Through previously unrevealed private letters, photos and diaries, “The Decent One” grants a unique and at times uncomfortable access to the life and mind of the merciless “architect of the Final Solution” – Heinrich Himmler.
Archives
The Escape
In this road movie a group of Israeli teenagers from different backgrounds set out on a personal and fascinating adventure following the original “Bricha Movement”, which was set up to help Jews escape post-war Europe and get to Israel. Using today’s Europe as the backdrop, and throughout the different stops on the routes of the Bricha, the teenagers meet with survivors, witnesses and local youth to hear their personal extraordinary experiences. The journey they take, both physically and emotionally is complex, amusing, eye-opening, and very important to an understanding of themselves and of their history.
The Ceremony
Super Women
The story of five cashiers who work the same shift in a supermarket. Most are immigrants from Russia, others are native Israelis. The film follows their relationships, the mutual support and solidarity, dealing with the management and customers, their difficulties making a living and their working conditions, as they try to change their fate.
Sound of Torture
Ever since Europe closed its gates to African refugees, thousands of Eritreans have fled the brutal dictatorship in their homeland and traveled north, to Israel. Many were seized by Bedouin smugglers as they crossed the Sinai desert. They are held in camps and tortured until they pay a ransom. This film follows Eritrean radio presenter Meron Estefanos, who interviews thousands of refugees imprisoned in those camps from her home in Sweden and tries to save their lives. For starters, Hariti, 22, gave birth to her first child in camp, while her husband tried to collect $30,000 in Israel to purchase their release; and Timnit, 20, disappeared along the Israeli-Egyptian border, and is still searched for by her brother.
Shadow in Baghdad
SHADOW IN BAGHDAD tells the story of Linda Abdul Aziz, who escaped the upheaval of Iraq in the early 1970’s to Israel, and her father, who disappeared shortly thereafter to an unknown fate. The film follows Linda as an unexpected connection with a young Iraqi journalist sets her back on the path towards Baghdad and the truth behind her father’s disappearance. As mutual suspicion converts to trust, the two begin to revisit a painful past, drawing closer and closer to the tragic story of Linda’s father’s ending. What they ultimately uncover is not only the fate of Linda’s father but that of the once thriving Iraqi Jewish community whose over 2,000 years’ history came to an abrupt end in the 1970’s. At once a story of tragedy and redemption, Shadow in Baghdad tells of an important chapter in the turbulent history of the Middle East as it points to a distinct hope for the future as well.
Moekei Katz: A Freedom Fighter or a Terrorist?
Shmuel “Moekei” Katz died at age 90 after an active life fighting for Jewish identity, culture and statehood, mostly clandestinely. This film followed him, after he discovered he had an illegitimate son aged 40.
Bureau 06 – The Architects of the Eichmann Trial
Same River Twice
In 1869, John McGregor, a Scottish explorer, set out on a journey along the Jordan River from its source to the Sea of Galilea. In the sumer of 2011, Effi and Amir, who have been living in Europe for the past decade, retrace McGregor’s steps. In a rare combination of intimacy and distance, they gradually transform from travel-explorers to explored travelers, as the people they meet along the way unabashedly confront them with questions. The film raises questions of kinship and ownership, and how we see the place through the biographical and ideological veils that have shaped us.
