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DocAviv Festival

Rocker Aviv Geffen will perform after the screening of 'Aviv,' Tomer Heymann's documentary about the musician, at the National Library's Docu.Text festival, August 16-20, 2026 (Daniel Aharony)
August 14, 2026, 1:26 pm
Documentary film fest to open at National Library for 11th year
Docu.Text, running August 16-20, will feature 25 films, with premieres, filmmaker talks and live performances by Aviv Geffen and other Israeli artists
By Jessica Steinberg
At the opening night of the 25th Docaviv film festival in Tel Aviv, May 11, 2023 (Courtesy)
May 12, 2026, 10:34 am
DocAviv hosts 10 days of screenings throughout Tel Aviv
Icelandic rapids, Pippi Longstocking’s creator and social networks are among the subjects covered in film festival’s 28th edition
By Jessica Steinberg
Yehoram Gaon is featured in a documentary film named for him, screened at 'Docu.Text' at the National Library of Jerusalem, August 17-22, 2025 (Courtesy)
August 4, 2025, 9:35 am
Love, loss and dancing: National Library hosts documentary fest
Docu.Text event brings Jerusalem five days of film screenings that illuminate Israel and Jewish culture
By Jessica Steinberg
From the documentary film 'Home is the Ocean' being screened at the DocAviv film festival, May 22-31, 2025 (Credit Ican Films)
May 15, 2025, 8:24 am
Hostages, flamingos and the politics of Jerusalem stone to feature at DocAviv fest
Annual documentary film festival hosted at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque will screen dozens of movies about Israel and the world
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'Billy and Molly: An Otter Love Story,' being screened at May 2024 Doc Aviv film festival (Credit: National Geographic/Charlie Hamilton James)
May 15, 2024, 10:27 am
Life’s pain and beauty on show at Tel Aviv’s 26th DocAviv
Annual documentary film event offers week of screenings of works from Israel and around the world
By Jessica Steinberg
Singer Yehuda Poliker performs on May 11, 2023, at the opening night of the 25th Docaviv Film Festival which is screening 'The Child Within Me,' about his life. (Courtesy: Docaviv)
May 13, 2023, 4:37 pm
Singers, eco-activists, designer dreams: True tales at 25th Docaviv
Dozens of documentaries being screened at 10-day film festival hosted by Tel Aviv Cinematheque
By Jessica Steinberg
Roman Vishniac and his daughter Mara c. mid-1930s. (© Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley)
May 11, 2023, 10:29 pm
Daughter helps turn lens on pioneering photographer father Roman Vishniac in new film
In ‘Vishniac,’ screening at DovAviv from May 11, filmmaker Laura Bialis shows a man who documented pre-Holocaust European Jewry, then reinvented himself as a self-styled scientist
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A clip of security camera footage used in 'Closed Circuit,' the documentary film about the 2016 Sarona Market attack, which premiered at DocAviv in May 2022 (Courtesy Closed Circuit)
June 3, 2022, 1:54 pm
Podcast: Spielberg-produced documentary dissects 2016 Tel Aviv terror attack
Nancy Spielberg and filmmaker Tal Inbar discuss ‘Closed Circuit,’ which uses security camera footage to understand how events unfolded at the Sarona Market on that fateful night
By ToI Staff
Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem. (Public domain)
May 22, 2022, 12:41 pm
New film brings Eichmann’s Holocaust confessions to life using his own voice
Original recordings are dubbed over actors portraying senior Nazi figure and his interviewer before Israel put him on trial; he expresses pride in genocide, says has no regrets
By Stuart Winer
Sperm donor Ari Nagel who has helped create more than 100 children is the focus of documentary 'The Baby Daddy' screening at the DocAviv film festival opening May 26, 2022 (Courtesy YouTube screen shot)
May 9, 2022, 5:50 pm
Ukraine and Russia to take spotlight at 24th DocAviv film fest
Over 100 films covering nature and climate change, war and peace, music and art will screen at Tel Aviv’s annual celebration of documentary cinema
By Jessica Steinberg
View of the northern Israeli city of Ma'alot-Tarshiha, on February 7, 2019. (Courtesy Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 28, 2021, 5:43 pm
After COVID break, documentary film festival returns to north
DocAviv to once again run in Ma’alot-Tarshiha in Galilee
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'Babylon Dreamers,' a film about immigrants to Israel from the Soviet Union, being screened as part of DocAviv's DocOlim film festival, October 7, 2021 (Courtesy DocAviv)
October 5, 2021, 5:25 pm
DocOlim film fest focuses on modern Israeli immigrant experience
Event hosted by DocAviv opens October 7 in Tel Aviv Cinematheque
By Jessica Steinberg
Attorney Lea Tsemel in a trailer for the documentary "Advocate." (Screen capture/YouTube)
September 30, 2021, 4:35 pm
Israeli biopic about lawyer representing Palestinians wins Best Documentary Emmy
‘Advocate,’ on Lea Tsemel, has caused controversy back home since it follows her court defense of two accused terrorists
By ToI Staff
From 'The Pianist from Ramallah,' a documentary about Muhammad 'Misha' Alsheikh, a teenage pianist living between Palestinian, Russian and Jewish cultures, screening at the National Library of Israel's Docu.Text film festival, August 15-19, 2021 (Courtesy PR)
August 12, 2021, 9:23 pm
National Library’s Docu.Text opens with music and archives
August 15-19 will see screenings of documentaries about David Grossman, Hannah Senesh, Shoshana Damari, Mikhael Gorbachev and others
By Jessica Steinberg
Ehud Banai (left) with Shlomo Bar, from 'Shlomo Bar -- A Musical Documentary' being featured at the 23rd Docaviv Festival, July 1-8, 2021 (Courtesy Docaviv)
July 1, 2021, 1:45 pm
Featuring musical documentaries, Docaviv festival launches with 116 films
Israeli and international films being screened during 10-day event in Tel Aviv, held in person after last year’s online edition
By Jessica Steinberg
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