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Inspired by this year’s festival program, which celebrates nature in all its splendor, beauty, and healing power, we invite you to a guided tour of our new and exciting exhibition, ”Flowers: Leafing Through the Collections of the National Library.” Discover the flowers found in poetry and prose, adornments and illustrations, songs and musical compositions within the National Library's collections.

For a decade, Adva documents the men in her family. Three generations of beekeepers. Through the changing seasons, they experience uncertainty, anticipation, aging, and death, alongside renewal and a profound connection to nature, their homeland, and one another.

In his directorial and operatic debut, artist and activist Ai Weiwei tries to connect Puccini to contemporary politics as the turmoil engulfing humanity finds its way into the theater.

Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen – a brilliant pioneer in psychiatry, a mysterious spy, charming conman, and notorious hypnotist, left a trail of deceit before becoming the only Jew ever convicted as a Nazi war criminal.

Psychiatrist Dori Laub, a Holocaust survivor, pioneered trauma testimony and the first video archive of Shoah accounts. His life journey shaped his unique listening method, which influenced documentation of communities impacted by human rights abuses worldwide. Today, his legacy inspires Edut 710’s documentation of October 7th Hamas massacre survivors.

Inspired by this year’s festival program, which celebrates nature in all its splendor, beauty, and healing power, we invite you to a guided tour of our new and exciting exhibition, ”Flowers: Leafing Through the Collections of the National Library.” Discover the flowers found in poetry and prose, adornments and illustrations, songs and musical compositions within the National Library's collections.

A dynamic and dazzling cinematic piece that brings together Antonio Vivaldi’s original masterpiece, Max Richter’s recomposition, six renowned choreographers, and eight phenomenal dancers in Four Seasons of music, nature, and intense emotions and physicality.

An 80-year-old woman from Madrid brought an old painting that had long adorned her living room to an auction house. The initial estimate: €1,500. Twenty-four hours later, the price leaps to €300 million. What unfolds next is nothing short of a thriller.

Join us as we celebrate the final installment in “Masterful,” the National Library’s arts and crafts workshop series in partnership with HaMiffal. Led by painter Nomi Bruckmann, this botanical painting masterclass will focus on flowers and plants found across Israel. Inspired by the nature docs screened at this year’s DocuText festival, this workshop is held in honor of the Library’s new exhibition, “Flowers: Leafing Through the Collections of the National Library.”

Two young women, widowed together after a fatal tank rollover killed their husbands during a military operation, try to mend their broken lives. Tzuf, pregnant and a mother of two, and Noa, a mother of a baby, move between bereavement, loneliness, faith and childbirth. This is an intimate journey of pain, motherhood and a renewed decision to live, accompanied by an original soundtrack left behind by Tzuf's partner, which gives additional depth to the grief and the small moments of light.

Yehoram Gaon is a complicated figure in Israeli culture. As one of its pillars, his life is inextricably tied to the very essence of what it means to be Israeli—an essence that is as much a part of him as he is a part of it. Yet despite being lauded and showered with admiration, he lives a solitary life, far from the public eye, in splendid isolation. Now, for the very first time, the camera turns its focus to Yehoram Gaon the man, not the legend. In this intimate, cinematic one-man show, he shares his story—our story—with those who grew up on his songs and the numerous films and shows he starred in, as well as those too young to remember them.

Inspired by this year’s festival program, which celebrates nature in all its splendor, beauty, and healing power, we invite you to a guided tour of our new and exciting exhibition, ”Flowers: Leafing Through the Collections of the National Library.” Discover the flowers found in poetry and prose, adornments and illustrations, songs and musical compositions within the National Library's collections.

Who was Ada Sereni, “The Lady in the Black Dress”? Ada was the only woman to command the secret intelligence organization HaMossad Le’Aliyah Bet, but she was marginalized and forgotten from the pages of history.

At 96, former renowned Israeli director Naomi Polani races against time. Confined to a wheelchair, she strives to complete her final choreography for an elderly women’s dance troupe. Will her passion prevail, or will old age overpower her?

After the screening of “Naomi Polani: Last Dance and Farewell”, a masterclass with actress and choreographer Renana Raz

Far removed from technology and social pressures, a group of teenagers journeys into the Arctic wilderness of northern Norway for a year of survival and personal growth with nobody to rely on but themselves, their peers, and a playful team of huskies.

A harrowing glimpse through the eyes of individuals who endured the brutal October 7th onslaught at the Nova music festival.

Hora reveals the dream of local dance. It is an allegory of Israeli identity, both past and present, through the world of folk dancing, the story of the vision to create a new culture, and the struggle for unity through the feet.

Following the screening of the film “Hora,” which traces the history of Israeli folk dancing, join us for an hour-long outdoor folk-dance session led by Mimi Cogan.

לפני ובתום הקרנת הסרט ״קול מרפא״, אתם מוזמנים ומוזמנות לחוות את האיכות המרפאת של הצליל ולהצטרף למדיטציית סאונד עמוקה, מאת "סול ת'רפי". בהשתתפות הדיג'יות אנה הלטה ונועה ארגוב, ואמן הוידאו־ארט רן סלוין.

Ella receives a mysterious suitcase with home videos kept secret by her mother, singer Dafna Armony, revealing her father’s identity. A family portrait of two women who merge into one.

Does sound have the power to heal? Through interviews with an unprecedented team of researchers, composers, scientists, philosophers, musicians, and sound therapists, this film seeks to answer a question that has fascinated humanity for centuries. The result is a captivating cinematic journey through the intersections of music, science, and health.

The story of the Rovina dynasty: legendary actress of the Hebrew Theatre, Hanna Rovina, her daughter, acclaimed singer Ilana Rovina. Through rare archives, the film explores their beauty, complexity, and the difficult choices that shaped their lives.

The stirring, tragicomic account of a courageous Russian teacher who secretly exposes how the system uses aggressive nationalist propaganda to mold and control the ultimate weapon in its never-ending war: children.

A Ukrainian platoon embarks on a strategic mission: to traverse a heavily fortified forest and liberate a village from the invading Russian forces. The filmmaker behind 20 Days in Mariupol presents a breathtakingly courageous doc that captures the visceral reality of battle and the soldiers’ growing sense of uncertainty.

Inspired by this year’s festival program, which celebrates nature in all its splendor, beauty, and healing power, we invite you to a guided tour of our new and exciting exhibition, ”Flowers: Leafing Through the Collections of the National Library.” Discover the flowers found in poetry and prose, adornments and illustrations, songs and musical compositions within the National Library's collections.

Using old cameras, a forgotten collection of photographs, and fragments of memory, the filmmaker fills in the missing pieces of his family history, revealing a chronicle of complicated relationship patterns passed down through generations.

Towards his retirement, illustrator, comics artist, and member of the ‘second-generation’ Michel Kichka reveals his tragic family story in the shadow of his father, a Holocaust survivor. He attempts to draw lines between his tragic past and the state of Israeli society today.

Discover death masks, obituaries, wills, amulets worn to ward off the Angel of Death, and many more unusual items from The National Library’s collections in this special exhibition. The exhibition will take place before and after the screening of the film “Necropolis”.

The Iranian Revolution abruptly halted the successful career of a pop singer and cultural icon until an unexpected comeback changed everything. This is the moving story of Googoosh, who became a voice of resistance and a symbol of hope.

A masterclass led by the actress and singer Liraz Charhi, who grew up in Israel and comes from a family of Iranian descent. Following the screening of the film “Googoosh: Made of Fire”, Liraz will talk about the inspiration she draws from Googoosh and the collaborations she has forged with Iranian female musicians in recent years. With her guidance, participants will rediscover the magic of these women’s music, a rich and vibrant culture that has persisted from the Islamic Revolution to this day, despite the attempts to silence it.

In a city where death is present at every corner, Necropolis dives underground on a vivid cinematic journey – between hard labor and sacred work, technology and tradition, resurrection and eternal war.

The company “Reuveni Brothers” began in poverty—ten children in one room—and became an empire. The brothers were the driving force behind the greatest revolution in Israeli music: the Mizrahi music revolution. From the Hatikva neighborhood, they paved the way for Mizrahi singers like Zohar Argov, Ahuva Ozeri, Shimi Tavori, Haim Moshe, and Margalit Tzan’ani, at a time when there was no place for them in mainstream media, because they were “others”—different in color, origin, and musical style.

Beneath the charming drawings that propelled him to international acclaim lies the complex portrait of Mr. Doodle, a man torn between an untamed creative urge and the dark chasms of his mind.

Two DJ's in Tehran are battling to play the music they love and set up dance parties. Local regime does not look well at harbingers of western culture of decay so the protagonists need to do big decisions.

DocuText Festival is proud to provide a platform for emerging filmmakers, inviting you to watch a selection of student documentaries produced over the past two years. This is an opportunity to see ourselves through the camera lens of promising filmmakers. In partnership with: Sam Spiegel Film and Television School | Ma’aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts | Sapir College, School of Audio & Visual Arts

Inspired by this year’s festival program, which celebrates nature in all its splendor, beauty, and healing power, we invite you to a guided tour of our new and exciting exhibition, ”Flowers: Leafing Through the Collections of the National Library.” Discover the flowers found in poetry and prose, adornments and illustrations, songs and musical compositions within the National Library's collections.

The touching and tragic love story of Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen. The two met and fell in love in 1960 on the picturesque Greek island of Hydra, in a bohemian community of expatriate artists, musicians, and writers. The film follows their journey from those simple, humble days on Hydra, a time of “free love” and open marriages, to later years, exploring how their love evolved after Leonard’s musical had taken off.