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The story of a WWII tragedy in a Polish village mixed with the story of a wedding taking place in the same place 80 years later. A bitter look at a xenophobic community that forgets its own history.

Christina is a Ukrainian woman who moved to Israel through a ‘bride-to-order’ kind of deal. Compared to her life back in Ukraine, life in Israel is great for Christina. She works in a beauty salon, earns her own money, and loves Israel. Her Israeli husband Michael is also satisfied with this marriage. He is happy that he found a woman who can live with him. In fact, he is so satisfied that he starts his own little business scouting for Ukrainian brides for other Israeli men. Michael’s recent matchmaking is a special one—the bride’s name is Valeria, and she’s Christina’s younger sister. Michael went out of his way and found the best man he could get for her. His name is Eitan, and while he may not be the most handsome guy in the country, he is a good-hearted, generous man. However, Valeria is different to her older sister. And the whole delicate balance is at risk.

A thriller that chronicles the high-stake responsibilities and controversial decisions that Meir – also known as the ‘Iron Lady of Israel’ – faced during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

A 2020 English-French language comedy film directed by Marco Carmel, starring Angel Bonanni, Moris Cohen and Nelly Tagar.

In the 1950s, a young British couple go on their honeymoon. They arrive at “the end of the world,” a small desert town, and decide to stay. In faraway Eilat, Israel’s southernmost city, they begin their new lives, while maintaining their British core. This is the story of Dr. Morris and his wife Fay. For decades, Dr. Morris filmed his family – the births and deaths, joys and tragedies, dramas and quiet days spent in the sun – all unfolding in the heat of the Israeli desert. Years after his death, the forgotten film was found and landed in the hands of directors Itamar Alcalay and Meital Zvieli. Together with the Morris family, they created a spectacular work about an extraordinary family, who are just as ordinary as everyone else.

Rome in the 1970s, the Borghetti family has just moved into one of the many new residential complexes built in the Italian capital. Despite this recent move, to the top floor of a new apartment overlooking the entire city, Clara and Felice are no longer in love, but they can't seem to leave each other. Clara finds refuge from her loneliness by focusing on the special relationship she has with her three children. The eldest, Adriana, still unknown in this new neighborhood, deliberately presents herself as a boy to the children, which will push the bond that still holds the family together to a breaking point.

A comedy about a married middle-class suburban couple in their 60s who are drawn to their new neighbor, a charismatic bachelor who has karaoke evenings at his apartment.

Segregated, highly surveilled, heavily filmed and intensely guarded: H2 uncovers the ways in which a single neighborhood in Hebron fuels the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 54 years of military occupation, told through the story of a one-kilometer long street.

Melilla, spanische Exklave in Marokko. Alegría ist aus Israel hierher zurückgekehrt, ihren Heimatort, um die Hochzeit ihrer Nichte zu feiern. Regisseurin Salama, Sephardin mit jüdischem Vater und katholischer Mutter, verschmilzt in diesem Hochzeits-Topos das Jüdische, Muslimische und Christliche zu einer Feier des Multikulturellen, des Familiensinns und der Selbstlosigkeit. Eine lichte, lebensfrohe und feminine Komödie in einer Stadt, wo sonst Bewegungsmelder, Nachtsichtgeräte und Grenzzäune den Strom afrikanischer Flüchtender dämmen.

Gad Elmaleh decides to leave New York and move back to Paris, to get baptized and become a Catholic. Despite his attempt to hide the truth from his Jewish family, Gad's parents discover their son's unconditional love for the Virgin Mary – and for them, it’s a nightmare! Determined to bring Gad back to reason and to his Jewishness, they turn his conversion into a battlefield - as Gad tries to make them understand by any means necessary that his sincere beliefs do not change his identity and the love he has for his family.

Follows the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War. Depicting the events preceding Eichmann’s execution, it approaches the important and much publicized Nazi criminal through the eyes of three participants in these events.

Chris, a wealthy divorcee, lives in a high-tech house of his own design in Montana. His life changes when he meets Sky, a mysterious young woman who draws him out of his shell and moves in after Chris is injured.

Jorge leaves his home and family in the outskirts of Lima to try his luck in the goldmines of the Andes, chasing the promises of the mother lode. We follow Jorge through a journey full of omens, where reality and magical thinking blend together, as he discovers that the myth of wealth is built on sacrifices that become ever more tangible – while the boundaries between victims and oppressors get progressively vague and blurred. Mother Lode is a fable about the banality of the descent to hell in times of neoliberalism; it is a paradigm of a relentless world in which everything can be sacrificed in the name of profit.

Maja, a Danish actress past her prime, falls in love with Leah, a young Jewish academic from London. Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, and Maja returns with her to London. There, she meets Leah’s mother, an overbearing woman who could hold dark secrets.

In the late 1960s, when the young Jewish businessman’s son Victor Dessauer fails to secure just punishment for the Nazi concentration camp commandant who tortured his parents, he resolves to take the law into his own hands.

Der «schwarze Stalin» Mengistu terrorisiert Äthiopien. Zehntausende Regimgegner werden gefoltert und ermordet. Tausende Menschen wollen nach Israel fliehen, verschanzen sich in der Botschaft, die neu von Asher Naim geleitet wird. Der Diplomat schachert mit dem Terrorregime, feilscht mit Israel, strudelt zwischen den Blockmächten. Zudem rollt die Volksbefreiungsfront auf Addis Abeba zu. Das ist nicht nur für Mengistu gefährlich, sondern auch für die 15'000 jüdischen ÄthiopierInnen. Gelingt Botschafter Naim ihre Rettung? Ebenso packende wie kritische Geschichtslektion zur «Operation Salomon» mit authentischem Material.