International Student Film Festival in Tel Aviv

Noé Debré on making his own style of French-Jewish cinema

Debré, one of the most successful writer/directors in France, has gone all in on embracing his French-Jewish identity.

NOÉ DEBRÉ, one of the guests of honor at the 27th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival.
 DAVID MAMET at the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival last week.

David Mamet mesmerizes at the TLV Int’l Student Film Festival

‘TIME OUT by Rita Borodiyanski’, starring Suzanna Papian.

Spotlighting student cinema in tough times at the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival

Tel Aviv cinematheque

TLV International Student Film Festival announces August program


Hollywood producer Larry Kasanoff talks ‘touch of the madness’ in Israel

Kasanoff has a personal philosophy about nurturing creativity and he has even written a book about it, A Touch of the Madness: How to be More Innovative in Work and Life... by Being a Little Crazy.

 AMERICAN FILM producer Larry Kasanoff.

Award-winning films and acclaimed guests at TA International Student Film Festival

The festival is now older than many of its participants, but it’s still one of the liveliest movie events of the year.

 ‘THE ICE MERCHANTS’

Polish Zoom to celebrate Polish cinema at Israeli cinematheques

This program, which was created by the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Poland, began in 2019.

 ‘THE SILENT TWINS.’

TA International Student Film Festival celebrates its 25th year

The guests of honor from abroad, as well as Israeli filmmakers, will hold master classes and screen their films, some for the first time, in front of an Israeli audience.

 ‘ICE MERCHANTS’

Chilean director Sebastián Lelio talks love and movies in Tel Aviv

Lelio, who is the guest of honor at the 2022 Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, is excited to visit Israel for the first time and to take part in the film festival. 

 Sebastian Lelio

Iranian film to be included at Tel Aviv Int'l Student Film Festival

The Iranian film The Fourth Wall, by Mahbubeh Kalai, uses animation to tell the story of an imaginative child who stutters and it will take part in the international competition

 THE IRANIAN film ‘The Fourth Wall.’

Identity is the theme of the century

I have experienced that feeling of separation from my land, my people, my family several times. It is sad, it hurts, but it is also an evolution for your soul

EMANUELE CRIALESE with actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, who plays alluring British passenger Lucy in his celebrated film ‘Nuovomondo’ (Golden Door), about a family’s shipboard migration from Italy to New York City at the beginning of the 20th century. Below, he is on the set.