New Releases
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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 -
Days of Youth
Doc, 57 min, digibeta, 2012Directed by: Pascal Roy and Leonardo Cohen
Directed and Produced by: Roy & Cohen Productions
Languages: Spanish and Hebrew with English subtitles
A film that sheds light upon the HaShomer Ha'Tsair movement and unveils a little known chapter in the history of Mexican Judaism and its role in the creation of the State of Israel.
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Pursued
Doc, 51 and 60 min, 2012Written & directed by: Menachem Roth
Produced by: Ron Ofer – Ron Ofer Films
Sponsored by: The Makor Foundation, The Gesher Foundation & The Second Authority for Radio & TV, Israel
Languages: Yiddish and Hebrew with English subtitles
a courageous self-portrait, where the camera becomes a weapon of entrapment as well as an instrument of redemption in the painful chain of sexual abuse.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90 -
Special Interview
Doc, 55 min, 2012Written and Directed by: Nitzan Rozenberg
Produced by: SHALVA – Asaf Finkelstein and in association with Ynet
Language: Hebrew and English with English subtitles
Two young people with disabilities become star reporters in this uplifting documentary. They have interviewed many well-known personalities but their dream is to interview President Barak Obama. A journey where they pursue their dream and allow us a peek into their unique world.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90 -
Land for the Nomads
Doc, 55 minDVCam, 2012Written, directed and produced by: Lipika Pelham
Languages: English, Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles
Some 27,000 Bedouins live in roadside shacks where Jewish settlements have mushroomed up all along the desert limiting the Bedouins’ nomadic way of life. This film follows an unusual man as he struggles on behalf of this disenfranchised people.DVD - For Home Use Only :$29.90