Culture is the air we breathe, the water we drink. Art is essential for survival
Albi is a new fund, institute and lab that uses cultural vehicles to establish paradigm-shifting narratives by and about Palestinians and Jews.
For some people, it was a band that influenced their politics. For others, a book, film, or television show; even a video game or a TikTok. Culture surrounds us, constantly shaping our ideas in powerful and oftentimes subconscious physical and emotional ways.
It helps us understand who we are and what we aspire to, with whom we feel identification and belonging, what is cool and what is dangerous. It tells us what matters to our various interlocking groups and tribes.
Capturing lightning in a bottle:
Expanding the scope of mainstream narratives
Making the revolution
irresistible:
Amplifying cool creative activism
Healing trauma through story:
Giving visual, audible and written language to realities of now
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Albi Film and Television Fund is the first-ever independent moving image fund for productions by or about Israelis and Palestinians, entirely committed to equality and democracy. We support projects at every phase and every genre so long as the perspective and impact potential are clear.
Albi Institute influences the creative industries in Israel through pipeline programs that shift the context of creative production in Israel. With the realities of Israeli audiences and politics in mind, these programs seek to expand the space for critical voices in cultural production across fields and industries to thrive and be true vehicles for change.
Albi Lab is an experimental funding and programmatic space for piloting and exploring new potential avenues for cultural production to become a driver for social change. We are committed to strategically exploring any and all artistic and creative fields to identify who, what, when, where and how they can influence social and political change in and about Israel.
is an inspiring documentary that brings together Israeli and Palestinian musicians to break the cycle of fear and distrust through the universal language of music. This film features artists from diverse backgrounds and styles, including rap, hip-hop, and heavy metal, showcasing talents such as Abed Hathot, Mira Awad, Yael Deckelbaum, and System Ali. Despite facing condemnation and even death threats, these musical activists unite to create a powerful call to action and a blueprint for peace.
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Two Kids a Day
The film offers a rare glimpse into the video interrogations of four Palestinian children. The children's stories highlight a systematic method behind the arrests of minors in the West Bank. Interviews with a soldier involved in the arrests, a former deputy division head in the Israeli security agency, a human rights lawyer, and a former military prosecutor expand the personal story into a larger narrative.
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H2: The Occupation Lab
H2 is the name given to the eastern part of Hebron – the only Palestinian city with a Jewish settlement in it. Here, along a one-Kilometer road, lies the holy Cave of the Patriarchs, where Jews and Muslims believe their common father, Abraham, is buried. Here the massacre of 1929, known as “year zero” of the conflict, took place; here the Jewish settlement movement was born, and here a policy of ethnic separation was first implemented by the military. Through rare archive footage and interviews with Hebron’s military commanders, H2: The Occupation Lab tells the story of a place that is both a microcosm of the entire conflict and a test site for the methods of control Israel is implementing throughout the West Bank.
A group of Ethiopian Israeli youth decide to kidnap the police officer who peppered their adolescence with abuse and eventually murdered their closest friend. What starts off as a personal revenge scheme quickly boils over into a massive national protest movement against police violence and for equality.
The show’s creator Indal Kabada brings deep authenticity and a unique point of view that highlights the diverse expressions of identity and the real conflicts that emerge from a visible community attempting to integrate without losing itself.
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Sabbath Queen
Filmed over 20 years, Sabbath Queen follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's epic journey as the dynastic heir of thirty-nine generations of Orthodox rabbis who rejects his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer father, and the founder of Lab/Shul: an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. Sabbath Queen joins director Sandi DuBowski and his rabbi, Amichai, on a lifelong and cinematic quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion, ritual, and love for a challenging, rapidly changing twenty-first century.
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Grounded
Culinary historian Muzna Bishara delves into Palestinian cuisine, exploring the vanishing traditions of rural women. Beyond food, it embodies identity, memory, and heritage, with ingredients tied to geography and seasons, flavors reflecting conflicts and politics. Each chapter centers on an ingredient, revealing the essence of Palestinian culture in a fresh perspective. Producer Hilla Medalia.
Death in Umm Al-Hiran” tells one of the most shocking and significant stories that happened in Israel in the last decade, as it reveals the mechanisms behind the killing and defaming of Yaqoub Abu Al-Qia’an, a Bedouin teacher who died at the hands of the police during an eviction raid. For the first time, the film will consistently and comprehensively reveal one of the most tragic and political affairs ever to have occurred in Israel between the Bedouin population and the State of Israel. Directors: Doron Djerassi Producers: Rafael Balulu, Emmanuel Berrebi
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Abortion in the Holy Land
In 2024 Israel, women still do not have the rights over their bodies. The narrative of abortions in Israel exposes the sexism and the patronage of men in the medical and political establishment, since the founding of the state until today. The Jewish womb carries a demographic-national role, and the women are merely the means. Through personal and archival stories, the gendered attitude towards women seeking to decide about their bodies and futures is revealed.
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The First Lady
Israeli transgender pioneer Efrat Tilma had to flee the country as a teenager. Now, as a celebrated activist in her seventies, she must fight for her rights once again, while the country spirals into political and social regression.
A song and video about gun violence in Palestinian
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System Ali
System Ali was born in the Ajami neighborhood in Jaffa as a result of the struggle for housing rights in the city. The band's bi-national and multi-lingual cultural activity created an organization deeply rooted in the communities in which it operates.
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Second song/clip for the anti-racist rap duo Dugri Project
In June 2018 Israeli creator Uriya Rosenman initiated the project ‘Let’s Talk Straight’. Inspired by Joyner Lucas’ ‘I’m Not Racist’.
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