Women and Gender

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.

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.

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.

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.

Three women, from different countries and realities, discuss and share their experiences of genocide in the 20th century – highlighting their spirit and endurance.

A drama of tragic proportions is being played out in a village by the Nile Delta, where a young woman must marry a man she does not love. This film exposes the confusion in both the private, and public Egypt during crisis.

The extraordinary story of three Hungarian-Jewish sisters who were raised in communist Budapest of the 1970s to be chess masters.

A rare look at the interactions between inmates and wardens over a period of two years at the Neve Tirza prison for women in central Israel.