Israeli Premiere! This captivating Persian-language thriller, winner of the Orizzonti Extra Audience Award at the Venice International Film Festival, 2024, unfolds the story of retired dance teacher Tarlan, who witnesses the murder of her friend Rana by her husband, a senior official in the Iranian regime. Play Screenings: Tue 9.12 | 16:30 | Hall 2 Tickets Special Event Fri 12.12 | 11:00 | Hall 4 Tickets Germany, Austria, 2024, 104 min Director: Nader Saeivar Language and Subtitles: Persian; subtitles in Hebrew and English Cast: Maryam Boubani, Nader Naderpour International Feature Films The Witness Israeli Premiere! This captivating Persian-language thriller, winner of the Orizzonti Extra Audience Award at the Venice International Film Festival, 2024, unfolds the story of retired dance teacher Tarlan, who witnesses the murder of her friend Rana by her husband, a senior official in the Iranian regime. When the police refuse to investigate due to political pressures, Tarlan faces a harsh dilemma that might change her own and her family’s life. The Witness is a powerful sociopolitical drama about the struggle of Iranian women under a patriarchal and theocratic regime. The film examines the meaning of morality, justice, and the price of insisting on the truth. 12.12.25 | The Association for Civil Right in Israel Event At the end of the screening, there will be a special discussion. Production Credits and More -> More Films

Israeli Premiere! Valentina is a young woman living in the Sicilian village of Niscemi, overshadowed by a huge American military communications base (MOUS). She cares for her sick father and suffers from existential asphyxiation. As her physical and mental stress intensifies, she ventures on a journey of independence Play Screenings: Sat 6.12 | 12:30 | Hall 1 Tickets Thur 11.12 | 17:30 | Hall 1 Tickets Switzerland, Italy, 2024, 80 min Director: Francesca Scalisi Language and Subtitles: Italian; subtitles in Hebrew and English Cast: International Documentary Competition Valentina and the MOUSters Israeli Premiere! Valentina is a young woman living in the Sicilian village of Niscemi, overshadowed by a huge American military communications base (MOUS). She cares for her sick father and suffers from existential asphyxiation. As her physical and mental stress intensifies, she ventures on a journey of independence. This award-winning movie provides a poetic and intimate documentation of a feminine struggle for freedom, combined with subdued community resistance to an invasive presence that undermines daily routines and the local space. Production Credits and More -> More Films

Israeli Premiere! Jenny, a young woman addicted to crystal meth, finds out she is pregnant and in danger of imprisonment. The state appoints a peer recovery doula for her, Marla, whom Jenny finds difficult to trust. Gradually, a tender relationship is woven between them, as Jenny decides to move up her sentence to ensure a place in a prison nursery, and thus keep her future child Play Screenings: Fri 5.12 | 20:30 | Hall 1 Tickets Sat 13.12 | 14:30 | Hall 1 Tickets Germany, 2024, 116 min Director: Chiara Fleischhacker Language and Subtitles: German; subtitles in Hebrew and English Cast: Emma Drogunova, Lale Andrä, Friederika Becht International Feature Competition Vena Israeli Premiere! Jenny, a young woman addicted to crystal meth, finds out she is pregnant and in danger of imprisonment. The state appoints a peer recovery doula for her, Marla, whom Jenny finds difficult to trust. Gradually, a tender relationship is woven between them, as Jenny decides to move up her sentence to ensure a place in a prison nursery, and thus keep her future child. Vena is an award-winning, sensitive and unsettling drama about the parenthood and freedom of a young woman fighting to regain control of her life. Production Credits and More -> More Films

Israeli Premiere! After a violent confrontation with her mom, Olivia is sent to a residential setting for girls. There, far from home but in the midst of an emotional storm, she meets other girls bearing similar scars. Play Screenings: Sat 6.12 | 21:00 | Hall 1 Tickets Fri 12.12 | 19:00 | Hall 4 Tickets Netherlands, 2025, 84 min Director: Daphne Lucker Language and Subtitles: Dutch; subtitles in Hebrew English Cast: Sophie Lindner, Thekla Reuten, Rifka Lodeizen International Feature Films, Panorama Competition Vlam Israeli Premiere! After a violent confrontation with her mom, Olivia is sent to a residential setting for girls. There, far from home but in the midst of an emotional storm, she meets other girls bearing similar scars. Vlam is a tender and unsettling drama straddling the blurred boundary between love and control. This is a poetic adolescence story about dependency born out of pain and the courage to liberate and redefine yourself. Production Credits and More -> More Films

The 13th Solidarity Film Festival will take place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and other venues in Israel on 4-13 December, 2025. The 2025 Solidarity Festival will offer premiere screenings of narrative and documentary films on human rights alongside special screenings, meetings and discussions on human rights in Israel. International Films Israeli Films About the Festival Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival began in 2011 out of a deep belief in the power of art in general, and cinema in particular, to create significant change in worldviews and in reality. The Solidarity Festival, the only cultural event in Israel dedicated entirely to human rights, offers the audience an excellent cinematic experience that, alongside shared enjoyment and entertainment, also seeks to provoke thought and raise for discussion issues that are at the core of liberal and humanist thought, at a time when democracy in Israel and around the world is being challenged and human rights are under threat. The festival program combines award-winning narrative and documentary films from Israel and around the world as well as frameworks for examining burning topics related to various issues and struggles – among them are democracy, pursuit of peace, globalization, refugees and asylum seekers, discrimination, racism, women's rights, LGBT rights, children's and youth rights, the right to protest, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, workers' rights, hunger, poverty and food security, environmental justice and the climate crisis. In addition, the festival screens films and holds discussions that address unique local issues, primarily the occupation and the Nation-State Law, out of a deep commitment to promoting Israeli cinema and responsibility for creating a more just and fair society in Israel.

Israeli Premiere! When COVID-19 breaks out, three scientists find themselves at the center of a media and political attack, having spent decades researching the relation between bats and viruses. Instead of leading the medical discourse, they are forced to cope with unfounded rumors and false accusations Play Screenings: Fri 5.12 | 14:45 | Hall 4 Tickets Tue 9.12 | 17:00 | Hall 4 Tickets Switzerland, 2025, 123 min Director: Christian Frei Language and Subtitles: German and English; subtitles in Hebrew and English Cast: International Documentary Films Blame Israeli Premiere! When COVID-19 breaks out, three scientists find themselves at the center of a media and political attack, having spent decades researching the relation between bats and viruses. Instead of leading the medical discourse, they are forced to cope with unfounded rumors and false accusations. “Blame” is a documentary thriller that addresses the relation between scientific truth and mass hysteria, raising troublesome questions about responsibility, trust and the price of truth in an era of fake news. Production Credits and More -> More Films

Israeli Premiere! The fascinating voyage of three women who struggle to transform their communities through the local businesses they found and run. Gladis Yupanqui of Peru started a minimarket which she now wants to expand. Play Screenings: Special Event Sat 6.12 | 11:30 | Hall 2 Tickets Fri 12.12 | 17:30 | Hall 1 Tickets United States, 2024, 91 min Director: Maureen Castle Tusty Language and Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; subtitles in Hebrew Cast: Gladys Yupanqui, Magatte Wade, Selyna Peiris International Documentary Films She Rises Up Israeli Premiere! The fascinating voyage of three women who struggle to transform their communities through the local businesses they found and run. Gladis Yupanqui of Peru started a minimarket which she now wants to expand. Senegalese Magatte Wade starts a cosmetics company. And Selyna Peiris of Sri Lanka is expanding her mother’s textile company. In many countries, labor laws restrict human rights and deny access to bank accounts, inheritances, and certain job categories, expanding poverty and makes it more difficult for them to overcome it. The stories of these three women are different, but together they illustrate the power of feminine entrepreneurship and the importance of local businesses for emerging economies as they create new opportunities, promote financial independence and reduce poverty. 6.12.25 | Mazon Organization Event At the end of the screening, there will be a special discussion. Production Credits and More -> More Films

Israeli Premiere! A political drama set against the Lebanese Civil War. George, an idealist French theater director accepts his sick friend’s request and arrives in Beirut in 1982 to stage Antigone with actors from diverse ethnic groups. In this highly charged junction of art and reality, the protagonist quickly finds out that politics invades the stage, and how hard it is to keep theater and war apart. Play Screenings: Sat 6.12 | 16:30 | Hall 1 Tickets Tickets France, Luxembourg, Belgium, 2024, 116 min Director: David Oelhoffen Language and Subtitles: French, Arabic; subtitles in Hebrew and English Cast: Laurent Lafitte, Simon Abkarian, Manal Issa International Feature Competition The Fourth Wall Israeli Premiere! A political drama set against the Lebanese Civil War. George, an idealist French theater director accepts his sick friend’s request and arrives in Beirut in 1982 to stage Antigone with actors from diverse ethnic groups. In this highly charged junction of art and reality, the protagonist quickly finds out that politics invades the stage, and how hard it is to keep theater and war apart. And when George falls in love with a Palestinian actress, he is faced with questions of identity and limited creative freedom in the heart of darkness Production Credits and More -> More Films

In the midst of a war that exacted a heavy price in human lives following Oct 7, two groups of Arab and Jewish youth – one in Ramle, the other in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam – met in order to make films together as part of educational filmmaking workshops initiated by Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival with the support the European Union and MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, and in partnership with Young Voices and Sadaka Reut. Play Screenings: Tue 9.12 | 18:30 | Hall 2 Tickets Tickets Israel, 2025 Director: Language and Subtitles: Hebrew Cast: Youth Workshops Is Reconciliation Possible? In the midst of a war that exacted a heavy price in human lives following Oct 7, two groups of Arab and Jewish youth – one in Ramle, the other in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam – met in order to make films together as part of educational filmmaking workshops initiated by Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival with the support the European Union and MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, and in partnership with Young Voices and Sadaka Reut. Each group planned, wrote, and directed a short film – a documentary and a narrative film - under the guidance of Dana Goldberg. We are pleased to present the results of the project in a special screening event in the presence of the young filmmakers. Who Saw Tohar? Narrative Short Ramle, 2025, 18:30 min. Languages: Hebrew; subtitles in English and Arabic. Questions About a Shared Life Documentary Short Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, 2025, 29:30 min. Languages: Arabic, Hebrew. Subtitles: English, Arabic and Hebrew. 9.12.25 18:30 Reception | 19:00 Event and Screening of the two films Production Credits and More -> More Films

On his restless journey to heal from the noise that has shattered the fragile balance of his life, the film’s protagonist–director, discovers—through the eyes and voice of his wife, who tells his story from her own vantage—that sensitivity to noise is a deeply personal terrain: one soul may lie sleepless through the slow dripping of water, while another remains deaf to the shriek of a car alarm below the window. Play Screenings: Screening and Talk Sat 6.12 | 19:00 | Hall 2 Tickets Tickets Israel, 2012, 72 min Director: Dan Geva Language and Subtitles: Hebrew, English; subtitles in Hebrew Cast: Dan Geva's Trilogy Tribute Noise On his restless journey to heal from the noise that has shattered the fragile balance of his life, the film’s protagonist–director, discovers—through the eyes and voice of his wife, who tells his story from her own vantage—that sensitivity to noise is a deeply personal terrain: one soul may lie sleepless through the slow dripping of water, while another remains deaf to the shriek of a car alarm below the window. In seeking the roots of his neurotic affliction, he unearths painful family secrets and an old military trauma—a buried wound that once split his life in two. As he comes to understand, with the guidance of psychologists, neuroscientists, and sound researchers across Israel and abroad, that this hypersensitivity is not an ailment to be cured but a fate to be lived with, he makes a defiant choice: to turn the tables—to master the noise before it masters him. Yet the price of this rebellion is grave. In the end, he must confront the hardest truth of all—that the solace he seeks cannot be forced from the chaos of sound, but must arise, quietly, from another place: from within the stillness he has long feared to face. 6.12.25 | Screening and Panel Discussion At the end of the screening, there will be a special discussion. Production Credits and More -> More Films

Israeli Premiere! The film follows the daily lives of four girls in out-of-home care. Separated from their parents, they struggle for recognition, self-love, independence and security, constantly longing to go back home. For two years, the film traces their ups and downs, providing an authentic glimpse into the daily lives of girls at risk in a protected environment, wishing for a “nearly normal” life Play Screenings: Fri 5.12 | 15:30 | Hall 1 Tickets Thur 11.12 | 16:00 | Hall 2 Tickets Germany, 2025, 135 min Director: Stefan Sick Language and Subtitles: German; subtitles in Hebrew and English Cast: International Documentary Competition A Nearly Normal Life Israeli Premiere! The film follows the daily lives of four girls in out-of-home care. Separated from their parents, they struggle for recognition, self-love, independence and security, constantly longing to go back home. For two years, the film traces their ups and downs, providing an authentic glimpse into the daily lives of girls at risk in a protected environment, wishing for a “nearly normal” life Production Credits and More -> More Films

Tzipi Baider: Night Battles Tal Michael Haring: It's Always There Natanel Fish: Week 24 Omer Tsruya: There I Was Among Everyone Moria Rabbani: Summer, the Loneliest Season Noa Rokni: No Limit Rivka Rashti: Marked Amit Shalom Etkes: The Poem of Force and Misery Nir Shenhav: Breeze Play Screenings: Thur 4.12 | 17:00 | Hall 2 Tickets Tickets Israel, 2025, 112 min Director: Tzipi Baider Tal Michael Haring Natanel Fish Omer Tsruya Moria Rabbani Noa Rokni Rivka Rashti Amit Shalom Etkes Nir Shenhav Language and Subtitles: Hebrew Cast: Students Competition Students Competition Program 1 Tzipi Baider: Night Battles | Israel, 2025, 20 min אלי, 62, מפקד צוות לשעבר בגולני, מתמודד עם שדה הקרב שבתוכו: טראומה שלא מרפה ממלחמת לבנון הראשונה. לילה שקט בבית החולים שבו התאשפז נקטע בפתאומיות כשקול מסוק נוחת משגר אותו חזרה לזיכרונות מהקרב. אשליות מטשטשות את הגבול שבין עבר להווה, חושפות טעות הרסנית שמלווה אותו מאז ומפגש אחד מכריע עם בנו הקצין גורם לו להודות במה שעשה. Tal Michael Haring: It's Always There | Israel, 2025, 4 min A visual exploration of the endless tension between life and death that pervades the Israeli present - through images of birth and drones. Natanel Fish: Week 24 | Israel 2025, 23 min שחר ודנה (בהריון שבוע 24) מגלים שיש בעיה התפתחותית בעובר שלהם בשלב מאוחר של ההריון. Omer Tsruya: There I Was Among Everyone | Israel, 2025, 9 min Moti spends his days riding trains, listening to strangers' stories without revealing who he is. The son of an Arab father and a Jewish mother from Eilat, he finds solace in the ever-changing passengers ,living out his right to be no one, or maybe anyone. But everything shifts when Yael, who knew him long ago, boards the train and asks for his companionship. The film explores freedom, the desire to love everything, and the beauty of simply existing. Moria Rabbani: Summer, the Loneliest Season | Israel, 2025, 16 min Wartime. Florentin is quieter than ever. Heartbroken Moran wanders the neighborhood; where every trace of joy has vanished and only ugliness remains. She pretends to be a victim of the war herself, searching for belonging in a city that feels indifferent. Noa Rokni: No Limit | Israel, 2025, 7 min Between fragments of reality and dream, between moments of peace and war, Ella wonders whether there is still hope for her relationship with Fadel. In her dream, she discovers that the question is more complex than she thought, and that the answer lies within herself. Rivka Rashti: Marked | Israel, 2025, 11 min In a world where any deviation is immediately flagged, Tamar finds herself under the scrutiny of the seminary and her family. As the pressure mounts, she is forced to make a decision that will change her life forever. Amit Shalom Etkes: The Poem of Force and Misery | Israel, 2025, 12 min An anti-war film examining the nature of political power and its destructive character. The film offers a different perspective on the calamity surrounding us, using abstraction of found footage combined with selected excerpts from the philosopher Simone Weil's essay 'The Iliad, or The Poem of Force'. Nir Shenhav: Breeze | Israel, 2025, 16 min Yair returns home from military service in the West Bank. He invites Yaara to his family’s bourgeois Jerusalem home. They play piano and open a bottle of wine. What seems to start as peaceful weekend together, is interrupted by a story about an innocent family whose house he invaded on the previous evening. Production Credits and More -> More Films