Former Jehovah's Witnesses reveal culture of fear and secrecy. The Jehovah’s Witnesses are a religious group with eight million followers in multiple nations. A knock on the door and an earnest offer to share their teachings is the only interaction most people will have with this god-fearing…
CORTOS INFINITOS es un largometraje documental que ofrece una visión sobre el universo del cortometraje en España a través de las inquietudes de sus directores, productores, festivales, televisiones y representantes de instituciones públicas que apoyan dicho formato.
In 1921, six dead bodies were found near the Red House between Tel Aviv and Jaffa. One was the body of Y.H. Brenner, a brilliant author, the sharp critic of his generation, a man of ambiguous sexuality and the characteristics of a raging prophet; he was well known throughout the Jewish world. An official…
The life of Hebrew poet Rachel Bluwstein, known simply as Rachel, considered a national poet of Israel. Includes interviews with literary researchers, poets, historians, and biographers. A poet, who managed to express the emotional life of an entire generation in a language which lives and breathes to…
Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky? Most people don’t know much about him. Most people know he was the father of Herut movement, a revisionist. And who really knows what revisionism really means. A few people know that he translated Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee; even fewer read his historical novel,…
Can a child recover from spending half his life in ISIS captivity? After two and a half years in captivity, Imad, his little brother Idan and their mother Ghazala are released into a displaced persons' camp in Kurdistan. Healing from the trauma is hard for all of them, but it seems Imad is having…
He is considered to be one of the greatest Hebrew writers, even though he was not a Zionist – he left Palestine after less than a year. David Vogel created novels and poems, enjoying a masterful ability to use a magnificent Hebrew, describing sexuality and desire, roleplays and identities, like…
In a tiny apartment in Jerusalem, surrounded by dolls and cats, Miriam Yalan-Shteklis wrote her beloved children's poems. Director Reuven Brodsky uses miniatures created specifically for the film and interviews with her acquaintances to tell the story of the most loved Israeli children writer. FOR…
Behind the international success story of Amos Oz, a symbol of the Israeli conscience and a writer translated into 45 languages, lurked a double tragedy. When he was 12 years old his mother committed suicide, and a few years before his death his daughter accused him of being physically and mentally violent,…
She published her first book of poetry at the age of 53 and became a prominent figure in the field of Hebrew literature. Niece of the LubavitcherRebbe, living alone in Jerusalem, writing poems on pieces of paper, surrounded by a small court of lovers and admirers.Through never-seen before archival footage…
As long as Abraham Sutzkever lived, he wouldn't let a film about his life be made. Today, eight years after his passing, Black Honey tells the incredible story of the greatest Yiddish poet of modern times. The man who led the Paper Brigade underground movement that saved Jewish manuscripts from…
The story of A.B. Yehoshua, the greatest Israeli writer living today – who is dealing with a serious illness, widowhood and loneliness, but chooses love and embarks on his final journey. A rare and fascinating look at one of our beloved writers. The 16th film in the "Hebrews" project Dir.:Yair…
