Film festival

LGBT film festival celebrates 21st anniversary with award winners, dramas, and classics - preview

Special events this year will include a 35-mm. screening of "Bound" and a screening of the beloved cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

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IN ‘THE WRONG GIRLS,’ best friends become entangled with an experimental substance that gives them telepathic powers.
FOR THE first time, the festival will feature two outdoor screens.

Arava International Film Festival expands to two outdoor screens for 15th edition in November

The Arava International Film Festival returns November 4 to 14 with nine Israeli premieres, Hollywood classics, and two outdoor screens beneath the Negev desert sky.

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‘Mikveh’ provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of surprising everyday issues faced by religious women.

Jerusalem Women's Film Festival explores trauma, healing, and hope - preview

Notwithstanding the heavy subject matter of many of the films, Jerusalem Women’s Film Festival attendees are expected to come away from the festival in a buoyant, hopeful frame of mind.

|ByBARRY DAVIS
A scene from the Israeli film 'Tell Me Everything.'

Swiss queer film festival removes award-winning Israeli movie from lineup after boycott threats

The Geneva-based festival, which opens on October 9, had previously included Tell Me Everything, a drama about a boy who discovers his father is gay at the height of the AIDS epidemic, in its lineup.

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Jerusalem Film Festival returns with Sundance hits, Cannes winners, and Israeli premieres

The 43rd edition of the festival, which was founded to bring the best international films to Israel and to promote Israeli filmmaking, will be at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Lev Smadar theater

JULY 4, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
CRISTIAN MUNGIU’S ‘Fjord’ won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year.

The Jewish Agency hosts New York screening of 'From October 6 to October 7'

The film chronicles the life of Chairman Doron Almog from the Yom Kippur War through to the events of October 7

JUNE 25, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
(L to R) Melanie Bronfman, Mark Wilf, Doron Almog, Matthew Bronfman.

Jerusalem Film Festival announces international lineup featuring award winners, cult classics

The international lineup, which includes feature films, documentaries, animated films, and experimental works, will be screened in the Jerusalem Cinematheque and at Lev Smadar.

JUNE 24, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
The Samurai and the Prisoner, the latest film by Japanese master Kiyoshi Kurosawa, will be shown in the festival.

Israeli film fund goes Hollywood with Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts projects

The Siena Film Foundation's first major Hollywood project is the upcoming crime thriller By Any Means, starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

JUNE 14, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
Mark Wahlberg as Gregory Scarpa, seen in new film By Any Means.

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid withdraws from French festival after boycott pressure

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid said he withdrew from FID Marseille after boycott pressure over his planned participation in the festival.

JUNE 8, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
Nadav Lapid

‘One Eye Open’ documentary wins award

The prize from the Weil-Bloch Foundation and NFCT for the IDF tale is set to be presented at Tel Aviv's international documentary film festival, Docaviv.

MAY 25, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
A SCENE from ‘One Eye Open,’ which tells the story of a group of soldiers in reserve duty during the Israel-Hamas War.

At Cannes, a juror claims anti-Israel activists face blacklisting

While there was no official boycott or blacklisting of Israelis this year, Israeli films were not part of the festival.

MAY 16, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
Workers install the official 2026 festival poster, featuring an image of Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in "Thelma & Louise", during the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 10, 2026 in Cannes, France.

French Film Festival returns to Israel with Huppert, Bardot tributes

Screenings will take place at venues in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Herzliya, Sderot, and Holon, as well as at the Anis Cultural Center in Jaffa, and other locations.

MAY 3, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
BRIGITTE BARDOT in ‘...And God Created Woman.’

‘Leave One Day’: Low-key musical about French chef - review

"Leave One Day," the feature film directorial debut of Amelie Bonnin, includes characters who express their thoughts in a nice, low-key way.

APRIL 27, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
Amelie Bonnin and Juliette Armanet attend the "Partir Un Jour" (Leave One Day) photocall at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 14, 2025 in Cannes, France.

Two Israeli films selected for Tribeca Festival

Ruthy Pribar’s new feature, "What Is to Come," has been selected for the international competition, while also heading to Tribeca is Gidi Dar and Shuli Rand's film, "Moishe Badhan."

APRIL 16, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
"What is to Come."