What if, instead of being threatened by perspectives that challenge our own, we embraced the possibility that they have something to teach us? These films embody the idea of “multiple truths” by sharing a multiplicity of (sometimes contradictory) ideas and experiences.
The residents of a German village must decide whether to construct a memorial honoring the Nazi officer who saved the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman, the renowned Jewish musician featured in the Roman Polanski film "The Pianist."
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Nira Burstein’s documentary is a love song to her eccentric and sometimes mentally challenged family, who live in the gracious chaos of their Charm Circle New York City home in Queens.
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When Esther (Nathalie Baye), a Parisian seamstress on the verge of retirement, offers a troubled young woman an internship at Dior, their disparate lives become as entangled as the threads in their needlework.
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From conflict to understanding, from trauma to hope, a journey of four people who are transforming their searing pain into a bridge to reconciliation.
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Internationally renowned feminist Israeli playwright and TV writer Anat Gov meditates on how to best prepare for the end of her life. There is such a thing as a happy ending.
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Two gay men in Jerusalem who were taught that homosexuality is a fault that one could “cure” through “conversion therapy” emerge from their experiences with different views in this gripping documentary.
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A poetic and thought-provoking film about the interconnection of humans and nature—and the nature of humans.
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Two actresses, one Black and one white, audition to play Anne Frank, prompting the controversial question: Who is best suited for the role?
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Three women, three hair salons, and three different but strikingly similar stories about Black identity, the suppression of nappy hair, and mainstream notions of ideal beauty.
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Seventy-four years after the birth of Israel and the "Nakba" (disaster), 16 Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv, where Israel’s declaration of independence took place, is still a popular tourist destination.
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