Ruth Films - Israeli Mosaic

Problems in the airplanes

Israel 2026 | 6:20' | short documentary - New Release

Written and Directed by: Dorel Gilerman
Produced by: DOREL GILERMAN & AGATHA WICHROWSKA
Languages: Hebrew with English ST

On October 7, a father searches for the right words to explain a shattering reality to his six-year-old daughter.

Written & Directed by: Tsivia Barkai Yacov
Produced by: Laila Films - Itai Tamir
Executive Producer: Ami Livne
Cinematography: Boaz Yehonatan Yacov
Editing: Tsivia Barkai Yacov
Art Design: Ehud Gutterman
Cast: Gloria Bess, Liron Ben Shlush, Itamar Rotschild
Sound Recording: Asher Milo, Ranso Vargas
Music: Ophir Leibovitch
Supported by: Gesher Film Foundation, New Fund for Cinema and Television, Ministry of culture and sport – The Israel Film Council
Languages: Hebrew with English subtitles

Desperate to flee an abusive relationship, Rona sneaks out during a lockdown and enters a women’s Mikvah. Naked and exposed, she faces the truth.

On Thin Ice

Israel | 2026 | feature documentary | 72' - New Release

Written and Directed by: Udi Kalinsky and Irit Hod
Produced by: PROVID FILMS & TV PRODUCTIONS - Udi Kalinsky and Irit Hod
Director of Photography: Udi Kalinsky, Irit Hod, Amir Wallansky
Editor: Michal Ranon
Music: Alberto Schwartz
Supported by: Ministry of Culture and Sport, The Israel Film Council, Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, Hagalil Fund, The New Fund for the Cinema and TV, KAAN Broadcaster
Languages: Hebrew, Arabic with English ST

Aya, a 19-year-old Druze ice hockey player from the Golan Heights, dreams of representing Israel — a choice that shatters decades of her community’s loyalty to Syria. Through her personal struggle, On Thin Ice reveals a historic shift as the Druze are forced to choose between identity and survival in the aftermath of October 7.

Following The Jäger Report

Israel, Lithuania | 2025 | documentary | 120' - 2x60' - New Release

Writtten & directed by: by Boris Maftsir
Produced by: Ron Katzenelson (Israel), Stasys Baltakis (Lithuania)
Director of Photography: Ron Katzenelson
Editor: Lilia Tsvokbenkel
Script & Research: Boris Maftsir, Lilia Tsvokbenkel
Design, Art & Animation: Studio Jewboy - Yaron Shin & Zohar Yosifon
Music: Avi Benjamin
With the support of: The Rabinovich Foundation, The Israel Film Council, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, Claims Conference
Languages: Lithuanian, English, Yiddish, Hebrew with English subtitles

Between July and October 1941, nearly 100,000 Jews—half of Lithuania's Holocaust victims—were murdered in shtetls.

How did such atrocities occur in a land with a history of coexistence? Lithuanians and Jews confront their painful shared past.

Francesca

Israel | 2024 | feature documentary | 64'

Written and Directed by: Lina Chaplin
Produced by: Daniela Reiss Razon
Script: Bracha Zisman Cohen
Director of Photography: Itzik Portal
Editor: Bracha Zisman Cohen
Music: Didi Erez
Sound Design: Rotem Dror
Choreography: Nadia Timofeyeva
Supported by: YES Broadcaster
Languages: Hebrew, Polish, Slovak, Yiddish with English ST

In 1945 Auschwitz, a Jewish ballerina from Warsaw allegedly wrestled a gun from an SS officer and shot him, and this gripping documentary unravels the legend and truth of Francesca Mann’s daring act and mysterious life.

Decryption

Israel 2024 | 12:26' | Short documentary

Written & Directed by: Maya Zack
Produced by: Maya Zack
Script: Maya Zack, Amos Ponger
Cinematography: Stanislav Levor
Editing: Amos Ponger
Music: Ophir Leibovitch
Set design & Drawing: Maya Zack
Sound design: Neil Gibbs
Supported by: Ostrovsky Family Fund, Israel Festival
Languages: Hebrew with English subtitles

When memories of her mother begin to fade, artist Maya Zack returns to the morbid poem her mother used to recite to her as a child to lull her to sleep.

In the mesmerizing cinematic poem "Decryption," Zack deconstructs, weaves, and reassembles the poem and attempts, through it, to revive the memory of the body of her mother, who died prematurely.

Accidental Happiness

Israel | 2026 | feature documentary | 58' - New Release

Written and Directed by: Lina Chaplin
Produced by: Daniela Reiss Razon
Director of Photography: Itzik Portal, Tuli Galon
Editor: Bracha Zisman Cohen
Music: Didi Erez
Sound Design: Rotem Dror
Supported by: HOT8 Broadcaster
Languages: Hebrew with English ST

After October 7, a group of retirees joins an unprecedented volunteer “year of service” on Israel’s Gaza border, where acts of care and community spark unexpected joy, renewal, and a rediscovery of purpose at a stage of life where few expect it.

Shadows

Israel 2017, 52 min, Documentary

Written & Directed by: Noa Aharoni
Produced by: David Noy, Yoram Ivry – Cinemax Productions
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles

For the first time on screen, second-generation children of Holocaust Survivors open up about their abused childhood suffering.

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Measures of Merit

Doc, 50 min 2016

Written & Directed by: Roni Aboulafia
Produced by: Dana Cohen - Dana Productions
Sponsored by: Israel Channel 8
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles

Ultra-Orthodox, Haredi women are the only segment of Israeli society that is not represented in the Parliament- and Ruth Colian is on the road to changing that.