Jewish Life
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The Komediant
Israel, USA 1999, 82 min, Feature Documentary – RESTORED COPY – RE-RELEASE Mono | Aspect Ratio: 4:3Directed by: Arnon Goldfinger
Script: Oshra Schwartz-Reim
Produced by: Arnon Goldfinger, Amir Harel, Oshra Schwartz-Reim
Cinematography: Yoram Millo
Editing: Einat Glaser-Zarhin
Sound: Tomer Ilan
Supported by: New Fund for Cinema and Television, TV Keshet – The Film project, National Authority of Yiddish Culture, National Council for Culture and Arts, The Avraham Y. Lerner Foundation, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
Language: English, Yiddish, Hebrew with English subtitles
The glory days of the Yiddish stage are brought to life in this funny-sad saga of a legendary theatrical family, The Bursteins.
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Still Waters
Israel 2023 | 17’ | Short FeatureWritten & 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.
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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.
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Accidental Happiness
Israel | 2026 | feature documentary | 58' - New ReleaseWritten 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.
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Decryption
Israel 2024 | 12:26' | Short documentaryWritten & 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.
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Dockan Glick / A Doll Named Glick
Sweden 2026 | 11' | short film - New ReleaseWritten and Directed by: Uta Arning
Produced by: UMA Pictures AB - Uta Arning
Director of Photography: Charlotta Tengroth
Editor: Christoffer Sevholt
Sound: Jonas Goldmann
Music: Arum dem Feyer (Unknown Composer), Oyfn Pripetshik, Mark Warshawsky
Puppet Artists: Spixa Studios, David Wätte
Cast: Celine Du Rietz, Cecilia Säverman, Sofia Hollsten, Ben Auerbach, Henrik Norman, Elina Du Rietz
Languages: Swedish, Yiddish with English ST
On her ninth birthday, a magical suitcase opens a Yiddish-speaking doll modeled after her beloved grandfather, guiding a lonely girl on a music-filled journey that bridges past and present.
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Following The Jäger Report
Israel, Lithuania | 2025 | documentary | 120' - 2x60' - New ReleaseWrittten & 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.
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Shadows
Israel 2017, 52 min, DocumentaryWritten & 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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Haymatloz – Exile in Turkey
Doc, 75/90 min, 2016Written and Directed by: Eren Önsöz
Produced by: Erik Winker, Martin Roelly, Andreas Brauer
Sponsored by: A HUPE Film production in co-production with Mamoko Entertainment, funded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and BKM
Language: German and Turkish with English subtitles
Recollections and stories of the children of German Jews who were brought to Turkey before the Second World War, at the invitation of Atatürk, and went on to definitively shape Turkish culture.
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