The power of music as a symbol of sanity in a time of war. Amnon Weinsten is a violin-maker who works with his son Avishai. When the Second Lebanon War breaks out in summer 2006, Amnon struggles to keep his international mater classes for young violinist from being cancelled, while also worrying about Avishai, who is drafter into the war.
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Violetta Mi Vida
Who Shot My Father?
Three daughters, one big secret, and many unsolved issues. This film follows the courageous attempts of these daughters to uncover the dark secret behind the murder of their father, Israeli Air Force Attache Colonel Joe Alon, in 1973.
White Nights
Night after night a group of Palestinian women go on a border crossing journey from their village, risking capture and arrest, to work as cleaning ladies in Jerusalem. On these nightly journeys, they share with each other their lives, pain, hopes, and dreams.
Women of Hamas
Everyone was surprised at the triumph of Hamas in the last Palestinian elelctions, but the bigger surprise was that the women were behind that victory. We follow three Hamas women to try and understand why an Islamist political party, operating in a very conservative society, allows its women to become political, social and even military leaders.
The Zilber and Me
About the Body
Michal, Ilana, Hila & Aviv are four young women in their 20’s who were severely injured in terrorist attacks. Their lives were documented for three months as they participated in a unique body workshop by dancer, Ohad Naharin, winner of the Israel Prize. After the injury, they were all compelled to confront a new perception of their selves and their femininity. The film is a story about the brave journey they undertook to reconnect with their once cherished bodies.
Shooting Days
Lullaby
Lullaby, a 50 min documentary by Natalie Haziza, tells the story of her two mothers, one of them Jewish South-African and the other her African nursemaid.
Rebecca worked for 10 years as Natalie`s nanny while leaving her 4 children in the village with their grandmother.
Elaine, Natalie`s biological mother, pursued a career, but could only do so only because Rebecca could care for her children while she was away.
Natalie, now a woman in her twenties living in Israel, returns to her homeland in South Africa to accompany them both on their journeys to discover the meaning of motherhood.
Sensitively and personally told, a contemporary look at motherhood, the figure of the Jewish Mother and the after-effects of Apartheid.
We Too Have No Other Land
We Too Have No Other Land is a soccer-based documentary about life around a unique soccer pitch. Neither political treatise nor sociological thesis, nor even sports story, this is live human drama; it kicks-off in Galilee, but scores goals all around Israel and its Arab neighbors.
