Featured Film for the Week:
Foreign Land (2017, dir. Shlomi Eldar, 75 min)

This poignant documentary explores the unraveling of Israeli society as it drifts further into extremism and intolerance. Eldar frames the story through two compelling personal narratives: an Arab actor who dreams of pursuing his art beyond the constraints of prejudice and a Jewish journalist who feels increasingly alienated in the society he once chronicled. Their parallel searches for freedom and belonging illuminate the broader fractures tearing at the social fabric of Israel—between Arab and Jew, religious and secular, nationalist and liberal.

Foreign Land asks difficult questions: What does “home” mean when the place you love becomes unrecognizable? What choices remain when society turns against your values or your identity? By weaving personal struggles with political realities, Eldar creates a film that is both intimate and universal—a portrait of disillusionment, exile, and the human cost of extremism.

The film has been screened at international festivals and is available through Prime Video, MUBI, and cultural institutions such as the Jerusalem Cinematheque.

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