Most of the archival footage from the Warsaw Ghetto originated from one of the biggest Nazi Film productions from 1942. Very little information is left except for diary entries and testimonies of Ghetto survivors. Revealing the sadistic filming methods will forever change our perception of these scenes and make us stop before using mindlessly archival illustrations in the future.

Directors and Producers: Yael Hersonski & Itay Ken Tor

Produced in the framework of the Greenhouse - a development programme for Mediterranean documentary filmmakers.

Lullaby is about my two mothers. I am accompanying on their journeys in South Africa to discover the meaning of motherhood.

שיר ערש הוא על שתי האימהות שלי. אני מתלווה למסעות שלהן בדרום אפריקה ויוצאת למסע משלי, על מנת להבין את משמעות האימהות.

A Film by Natalie Haziza

Script: Natalie Haziza
Director: Natalie Haziza
Producer: Natalie Haziza
Cinematography: Natalie Haziza
Editing: Rakefet Burstein and Kati Diakova
Sound Design: Yuri Primenko
Original Score: Nadav Azoulay

סרטה של נטלי חזיזה

תסריט: נטלי חזיזה
בימוי: נטלי חזיזה
הפקה: נטלי חזיזה
צילום: נטלי חזיזה
עריכה: רקפת בורשטיין וקתי דיאקובה
עיצוב פסקול: יורי פרימנקו
מוסיקה מקורית: נדב אזולאי

Three generations in one Palestinian family in a tale of daily survival, hope and longing for the past and for a better future. The grandfather was forced to migrate from Jaffa in 1948 but still dreams of returning to his homeland. His son entangles in the day to day demands of sustaining a family in Gaza's chaotic reality; finally, the grandson concept of heaven is anywhere in the world but Gaza. Conflicts within the family reveal a complex and emotional depiction of the Palestinian faith in today's tragic circumstances could be drawn.

Directors/Producers: Awatif Aljedaili & Mohammad Aljedaili

Produced in the framework of the Greenhouse - a development programme for Mediterranean documentary filmmakers.

Safa Dabur, a religious Muslim, a widow and mother of two sons, established the first Arab cinema in Israel. The Nazareth Cinémathèque became a life work and a dream come true, which stands at the center of her struggle for independence and for which she pays complex familial and cultural prices. This is the portrait of a woman, who struggles with the ambivalent attitude of the Arab society inside and outside of Israel.

Director: Nurit Jacobs-Yinon

Produced in the framework of the Greenhouse - a development programme for Mediterranean documentary filmmakers.

Three young Lebanese women dwell in the nightlife. The same ritual begins. Ephemeral moments, in the dialogue of their body language, relate them to strangers, to potential lovers. A director’s close hand-held camera embarks on a soul-searching exploration to find out why it is so complicated to encounter love in our world. Seduction is a song for the night.

Director/Producer: Corine Shawi

Produced in the framework of the Greenhouse - a development programme for Mediterranean documentary filmmakers.

While a band of gypsy musicians will welcome the guests of the “Istanbul, 2010 Cultural Capital of Europe” event, their 500 years old lively neighborhood, Sulukule, will be erased by bulldozers. Forced to leave their quarters as they are watching the new rising luxury residences being bullied over their music filled neighborhood, how will the gypsies maintain their culture and heritage? How will they keep their Sulukule spirit?

Directors/Producers: Aysim Turkmen & Sibel Voskay

Produced in the framework of the Greenhouse - a development programme for Mediterranean documentary filmmakers.

A masked terrorist is pointing a gun at the head of a handcuffed hostage, who is pleading for help from his family and country. This image, which has lately become too familiar, is the starting point of Six Days in October, an investigative documentary that follows an event that shook the Middle East in October 1994: the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier, the rescue attempts and the inevitable tragic end.

Directors/Producers: Levi Zini & Micky Laron

Produced in the framework of the Greenhouse - a development programme for Mediterranean documentary filmmakers.

The struggle of a Kurdish boy, who is forced to migrate from his village and a Gyspy boy, who was ‘born into waste’. The struggle of these two characters and a warehouse owner, trying to unite the scavengers tell the story of those who have to gather their basic needs of survival from the wastes of the capital city of Turkey, Ankara.

Directors/Producers: Alper Sen, Oktay Ynce & Emre Yalgin

Produced in the framework of the Greenhouse - a development programme for Mediterranean documentary filmmakers.

In this road movie through Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon, we meet belly dancers who live in an ongoing conflict within their societies. They will reveal unknown aspects of their trade. Belly dancing, that is considered to be immoral in parts of the Arab world, will be seen here for the first time as an art form; a means to determine one's identity and as a way to reach spiritual satisfaction.

Directors/Producers: Wael Istanbuli & Lilach-Shira Gavish

Produced in the framework of the Greenhouse - a development programme for Mediterranean documentary filmmakers.

Tel Aviv’s central bus-station area is a fascinating micro-cosmos - the transient home of labor migrants from around the world, victims of humiliation and fear. Behind half-shuttered doors, in improvised semi-clandestine spaces, they create an isolated and protected world, home away from home, finding refuge in their homeland music. The film follows five characters that reveal their human, tragic and sometimes tragic-comic stories.

Directors/Producers: Ilil Alexander, Moshe Morad & Shula Spiegel

Produced in the framework of the Greenhouse - a development programme for Mediterranean documentary filmmakers.