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- After their caravan is attacked and their respective families butchered by Arab marauders, teenagers David and Sarah flee across the desert. But the desert is filled with danger from the elements, animals and the appetite of the Jackal.
- Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.
- Following the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal.
- In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.
- In 1949, former concentration camp inmate and Berlin native Hans Muller, immigrates to Israel where, due to psychological problems, he can't adjust to peacetime life.
- A look at the roller coaster life of Sam J. Jones since his role as Flash Gordon, his struggles and successes, and the aftermath of when he went up against one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood.
- Three Japanese tourists - a soldier, a divorced woman, and a salaryman - make a pilgrimage to the Ganges River in India, each in hopes of finding some spiritual release or meaning in life.
- Actual trial footage, emotional recollections of trial witnesses and other key participants provide insight and contrasting perspectives of the Eichmann legacy.
- As a new conflict opposes Israel and Lebanon, Hajar, a young Palestinian student, returns to her native village in Galilee on the occasion of a wedding in the family. Just before the ceremony, she goes to see her father, patriarch Abu Majd, who has always encouraged her to learn and to discover the world. It is with confidence that she tells him about the man she loves, Matthew, an English art teacher at the university of Haifa. His negative reaction upsets her...
- While scouting locations for his classic "The Gospel According to St. Matthew", director Pier Paolo Pasolini noticed that filming in the actual site of the story, in Palestine, wouldn't be much of a great choice due to the modern invasion which completely altered the biblical settings. Here, the director explained his reasons of why his search in the Middle East end up being wrong - though somewhat fruitful and rewarding in other ways - and why his native Italy surprised him and became the scenario for his religious epic.
- A documentary that traces the evidence for biblical authority and reliability.
- An attempt to explain how historically accurate is the biblical life of Jesus of Nazareth, using the latest historical, archaeological, and astronomical research.
- In the first of Heston's acclaimed four-part series, the renowned actor serves as storyteller. An ancient Roman amphitheater and other locales in Israel provide the settings for the Oscar winner as he relies on the King James text, his dramatic skill and insightful observations plus great works of art and music to give flesh and bone to the Biblical wonder.
- A documentary about the then only twelve year old country of Israel, caught amidst the tensions of the Middle East and the ongoing Cold War.
- A sudden inexplicable disappearance of 36 members of an ideological community settled in northern Israel, brings Leah Kafka, a fresh police investigator from the city who specializes in cults, to cooperate with the local authorities and investigate what turns out to be a terribly convoluted mystery. All entangled in a situation feared to impact the state's security and secrecy, and the lives of innocent people who got in the middle of intrigues and conspiracies, Leah and the local residents go on a tortuous journey of illusions, secrets, enlightenments and uncertainty, in which no direction, relationship or logic is kept intact.
- A boy who survived the Holocaust hopes to be reunited with his parents in the Holy Land.
- Waldemar Januszczak explores the impact of Mary Magdalene's myth on art and artists. In art all Christian saints are inventions but Mary Magdalene has been the subject of more invention and re-invention than any other.
- This program has been designed specifically to help people with no previous knowledge of Jesus to have a better understanding of who He is.
- A hotel porter, who a long time ago divorced his wife and his daughter with her in America, is alarmed when a beautiful girl arrives at his hotel looking for her supposedly rich father. The porter had been sending back money and describing himself as a well-to-do businessman. With the help of his hotel friends, he becomes the guest of honor and takes her on a tour of Israel, all the time trying to avoid revealing his true work.
- Religious scholars investigate: who was Jesus then, and who is He now?
- Children of a summers end tells the love story of two aspiring magicians (Adam and Tamar) who live on a Kibbutz in the north of Israel. While Adam wants to stay in Israel and enlist, Tamar convinces him to dodge his military service and fly off to the magical city of Vienna. The two decide to perform one final magic show before they leave.
- The Sea of Galilee, also known as the Kineret, is famous for its biblical and historical significance, as well as its beauty. Located in northeast Israel, the freshwater lake is home to many distinctive fauna and flora species, including the native swamp cat. The lake also offers temporary sanctuary to the millions of birds who fly across Israeli skies on their biannual Europe to Africa journey.
- A discontented chef sniffs an alluring aroma and is whisked away on a modern-day pilgrimage. Jerusalem or Bust is a most bizarre musical journey, dusted with divine stories, served up with a host of zany characters who he meets along the way.
- A Japanese director is on a search for a contemporary fisherman in the Sea of Galilee. He meets with Menachem Lev, a rugged "kibbutznik" fisherman. The director documents him for a year and compares him to Peter, who was a fisherman and the first disciple of Jesus. During filming, the relationship between the director and the Israeli fisherman is strengthened.
- On the shores of the Sea of Galilee, a teenager tries to interpret his relationship with his girl-friend. A confessional film that offers another look at human contact and its complexity.
- Land of Genesis follows three mammals in their respective geographic habitats, as the seasons change.The wolves of the Golan Heights, the swamp cats of the Sea Of Galilee and the ibexes of the desert are shown in the most beautiful way.
- Set to redefine perceptions of biblical teachings, the film reveals startling new insights into the authenticity of translations and challenges the adherence of Roman Catholicism to true Bible doctrine.
- Fate summoned director Yaky Yosha to a crossroad that future time may consider an historic turning point in Judeo-Christian relations. In the winter of 2000, Yosha and his crew documented all stages in the building of a massive amphitheater, for the one hundred thousand people scheduled to participate in an open air mass Pope John-Paul II would lead on the Mount of Beatitudes - where two thousand years earlier, Jesus of Nazarath gave the "Sermon on the Mount" to his followers. For six weeks, two-dozen Jewish contractors and Christian priests worked back to back and against all odds, confronting deadline as well as deadly weather conditions. It was their finest hour. "Har Haosher" ("Inherit the Earth") is a moving testimony of the great efforts invested behind the scene of Pope John-Paul II historic visit in the Holy Land.
- Exile looks at new evidence that suggests the majority of the Jewish people may not have been exiled following the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, and asks us to rethink about an event that has played a critical role in the Christian and Jewish traditions.
- Israel, October 1 2000. Intifiada (revolt) Al-Aqsa has begun. For the first time Israeli-Arab citizens actively participate. During the following three days, 13 Arabs are killed. The government appoints an investigation committee, but the people have already chosen the main suspect: the Galilee Chief of Police, Major Alik Ron. "Hachashood Haikari" ("The Main Suspect") is a fascinating portrait of a public servant accused by the people as its enemy.
- A behind the scenes look at Topol's Jordan River Village charity, in Northern Israel.
- The film documents the residents of the Galilee in Deir Hana and Wadi Ara during olive season of 2020. Amidst lockdowns, between the groves and the local olive press, we accompany the Hussein Family and members of Sindyanna of Galilee as they continue to work their land to produce quality olive oil.
- The year is 1993. Night-time. September 13 (The Oslo Agreement is signed in Washington - Rabin-Arafat handshake takes place during this night). The remains of a deserted Nahal settlement with social ambitions from the early 80s are scattered over mount Hazon (literal meaning: vision) in the lower Galilee.
- In a remote, yet dazzling landscape, a temperamental hiker tormented by the past , has the perfect scheme set in place against his friend; until a mysterious stranger comes along with a plan of his own.
- A prison in Galilee is the setting for this film about a withdrawal and rehabilitation department for heavy drug addicts. The Last Chance is a powerful film that documents an all-too common social problem. It is also the compelling story of one man who will lose everything if he cannot find the strength to beat his addiction once and for all.
- This documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine, recording the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and the idea of a socialist Jewish state.
- Documentary on 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.
- From building towers out of bottles, to marriage proposals, reminiscing or fishing, Shore Stories introduces us to characters who have left the reality of their homes for the serenity of the shores of the Kinneret.
- Water is the basic, necessary element of every known life form. We ourselves are made of water gathered in skin. Water means life, and the lack of water unequivocally means death. In the shadow of the Flood that occurred thousands of years ago, four characters floating between Heaven and Earth are confronting with the drying of their land, with Nature's changes.
- A documentary film that tells the story of the human toll that Plan Dalet claimed on a small Palestinian village in the 1948 war. The story of the massacre, expulsion and return of Eilaboun.
- Iqrit in northern Israel is one of several hundred villages that were emptied and / or destroyed in Israel's war of independence aka the naqba (catastrophe) in Arabic. Its former inhabitants and their descendants only come for mass.
- A spiritual leader of a primitive tribe is on her deathbed. She bids farewell to her tribe in a mystical ritual and is interred in a ceremonial burial preceded by a feast in her honor. This short film is an artistic reconstruction based on real prehistoric findings from the Chilazon cave in the Galilee, Israel.