March 2023
Attending Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival AGORA, CPH:DOX, FILMART.
February 2023
Berlinale EFM 2023 Market Screenings :
LEAVING TO REMAIN - Market Premiere
CONQUERING TIME - AGNES KELETI - Market Premiere
HONEY TRAP - Market Premiere
MOVING ON - Market screening
January 2023
MOVING ON by Maya Mcmanus Ronen - broadcast in New Zealand.
October 2022
Attending Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in Czech Republic
LEAVING TO REMAIN - World Premiere at Jihlava IDFF
August 2022
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York is screening THE FLAT.
July 2022
THE CERTAINTY OF PROBABILITIES to be screened at 31st FILMKUNSTFEST Schwerin, German Premiere.
In the presence of the director Raluca Durbacă.
May 2022
A restored copy of THE KOMEDIANT and WHAT IF to be screened at Toronto Jewish Film Festival.
WHAT IF? selected to the FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE POLITICO in Buenos Aires, Premiere in Argentina.
Le musée d'Art et d'Histoire du judaïsme (MAHJ) à Paris is screening WE WERE THE OTHERS.
April 2022
Copenhagen Jewish Film Festival is screening THE WAY OF MAN - A FILM ABOUT MARTIN BUBER
May 2022
Attending Festival de Cannes / Marché du film 2022.
April 2022
Attending Visions du réel Nyon
March 2022
Attending Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Cinéma du réel, CPH:DOX, FILMART.
February 2022
Attending EFM Berlinale 2022
November 2021
WE WERE THE OTHERS screening at New York Jewish Film Festival, Lincoln Center
Atlantic Jewish Film Festival is showing the 3part documentary series KINGDOMS
WHAT IF - North American Premiere. Other Israel Film Festival in New York, with the director Ran Tal attending.
WHAT IF in Official selection of the 40th Cambridge Film Festival UK
Jewish Federation of Florida is screening RED SCARF
IN HIS IMAGE by Tami Ravid - Polish Premiere at Watch Docs 2021
KUYA NOY screening and Q&A at Israeli Film Festival in Philippines
October 2021
THE MUSEUM - screening and discussion at Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow
September 2021
WHAT IF? EHUD BARAK ON WAR AND PEACE selected to the 18th Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival in Armenia - Regional Panorama - International Competition.
July 2021 news
Attending Marché du film - Festival de Cannes 2021 online.
Market Screenings
May 2021 news
RED SCARF and WE WERE THE OTHERS - highlights of Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2021. Canadian Premiere.
April 2021 news
WHAT IF? is having its International Premiere at Moscow Interantional Film Festival, Main Competition, with director Ran Tal attending.
TACHELES - THE HEART OF THE MATTER - screening and discussion at New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival, North American Premiere.
February 2021 news
WHAT IF? EHUD BARAK ON WAR AND PEACE - Market Premiere, Berlinale EFM online 2021
The Museum - online screening & discussion with Ran Tal, hosted by the Manege Central Exhibition Hall in Saint Petersburg.
January 2021 news
Winners of the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum Awards 2020:
UNDERGROUND BALLET - Best Mid-Length Documentary, Best Sound Design
KINGDOMS - Best Visual Design
Congratulations !!
December 2020 news
WHAT IF? EHUD BARAK ON WAR AND PEACE, the new documentary by Ran Tal, is having its World Premiere at Jerusalem Film Festival, within the Feature Documentary Competition.
THE KOMEDIANT is being broadcast by Swedish television – Sylvester 2020 / New Year’s Eve on SVT2.
We have added seven new powerful titles to our catalogue – new releases.
November 2020 news
RESONANCE competes in the International Competition of the 39th Jean Rouch International Film Festival. Musée de l'Homme, Paris. French Premiere.
We are participating at IDFA FORUM online.
October 2020 news
UNDERGROUND BALLET is participating at Artdocfest, Russia.
Hadar Porubanova is guest at MEDIMED Market and DOK Leipzig online.
September 2020 news
UNDERGROUND BALLET and WE WERE THE OTHERS nomitated for the Israeli Academy Awards - Ophir 2020, in the Best Mid-lenght Documentary category.
July 2020 news
Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival "Zerkalo" was hosting the Russian Premiere of UNDERGROUND BALLET
June 2020 news
We are taking part of Festival de Cannes 2020, Marché du film online.
May 2020 news
Bride of the Nile - Broadcast Premiere in Portugal.
April 2020 news
The Museum - Broadcast Premiere in Japan - NHK.
March 2020 news
REEL Israel Documentary Film Festival is screening My War Hero Uncle and In The Desert.
WE WERE THE OTHERS will be having its French Premiere at Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme in Paris.
February news
Attending Berlinale EFM Market 2020.
Happy to add additional new titles to our catalogue: KINGDOMS by Uri Rosenwaks, WOMAN by Israela Shaer Meoded and documentary debut KUYA NOY by Daniel Binsted.
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival will be holding the North American Premiere of UNDERGROUND BALLET.
January news
RESONANCE selected to The Museum of Modern Art – MoMA Doc Fortnight !
December news
We are very happy to add to Ruth Films catalogue the Winner of the Best Documentary Award from the latest Haifa International Film Festival 2019 - UNDERGROUND BALLET by Lina Chaplin, produced by Daniela Reiss.
November news
Calgary Jewish Film Festival is screening My War Hero Uncle.
BEST UNKEPT SECRET now available at IDFA 2019 Docs for Sale.
October News
RESONANCE screens within the German Competition DOK Leipzig 2019 and receives DEFA Award!
UK Jewish Film Festival is screening The King of Borek.
Dokumentarfilmsalon auf St. Pauli in Germany, in cooperation with Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, is screening WE WERE THE OTHERS.
Attending Medimed Sitges 2019
Attending Attending DOK Leipzig 2019
September News
The Museum and CHILDREN OF THE SUN to be screened as part of the German-Israeli Film Program hosted by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Followed by a Master-Class with Ran Tal.
My War Hero Uncle selected to the Official Competition of the 23rd Queer Lisboa International Film Festival. Premiere in Portugal, in the presence of the director Shaked Goren.
We are deeply saddened to announce that Ginette Yana, the main personage of our touching documentary Ginette by Nathan Minsberg, has passed away today in Marseille. May her memory be blessed.
The Flat by Arnon Goldfinger is screening in Cinema Odeon, Brugg Switzerland
THE OPTIMISTS by Eliezer Yaari - Screening at Berlin Jewish Film Festival
WE WERE THE OTHERS by Hadas Ayalon is having its International Premiere in Berlin
In The Desert - screening & discussion at Berlin Jewish Film Festival, in the presence of the director Avner Faingulernt and the producer Hagar Saad Shalom
August News
BEST UNKEPT SECRET by Ilan Mizrahi now released
July News
Happy to announce our newest acquisition: WE WERE THE OTHERS by Hadas Ayalon, now officilaly added to our catalogue.
June News
The Museum broadcast Premiere at SKY Arts TV Channel in New Zealand
Megiddo by Itzik Lerner is having its Russian Premiere at Moscow Jewish Film Festival
Moscow Jewish Film Festival is screening The Museum
Tel Aviv Live broadcast Premiere at SKY Arts TV Channel in New Zealand
LA POTIERE by Andrea Serafini, newly released
Standby painter - broadcast Premiere at SKY Arts TV Channel in New Zealand
May News
In The Desert is taking part in the International Competition of FICIC Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Cosquín in Argentina.
The King of Borek is having its North American Premiere at Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Vienna Jewish Film Festival screens The Museum by Ran Tal and MEMORY TRILOGY by Maya Zack.
Milano Jewish Film Festival is showing The Museum - 12th NUOVO CINEMA EBRAICO E ISRAELIANO 2019.
Attending Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes 2019.
April News
My War Hero Uncle - Winner of the 12th David A. Stein Memorial Award, given to the Best Documentary by Toronto Jewish Film Festival in Canada, is having its International Premiere in Toronto. In the presence of the director Shaked Goren.
In The Desert by Avner Faingulernt is being shown at Academia Film Olomouc - 54th international festival of science documentary films. Czech Premiere. In the presence of the director Avner Faingulernt and the producer Hagar Saad Shalom.
In The Desert – Workshop at FAMU Prague :"ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT - THE MYTH ABOUT THE SINGLE GUILTY PARTY. THE WEST BANK AS BONE OF CONTENTION" - Workshop at Faculty of Art of Palacký University Olomouc, in cooperation with FAMU - Filmová a televizní fakulta AMU Prague.
Attending Visions du réel, Nyon
Shadows by Noa Aharoni screening at Film Archiv Austria, Vienna - as part of Series about Shoah, Trauma and Transgenerational Transmission.
March News
The Museum and Shadows are being screened at the Israeli Film Festival in Paris - Cinéma Majestic Passy, Paris
Millenium Documentary Film Festival in Brussels screens In The Desert- Belgian Premiere. In the presence of the director Avner Faingulernt and the producer Hagar Saad Shalom
Attending Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2019
The King of Borek selected to Sofia International Film Festival - Bulgarian Premiere. In the presence of the director Orit Ofir Ronell.
February News
Counterlight by Maya Zack selected to the International Competition of the 37th International Festival of Films on Art - FIFA Montréal, Canada. Montréal Premiere
Attending European Film Market - Berlinale 2019
January News
The Museum screens in Netherlands - Amsterdam - Hague – Apeldoorn, Crescas, in the presence of the director Ran Tal
December News
Bucharest Jewish Film Festival in Romania is screening The Museum.
Hadar Porubanova, Managing Director of Ruth Films is taking part in the Jury of the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival
Interview with Avner Faingulernt is being aired by Channel 10 Argentina.
In The Desert now in theaters around Israel
November News
International Jewish Film Festival screens Conventional Sins" - Australian Premiere
Megiddo by Itzik Lerner - NY Premiere - Other Israel Film Festival 2018 In the presence of the director.
The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam is showing The Museum. Dutch Premiere.
The Museum screens in Hong Kong, Chinese Premiere
UK Premiere of The Museum, UK Jewish Film Festival, London.
Brussels Art Film Festival - BAFF 2018 - is hosting the Belgian Premiere of Standby painter In the presence of the directors Amir Yatziv et Guy Slabbinck.
The King of Borek, The Museum and Einstein in the Holly Land are being screened at Pitigliani Kolnoa Festival in Rome
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival is screening the legendary documenatary CHILDREN OF THE SUN by Ran Tal.
In The Desert - screening & discussion at Film Academy Baden-Württemberg
The Museum wins five awards at the The Israeli Documentary Forum Award 2018: Photography - Daniel Kedem and Itay Marom, Ziv Berkovich, Giora Bejach Uriel Sinai, Zvi Landsmanz. Edit - Nili Feller. Sound Design - Aviv Aldema. Music - Asher Goldschmidt. Design - Lahav Halevy, Yoav Raz. Mazal tov !!
October News
In The Desert - A Documentary Diptych - the newest Israeli-Canadian co-production documentary project by Professor Avner Faingulernt, is having its International Premiere at FILMFEST HAMBURG 2018.
Conventional Sins" - screenings in Lithuania - International Human Rights Film Festival - Inconvenient Films 2018
Tel Aviv Live by Nellu Cohn having its premiere at Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema
The Israeli Documentary Film Festival in Slovakia opened with the screening of The Museum by Ran Tal.
Argentinian Premiere at Doc Buenos Aires 2018: In The Desert - A Documentary Diptych.
Australian Premiere of The Museum in Melbourne, within The Jewish International Film Festival in Australia.
We are attending MEDIMED Sitges & MIPCOM Market 2018.
44th International Short Film Festival FILMETS Badalona in Spain is showing Counterlight by Maya Zack
International Competition Program
The King of Borek is having its International Premiere at The Jewish International Film Festival in Australia.
The prestigious VIENNALE International Film Festival 2018 is hosting the Central-European Premiere of In The Desert - A Documentary Diptych. In the presence of the director Avner Faingulernt.
The Museum - Screening & Discussion in Sydney, Australia
August News
Three of our films nominated for the Best Documentary Award 2018 by the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum : "The Museum", "Conventional Sins" and "The King of Borek".
Thrilled to have acquired the latest documentary by Amir Yatziv and Guy Slabinnck Standby painter, produced by Brussels based CZAR Film
July News
Berlin Jewish Film Festival 2018 is featuring the German Premiere of The Museum
The King of Borek by Orit Ronell has been newly added to our catalogue
June News
The Museum nominated by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television as official candidate to the Ophir Award in the Best Israeli Documentary Feature Category.
FILAF 2018 screens The Museum within the International competition, presided by Cristian Mungiu, in the presence of Ran Tal.
May News
Avishai Kfir's documentary I was there in color is being aired by Czech Television
The History Department at Huddersfield University in UK is holding a screening of The Flat by Arnon Goldfinger
The Museum is having its French premiere at Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris, with the director Ran Tal in attendance. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Ran Tal and Ariel Schweitzer, film historian and critic at Cahiers du cinéma.
Ran Tal is receiving David A. Stein Award for best documentary for The Museum at Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Art House Cinema Filmtheater Kriterion in Amsterdam is screening Shadows
Counterlight selected to the Narrative Short Competition at Moscow Jewish Film Festival 2018
April News
I was there in color by Avishai Kfir to be broadcast by French TV Channel Histoire
In honor of Israel's 70th anniversary - special broadcast at ORF2 Austria : Tel Aviv Live by Nellu Cohn
Attending MIPTV Cannes 2018
Attending Visions du réel 2018
Beth Tzedek congregation in Toronto is holding a screening of Peter the 3rd
March News
Conventional Sins takes the Special mention of the Jury at CPH:DOX !
Conventional Sins makes its International Premiere at CPH:DOX Copenhagen within the Next Wave Competition 2018. In the presence of the directors Anat Zuria & Shira Winther.
Bride of the Nile to be screened at the Jerusalem Cinemathèque
Copenhagen Jewish Film Festival is showing Shadows
Festival of Tolerance in Ljubljana screens Counterlight
February News
Conventional Sins by Anat Zuria & Shira Winther, the winner of Jerusalem Film Festival 2017, has been newly added to our catalogue
Maine JFF is presenting Jerusalem Dream
January News
Hadar Porubanova special guest at PERSPECTIVES ON THE MARKET AND CO-PRODUCTIONS WITH ISRAEL panel discussion at FIPA Biarritz 2018
Ran Tal's latest masterpiece The Museum has been officially added to our catalogue
Shadows – French premiere to be held within "Carte Blanche: Israel" at FIPA Biarritz between 23-28 January 2018
Attending FIPA Biarritz 2018
Counterlight selected to the Lab Competition of Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2018
Counterlight selected to New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, US
Luxemburg City Film Festival is screening Brundibar Revisited
December News
The Syrian Patient special broadcast by Austrian public TV Channel ORF 2
Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto is screening Einstein in the Holly Land
Three new acquisitions has been added to Ruth Films Catalogue : Conventional Sins, A Mi, Ginette
November News
Shadows by Noa Aharoni has been selected to the Official Competition at IDFA 2017. The International Premiere to be held in the presence of the film crew in Amsterdam.
Attending IDFA 2017 Amsterdam.
Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival in Moscow is screening Jerusalem Boxing Club and A Woman's Story
Counterlight and Measures of Merit screened at Vancouver Jewish Film in Canada
October News
Attending MIPCOM in Cannes between 16-19 October
I Had A Dream is being screened at Mittleman JCC, Portland, US
Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is screening Brundibar Revisited
September News
Russian American Cultural Center in New York is screening Holocaust, the Eastern Front and Apollonia
Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Center will be screening Beyond the Nistru
Williams College will be screening Haymatloz – Exile in Turkey
August News
University of Michigan has purchased Iraq N' Roll
Ottawa Synagogue is screening Iraq N' Roll
Gut Shabbes Vietnam and The Fire Within were selected to Olomouc Film Days festival in Czech Republic
A Woman's Story and Jerusalem Boxing Club were selected to Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival in Russia
We added two new acquisitions to our catalogue : The Syrian Patient and The Dutch Secret
July news
Sole Luna FF screening of A Woman's Story
Measures of Merit has been acquired for broadcast by the Portugal Public TV
Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania has acquired Beyond the Nistru
Jewish Federation of Ocean County is screening David
Attending the 34th Jerusalem Film Festival
June news
Moscow JFF is screening A Woman's Story, Tel Aviv Live and Bring the Jews Home
Ashdod Mediterannee Film Festival is screening The Bride of the Nile, in presence of the director Edouard Mills-Affif
Istanbul Doc Days Festival is hosting a Turkish premiere of Haymatloz – Exile in Turkey
We are attending CoPro Documentary Market in Tel Aviv
May news
Toronto Jewish Film Festival is screening of Measures of Merit
The Bride of the Nile was selected to Docs Edge Australia
Bring the Jews Home was selected to HOT DOCS
University of Washington Libraries has purchased Haymatloz – Exile in Turkey
Jewish Motifs Jewish Film Festival in Poland is screening My Home, Tel Aviv Live, The Jerusalem Dream and Measures of Merit, in presence of the directors Nellu Cohn, Roni Aboulafia and Meni Elias.
The Jewish Federation of North America is screening Village of Peace
We added three new acquisitions to our catalogue : Shadows, Couterlight and Sterile Zone
Shadows by Noa Aharoni premiered at Doc Aviv Film Festival
April news
Peter the 3rd screening at Congregation Beth Emeth
Berlin Jewish Museum is screening Iraq N' Roll, in presence of the director Gili Gaon
Smith College has purchased The Pin
Tel Aviv Live, Measures of Merit, Haymatloz – Exile in Turkey, The Jerusalem Dream, My Home, A Woman's Story, Beyond the Nistru, Until the Last Step have been acquired by Philadelphia University
Boston Jewish Film Festival is screening The Flat
Princeton University has purchased Haymatloz – Exile in Turkey
Center for Jewish Life in New York is screening Here I Learned to Love
We are attending MIPTV Market in Cannes
March news
The Flat had a screening at George Eastman House
Wellesley College has purchased The way of Man - a film about Martin Buber
Michigan State University has purchased The Kozalchik Affair
The Bride of the Nile was screened at RAI Film Festival in UK
Menorah Film Club has screened The Flat
Peter the 3rd screening at Athens Jewish Film Festival
Peter the 3rd screening at Katz JCC
Festival of Tolerance in Slovania is screening Tito's Glasses and My Home
Febuary news
Neilson Library has purchased The Pin
Denver Jewish Film Festival is presenting Peter the 3rd
Tel-Aviv Live by Nellu Cohn is opening the festival l'Heure d’Hiver in Brussels
Einstein in the Holyland and Peter the 3rd will be screened at Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival
The Flat will be screened to Italian audiences at Israeli Film Festival Cinematov in Milano
Pittsburgh Jewish Film Festival will be screening Brundibar Revisited
Wellesley College Library has purchased The way of Man - a film about Martin Buber
JCC of Northern Virginia is screening Village of Peace
Michigan State University has purchased The Kozalchik Affair
The Kozalchik Affair has been broadcasted by Polish public TV
The Bride of the Nile and My Home have been acquired by the Israel Broadcasting Authority and will be aired on Channel 1 this month
January 2017 news
A Story in Third Person has been broadcast by the Slovak Public Television
Beyond the Nistru screening in Minsk, Belarus at the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israel for Reel Film Program has purchased The Beetle
Hadar Porubanova has taken over as Managing Director of Ruth Films
Tel-Aviv Live will have its US Premiere at the upcoming Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival
The Mittleman Jewish Community Center is screening The Flat later this month
Until the Last Step had its premiere at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival last month
Dolphin Boy has been sold for educational use at Ruppin College
We are thrilled to have added two more films from the important project by Boris Maftsir, Until the Last Step and Beyond the Nistru