Haifa International Film Festival

Haifa International Film Festival to present the best of world cinema

The festival’s main international competition, Carmel, will open with Boyle’s Ink, which opened this year’s Venice Film Festival.

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MARIANNE FAITHFULL in the documentary ‘Broken English.’
‘DOUBLE PANTHER’ by Marco Carmel.

Haifa Film Festival announces varied Israeli lineup for 42nd edition

This year, seven narrative features and five documentaries will compete together in the Israeli competition, an innovation introduced by the festival’s artistic director, Yaron Shamir.

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SHALOM MICHAELSHWILLI in ‘Our Loves.'

Renowned Israeli filmmaker Avi Nesher's new film to open Haifa International Film Festival

The movie explores the lives of seven characters whose personal crises are overshadowed by October 7, forcing them into a desperate fight for survival and to confront buried truths.

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SHAI AVIVI in ‘A Burning Man,’ by Eyal Halfon, which won the award for Best Israeli Feature at the Haifa International Film Festival.

‘A Burning Man’ wins Best Israeli Feature Prize at the Haifa International Film Festival

The awards were announced in a ceremony on Sunday night.

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The love story behind Skin, a film about conquering hate

Skin is a fact-based American drama about Bryon Widner, a skinhead who underwent dozens of operations to remove tattoos from all over his body after he left the white supremacist movement.

OCTOBER 20, 2019ByHANNAH BROWN
Jaime Ray Newman, Guy Nattiv and Pnina Blayer, the artistic director of the Haifa International Film Festival

Acclaimed Israeli film 'Tel Aviv on Fire' picks up U.S. distribution deal

The film won the top prize at the Haifa Film Festival and a number of other plaudits.

OCTOBER 11, 2018ByAMY SPIRO
A SCENE from 'Tel Aviv on Fire' by Samach Zuabi.

The absolute best

The Haifa Film Festival brims over with excellent movies from around the world.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018ByHANNAH BROWN
'First Man'

Haifa Film Festival to show the absolute best from around the world

The films will be shown at the Haifa Cinematheque and many other theaters around the city, and there will be a virtual reality exhibit and many outdoor events.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018ByHANNAH BROWN
An aerial shot of Haifa during Israel's annual Independence Day airshow, April 19, 2018

Avi Nesher’s ‘The Other Story’ will open the Haifa Film Festival

This will be the first time that in more than a decade that an Israeli movie has opened the Haifa festival.

AUGUST 21, 2018ByHANNAH BROWN
Avi Nesher's 'The Other Story'

French actress stars in the Holocaust drama 'Memory of Pain'

French acctress, Melanie Thierry stars as Marguerite Duras in 'Memoir of Pain.'

OCTOBER 21, 2017ByHANNAH BROWN
MELANIE THIERRY portrays French literary icon Marguerite Duras in ‘Memoir of Pain.’

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OCTOBER 16, 2017ByMICHAL GALANTI
IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and wife Ronit at their daughter's wedding

Sammy Davis Jr. documentary turns into crowd favorite at the Haifa Film Festival

Part of the unusual reality of his life is that he converted to Judaism following a car crash in which he lost his eye and found comfort studying the religion with a rabbi he met.

OCTOBER 10, 2017ByHANNAH BROWN
A SCENE from the new PBS documentary ‘Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me.’

Thirty-third time’s the charm: The best of the Haifa Film Festival

The festival will open with the premiere of the new Blade Runner film, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017ByHANNAH BROWN
Director of the movie Denis Villeneuve (2ndL) and cast members Ryan Gosling (L), Ana de Armas (2ndR) and Harrison Ford (R) attend a photocall for the film "Blade Runner 2049" in Paris, France, September 20, 2017.