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Jumana Manna depicts the politics of extinction and occupation in this hybrid film about foragers and their fight to harvest wild herbs.
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Daniel Roher gains extraordinary access to Russian politician/political prisoner Alexei Navalny.
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Tantura offers a metaphorical dig through Israel's painful history and national mythology.
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Daniel Carsenty and Mohammed Abugeth's The Devil's Drivers is a high-octane human rights thriller with real world stakes thanks to its portrait of an underground taxi service that navigates the Israel/Palestine border.
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The winner of the 2017 Corus-Hot Docs Forum Pitch Prize, Israeli director Michal Weits’ Blue Box links her family story linked to bitter debates about Israel’s founding. The filmmaker’s great-grandfather, Joseph (Yosef)
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For decades, Jason Sherman has been exploring the notion of what it means to uphold the expectations a good Jewish life. He uses his experience growing up in Canada to reflect upon
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Being that Palestine is under occupation by the disreputable settler-colonial state of Israel, protecting and limelighting the multifaceted dimensions of Palestinian culture in its own land as well as across the international
Keep ReadingAfterward (USA, 95 min.) Dir. Ofra Bloch If one spends a lot of time watching documentaries, either as a critic, a programmer, or a fan, one develops certain likes and dislikes. For
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