New Releases
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Best Unkept Secret
Israel 2019 | 57'| Mid-Length Documentary - New ReleaseWritten & Directed by: Ilan Mizrahi
Edited by: Nadav Harel, Deborah Cherki
Produced by: Nimrod Shanit – Blimey Production
Cinematography: Ilan Mizrahi, Deborah Cherki
Music: Kat Tolokovsky
With the support of: Yes Doco, Rabinovich Foundation, The Israel Film Council
Language: Hebrew and English with English subtitles
A 15-year-long documentation follows the gut wrenching story of an adolescent boy who discovers one day that he had been manipulated and used throughout his life by fanatic organizations seeking to promote their ideology of fighting Jewish assimilation.
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We Were The Others
Israel 2019 | 54'| Mid-Length Documentary - New ReleaseWritten & 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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La Potière
Italy 2019 | 43' | Mid-Length Documentary - New ReleaseWrittend & Directed by: Andrea Serafini
Produced by: Andrea Serafini (Italy)
Language: French with English subtitles
La Potière is a film on how the meeting with the artefacts from a faraway culture originated ten centuries earlier can spark off the inspiration of a life long pursue of that elusive spirit that inhabits some pieces of ceramics and allows them to reach people's soul.
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The Optimists
Israel, Netherlands, Jordan 2019 / 55 min / Mid-Length Documentary - New ReleaseWritten & Directed by: Eliezer Yaari
Produced by: Irit Ambar
Narrated by: Mandy Patinkin
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
A story of a Palestinian chemist from the village of Sur Baher who decides to move from his village to the Jewish Kibbutz Ketura in the South of Israel, in pursuit of a dream of peace in the Middle East. Utopia or optimism?
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My War Hero Uncle
Israel 2018, 52 min, DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Shaked Goren
Production: Ayelet Kait, Amir Harel – Lama Films
Cinematography: Nadav Ben Zur
Editing: Danel Elpeleg
Sound Design: Erez Eyni
Music: Ophir Leibovich
With the support of: Yes Docu, NFCT
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Ami was killed in the 1967 War. Fifty years after his death, a shocking truth is unveiled
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The King of Börek
Israel 2018, 74 min, Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Orit Ofir Ronell
Production: Yoram Ivry, David Noy - Cinemax Prod
Editing: Tor Ben-mayor
Cinematography: David Zarif
Soundtrack: Itzik Cohen- Jungle Sound
Music: Kobi Vitman
With the support of: Reshet Channel 13, The new Foundation for Cinema & TV
Language: Hebrew and Bulgarian with English Subtitles
Rise and fall of a proud Bulgarian family of bakers that immigrated to the newborn state of Israel.
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In The Desert - A Documentary Diptych
Israel/ Canada 2018, 220 min, (Omar's Dream’ 115 min, Avidan's Dream 105 min, TV Version 120 min, Documentary DiptychWritten & Directed & Cinematography by: Avner Faingulernt
Produced by: Hagar Saad Shalom, Paul Cadieux, Shlomi Elkabetz, Danae Elon, Galit Bachlon; Skene Border Films (IL), Filmoption International (CAN), Deux Beaux Garcons Films (IL), Entre Deux Mondes Productions
Editing: Myriam Magassouba (CAN)
Music: Peter Venne (CAN)
With the support of: The Israel Film Council – Ministry of Culture and Sport, Quebec Crédit d’impôt cinema et television - Gestion SODEC, The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
Language: Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles
A profound journey trying to defy what is commonly known about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The Museum
Israel 2017, 72 min, Feature DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Ran Tal
Produced by: Lama Films - Ayelet Kait, Amir Harel, Ran Tal
Editing: Nili Feller
Photography: Daniel Kedem, Itay Marom, Uriel Sinai, Ziv Berkovitch, Zvi Lanzman
Music: Asher Goldschmidt
With the support of: Yes Docu, The new fund for cinema and TV, Mifal Hpis, The Leir Charitable Foundations
Language: Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Arabic with English subtitles
"A masterful look at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, and the world itself."
Jerusalem Post -
Standby Painter
Belgium/Israel 2018, 52 min, DocumentaryWritten & Directed by: Amir Yatziv, Guy Slabinnck
Produced by: Kaat Camerlynck - Czar Film, Belgium
Script, Editing & Research: Amir Yatziv
Cinematography: Hyun De Grande, Łukasz Konopa
Soundtrack: Nati Zeidenstadt
Music: Uriel Herman
Language: Polish, English with English and French subtitles
An almost deserted museum, a guard wearing high heels, a cinephile thief and a Monet painting.