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- DirectorFred CavayéStarsDaniel AuteuilGilles LelloucheSara GiraudeauAfter the Germans occupy Paris, a talented jeweler, Joseph Haffmann, arranges for his family to flee the city and offers one of his employees the opportunity to take over his store until the conflict subsides.
- DirectorVioleta SalamaStarsCecilia SuárezLeonardo SbaragliaSarah PerlesMovie about the jewish ancestry of the spanish city of Melilla. It tries to explains the reasons to live life and the historical memory through the experience of their main actresses. It tells the story of Alegría, a woman that lives turning her back on her jewish ancestry, but since she moved to Melilla and moved to her parents house its not being easy at all. A moroccan house helper and Alegría best friend will be there to help her dealing with her whole family.
- DirectorGabriel Bier GislasonStarsDavid DencikEllie KendrickSofie GråbølMaja, a Danish has-been actress, falls in love with Leah, a Jewish academic from London. Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, and Maja returns with her to London. There, she meets Leah's mother, Chana, a woman who could hold dark secrets.
- DirectorMordechai VardiStarsMili EshetYoav RotmanIlanit Ben-YaakovA childless young ultra-orthodox couple faces a crisis after a traumatic treatment for barrenness. When the difference between good and bad is unclear, the family must deal with unresolved secrets that raise fundamental questions about religion and faith.
- DirectorDamir LukacevicStarsKida Khodr RamadanDorka GryllusChristoph Letkowski16-year-old Iranian Soheil moves to Berlin. He quickly makes friends with some Turkish and Arab youths. What Soheil does not tell his friends is that he is not a Muslim, but a Jew. When he comes out, the situation threatens to escalate.
- DirectorMicah SmithStarsYoram ToledanoShai FredoSarit WuvetA docu-narrative film that tells the story of Asher Naim, an Israeli diplomat caught between worlds and facing a crisis of faith in himself and his country. Asher, a North-African Jew himself, is sent to Ethiopia to negotiate the escape of 15,000 Ethiopian Jews from a country collapsing under famine and civil war. Working with his Ethiopian-Israeli colleagues who, themselves, immigrated to Israel a decade earlier, Asher and his partners begin to question if the Israeli government is serious or using the operation as part of an elaborate publicity stunt against claims that "Zionism is Racism." With rebel forces closing in on the capital, Asher's faith in his mission is put to the test as he navigates the treacherous world of bureaucracy and politics in Ethiopia, Israel, and the US. Exodus 91 takes viewers behind the scenes - and behind the spin - of Operation Solomon, the diplomatic and military mission to bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in the midst of Ethiopia's brutal civil war. The feature-length film explores challenging questions of racism, white saviour-ism, homeland, cultural identity, the politics of immigration, and the hardships of these immigrants, and those that followed them, to this day.
- DirectorIdit AvrahamiNoam SheizafThe story explores Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, a site of religious significance to Jews and Muslims, and the epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, showcasing archival footage and interviews with military commanders.
- DirectorAsaf KobrovskyNimrod ReshefStarsKeren MorMenashe NoyYaniv BitonA satirical crime, comedy of errors that involves three trailers that have been smuggled into Israel. A mistake in the harbor brings together Arabs, Orthodox Jews and a gay couple that must join forces in order to solve the mishap.
- DirectorAlexis GranowskyStarsSolomon MikhoelsS. EpsteinMoisei GoldblatJewish Luck revolves around Menakhem Mendl (one of Sholem Aleichem's characters), a daydreaming entrepreneur who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression in Tsarist Russia, Mendl continues to pursue his dreams and his continued persistence transforms him from schlemiel to hero.
- DirectorJake PaltrowStarsKoby AderetAdam GabayTzahi GradA captivating film examines Adolf Eichmann's trial, capturing the empathy and humanism amidst the atrocities committed during WWII.
- DirectorPhilippe Le GuayStarsFrançois CluzetJérémie RenierBérénice BejoAfter a Jewish couple sells their basement to a former history teacher, they discover his secret life as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to rescind the sale, the buyer befriends their naive teenage daughter.
- DirectorMordechai VardiThe film tells the stories of LGBT men and women who, for religious reasons, decided to marry against their own sexual orientation, to comply with Torah laws and be accepted into their families and religious communities. Some shared their secret with their partners, some kept it hidden, and some lied even to themselves. After their divorces, they confront the conflicts they repressed: their faith and religious laws; children, family and community; exposure to society and search for a partner. The characters experience a journey of self-acceptance and social activism, as they try to affect a change in their religious environments. The film also follows the women who married and divorced homosexual partners, as well as rabbis and psychologists who seek a solution to an unsolvable conflict.
- DirectorMaha HajStarsAmer HlehelAshraf FarahAnat HadidWaleed dreams of a writing career while suffering from depression. He develops a relationship with his neighbor - a small-time crook. While the scheme turns into an unexpected friendship, it leads them into a journey of dark encounters.
- DirectorLeon PrudovskyStarsDavid HaymanUdo KierOlivia SilhavyIn 1960s South America, a Holocaust survivor suspects his neighbor is Adolf Hitler. Disbelieved, he investigates and reluctantly befriends the man to gather evidence.
- DirectorGuri AlfiStarsDina SendersonLior AshkenaziGuri AlfiA couple want to find out the dirt about each other. She decided to do a project about her best friend, trying to find true love for him. Until his soul mate hits him in the middle of the street.
- DirectorMarco CarmelStarsNelly TagarJoséphine DraïMoris CohenLouise, a Jewish lawyer, arrives from Paris to finalize an important real estate deal, using Neta, a chance driver, the cunning hero from Mahane Yehuda, who immediately finds the economic opportunity and decides to stick with Louise at any cost. When the two visit the Old City, they discover a secret connection between an ultra-Orthodox woman and a Christian man who communicate through notes hidden within the grooves of the Wailing Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. In an attempt to solve the mystery, Louise and Neta follow the puzzling couple through the narrow alleyways of the city. A comedy of mistakes in the heart of magical Jerusalem, and a story about friendship between two women at a critical point in their lives.
- DirectorAbner BenaimStarsIlse SalasFernando Xavier De CastaManolo CardonaThe 42-year-old Alicia is a grief-stricken woman, a grief that has caused her to be estranged from society. Her world is turned upside down when a 14-year-old boy who looks after people's cars, stumbles into her house, bleeding.
- DirectorGad ElmalehStarsGad ElmalehRégine ElmalehDavid ElmalehGad Elmaleh, established in the United States for three years, returned to France without daring to admit to his family that he did so to convert to Catholicism. When Gad's parents, David and Régine, hear the news, it's a nightmare: their son couldn't have done worse. Determined to bring Gad back to his Jewishness, they will make his conversion a battlefield. Gad will however manage to make them understand that his sincere love for the Virgin Mary does not call into question who he is or the love he has for them.
- DirectorThomas RothStarsJeff WilbuschPaulus MankerMiriam FusseneggerIn 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.
- DirectorLuis PrietoStarsCameron MonaghanSasha LussRidley Asha BatemanA rich divorcee Chris falls in love with a mysterious woman Sky where Chris, ex-wife and his child eventually gets trapped and a desperate fight for survival will most likely ensue.
- DirectorAdy WalterStarsMoshe LobelAnisia StasevichPetro NinovskyiThe 1941 invasion of Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany is shown through the life of inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland.
- DirectorOlivier DahanStarsElsa ZylbersteinRebecca MarderÉlodie BouchezExplores the life of Simone Veil -- the famous French figure who survived the Holocaust and went on to become a leading politician, human rights campaigner, and feminist -- through a series of non-chronological memories
- DirectorItamar AlcalayMeital ZvieliEveryone in Eilat knows Dr. Morris and his crocodile Clarence who grew up in his garden, a strange British bubble in the middle of the desert. It turns out he left hours of personal documentation, which re-imagines a forgotten ghost.
- DirectorLeandro KochPaloma SchachmannStarsLeandro KochRebeca YanoverCesar LernerA sense of humour to flourish and gives rise to a powerful groundswell of emotions that carries us away in music
- DirectorÓscar AibarStarsRicardo GómezVicky LuengoPere PonceA young hardened police officer finds himself in the middle of the murder of the inspector he is now supposed to replace at a small sea town.
- DirectorMichal VinikStarsLena FraifeldYaakov Zada-DanielDasha TvoronovichTwo Ukrainian sisters, Valeria and Christina decide to marry Israeli men through online-arranged marriages. One already did it and is now living in Israel and the another is considering moving to Israel too and doing the same thing.
- DirectorMaor ZaguriStarsMaor LeviChen Amsalem ZaguriOr Adi"Boy" is growing up, questioning what becoming a man is all about. On the one hand, he can't wait to leave his traumatic childhood behind, and on the other hand, he is growing up in a far off village with no real friends his age.
- DirectorWojciech SmarzowskiStarsRobert WieckiewiczMichalina LabaczAgata KuleszaThe story of a WWII tragedy in a Polish village mixed with the story of a wedding taking place in the same place 100 years later. A bitter look at a xenophobic community that forgets its own history.
- DirectorStéphane FreissStarsLou de LaâgeRiccardo ScamarcioPierre-Henry SalfatiThe story of a young Haredi woman and a divorced farmer who both long to break free.
- DirectorGuy NattivStarsHelen MirrenZed JosefHenry GoodmanFocuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel,' faced during the Yom Kippur War.
- DirectorMoshe RosenthalStarsLior AshkenaziSasson GabayGabriel Omri LoukasA long-married couple becomes obsessed with their new, charismatic neighbor and his karaoke parties. Stars Sasson Gabay (The Band's Visit, Shtisel).