Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lia van Leer with a Jerusalem Film Festival guest, legendary Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni, 1987. (photo credit: Jerusalem ...

The establishment of Israel has been accompanied by a national cinema devoted to negating and erasing the Palestinian Other ...

“We as artists must decide whether our work will be used to mask violence or to challenge it,” said Sky Hopinka, one of the signatories along with Nan Goldin, Brian Eno, and others. A protest in ...

The drama surrounding the upcoming government-sponsored film awards continues. Following the announcement last week that multiple nominees had withdrawn from the Culture Ministry’s film awards ...

A documentary about a retired Israeli general who rescued his family from Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre that is set to premiere at the Toronto film festival — after initially being cut from the ...

Shemi Zarhin hopes his Toronto Film Festival invite will “break the curse" as his Sept. 11 international premiere has sparked foreign buyer and festival circuit interest in his family drama. By Etan ...

The 36th ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL in Los Angeles, which celebrates the best of Israeli culture and cinema, will run November 13th – 26th, 2024. Come Closer, written and directed by Tom Nesher in her ...

'The Sea' is an Arabic-language drama about a Palestinian boy from the West Bank who risks his life to go to the beach in Tel Aviv The Israeli culture and sports minister Miki Zohar has vowed to cut ...

Twelve new films have been chosen for the Israeli competition. They include Soccer for the Soul, by Avida Livny, and Shalom, by Meital Zvieli.

Sderot film fest targeted by 4,000-strong Hollywood pledge to isolate Israel says movies are dropping out as movement gains momentum; local performers are trying to ignore the noise ...

When we established the Israel Film Center at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, our mission was to raise awareness of Israeli films in the U.S. After fifteen years, we felt we had achieved it.