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Architecture students join Shelly-Rachel Levy-Drummer to Bitola, North Macedonia, once known as Monastir. The history of her family is bound to Bitola’s destroyed Jewish community, to uncover and document the city’s lost Sephardic heritage through design and memory.

Marek Hłasko — writer, rebel, carouser — was hailed as the Polish James Dean for his looks and the Polish Boris Pasternak for the brilliance of his prose and his experience of exile.

In a new hybrid film, filmmaker Zohar Wagner (”Savoy”) tells the story of Rachel Edri, On October 7th, kept for 20 hours hostage in her house by five Hamas militants.

A portrait of Jewish life in Ukraine today, in the mirror of history and in the shadow of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Combining a humorous and affectionate family portrait, a historical film and a search for identity, Defectors confronts the impact of the Korean War on different generations.

Over the span of fifty years, the Israeli military censorship secretly copied soldiers’ personal letters, extracting their views on the most contentious issues facing its society. The findings were presented to leaders in a top-secret report titled “The Soldier’s Opinion”.

In a new hybrid documentary, fiction-docu film, filmmaker Zohar Wagner tells the story of Kochava Levy, a young woman of Yemeni descent, who served as mediator between terrorists and IDF while being held hostage in Tel Aviv.

Ukrainian-American journalist Katya Soldak, of Forbes Magazine, now living in New York City, tells the story of Ukraine, her country of origin, as it exits the USSR, works through two revolutions, and endures a war with Russia—all through the eyes of her family and friends.

“Greetings from the death camps” documentary film is a testimonial about the human spirit despite the terrors of war.

Discrimination. Humiliation. Stigma. Many native Catholic Mallorquins with Jewish heritage have suffered greatly for centuries – this documentary unveils recent conflicts within the only synagogue on the island and explores many historical aspects of the Inquisition and its effect on the infamous fifteen family lineages.

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