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- DirectorYair QedarStarsHaim BeerMenachem BrinkerAriel HirschfeldA new documentary sheds light on the life and death of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of Hebrew literature's greatest icons.
- DirectorSivan ArbelStarsHaim BeerNurit GertzMichael GluzmanDocumentary on the life of Hebrew poet Rachel Bluwstein, known simply as Rachel, considered a national poet of Israel. Includes interviews with literary researchers, poets, historians, and biographers.
- DirectorYair QedarStarsAmos OzZeldaShe published her first book of poetry at the age of 53 and became a prominent figure in the field of Hebrew literature. Niece of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, living alone in Jerusalem, writing poems of pieces of paper, surrounded by a small court of lovers and admirers. Through never-seen berfore archival footage and meetigns with her loves and friends (Amos, Chava Alberstein), the film gently sketches a portrait of the first religious female poet.
- DirectorJohn LollosStarsAlan AldaAaron AlexanderTheodore BikelPortraits of two beloved icons--Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel--are woven together in this enchanting new documentary. The two men have much in common: wit, wisdom and talent, all shot through with deep humanity and Yiddishkeit. Theodore Bikel, the unstoppable performer whose career spans more than 150 screen roles (including an Oscar-nominated turn in The Defiant Ones) and countless stage and musical productions, is also the foremost interpreter of Sholom Aleichem's work. Now 90, Bikel has played Tevye the Milkman on stage more than 2,000 times, and he has animated Aleichem's work through his creation of two celebrated musical plays about the great Russian author. The new film Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem combines Bikel's charismatic storytelling and masterful performances with a broader exploration of Aleichem's remarkable life and work. A pioneer of modern Jewish literature who championed and luxuriated in the Yiddish language, Sholom Aleichem created dozens of indelible characters. His Tevye the Milkman, Motl the Cantor's Son, and Menachem Mendl--"shtetl Jews" for whom humor and pathos were two sides of the same Yiddish coin--remain invaluable windows into pre-war Eastern European Jewish life, real and imagined.
- DirectorAlexander VeselyFor the first time, Dr. Victor Frankl through the eyes of those closest to him. A defining character of the 20th century, not only a genius, doctor and survivor of Nazi terror and tragedy but a man who lived, believed and loved.
- DirectorDavid OfekStarsJeremy FogelYitzhak Y. MelamedThe excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, the Dutch Jewish philosopher who revolutionized modern thought, is a formative, mysterious event in the understanding of his work. Director David Ofek takes us on an intercontinental journey tracing six reasons for Spinoza's excommunication. Between Amsterdam, the Hague, New York, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, he makes some surprising discoveries, and traces the figure of a man who continues to intrigue our culture with his ideas, which remain revolutionary, spiritual, and radical to this day. This is the 17th film created for The Hebrews project.
- DirectorAyelet OfarimStarsJulia FermentoMichael GluzmanOded Menda-LevyHe is considered one of the greatest Hebrew writers, though he only spent a year in the country. Who was David Vogel? The man who left behind a corpus of wonderful Hebrew novels, novellas, and poems that depicted sexuality and desire like no one before him, but who only gained recognition after his death.
- DirectorUri BarbashStarsAvraham SutzkeverThe incredible story of Avraham Sutskever, the greatest Yiddish poet, who saved manuscripts from the Nazis, survived WWII due to Stalin's special rescue plane, testified in the Nuremberg Trials, and died anonymously in Tel Aviv.
- DirectorShalom HagerStarsMordechai RotenbergMordechai Rotenberg, the founder of Jewish psychology, Israel Prize laureate, researches and teaches the influence of religion on the psyche and on daily life. The film follows Rotenberg in his everyday life and focuses on his therapeutic approach.
- DirectorTzachi SchiffStarsLisa AppignanesiLewis AronHoracio CardoSome say he's a genius. Others say he swindled "his" theories from his colleagues. This film exposes - for the first time ever -the unconscious of the person who conceived the unconscious. Please welcome - Sigmund Freud.