Ambiguity
| 100 minutes
Ambiguity explores the intense, complicated inner battle of those deeply bound to the ultra-Orthodox community yet driven to break free. Screening of the first two episodes.
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Cha Cha Cha
| 20 minutes
Latina in the Middle East. Immigrant between two worlds: Argentina and Israel. Cha Cha Cha is a visual and musical collage that investigates the intimate and the public, between the visible and the hidden.
Mariana's Room
| 131 minutes
Based upon Aharon Appelfeld’s masterpiece, Blooms of Darkness. The story of 11-year-old Hugo, who hides from the raging war in Mariana’s closet. Mariana works as a prostitute in a brothel, and Hugo’s existence depends on the noises and scenes he hears through the walls.
Proud Jewish Boy
| 87 minutes
Proud Jewish Boy follows the fascinating story of young assassin Herschel Grynszpan, the boy accused by the Jews of triggering the pogrom that marked the beginning of the Holocaust, and by the Germans of starting WW2.
Some Notes on the Current Situation
| 79 minutes
Some Notes on the Current Situation is a feature film composed of six absurd, slightly surreal tales, each shedding light upon the existential, human and social condition here and now.
The World Will Tremble
| 109 minutes
True story of a group of WWII Polish Jewish prisoners attempting the unthinkable and launching a daring escape from a Nazi death camp. Taking place in real-time, The World Will Tremble is a nail-biting triumph of the human spirit.