THE NEW JEWS

By Amir OVADIA STEKLOV

VISIONÄR FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Animation - Completed 2025

In a city haunted by its past, a group of non-Zionist Israeli Jews seek refuge in Berlin only to find themselves caught in a surreal tangle of political hypocrisy, Holocaust guilt, and the fetishization of their Jewish bodies, where history, sex, and exile collide in disturbing and absurd ways

Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFFR 2025
Harbour
Lovers Film Festival – Torino LGBTQI Visions 2025
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Animation, Jewish, Documentary
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, HEBREW, GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Amir OVADIA STEKLOV
    • Writer(s)
    • Amir OVADIA STEKLOV
    • Producer(s)
    • Amir OVADIA STEKLOV (The Glass Prince), Jürgen BRÜNING (Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion)
    • Synopsis
    • A decade in the making, The New Jews is a bold and provocative documentary following a group of non-Zionist Israeli Jews in Berlin. Through a collage of interviews, dating apps, and sex calls, it explores how their search for belonging, intimacy, and excitement in a city shaped by its complex history pulls them into a whirlpool of frustration—political, social, and deeply personal. In this seemingly open metropolis, the world they tried to escape reappears in new and unsettling forms, shaped by the lingering shadow of Nazism, Holocaust guilt, and a disturbing fetishization of Jewish identity.