Tag Archive: NIF Film Club

In The Gatekeepers, six former heads of Israel’s domestic secret service agency, the Shin Bet, share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions. Watch the post-film discussion with director Dror Moreh.

The true story of the incredible Princess Shaw, an amateur YouTube performer from New Orleans, and the enigmatic Israeli composer Kutiman, who discovers her from the other side of the world.

Lea Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent demonstrators to armed militants. Advocate follows Tsemel’s caseload in real-time. Watch the post-film discussion with director Rachel Leah Jones.

In September 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announces the Oslo Accords and Yigal Amir, a law student and a devoted Orthodox Jew, sees only one way forward. Watch the post-film discussion with director Yaron Zilberman.

In Unsettling, Iris Zaki enters the heart of Tekoa, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, and sits down to talk to the locals. Watch the post-film discussion with director Iris Zaki

Dimona Twist shares the stories of seven North African and Polish women who experienced immigration, poverty, the difficulties of adjusting to a new home, and created rich and meaningful lives during their first 15 years in Dimona. Watch the post-film discussion with director Michal Aviad.

Maysaloun Hamoud’s remarkable debut feature follows Palestinian women who share an apartment in Tel Aviv. Away from the constraints of their families and tradition, they find themselves “in between” the free and unfettered lives they are aspiring to lead and the restrictions still imposed on them by society. Watch the post-film discussion with director Maysaloun Hamoud.

The year is 1992, and a small group of Israelis and Palestinians meet in Oslo — secretly and against the law. The Oslo Diaries follows these unsanctioned meetings that changed the Middle East forever. Watch the post-film discussion with director Mor Loushy.

A hundred years ago, women pioneers came from Europe to Palestine to realize the dream of creating a new woman in a new world. The Women Pioneers uncovers the story of a group of women, their passionate battles and painful disappointments, until their defeat and surrender of their own liberation for the national struggle. Watch the post-film discussion with director Michal Aviad.