Women and Gender
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Underground Ballet
Israel 2019| 53'| Mid-Length documentaryWritten & Directed by: Lina Chaplin
Script: Lina Chaplin and Bracha Zisman Cohen
Edited by: Bracha Zisman Cohen
Produced by: Daniela Reiss Razon
Cinematography: Itzik Portal
Music: A. Glaznov, Ludwig Minkus, Adolf Adam, Tomazo Albinoni, dmitri shostakovich, A. Krane, Claude Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Boris Asspaiev,Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Cezar Antonowicz Cui, Giuseppe Verdi, Edvard Grieg, Phillip Glass, Alfred Snitke, Bock Jerry, Kirill Molchanov
With the support of: Hot 8, the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv
Language: Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles
A decade ago Nadia and her mother, Nina Timofeyeva, a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Ballet, left Moscow for Jerusalem and set up the studio. It was a professional suicide. Ballet and football make for a surrealistic combination.
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We Were The Others
Israel 2019 | 54'| Mid-Length DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Hadas Ayalon
Edited by: Ron Goldman, Maya Klar
Produced by: Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait – Lama Films
Cinematography: Tulik Galon
Music: Eran Weitz
With the support of: Kaan, Rabbinovich Foundation
Language: Hebrew and English with English subtitles
A story of six Gay men that were born in the days of the establishment of the State of Israel.
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Reinvestigation
Israel 2019 / 72 min / Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Anat Yuta Zuria, Shira Clara Winther
Produced by: Sigal Landesberg, Anat Yuta Zuria
An investigative documentary on the hidden reality of tens of thousands of fathers who deny their children child support, while the system turns a blind eye to the situation.
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Woman
Israel 2019| 62'| Feature documentaryWritten & Directed by: Israela Shaer Meoded
Edited by: Oron Adar
Produced by: Marker Films, Elad Gavish
Music: Ishai Adar
Narration: Reymond Amslamen, Ella Armony
With the support of: The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts - Cinema Project, Leon Recanati Foundation, Israel Ministry of Culture and Sport, Mifal Hapais Israel Lottery - Council for Cultural & Art, The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Who is this woman? How have dozens of female directors imagined and portrayed her in Israeli cinema over the years?
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A mí
Italy/ Germany/ France 2017, 67 min, Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Caterina Klusemann
Produced by: Caterina Klusemann Filmproduktion, ZDF, ARTE
Filming locations: Germany, Israel, Italy, Mongolia, Ukraine, Venezuela
Language: Italian, English, German with English subtitles
The same maternal bond that binds four generations of women carries on the trauma of the war, but gives the weapons to heal it in the end.
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On Thin Ice
Israel | 2026 | feature documentary | 72' - New ReleaseWritten 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.
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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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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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Hanging Without Walls
Slovakia 2024 | 78’ | Feature documentary debuWritten & Directed by: Jana Durajova, Lena Kusnierikova
Produced by: PubRes s.r.o. - Zuzana Mistrikova, Lubica Orechovska, Arkaitz Basterra Zalbide
Script: Jakub Medvecký
Cinematography: Ivo Miko
Editing: Alexandra Slašťanová, Matěj Sláma
Cast: Alexandra Kusá, Martin Kusý, Vladimír Dědeček
Sound Design: Michal Horváth
Music: Jonatán Pastirčák
Supported by: RTVS - Radio and TV Slovakia, Slovak Film Institute, Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Creative Europe – MEDIA
Languages: Slovak with English subtitles
A Kafkaesque documentary debut over ten years in the making that sheds light on the absurdity of a bureaucratic system, set within the never-ending process of renovation of the Slovak National Gallery.