Ada Sereni, the lady in the black dress, emigrated to Palestine from Italy in 1927 but returned to Italy in 1945 where she served as the only woman to lead Mossad Le’ Aliyah Bet, the predecessor to the Mossad.  Under her leadership the organization enabled 28,000 Italian Jews to be smuggled into Palestine during the British mandate. Yet she was erased from history and this film restores her to where she belongs in the center of 20th century Jewish history.

Noa Aharoni, Director/  60 minutes/2025/ Israel/in Hebrew/docudrama

Double Happiness: After the death of her husband of 50 years, a life-affirming Jewish widow and the tightly wound Chinese-American restaurateur who serves her family every Christmas find themselves drawn into an unexpected late-in-life romance.

Shari Albert, Director/ Short film