This film series explores Jewish identity through stories of loss, resilience, and questioning — from the lives of Ugandan Jews to Israeli families coping with grief, faith, and trauma. The films confront themes of life and death, gender roles, and the enduring question: Why be Jewish? One of the films features a performance by an Ophir Award winner for Best Lead Actor, adding further depth to this powerful collection. <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/f4b96c600448dba737fc109a12a4f5ca.jpg" width="300">

A short animated documentary about Guy Gilboa Dalal, a young man kidnapped from the Nova music festival and currently held hostage by Hamas. Through intimate interviews, his family shares cherished memories from his childhood and recounts the trauma of his abduction.

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Guygu

A short animated documentary about Guy Gilboa Dalal, a young man kidnapped from the Nova music festival and currently held hostage by Hamas.

Rachel Namudosi, a third-generation Ugandan Jew and lead singer of her musical family, balances raising four children, making music, and leading Shabbat services. Through her story, the film explores her experiences with antisemitism, her community’s efforts to overcome religious tensions, and her hopeful vision for the Abayudaya’s connection to Israel.

Days Between Rest

Rachel Namudosi, a third-generation Ugandan Jew and lead singer of her musical family, balances raising four children, making music, and leading Shabbat services.

In the heart of the desert, at a crossroads to nowhere, lies Tethys—a sanctuary where the terminally ill choose to end their lives. This poetic parable follows the final hours of Avshalom’s journey. Mature themes.

Tethys Sea

In the heart of the desert, at a crossroads to nowhere, lies Tethys—a sanctuary where the terminally ill choose to end their lives.

Lily and Keren, best friends bound by music and dance, are separated on the morning of the October 7 terror attack in Israel. While trapped in a shelter and unable to reach Keren, who was at the Nova festival, Lily is consumed by fear and retreats into a dreamlike world where music intertwines with loneliness and grief.

Final Chord

Lily and Keren, best friends bound by music and dance, are separated on the morning of the October 7 terror attack in Israel.

Elisha, a kind-hearted army social worker, has always gone above and beyond for his soldiers—but after one too many lies and humiliations, he snaps, adopting a no-nonsense attitude that turns the entire base upside down.

Elisha

Elisha, a kind-hearted army social worker, has always gone above and beyond for his soldiers—but after one too many lies and humiliations, he snaps!

Haunted by centuries of trauma, a Jewish man decides to leave his faith behind. When both a Rabbi and a white supremacist reject his resignation, he turns to mysterious, magical forces for answers.

Sinai

Haunted by centuries of trauma, a Jewish man decides to leave his faith behind.

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