Quitting Boussiers 2022
The story of Novardok Yeshiva in Boussiers
The story of Novardok Yeshiva in Boussiers
Firsthand testimonies and unique archival footage tell the history of the Jewish Ethiopian community and the efforts made to bring them to Israel.
The heritage of a never-opened suitcase reveals for the children the secret history of their parents. The Boers were one of the many Jewish families who managed to escape the holocaust by crossing the Pyrenees. Although there are many stories that have been written about it, there has never been one so well documented. The Jewish Wedding tells the emotional legacy of the Holocaust for second-generation Jews, and how they cope with the silence about a story they are afraid to remember.
A girl’s home falls apart as a result of her parents’ divorce. Her buried memories are revealed through a sea of grains of sand.
The relations between a mother and son are tested during the preparations for the Passover cleaning ritual when the son decides to burn down the house to set them both free.
A collection of testimonials by individuals who underwent conversion therapy.
Teenage girl is coping with her sexuality due to a relationship with a girl. This happens in the background of her living with her father that her mother left years ago for another woman.
The filmmakers gather to sing in a unique position, in which the mouth of one envelops the nostrils of the other, as all three voices vibrate potently throughout the body cavities.
Aharon went through ongoing sexual abuse as an ultra-orthodox youth in a Yeshiva in Bnei Brak. A decade later, he has come out and is living as a secular homosexual. The silence he kept inside is bursting in his fashion collections.
Israeli Haredi women are expected to be good wives to their arranged husbands, take care of their many children, be the main breadwinner while their husbands study religious texts, and always vote as their Rabbis tell them to. They are not supposed to write political articles using a woman's name, and most definitely, they're not supposed to run for Haredi Parliament parties. In fact, Israel is the only country worldwide with parties that officially deny women.
Two con-artists, a Haredi Jew and a Muslim, perform (false) exorcisms and rituals for naive God-fearing people, until one day they are confronted by a real live Dybbuk that exposes their most private sins.
Cleo fulfilled his dream: to leave the big city with his wife and fifteen children, to establish a family commune on a farm in Brazil. Exploring their family-roots leads the children to discover their surprising heritage, which undermines the existence of the communal paradise.
A photo found by the filmmaker at her grandmother’s house after her death seemed strange. She has a pregnant belly. But she had told the story of adopting the director’s father because she was not able to conceive. Her old friends explained the kibbutz decided state-building efforts preclude giving birth, and she had an abortion that damaged her womb. This set the director’s curiosity about her biological grandmother. The adoption file told of Shoshana, 16, an Iraqi immigrant who got pregnant out of wedlock. Her sister revealed that the family abused her but she refused to give up the baby, who was eventually taken from her. Both suffered patriarchal oppression and remained silent. The grandmothers’ stories led the filmmaker to confront her parents about her own silence on sexual abuse in the family. For the sake of the three, she must break silence.
A group of military-conscription aged young people assemble to play a game simulating the evacuation of a Jewish settlement.
A documentary about the well-known matka player Amnon "The President" Nissim who has been playing matka for 61 years and has dedicated his entire life to matka. The film shows Amnon's tremendous influence on the Israeli matka community, especially in Gordon Beach in Tel Aviv. During the film we meet great characters from the Israeli matka world like the Bruce Lee (of the matka) and Shlomi Dead Sea.