Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival, Unsettled presents the historic 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip through the eyes of six young people. Three are settlers determined to stay. Two are soldiers with different feelings about the order to evict Jews from their homes. One is an activist whose sister was killed by a terrorist bombing and sees the withdrawal as the first step towards peace.   Full Description…

After his abrupt death at a mariachi banquet, Moishe Tartakovsky has two angels hovering over his Mexico City shiva where his friends and family have gathered to remember their patriarch. The angels are attempting to divine from the mourners the content of Moishe’s character, and whether the good or bad angel will escort him on. In short, Moishe’s in trouble. His middle-aged son is trying to arrange an abortion for his girlfriend, his   Full Description…

A mundane car accident has profound consequences when Eli, a father driving his sons to school, mysteriously disappears from the scene of the incident, leaving his religious Jerusalem family reeling. Using a combination of non-professional and trained actors, and employing a great deal of improvisation, Nadjari creates a mystery that is as much spiritual as it is physical. While Eli’s father stresses the importance of prayer and reciting   Full Description…

“Make your life where you are,” Elise Roumani told her children. They tentatively watched the Italian fascist regime arrive in Libya, survived the Nazi invasion, welcomed the British, and lived at uneasy peace with the Arabs until coming to the United States. After World War II, there were 36,000 Sephardic Jews living in Libya. Today there are none.  The Roumani family is among the dwindling remnants of this Jewish population   Full Description…

Chen is a young boy constantly in the middle of the cultural conflict between his Russian born mother and Israeli father. While strolling the halls of a community center, Chen stumbles upon a ballroom dance class for children and is instantly taken with a beautiful young Russian girl in the class. His infatuation with Natalie leads him to join the class.  Through his ballroom dancing, Chen ultimately helps to bridge the cultural divide in   Full Description…

Israel’s premiere actor, Assi Dayan, gives a captivating performance as Itzhak Grossman, whose Tel Aviv family is growing increasingly cut-off from itself. His father, whom he hasn’t spoken to in years, lies dying in the hospital, his son is too depressed and stoned to see beyond his job as a pizza delivery-boy, his eldest daughter is slowly realizing she’s a lesbian and his wife is about to reveal all family secrets in her   Full Description…

Part of the current vanguard of award-winning Israeli filmmakers, Joseph Cedar’s Beaufort dramatically depicts the complex moral and tactical dilemmas facing the young commander of a crusader-era fortress in Southern Lebanon during the Israeli Army’s unilateral 2000 withdrawal.  Liraz Liberti is the 22-year-old commander of the highest ground in the 18-year-old Lebanon War.  This ground he has sworn to defend is also ground   Full Description…

A sidewalk is universal. Every morning children make their way to school, leaving their home behind and entering a world of their peers, for better or worse. The act of traveling, whether it be walking, riding, or skipping, is the start of a new day. Duki Dror’s film, winner for best cinematography at DocAviv, is a meditation on that daily journey, one which is embedded deep in our collective memory. This journey is a brief window of time   Full Description…