Itzik and Avner, the heroes of the film, arrived at a courageous decision: to use this documentary account to open up; to lay bare, perhaps for the first time since their childhood expose the wounds and scars left by their worst intimate experiences; to connect, all along the way, with their memories and with the loss of their three mothers. Their story begins in Cracow, Poland -- the town of their birth. After the Germans overran Poland, all the Jews were rounded up in ghettos. Their parents and grandparents were seized and sent to the Belzits death camp."Take care of the kids" Minda asked her sister in law and their aunt Malka adopted the two 2 and 3-year old boys and became their second mother. She fled with them from Cracow to the fields and the forests. Thus began their wanderings through Poland that were to continue for 600 days. Somehow,Aunt Malka managed to smuggle them into Slovakia and from there to Budapest.Aunt Malka knew that the trains with Jewish passenger under Germany occupancy were traveling from Budapest to Auschwitz in Poland, to the death camp there. All the trains -- with one exception. Israel Kastner, was organizing a special train to carry leading members of that community to the Land of Israel (then Palestine). Neither Malka decided that she would at least try to save the boys. She was at the station on the evening the train departed and she picked up the boys and tossed them into an open wagon; And thus they became stowaways on the "Kastner train".the train ended traveled to Bergen Belsen in Germany, where they remained for 180 days.In Bergen Belsen, Naomi Meyer (20), a beautiful and loving young woman, adopted the two Polish orphans and became their third mother. When Bergen Belsen was liberated in 1944 Naomi's request to adopt the two boys was denied after other family members had been located in Palestine. In her despair, she decides to take her own life. For the children, this meant being torn from their third mother.

The Israeli Defence Force operation "Cast Lead" in Gaza wasn't covered by the media due to military embargo. For the first time, Israeli soldiers who took part in the conflict in 2009 speak out about their actions. This intimate doc forges an arresting narrative of an unknown war. In a city built as a model of Gaza, a confused young IDF soldier shows his mother the tanks and other weapons of war he'll soon be operating. "My mom came with sunglasses and a purse, like she was on an outing", says the soldier of the days before entering the real Gaza. They were brought "boxes of food and candy and treats" by their proud families, who celebrated their impending fight against Hamas terrorists as if it was Independence Day. Even a day before entering Gaza, the mood recounted by the men sounds infectious as reality and fiction blur. "At night there were these beautiful bombs, green and red. Like pyrotechnic displays", says a wide eyed young man. Looking back on the first day, a more sceptical member of the battalion expresses disbelief: "We went into the big mess and fired like crazy, no one knew what he was shooting at."
Candid interviews reveal how these naive troops found themselves in a ghost town, populated by abandoned animals and ruined homes. Repeatedly comparing their experiences to high-budget Hollywood war films by the likes of Steven Spielberg, the one thing missing was a clear enemy: "The firing orders were a disgrace, nobody said anything about civilians. They said: When in doubt, shoot, just don't let them kill our men." Yet even with no obvious targets, many found themselves exhilarated by the paranoia and danger, leading to the indiscriminate shelling of civilian buildings: "It sounds really terrible to say 'cleanse' but those were the orders." asserts one man.

An eloquent and intense portrait of documentary filmmaker David Fisher and his siblings as they follow in the footsteps of their late father Joseph-a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who was interned in Gusen and Gunskirchen, Austria. After reading their father's diary, found only after his death, the three brothers and sister embark on a journey from Israel to Austria that is both literal and psychological. At first David's siblings refuse to confront the content of their father's diary, but for David it becomes a compass on a journey of discovery. David travels to the U.S. and meets with American WWII veterans still experiencing post-traumatic stress caused decades before by witnessing the suffering at Gunskirchen concentration camp. He then convinces his brothers, Gideon and Ronel, and sister Estee to join him on a sobering trip to Austria. His hope - this shared journey might release tensions and make them as close as they once were. In Austria, the four Fisher siblings descend into the dark underground shafts of Bergkristall, where their father once slaved during the Holocaust; Bergkristall was built by slave labor from the Nazi Concentration Camp Gusen II. Illuminated only by flashlights, the Fishers seek meaning in their personal and family histories inside the dark labyrinth of Gusen's tunnels-a metaphor for the murky history of the Holocaust itself. Six Million And One is unique in the way it explores the filial bonds, trauma and even humor shared by adult siblings. The Fishers joke, kibitz and quarrel on their journey. Ultimately, through their camaraderie and humanity-and the alchemy of David Fisher's filmmaking-these four siblings become emblematic of an entire second generation still grappling with the legacy of their survivor parents and the enormity of what they endured. Their experiences, though specific to children of Holocaust survivors, tell a universal story of people whose parents' lives have been disrupted by history, genocide and war.

At age 98, director Arnon Goldfinger's grandmother passed away, leaving him the task of clearing out the Tel Aviv flat that she and her husband shared for decades after immigrating from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Sifting through a mountain of photos, letters, files, and objects, Goldfinger undertook the complex process of making sense of the accumulated ephemera of a lifetime. In the process, he began to uncover clues pointing to a complicated and shocking story: a chronicle of the unexpected yet inevitable ethical ambiguities and repressed emotions that arise when everyday friendships suddenly cross enemy lines. In his award-winning, emotionally riveting documentary, THE FLAT, Goldfinger follows the hints his grandparents left behind to investigate long-buried family secrets and unravel the mystery of their painful past. The result is a moving family portrait and an insightful look at the ways different generations deal with the memory of the Holocaust.