Hilla Medalia – MRQE

After the Storm (2009/I)

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

AFTER THE STORM is a feature-length documentary film that follows a group of New York Broadway actors who were inspired to help the youth of New Orleans. They stage a musical theater production of the Broadway play “Once on this Island” with local teenagers at the St. Marks Community Center located at the edge of the French Quarter. The film follows the crew and the kids from auditions through performances and also includes the story of each young actor’s life in the wake of Katrina.’ The story of the musical reflects very much so the life in New Orleans post Katrina.

Mourning in Lod

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

MOURNING IN LOD, takes a microcosmic look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through Musa, Yigal, and Randa three people whose fates become inextricably linked in a vicious cycle of violence. Lod/Lydd is a mixed city inhabited by Arabs and Jews who live side by side in a strained coexistence. In May 2021, two of these three people lost their lives and and one regained hers thanks to an unlikely organ transplant. The outpouring of love, anger, forgiveness and sorrow that follows in their wake is a ray of light that offsets a collective state of mourning with no end in sight.

Transkids

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Transkids’ follows four Israeli teenagers who go through transition in a militaristic society in which teenagers go to the army right after high-school, and religion plays a very strong role in people’s identity and is not separated from the state.

The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus relive the creation, rise and fall of their independent film company, Cannon Films. This documentary recounts their many successes and discusses their eventual downfall.

Dancing in Jaffa

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Pierre Dulaine, an internationally renowned ballroom dancer, is starting to fulfill his life long dream – to take his program Dancing Classrooms to Jaffa, where he was born. He is teaching 10-year-old Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Jewish children to dance together. Pierre recognizes that the future is built by children. By breaking the syndrome of hatred, he will change their lives, and hopefully, the community around them.

To Die in Jerusalem

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ever since 17-year-old Rachel Levy, an Israeli, was killed four years ago in Jerusalem by a Palestinian suicide bomber, her mother Abigail has found hardly a moment’s peace. Levy’s killer was Ayat al-Akhras, also 17, a schoolgirl from a Palestinian refugee camp several miles away. The two young women looked unbelievably alike. TO DIE IN JERUSALEM unabashedly explores the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the personal loss of two families. The film’s most revealing moment is in an emotionally charged meeting between the mothers of the girls, presenting the most current reflection of the conflict as seen thru their eyes.