Aviv: Screwed Up Generation. Combining David Bowie’s glamour with John Lennon’s politics, musician Aviv Geffen is Israel’s resident make-up-wearing rock star peace activist. Offering a highly personal look at the very public figure, this intimate documentary combines old home videos, footage from on-stage performances, and private interviews to track Geffen’s musical success and offer insight into his complex personality.

Film Fanatic. The “Hasidic Steven Spielberg” is torn between his passion for filmmaking and his socially conservative community that frowns upon it. The story of a man who struggles to make a great film that his fellow ultra-Orthodox Jews will consider kosher.

Rabin, Part 2. Yitzhak Rabin was a leader who confronted violence while promoting peace, despite criticism. The second half of this portrait of the man who spent his lifetime fighting for Israel follows Rabin from an upsetting mid-career lull to the height of his popularity, ending with his shocking assassination. It explores Rabin’s wife Leah’s crucial role in his political success, and his reconciliation with life-long rival Shimon Peres.

Say Amen. Deeply personal, the documentary explores what it means to be gay in an Orthodox, procreation-driven family. While the other nine Deri children have all extended the family tree by marrying and having kids of their own, David, at twenty-nine, still hasn’t brought home a girlfriend, inspiring his family to constant nagging. This confessional film follows David as he takes small steps, slowly gathering courage, to ask for acceptance from the people whom he’s closest.

Women For Sale. Half a million women from the former USSR have fled to work as prostitutes in the West within the last decade. Many of them have ended up in Israel. With a non-judgmental and sympathetic approach, the film steps into the minds of these women to explore their intimate hopes and concerns, giving an inside view to the bleakness of life as a prostitute.