Breaking the Ice

Dream Weaves

The film takes a look at our collective back yard through the backyard of the Psagot school in Migdal Ha’emek in the north of Israel.

Erasing the Lines

The filmmaker takes her father to Paris, his hometown, in the hopes of understanding why he ran away from his past.

End of The Orange Season

A tour with artist Shalom Hanoch during the 1988 intifidah.

Fog

A fascinating story of bereavement and mysticism, FOG tells of the quest to unravel the fate of a missing soldier. First Sergeant Mu’in Halabi disappeared at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War during an abortive IDF attempt to conquer Mount Hermon from the Syrians in October 1973. Two weeks later the IDF announced that Mu’in’s body had been found. A casket was buried in Mu’in’s hometown, the Druze village of Daliat el-Carmel. A month after the battle for the Hermon, a child was born in the Galilean village of Mrar. At the age of four, this child declared that he was the reincarnation of Mu’in, and, indeed, was able to relate almost everything about him. But in 1985 inhabitants of Daliat el-Carmel testified to having heard Mu’in speak on the Syrian State Radio. Veteran newsman, Rafik Halabi set out on a journey into time, memory, the Druze religion, and harsh Israeli realities in an attempt to uncover what lies behind this multi-layered story or, put more directly, whether Mu’in Halabi is alive

Forever Scared

Sayed Kashua, writer, scriptwriter, and popular columnist. An Arab in the Jewish State, he doesn’t really belong to any side.

Hugo 2

Two decades ago, filmmaker Yair Lev made Hugo, a film about his father, a survivor of Auschwitz, in which the older man revealed his most passionate belief: “It is most important for a man to be strong.” Now, Lev returns with Hugo 2, the result of his ruminations about his thin and frail son: Would he have survived his grandfather’s experience? A moving film that captures the inherited past and its implications, from survivor to child to grandchild.

Invasion

An Israeli Soldier views a documentary about the aftermath of the Israeli invasion in Jenin camp. He was one of the drivers of the bulldozers that caused massive destruction in the camp. The camera moves between demolished homes and alleys, echoing the hopes and fears of the Palestinian people and their basic right to live in peace. This is the story of simple dreams being wiped out by the invasion.