Nurith Aviv Movies

For centuries, Hebrew was a sacred language, a written language of prayer and scripture. But today it is also the language of everyday life in...

By taking an interest in sign languages, Nurith Aviv invites us to expand our perception of the human langage. Three generations of deaf and hearing...

Four 12-year-olds—Sharon, Tom, Moishy, and Sophie—prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot.

A documentary essay on the 1960s women's liberation movement in Germany and it's developments and conflicts through the following decades.

Japan, 1986. At the tail end of the world tour promoting their latest album Revenge, Eurythmics tops the charts. Between concerts, pop duo Annie...

In this documentary road movie, Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann records the diverse views and activities of Israelis and Arabs as she travels...

Atalia is a 40-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Six-Day War and lives on a kibbutz with her adolescent daughter. Lonely and feeling...

Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust. Tracing the migratory paths of her family before World War II, Beckerman returns to the...

Marc Aurel-Straße in Vienna: The last surviving Jewish textile merchant in the former textile district, the Iranian hotel proprietor and the...

Explores the relationship between an eleven-year-old daughter and her ailing mother, who is losing a grasp of reality in the surrounding environment...

A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.

Anna and Edith are colleagues at an insurance company. Their male chef uses the women's business success to his own advances. Anna's husband would...

Seven young people tell their personal stories with the Yiddish language while discussing the life and work of avant-garde Yiddish poets.

Psychiatric patients refer to themselves as survivors, victims, former inmates, consumers, or users. "Nerve" potraits four persons from Vienna and...

Directed by Nurith Aviv.

Two childhood friends who have not seen each other for a long time decide to meet again. They talk and look for what could have caused their...

Two corrupt IDF officers who resale lands in the West Bank put pressure on a Palestinian family man.

The life of the Tibetan people, forty years after the Chinese invasion. Filmed in Amdo and Kham, regions forgotten by the world and absolutely...

In his film, Josef Aichholzer observes the search for the perfect body, the golden calf of the leisure society: Meditation, sport, medicine or gene...