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- 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.
- DirectorLisa D'Apolito
- DirectorSarit AsnapiFour ultra-orthodox women who dared to yell "we won't be silenced!". Through their revolution, we manage to make our way inside a closed off community with a very clear code of silence in regards to sexuality in general, and sexual assault in particular. Following these events, the worlds of each of these women has been overturned, whether because she herself has been a victim of sexual assault or a woman in one of their close circles.
- DirectorLee NechushtanFour women who served in the IDF, are now contending with PTSD as a result of their service. Their efforts to lead a regular life become a daily struggle, accompanied by intense pain. "Women in Battle" intends to shed light on the ways that military service affects women serving in war zones through the stories of four women, whose lives at home have become a second battlefield.
- DirectorAyelet MenahemiStarsReymonde AmsellemTikva DayanRivka BaharMarie travels from France to Israel, where her family now lives, to marry her one true love. "Seven Blessings"is a week of festive meals in honor of the bride. This week turns into a sad comedy about family crimes, forgiveness and loss.
- DirectorSammi CohenStarsIdina MenzelJackie SandlerAdam SandlerStacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic Bat Mitzvahs. However, things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.
- DirectorBrad Rothschild
- DirectorNoa AharoniSabotage is a hybrid documentary that tells the untold story of the Jewish Women's Underground.
- DirectorStéphanie HalfonStarsLou BennettZineb TrikiCarla BesnaïnouNine-year-old Orthodox Jewish Etel is having her period for the first time. Miriam, her mother, finally regards her as a woman. Etel is thrilled, until she finds out that in her religion women are unclean when they have their period.
- DirectorSmadar ZamirStarsEsti AlmoTova AscherMichal AviadTwenty six Israeli women directors of narrative features are sharing their personal experiences of sitting in the director's chair. From Ellida Geyra - Israel's first female fiction filmmaker, to contemporary female directors, the film weaves together a conglomerate of women's voices, as they echo each other, clash, and come apart, then culminate in a fiery speech by Ronit Elkabetz. Their stories create a diverse and cinematic patchwork quilt of female directors, providing us with a multifaceted reflection of any woman who wishes for her story to be heard. This is a moving documentary, that will motivate you to get up and do something about the glass ceiling, both the real one, as well as the imagined.
- DirectorDavid OfekMia WebbNo Jewish divorce is complete without the man literally giving the woman her freedom back. Divorce Denied follows several 'chained' women together with Batya Kahana Dror, a religious lawyer, who embarks on a struggle against the rabbinical courts. She believes the laws must be changed according to our time.
- DirectorSagi BornsteinUdi NirShani RozanesStarsUri AvneriYossi BeilinMeron MedziniThe eventful story of Golda Meir's term as Prime Minister of Israel - from her surprising rise to power and iconic international stature as "queen of the Jewish people", to her tragic and lonely demise.
- DirectorBrad RothschildThey Ain't Ready For Me is the story of Tamar Manasseh, the black rabbinical student who leads the fight against gun violence on the south side of Chicago. Tamar's identity and personality combine to make her a force to be reckoned with.
- DirectorRachel ElitzurStarsRachel ElitzurThe personal journey of Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox film director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and family life. Rachel unveils the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice, for the first time, to their concealed inner world through the wig that covers up women's' hair.
- DirectorAbbey NeidikStarsSolline Abenhaim-FeldRivka AbrahamiRose AdelsonBefore the Messiah can transform the world, the Shekinah, the feminine aspect of God, has to rise. Women will lead the way into the new era.
- DirectorShai AlexandroniStarsMiriam Ben-DorKadia MosesMiri NishriFour women in their 60s speak about their charged relationships with their late mothers. Their stories also involve the power relations in the family and with their children.
- DirectorPaula EiseltStarsAmy AckermanHadassah EllisAilin ElyasiA group of tenacious Hasidic women in Brooklyn take matters into their own hands to change their own community from within, smashing the community patriarchy by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City.
- DirectorMili Ben HaylTamar ShipponyStarsLea AvrahamVictoria HannaMaureen NehedarAn intimate conversation with famous musicians - Victoria Hanna, Maureen Nehedar, Lea Avraham and Alma Zohar about their personal challenges of singing/composing ancient Jewish texts which for generations have been associated only to men.
- DirectorLena ChaplinStarsNeomi PolaniDalia GolombJulia Viner"I do not feel old, I feel a young woman that something has happened to her that can not be corrected (by Julia Viner)" "How do we feel, at the age of 80?" Asks the 82-year-old director Lina Chaplin. This is the double journey of the director in the world of old age along with the three heroines of her film - Julia Weiner, 80, Naomi Polani and Dalia Golomb, 89.
- DirectorRama BurshteinStarsNoa KolerAmos TamamOz ZehaviWhen her fiancé bows out on the eve of her wedding, Michal refuses to cancel the wedding arrangements. An Orthodox Jew, she insists that God will supply her a husband. As the clock ticks down.
- DirectorSivan ArbelStarsHaim BeerNurit GertzMichael GluzmanDocumentary 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.
- DirectorYair QedarStarsAmos OzZeldaShe published her first book of poetry at the age of 53 and became a prominent figure in the field of Hebrew literature. Niece of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, living alone in Jerusalem, writing poems of pieces of paper, surrounded by a small court of lovers and admirers. Through never-seen berfore archival footage and meetigns with her loves and friends (Amos, Chava Alberstein), the film gently sketches a portrait of the first religious female poet.
- DirectorRonit ElkabetzShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzSimon AbkarianGabi AmraniAfter a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.
- DirectorTalya LavieStarsDana IvgyNelly TagarShani KleinA unit of female Israeli soldiers at a remote desert base bide their time as they count down the minutes until they can return to civilian life.
- DirectorAbbey NeidikStarsChanie CharlebachAbbey NeidikYisroel BernathShekinah takes us into the rarefied world of young hasidic women. Although they have rules for almost everything, their lives are filled with passion. With unprecedented access, Shekinah will capture the intimate details of every aspect of how they live and what they believe. They will tell us why 'kosher' sex is as intense and blissful as any Eastern Tantric philosophy and why they they see themselves as more liberated than most women today. Shekinah will break many long-standing stereotypes and reveal secrets of which even Hasidic men are unaware.