Dozens of checkpoints lie scattered throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, manned by the Israel Defense Forces. Thousands of Palestinians pass through them every day, making them one of the major meeting points between both sides in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Many different encounters...

Eric, an independent musician, tries to build a tiny studio in the middle of the desert. USA, 2007, 120 minutes.
Director: Eric Shiveley.
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Pascale, a former swimmer in the Israeli national disabled team, just wanted to make a positive documentary about her former teammates. But when they all get to the Sydney 2002 Paralympic games, things begin to get complicated... - Winner of best documentary, Paralympic Film Festival, Hungary, 2006

History came to bathe in a public swimming pool in Kosice, Slovakia. The director creates an ingenious audiovisual collage of life in twentieth century Central Europe through several stories, which unfold from the time the pool was built in 1936 until 2002. Kerekes’ grandmother’s life story and...

In March 2001, the ruling Taliban deliberately destroyed one of the worlds foremost cultural and historical sites, the immense Buddhas of Bamiyan. It caused an international furor. However, the hundreds of refugee families who now live among the ruins in Bamiyans caves received significantly less...

Following the recovery of his young daughter from ukemia, Arunas Matelis returns to the Childrens Cancer Ward at the Vilnius hospital to make a documentary of the daily lives of the hospitalized children. Matelis follows the sick children and their parents without resorting to sentimental or...

Bady Minck’s avant-garde film breaks through the conservative norms of documentary filmmaking. The film reexamines a world of banal images through the scenes depicted on thousands of landscape postcards that depict the Austrian Alps and the Salzburg province, from the time of the Nazi regime...

It begins as a nostalgic family documentary about the adventures of Eliezer, the directors father, in the horsemen unit during the Israeli War of Independence. But as as history unfolds, their relationship takes an unpleasant turn. Director: Ofra Shahor. Produced by
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Saturday, 10am, a group of elderly women and men carry plastic lawn chairs across the Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem. In the shade of an old pine tree, they sit down, in a circle and discuss matters sublime and elevated. For over two decades, the "Mt. Herzl Academy” has held its...

The film follows in detail the daily routine of 20 of the “Untouchables” cast working at the local crematorium in Mdourai India. Cremation is executed in mud holes covered with cow dung without so much as sanitary conditions. The workers do not receive wages, only tips from the deceased relatives...