Film review

Silk is at the center of a moving drama about a couple in a small Moroccan city who make silk caftans in their workshop, which turns into an unusual love triangle.

It’s a typically irreverent joke in a movie that is a mixture of a rom-com and a more serious look at how Israelis deal with prejudice and the past, which is now playing in theaters.

Irena’s Vow gives us a look into the life of the kind of person we all hope we would be if we found ourselves tested like this.

This year's festival features a wide variety of films, mixing classics with contemporary films and star-studded casts.

It’s appropriate that the movie opened just in time for International Women’s Day, although of course Rypp never imagined it would be released during wartime.

Recreating the East Village of decades ago will be fun for adult viewers, but not for the vast majority of children, so ignore how appealing this movie looks on the poster and don’t bring your kids.

The movie uses a newsreel format to give the story historical context and to lay out the many different factions who fought each other during the pre-state years.

Since we are now experiencing a truly difficult year, it’s nice to have a movie like this to help us get through it.

Here are my 10 best international films this year (with one exception, these all played in movie theaters in Israel), followed by the 10 best Israeli movies. 

The movie reinvents no wheels. But it sure knows how to film ’em.