Politics and Conflict

Under the guidance of filmmaker Uri Rosenwaks, four promising Bedouin directors from the Negev Desert point a camera at themselves and their society to record a ‘self- portrait’ of their own community and its hardships.

The journey of a man into the depths of his past and into the roots of his yearning for a place which was and is no more.

Sayed Kashua always feels he doesn't belong. The Jews don't like him because he's an Arab. The Arabs don't like him because he's successful. The Arabs think he's a collaborator. The Jews think he's a drunk. He is always viewed as "the Other", and he's always scared.

 
A journey that takes us to meetings with the car's previous owners and to Jordan – as the filmmaker takes his own journey to fatherhood.
 

Six decades after the founding of the Jewish State, how do you build your own relationship to Israel? The film follows a wide range of American Jews, on their journeys to Israel- and the result is warm and personal film that vividly conveys joys and ambivalences.

The disengagement of Israel from Gaza in 2005 is the background for the story of one women's determination in the face of hardship.  HOTHOUSE chronicles one strong woman who struggles to keep her family, her marriage
and above all - her hothouse working and flourishing.

A six-year old girl starts school in the mixed Arab-Jewish school of Neveh Shalom. The complexities of life in the Middle East are played out in one little girl's first year in school.