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


Israeli and Austrian students produce short movie together


French Film Festival celebrates 20th anniversary

The guests will include Gad Elmaleh, whose latest film, Stay with Us (Reste Un Peu), will be the opening movie.

 A SCENE FROM ‘Stay With Us.’

Netflix to add Israeli film every week for rest of winter

These are the 16 Israeli film classics that will be added weekly for Netflix Israel users to stream.

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Foreign film production is coming to Israel in 2023

The applications will create an influx of more than NIS 172 million in investment in movie and TV productions in Israel, according to the Tourism Ministry.

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'Barren' Israeli film is full of life

Barren is a memorable movie, presenting characters you believe in and care about as it gives moviegoers a look and insights into a way of life that some will find fascinating and others off-putting.

 FAIGI (MILI ESHET) and her husband, Naftali (Yoav Rotman), are anxious for a child.

An artist's daughter tells the story of her life in a complex documentary

While this very particular story is about the daughter of an artist, it will resonate with anyone who has had a fraught relationship with their parents.

SCENES FROM ‘The Artist’s Daughter, Oil on Canvas.’

'Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive' tells a capital tale with dark humor

Atia has real feeling for Jerusalem and portrays the changing city vividly, but the film as a whole is something of a missed opportunity.

 ‘BORN IN Jerusalem and Still Alive.’

Thought-provoking ‘Savoy’ examines Tel Aviv hotel siege in 1975

Savoy raises interesting questions about ethnicity, class and stereotypes, and will make you think about what has and hasn’t changed in the past few decades.

 A scene from 'Savoy.'

'A Hero' tells the story of one man's bad choices - review

A Hero looks at what happens when one mistake leads you into a sinkhole that keeps getting deeper.

 AMIR JADIDI in 'A Hero'

Netflix’s new Israeli war drama revisits capture of a kibbutz in 1948

Inspired by the real-life battle for control of Kibbutz Nitzanim, during which Egyptian forces overpowered the Israeli military, briefly captured the territory and took over 100 prisoners of war.

 Actors playing Israeli soldiers guarding Kibbutz Nitzanim in the Israeli war film "Image of Victory."