At the heart of all Buddhist teachings is the promise that we each have the potential to achieve enlightenment by “knowing and seeing” the true nature of existence. Out of compassion for humanity, the Buddha outlined a very clear, systematic, and practical course of training that can be followed…
A poetic journey through post-war Novi Sad, where memory, trauma, and resilience shape the everyday lives of those left behind. SYNOPSIS Five years after the NATO air raids during the Kosovo War, filmmaker Michal Kosakowski accompanied a friend back to his hometown of Novi Sad, Serbia. Once Yugoslavia’s…
Depicts the efforts of Latino residents of New York's Lower East Side who have taken over their own buildings abandoned by landlords. Organizing themselves into Tenants' Associations, they undertake the repair and renovation of their decaying tenements and provide their own services. Directed…
A Documentary of Love, Family & Future As humans continually close off their hearts and empathy – elephants are now just showing us how to truly love and forgive. The heart of the elephant is a story of wonder woven together from a tapestry of eye-witness accounts and scientific proof of…
A satirical tour of the Moscow Kremlin, seat of power of the Soviet government. This was made in the years just before the breakup of the Soviet Union. A younger Boris Yeltsin is the idol of the turbulent masses (who don’t know how he will later become a puppet of the oligarchs). There are contrasts…
Restaurant kitchens are a pressurized stew of brutal hours, high stress and sleep deprivation. Acting out goes with the territory and anyone lower on the totem pole is fair game. But the familiar macho posturing of celebrity chefs has reached a tipping point. Now with an influx of women at the helm…
In a little Jerusalem apartment, surrounded by dolls and cats, Miriam Yalan Shtekelis wrote children songs that captured the hearts of generations of Israelis - the doll named Zehava, the soap who cried a lot, Michael and others. The director, photographer, editor, designer and writer - Reuven Brodeski…
By the age of thirty he’d already become the most famous poet in the Jewish world. He spent very few years living in Tel Aviv, but he loved the city dearly. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1934. “King of the Jews” is a portrait of the most beloved Jew of his day, Chaim NachmanBialik.…
Miss Bluwstein Rachel, a new documentary to mark the 125th Birthday of Rachel Hameshoreret – strengthens the image of the first Hebrew poet, who managed to express the emotional life of an entire generation in a language which lives and breathes to this day. Dana Olmert, Anat Weisman, EfratMishori,…
In 1921, six dead bodies were found near the Red House between Tel Aviv and Jaffa. One was the body of Y.H. Brenner, a brilliant author, the sharp critic of his generation, a man of ambiguous sexuality and the characteristics of a raging prophet; he was well known throughout the Jewish world. An official…
Leah Goldberg is still an enigmatic figure – she is Israel’s most beloved poet, a powerful woman, who lived with her mother and never married, a woman who invented herself from the ashes of World War I through her magical poetry. The film is a cinematic fantasy in five acts, using animation,…
about the life and works of groundbreaking poet YonaWollach. Wollach died young, leaving a legacy of urban myth, madness, and mystery around her eccentric personality. The film is based on seven tapes of interviews granted by Wollach before her death, in which she speaks of madness, drugs, encounters…
