Over two decades after the operatiosn bringing Ethiopian Jewry to Israel, the Ethiopian-Israeli community remains apart, misunderstood, and not an integral part of ISraeli society. Despite this, most in the community see Israel as their home. The time has come for the State of Israel to recognize them.
Archives
Orange
The culture of oranges, a prism that reflects the fabric of the socio-economic relationships between the Israeli and the Palestinians.
The Reconstruction
Tzion Neighborhood
Queen of Jerusalem
Archaeologist, Professor Trude Dothan was born in Vienna in 1922. Her son decides to launch an “archaelogical” excavation in her Jerusalem house.
He finds the death mask of poet Elsa Lasker-Schuler and marionettes in a wooden chest. Secrets unravel as he gets deeper into the layers of her home and heart.
How Much Love
Family on the Edge
Kleiner Rudy
Rudy Wolff, an eighty-five-year-old Holocaust survivor, invites his granddaughter, director of the film, to join him in visiting his German birthplace. Once there, Wolff meets his childhood friends, giving us a first-hand glimpse into the after effects of the Holocaust, such as how do Germans deal with their past? How do Jews handle forgiveness and reconciliation? Is it in fact possible to accept, understand and forgive?
Displaced: The Bad Boys of Exodus
60 years after, two award-winning Israeli filmmakers have decided to revisit the tragic odyssey of the EXODUS 1947 through the eyes and recollections of Ike Ahranovitch, the captain of the boat who at 84 looks like a character out of `Prizzi`s Honor,` and Mordechai Rosman, the leader of the refugees, who lives alone, penniless, in an half-abandoned kibbutz.
Violinists
Within a small town where people hide amidst the crowd, their names unfamiliar to the press, the big story of 10-year-old children from Tiberias who are remarkable at playing the violin emerges.
