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2020 FEATURED FILMS Completed for the 2020 Festival
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Menachem Begin: Peace and War
Exploring the legacy of Menachem Begin, Israel’s 6th Prime-Minister, who made both a historic peace and an arrogant war that changed the face of the Middle East.
Run Time: 85 minutes -
The Collini Case
70-year-old German-Italian Fabrizio Collini has killed the respected industrial magnate Hans Meyer in his hotel suite, seemingly without motive.Run Time: 123 minutes -
Mrs. G
The inspiring story of Lea Gottlieb, founder of the legendary Gottex swimwear label.Run Time: 54 minutes -
Those Who Remained
Those Who Remained reveals the healing process of Holocaust survivors through the eyes of a young girl in post-World War II Hungary.Run Time: 83 minutes -
Heading Home, The Tale of Team Israel
Heading Home charts the underdog journey of Israel's national baseball team competing for the first time in the World Baseball Classic.Run Time: 86 minutes -
Incitement
Details the year leading to the assassination of Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), from the point of view of the assassin.
SOLD OUTRun Time: 123 minutes -
To Life (Le Chaim)
Aging cabaret singer, Ruth is running from her past and Jonas from his future but the two of them together manage to reaffirm life for each other in this moving drama.Run Time: 86 minutes -
On Broadway
The inside story of Broadway theater coming back from the brink thanks to innovative work, inclusion, and an uneasy balance between art and commerce.Run Time: 85 minutes -
Crescendo
When a world famous conductor tries to create an Israeli-Palestinian orchestra, it takes all his skill and resources to overcome the discord and get them to play in harmony.Run Time: 106 minutes -
Golda
The eventful story of Golda Meir's term as prime minister of Israel from her surprising rise to power and iconic international stature as “queen of the Jewish people”, to her tragic and lonely demise.Run Time: 85 minutes -
Pollywood
An adventurous journey to the real roots of Hollywood.
SOLD OUTRun Time: 80 minutes -
The Keeper
The incredible true story of Bert Trautmann, a German soldier and prisoner of war who, secures the position of Goalkeeper at Manchester City.Run Time: 113 minutes -
The Rabbi from Hezbollah
Who would believe that Avraham Sinai, an ultra-Orthodox Jew living in Israel, is Ibrahim Yassin - one of Israel's leading spies.
Run Time: 64 minutes -
My Amazing Funeral (El Dia Que Me Muera)
Dina fakes her own funeral to force her children to come and see her.Run Time: 89 minutes -
An Irrepressible Woman
Teenage Jeanne Reichenbach fell in love with Socialist premier Leon Blum, who had led a French Popular Front government in the 1930s. Now that he is in the Buchenwald camp after the German invasion, she risks her life to find him.Run Time: 105 minutes -
Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance
The crucial historical lessons of Black-Jewish cooperation are revisited and revived in this utterly fascinating, urgent call to action.Run Time: 95 minutes -
Standing Up, Falling Down
A warmhearted comedy anchored by its leads’ easy rapport and Billy Crystal’s boundless charisma.Run Time: 91 minutes -
Ben Gurion, Epilogue
Based on archive material, the film reveals the final years of Israel's founder, David Ben-Gurion. Excluded from leadership, he allowed himself a hindsight perspective on the Zionist enterprise.Run Time: 65 minutes -
The Art of Waiting
Liran and Tali, a couple in their thirties who dream of having a child together, are one day told they will have to undergo fertility treatments.Run Time: 90 minutes -
God of the Piano
Anat has never been able to reach her father’s exacting musical standards, and now her family's hope of producing a musical prodigy rests on her unborn son.Run Time: 80 minutes -
Ma'abarot: The Israeli Transit Camps
The film “Ma’abarot” is the first documentary project unfolding the story of the transit camps in a thorough and comprehensive way, unraveling the many stories of the camp residents.
Run Time: 84 minutes