/1491EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureBegins with James' comfortable boyhood in New York, during which his father moved James and his brother around and back and forth from Europe frequently for the sake of education. He eventually went to Harvard to study law and began writing, but felt uncomfortable with American culture and left for England, where he spent most of the rest of his life.201900:23:47The film follows the life of Melville followed by a brief overview of his workhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-herman-melville/1500EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureThe film follows the life of Melville was born in New York, USA. His father was a prosperous business man but the economic climate changed and the business failed. The family moved to his mother's home in New Albany and he went to Albany Academy. At twenty he went to sea and returned to write very popular books about his adventures. His success did not last and he died in obscurity. His work was rediscovered in the early 20th century. The film is followed by a brief overview of his work.199800:23:47An influential composer, pianist, and conductor of the 20th centuryhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-igor-stravinsky/1548EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicStravinsky was born into a musical family in the little town of Lermontov near St Petersburg. His father was principal bass singer at the opera there, so music was part of his life. He studied at the St Petersburg conservatioire under Rimsky Korsakov and was soon making an impression with his compositions. He had early successes with his ballet music for Diaghilev and over a long and productive life went on to become arguably the greatest composer of the twentieth century. The video traces his eventful life and ends with a brief overview of his compositions.201100:36:56A very tricky character but with his unique style he became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth centuryhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-james-joyce/1497EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureJames Joyce was born in Dublin. He was sent first to a Jesuit school but had to leave after three years because his father could no longer afford the fees. He went to another Jesuit school in Dublin and then to University College there. He went to Paris in 1902 and rarely returned to Ireland. His writing was difficult to publish and he had a very tricky character but with his unique style he became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The film covers his life and background and is followed by an overview of his works.201400:23:47This film traces his life and his musical development followed by an overview of his work.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-jean-sibelius/1547EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicJan Sibelius 1865 - 1957. Sibelius was born in Finland. He learned to play the violin and after studying music for a while set out to be a composer. He developed a unique style and was steeped in the literature and natural beauty of his native land which inspired his music. These nordic roots have not stopped him becoming universally admired and his music is now a staple of modern concert halls. This film by Malcolm Hossick traces his life and his musical development. It is followed by an overview of his work.201900:23:47This movie examines his life and work and evaluates his impact to music.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-johann-sebastian-bachnaissance/1529EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicJohann Sebastian Bach is now reckoned to be one of the great masters of music. He was not a great innovator but built upon the developments of harmony which had begun with the occurance of the renaissance of learning and an understanding of the world in scientific terms in the centuries before him. He was an astonishingly gifted musician and his life was a tortured journey of success and drawbacks. This film by Malcolm Hossick explores how he worked and lived and assesses the contribution he made to music. It is followed by a brief overview of his huge output. Bach was born in Germany into a talented musical family. His astonishing musical gifts showed at an early age and by his late teens he was organist at the local church and soon moving on to positions in the many small Princely courts which made up Germany at the time. In the German musical world he quickly gained a reputation as a master organist and composer. It was not until almost a century after his death that his greatness was fully recognised outside Germany. This film by Malcolm Hossick traces his life and work and ends with an overview of his music.200600:36:02The film covers his life and background and ends with an overview of his work.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-johann-wolfang-von-goethe/1479EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) was born in Frankfurt on Main, Germany, into a well-to-do family. He made some attempts to become a lawyer but eventually began writing poetry and novels. He was immediately successful. He joined the court of the Duke of Weimar and from there became accepted as the greatest writer of his age. The film covers his life and background and ends with an overview of his work.200600:23:47He was a well-known German composer of the Romantic era of classical music.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-johannes-brahms/1531EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicBrahms was born in Hamburg into a poor but musical family. His talent was early recognised and he received devoted and first class tuition. He was discovered by the violinist Joachim and the composer Schumann and he enjoyed amazing success from his very first published work. Brahms never married but settled in Vienna where he came to be recognised as one of the great musical masters of the century.201100:33:36The film traces his brief life and is followed by an overview of his delightful workhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-john-keats/1499EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureThe English poet Keats was born into comfortable circumstances in 1795. He had a good education. His father died in an accident when he was in his early teens and he took up the profession of surgeon. He was however writing poetry and he was soon recognised by his discerning friends as someone quite exceptional. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 26. The film traces his brief life and is followed by an overview of his delightful work.201700:23:47A Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist for his realistic and imaginative writingshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-john-steinbeck/1510EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureJohn Steinbeck was one fo the most popular writers of the 20th century and several of his books were made into films.This film in the Famous Author series by Malcolm Hossick explores his eventful life. It is followed by a brief overview of his works.200100:23:47The film traces his fascinating life and ends with an overview of his workshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-jonathan-swift/1512EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureSwift was born in Dublin into a well off English protestant family. His father died and he was brought up and given the best possible education at the expense of his uncle. He was not grateful for this and his acid views on man's iniquities were the subject of his many writings. He worked for the English government and as a church administrator but loved and was much beloved by his friends. In Ireland he is seen as the first hero of the struggle against English dominance. The film traces his fascinating life and ends with an overview of his works.201700:23:47A prolific and well-known composer who lived during the Classical era.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-joseph-haydn/1535EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicJoseph Haydn was born into a poor family in 18th century Hungary. His huge musical talent brought him into the service of a Prince. Eventually his work was recognised throughout the musical world. The film by Malcolm Hossick describes his fascinating life and the social change he went through. It is followed by a brief overview of his work. Joseph Haydn was born into a simple rural community where his father worked for the local landowner. Joseph's musical talents developed in local church choirs and his fine voice took him to the choir of St Stephen's in Vienna. We follow his career into the the employment of the Esterhazy family where he remained until he was sixty. His international fame as a composer brought him an invitation to London where his career was reborn. The video ends with a brief overview of Haydn's work useful to experienced music lovers and and newcomers alike. On the soundtrack some of his most characteristic compositions are played by members of the Elysium ensemble.202000:23:47The predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-ludwig-van-beethoven/1530EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicBeethoven was born into a musical family in Bonn. He was well taught and generally well educated. With the support of his local ruler he went to Vienna to further his musical studies. He was soon celebrated as a pianist and composer and spent the rest of his life in Vienna supported by generous patrons and free to compose as he wished. In spite of going stone deaf he was able to continue composing, producing some of his greatest works in his later years. The film details his life and times and is followed by an overview of his works.202000:23:47The film traces his unusual life and ends with an overview of his workshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-marcel-proust/1505EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureProust wrote a remarkable and very long novel called La Recheche de Temps Perdue, translated usually as Remembrance of Things Past. It's size and reputaiton for density and incomprehensibility mean that not many folk take it on. This is a great pity as once you have started reading it is hard not to be drawn into Proust's world. This is because you will find yourself there in it's huge cast of sensitively drawn characters. The film explores how he did it and is followed by an overview of his work. Proust was born the son of a wealthy Parisian doctor and had an easy entry into the higher echelons of French society. His knowledge of this world was the background to the astonishing series of novels called A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). He did not have an early success but by the end of his life it was recognised that his work - sensitive, searching, amusing and amazingly perceptive about how humans work - was in a class of its own. The film traces his unusual life and ends with an overview of his works.201700:23:47The film covers his life and background and ends with an overview of his workhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-mark-twain/1513EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureMark Twain was born Samuel Langhorn Clemens in the small town of Florida Missouri. When he was four his parents moved the family to Hannibal, a larger town not far away on the banks of the Mississippi river. There he had an idyllic childhood which was to form the basis of some of his later novels. He began life as a river pilot then became a gold prospector. He finally began writing under the name Mark Twain and achieved immense success with a wide range of novels and essays on every topic under the sun. He was irreverent and funny, optimistic and charming and unsurprisingly this film by Malcolm Hossick of his hectic and fascinating life is equally rewarding. The DVD covers his life and background and ends with an overview of his work.200000:23:47A famous French composer best known for his great melodies, orchestral, and instrumental textures.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-maurice-ravel/1544EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicRavel was born in the little seaside town of Ciboure in French Basque country near the Spanish border. His mother had also been born in Ciboure but his father was a Swiss engineer and a naturalized French citizen. Ravel lived most of his life in Paris, following his music studies there and becoming one of the greatest of French composers and in spite of his relatively small output one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. The video traces his life and his musical development and ends with an overview of his works201500:31:52One of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissancehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-michel-eyquem-de-montaigne/1502EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureMontaigne was a French aristocrat born in the midde of the 16th century a while before Shakespeare. He wrote essays about his views on life and in particular about himself. They are wise and amusing and just as pertinent today as they were in this own times. This film by Malcolm Hossick follows his unusual and fascinating life. The programme begins by giving a sense of Montaigne's views on life suggesting why they are so prescient for today. It follows his unusual education and gives a background of the history of France of which he was for a time actually an intimate part. His brief friendship with a man called La Boetie colours his understanding of mankind and probably plays a part in his deciding to write down all he could think of about himself which forms what we know of as his essays. The film ends with some of the topics which so engaged him and which make him such a charming candidate for our attention in the twenty first century!201900:36:42https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-nathaniel-hawthorne/1490EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureNathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer who enjoyed considerable success with his romantic tales usually set in in the puritanical world of his home state Massachusetts. He travelled extensively in England and Italy and reflected American views on the old world of Europe. This video explores his roots in puritanical culture, his growth at Bowdoin College, his explosion in the literary world, his political appointments and his journey abroad.200500:23:47This film his early career and attempts to regain the balance between tragic figure and artisthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-oscar-wilde/1517EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureOscar Wilde was certainly one of the most brilliant writers of comedy for the English stage. The tale of his tragic downfall, caused by the society of his time condemning his private sexual life, has generally overshadowed the importance of his work. This film by Malcolm Hossick follows his early career and attempts to regain the balance between tragic figure and artist. The film covers his life and background and ends with an overview of his work.200600:23:47The most popular Russian composer of all timehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovsky/1549EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicTchaikovsky was born into a modest family on the bottom rank of the Russian aristocracy. His father was a mining engineer and after an early education from a French governess Tchaikovsky was sent to the School of Jurisprudence in St Petersburg Conservatory opened shortly afterwards and as one of its first graduates he launched into the doubtful career of music composition. His gifts were soon recognised and he went on to achieve extraordinary international acclaim. The video traces his career and ends with an overview of his works.202000:23:47One of leading composers of opera in the first half of the twentieth centuryhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-richard-strauss/1545EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicStrauss was born in Munich into a very musical family. He showed talent for composition at an early age and had his first symphony performed when he was only seventeen. He began conducting in various opera houses around Germany and was soon astounding the world with his wonderful music. He began with compositions for orchestra but became one of leading composers of opera in the first half of the twentieth century. The video traces his career and ends with and overview of his works.202000:23:47One of the world's most influential and controversial composershttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-richard-wagner/1551EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicWagner was born in Leipzig into the family of a government official. However his father died and his mother remarried. His stepfather was an actor in the theatre at Dresden giving Wagner an exceptionally vivid experience of the theatre which was to be the basis of his great series of music dramas. He had immense natural musical gifts and a huge ego which carried his massive operatic projects through including the building of his own theatre at Bayreuth in Bavaria. The film traces his life and the development of his work and ends with an overview of his compositions.200000:23:47Robert Louis Stevenson is a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writerhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-robert-louis-stevenson/1511EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureStevenson was born in Edinburgh the only child of middle class parents. He went to the University of Edinburgh and took a law degree but in spite of his parents' opposition he was intent on being a writer. He suffered from poor health throughout his life but was successful from early in his career. He died in Samoa celebrated the world over. He wrote many travel books and short stories but is best known for his novels mostly with a background of Scottish history. The film covers his life and times and ends with an overview of his work.201700:23:47This film explores his life and the influence he had on the thought and manners of his agehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-samuel-johnson/1494EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureSamuel Johnson was one of the most interesting figures of literature in 18th c England. He founded a literary magazine The Rambler and compiled the first major dictionary of English. He is best remembered as the subject of a biography by his friend Boswell. This film by Malcolm Hossick explores his life and the influence he had on the thought and manners of his age. It is followed by an overview of his work.201200:23:47One of the epics of the 19th century and best known for his classic anthological poetry workshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-sir-bysshe-shelley/1509EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureShelley was born in 1792 in a house in Surrey on the estate of his grandfather Sir Bysshe Shelley. He was educated at Syon House Academy in London and at Eton. In 1810 he went to University College Oxford and published his first poems. He was expelled from Oxford and lived variously in England and Italy where he died in a sailing accident off Leghorn in 1822 when he was thirty. He was much engaged by social politics and this is reflected unusually in his work. The film covers his life and background.202000:23:47An architect has become one of the most prolific and popular novelists of his timehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-thomas-hardy/1488EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureThomas Hardy was born into the family of a practical country builder in mid 19th century England. He got a good education in the local town of Dorchester on the south coast and after beginning as an architect he soon developed into one of the most prolific and popuar novelists of his times. the film follows his nteresting life and is followed by a concise overview of his works.200500:47:24The film covers his life and background and ends with an overview of his work.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-victor-hugo/1492EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureVictor Hugo was born the son of a General under Napoleon Bonaparte. At an early age he began writing and his career as a poet, playwright, novelist and even politician has rarely been equalled. His fearless stance for the rights of the common man endeared him to the French people but caused governments to drive him into exile. He lived for nineteen years in the English Channel islands. The film covers his life and background and ends with an overview of his work.201700:23:47This film follows the fascinating life of one of the most innovative writers of the 20th centuryhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-virginia-woolf/1518EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureThis film by Malcolm Hossick follows the fascinating life of the novelist Virginia Woolf. She was born in London in 1882. Her father was Leslie Stephen, a writer and literary editor. She was educated privately and in 1912 married Leonard Woolf. He encouraged her to write and they began their own publishing house called the Hogarth Press where they printed her remarkable books. The film is followed by a brief overview of her works.202000:23:47The film traces his fascinating life and ends with an overview of his workshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-voltaire/1515EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureVoltaire was born the son of a prominent lawyer and from his earliest days showed a precocious literary talent. He wrote plays and novels and historical and philosophical works his outspokeness constantly landed him in trouble with the authorities. He became the leading liberal voice of the french enlightenment and he has had a world wide influence ever since. The video traces his fascinating life and ends with an overview of his works.201700:23:47He is recognized as one of the outstanding voices of the American spirit.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-walt-whitman/1516EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureThe poet Walt Whitman was born in a small village in Long Island, New York State in 1819. When he was quite young the family moved to Brooklyn where he received a modest education. He began work as a typesetter. He published his most famous book of poems "Leaves of Grass" in 1855 and gradually his reputation grew. He died in Camden New Jersey in 1892 already recognised as one of the outstanding voices of the American spirit. The film by Malcolm Hossick covers his life and background and is followed by an overview of his work.200600:23:47Scott was a prolific and passionate storyteller who saw understanding of the past as the key to navigating the presenthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-walter-scott/1506EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureScott was a prolific and passionate storyteller who saw an understanding of the past as the key to getting along in the present. His canvas was usually the history of Scotland but his means were such that he found an audience throughout the literary world. He was as much loved in foreign translations as he was in english. The film covers his eventful life and is followed by an overview of his extensive output. Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771. His father was a successful lawyer. In childhood he contracted polio which lamed him for life. He was not a very successful pupil at Edinburgh High School but went to the university to qualify as a lawyer. Writing poetry and novels soon became the activity for which he became world famous. He died in his beloved home of Abbotsford in the Scottish Borders in 1832. The film covers his life and background.200100:23:47The recognised poet of the Irish struggle for freedom and ended his long life as a senatorhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-william-butler-yeats/1520EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureWilliam Butler Yeats was born in Dublin. His father was a successful artist and from an early age Yeats determined to be and was soon accepted as a poet. On the London literary scene he was a leading light and in Dublin was instrumental in setting up an Irish Theatre. He became the recognised poet of the Irish struggle for freedom and ended his long life as a senator and venerated patriarch of the new state. The film traces his life and ends with an overview of his works201900:34:17Introducing the main themes of Faulkner's poetry, plays, short stories, and novelshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-william-faulkner/1477EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureIntroduces the major themes of Faulkner's poems, plays, short stories, and novels. The film contextualizes life in the American south in the first half of the 20th century; Faulkner's southern upbringing, family history, and race relations in the wake of the Civil War were a major influence on his fiction. In 1924, Faulkner left his small town of Oxford and spent six months in New Orleans, where he was finally able to see the conditions of his upbringing from a distance and become acquainted with a literary circle with Sherwood Anderson at the center, jump-starting his serious fiction writing.201700:23:47The film follows the life and times of the great English dramatist William Shakespearehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-william-shakespeare/1507EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureThe film follows the life and times of the great English dramatist William Shakespeare. It emphasises the classical education he had in the works of the ancient Greeks and Romans as well as his experience of country life which he used so fruitfully in his work. The quality and variety of life in Elizabethan London played a great part in his development and the rise of theatres and a rich cultural life in general is explored. In the end however Shakespeare's own unmatched talent in writing about and expressing the astonishing complexity of human life is what marks him out as probably the greatest writer of all time. Shakespeare was born in the country town of Stratford-upon-Avon.He was educated at the local grammar school. He went to London in 1588 to begin a life in the theatre. He was immensely successful and he is now recognised as the greatest dramatist of all time. The film covers his life and background and ends with an overview of his work.200700:23:47The film covers the life of the greatest poet of the romantic agehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-william-wordsworth/1519EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureLiteratureWilliam Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in the Lake District in 1770. His father ran the estate of a local landowner and the family lived in a large and comfortable house. He was well educated at the grammar school in nearby Hawkshead and he went to St John's College Cambridge in 1737. He lived most of his life in his beloved Lake District enjoying the fame he achieved as the greatest poet of the romantic age. The film covers his life and the background to his work.202000:23:47One of the most influential, popular and prolific composers of the classical periodhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-life-and-work-of-wolfgang-amadeus-mozart/1538EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureMusicMozart was born into a musical family and his extraordinary musical talent was evident at an early age. As a child prodigy he traveled to all the capitals of Europe and developed into one of the greatest composers of all time. The video uncovers his delightful character and explores the difficulties he had to overcome to to establish himself as an independent artist in age when musicians were simply seen as the servants of the rich and powerful. The video ends with a brief overview of Mozart's work useful to experienced music lovers and newcomers alike. On the soundtrack some of his most characteristic compositions are played by members of the Elysium ensemble.201500:28:18A dull history professor feels unappreciated until one weekend...https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-little-dictator/87EnglishEnglishNurith CohnCouplesMaale FilmsFamilyHolocaustFictionYossi Kleinmann, a dull history professor and expert on the political leaders of totalitarian regimes, feels unappreciated both by his students and his domineering wife. One weekend, at the 90th birthday party of his wife’s grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, Yossi finds himself in a surreal situation that forces him to face up to himself and his family.A film by Nurith CohnAwards: 1st prize at the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival for Best Narrative Short, 2016 Best Actor in a Short Dramedy Award for Emanuel Cohn at the Best Actors Film Festival, 2016 Spirit of Faith Grand Prize at the Religion Today Film Festival, Trento, Italy, 2016 1st prize at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival for Best Israeli Short, 2015 Mayor of Jerusalem Award for Best Live Action Short Film, 2015 Eliyahu Roichman Award for Best Zionist Film, 2015   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200400:23:47This film explores the origins and practice of Thai Classical Dancehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-magic-of-thai-classical-dance/1552EnglishHistoryArts and Popular CultureAnthropologyThis film by Malcolm Hossick explores the origins and practice of Thai Classical Dance. It is a charming and beautiful world reflecting the unusual past of Thailand the only country in the far East which was never colonised by the west.200000:23:47A timeless comedy of love temptation, imaginative deception and marital loyaltyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-merry-wives-of-windsor-a-play-by-william-shakespeare/1458EnglishArts and populre CultureRelationshipLiteratureShakespearean Drama of the Highest Quality Performed at an authentic recreation of The Globe. With performances by world famous award winning Shakespearean actors this series has recaptured the Elizabethan flavor of Shakespeare's own Globe productions by staging them just as they were seen in the 16th century. Shakespeare's timeless comedy of lover's seductions, fanciful deceits and marital fidelity. Sir John Falstaff, a roguish seducer, plots to entice potentially unfaithful wives and then live off them. Falstaff writes identical love letters to both Mistress Page and Mistress Ford. Falstaff's intentions are discovered. The wives plot to teach him a lesson while Mistress Ford's husband uses the opportunity to test his wife's fidelity.201000:54:10Documenting the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samariahttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-messiah-will-always-come-en/297EnglishEnglishLea Klibanoff-RonWomen And GenderDocumentaryHuman RightsWar And Conflict“The Messiah will always come” – says Hagit, quoting her late grandfather, the famous Prof. Yeshayahu Leibovitz, as she looks out upon the growing number of caravans in the settlements, the paving of illegal roads, and the confiscation of land owned by local Palestinians. She explains that the Messiah is something to which we must aspire, that even if there will never be complete justice, we must always strive for it. Hagit Ofran has been in charge of tracking settlements for "Peace Now" (the Israeli Peace movement) for the past three years. As part of her responsibilities, she drives around Judea and Samaria in her jeep, all alone, monitoring settlement development. She closely records the development and expansion of the settlements and outposts, photographing each and every detail. Hagit is convinced that the settlements perpetuate the occupation and the injustice she sees, injustice caused by the Religious-Zionist camp, which she herself hails from. Hagit’s unending journey around the settlements brings her face-to-face, time and again, with the settlers and their religious-ideological acts. The mission raises the reasons that led to her decision to stop being religiously observant, and exposes the pain she feels regarding the contemporary religious community. But this journey also brings her into contact with her deep connection to Judaism and to her love for the land of Israel, the land she crosses in her travels.Read a review of the film in our blogA film by Lea Klibanoff-RonLea Klibanoff was born in Jerusalem, where she currently resides. She grew up in Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) society, and studied at the “Beit Ya’akov” seminary for girls. Lea graduated with honors in Law and Jewish Philosophy from Hebrew University and graduated in the "Ma’ale" film school. She was an activities coordinator in “Netivot Shalom”, a left-wing religious movement.Lea was a co-writer of the “At the Entrance of Eyes,” a play performed by the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio in Jerusalem in 2008. In 2013 she won the Posen Foundation Fellowship for debut novel. She also won the first prize of the Jewish Women Writing Competition. Today, she is a member of the editorial board of "Ha'Musach, the literature virtual period that operates within the framework of the National Library's Blog.“The Messiah Will Always Come” is her debut film. 201800:23:47The story Tamar Ariel - the first ever religious orthodox combat navigator in IDFhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/tamar-ariel-documentary-en/1599EnglishEnglishNata ArielNta Ariel, Avigail SperberWomenDocumentary filmsBiographyTamar Ariel grew up in a religious home in a moshav in southern Israel. Encouraged to go her own way, she spent two years in National Service and then joined the IDF, where she served as the first ever Orthodox combat navigator.In 2014, wishing for new experiences after her military service, she traveled to Nepal. With a group of other Israeli and international hikers she reached the peak of the Annapurna mountain range only to encounter an unexpected snow storm. Tamar found herself in a battle to survive. 201700:41:57The Secret Tactics Monsanto Used to Protect Rounduphttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-secret-tactics-monsanto-used-to-protect-roundup/1145EnglishLife and EnvironmentFour Corners investigates the secret tactics used by global chemical giant #Monsanto to protect its billion-dollar business and its star product — the weed killer.Read more here : https://ab.co/2C0kyTD 201801:12:25Revealing the central role the Israel Museum in the complicated narrative of the nationhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-museum-en/1186EnglishEnglishRan TalIsraeli SocietyLife and EnvironmentAnthropologySitting high on the brow of a Jerusalem hill directly opposite the Knesset, the sprawling institution—now more than half a century old—contains nearly half a million objects, from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Crusader armor to masterpieces by Rembrandt and Marc Chagall. A less ambitious film would provide a hit parade of the museum’s contents. Instead, The Museum is wisely constructed as a set of loose encounters with its human inhabitants.We eavesdrop on the curators, museum guards, archaeological conservators, visiting schoolchildren, and even the resident rabbi, who together form a kaleidoscopic picture of the way art, history and national destiny intersect in the galleries. Director Ran Tal (Children of the Sun), while showcasing the deep artistic and educational values that underlie the museum’s work, also gently exposes its ideological fault lines: we watch an Army docent use the museum’s archaeology to indoctrinate her trainees, while Arab and Jewish curators wrestle with the moral implications of displaying Palestinian artifacts. Through it all, the Israel Museum emerges as a shining example of a nation’s highest aspirations for itself. A film by Ran TalReviewsArtfully curatedThe Jerusalem PostAn Aesthetic Experience, A Touching Human StoryShmulik Duvdevani, YNETRead more reviews hereAwardsDavid A. Stein Awards   - Toronto Jewish Film Festival201800:23:47The movie explores how humans have created "art" since the beginning of timehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-mystery-of-art/1523EnglishHistoryArts and populre CultureThe film traces how humans beings have made 'art' from the earliest recorded times. Until the fundamental changes in the way human societies viewed themselves we know as the Renaissance, artists were the servants of the rulers. This is true of all human groups throughout the world. Now in the age of individual freedom artists have come to enjoy a new role. The film explores this change and how art has come to be such a powerful and fruitful force in our daily lives.202301:27:40The Holocaust Stalin Tried to Erasehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/why-holocaust-silenced-ussr/1750EnglishEnglishBoris MaftsirZvi Shefy and Boris MaftsirHistoryHolocaustIn the autumn of 1947, plans were underway in Moscow to release The Black Book, a compilation of eyewitness accounts and investigative essays documenting the systematic killing of approximately 2.7 million Jews in Nazi-occupied Soviet territories. The publication was abruptly halted by the Soviet authorities, and the material was locked away. It was as though the destruction of Soviet Jewry had been erased from public memory. What led Stalin’s regime to suppress this extensive and carefully documented record of the Holocaust within the USSR?200100:45:26An idealistic FBI agent who wanted to understand how the criminal mind functionshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-negotiator/983EnglishDocumentaryPsychologyCriminologyIntense and riveting, with real life footage, this programme is a tense and harrowing study of the negotiation process where life hangs in the balance. Cliff Van Zandt, Chief Negotiator with the FBI, explains the psychology behind his nerve-wracking skill. When the FBI began to scientifically study and teach the art of negotiation, Van Zandt was a young, idealistic FBI agent. He was one of the first to sign up. He was an agent who wanted to understand how the criminal mind functions. Someone who would talk first and shoot later. Clint van Zandt has been a professional Negotiator for over thirty years. How do you reason with a madman? How do you talk someone who does not care if he lives or dies? How do you keep the conversation going? Where do you find common ground? And how do you do it all when you know that lives -- including your own -- are on the line?The Negotiator finds Van Zandt on the scene of hostage negotiation training with the Arlington County Police Department. He provides a play-by-play commentary allowing a rare glimpse of the intricacies, the tension, and some of the tricks of the trade. Van Zandt also reviews some of the most shocking cases that shaped his career. Some of them changed his life. He recounts his greatest successes and his most humbling failures. From the disaster of Waco, where Van Zandt personally negotiated with Branch Davidian leader David Koresh, to prison riots, where his skills saved the lives of hundreds – the stories of Clint Van Zandt reveal how high-profile stand-offs take a very personal toll on The Negotiator.201800:46:56A film about the Future of Clothinghttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-next-black/1124EnglishDavid Dworsky, Victor KohlerArts and populre Culture'The Next Black' is a documentary film that explores the future of clothing. Watch as we meet with some of the most innovative companies on the planet to get their opinion on clothing and its future, including: heroes of sustainability, Patagonia; tech-clothing giants, Studio XO; sportswear icon, adidas; and Biocouture, a consultancy exploring living organisms to grow clothing and accessories.200400:24:45A romantic comedy about dating the Jewish wayhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-orthodox-way/124EnglishEnglishIlan EshkoliJewishRelationshipMaale FilmsEli, who is single, goes out on a blind date to please his aunt. But everything that could possibly go wrong, does, and Eli and his date spend a bizarre evening driving around the streets of Jerusalem. A romantic comedy about dating the orthodox way.A film by Ilan EshkoliAwardsJudges Prize, Ma'aleh Graduation Ceremony 2003Special Prize, Jewish Film Festival, Gerona Spain 2004First Prize, Haifa Film Festival 2004First Prize, Students category, Israeli Film Festival, NY LA 2004   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201600:58:02Delving deep into one of the most dramatic events of modern Israelhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/oslo-diaries-en/1642EnglishEnglishMor Loushy and Daniel SivanDocumentary filmsPoliticsWar And ConflictA group of Israelis and Palestinians come together in Oslo for an unsanctioned peace talks during the 1990s in order to bring peace to the Middle East. Later it was adopted by the Israeli government, which signed an unprecedented agreement with the PLO, in what  became known as the Oslo Accords.A film by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan 201300:38:58What is being done to stop the increase in this perfect poison?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-perfect-poison/1094EnglishLife and EnvironmentIn a major investigation, this documentary exposes the chlorine industry’s negligence in tackling a potential time bomb - dioxin.  As the programme reveals there is no safe level of exposure to dioxin on the contrary, this fatal substance has been linked to a series of major medical conditions such as heart attacks, liver disease and neurological problems.  The Perfect Poison examines what is being done to stop its proliferation and comes up with a set of alarming results.  The chlorine industry’s reluctance to take responsibility has serious implications for us all, as there is evidence enough to suggest that this poison, concentrating in our seas and rivers, has already entered the food chain.  With the chlorine industry refusing to monitor and police itself, the dioxin time bomb continues to tick.200901:14:27Hardy makes a living selling knickknacks on the buses of Santiago, but in 2005 a government announcement starts to trouble himhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-power-of-speech/202EnglishEnglishFrancisco HerveHuman RightsAnthropologyHardy makes a living selling knickknacks on the buses of Santiago. But in 2005 a government announcement starts to trouble him: Chile will soon have a modern and elegant public transportation system, in which Hardy's type of work will no longer be tolerated. So he gathers two thousand of his colleagues and together they struggle to survive modernity.They manage to have their case heard by congressmen and authorities, but their petitions; do not achieve any real changes. In 2007 Transatiago arrives. And while Chile fails to change its precarious image, Hardy learns that modernity is not so much about changing reality as about changing its promotional image.A film by Francisco Herve201200:08:56The door of the Holy Ark leads to an enchanted worldhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-rabbi-the-pupil-and-the-holy-ark/97EnglishEnglishReuvi KomerJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsReligionImmaterialA yeshiva student discovers that the door of the Holy Ark leads to an enchanted world. Will he find there what he is looking for?Director: Reuvi Komer   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201100:40:10It's not easy to be a leader's son or daughterhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-rabbis-daughter-en/133EnglishEnglishRachel VassermanJewish way of lifeWomenMaale FilmsDocumentary filmsFamilyReligionThe story of three daughters of rabbi's directed by the daughter of a rabbi. The four women have chosen a different path to that of their parents, and now they face an inner dilemma, communal censure and the sacrifices that have to be made.A film by Rachel VassermanAwardsFirst Prize for short Documentary, Haifa Film Festival October 2012Student's Prize, Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum, 2012Aliza Shagrir Prize, 2011Special Pitching Award, "Kolnoa Darom" Sderot Israel 2011The Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum Prize 2012   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200400:21:57A ranch in Judaea is about to be evacuated. Will they resist?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-ranch-en/127EnglishEnglishOhad DombAyelet Giladi Bitan, Ohad DombMaale FilmsWarFamilyDavid is the owner of a ranch in a remote settlement that will soon be evacuated by the army. He has already experienced eviction from the Sinai in 1982, and this time he has decided to give in quietly. This causes a serious confrontation with his idealistic 17-year-old son, Oriah, who is prepared to fight the eviction body and soul.A film by Ohad DombAwardsFirst Prize, Festival of South California 2006First Prize for "Beginnings" festival, International Student Competition, St. Petersburg 2006   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201501:00:29A portrait of a man who left a huge mark on Zionism and Israelhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-raven-zeev-jabotinsky/708EnglishEnglishAyelet OfarimYair Qedar, Michal Weits, Gili NadavDocumentary filmsBiographyArts and populre CultureZe’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky? Most people don’t know much about him. Most people know he was the father of Herut movement, a revisionist. And who really knows what revisionism really means. A few people know that he translated Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee; even fewer read his historical novel, Samson.The Raven tries to fathom Jabotinsky’s deceptive character. The film follows his conflicted, controversial character, the meaningful choices, desires and abilities that eventually led him to end his life prematurely but left a huge mark on Zionism and Israel.A film by Ayelet Ofarim | Producer: Yair Qedar | Ha-Ivrim (The Hebrews) SeriesRead a review of the movie in our blog 201600:23:47This movie follows the novel's evolution and shows how it came to have such a significant influence on our lives.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-rise-of-the-novel-and-how-it-has-wormed-its-way-into-our-lives/1526EnglishHistoryArts and populre CultureThe novel is a relatively new art form which has arrived on the scene since the renaissance. However storytelling has always it seems been a part of human culture. This film by Malcolm Hossick traces the development of the novel and how it has come to have a huge impact on our lives.201800:51:18Searching for the unknown Holocaust in former Soviet Unionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-road-to-babi-yar-en/1036EnglishEnglishBoris MaftsirZvi Shefy & Boris MaftsirDocumentaryHistoryHolocaustA documentary project by Boris MaftsirWith the invasion of Germany into the territory of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, a new stage in the history of the Shoah began, characterized by the massacres of Jews, exemplified in the Ukraine.“The road to Babi Yar” shows the events of the first 100 days of the occupation of Ukraine, during which the Nazis, with the participation of local residents, began killing Jews directly in their places of residence, as well as the evolution of the mass murder system in hundreds of killing sites, symbolized by Babi Yar.Conversations with historians, local residents – to those events and Jewish survivors of the Shoah, presented in the film, allow us to recreate a comprehensive and painful picture of the fate of the Jews of Ukraine during the Shoah.The project includes eight films. Click here to explore the full collection.http://www.holocaustinussr.com/** if you have an active subscription to the platform, you can skip the following message** The film is available for free, for personal viewing, which includes a watermark. To watch it, simply click on the Play button above.If you'd like to watch the film in higher quality and without a watermark, please click on Rent and choose the rental period.For institutional use and public screening, please click on Download and choose the appropriate license.201700:12:10https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-science-of-thinking/771EnglishEnglishScience And TechnologyThinking as not as simple as we thought. To survive physically or psychologically, we sometimes need to react automatically. That automatic mode of thinking, not under voluntary control, contrasts with the need to slow down and deliberately fiddle with pencil and paper when working through an algebra problem. These two systems that the brain uses to process information are the focus of this video. Check out this video and learn how our brain works when it comes to thinking.201301:05:59Is there a secret ingredient in Indian food? Israeli restaurant owners go on a quest which becomes a spiritual journeyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/secret-ingredient-en/1075EnglishEnglishDror SchostakDocumentaryAnthropologyTwo restaurant owners in Tel Aviv, which specialize in Indian food, decide to find out the secret ingredient which makes the Indian food so special. They take a pause and go to India with a stills photographer and a documentary filmmaker. Their quest in search of the secret ingredients brings them to fascinating encounters with spiritual teachers, philosophers and thought leaders. The result is a fun and thought provoking movie at the same time.A film by Dror Schostak201200:52:15The roots of early christianityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-secrets-of-bethsaida/260EnglishGilad ShoshanScienceHistoryReligionTHE ROOTS OF EARLY CHRISTIANITYThe film was filmed in Bethsaida in June 2012 – during the work of the expedition from 5 different universities coming from all over the world – led by Professor Rami Arav (currently a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Nebraska, Omaha).Together with Prof. Arav, the film meets with some of the most important New Testament text scholars from Australia, Canada, and the USA and tries to understand the mystery around Bethsaida. The film discussed the secrets that are still buried underneath along with the great discoveries made in the years since Bethsaida was first excavated. Together with the beautiful landscapes of the sea of Galilee, The Golan Heights and the Galilee; the movie is a great experience for the fans of archaeology, geography, history, and obviously to millions of Christians from all over the world.A film by Yuval Hollander201200:23:47A portrait of Yona Wallach, a legendary poet, whose radical life and poetry ended in an early agehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-seven-tapes/716EnglishEnglishYair QedarDocumentary filmsHistoryBiographyArts and populre CultureA cinematic journey into the world of Yona Wallach, a legendary poet, whose radical life and poetry ended in an early age, leaving behind a myth and a trail of admirers. More than 25 years after her death, seven recorded tapes from her last interview are discovered. In these tapes, Wallach confesses on her life journey: her attraction to madness, her experiments with drugs, her relationship with god and about the dangers of writing. The film weaves her testimony with interviews, with rare archival footage, with her poems and with animation that revives Wallach's thoughts, images and visions. THE SEVEN TAPES is a troubling encounter with an exceptional artist, whose riddle remains unsolved to this day. A film by Yair Qedar | Producer: Yair Qedar | Ha-Ivrim (The Hebrews) SeriesRead a review of the film in our blog 201401:13:02A documentary that explores and reflects on the genesis of anti-Jewish prejudice in current Spain.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-stigma/218EnglishEnglishMartí SansMartí Sans & Pablo SanchezJewishHuman RightsHistoryReligionAnthropologyEthnicitiesThe Stigma? is born out of the personal need of his author, Martí Sans, the need to explain himself why during 50 years he had ignored almost everything about a tradition that is part of our cultural and genetic legacy. The immersion in the little Jewish community in Barcelona forced him to reconsider his own prejudice.Judaism is one of the basic pillars of our culture. A historical enigma that has always irritated the West, which knowing itself to be dependent on it, tries to dissociate itself from it. A contradiction experienced with anguish throughout history and many times dealt with in a tragic way.Through interviews with fifteen experts, the documentary unreels the history and mutations of Judeophobia, from the Christian accusation of "deicide" until the emergence of the modern state of Israel. The ignorance and rejection of Judaism are still present in many sectors of our society. The Stigma? proposes to challenge key ideas inherited from centuries of misunderstanding and intolerance that deserve to be rethought.A film by Martí SansFestivals and screenings:First Prize, Punta del Este Jewish Film Festival, UruguayJewish Motifs International Film FestivalNew York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival Curso Interdisciplinar de Humanidades, AlcanizArtisticMetropol, MadridFilm Archive Theater, nominee for the Gaudí AwardsInternational Film Festival of No Violence and Environment (NOVMA FILM FESTIVAL), ColombiaCinema Truffaut, GironaBarcelona Jewish Film FestivalThe film was broadcast inTelevisió de Catalunya201300:49:30Unexpected bonds of understanding and friendshiphttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-strength-to-tell-en/103EnglishEnglishHebrew (modern)Noam DemskyMaale FilmsDocumentary filmsHuman RightsSenior CitizensChildren and AdolescentsHolocaustThe film follows the experiences of a group of "at risk" Jerusalem teenagers, who as part of the Martef drama therapy program are asked to interview the last surviving witnesses of the 1961 Eichmann trial, and create a play based on their stories.The young actors and the aging Survivors at first have little in common and show no desire to communicate, but slowly there develops between them a bond of empathy and understanding. A moving film not easily was forgotten.A film by Noam Demsky Awards: Zionist Film of 2013 by Israel's Minister of Culture   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School 200000:23:47It examines the comedy of courtship of a beautiful but sharp-tempered women and her persistent suitor.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-taming-of-the-shrew-a-play-by-william-shakespeare/1459EnglishArts and populre CultureRelationshipLiteratureShakespearean Drama of the Highest Quality Performed at an authentic recreation of The Globe. With performances by world famous award winning Shakespearean actors this series has recaptured the Elizabethan flavor of Shakespeare's own Globe productions by staging them just as they were seen in the 16th century. One of Shakespeare's most popular plays, "The Taming of the shrew" examines the comedy of courtship of a beautiful but sharp-tempered women and her persistent suitor. The story centers on two sisters and their suitors. Kathernia, the eldest daughter is very beautiful but sharp-tongued that no man showed interest. Bianca is sought by many men but cannot marry until the elder Katherina is wed. A swaggering young adventurer, Petruchio appears seeking a wife and is smitten with Katherina. The stormy courtship of Katherina and Petruchio unfolds as a battle of wits, wills and words. She obeys her father's wish and marries Petruchio and he begins the task of taming his shrew.200002:07:52It convey themes of betrayal, compassion and love in the context of freedom and captivityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-tempest-a-play-by-william-shakespeare/1454EnglishArts and populre CultureLiteratureShakespearean Drama of the Highest Quality Performed at an authentic recreation of The Globe. With performances by world famous award winning Shakespearean actors this series has recaptured the Elizabethan flavor of Shakespeare's own Globe productions by staging them just as they were seen in the 16th century. Shakespeare's classic tale of the fantasy world of spirits, sorcery, monsters, maidens and shipwrecked scheming noblemen is brought to life. Feuding noblemen, embroiled in a world of spirits and sorcery, are forced to come to terms with their past when their children meet by chance and fall in love. A tempest of wind and rain, raised by the magician Prospero, shipwrecks Alonso, King of Naples and his shipboard companions including Duke Antonio of Milan. They are marooned on an enchanted and spirit filled island where each party believes that they are the only survivors. Prospero brings King Alonso, Duke Antonio and court attendants safely ashore. Unbeknown to the rest of the castaways, Ferdinand, the King's son, arrives separately and meets Miranda, Prosperos' daughter. The two fall in love. The missing Ferdinand is assumed drowned. Alonso repents of his past deeds, believing Ferdinand's dealth was punishment for his own wrong-doing. Prospero, convinced that his false brother and the King have reformed, reveals himself as the wronged, but genuine Duke of Milan. The rejoicing group celebrates with the wedding of Ferdinand and Miranda.201601:44:58A Radical New Sharing Economyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-third-industrial-revolution/1125EnglishScienceEconomyThe global economy is in crisis. The exponential exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this feature-length documentary, social and economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin lays out a road map to usher in a new economic system. A Third Industrial Revolution is unfolding with the convergence of three pivotal technologies: an ultra-fast 5G communication internet, a renewable energy internet, and a driver-less mobility internet, all connected to the Internet of Things embedded across society and the environment. This 21st century smart digital infrastructure is giving rise to a radical new sharing economy that is transforming the way we manage, power and move economic life. But with climate change now ravaging the planet, it needs to happen fast. Change of this magnitude requires political will and a profound ideological shift. 200000:23:47Lack of self-awareness can cause confusion and tragedyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-tragedy-of-king-lear-a-play-by-william-shakespeare/1455EnglishArts and populre CultureRelationshipLiteratureShakespearean Drama of the Highest Quality Performed at an authentic recreation of The Globe. With performances by world famous award winning Shakespearean actors this series has recaptured the Elizabethan flavor of Shakespeare's own Globe productions by staging them just as they were seen in the 16th century. The renowned story of mistaken love, familial deceit and murder. Lear, the aging King of Britain, has chosen to lay aside the care of the kingship and divide his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Goneril and Regan speak before the court with expressions of love while Cordelia says she can find nothing to say. For this lack of display, she is disinherited. It later becomes evident that her love is shown in her actions, not mere words. After relinquishing his throne, Lear becomes the object of ridicule, slights and harsh treatment by the two daughters who had professed their great love. Treacher, murder and deceit ensue and Lear and Cordelia are captured and sentenced to death. Cordelia is hanged and Lear, bearing her onstage dead in his arms, collapses and dies of grief.201500:58:04Demystifying some of the myths about sugarhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/truth-about-sugar-en/1031EnglishDocumentaryScience And TechnologyMedicineSugar is the big bad wolf of the diet world, but not that many of us know quite how to quit it or, in fact, what the downsides to a sugary diet actually are.The Truth About Sugar documentary aimed to demystify some of the myths about sugar - namely, what food products secretly contain it - and demonstrate the impact it can make on your health if you reduce the amount you eat.It charted the lives of Cara Patterson, Rick Shabilla, Audrey Cannon and Simon Gallagher, who consumed nearly 119 teaspoons of sugar between them a day. Three of them lost nearly six kilograms each after implementing a low-sugar diet, but Shabilla unfortunately decided to replace his Indian sweets habit with lager and was not as successful.Journalist Fiona Phillips is on a mission to find out the truth behind the recent headlines on sugar. She discovers why some of us have more of a sweet tooth than others, which sugars you can enjoy guilt-free, why there is so much sugar hidden in food you would think was purely savoury and what effect sugary drinks have on the appetite. Fiona also helps four Brits, whose sugar-heavy diets could be putting their health at risk, to change their ways. From coming up with low-sugar recipes to finding ways to beat the sweet cravings, they will see whether cutting back to the levels suggested by health authorities is really achievable and what the benefits actually are. As the dieters progress on their journey, it soon becomes clear that the transformations will be dramatic.199900:54:02Volunteers in Israeli Kibutz are a long time phenomenon. The film follows those who fell in love and chose to stay https://movie-discovery.com/movie/volunteers-in-kibbutz-en/867EnglishHebrew (modern)Mooly LandesmanDocumentaryIsraeli SocietyHistoryVolunteers in Israeli Kibutz are a long time phenomenon. The film follows those who fell in love and chose to stay. Some became Jewish, other got married with Israelis. What made them open up a totally different life in a foreign country?A film by Mooly and Tslil Landesman201400:10:55The creator of the World Wide Web is Sir Tim Berners Lee (TimBL)https://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-web-is-not-the-net/824EnglishScience And TechnologyThe Internet is a global network of computers, which are communicating by using the same communication protocol. But in order to connect efficiently the information and not just computers, another layer was needed. This is the web: WHILE THE INTERNET CONNECTS PARTICIPANTS, THE WEB CONNECTS INFORMATION. The creator of the world wide web is Sir Tim Berners Lee (TimBL).Poster image: The Internet Messenger by Buky SchwartzPhoto credit: Dr. Avishai Teicher, Pikiwiki Israel199400:24:43A couple in their last preparations for their weddinghttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-wedding-midrash/174EnglishEnglishRachel RosenbergRelationshipMaale FilmsDocumentaryA couple, in their last preparations for their wedding. He's a famous musician in the Jewish ultra-orthodox world, she's a Jewish orthodox girl. They encounter unexpected difficulties before the event. A film by Rachel Rosenberg   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201000:59:31An intimate portrait of a man determined to cope with memory losshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-winner-loser/981EnglishPsychologyFamilyDaniel Macnee can’t remember what the weather was like yesterday – never mind anything that happened in his past. Danny has a rare condition called hydrocephalus or "water on the brain", which destroys his brain function and memory. Danny exists in the moment, he’s created an extraordinary way of navigating through each day and coping with the memory loss.We observe his unique set of rituals and follow him as he visits a series of eccentric family members and friends whilst returning to significant places that played an important role in his past. He makes these trips armed with his notebooks, crammed with information only he can understand.Filmed over a year ‘The Winner Loser’ is an insightful and entertaining documentary, providing an intimate portrait of a man determined to piece together his own history and overcome the massive challenges he faces every moment of every day. We are taken into Danny’s world with a mixture of animation and an observational approach that is both sensitive and probing. 201800:47:26Leah is ready to get married, but her widowed mother finds it hard to let her gohttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/mezinka-the-youngest-en/1271EnglishHebrew (modern)Jewish way of lifeWomenDocumentary filmsFictionLeah, the youngest child in the family, is ready to get married. But her widowed mother finds it hard to let her go. The film takes place in Hanukkah and with the light of the candles, things begin to change. A film by Rachel Elitzur Rachel grew up in an ultra orthodox house and is a graduate of Ma'ale film school in Jerusalem.Today she manages the ultra orthodox Jewish film studies in Ma'ale film school201100:51:02The deep complicated relationship between the Famous Iconic Israeli Rock-star, Ariel Zilber, who now became Ultra-Orthodox, and his son Roeyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-zilber-and-me/197EnglishEnglishRoei ZilberDavid Noy & Yoram IvryDocumentary filmsFamilyMusicRoei Zilber has always felt he was under the "family spell". Emotionally detached and musically obsessive, he felt awkward being the estranged son of a rock-star. But Ariel Zilber was not just your typical drugs-sex-rock'n'roller. Coming from an iconic musical family, he revolutionized Israeli music with his offbeat melodies and eccentric behavior. And while his music career took off, his personal and family life plunged into turmoil. As things began to change, Ariel began to search for meaning in his life. Though the rift between them was always vast, it got more complicated when Ariel decided to become Ultra-Orthodox, supporting the messiah movement and right wing politics. Determined to break the family spell, Roy begins to confront his father and film their relationship, while researching his family's pathology. Their efforts lead to the only common ground they share: Music.A film by Roei Zilber200800:55:28The amazing story of the Israeli paralympic swimming teamhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/three-hundredths-of-a-second/262EnglishEnglishPascale BerkovichYoram Schaffer & Roni BerkovitchBiographySportsSpecial NeedsPascale, the director of the film, a disabled athlete and a former member of the prestigious swimming team herself, thought it would be great (and easy) to make a film about her teammates, her friends. But as pressure towards the olympic mounts, a crisis follows and raises questions about the role of the camera: is it just observational or is it affecting the protagonists' behaviour, while disrespecting their right for privacy and peace of mind? - Along with the ethical questions, the drama is at its peak with three gold medals and three world records, set by the team's favourite swimmer.A film by Pascale BerkovitchFestivals:Haifa International Film FestivalHong Kong Israeli Film Festival 200700:19:01A story of the ideological meaning of Homehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/thy-face/95EnglishEnglishOrit RosenbergJewish way of lifeMaale FilmsWarFamilyIt's the summer of 2005 and in their little house in Homesh Yael and Nitay sing, cry, and shout. Shortly, soldiers will come and evict them from their home as part of the Disengagement Plan.Two years later, the family lives in the Mussrara neighborhood of Jerusalem, alongside ultra-orthodox Jews. Yael and Nitay's neighbors think that the panoramic photo of Homesh on the wall is just an interesting piece of art, and have no idea of its significance…A story of the ideological meaning of "home".A film by Orit Rosenberg   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200500:57:39How Jerusalem turned from a present to the British crown to a bloody nightmare. Documenting 30 years of British rulinghttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/till-we-have-built-jerusalem-en/961EnglishEnglishEli CohenDocumentaryWar And ConflictHistoryLlyod George, Prime Minister of England, said in 1917 that Jerusalem was "a Christmas present for the British nation". Had he known how much this gift would cost the empire, he might have wished for something else..The British dream of the holy, beloved city of Jerusalem underwent so many upheavals and eventually became a nightmare. It was during the British Mandate period that Jerusalem became the capital of the country, a modern city hose populate trebled. Its status as a holy city for three religions made it a focus of religious and national struggle with bloodshed on all sides. But the violence did stop the city's growth and development in all other areas.The film document the 30 years of British rule in Jerusalem, through historians who present the Jewish, Palestinians and British points of view, as well as film clips as well as excerpts from newsreels from the time that illustrate the history of the conflict, which remain unresolved to this day.A film by Eli CohenWith: Sir Martin Gilbert, Dr. Bernard Wasserstein, Lord Michael Allenby, Prof. Gideon Biger, Dr. Mustafa Kabaha, Prof. Musa Budeiri, David Kroyanker, Dr. Meron Benvenisti.201400:50:00The life of legendary actress Rozina Camboshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/rozina-cambos-documentary/1677EnglishEnglishHebrew (modern)Ella Zaharano GrunholzBruno LandesbergWomenDocumentary filmsBiographyArts and Popular CultureRozina Cambos, adored actress and a happy. optimistic personality, was slowly dying of cancer. This is when when director Ella Zaharano decides to make a film about Rozina.Ella knew Rozina since she (Ella) was a small kid and was always fascinated by Rozina, who became a legend in her lifetime.By documenting the struggle against the disease and gathering and combining archival footage, Ella succeeds in creating an emotional, delicate film, which gives tribute to Rozina and her rich career on stage.Rozina Cambos was born in Romania. She was a known actress when the Nicolae Ceaușescu regime arrested and tortured her. she then moved to Israel (made "Aliya") and quickly and naturally assimilated in the local theatrical scene in Israel.her incessant optimist and her love of the red color are the basis of the film and its title.Rozina Cambos on Wikipedia"A fascinating film"Jacob Brow, Ma'ariv 200701:15:04A meeting of mothers of a teen Palestinian suicide bomber who killed an Israeli Jewish girl her agehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/to-die-in-jerusalem/205EnglishEnglishHilla MedaliaEd Priddy, John PriddyWomenHuman RightsWarAn Israeli teenager was killed by a suicide bomber with whom she seemed to have shared more similarities than differences. In late March of 2002, Jerusalem teen Rachel Levy was killed in a suicide bombing carried out by Palestinian teen Ayat al-Akhras. Though their disparate religious backgrounds would suggest that Levy and al-Akhras had little in common, both girls were 17 years old, bore an uncanny physical resemblance to one another, and spent the majority of their woefully brief lives less than four miles apart. Ever since Levy's death, her grieving mother has failed to find peace. Now, just a few short years after her daughter was taken in that fateful blast, Levy's mother will come face to face with al-Akhras' mother for the very first time. The result is a film that highlights the vast differences beneath the surface of both girls' lives while putting a decidedly human face on each side of this age-old conflict. By exploring the incredible personal loss experienced by two families who have been touched by the tragedy of this ongoing violence firsthand, filmmaker Medalia ponders the concept of martyrdom and the cycle of violence that threatens to consume an entire region.A film by Hilla Medalia200701:00:01Six Israeli women give a personal account of their life in the Israeli Armyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/to-see-if-i-m-smiling/254EnglishEnglishTamar YaromWomen And GenderWar And ConflictPsychologySix Israeli women give a personal account of their life in the Israeli Army, in the Occupied Territories. A female point of view on the drama of an unending war, on the moral challenges the soldiers faced at the encounter with the Palestinian population. The women look back critically at the way they handled the power that was placed in their hands at the young age of eighteen. Questions that were not dealt with during the service are raised today with great pain.A film by Tamar YaromJury Statement, Hot Docs- Hot Docs, Toronto, Canada 2008: The Special Jury Prize is given to a film that makes all of us face the question: could this be me? Would I behave this way? The director and protagonists share memories of a different and painful existence in a way that touches and challenges us and is relevant everywhere in the world.Jury Statement, IDFA –International DocumentaryFilm Festival, The Netherlands, 2007: A brave and powerful testimony to the corrosive effect of power.AwardsJacek Kuron Award for Best Short Documentary – Watch Docs Int'l Film Festival, Poland, 2008Best Documentary Award – Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, France, 2008The Silver Wolf Award – IDFA International Documentary Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2007The Audience Award - IDFA International Documentary Festival, The Netherlands, 2007Best Documentary Award – Haifa International Film Festival, Israel, 2007Special Jury Award - Sarasota Film Festival, Florida, USA, 2008Special Jury Award - Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2008First Prize "The Magic Hour" Award - Planete Doc Review, Poland 2008Best Feature Documentary - Dokufest, Kosovo, 2008Best Documentary – The Annual Israeli Documentary Forum Awards, 2008FestivalsAmsterdam International Documentary Film Festival - Silver Wolf and Audience Award, 2007Zagreb Jewish Film Festival, Croatia, 2011Culturescapes Showcase, Switzerland, 2011Transylvania Int'l Film Festival, 2010Perspektive – Int'l Human Rights Film Festival, Nuernberg, Germany, 2009South Caucasus Documentary Film Festival of Peace and Human Rights, 2009Haifa Int’l Film Festival, Israel, 2007 - Best Documentary200400:27:14A special journey of a dreamy and sensitive kidhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/tofu/116EnglishEnglishOrit Ben Hur-RazMaale FilmsIsraeli SocietyChildren and AdolescentsMichael, a dreamy, sensitive 13-year-old, is named after his uncle who fell in the Yom Kippur War. On the morning of Memorial Day, he travels with his father and elder brother to Jerusalem, to participate in a formal ceremony for his uncle at Mt. Herzl. On the way, they are due to drop off a stray dog that Michael has become attached to, at the animal shelter. There are unexpected complications on the journey, and Michael must, as usual, make the choice between being true to himself and being a stranger to the world that surrounds him.A film by Orit Ben Hur-RazRead a review of the movie in our blog   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201300:19:59He has the power to heal the pain of othershttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/touched-en/106EnglishEnglishItay NetzerCouplesMaale FilmsImmaterialFictionIn a foreboding city, in which no one knows and no one cares, there is a young man who draws out the pain from others. He is a dishwasher in a restaurant, completely unnoticed. But as the manager discovers his abilities, everything changes.A film by Itay Netzer   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201700:57:43The untold story of the transit camps in Israel in its early dayshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/transit-camps-en/1440EnglishHebrew (modern)Dina Tsvi RiklisDocumentary filmsIsraeli SocietyHistoryFrom the day Israel was founded in 1948 till the end of 1951, within three and a half years, 700,000  Jewish immigrants arrived to the shores of the country. The vast number of the immigrants (Olim) changed the structure and identity of the local population of 650,000people at the time, as well as its geographic spread. Never in the history of human kind did a country double its population in three years.  At the time Israel was a young country recovering from war, suffering poverty and austerity, trying to form itself. Immigrants who did not find a place of residence, out of lack of relatives in Israel or lack of personal initiative or ability, were placed by the establishment in transit camp, “Ma’abarot” outside of cities and on the margins of existing settlements. All in all a third of the immigrants lived in the Ma’abarot, for various periods of time, in tents, sheds, fabric sheets and asbestos sheds. Life in the Ma’abarot was challenging and fascinating: the struggle to find work, the cold and hot weather in the shed, the encounter with different people from around the world with different values and languages. In order to blend the Ma’abarot residents with the existing “Yishuv” settlements, the establishment set to change the immigrants’ customs of hygiene, marriage, parenting, sanitation, food, music, culture, language etc. The establishment also censored  and supervised  educational and personal materials flowing outside and inside the Ma’abarot. This governmental intervention gradually caused a sense of inferiority and shame at the hearts of the Ma’abarot residents, some of which resonates till this day.  The series tells the incredible stories of the men, women and children who lived in the Ma’abarot; their memories and experiences of life in one pivotal chapter in the history of Israel.Photos by: זולטן קלוגר, The Israel State Archive 200800:50:38In the middle of her rising career, Eylon has to cope with breast cancerhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/transparent-time-en/319EnglishEnglishGali MeiriWomen And GenderBiographyArts and CultureAfter creating the very successful dance and music band Mayumana and In the middle of her rising career, Eylon has to cope with breast cancer.A film by Gali MeiriImage credit: Rosario Cuervo201500:42:30https://movie-discovery.com/movie/travelling-the-silk-road-of-uzbekistan/1126EnglishHistoryAnthropologyWith its magical buildings, fascinating landscapes and friendly people, Uzbekistan has a lot to offer. It is a country caught between rich traditions and modernity.Wild equestrian games, fairy tale palaces and hospitable people proud of their magnificent culture - all this will be encountered by those travelling through Uzbekistan on the Silk Road. The central Asian country borders Kazakhstan to the north and Afghanistan to the south. The journey begins in Samarkand, one of central Asia’s oldest cities.For centuries cities like Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva provided the necessary infrastructure for the caravans on the Silk Road, allowing merchants to trade their goods and providing accommodation for them and their animals. Many buildings still survive to underline the splendor and wealth that trade once generated. In Samarkand, one of the world’s oldest cities, three outstanding Koran schools, known as madrasas, on Registan Square have been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the Boysun region in the Hissar Mountains the ancient, and none-too-gentle riding game known as Kopkari is held at Nowruz, the New Year festival. More than a hundred horsemen try to pick up the body of a dead goat from the ground and to escape with this from all the others. In 1380 the Uzbek folk hero Amir Timur (Tamerlane) had the gigantic Ak Sarav, the White Palace, built in Shahrisabz, the town of his birth. It had a thousand rooms adorned with gemstones.201200:27:51The orbs of light - are they proof of paranormal activity? https://movie-discovery.com/movie/trick-of-the-light/1091EnglishScienceFor decades people have shot stills and video footage of UFOs and convinced nobody. But there is something which is puzzling even the most sceptical scientists. In the Hessdalen Valley 135km east south east of Trondheim, Norway, orbs of light have been seen for the past twenty years. They are said to be from football size to ten metres in diameter, are high up in winter, low in the valley in summer, appear in all sorts of weather, dart about in day and night but are more obvious after dark. Some say the orbs seem to move away when approached by humans. 10km into the valley the road becomes a dirt track and in the wilderness beyond this toward Oyungen Lake is where some of the most dramatic and haunting sightings have occurred. These lights have as yet no logic to their source but Hessdalen is the only place on earth where effort has been put to understanding what these lights are. It is estimated that across the world there are thirty other places where similar lights appear and disappear. The reliability of sighting has attracted the attention of various scientists in particular those keen to snap one clear spectrograph of these illusive orbs. With a clear spectrograph in the can a mystery that has haunted much of humankind for the past half century might be put to bed. ‘Trick of the Light’ observes the quirks and dilemmas of scientists as they dodge the ridicule of their peers and the hunger of UFO groupies in their search to know what makes these light anomalies tick. ‘Trick of the Light’ follows those intent on solving the mystery, as they reach ever nearer to conclusions. 200600:50:12A picturesque fishermen village turns into a war zonehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/troubled-water-en/1628EnglishEnglishGil KarniMeni EliasPoliticsWar And ConflictDugit was established as a picturesque fishermen village in the southern part of Israel. Israeli Jews and Palestinians from Gaza partnered together to make a living from the sea and lived in coexistence. But soon after its establishment, the area became a war zone, torn between politics and interests. The protagonists remained friends despite the circumstances, but the reality was stronger than them. A film by Gil KarniScreened in IDFA documentary film festival201300:23:47Ageing Holocaust survivors are demanding justicehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/twice-orphaned-en/1368EnglishEnglishTalila FrankTalila FrankDocumentary filmsHolocaustAvraham, Ziggy, Schreiber and Robinson form the uncrowned governing council of the “Teheran Children.” The four represent 217 Holocaust orphans who are now bringing legal action against the State of Israel for monies received from Germany for their rehabilitation.In their old age, they have set out to battle the State of Israel, the state of which they dreamed and established through their own hard work.The confrontation with the State, their “official guardian,” once again floods them with the pain of orphanhood. The dozen stormy years of struggle have transformed them into a group with love, a shared fate, and consolation.A film by Talila FrankOfficial Selection - The Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival200900:54:49The hidden story of the Yemenite community in Israelhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/two-legacies/338EnglishEnglishEinat KapachJewish way of lifeDocumentary filmsHistoryBiographyEinat Kapach, the director, is the granddaughter of an illustrious Yemeni rabbi who died today. With the help of her grandmother Bracha, she revived her memory and inquired about the quarrel between the "Ekeshim" and the "Dardaim" which at that time divided the Yemeni community in Yemen and then in Israel.A film by Einat Kapach201200:50:10A group of visionaries is determined to create a new type of rocket enginehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/ultimate-aurora/1037EnglishScienceLife and EnvironmentUltimate Aurora follows Dr. Ben Longmier and his team into the rugged Alaskan wilderness as part of their quest to build a whole new type of rocket engine. Their goal is to test sensitive components by launching them into radiation-filled environments of space aboard helium balloons. They follow the trail to revolutionize space travel and exploration, by harnessing the energy contained in the dynamic fourth state of matter: plasma.This action-packed one-off explores a big dream at the moment of its birth…from dramatic balloon launches on mountain glaciers, to spectacular imagery inside the Sun, and flights through colourful geomagnetic storms.An exciting programme about individuals who are challenging the odds and striking out to new frontiers. As part of a larger trend of private enterprise in space, their audacious plan is to seize the historic initiative by opening up whole new avenues of space exploration. 201600:55:01https://movie-discovery.com/movie/uncle-jack-the-manhattan-project-and-beyond/1484EnglishWarHistoryThe Manhattan Project in World War II was an enormous undertaking that required the efforts of many of the world's most brilliant scientists. Thousands of physicists, mathematicians and engineers were needed to design, build and test the world's first atomic weapon. The United States government did everything in its power to attract these individuals to the top-secret program. For me it was personal: One of those assigned to the project was my uncle, John Edmund Gray. I called him Uncle Jack. The eventual goal of the Manhattan Project was to find a way to end World War II, a conflict in which an estimated 60 million people were killed during the years 1939-1945. My Uncle Jack was one of those the American government relied on, not for his ability to fire a rifle, rather for his brainpower. After the war, John Gray went on to serve American presidents and become one of the leading advocates in the world for the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. Along the way, he became a close colleague of famed Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of America's Nuclear Navy. Ironically, my Uncle Jack's work in the atomic field included consulting with the Japanese as they rebuilt their post-war society. John Gray was regarded as a pioneer in the field of nuclear energy and was front and center as the evolution of that power from wartime use to peaceful means came to fruition. My Uncle Jack's account is just one of 16.1 million American stories that had its roots in World War II.201300:30:28A young activist decides to launch a campaign for the street mayor in his townhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/union-street-en/126EnglishEnglishMatan PinkasMaale FilmsDocumentaryIsraeli SocietyA young activist who is also a filmmaker begins a personal campaign to elect the head of Histadrut Street, a small road in the center of Jerusalem. The very concept and the campaign disrupt the daily routines of the area residents and people who wander by.A film by Matan Pinkas   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201700:51:18Searching for the unknown Holocaust in the former Soviet Unionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/until-the-last-step-en/1045EnglishEnglishBoris MaftsirZvi Shefy & Boris MaftsirDocumentaryHistoryHolocaustA documentary project by Boris MaftsirTowards the end of winter 1941-42 almost all of the campaigns of the murder of the Jews in Eastern Belarus were already complete. In many places in western Belarus, there were still ghettos.This film describes some of the events of the Holocaust in Belarus between summer 1942 and until the destruction of the ghettos in the fall of 1943.The town of Lachva in Belarus is actually more of a village than a city. In its center is the only food store and a memorial to the Red Army soldiers. In a shady spot is a memorial stone for the murdered of the ghetto – with an uncharacteristic dedication-  Honor and Glory. This memorial was erected to memorialize the uprising in the Lachva ghetto, which was one of the first such uprisings against the German invader. The rebels had not chance. They knew their fate was doomed, but they chose how to die. The uprisings in Lachva and in other ghettos in shtetls surprised the oppressors. For the first time they came upon Jews who were willing to resist. Until the Last Step presents stories of heroism and death in the ghettos of Nesvitch, Lachva, Gluboki and the brave story of escape through a tunnel in the Novogrudek ghetto. The film also exposes the Nazi’s attempt to obscure the massacre of Jews that was taking place. The project includes eight films. 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To watch it, simply click on the Play button above.If you'd like to watch the film in higher quality and without a watermark, please click on Rent and choose the rental period.For institutional use and public screening, please click on Download and choose the appropriate license.200900:22:06Documenting the very few places left intact on earthhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/untouched-planet-1-en/993EnglishEnvironmentAnthropologyThis episode takes us to the Florida Everglades, the lakes of fire in Africa's Rift Valley, the puffin's nesting season in Scotland, to New Guinea, the Great African Rift and more.Video preview image credit200900:22:29Documenting the very few places left intact on earthhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/untouched-planet-2-en/997EnglishEnvironmentAnthropologyThe Untouched Planet explores the spectacular untouched beauty of the remote landscapes, plants and animals that serve as the final frontiers of the natural world. This episode takes us to Canada's fertile rivers, to Madagascar, the Falkland Islands, the North American Prairies, the Caribbean, and more.Video preview image credit200900:22:15Documenting the very few places left intact on earthhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/untouched-planet-3-en/998EnglishEnvironmentAnthropologyThe Untouched Planet explores the spectacular untouched beauty of the remote landscapes, plants and animals that serve as the final frontiers of the natural world. This episode takes us to the Red Sea Reefs, to Africa's Sahara Desert plains, the pacific Island of Palau, and more.Video preview image credit200900:22:04Documenting the very few places left intact on earthhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/untouched-planet-4-en/999EnglishEnvironmentAnthropologyThe Untouched Planet explores the spectacular untouched beauty of the remote landscapes, plants and animals that serve as the final frontiers of the natural world. This episode takes us to the Australian rainforests, the European Alps, the Arctic, to the heart of the Amazon rainforest, and more.Video preview image credit201800:23:47A painter who became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history after his deathhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/van-gogh-an-artist-and-his-work/1524EnglishHistoryBiographyArts and Popular CultureVincent van Gogh was born in 1853 the 5th child of a respected Dutch Protestant priest. Largely self taught he only settled on becoming an artist in his late twenties. He was very practical and knew the difficulties of what he wanted to do. He suffered from depression but in a working career of a dozen or so years he produced some of the best loved paintings of any age. This film by Malcolm Hossick introduces some of his greatest works and through some of the letters he wrote to his brother and friends we learn of his approach to his work. Uncomplicated, astonishingly talented and extraordinarily confident Van Gogh was a master of his craft and a great believer in human worth. He produced work which touches the heart of all who see it and the film is a celebration of the man and his art201000:43:39The story of one of Britain's most reviled paedophileshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/vanessa-george-wife-mother-paedophile/1012EnglishDocumentaryPsychologyCriminologyThe extraordinary story of a little girl who grew up to be a monster and one of Britain's most reviled paedophiles. Vanessa George, a nursery school teacher, abandoned her daughters and husband for an online life of appalling depravity, taking hundreds of indecent images of toddlers in her care. In December 2009 she was jailed for an indeterminate period and it was revealed that she had been sending explicit images of the children to an online paedophile ring stretching across the UK.Vanessa George: Wife, Mother, Paedophile features in depth interviews with her husband and daughters, who are trying to come to terms with her devastating crimes. Husband Andrew tells of marrying his childhood sweetheart and how she became a loving wife and mother. The programme then traces her decline, sketching her mood changes and dramatic weight gain as she started an online relationship through Facebook with convicted paedophile, Colin Blanchard. Together with news flashbacks, evidence from prosecutors and police archive interviews, this horrific story peels away the veneer of Vanessa George’s apparent bubbly personality to reveal the truth about being up-close and personal with one of Britain’s most evil women.Read more about the Vanessa George case200200:33:09Malki is about to leave the house and country she lived in most of her lifehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/vienna-end-en/941EnglishEnglishIdit Gan ZviIdit Gan ZviMaale FilmsDocumentaryFamilySenior CitizensMalki has been living in Vienna for most of her life. But now he is about to leave Vienna for Israel, where her children and grandchildren live.  The film focuses on her last week in Vienna:  packing, saying goodbye, dealing with the loss of her husband and examining the relationship with her son.A film by Idit Gan Zvi  Produced by Maale film . school201101:13:16A story about remarkably gifted kidshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/violinists/76EnglishEnglishAlex GentelevDocumentary filmsChildren and AdolescentsMusicA small story of a small place, where people hide amidst the crowd, their names unfamiliar to the press, a present reality derived from the past. Yet deep inside, it is a big story which rises from social distress. This is a Sisyphean, uncompromising journey of 10-year-old children from Tiberias who are remarkable at playing the violin. The creators of the film were allowed a rare chance to probe with the camera at the greatest question a documentary filmmaker can ask himself while portraying a true-life situation: Can this reality be changed? And if so, how?A film by Alex GentelevAwards:First Award  Best Anthropology "Gold Panda" Sichuan TV International Film Festival First award for production by Gesher Film Fund201800:59:28L’histoire biblique du royaume de David est-elle vraie ?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/long-live-king-david-fr/1356EnglishFrenchDocumentary filmsHistoryReligionPoliticsL’histoire biblique du royaume de David est-elle vraie ? Cette question divise le monde académique. Typique de la Terre Sainte, elle implique désormais le monde politique, religieux et éveille beaucoup de passions. Le film essaye de trouver la réponse en dévoilant des découvertes inattendues.Les CinéastsIdo ZAND est né en 1976 à Hadera, en Israël. Dès sa sortie de son école professionnelle de montage, il commence à travailler dans l’industrie de la télévision. Après quelques années, il retourne à l’Université de Tel-Aviv où il étudie l’histoire et le cinéma. Il s’occupe du montage de plusieurs documentaires et en tant que réalisateur, travaille pour les principaux programmes d’investigation d’Israël. Ses films traitent de l’histoire juive et de l’actualité israélienne.Yael LEIBOVITZ est née en 1975 à Rehovot, en Israël. A la sortie de l’Université de Tel-Aviv où elle se forme au cinéma, elle découvre le monde du montage, particulièrement celui du documentaire, de clips vidéo musicaux et de programmes de télévision. Elle commence ensuite à écrire des scénarios et à réaliser ses propres films. A travers eux, elle explore fréquemment le passé et le présent de l’histoire juive, le monde dans lequel elle a grandi.201500:10:55Moments of passion, yearning, regret and the search for Godhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/wall-crevice-tear/82EnglishEnglishTehila RaananJewish way of lifeWomenMaale FilmsImmaterialA lyrical, poetic look at the women’s section of the Western Wall. Judaism, Christianity, piety and secularism all wrestle for their place at the Wall night and day, rain or shine. With a hypnotic and stylized cinematography, the director uncovers moments of passion, yearning, regret and the search for God. Director uncovers moments of passion, yearning, regret and the search for God.A film by Tehila Raanan  Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201501:24:36The true story of one of the most incredible escapes in all of World War II, with an ending that will surprise viewershttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/war-journal-the-incredible-world-war-ii-escape/1483EnglishWarHistoryThe true story of one of the most incredible escapes in all of World War II, with an ending that will surprise viewers. Two Americans, Damon Gause and William Lloyd Osborne, both escapees of Bataan-"Rocky" Gause from Corregidor and escaped and sailed from the Philippines to Australia and freedom. It took Gause and Osborne 52 days and 3,200 miles to reach freedom. During the trip the Americans faced typhoons, constant threats from Japanese ships, submarines and airplanes, lack of water and food and even a visit to the world's largest leper colony. When the two Americans finally arrived at General Douglas MacArthur's office in Brisbane, Australia after their harrowing journey, the only thing one of the war's most famous generals could say was "Well, I'll be damned." What makes this story so amazing is that both men kept a journal during their travels and also had a small camera on board given to them on one of the islands they visited. We have their daily thoughts and emotions to guide us during their long and treacherous journey, plus some incredible photographs that the men took on their trip.201700:51:18Searching for the unknown Holocaust in the former Soviet Unionhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/we-allow-you-to-die-en/1042EnglishEnglishBoris MaftsirZvi Shefy & Boris MaftsirDocumentaryHistoryHolocaustA documentary project by Boris MaftsirThe film “We allow you to die” depicts some of the Holocaust events that took place during the first year of the greatest patriotic war in Romanian occupied Soviet Union territories. The Fall of Odessa – 200 thousand Jews lived in Odessa before the war. Only half managed to leave before the arrival of the Romanians.The remaining Jews endured murderous round ups in the initial days of occupation. 40 thousand Jews were murdered in Odessa and another 70 thousand Jews were deported to camps and ghettos in Transnistria. The majority were murdered there, or died of starvation.We allow you to die – The story of the starvation camp Pechora on the border between Transnistria and the German occupied Vinnytsia district in the Ukraine. A “model” camp that illustrates the murderous policy of the Romanians towards the Jews: death by starvation and disease. The project includes eight films. Click here to explore the full collection. http://www.holocaustinussr.com/** if you have an active subscription to the platform, you can skip the following message** The film is available for free, for personal viewing, which includes a watermark. To watch it, simply click on the Play button above.If you'd like to watch the film in higher quality and without a watermark, please click on Rent and choose the rental period.For institutional use and public screening, please click on Download and choose the appropriate license.200700:23:4751 years of relationship, love, loneliness and longinghttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/welcome-home-mani-en/1088EnglishEnglishHebrew (modern)Chaim ElbaumDocumentary filmsSenior CitizensRachel and Mani (Emanuel) are married for 51 years. They fight for their relationship against the loneliness of ageing and disability.Rachel's mood swings between optimism and the love of life against hopelessness and despair.Everyday she goes out to "work", caretaking of Mani in the rehabilitation center and then goes back to sleep alone on the house.Mani, a strong optimistic person, have had a stroke. He cries each time Rachel arrives: He wants to go home.Rachel recollects herself, leaves the the house she loved and rents another apartment with an elevator. She also hires a caretaker, so that Mani could leave in the house.So why does she feel she's like thin air?A film by Chaim ElbaumWon the second prize in Docaviv film festival201300:23:47ATHEISM means lack of faith or strong disbelief in the existence of God.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-atheism/1558EnglishNikila ColeArts and Popular CultureReligionCould the best kind of belief possibly be, no belief at all? Host Tevya decides to check out atheism. As the program begins he finds himself in a graveyard, where he is visited by an important insight ... "being dead sucks!" Later in the program, he meets the president of Canada's Freethought Association, which stirs up a little controversy with it's provocative ad slogan "There's probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy life". Finally, he finds himself immersed in God.201300:23:47Buddhism is a spiritual path that leads to insight into the true nature of reality via meditation and spiritual growth. https://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-buddhism/1560EnglishNikila ColeArts and Popular CultureReligionWith more than 300 million followers worldwide, Buddhists follow a path towards enlightenment in what is as much a religion, as it is a way of life. A Buddhist Monk attempts to quieten host Tevya's mind, but first - a celebration. It's Buddha's birthday and Tevya is in for a food-fight while meeting "The Hungry Ghosts".201500:24:50Catholicism refers to the traditions, beliefs, and behaviors of the Catholic Churchhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-catholicism/1579EnglishEnglishPaul KempArts and Popular CultureReligionCatholics are by far the largest sect of Christianity in the world, so from the Pope to the Confessional booth, Tevya learns what makes Catholicism such an enduring 2000 year-old faith.201300:23:47Evangelicals take the Bible seriously and believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lordhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-evangelical-christianity/1559EnglishNikila ColeArts and Popular CultureReligionWhile many mainline Christian churches are in decline, Evangelical Christianity remains a powerful force in the 21st century. With 2.1 billion followers worldwide, this particular branch of faith must be doing something right. In this program, host Tevya enters the world of Evangelicals, meeting a local pastor whose weekly service is broadcast to five different locations and features a full rockband. He learns that it is all about giving back.201300:23:47Hinduism combines the beliefs, philosophy, and cultural practices of India.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-hinduism/1555EnglishNikila ColeArts and Popular CultureReligionHost Tevya begins his spiritual quest by investigating Hinduism, a faith with some 900 million followers worldwide. He attends the Durga Puja festival, an annual celebration for the Hindu goddess Durga with his teen guide Kritika. Tevya explores Little India searching for a present for the goddess and learns a little Kathak dancing with Kritika along the way!201300:23:47The word “Islam” means “submission to the will of God.”https://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-islam/1557EnglishNikila ColeArts and Popular CultureReligionIslam has 1.6 billion followers around the world - so perhaps it's where host Tevya will find the answer's he's looking for. He starts out with a visit to the Taric Islamic Centre where he learns why it is important to cleanse himself before prayer, what Halal is, an introduction to the history of Muhammad and the devotion it takes to be a Muslim.201300:23:47https://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-judaism/1556EnglishNikila ColeArts and Popular CultureReligionContinuing his quest for belief, host Tevya get's a fresh look at the history and traditions of the Hasidic Jews (a little different to the Judaism he was used to). Rabbi Kaplan and some new friends offer insight into the most important passage in a Jewish boy's life, the Bar Mitzvah, celebrate Purim and have dinner with the Rabbi's family. Can Rabbi Kaplan reveal the answer to one of the burning questions - why can't Jews eat bacon?201700:05:43A history of the anti-communist aggressive campaignhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-maccarthyism/732EnglishHistoryPoliticsFREE VIDEO.  In the 1950s, as part of a campaign to expose suspected Communists, thousands of individuals were aggressively investigated and questioned before government panels. Named after its most notorious practitioner, the phenomenon known as McCarthyism destroyed lives and careers. But how did this episode of political repression take off? Ellen Schrecker traces the history of McCarthyism. From TedEx201300:23:47A Christian denomination that adheres to the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Sermon on the Mounthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-mennonite/1561EnglishNikila ColeArts and Popular CultureReligionTrading in his city clothes and cell phone for a black hat and plain shirt, host Tevya goes off the grid into a world where technology is taboo and life is humble. Mennonites live without modern conveniences, drive horse and buggies and worship in their own devout yet simple ways. Can city-boy Tevya survive a cattle auction, farming by hand and a quilting circle?201300:23:47It is a form of Christianity that emphasizes direct experience of the work of the Holy Spirit and the presence of God.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-pentecostalism/1564EnglishNikila ColeArts and Popular CultureReligionIt is the fastest growing Christian church on earth and here The Holy Spirit truly flows. Host Tevya joins the boisterous celebration of worship at a Pentecostal Revival church where speaking in tongues, writhing on the floor and spiritual healing are all part of the faith experience. He travels to Bible camp to learn how young Pentecostals really feel the spirit, get baptized and how they pray for Tevya's soul.201500:24:50Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is a religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-rastafari/1581EnglishEnglishPaul KempArts and Popular CultureReligionDreadlocks. Reggae and Bob Marley. Tevya meets a teenager who unlocks the truth behind the beliefs of the "Rasta".201500:24:50https://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-shintoism/1582EnglishEnglishPaul KempArts and Popular CultureReligionFrom learning the art of the Samurai warrior to taking part in an ancient tea ceremony, Tevya reveals the secrets of a faith that is as old as Japan itself, Shintoism.201300:23:47"Sikhism" refers to the Sikh religion, which was established in the 15th century in northern India by Guru Nanakhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-sikhism/1565EnglishNikila ColeArts and Popular CultureReligionFrom turbans to ceremonial daggers (kirpans), the symbols and practices of Sikhism are revealed to host Tevya in this program. At the birthday celebration for Guru Nanak, the 15th-century founder of the faith, Tevya learns how and why Sikh's pray, how they cook "vegetarian" for the masses, and why Sikh's consider warriors "Saintly". The fight for the poor is a holy calling as Tevya discovers.201300:23:47Zoroastrianisma was a major influence on the development of Islam, Judaism and Christianityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-is-zoroastrianis/1562EnglishNikila ColeArts and Popular CultureReligion2500 years ago Zoroastrianism was the world's most powerful religion and a major influence on the development of Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Today it is one of the smallest, practiced in only a few tiny pockets around the planet. Host Tevya attends a sacrosanct New Year's party and partakes in the sacred coming of age ceremony, Navjote, in the presence of the Zoroastrian's most revered symbol - a fire that has been burning for 3,500 years.201600:58:46The world's most expensive paintingshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/what-makes-art-valuable/1144EnglishArts and populre CultureWhat makes a piece of art worth tens of millions dollars at auction? A number of things, but not always the things you'd think. BBC's The World's Most Expensive Paintings chronicles the world's ten most valuable paintings, by way of journalist Alastair Sooke's guided tour of the collectors, locales, and Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses that link these great pieces of art together.201400:14:23A gentle human relationship between Yitzhak and his bouncy black dog, Bruthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/white-mist/88EnglishEnglishFeige WolfusCouplesMaale FilmsFamilyImmaterialThe dark apartment is filled with memories of their life together, Yizhak and Brut. One is a veteran immigrant from the Former Soviet Union, the other a small, black bouncy dog. Brut has a tumor on his hind leg and the two of them get up early one morning to go to the veterinarian. Yitzhk is expecting the leg to be amputated and Brut is just happy to be out on a walk.A film by Itaay NetzerAwards:Second prize for Best Short Film at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, California, 2015Fifth Place CILECT Competition, 2014   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201100:30:37A religious girl has falls in love with a young farm boyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/why-does-the-sun-en/102EnglishEnglishEfrat KaufmanCouplesWomenMaale FilmsChildren and AdolescentsMaayan is a student at a religious girls' boarding school. She causes a scandal by falling in love with Baruch, a young farm worker.A film by Efrat KaufmanAwardsInternational Film Festival, Jerusalem Cinemateque 2011Israeli Competition, Student Film Festival Tel Aviv 2012   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201700:42:31 Part 1 : Are robots set to take over?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/will-robots-steal-our-jobs-part1/1113EnglishScienceEconomy"Robot Apocalypse" is a modern expression that refers to a fear of technological advance, but the anxiety goes back centuries. In 1589, Queen Elizabeth refused to grant the inventor of a mechanical knitting machine a patent for fear of putting manual knitters out of work. Even economists, such as John Maynard Keynes, have worried about "technological unemployment." The fear has not receded. A recent headline from Business Insider suggests that "machines may replace half of human jobs." Before your anxiety rises to uncomfortable levels, consider economist David Autor's warning that journalists tend to overstate the extent to which machines will substitute for human labor and ignore the positive aspects that benefit workers and create jobs.Society is facing radical changes. Industry 4.0 - the fourth industrial revolution - is the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. Artificial intelligence is constantly gaining ground.The digital era and the Internet are not just changing industrial production processes. An increasing number of jobless people are facing stiff competition from intelligent machines. One software company owner in the US even says the machines are better designed to do most jobs than people are. And that isn’t just restricted to the car industry. Workers cost money and employers are out to minimize labor costs.What will that mean? Soon there could be more intelligent robots and machines than humans and they could soon be replacing people in the workplace. Industry 4.0 poses a great challenge to the world as we know it and millions of people could lose out in the process.201600:42:31Part 2 : Could Robots and machines soon replace humans in the workplace?https://movie-discovery.com/movie/will-robots-steal-your-jobs-part2/1114EnglishEnglishScienceEconomyAs artificial intelligence improves, machines could soon replace us in the workplace.Society is facing radical changes. Industry 4.0 - the fourth industrial revolution - is the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. Artificial intelligence is constantly gaining ground.Some study found that in more advanced economies like the U.S. and Germany, up to one-third of the 2030 workforce may need to learn new skills and find new work. In economies like China’s, roughly 12 percent of workers may need to switch occupations by 2030.The report also provides insight into the industries that will be least impacted by robots and the skills needed to fill those positions.The digital era and the Internet are not just changing industrial production processes. An increasing number of jobless people are facing stiff competition from intelligent machines. One software company owner in the US even says the machines are better designed to do most jobs than people are. And that isn’t just restricted to the car industry.  Workers cost money and employers are out to minimise labour costs. What will that mean? Soon there could be more intelligent robots and machines than humans and they could soon be replacing people in the workplace. Industry 4.0 poses a great challenge to the world as we know it and millions of people could lose out in the process.200700:29:59Raising profound questions about family, love and commitmenthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/willingly-en/125EnglishEnglishPazit Lichtman-EpsteinJewish way of lifeCouplesMaale FilmsFictionYoni and Michal, who have been married for only a year, arrive at the Rabbinate to formalize their divorce. The two experience different emotions while waiting in line, and the ceremony has an outcome which neither of them expects.The Jewish "get" ceremony, in which the man presents to the woman a bill of divorce, has been taking place behind closed doors for 2000 years, and this drama, thoroughly researched at the Jerusalem Rabbinate, will be the first time that many viewers will have the chance to witness it."Willingly" raises questions about love and commitment, about the advantages and disadvantages of "get" as a ceremony, and about Israel's non-separation of religion and state. All Jewish divorcing couples, regardless of their religious orientation, must divorce with this ceremony in the State of Israel.A film by Pazit Lichtman-Epstein   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School201501:01:21WINDING reveals the untold story of the most infamous river in Israel, the Yarkonhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/winding/295EnglishEnglishAvi BelkinIsraeli SocietyHistoryLife and EnvironmentWINDING reveals the untold story of the most infamous river in Israel, the Yarkon. Exploring the interplay between society politics and nature, Winding presents the Israeli narrative through an entirely new and important lens.We trace the story of the river back from its glory days in pre-state Palestine where Jews and Arabs shared its resources. We watch its deterioration, gaining infamy as the most polluted and dangerous river. And we follow in its current attempts at healing and recovery.Using a combination of rare archival materials and personal interviews, we reveal the profound connection between society and its land, between nature and man.Read a review in our blogFestivals and AwardsBest Israeli Documentary Film. HAIFA International Film Festival. Israel / 2014Official selection, Planet in Focus 17th Annual Environmental FF. Toronto. Canada /  2016Official selection, Golden Tree International Documentary FF. Frankfurt Germany / 2016Finalist , Blowup Chicago Art-house FF. USA / 2016Official selection, SIFF – Sunlight International FF. Moscow / 2017  Official selection, Pelicam international film festival. Romania / 2017Best documentary feature film. FICA film Festival. Goia, Brazil / 2018Honorable Mention award, The Green film Festival at the World Water forum. Brasilia, Brazil  / 2018Director // Avi BelkinBorn on November first 1977, in north Tel Aviv just one Block across the Yarkon River. Graduated Film school At the Hamidrasha Art Faculty of Beit Berl College in 2007. Currently living and working in Los Angeles, shooting a new documentary film about a small violent town in Missouri. Producer // Avi LeviI was born in 1976 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Where I currently live and work as a cinematographer and film producer. Since graduating from the Film department at Hamidrasha Art Faculty at Beit Berl College in 2005, I have worked on a number of different films. In 2012, Matka (paddleball), a film I shot, won the DocoChallenge competition at the DocAviv Festival. In 2013 I co-shot The Workshop a video art for the artist Gilad Ratman, which represented Israel in the Venice Arts Biennale. In 2015 I concluded five years of work on the documentary winding, in which I produced and shot.201000:49:55The world's first nuclear accidenthttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/windscale-1957-the-nuclear-winter/1090EnglishScienceIn October 1957, one of the Windscale nuclear reactors caught fire. It was the world's first nuclear accident, attributed to the rush to build atomic weapons. This programme highlights the mistakes leading to a nuclear event which, 40 years on, still takes second place only to Chernobyl.200700:40:14Major Roi Klein died sacrificing himself to save his soldiershttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/with-all-your-soul/236EnglishEnglishNurit Jacobs YinonIsraeli SocietyWar And ConflictBiographyNurit Jacobs YinonMajor Roi Klein was killed in the battle at Bint Jbeil in the Second Lebanon War. He died sacrificing himself to save his soldiers, as he leaped onto a hand grenade and cried out the "Shma Yisrael" prayer. Roi Klein received the IDF Highest Medal of Honor, which his family received on his behalf.Klein had won a high citation for his actions in a previous battle, but almost none of his friends knew this, as Klein modestly requested that his parents keep it as a secret. Klein, an engineer by training, devoted family man, Torah scholar, soldier, and leader, excelled in many areas and was deeply devoted to them all. The movie accompanies Yifat, his older sister, on her journey to trace his character, the various aspects of his life, and his last days until the battle in which he was killed.With Yifat the movie attempts to understand the materials that make up a man who chooses to sacrifice his life for those who surround him and for his beliefs. This is a movie about a courageous soldier, who was a loving husband, a proud father, and above all sought truth and kindness in all he did. This is a movie about love between siblings, whose blood ties are stronger than any disagreement.A film by Nurit Jacobs Yinon201001:00:53The world of poetry and jazz come togetherhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/with-music-my-poetry-sounds-better/245EnglishEnglishDaniel JariodHuman RightsArts and CultureMusicAnthropologyMinoritiesA documentary in which the world of poetry and jazz come together and in which two men transmit their passion for their country through words and music. This country, Catalonia, is still struggling to obtain its independence and the recognition of its culture and language. This is the documentary behind the musical "Cantata" and is based on the work of the famous Catalan poet Salvador Espriu (1913-1985). The documentary shows how the Catalan people are still unhappy with their situation, even though some things have changed since Franco's time.A film by Daniel Jariod201201:08:52Bassam and Rami, former soldiers on opposite sides, embark on a joint mission to humanize the opposing sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict https://movie-discovery.com/movie/within-the-eye-of-the-storm/231EnglishEnglishShelley HermonFirefly Pictures & Nisansun ProductionsHuman RightsIsraeli SocietyWar And ConflictBassam and Rami, a Palestinian and Israeli, were once dedicated fighters willing to kill and be killed by one another for the sake of their nations. Yet each one of them came face to face with the price of war when their daughters were killed in the conflict. Left with the excruciating pain of bereavement, they chose to do the unexpected. They set out on a joint journey to humanize the very enemy, which took the dearest thing from them and prevent the vicious cycle of retaliation in themselves and their societies. Along the way, they reveal the friendship and humor that keeps them alive. The film follows their two parallel stories and the moments where they converge, both in their personal experiences and peace work as they face their shattered families, confused communities and opposing society. This is a critical junction in both their lives, as their life mission and personal agenda clash and they stand the biggest test to their friendship.A film by Shelley Hermon201700:13:39A personal story of forced adoption in late 1960s Australia.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/without-consent/1110EnglishDiane BusuttilHuman RightsFamilyWithout Consent weaves a personal story about forced adoption in late 1960s Australia with a visually stunning journey through Australian landscapes. It recounts the legal climate of outcast unmarried women who were pregnant during these years, the systemized abuse they endured in the name of God and the stories they hid.201000:56:04To educate students and future generations about the personal stories of the WWII generation.https://movie-discovery.com/movie/world-war-ii-saving-the-reality/1467EnglishDocumentary filmsHistoryHolocaustTells the story of an individual who owns the largest private collection of World War II artifacts in the world. Over 50 interviews with veterans and survivors of the war help tell the story of the meaning of the over 7,000 individual items in the collection of Kenneth W. Rendell.200401:19:21The life and art of Hezi Lesklyhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/yakantalisa-en/1442EnglishEnglishYair LevDocumentary filmsArts and populre CultureLiterature״The fragrance of the Yakantalisa is bent, as its stalk is bent / and its philosophy is bent...."In May 1994, one of the most complex, unique and significant voices in the Israeli culture fell silent. The poet, artist, choreographer and critic Hezi Leskly died of AIDs at the age of 42. To yers later, a film crew followed in the wake of the words he left behind, to the cities in which he lived - to meet the people that in their lives he caused drama.Yakantalisa - a cinematic portrait of a dead poet. Leskly knew that life and art demand their pound of flesh and as a total artist who blurred the boundaries between the two, he paid dearly.A film by Yair LevA rare document on poetryNachman Ingbar / Yedioth AharonothA must for everyone versed in Israeli cultureAdam Baruch / Camera Obscura magazineHumane, intelligent and movingUri Klein / Uri Klein201100:33:43There is no escape from realityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/yellow-glasses/115EnglishEnglishSteinberg ShiraCouplesMaale FilmsFictionIdentityYa'ara's life is in disarray. She uses her yellow glasses to enter a better world in her imagination. In the end, she learns the hard way that there is no escape from reality.A film by Shira Steinberg   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200901:27:40One last chance. Two different worlds. A future worth fighting forhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/yes-miss-commander-documentary-english/1768EnglishEnglishHuman RightsIsraeli SocietyEducationThis is a gripping film that could only be made about the Israel Defense Forces: a look at basic training for soldiers from high-risk backgrounds, led by young female commanders.Perhaps no other military in the world has embraced social missions as deeply as the IDF. From "Teacher-Soldiers" assisting new immigrants to volunteers establishing rural communities, the IDF has a long history of nation-building. This moving and powerful film documents the pinnacle of those efforts: a project known as "Raful’s Boys."At a boot camp nestled in the hills of the Galilee, 18-year-old recruits arrive after being kicked out of every other framework in society. They carry heavy baggage—criminal records, drug abuse, poverty, and histories of trauma. They enter a specialized military program designed to instill discipline and combat skills, shatter old behavioral patterns, and build a brand-new self-image. The catalysts for this transformation are their commanders—idealistic young women and elite soldiers from entirely different walks of life. The meeting of these two worlds is a constant collision course, yet it is also a journey of social healing, filled with genuine compassion and care.׳The sheer authenticity of this series creates an electric drama׳Yaron Fried, HaaretzBackground: The "Raful" LegacyRaful (Rafael Eitan) was the 11th Chief of Staff of the IDF. A legendary figure, he was known for being rugged, soft-spoken, and incredibly direct. Beyond leading the military during the Lebanon War and the strike on Iraq’s nuclear reactor, Raful championed the project that bears his name (officially known as MAKAM—The Center for Advancing Special Populations).Raful sought to extend a hand to "at-risk" youth—young men from broken homes and harsh social environments whom the military had previously deemed "unfit for service." Believing that previous efforts were insufficient, he established a dedicated program at Chavat HaShomer, a historic site in the Lower Galilee, providing a specialized basic training tailored to their needs. The primary requirement for these young men was a genuine desire to serve. In return, they were promised that if they succeeded, they could integrate into the IDF as full-fledged soldiers, including in elite combat roles.True to Raful’s character, the program demands strict military and operational discipline. These young men must learn to follow orders, wake up at dawn, handle kitchen duty, and—perhaps most challenging—shout "Yes, Commander!" to a young woman their own age. It is a masterclass in restraint and self-discipline—perhaps the best life preparation they will ever receive.The series follows the soldiers and their commanders from the day of enlistment through every breaking point to the final graduation ceremony׳The series offers many glimpses of 'our beautiful side'—Israel at its best׳Assaf Sneider, Maariv200501:03:51A mystery is surrounding prime minister Rabin's assassinationhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/case-unclosed/313EnglishEnglishNaftaly GliksbergDocumentary filmsIsraeli SocietyHistoryPoliticsA mystery is surrounding prime minister Rabin assassination. This documentary raises questions that were never discussed before. Will the mystery be solved?A film by Naftaly Gliksberg200900:18:22A 10 year old kid is torn between his divorced parentshttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/yotam-en/172EnglishEnglishYehonadav FriedmanMaale FilmsFamilyChildren and AdolescentsFictionYotam is a ten-year-old boy from Jerusalem who is trying with all his might to take care of his divorced and emotionally fragile mother.  In a moment of crisis, he flees to his father's new home and family and is tempted, by the atmosphere of warmth and love, to remain there.  But can he give up on his mother?A film by Yehonadav Friedman  Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200301:27:40An unbelievable story about identityhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/you-die-only-twice-en/1425EnglishEnglishYair Lev and David DeriDavid Deri and Markus GlaserDocumentary filmsHolocaustYair Lev, a Israeli documentary filmmaker turns a detective and sets on a personal and historical journey to uncover the true identity behind the man who stole his grandfather's identity and later on became the president of a Jewish community in Austria. Who was this man who took another man's identity? Why and how did he do it? What dark past did he want to conceal? Was he a Nazi? A Kapo? This documentary detective thriller is a journey into the 20th century heart of darkness, which eventually reveals a drama of survival, collaboration with the enemy and finally, at the end of the night, an extraordinary love story.A film by Yair Lev and David Deri201500:44:46A young couple from Tekoa establishes a Jewish home in India for backpackershttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/your-sweet-light/100EnglishEnglishNoam KeidarCouplesMaale FilmsDocumentary filmsFamilyReligionA young couple from Tekoa establishes a Jewish home in India for backpackers. The camera follows the dramatic turns in their relationship that result their work. It is an intense film about ideology and family unity.A film by Noam KeidarAwards: Best Documentary, Ma'ale Graduate Ceremony 2013   Produced by Ma'aleh Film School200000:31:18A biography of one of the most renowned artists in Israelhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/zeritzky-a-portrait-of-an-artist/351EnglishEnglishHebrew (modern)Yakhin HirschDocumentaryBiographyArts and CultureA personal and artistic portrait of one of the most prominent artists in Israel for many years. Born in Ukraine, Zaritzky was always attentive and sensitive to the time, space, context and Israeli light. He led the New Horizons Israeli film school, a group which promoted an abstract and universal language. Zaritzky joined New Horizons after they have quit the artists association, a body in which he himself served as chairman. Zaritzky had a dialog with the classic artists of the past and the film conducts a dialog with him and his creation.A film by Yachin Hirsch201101:07:37The rise and fall of a true American original who has sacrificed everything in his quest for justicehttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/zielinski/246EnglishChase ThompsonHistoryBiographyArts and CultureBy 1983 John Zielinski was a well-known author and photographer. His work had appeared in Life Magazine, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and countless other publications. But in a devastating 1984 contract dispute, he lost $50,000 and his professional credibility. 'This was the opening shot - turning me back into an investigative reporter.' Today Zielinski is the 'most blacklisted author' in the history of Iowa. For 25 years he has dedicated his life to exposing human traffickers, pedophiles, drug dealers and Satanists. But as he says, 'They don't kill you unless you become effective.' 'Zielinski' traces the rise and fall of a true American original who has sacrificed everything in his quest for justice.A film by Ryan G Walker & Chase Thompson201801:46:59По следам неизвестного Холокостаhttps://movie-discovery.com/movie/the-road-to-babi-yar-ru/1050EnglishRussianDocumentaryHistoryHolocaustДокументальный проект Бориса Мафцира“Дорога в Бабий Яр” – новый фильм документального проекта Бориса Мафцира о Шоа евреев Советского Союза.С вторжением Германии на территорию Советского Союза 22 июня 1941 года начался новый этап в истории Шоа, сопровождающийся массовыми убийствами евреев, в том числе на территории Украины.“Дорога в Бабий Яр” представляет события первых 100 дней оккупации Украины, во время которых нацисты при участии местных жителей начали убийства евреев непосредственно в местах их проживания, а также – как действовала система массового убийства евреев в сотнях местах уничтожения, символом которых стал Бабий Яр?Беседы с историками, местными жителями – очевидцами тех событий, евреями, уцелевшими в период Шоа, представленные в фильме, позволяют воссоздать всестороннюю и мучительную картину судьбы евреев Украины в период Шоа.Для просмотра всех 8 фильмов проекта – нажмите здесь.http://www.holocaustinussr.com/** if you have an active subscription to the platform, you can skip the following message** The film is available for free, for personal viewing, which includes a watermark. 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