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Teaching Ignorance
This powerful film follows several Israeli and Palestinian teachers over the course of an academic year. It asks: How do the Palestinian, Israeli Arab, and Israeli Jewish educational systems teach the history of their peoples? By observing teachers, the film shows us their exchanges and confrontations with students as they transmit the values of religion, politics, and nationalism in the classroom. In Teaching Ignorance, educators from all sides of the conflict debate their peoples’ official curriculum, wrestling with is restrictions. This film offers an intimate glimpse into the profound and long-lasting effect that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict transmits to the next generation.
Einstein in the Holy Land
The most famous Jew of his generation visits the Holy Land.
The Way of Man- A Film About Martin Buber
Not simply a historical biography of a leading giant in the field of philosophy, this film shows how Martin Buber is more relevant and timely than ever.
Village of Peace
This beautifully shot documentary offers a rare glimpse into the unique community of the African-Hebrew Israelites.
The Unwelcoming
Tensions arise between the wider community and within the Uzan family, who have recently immigrated to Israel from Tunisia.
The Israeli Code
A journey into the Israeli public sphere where sociologist Gad Yair and photojournalist Alex Levac join in to try and understand some of the DNA of Israeli society.
Shapira & I
Women in Sink
At “Fifi’s,” a small hair salon located in the heart of Haifa’s Arab community, director Iris Zaki installs a mini film set over the washing basin. While she shampoos their hair, Zaki speaks candidly with the salon’s Arab and Jewish clients, discussing their views on politics, history, and love. Within the space of this hair salon, the women of the neighborhood achieve a temporary freedom, examining their differences and friendships within a community that many consider a model of Israeli coexistence. What emerges from these conversations is an honest and nuanced portrait of contemporary Israel.
All That Remains
Once she realizes her death is imminent, Liora, a 54 years old woman, decides to organize her departure from life with no compromises. As a doctor of philosophy in Biology and a medical researcher, she treats her upcoming death as if it was a scientific project. She creates a “Finalize and Overlap” folder in her computer, in where she lists all the tasks she wants to accomplish before her approaching death. This ‘project’ would mostly affect her close-ones remaining in the following days, months and years after she’s gone. Is it possible to plan the unpredictable? Can facing death be also a vivid experience?
