In the near future, Israeli scientist Nurit (Reymond Amsalem) has created a groundbreaking algorithm designed to prevent future violent attacks. But her system fails when Yaffa (Samar Qupty), a young Palestinian woman from the occupied West Bank, assassinates the Israeli minister of Space and Tourism. In order to fix the bugs in her algorithm, Nurit faces the assassin in person. As the sessions between these two brilliant women raise questions about their pasts, Nurit begins to question her future.

A comedy television series set at a bilingual Jewish-Arab high school in Israel. This unique setting serves as the background for many challenges, dilemmas, and conflicts that the students, teachers, and parents deal with throughout the episodes. The children studying at Madrasa are learning how to break down age-old walls of suspicion, racism, and hostility.

Young Israelis know what awaits them when they turn 18—they’ll have to serve in the army. And in Israel, military service often means actual combat and the risk that you won’t survive. Diary excerpts written by young people who died while in service, read by voice actors, express their struggle with the imposed violence that leaves no room for their own principles, and their fears and thwarted plans for the future. This documentary brings us inside childhood and adolescence in a militarized and war-torn culture. Directed by Academy Award nominee Guy Davidi.

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Forty-year-old Waleed, a Palestinian living in Haifa with his wife and two children, is a struggling writer with depression. When he meets his new neighbor Jalal, a small-time crook, the two men form an unexpected friendship and become inseparable. This dark comedy won a prize for best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2001, a group of Israeli women, most of them in their sixties, established Machsom Watch (Checkpoint Watch), an organization dedicated to guarding the human rights of Palestinians who must regularly pass through checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank. For years, these women documented the troubling activity taking place at the checkpoints, giving viewers a never-before-seen look at the occupation. As the women revisit the footage from the checkpoints, this moving film showcases those who stood at the heart of the conflict, exposing the daily struggle of Palestinians living under occupation.

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In a Palestinian town in Israel, 17-year-old Tamer and his friends are like any other group of teenage boys. They clumsily search for drugs, flirt with girls, play video games, and slack off at school. When politically-engaged Maysaa’ joins their class, Tamer falls for her and is drawn into her activism. As Israel’s Independence Day approaches, the teens grapple with their history; for Palestinians, it’s a day of mourning. Tamer joins Maysaa’ in an operation to covertly raise the Palestinian flag and peacefully disrupt the celebrations. Torn between his growing political convictions and his safety, Tamer must quickly determine what matters to him.

Israel is on lockdown after the outbreak of a deadly virus and ironically, Gaza has become the safest place in the region, leaving a British journalist (Stephen Mangan, Episodes) and his Israeli girlfriend (Mouna Hawa, Fauda, In Between) trapped on the wrong side of the border. Desperate, they turn to two Palestinian street merchants who promise a way out in exchange for much-needed cash. What follows is a hilarious culture clash comedy-adventure as the couple desperately tries everything to get back home.

In the Druze mountain villages between Syria and Israel, Kamel, a respected sheik, must make an impossible decision between family and duty when his estranged brother returns to the Golan Heights after 47 years in exile. A gripping debut from Druze filmmaker Ehab Tarabieh.