Sunshine (1999)

The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes…

Someone to Run With (2006)

Through the streets of Jerusalem two teenagers’ stories will unite to tell the summer adventure of their lives. Tamar is an amazingly talented but very quiet and insecure girl, who…

Schwartz Dynasty (Shoshelet Schwartz) (2005)

This bittersweet comedy sees two women with loved ones to bury join forces in a struggle against cemetery politics. The story revolves around Miryam (Miryam Zohar), who goes against tradition…

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003)

16 years old, Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care…

7 Days (Shiva) (2008)

When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their…

Srugim (TV Series)

Applauded for its true-to-life and nuanced portrayal of the modern-Orthodox community in Israel, Srugim follows five single friends looking for love in Jerusalem, while adhering to a religious lifestyle. (The…

Schindler’s List (1993)

Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for…

Restless (2008)

After scraping by in New York for many years, Moshe is finally starting to gain recognition as a poet who recites his texts in a Manhattan bar. The sudden confrontation…

Recollections

Testimony is a unique insight into the Holocaust, but as survivors grow frailer with each passing year it is critical that their stories be heard both to teach about this…

Pesepolis (2007)

In 1970s Iran, Marjane ‘Marji’ Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah’s defeat in the Iranian…

Passover Fever (Leylasede) (1995)

A middle-class Israeli family has a reunion for Passover and find themselves feasting on a smorgasbord of dysfunction as they try to cope with their innumerable problems in this drama….

Paradise Now (2005)

In Nablas on the West Bank, Said and Khaled, who have volunteered to be suicide bombers, receive word it will be tomorrow – the cell’s first operation in two years….

Paper Clips (2004)

As a part of their study of the Holocaust, the children of the Whitwell, TN Middle School try to collect 6 million paper clips representing the 6 million Jews killed…

Or (2004)

Or shoulders a lot: she’s 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning…

Only Dogs Run Free (2007)

A successful lawyer (Ashkenazi), who has traumatic memories from his army service, is testifying against his best friend from his unit. His wife, a social-worker (Zorer), is trying to save…

Nina’s Tragedies (2003)

The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and lows.

My Father My Lord (2007)

Rabbi Avraham and his wife Esther have one son, Menachem, whose birth they regard as miraculous. Menachem’s curiosity about the world is repeatedly stymied by his father, who in one…

Munich (2005)

After Black September’s assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team…

Life According to Agfa (1992)

The film takes place in Tel Aviv, much of it in a fictitious local pub called Barbie, a satirical nickname for a famous Israeli mental health institution. The pub’s name…

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