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...

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...

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...

An unprecedented, groundbreaking and voyeuristic look into military reserve life in Israel, this film was shot over a 5 year period in director and reserve soldier Yaniv Berman\'s life. A soldier in the Israeli army reserves, Alpha Company, Berman had unparalleled access and filmed the soldiers...

The Garden is a desolate section of Tel Aviv where young gay prostitutes and drug addicts gather. It is a territory for the dispossessed, for pickups, drug deals, and clashes with the law. Over the course of one year, filmmakers Shatz and Barash follow two boys who have made the Garden their...

Shahar is an unemployed filmmaker. His father, Sleiman, a strict 82 year old Yemenite, is unhappy with Shahar\'s life style. The golden age of Sleimans life was his service in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army during WWII, of which he constantly bragged to his sons. As an incentive for his...

After a year of guerrilla warfare in Bolivia together with a small group of 52 comerades, Che was now dead.
His dream of uniting Latin America through armed revolution put to an end. The person who more than other has been doomed in the history books as guilty of Ches death is his former...