Israeli film

In Yes!, Israeli director Nadav Lapid skewers his country’s ‘moral abyss’ after Oct. 7

Lapid is aware that his satirical film will be a bitter pill for many Diaspora Jews to swallow, but he has never shied away from his own convictions.

An Israeli artist couple (Efrat Dor and Ariel Bronz) sell their souls to the ruling elite in the provocative film "Yes," from director Nadav Lapid.
Omar Sameer Mahamid stars in Meyer Levinson-Blount's Butcher's Stain, a short film that has received an Oscar nomination.

Israeli film Butcher's Stain receives an Oscar nomination in Best Live Action Short category

IDO TAKO (left) and Ehab Salami star in Assaf Machnes' movie, Where To?, which will be shown at the Berlinale.

Israeli film 'Where to?' to compete in Berlin International Film Festival

A scene from ‘Bella.’

How a Jew and an Arab made a comedy about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict


Highlights of the Haifa International Film Festival

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.

 ‘THE SEED of the Sacred Fig’

New film 'The Ring' traces a family's Holocaust trauma - film review

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.

 ADIR MILLER and Joy Rieger in ‘The Ring.’

Israelis go to Sri Lanka to process trauma in ‘Arugam Bay’

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.

 YADIN GELLMAN in ‘Arugam Bay.’

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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