Israeli film

Jerusalem Film Festival draws 70,000 despite boycott campaign targeting Israeli cinema

The Jerusalem Film Festival attracted 70,000 people this year after Film Workers for Palestine launched a pledge naming it as an Israeli institution that it would refuse to work with.

Co-stars Ido Tako (left) and Ihab Salami with a poster of their film, Where To?, directed by Assaf Machnes, at its premiere at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
BRING ALL THE PAIN’ was inspired by Noam Harel’s reserve-duty service and offers an intimate look at the soldiers tasked with recovering the bodies and taking care of the bodies of fallen soldiers, as well as those of Hamas members and Gazan civilians.

Bezalel’s ‘Graduate Exhibition’ features projects that spotlight the pain of war

Blue Sun (see Sunday).

Jerusalem highlights: July 24-30

IDO TAKO in the two-character movie ‘Where To?’ which explores a bond that forms between Palestinian Hassan and Israeli Amir.

Israeli movies balance excitement, sorrow, and war at Jerusalem Film Festival


Palestinian films make the Oscar shortlists, as Israeli hopefuls are passed over

Yariv Mozer’s We Will Dance Again, a hard-hitting film about the massacre at the Supernova music festival, was one of the eligible films that was passed over this year.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen in an interrogation room (illustrative)

Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival unveiled: A visual mix showcasing Jewish life and history

Several television series will be presented, including David Schalko’s highly praised Kafka, an ambitious look at the tormented writer’s life, and the new Shtisel spin-off, Kugel.

 ADRIEN BRODY in ‘The Brutalist.’

TV week: 'Tehran’ is back and ‘Mary’ mostly misses

Tehran is full of action and twists, as is the entire series, but it’s hard not to think of the new Netflix movie, Mary, about Jesus’s mother, like a skit.

Noa Cohen as Mary in the Netflix movie, Mary

‘Eid’s moving tale of a Bedouin who wants to write - review

Every aspect of the movie has been created with care, from the cinematography to the music, to the production design.

 A SCENE FROM Yousef Abo Madegem’s debut film, ‘Eid.’

Kirk Douglas Theater screens account of October 7

Jerusalem theater screens Aish production, Voices of Pain, Hope, and Heroism, which details the events of October 7 from the perspective of five Israeli families.

 DR. TOVAH LICHTENSTEIN (left) with her daughter Rabbanit Esti Rosenberg.

Israeli filmmaker Shira Geffen wins prize at Shanghai International Film Festival

Geffen's film, The Event Horizon, was the only Israeli film accepted to the festival, which is the largest in Asia.

 Poster for "The Event Horizon" by Israeli filmmaker Shira Geffen

Shira Haas wins prize at Monte Carlo Festival

The series also stars Yousef “Joe” Sweid as a recently widowed therapist who treats patients at night, and Lucy Ayoub as his sister

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A story of love and bravery: Fauda creators to make drama about October 7 hero Noam Tibon

On October 7, retired IDF general Noam Tibon grabbed a handgun and headed to Kibbutz Nahal Oz to save his son and his family from Hamas terrorists.

 Major General (Ret.) Noam Tibon speaks to thousands of Israeli left-wing activists during a rally in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, calling for talks with Palestinians and in support of the two-state solution, May 27, 2017.

Richard Gere stars in 'Longing,' a remake of an Israeli film

The remake, starring Richard Gere, is set in the US, and is being remade by the Israeli director who originally directed and created the film.

 RICHARD GERE.

Israeli director tackles film about a class trip to Poland

Saban said that the toughest task for him was to put aside his perspective as an adult and recapture the feeling of what it was like to be in Poland and at the death camps at age 17. 

 A SCENE from ‘Delegation.’