Selected Projects

In the Name of the Father / Impact Lab 2022 

 Film by Bat dor Ojalvo, Gal Goffer, Yoav Leshem Impact Producer – Merav Schiffman

A Hasidic True Crime Story. An astounding 300.000 people attended the funeral of Rabbi Schik – an admired American ultra-Orthodox Rabbi. Unbeknownst to his followers, Rabbi Schik was also the leader of a transatlantic crime organization which established an extreme and segregated cult spanning between Brooklyn and Israel. While female members were forced into underage marriages and sustained sexual assaults, the money was flowing into the Rabbi’s own pockets. This corrupt culture prevailed for decades, with no one ever daring to expose the painful truth – until now.

St. Martin Stanford Award of journalism 2024

Abortions in the Holy Land/ Impact Lab 2023 

Director – Efrat Shalon Danon, Producer- Osnat Trabelsi, Impact Producer – Mor Azulay

women in Israel do not have the right to control their own bodies. A woman who wants to terminate her pregnancy still has to go through a committee and receive approval for a decision about her body and future.
The Jewish womb in Israel has a role. A demographic-national role. From the medical establishment to the government with its various arms, men still decide and impose control over women’s wombs.
In the film, women break the silence and tell of the wound, trauma, shame, and pain that accompany the decision to have an abortion.
Through personal stories and rare archives, the complex, discriminatory, and rigid system that controls the lives and fates of many women is revealed.

Haifa Film Festival 2024

Missing Vivian / Impact Lab 2024 

Director & Producer – Hilla Medalia, Producer – Mariel Ostrover, Impact Producer – Sahar Bar Nissan

On the morning of October 7th, peace activist Vivian Silver was kidnapped by Hamas from a kibbutz near Gaza. While Israel launches an attack on the Gaza Strip, Vivian’s son and her Jewish and Palestinian friends are fighting to continue Silver’s vision and the hope for peace

A Letter without an Address / Impact Lab 2024

Directors – Yael Shachar & Sharon Yaish, Producer – Daroma, Impact Producer -Michal Eliav

Five letters sent anonymously reveal a painful story of emotional and sexual exploitation by a psychologist who harmed his patients for years. The letters, which were never answered, are now being revealed, allowing the victims to finally raise their voices.

Haifa Film Festival 2024

Eddie & I / Impact Lab 2024

Director – Maya Shekel, Impact Producer – Eviatar Moncaz

VR experience. When 8-year-old Ron, who is deaf, is afraid of his first camping trip, his mother’s story about ‘Eddie’ comes to life. Ron wakes up in a surreal forest and meets you, who embodies Eddie. Together, you navigate the adventure, overcome communication barriers, and discover courage and friendship through sign language.

The Woman in White / Impact Lab 2024

Director & Producer – Emmanuelle Mayer, Impact Producer – Anat Nir

Femme fatale? Mossad agent? Peace activist? Tamar Golan dedicated her life to face-to-face encounters with ‘the enemy.’ Yet, her name remains unknown. The film will reveal that as a diplomat on her own behalf, who secretly met with world leaders in her Paris salon, Golan changed the face of the Middle East.

Seemingly Unimportant Thoughts / Impact Lab 2024

Director – Sharon Luzon, Producer – Astar Goldberg, Impact Proucer -Oded Greenvald

Through the work of two women who treat a rehabilitation group for sex offenders, viewers will be introduced to the complexity and challenges they face in their efforts to rehabilitate and reintegrate sex offenders into society — without them reoffending. The film offers a rare glimpse into the unique process the patients go through in the group and examines how, and whether, significant perceptual change can occur in each of them, and through them — also in us, the viewers.

Strange Birds / Impact Lab 2023 

Director – Shaked Orbach, Producer – Dan Shadur, Impact Producer – Inbal-Rotem Sagiv

A phone call wakes me up in the early morning and sends me to save my older brother. Again. After another entanglement, I realize I can no longer ignore the problems that accompany him, and threaten to take over my life as well. I use the camera to get answers from my family, and the wall of silence begins to melt. Through a series of events — some amusing, others dramatic and unsettling — I realize for the first time how my complicated relationships with my family, and especially with my mother, were shaped by a single unspoken expression in our home — autism. Strange Birds is an intimate film that reveals an untold story about special parenting and the children who grow up in its shadow.

Best Director Award- Jerusalem Film Festival 2024

Kiki / Impact Lab 2022 

Director- Natan Rushansky, Producer – Daroma, Impact Producer – Zohar Galil

After Kiki has been expelled from every possible framework for at-risk youth and is facing criminal charges for drug trafficking and violence, he is about to be sent to a juvenile detention center by court decision. His sister, Gal, as a last resort, manages to convince the authorities, thanks to her work as a therapist for at-risk youth through wilderness therapy, to give Kiki one last chance — an experimental therapeutic journey in the desert.

Honorable Mention, ‘Beyond the Screen’ competition, Docaviv Festival, 2023

Best Film Award, Galil Cinema Festival, 2023