The commandment “Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image” has had a great impact on Jewish culture, resulting in a clear preference for words over images. In this chapter we explore the tension between this commandment and the profession that depends so on the visual image.

Artists in the chapter (in an alphabetical order): Avraham Ofek, Anisa Ashkar, Arie Aroch, David Tartakover, David Reeb, Hila Lulu Lin, Jennifer Bar Lev, Meir Gur Arie, Michael Sgan Cohen, Michail Grobman, Michal Na’aman, Mordechai Ardon, Moshe Castel, Moshe Gershuni, Nachum Tevet, Raffi Lavie, Yair Garbuz, Ze’ev Raban and others.

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From his Beit Alfa study, writer Natan Shacham tells about his childhood, his family, his adulthood, and the many roles he has played over the years. 

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A documentary project about a dozen young poets who constitute an intellectual and cultural opposition to the mainstream.

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Set in Israel of the 1960s, this is a biopic of poet Yona Wolach, a lone woman in a sea of men, a pioneer of feminism in a male dominated society, an advocate of bisexuality in a deeply conservative culture, a cultural icon for whom drugs, abortions, hospitalizations, and the death of her father were the demons that fueled her voice as a poet.

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An adaptation of Aharon Appelfeld’s novel Night after Night. In the sixties, a group of Holocaust survivors live together in a hostel in Jerusalem and struggle to revive the Yiddish language.

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For the last 20 years, Miki Kamel Pinhassi has been publishing the only newspaper for the Iranian community in Israel. He pays a high price for his dream.

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The director follows his friend and favorite writer Etgar Keret around the Big Apple on a book promotion tour, during which they talk about writing and about life.

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A four-year documentation of the crisis of Israeli journalism.

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This portrait of 2009 Israel Prize laureate for poetry, Tuvia Rivner, tells of his life and his road from photography to poetry.

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