Israeli film

Cinematheques across the country are offering cult classics, documentaries, and sing-alongs for Independence Day.

Sari Azoulay Turgeman’s film is a well-made, atmospheric drama about a teen girl who sails off alone one night destined for Cyrpus.

Filmmaker Yoav Potash arrived in Poland to document a modest ceremony in a forgotten town, but left with a profound mystery that would take a decade to unravel.

Israeli Movie Channel on Yes has a tribute to veteran movie producer Yitzhak Shani, screening several of his films in an all-day program.

Talking to Gabizon, it seems important that the director/writer who created the movie was able to reshape the material himself for the English version.

Dreifuss has succeeded on both counts and created a suspenseful movie that combines Israeli directness and occasional comic touches with Nordic noir. 

Revach is survived by his wife and five children.

One advantage for English speakers of seeing a movie at a film festival is that they show films with English titles, unlike the theater chains, which only offer subtitles occasionally.

Much of the movie details their search through Budapest, and as interesting as this city’s atmosphere is, it’s the relationships among the three leads that carry the movie forward.

The movie, which opened in theaters around Israel on Thursday, couldn’t be more relevant to the trauma so many young Israelis are trying to process right now.