Eyal Sivan goes back to the refugee camp of Aqabat-Jaber. While inquiring about the right of the Palestinians to return to the villages from which they were displaced in 1948, Sivan focuses on the main issue of the Arab-Israeli conflict. About 3000 people still live in the camp. Even the younger generations, who have never inhabited...

Built in the early 1950s in the Middle East by the United Nations, Aqabat-Jaber, located only a few kilometres south of Jericho, is one of the many refugee camps destined to shelter the Palestinians driven away from their native villages by the Israeli army. The majority of the 65,000 people living in the camp were inhabitants of the...

Mr. B. used to work for the Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit), the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic. He believed in the motivations of his job. And he worked hard day and night sacrificing everything to his task. But even though Mr. S. was supposed to watch out for any suspicious...

At the point where the peace process has reached yet another dead-end, Eyal Sivan tries to go beyond the idea of “the two-state solution”. Through the use of editing, Sivan creates an encounter between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews. Twenty parallel interviews on the theme of a common state. One talks, the other listens.

Shot during the Gulf War in 1991, the film juxtaposes two very different realities. On one hand, the brutal daily life of the people inhabiting Tel-Aviv forced to seek shelter during the attacks that the American forces launched against the Iraqis. On the other hand, Israeli and Arab workers sharing the same building site while working on...

Yeshayahu Leibowitz was born in 1903 in Riga, Latvia. He fled from Russia in 1916 and sought shelter in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. As the Nazis rose to power, being a committed Zionist, he left Germany and headed for Palestine. Over the years he has become a controversial figure due to his strong beliefs that Israel should leave...

The film discusses the biblical command to remember (‘Izkor’) as the foundation of the Zionistic state. April is the most intense time of Israeli festivals. It begins with the celebration of the Passover festivities and goes on with the commemoration of the victims of the Nazi crimes and the national Memorial Day for the fallen Israeli...

The Jaffa brand has always been a symbol of Israel itself. Juicy oranges from a land that had begun to flourish again after the Jews got back. But what is the real story behind the sunny images of orchards with trees full of fruit? Eyal Sivan traces the story of Jaffa back to the birth of photography itself in 1839 and explores how the...

In the summer of 2002, Eyal Sivan and his friend and fellow filmmaker Palestinian Michel Khleifi embarked on a long journey together. Their aim was to travel along the borders outlined in Resolution 181, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1947 and divided Palestine in two States. On their trip across their country, they have to...

Adolf Eichmann was the head of the Department for Jewish Affairs in the Gestapo. He acted as chief of operations in the deportation of three million Jews. Captured by a team of Mossad and Shin Bet agents in Argentina, his trial began in Jerusalem in 1961. Sivan, working with the materials he found in the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film...