Israeli movies

This Israeli startup is using AI to transform cinemas into more than just a place to watch movies

Aiming at younger generations and their need for socialization, Bigger Picture offers cinemas a platform to track their data and create better experiences.

A group of diverse people are queueing up in a movie theater to watch a movie.
Nadav Lapid

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid withdraws from French festival after boycott pressure

BEN PERRY’S family pose outside their neighborhood shelter.

Ben Perry: How one Israeli actor turned sirens into viral comedy - interview

THE TROUPE

Laughing through it: Israeli comedy films to celebrate Independence Day


It’s time for the Jewish Film Festival

Eighteen is a lucky number for the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim - ‘Return’

Don’t bring down the curtain on the Smadar movie theater

The Smadar was the setting for director Avi Nesher’s short movie ‘True Story.’

The Smadar was the setting for director Avi Nesher’s short movie ‘True Stor y’; he is seen here (at lef t) during filming with actors Tuval Shafir (center) and Yuval Scharf

Jewish identity on film

The 40 films in this international gathering include features and documentaries, premieres, special events and encounters with filmmakers.

‘Holy Zoo.’

Film: Getting under their skin

‘Open Ward,’ an intriguing documentary, takes a different look at life in a psychiatric institution.

Igor, who hears voices telling him he is one of the best rappers in the world, on the set of a rap video clip he produced as part of a drama therapy workshop for patients at the Abarbanel Mental Health Center

Movies: Avi Nesher’s ‘Past Life’ is a triumph

The fact-based drama of two sisters as they search for the truth about their family’s past is moving, original, quirky and suspenseful.

Avi Nesher’s ‘Past Life’

Taking a good look at ourselves

At next week’s Anthropological Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, get a glimpse of the other and understand yourself.

A documentary shot on the tiny island of São Vicente in the Atlantic Ocean, ‘Tchindas’ has won multiple industry awards

Rise of the Oscar contenders

The ‘Post’ looks at four of the front-runners for next year’s Academy Awards.

Oscar statues are painted outside the entrance to the Dolby Theatre

Movies: 'Our Father'

A violent, heavy drama.

‘Our Father’

A race to the altar

‘Through the Wall’ and into your heart.

‘Through the Wall’

Movies: A kinder, gentler time in ‘Women’s Balcony’

A very human and funny story of how repression can come with a seductive face – the men don’t go along with the rabbi out of cruelty but because he inspires them.

‘Women’s Balcony’