Films and Schedules

World-famous Israeli-born underwater wildlife stills photographer Amos Nachoum has swam with crocodiles and killer whales, with anacondas and with great white sharks. He has developed a unique approach that puts him face-to-face with his subjects, without any protection.

When love blossoms between a young Englishwoman and a German PoW in post-war Britain, they must overcome prejudice, public hostility and personal tragedy in this epic drama based on the incredible true story of legendary soccer player Bert Trautmann.

This award-winning short documentary chronicles the inspiring journey behind one woman’s ambitious project to write a complete Torah - in cross stitch.

At the centre of this incredible but true “detective” story, is a man by the name of Ernst Bechinsky - a man who died in Israel in 1969 - and then again in Austria in 1987.

Inspired by real-life events, The Unorthodox is a rousing and often humorous underdog story about the improbable beginnings of “Shas”, the first political party in Israel to represent the disenfranchised Sephardic community. When Ya’akov Cohen’s daughter is expelled from a prestigious school for ethnic reasons, he decides to fight back.

Six-time Emmy- and Tony-nominated actress Tovah Feldshuh delivers an enthralling, tour de force performance as Golda Meir (and, stunningly, 44 other characters) in “Golda’s Balcony”, a Broadway play that originally opened in 2003, and after more than 500 sold-out performances, became the longest running one-woman show in Broadway history!

Set against a backdrop of fraught family dynamics and secular-religious frictions, this poignant and gently humorous drama from renowned Israeli director Avi Nesher unfolds with the tension and intrigue of a juicy thriller. Anat, a strong-willed  and rebellious young woman, has suddenly found God.

A young Jewish woman from Mexico City finds herself torn between her family and a forbidden love in this intimate, insightful and moving drama. 25-year-old Ariela is an independent-minded artist living with her family, among Mexico’s close-knit Syrian-Jewish community.

Benjamin Netanyahu, or “Bibi”, has now been Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. Twenty years before the spectacle of Donald Trump’s presidency emerged, Benjamin Netanyahu already understood the political benefits of creating an adversarial relationship with the media, and communicating directly with the public.

This heartfelt and humorous inter-generational road trip film follows Roberto, a divorced 40-year-old with a failing business, as he finds himself on an unexpected trip, along with his father and son, from Israel to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup.

Moshe Rynecki was a prolific Warsaw-based Jewish artist whose body of work reached close to eight hundred paintings and sculptures before he was killed at Majdanek during the Holocaust.

This stirring Spanish drama is based on the inspiring true story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz, founder of the Mothers of Elne, a maternity home in the south of France on the Spanish border.

A captivating and moving drama about loss of innocence, The Tobacconist is based on the international bestselling novel by Robert Seethaler – a tender coming-of-age story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.

Shaked Goren, the film’s director, was raised hearing stories about his war-hero uncle, Ami, who was killed at the age of 18 in the 1967 war. Through those stories, Memorial Day ceremonies, and the letters that Ami had sent home during his army service, his uncle Ami was always a present absence for his nephew Shaked.

Who would believe that Avraham Sinai, an ultra-Orthodox Jew living in Israel, is Ibrahim Yassin - a Lebanese Shiite Muslim with an inconceivable and turbulent connection to Hezbollah. Born in a small village in Lebanon, he was destined to follow in his father’s footsteps as a farmer and shepherd, but fate had something else in store for him.

Omri, a young IDF soldier critically injured during a Gaza military operation, lies comatose in a hospital bed while his anxious parents maintain a bedside vigil - rarely leaving Omri’s side, speaking softly to him, praying and watching for any sign of improvement.

More than 50 years after its Broadway debut, Fiddler on the Roof continues to be one of the most beloved musicals of all time – since its 1964 opening, it has been performed somewhere in the world every single day. What lies behind its enduring appeal?