Deserters is a film about a generation of Bosnian youth from the city of Mostar swept by the devastating war at the brink of their maturity and the tough decision to escape from it.
Deserters is a film about a generation of Bosnian youth from the city of Mostar swept by the devastating war at the brink of their maturity and the tough decision to escape from it. Their exile stories from the 90s, contained in letters mailed to the director of this film from refugee camps scattered across Europe, are confronted with the present condition of the city they were forced to leave. A film about a missing generation, exile, hard choices, and the answer to the most difficult question of any war: to stay or to run?
Srećko, Mirza and Mejra are survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Their fates are revealed in the contrast between innocent everyday moments today and archive images from that period.
The son of Brooklyn's most admired Rabbi reveals the truth about the extreme and isolated cult his father established and the atrocities in it, that continue to this day.
A Hasidic True Crime Story. An astounding 300,000 people attended the funeral of Rabbi Schik – an admired American ultra-Orthodox Rabbi. Unbeknownst to his followers, Rabbi Schik was also the leader of a transatlantic crime organisation which established an extreme and segregated cult spanning between Brooklyn and Israel. While female members were forced into underage marriages and sustained sexual assaults, the money was flowing into the Rabbi's own pockets. This corrupt culture prevailed for decades, with no one ever daring to expose the painful truth – until now.
Over the course of seven years, the story follows the Rabbi's son and two women who ultimately left the cult. Together, they discover and expose the devastating legacy of the Rabbi and his community.
Can intimacy exhaustion in a monogamous marriage be avoided? Love is no longer present in my parents' relationship, which echoes my own marriage. Is there a way to keep the spark?
Monogamia takes you on a roller-coaster journey into the world of love and intimacy within committed relationships. Follow the director's personal quest to bring back the love that once flourished between his parents. As you watch, the inevitable question arises: can love indeed endure the test of time? Can the revelation of buried secrets revive the spark of long-lost intimacy? Does monogamy stop being monogamy after tasting the “forbidden fruit”? Amidst this captivating exploration, consider the excitement and price of open relationships.
106 timepieces disappeared from Jerusalem's Museum of Islamic Art in the biggest art heist in Israel's history. 40 years later, the enigmatic thief's widow tells their story.
It all started with a watch, or more precisely, with over 106 rare European timepieces. One piece alone, made especially for the ill-fated French queen Marie Antoinette, was valued at a whopping $30 million. On a quiet Friday evening in 1983, the collection disappeared from Jerusalem's Museum of Islamic Art. It wasn't seen again for a quarter of a century. The biggest art theft in Israel's history left the police scratching their heads. When the timepieces gradually resurfaced a quarter of a century later, the enigmatic thief was dead. His widow, Nili Shamrat from LA, tells director Nili Tal their story for the first time among policemen, lawyers and curators.
In 2010, a man was found dead in one of Israel's maximum security prisons. When the story broke, the suicide of this anonymous Mossad agent revealed the agency's failures.
On December 15, 2010, a prisoner was found dead in his cell at one of Israel's maximum security prisons. The prisoner had hung himself despite being under heavy surveillance 24/7. None of the prison's guards knew his real name or his crime. They knew him only as Prisoner X.
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