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- DirectorThomas GilouStarsRichard AnconinaRichard BohringerAmira CasarThe sentimental and comedic adventures of Eddie, a non-Jew trying to pass as Jewish though totally ignorant of Jewish traditions, as he works in a Jewish community.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsRoger HaninMarthe VillalongaMichel AuclairPaul Narboni remembers his happy childhood in Algeria before leaving the country in 1954. With his family, he then arrives in Marseille before reaching Paris. His father Albert, a grocer, will have to adapt to this new country.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsRoger HaninClio GoldsmithBernard GiraudeauWith the help of his binoculars, commissioner Duche monitors from his car the reception at the villa of Raymond Bettoun, the head of the clan of Jewish Pied-Noir.
- DirectorOlivier NakacheÉric ToledanoStarsVincent ElbazIsabelle CarréFrançois-Xavier DemaisonEver heard your mother say, "Be careful, honey, when you marry, you also marry the family"? When Alain married Nathalie, he wasn't quite aware of the extra baggage that came along in the happy-ever-after equation: her family. Saturday night means dinner at his brother-in-law's, but Alain has reached his limit. He's sick of his brother-in-law's life advice, sick of his niece's soporific pretentious pre-dinner singing recitals, sick of watching an old wedding video for the millionth time, and definitely sick of his sister-in-law, on the verge of a psychotic break-down due to her ticking clock. But he hasn't seen the worst of it yet... until he realizes that perhaps there's some affection beneath the insufferable hysteria - one might even say love.
- DirectorHanna Azoulay HasfariStarsRita ShukrunEsti YerushalmiHanna Azoulay HasfariGrandma Zohara occupies a special role within the Moroccan community within Israel. By cradling an object brought to her by her clients, Grandma Zohara gains access to the family's past through her dreams. This allows her to advise families on future decisions. Lately, however, Grandma Zohara is tiring and begins searching for someone to take over this role. She discovers that the only other person endowed with the power of dreaming is her daughter, Simone, who has different plans for her future. With support of Simone's sister, Fanny, who arrives unexpectedly from Paris, Simon gathers the strength to resist her mother's pressure and to pursue her own desire. Together the sisters wage battle for Simone's independence and creativity.
- DirectorJoe BalassA visual memoir of one family's life in Iraq before escaping to a new home in Canada in the fall of 1970. Featuring a never-before-seen collection of archival images, home movies, and family photographs from Baghdad, the film pulls back the curtain on Iraq's once-thriving Jewish community, its perilous final years, and its remarkable ability to find solace in the shadow of fear.
- DirectorDan ShadurStarsErvand AbrahamianShaul BakhashZahra EshraghiA documentary thriller describing the last days of the Israeli community in Tehran, on the eve of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The director, whose family was in Tehran at the time, uses rare archive materials to illustrate how thousands of Israelis, who enjoyed unusual affinity with the Shah's regime, wake up one morning to find their paradise vanished.
- DirectorNissim DayanStarsDaniel GadYasmin AyunTawfeek BarhomBetween the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
- DirectorLorraine LévyStarsEmmanuelle DevosPascal ElbéJules SitrukTwo young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
- DirectorAmos CarlenAline RobichaudShadows of Freedom tells the virtually unknown story of the Jewish/French resistance in Algiers that had a significant impact on WWII.
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsMaryam TouzaniArieh WorthalterAmine EnnajiThe streets of Casablanca provide the centerpiece for five separate narratives that all collide into one.
- DirectorDante DesartheStarsClément SibonyRona HartnerIsaac SharryFueled by klezmer and set in the Paris night world, an intelligent yet hilarious screwball comedy. Jonah, a young musician and father to a newborn son, learns at the last minute that he must rush to bury the foreskin of son.
- DirectorDoron TsabariRino ZrorSoccer mania hits Beit She'an, a small working-class Israeli town near the Jordanian border, when the local team prepares for their last crucial game of the season, against the rich, national champions from Haifa, exacerbating conflicts between rich and poor, small town and big city, and minorities and the ruling class.
- DirectorRuth BeharStarsRuth BeharElizabeth PeñaA personal journey about the search for identity and memory among Sephardic Jews with roots in Cuba.
- DirectorJeanine MeerapfelStarsÁngela MolinaHerbert KnaupDimitris KatalifosAnna is the Jewish daughter of a Spanish mother and a Greek father. She has returned to her family's house in Greece after many of her friends and family members have died over the years. Although she came back to the house in order to sell it, things begin to take a different direction: The house itself, the furniture and other equipment in it seem to become alive for Anna, recalling images of her past, her beloved parents and her friend Max, who once gave her shelter from the raging policemen when she took part as a photo journalist in a political demonstration in Berlin. Anna changes her mind: When some rich, ignorant American couple wondering about if they should buy the house asks for the swimming pool (while the Mediterranean is half a mile away), she simply doubles the charge, and finally puts the "For sale" plate into the garbage can. In the meantime, she has had a little love affair with a young man from the village, found a girlfriend from her childhood days, swum in the sea, and found a way to live in peace with her melancholic memories.
- DirectorMarco CarmelStarsRichard BerryYaël AbecassisGad ElmalehArriving in France from Israel in 1968, the Maimons join scores of other Algerian and Tunisian Jewish families in Paris' burgeoning Belleville district. Good-hearted Felix (Gad Elmaleh) reluctantly begins a life of crime to provide for his wife Mireille (Yael Abecassis) and sons, until he meets Sephardi gangster Serge (Richard Berry), from the same village as Mireille. Serge treats the Maïmons as kin, but has bigger plans for Felix's criminal career.
- DirectorGuita SchyfterStarsClaudette MailléMaya MishalskaAngélica AragónTwo Mexican Jewish girls of come of age in Mexico City during the 1960s.
- DirectorNissim NotrikaStarsReymonde AmsellemYehezkel LazarovEdna BliliousThe 1960's, a Sephardic old neighborhood in Jerusalem. Micha, 6, timid and silent tells the story of his broken family. Sami, the father, a reckless "easy go lucky" womanizer spends his days in total idleness. Malka, his wife, carries all the family responsibilities on her own. She is aware of her husband's affairs but her love for him is deep and she represses the situation with total forgiveness. She will do anything to keep her family together. Malka turns to the aid of Rabbis, amulets and so called witches to bring Sami back to her but nothing helps, on the contrary. Sami leaves his family after his lover, Dina, bails him out of jail. When Malka and the children learn that Dina is pregnant they ban their father completely and end all contact with him until his death 36 years later.
- StarsRalph BenmerguiMorroccan/Canadian Jewish journalist visits Israel on its 50th anniversary.
- StarsBernard CampanMarie-France PisierJocelyn QuivrinThe story of the illegal immigrant Yehuda Halevi ship that brought immigrants to Israel from Morocco in 1947. On her way to Israel stopped in France to collect holocaust survivors.
- DirectorAlan BerlinerStarsAlan BerlinerAlain BerlinerAllen BerlinerIn The Sweetest Sound, Alan Berliner (the filmmaker from New York) is tired of being mistaken for people who might share his name and decides to rid himself of the dreaded Same Name Syndrome (In HD).
- DirectorRonit ElkabetzShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzSimon AbkarianGilbert MelkiThe story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.
- DirectorShmuel HasfariStarsGila AlmagorRonit ElkabetzEti AdarA Westernized teenager struggles to come to terms with the white magic practiced by members of her family.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsGérard DarmonOlivia BonamyJean BenguiguiMariage Mixte
- DirectorJean ValèreStarsRoger HaninGérard DarmonMagali RenoirAimé Prado, pied-noir based in Marseille, is a very renowned restaurateur. He befriends Julien, a marginal man wanted for the accidental death of a racist cafe owner.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsPhilippe NoiretRoger HaninRichard BerryThe story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsRichard BerryPatrick BruelBruno CremerSimon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.
- DirectorLaïla MarrakchiStarsMorjana AlaouiMatthieu BoujenahRazika SimozragA Muslim girl and a Jewish boy fall in love.
- DirectorGérard OuryStarsRichard AnconinaMichel BoujenahJean-Claude BrialyA young Jewish man lives as a good citizen, until criminals hid drugs in his luggage.
- DirectorRoschdy ZemStarsCécile de FranceRoschdy ZemPascal ElbéIn Paris, Clara, psycho motor therapist, and Ismaël, music teacher, have been lovers for four years. Happy, the couple are expecting their first child and decide to move in together. But the news is not well received by their respective families because Clara is Jewish and Ishmael a Muslim. Although not practicing, this difference will gradually sow trouble in their love life.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsNeta GartyLiraz CharhiAure AtikaAs a family from India moves in to a desert neighborhood in Southern Israel in the 1960's, the family's eldest, beautiful daughter discovers friendship and romance with the lovely local French girl. The film also explores the hardships and surprises that come with the integration of multiple families from different ethnic backgrounds (from the diaspora) and their struggle with immigration and prejudice.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsShaul MizrahiDafna DekelJuliano Mer-KhamisA biopic about Israel's most successful and famous Mizrahi artist, Zohar Argov, his rise to fame, drug addiction and eventual suicide.
- DirectorMarco CarmelStarsMoshe IvgyEvelin HagoelReymonde AmsellemA love story between Rahma, her husband Robert, and the ghost of Rahma's beautiful sister Mary. Mary died from the pain of banishment, because she chose an Arab.
- DirectorMarco CarmelStarsNelly TagarJoséphine DraïMoris CohenLouise, a Jewish lawyer, arrives from Paris to finalize an important real estate deal, using Neta, a chance driver, the cunning hero from Mahane Yehuda, who immediately finds the economic opportunity and decides to stick with Louise at any cost. When the two visit the Old City, they discover a secret connection between an ultra-Orthodox woman and a Christian man who communicate through notes hidden within the grooves of the Wailing Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. In an attempt to solve the mystery, Louise and Neta follow the puzzling couple through the narrow alleyways of the city. A comedy of mistakes in the heart of magical Jerusalem, and a story about friendship between two women at a critical point in their lives.
- CreatorShahar MagenStarsNadia TereszkiewiczReda KatebDominique ValadiéThe evening of her wedding, in Israel, young Frenchwoman Natalie is accused of killing her husband. The state sends a diplomat, Karim, to help her.
- DirectorTal MichaelStarsDidier FrenkelMarcelle FrenkelJean-Baptiste GarneroShortly after the death of his special uncles, Didier Frenkel descends into the basement of their shared home and finds a treasure: an ancient archive of animated films from Egypt starring Mish-Mish Effendi, the Arab equivalent of Mickey Mouse. His uncles kept this surprising chapter of their lives under cover. Didier begins restoring the films and unveils the story of the rise and fall of these pioneers of Arab animation. Surprisingly, Didier's mother strongly opposes the project.
- DirectorMorris Ben-MayorKobi FaragStarsShoshana DamariMati CaspiIdan ReichelShoshana Damari was the first Israeli diva. She graced local and international stages, stirring millions with her beguiling voice and spectacular performance. Yet behind the larger-than-life persona and her memorable songs was a woman about whom we know little. She didn't like to be interviewed and never volunteered details about herself and her family. Hers was the life of a Hollywood legend and she paid the price for it. This is a story about fame and loneliness, acclaim and loss, daring and compromise. For the first time, the woman behind the crown, the cloak and the palace will come to light.
- DirectorKobi FaragGripping and moving real life story of the first Iraqi-Jewish family to become a household name in Israel. Emigrating to Israel from Baghdad in the 1950s, the Farag family built a hugely successful photography business which revolutionized the way Israelis took, developed and related to pictures. Kobi Farag, a scion of the famous photographer clan, traces the story of the ten brothers and sisters, who despite their amazing professional achievements failed to protect the family from a painful process of disintegration. Based on fascinating interviews and archival materials, Photo Farag explores the often destructive forces of a family determined to leave its mark on Israeli society. Tel Aviv, on the corner of Dizengoff and Arlozorov. Every day many Israelis walk by the photo shop that was once glorious and remains engraved in the collective memory as the epitome of family and wedding photos, but few know the story behind it. Member of the youngest generation of the Farag family, director Kobi Farag went on a journey to discover the family history. By digging in the private archives,he peeled layer by layer to reveal the story of ten brothers and sisters who immigrated from Baghdad in the fifties and climbed the ladder of success from their lives in the transition camp to a luxurious home. In his own way, he tries to solve the riddle of the painful disintegration of the family that drifted apart.
- CreatorRuby DuenyasYaniv PolishookStarsDvir BenedekRotem AbuhabSandra SadeThe series follows Shay and Shani to Friday-night family dinners. Shani's family is Mizrahi and Shay's is Ashkenazi; in some episodes they visit Shay's family, the Rosens, and in others they spend the evening with Shani's family, the Hassons.
- DirectorYaël AbecassisStarsRaymonde AbecassisRaymonde - diva, queen, enigma, inspiration, survivor, widow, woman, and mother. Armed with a camera, Yael Abecassis followed her mother and stepped into a world where she had always been a stranger. "You know, daughter, Morocco is a kind of therapy," Raymonde says, and for the first time, they embark on a journey together: from a childhood in the mellah of Casablanca to the dunes of Ashdod and back to Morocco, where the mother became the legendary Raymonde El Bidaoia - a world-famous Moroccan singer. As they journey, Yael discovers a woman who articulates her weaknesses and the complexities of her choices with keen self-awareness, even when mother and daughter are transposed, twined together by guilt, admiration, pain, and above all else - limitless love and music.
- DirectorGili GaonStarsDudu TassaYair DalalSalah and Daud Al-kweiti, Jewish musicians in Iraq in the 1930's, are considered the creators of modern Iraqi music, and two of the greatest Arab musicians in history. In the 1950's they immigrated to Israel, where no one paid attention to their music. They forbid their family members to become musicians lest they experience the same pain. Despite this, Daud's grandson, Dudu Tassa is a leading performer in today's Israeli Rock n' Roll scene. Releasing an album which features the original music of the Al-kweitis in modern style, Dudu attempts to bridge time, space and culture, healing the family's pain.
- DirectorRuggero Gabbai
- DirectorShlomi ElkabetzStarsRonit ElkabetzShlomi ElkabetzMiriam ElkabetzShlomi Elkabetz shares a love letter to his sister, the late actress and director Ronit Elkabetz.
- DirectorRoger HaninStarsSophia LorenPhilippe NoiretMarianne SägebrechtAlgiers, 1940. MAMAN TITINE has lived alone with her five children ever since her husband JOSEPH, a Jewish post office employee, set off for Paris with forged papers to find work. Maman Titine tries to hide the fact she's worried # especially so that she can ease the childhood problems of her son MEYER, an intelligent, proud and nonconformist young boy who loves her in a jealous way. When financial trouble and loneliness threaten to finally get the better of her she travels to occupied Paris in an attempt to persuade Joseph to return. He has to remain, however: he cannot earn a living in war-torn Algiers. Meanwhile Meyer is growing up; he has his first sexual experiences, and tries as best he can to keep the family fed. When Joseph returns in 1945 Meyer, who fought on De Gaulle's side at the age of nearly 18, goes to France. He studies medicine there and becomes a famous surgeon.
- DirectorYvan AttalStarsYvan AttalFrançois BureloupTobie NathanA French-Jewish actor seeks counseling and discusses a number of stereotypes concerning Jewish people. Told in the form of short stories that accompany each stereotype.
- DirectorEric RochantStarsYvan AttalRichard MasurAllen GarfieldAt 18, Ariel Brenner leaves Paris and his family to live in Israel. He secretly joins the Mossad, the Isreali secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist. We will assist to the methods, the manipulations, the abuses, the machiavellism, the doubts of secret agents.
- DirectorIlan ZivStarsRachida BrakniDenis CharbitHugolin Chevrette-LandesqueDirector Ilan Ziv traces the origins of antisemitism in France from the Middle Ages to the Dreyfus Affair. Combining personal and collective narratives, Ziv showcases how the depiction of "the Jew" in society established an ideology of hate that eventually led to the Holocaust. In the aftermath of the war, a devastated France continued this ideology of antisemitism that set the stage for a modern wave of anti-Jewish sentiment and attacks, including the murders of Ilan Halimi and Mireille Knoll.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsValeria GolinoThierry LhermitteRoger HaninIn 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the Fedala conference in Tangier is set in a city of turmoil.
- DirectorAriel ZeitounStarsVincent ElbazGilles LelloucheSami BouajilaFrom smalltime hoodlums in the tough Belleville neighborhood to headline-grabbing robbers of the swankiest banks in Paris, for Simon and his gang, the only way was up. Capable of emptying a series of vaults from under the noses of the police, who can only marvel at the gangs quiet audacity, how long will this bunch of inseparable friends be able to avoid a bloody shootout, stand the boredom of exile in the sun, and keep romance in their lives while still on the run?
- DirectorAriel ZeitounStarsMichel BoujenahThomas LangmannDelphine ForestTunisia, early thirties, the young and plump Bajou, lives modestly with his parents. One day after a flood, his father suddenly disappears. Thanks to his uncle and his cousin Marcel, he moves with his mother Oumi to work for the wealthy landowner Mr. Scali, a talkative and boastful man.
- DirectorAntoine DelesvauxJoann SfarStarsFrançois MorelHafsia HerziMaurice BénichouSet in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi's cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.
- DirectorKamal HachkarKamal Hachkar explores the 2000-year-old Mellah in his family's village of Tinghir, Morocco, and follows the trail of the town's once substantial Jewish population to its emigres and descendants in Israel. In the film, he weaves back and forth between his city's old Jewish quarter and Israel, where he meets Sephardic Jews who still hold tight to their Moroccan identity. Presents the story of a long-term collaboration between Jews and Muslims that eventually fell apart. As Hachkar tries to understand exactly what happened, he simultaneously seeks a better way forward.
- DirectorCarole BasriAdriana DavisBryan DurrThe Last Jews of Baghdad takes a historical and personal look at the persecution, torture, escape and exodus of over 160,000 Iraqi- Jews between the years 1940 through 2003. Hear from the survivors the real reasons why they left their beloved homeland of over 2500 years and if they will ever return.
- DirectorIsaac ArtensteinMexican-Jewish director Isaac Artenstein repeatedly experienced reactions of surprise, even disbelief, from many people north of the border: they had no idea there were Jews in Mexico, and especially in Tijuana. Tijuana Jews is an authentic and living testimony set against conceptions and misconceptions of this near-mythic border city. Throughout the early 20th century, thousands of European Jews sailed to America to escape persecution and look for new opportunities. Some arrived in Mexico, and a small group made their way north to Tijuana. The Tijuana Jewish community was established by immigrants and their descendants from Eastern Europe-Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews from countries like Poland, Russia, Lithuania, and Rumania. And also by Sephardic Jews from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans and by Arabic Jews from Syria and Lebanon. Tijuana Jews illuminates the experiences of local pioneers who established the first Jewish temple in Tijuana and subsequent congregations, including Maguen David, The Hatikvah, and the Centro Social Israelita de Tijuana. For the film's director, Tijuana was also a place for weddings and bar mitzvahs and helping out at his father's store on Revolution Avenue. The first-person narration takes the audience on an intimate journey that builds to a dynamic present that includes the transformation of Tijuana into the busiest border crossing in the world, and the migration of many Tijuana Jewish families to America. Tijuana Jews is a personal exploration of this unique community, which blended Jewish and Mexican cultures and customs in an unlikely place and time.
- DirectorGregori ViensStarsRebecca Amato LevyThis film visits the Los Angeles community of "Rhodeslis"--Jews who lived on the Mediterranean island of Rhodes from 1492 to World War II--who have passed down their traditions, food, songs, rituals, and their medieval Ladino Spanish dialect to their American-born descendants.
- DirectorHassan BenjellounStarsSimon ElbazAbdelkader LoftiHassan EssakaliShortly after Morocco obtained its independence from France in 1963, hundreds of thousands of Moroccan Jews, fearing the political uncertainty of the country, fled their birthplace in search of a better life in Israel and other countries.
- DirectorMohamed IsmailStarsMarc SamuelRachid El OualiSouad AmidouIn 1960, two families, Muslim family and Jewish family live a quiet daily life, before this coexistence was affected by World War II and the establishment of the State of Israel, the story tells of the strong bonds between these two families that fate cruelly separated . The movie tells also story of The turbulent love ties between a young Jewish woman and a Muslim man are severed by their ultra-traditional parents, as a Jewish father prepares to liquidate his business to join his family in Israel.
- DirectorVivienne RoumaniStarsIsabella RosselliniIsabella Rossellini narrates this memoir of the Sephardic Jewish population in North African prior to WWII.
- DirectorDina Zvi-RiklisStarsMiri MesikaGila AlmagorRivka RazRose, Flora and Yasmin were born as a triplet sixty something years ago in Alexandria, Egypt. Their well-off parents gave them names of flowers, and King Farouk of Egypt gave them his blessing. Today, in Israel, they live together in an apartment without men and without children. Flora has just retired from her work as a midwife, Yasmin awaits a kidney transplant, and Rose, once a successful singer, is wrapped in silence since the death of her husband. One after the other, the three sisters come to "This is your life," a place where people recount their memoirs, in order to tell their life story to Rucha (Rachel), Rose's only daughter, and talk about their symbiotic relationship. They are also searching for the long lost son of one of them who was given away for adoption under mysterious circumstances. During this period their lives and that of Rucha will change dramatically. Hidden ghosts will slowly appear, forcing the three sisters to confront the secrets and lies, and seek forgiveness. At the end of the journey into the past, after they redeem themselves, the sisters will embark on a new journey, to Alexandria, where Yasmin will undergo her kidney transplant and Rucha, who regained her own memories, will be able to start a new life.
- DirectorPhilippe ClairStarsAldo MaccioneRaymond PellegrinMaureen KerwinA seducer with an Italian accent tries to escape the police who sues him for a crime he did not commit.
- DirectorSerge AnkriStarsJacques OvadiahGerard Ben-ImoMiriam Nataf
- DirectorFérid BoughedirStarsArnaud GiovaninettiElsa MollienClément SibonyA compelling double love story about a French-Tunisian Jewish family. Henry returns to La Goulette, port of Tunisia, with his wife, in search of his family roots. The film explores his parent's history from the 1920s, and the impact of the Vichy Government under German Occupation in the 1940s.
- DirectorSerge AnkriStarsYaël AbecassisAnthony DelonAmos Lavi
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsYehoram GaonEfrat LavieArieh EliasAn embittered gang leader seeks the respect of his neighbors and the love of a young woman.
- DirectorShimon HermaGeorge ObadiahStarsDalia FriedlandYigal BashanNahum BuchmanThe film is about a successful actress who gets pregnant from a man whose family thinks she is not right for him and he begins another relationship. She murders him and is in prison while her newborn son placed for adoption with a wealthy family. When she is released from prison she wishes to visit the son whose adoption was arranged by her friend in acting days. The 18 year old young man does not know he is adopted and is pampered. He gets a young and beautiful woman pregnant but ignores her because he is carefree and his wealthy mother does not approve of him marrying or losing focus from studies. His biological mother gets a job as nanny in their home and makes efforts to correct her sons callous behavior towards his pregnant girlfriend and convinces the adoptive mother to accept the woman who has his child but never reveals her identity so to prevent the adoptive mother feeling exposed or disrespected. It's a film about sacrifices of motherhood from an adoptive and biological perspective and reckless youth.