Documentary

Docaviv 2026 reveals the Israeli film lineup

Twelve new films have been chosen for the Israeli competition. They include Soccer for the Soul, by Avida Livny, and Shalom, by Meital Zvieli.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Meir Shalev
A drone view shows an artist from the Sand In Your Eye art team putting the finishing touches to a giant sand portrait of David Attenborough to mark the conservationist's 100th birthday, on the beach in Morecambe, Britain, May 6, 2026.

British broadcaster David Attenborough turns 100, notable for not joining anti-Israel boycotts

The famed BBC broadcaster, whose family rescued Jewish sisters before the Holocaust, has never backed Israel boycotts and once praised Israel’s climate innovation.

|ByJAMES GENN
Dismantles anti-Israel propaganda: Soul of a Nation

How ‘Soul of a Nation’ documentary helps defend Israel

Soul of a Nation dismantles anti-Israel propaganda by telling the truth about Israel as it is – flawed, complex, democratic, diverse, and deeply human.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
There will be a special screening of the documentary 'God Speaks Yiddish' by the humorous Tuvia Tenenboim on April 29 at Nefesh B'Nefesh in Tel Aviv.

'God Speaks Yiddish': A humorous peek into Israeli ultra-Orthodoxy

There will be a screening of 'God Speaks Yiddish" on April 29, 7 p.m., at Nefesh B'Nefesh, Azrieli Circle Tower, 10th floor, Tel Aviv. Entrance is free. Advance registration is required.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

First TV drama about October 7 to debut on anniversary of massacre

While we have seen news clips and interviews about that day, this series dramatizes them to great effect.

OCTOBER 6, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN
A SCENE from ‘One Day in October.'

Oct. 7 anniversary to be marked on the small screen

Israeli channels will be showing documentaries, films and anthologies about October 7.

OCTOBER 6, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN
Screams before Silence (28/4/2024)

Documentary on the Nova festival massacre wins German TV Award

Those who had seen the film include survivors of the festival attack as well as US congresspeople from both major parties.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN
The Nova Massacre Scene

Supernova music festival documentary debuts on TV

TV Week: A new documentary about the Supernova music festival will debut; Where Will You Go keeps it short and sweet; The Zweiflers is like a Jewish Succession.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN
Keshet Casarotti-Kalfa has become the symbol of 'We Will Dance Again'

'The Killing Roads': Igal Hecht's new documentary on Oct. 7 massacre

‘This project was never about money’: Exposing truth about Hamas massacre and challenging narratives, 'The Killing Roads' documentary launches Oct. 1.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024ByATARA BECK
IGAL HECHT films at the car graveyard, just off Road 232.

Featuring unseen footage: 'The Bibi Files' premiers at Toronto Film Festival

The footage includes interviews with Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and his son Yair, showing criminal investigations dating to 2016-2018.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen in an interrogation room (illustrative)

'Bibi Files' documentary to reveal recordings of Netanyahu criminal investigation

The film was produced by Alex Gibney and directed by Alexis Bloom.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu has demonstrated repeatedly that he will take every opportunity to refute any blame thrown at him for October 7.

Open loving horizons: A devoted mother proffers her son to the world

Merav Tal is not only a loving mother, she is also a former nurse and, more to the aesthetic point, a trained and talented photographer. 

AUGUST 31, 2024ByBARRY DAVIS
Ofek was enthralled by Sigalit Landau’s exhibition of weird and wonderful salt-encrusted artifacts.

New documentary unveils Leni Riefenstahl's complicity in Nazi atrocities, challenging her narrative

A new documentary reveals Leni Riefenstahl's deep complicity in Nazi atrocities, challenging the carefully crafted image of the filmmaker as merely a naive artist.

AUGUST 31, 2024ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Riefenstahl with Hitler at the Nuremberg rally in 1934.

‘We Will Dance Again’ puts viewer inside the Nova festival massacre - review

At the Docu.Text Festival, survivors of the Supernova festival massacre received a standing ovation during the emotional premiere of Yariv Mozer's documentary, 'We Will Dance Again.'

AUGUST 20, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN
YARIV MOZER, director of ‘We Will Dance Again’ with some of the survivors of the Supernova music festival.