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Yebi

A ‘blue and white’ Troubadour, an anarchistic poet whose life was intertwined with the history of the state. Yebi despised materialism and focused on the love of fellow man and country, and all out war on injustice. In a thunderous voice he shook all those around him who wanted, or didn’t want, to listen to his cries. His booklets of poetry, he himself printed and sold on the street, and with the money he would invite his friends to drink. His life was also intertwined with the lives of central figures in Israeli culture, who, together, were partners in the creation of the Tel-Aviv culture, the Tel Aviv bohemian life. Even so, Yebi blurred all trace of his personal life, and even his closest friends didn’t know where he lived. The film attempts to throw light on one of the most colorful, fascinating and mysterious personalities that lived and worked in Tel Aviv.

Melissa, Mom and Me

Camcorder footage captures two girls-one Israeli, one American-in corsets and bunny ears, high on coke, backstage at a Tokyo strip club. Yael films Melissa giggling, sobbing, heartbreakingly candid. Seven years later, Yael flies to the United States to find her friend again. Melissa, Mom & Me witnesses the emotional reunion of two strong women and charts the dramatically divergent paths their lives have taken.

Gay Days

The story of LGBT revolution in Israel through rare archive material, the people behind the scenes and those up front, and the personal diary of Yair Qedar.

The Black Bus

The documentary shows the treatment of women by the ultra-orthodox members of Israel’s society. Women have to sit in the back of the Black Buses, their effigies on photographs published in newspapers like Shaa Tova are blackened or are replaced by male figures e.g. in Yated Neeman. One of the protagonists, Sarah, asks: Am I psychotic myself or is society sick?

The Invisible Men

An untold side of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: gay Palestinians — Louie, Abdu, and Fares — are hiding in Tel Aviv, and until they escape, they must remain “the invisible men.”

400 Miles to Freedom

FOUR HUNDRED MILES TO FREEDOM is the story of co-director Avishai Mekonenâ’s search to remember and reconcile what happened to him at age 10 in 1984, when he was kidnapped by slave traffickers in Sudan. Throughout his life-long journey from Ethiopia to Sudan, Israel, and finally America, his fundamental identity is challenged: What does it mean when others insist that you can’t be who you know you are? His search for answers leads him to other African, Asian and Latino Jews, and together they discover what it takes to heal a broken past and to overcome the invisibility and the questioning of one’s identity.

Just the Two of Us

This documentary follows the last 2 living survivors of Treblinka when the return to the place from which they fled.