Sheila Hayman, the great-great-great-great niece of composer Felix Mendelssohn, has made this personal documentary exploring her renowned ancestor’s religious identity. Mendelssohn’s parents converted...
Famed poet Chaim Nachman Bialik infused the Hebrew language with fresh artistic life, giving it a renewed sense of flexibility and emotive power. Filmmaker Yair Qedar chronicles Bialik’s work and life...
A provocative personal essay, My Land Zion follows the director as she questions her own decision to return and raise her family in war-torn Israel, while challenging the myths of Zionism. She painful...
Accompanied by his filmmaker son Adam, actor Leonard Nimoy returns to his native city of Boston as he shares memories of his childhood and the start of his acting career.
Waiting for Godik chronicles the rise and fall of larger-than-life Israeli musical theatre impresario Giora Godik, one of the prominent icons of the country’s happy ’60s. Godik sought to bring the...
Director Tal Haim Yoffe (Green Dumpster Mystery) joins asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan, along with their supporters, as they set out for an orderly march through Tel Aviv. Along the way, Yoffe l...
Frank "Misa" Grunwald was born in Czechoslovakia in September of 1932. Four months later, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Misa's Fugue is the true story of one boy's journey through Prague,...
This compelling documentary chronicles the lives of Cuban Jews who left Cuba in 1960, after having resided there since the early 1900s. The film deals with the political impact that the Castro regime ...
The Pauwels are a Belgian-Jewish circus dynasty that can be traced back 200 years. Before World War II, many of Europe’s circuses were run and owned by Jewish families. The Nazis destroyed most of...
