In the near future, Israeli scientist Nurit (Reymond Amsalem) has created a groundbreaking algorithm designed to prevent future violent attacks. But her system fails when Yaffa (Samar Qupty), a young Palestinian woman from the occupied West Bank, assassinates the Israeli minister of Space and Tourism. In order to fix the bugs in her algorithm, Nurit faces the assassin in person. As the sessions between these two brilliant women raise questions about their pasts, Nurit begins to question her future.

Young Israelis know what awaits them when they turn 18—they’ll have to serve in the army. And in Israel, military service often means actual combat and the risk that you won’t survive. Diary excerpts written by young people who died while in service, read by voice actors, express their struggle with the imposed violence that leaves no room for their own principles, and their fears and thwarted plans for the future. This documentary brings us inside childhood and adolescence in a militarized and war-torn culture. Directed by Academy Award nominee Guy Davidi.

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Forty-year-old Waleed, a Palestinian living in Haifa with his wife and two children, is a struggling writer with depression. When he meets his new neighbor Jalal, a small-time crook, the two men form an unexpected friendship and become inseparable. This dark comedy won a prize for best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival.

Marie was just two years old when her mother gifted her to her infertile sister, a common Moroccan custom at the time. Forty years later, Marie returns to Israel for her wedding and to be walked down the aisle by both of her “mothers”. Her large family prepares for the Seven Blessings tradition, a week of festive meals in honor of the bride. But Marie has also come to open old wounds. Along these seven days, secrets resurface and the celebration turns into a bittersweet explosion of food, fury and belated forgiveness. Israel’s official entry to the 2024 Academy Awards.

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This documentary follows the fates of three families in the Israeli city of Lod, where Israelis and Palestinians live side by side. The families are inextricably intertwined in a vicious cycle of violence and live in a state of seemingly endless mourning. An outpouring of love, anger, and forgiveness offers a glimpse of light. From the director of Dancing in Jaffa.

When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young American Jews battling the old guard to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel, revealing a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.