New Releases
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Jewish Identity in France
Doc, 34 min, 2014Written and Directed by: Gilad Inbar
Co-Writers: Gilad Inbar & Amitai Achiman
Produced by: Amitai Achiman
Sponsored by: Beit HaTfutsot - The Museum of the Jewish People
Language: French, Hebrew and English with English subtitles
A visit to Paris of today and a look at the Jews who live there.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90 -
Village of Peace
Doc, 64 min, 2014Written and Directed by: Ben Schuder and Niko Philipides
Produced by: Ben Schuder, Sam Schuder, Niko Philipides
Executive Producer: Amar’e Stoudemire
Language: English and Hebrew
This beautifully shot documentary offer a rare glimpse into the unique community of the African-Hebrew Israelites.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90 -
The Escape (Ha'bricha)
Doc, 74 min, 2013Directed by: Meni Elias
Produced by: Micha Shagrir and Tal Barda
Sponsored by: Claims Conference, the Jewish agency for Israel, Yaakov Kotlitzky, Mifal Hapayis
Language: Hebrew, , German, Italian and English with English subtitles
A road movie in which ten Israeli teenagers from different backgrounds set out on a personal and fascinating adventure which follows the original “Bricha Movement".DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90 -
Leo Levi - The Man With the Nagra
Doc, 69 min, 2013Written and Directed by: Yaala Levi Zimmerman
Produced by: Yaala Levi Zimmerman and Yohanna Levi
Language: Hebrew and Italian with English subtitles
A tribute to one unique man, which is at the same time an exploration of the beautiful and enduring Jewish community in Italy.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90 -
The Kalusz I Thought I Knew
Doc 28 min, 2013Produced and Directed by: Bernard Dichek
Written by: Bernard Dichek & Yana Lerner
Language: English and Ukrainian with English subtitles
Ever wonder about the distant place where your parents grew up? What does it look like today? What are the people like? When the son of Holocaust survivors travels to his parents' hometown in Eastern Europe, the stories he heard as a child come alive in unexpected ways.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90 -
Tikotin- A Life Devoted to Japanese Art
Doc, 59/77 min, 2013Directed by: Santje Kramer
Executive Producer: Erica Reijmerink, Sarphati Media
Sponsored by: Jewish Broadcaster – The Netherlands, Stichting Felix Tikotin Foundation - The Netherlands
Language: Dutch and English with English subtitles
a famous German Jewish art dealer travels all over the world -and two World Wars later and a series of personal hardships, a museum of his life’s work is set up on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90 -
Fringes
Doc 72 min, MINIDV, 2013Written and Directed by: Paula Weiman-Kelman
Produced by: Jonathan Lopatin – not so simple productions
Language: English and Hebrew with English\Hebrew subtitles
Stories of unconventional innovators of 21st-century Jewish expression.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90 -
The Hungarian Cube: A Journey with Andre Hajdu
Doc 52 & 72 min, 2013Directed by: Gilad Inbar
Produced by: Micha Shagrir & Amitay Ahiman - Shiba Communications
Sponsored by: Israel Channel 8, Gesher Foundation, AviChai Foundation, the Phoenixes Foundation
Language: Hebrew, Hungarian and French with English subtitles
Composer Andre Hajdu has six sons: religious and atheists, left and right wing, intellectuals and businessmen, and himself, a complete piece torn apart, containing the source of all those contradictions which exist between his sons, managing to channel them into his troubled musical work.
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Footsteps in Jerusalem
Doc, 90 min, 2013Conceived by: Renen Schorr
Artistic Advisors: Yael Perlov, Dan Geva
Directed by: David Perlov, Dan Geva, David Ofek, Nadav Lapid, Benjamin Freidenberg, Moran Ifergan, Yarden Karmin, Amichai Chasson and Elad Schwartz, Boaz Frankel and Yair Agmon, Nayef Hammoud and Yotam Kislev
Sponsored by: Israel Channel 8, The New Fund for Cinema and Television, The Jerusalem Development Authority, The Jerusalem Film and Television Fund
Subtitles: Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles
A tribute to David Perlov, the forefather of modern Israeli documentary cinema and to his 1963 revolutionary film In Jerusalem.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90