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The Gardener

Filmmakers take cameras into the magnificent gardens of the Baha’i Faith’s headquarters in Haifa and Akka, Israel.

Family Chemistry

A 91 year old professor and a theatre manager reclaim a chemical process from the distant past which could change our future. They transform wood pulp to sugars which can be used by the food and fuel industries. The process is clean, reliable and very cheap. The film documents the chemical process and the human process of a unique Israeli Start Up from a small lab in Jerusalem to industrial production of renewable energy. This is the story of a big dream that overcame big obstacles.

The Women Pioneers

The women pioneers who came here a century ago wanted to build a new world and create a new woman, just as independent as men. A few dozen of these women established Ein Harod. Writing about themselves and their world, they described their fight for equality and protested against how they were silenced. They struggled against the constraints of the traditional world they came from and the way men interpreted the world that they created. They lived passionately and experienced many painful failures. In the end, they abandoned their struggle as women to focus on achieving the dream that they shared with men–the dream of creating a new nation. “Women/Pioneers” tells the story of their turbulent lives through the journals they wrote, which provide a new perspective on archival materials from that time.

The Territory

An intimate look at Israeli settlers from the former Soviet Union.

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The story of South Africans who fought for Israel’s freedom in 1948.

The Invisible Man

Tells the story of persecuted gay Palestinian men who have run away from their families and are now hiding illegally in Tel Aviv.

It’s Better to Jump

The Northern port city of Acco (Acre) is a mixed (Jewish-Arab) city.  The city’s Palestinian population—both Muslim and Christian, and for the large part “Palestinians of 1948,” who were the residents of Israel when it was granted statehood—has been there for generations. As Acco has become an increasingly-popular tourist destination, however, there has been a concerted push to change the long-standing demographics, resulting in a government-backed push to move Palestinians out of the Old City. In the hands of the filmmakers, a traditional rite of passage in Acco, the act of jumping from the ancient 40-foot seawall, becomes a metaphor for the perilous situation and great bravery of the city’s Palestinian population. A tough, deeply empathetic film that may suggest uneasy parallels between subtler gentrification, as we know it, and actual forced relocation.