In 2003, in a controversial incident, 22-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed while attempting to stop an Israeli military bulldozer from demolishing homes in Gaza. Rachel is a dispassionate but devastating essay investigating the circumstances of her death-including astounding eyewitness testimony from activists, soldiers, army spokespersons and physicians, as well as insights from Corrie’s parents, mentors and diaries. It quietly raises troubling questions while painting a complex portrait of a committed activist.

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David tells the story of Daud, an eleven year old Muslim boy growing up in Brooklyn, who is the son of the Imam of the local mosque. Daud inadvertently befriends a group of Jewish boys who mistake him for being Jewish and a genuine friendship is formed. Unable to resist the joy of a camaraderie that he has never felt before, David, as he is known to the Jewish boys, gets drawn into a complicated situation that is based upon both the best of intentions, and youthful deceit.

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Two years ago, 27-year-old Yael filed a civil suit and sued her father for sexually abusing her as a child. In response, her siblings disowned her; her only family now is her mother, who never talks openly with her.

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Israeli and French filmmakers are preparing to shoot a comedy based on the 2010 assassination of senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

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The “Girafot” (Giraffes), a wild Israeli Folk-Rock band, go on a magical musical tour across India with a climax concert planned in Goa, the capital of the Israeli travelers. However, the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, one week prior to the band’s tour, take the journey off-track and send the band on a search for the thousands of Israeli backpackers who fled Goa in fear of another attack. I Saw Giraffes in India is a musical portrait of the band and their charismatic lead singer, Gilad Kahana, a rock star, poet and compulsive workaholic, who persistently attempts to change the Karma of the tour.

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In August 2001, two weeks before 9/11, a team of four young filmmakers came to the Holy Land to try to understand the myth of the coming of the Messiah.

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In 2011 a small group of committed kindergarten teachers came to Haifa all the way from Ghana in order to generate an educational revolution in their city, Kumasi.

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Ex-IDF commando Yakov Arnan and actor and director Mahmoud Soubah take a group of 30 Arab and Jewish teenagers on a 30-day theater camp in a peaceful castle in southern England.

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