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- DirectorRebecca SnowStarsRichard ArmitageChristopher HeyerdahlJett KlyneThe remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
- DirectorJames HawesStarsAnthony HopkinsLena OlinJohnny FlynnSir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
- DirectorHeather Dune MacadamBeatriz CallejaStarsRamita NavaiThe first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz consisted of 999 Slovak girls and young women. This documentary features several survivors from that transport.
- DirectorAri FolmanStarsSebastian CroftRuby StokesEmily CareyKitty, the imaginary girl who Anne Frank wrote to in her 1940s diary during WWII, seeks out the deceased diarist while also inspiring a wave of modern social justice for refugees.
- DirectorRichard Shepard"Film Geek" is a joyous and emotional look back at a movie obsessed kid growing up in New York City, and his relationship with his mysterious father. Crafted entirely out of film clips from over 200 movies, as well as his personal archives, Emmy and DGA award-winning director Richard Shepard ("The Matador" with Pierce Brosnan) mines the material for clues to understand his own cinematic DNA.
- StarsShaina Silver-BairdDavid RealeDavid EisnerAt 20, Viv was a promising young singer. At 30, her failing music career has forced her back into her mother's basement. But when got into a job as a Cantor at her family's synagogue, she's thrown into a wild ride of illicit affairs.
- DirectorEitan GreenStarsSasson GabaySivan LevyClément AubertShimon, a 70-year-old widower, travels to Paris to visit a childhood friend. He stays with his daughter and discovers that her marriage is falling apart. He decides to help. In the process, he finds out that he and his daughter share both dreams and desires of which they had been previously unaware.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsPaolo PierobonFausto Russo AlesiBarbara RonchiA Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
- DirectorKilian RiedhofStarsPaula BeerBekim LatifiDamian HardungStella, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz singer, despite all the repressive measures she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in 1944, her life turns into a culpable tragedy.
- DirectorMarco CarmelStarsYadin GellmanBuddhika JayaratneEli Perry
- DirectorDanny Ben-Moshe70 years after a body is found floating in a Sydney river, middle aged Jewish doctor Jack learns his father, a Holocaust survivor, is responsible for the unsolved murder of an alleged Nazi and sets out on a quest to find the truth.
- CreatorYariv MozerKobi SittStarsRoi MillerEli GorensteinEscaping from postwar Europe, Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann establishes a new life in Argentina, where he meets fellow Nazi Willem Sassen. Together, they record a comprehensive account of his career.
- DirectorPaula ApsellKirk WolfingerStarsJulie BenkoJoel de la FuenteAndrew KishinoResistance: They Fought Back tells the largely unknown and incredibly courageous story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.
- DirectorBrad Rothschild
- DirectorBrad Rothschild
- DirectorAviva KempnerBerlin born Aviva Kempner chronicles her mother Hanka and uncle Dudek Ciesla's lives before and during World War II
- DirectorFinn TaylorStarsStephen LangElsie FisherLuke David BlummA 74-year-old man carrying a traumatic secret befriends an isolated teenager in an emotional story of multigenerational healing.
- 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.
- DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsDouglas BoothIrina StarshenbaumHarry MellingFollows two Brit police officers Thomas Wilkin and Geoffrey Morton in their hunt for charismatic poet and Zionist freedom fighter Avraham Stern, who was plotting to evict British authorities.
- 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
- DirectorÁdám BreierStarsZoltán BezerédiTamás Szabó KimmelLeo GagelA generous and stubborn elderly boxing coach who gets along with everyone except his own son. They're reunited after the death of the old man's wife and forced to face old grievances.
- DirectorEitan AnnerStarsLia BarnettUri GottliebRami HeubergerSharon (Moran Rosenblatt), a dedicated and ambitious art-house film producer from Tel Aviv is on the brink of bankruptcy when she gets an opportunity to save her professional future and her sense of self-worth. She is asked to collaborate with Uzi Silver (Rami Hoiberger), a revered former director, who has turned to religion and become a rabbi...and who now wants to make his comeback film - an adaptation of the biblical tragedy of King Saul. But working with Silver feels more like a war than a film production, and Sharon gets caught up in a whirlwind that threatens to destroy her mentally and financially, and endangers her relationships with those she holds dearest.
- DirectorCédric KahnStarsArieh WorthalterArthur HarariStéphan Guérin-TilliéChronicles the trial of Goldman, a French left-wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered.
- DirectorNoa AharoniSabotage is a hybrid documentary that tells the untold story of the Jewish Women's Underground.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsAdir MillerSuzanna PapianShani CohenA once successful novelist tries to revive his fading career by launching a highly inventive scam. He recruits a reckless actress and trains her to assume the somber identity of a lit Masters student. Their lives will alter forever.