Blind Encounters
Narrative, comedy, 18 minutes Kate, a dazzling woman in her mid-20s confidently strolls through the park on her way to rendezvous with a promising young man. Her charm turns heads… read more
Benny Brunner
Filmmaker
The H Protocol a.k.a. The Hannibal Directive
The H Protocol is the extended director version of The Hannibal Directive documentary. The Hannibal Directive was a highly classified military order used by the Israeli army. It was created… read more
The Hannibal Directive
The Hannibal Directive was a highly classified military order used by the Israeli army. It was created in 1986 by three top army commanders and outlined the measures to be… read more
The Érpatak Model
The film portrays Mihály Zoltán Orosz; the hyper-energetic and ultra-nationalist mayor of Érpatak, a small village with a population of 1,750 inhabitants in Eastern Hungary. Delusions of grandeur and a… read more
The Great Book Robbery
The Great Book Robbery is a powerful and poignant chronicle of cultural destruction. It tells the story of the 70,000 Palestinian books that were looted by the newly formed State… read more
The Seventh Million – The Israelis and the Holocaust
The Seventh Million is a thought-provoking documentary series. It is based on a book by Israeli historian Tom Segev. The film, directed by Benny Brunner and written by Segev, examines… read more
It Is No Dream
“If you will it, it is no dream,” wrote Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, in 1902 as he dreamed of creating a utopian state for the Jews. One… read more
Don’t Say You Didn’t Know
This is a short, 24-minute version of IT IS NO DREAM, featuring Israeli voices against the occupation dating back to 2002. The film was commissioned by the Dutch broadcaster IKON… read more
Al Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948
Al Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 is a groundbreaking documentary film that comprehensively examines the events that resulted in the creation of over 700,000 Palestinian refugees and the destruction of… read more
The Children of Abraham & Sophie
When Abraham Braun and Sophie Schopf first met at the opera house in Breslau, Germany, in 1920, it was love at first sight. Both were 20 years old, Abraham was… read more
A Philosopher For All Seasons
This documentary film is a thought-provoking portrait of the late Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, a prominent and outspoken critic of Israeli occupation politics. He famously coined the term “Judeo-Nazi” during the… read more
Blood Money
Blood Money explores the motivations and political manoeuvres behind the complex restitution and compensation agreements, also known as “Wiedergutmachung” or “making amends,” between Germany, Israel, and the Jewish world. Through… read more
The Concrete Curtain
Variety describes the film: There’s a Kafkaesque absurdism to the real-life circumstances in “The Concrete Curtain” that, as in Kafka, nobody finds particularly funny. Portrait of the new injustices and… read more
State of Suspension
The film examines in nine chapters what has happened to us Israelis after 60 years of independence; what went wrong, and how we turned from victims to victimizers. The film… read more
Kosher Friendly
Young Poles in Wroclaw, Poland, with one Jewish grandparent or grand-grandparent, are looking for their Jewish origins while negotiating their complex identities by celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas and having the… read more
Romania, The Taming of The Intellectuals
The film examines the motivation and history behind the collaboration of Romania’s intellectuals with the communists in general and the Ceaucescu regime in particular. Romanian with English subtitles.
The Avengers
At the end of WW II, Jewish ex-partisans came up with a plan that fired up their burning need to avenge the murdered six million Jews in the Holocaust, by… read more