Videos

The process of building and locating a model of the Third Temple in Jerusalem raises questions regarding the ethos of construction and demolition; and examines the attitude toward the representation of "holiness" in the Israeli-Jewish culture as reflected in the complex reality of Jerusalem/ Al Quds.

Yoram Ron

Fadi is a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, while Hezi is a Haredi Jew who resides in Mea Shearim. Both Fadi and Hezi are volunteers in “United Hatzalah” – a Haredi Jewish organization that provides emergency medical services. Fadi and Hezi traverse Jerusalem, between East and West, providing first aid at all hours to the city’s residents, yet the two never meet one another.

Keren Ghitis

Every morning Shlomo Wallach gets on his motorbike and goes back in time to a Jerusalem of the past, a Jerusalem of which he was never a part. The film accompanies Shlomo in his resolve to live in the past, and his attempts to revive the grand memories of his Jerusalemite family, led by a religious Jew, the founder of Shaare Tsedek Hospital, the well-known Dr. Moshe Wallach.

Yochay Rosenberg

In the context of borders, the film presents the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, where the director was born and raised. The four points of the compass represent various borders – physical, but mainly mental – that help define the concept of identity. The past is not represented at all. The film reveals the director's memories on the background of the locations as they appear today. In this way, the concept of memory turns the look back into something inaccessible and unrepresentable. Eran Sahar

A nature movie that examines the lives of the largest mammals in Jerusalem: the bulldozers. The film provides information important to nature and bulldozer lovers, and answers questions such as: On what do bulldozers feed? How do they hunt their prey? What are their habitats, migration patterns, courting habits, etc., The film integrates unique unpublished archival material filmed by bulldozer researchers.

This film depicts the journey of three young Palestinian brothers who travel everyday from their home in the outskirts of Jerusalem to the Jewish neighborhoods where they sell chewing gum at busy intersections in order to support their family. The children assume the role of the adults in their family, who find it difficult to make a living following the construction of the separation wall.

Daniel Gal
 

Two religious women, Ruba and Miriam, have each finished their shopping at the market. They sit at the same bus stop and wait. A random encounter between the two, who, at a glance, could not be more similar, becomes an impossible dialogue taking place in a city as complex as Jerusalem.

Lily Sheffy

The film examines the way that ownership of archeological history in Jerusalem acquires validity in the present through ownership of the land. The movie presents the way in which holding on to the past in Jerusalem affects the future of the city and its residents.