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American Zoo
American Zoo
The Catskill Game Farm was America's first ever private zoo, fostering beloved childhood memories for a generation before falling into disrepair and closing in 2006. But found home movies would expose a shocking new chapter of the zoo's history.
Beyond The Duplex Planet
Beyond The Duplex Planet
Artist David Greenberger, whose quirky publication The Duplex Planet shared the insights of nursing home seniors, is now a senior himself and has much to say about art and conversation.
Cuz You're Ugly
Cuz You're Ugly
Avigail returns home from army service to the Jerusalem apartment she shares with her dysfunctional mother and her younger sister. She hopes to untie the chains of childhood and lose her virginity over the weekend, but things take a sharp turn.
Estate
Estate
Assaf inherits a house from a father he never knew. When he invites Miriam—a homeless woman living in the backyard—inside, a quiet battle begins that will change both him and the house forever.
The Hedonist
The Hedonist
After a nervous breakdown, a young office assistant flees to his parents’ house in Arizona and hires an escort to take care of him.
Centerpiece Documentary: Holofiction
Centerpiece Documentary: Holofiction
This experimental film explores the visual representation of the Holocaust through a montage of thousands of excerpts from film and television from 1938 to the present to critically examine how Holocaust imagery has been codified and reproduced in cinema across decades.
The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo
The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo
It’s 1984 in suburban New York and Julie Gornick is hosting a charismatic, larger-than-life Spanish exchange student. As he starts hooking up with the girls in her class, Julie falls in love with him. Or what she thinks is love.
The Mad Dog of Europe
The Mad Dog of Europe
This film uncovers the little-known story of how Herman J. Mankiewicz’s film project—warning of the dangers of Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s—was thwarted by censorship and Nazi influence within the Hollywood system.
Nandauri
Nandauri
A strange woman arrives in a forgotten village in northern Georgia. Marina, an Israeli lawyer who has spent her life in denial about her past and identity, returns to Georgia to bring back to Israel an 11-year-old boy who was abandoned by his mother, Nino, as a baby.
Director Spotlight: Oxygen
Director Spotlight: Oxygen
Anat, a schoolteacher, awaits her son Ido’s army discharge. When a new war erupts and she learns he has volunteered to fight, their bond fractures. Caught between a father destroyed by war and a son rushing toward it, Anat makes a radical choice just before Ido crosses into Lebanon.
Director Spotlight: Shooting
Director Spotlight: Shooting
Through three gripping true stories—a military reenactment that displaces an entire village, a staged police raid on a Palestinian family, and a tormented military props supplier—Netalie Braun probes the dangerous intersection of storytelling, propaganda, and state power in Israeli society.
The Soundman
The Soundman
Set at a Brussels radio station on the eve of the 1940 German invasion, this tragicomic story of the intertwined destinies of a youthful sound engineer and a talented Jewish actress affirms the human capacity for invention.

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