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


TV time: A very good 'Bad Boy'

Check out the series, movies and shows hitting Israel's screens this week.

 A SCENE from ‘Bad Boy.’

A funny and truthful 'Weekend Rebels' - review

Nothing less than a heartfelt, feel-good memoir based on a touching true story.

 A SCENE from 'Weekend Rebels'

Israeli creativity in the limelight with this year's Jerusalem Film Festival lineup

The films illustrate the diversity and professionalism of the Israeli film industry and show that even in a time of war and tragedy, Israeli creators continue to work.

 ‘COME CLOSER’ and ‘Eid’ will be screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival next month.

Pnina Blayer, director of Haifa International Film Festival, dies

Blayer was an intellectual who was fascinated by art, music, and literature, as well as movies.

 PNINA BLAYER.

The couple behind the new Israeli film ‘Midlife’

Midlife features a cast of some of Israel’s biggest stars in the story of two sisters whose lives take different paths and are brought back together in an unexpected way. 

 MORAN COHEN GROSS and Tsahi Halevi in ‘Midlife.’

Karlovy Vary Film Festival to screen Israeli film 'Tropicana'

Tropicana, Tobi’s feature-film debut, stars Irit Sheleg, who appeared in the movie, Fill the Void, and the television series Sirens, as a cashier at a supermarket in the Negev.

 A SCENE from ‘Tropicana.’

Israeli Academy presents TV awards, with 'Unsilenced' and 'Six Zeros' winning big

Despite the war scaling back the festivities, the Israeli Academy of Film and Television presented a modest event that honored the best of Israel's entertainment industry.

 YES SERIES ‘Unsilenced’ was a winner at last week’s ceremony.

Amos Gitai's new film 'Shikun' reflects current situation in Israel

Shikun (Hebrew for housing project), which was received enthusiastically by the Berlin audience, is Gitai’s 67th film

 A BEHIND-THE-SCENES photo of ‘Shikun’ with Amos Gitai (center) and Irene Jacob (second from right).

Jerusalem Film Festival welcomes new artistic director

The Jerusalem Cinematheque’s board of directors and Mahadav-Levin welcomed Sigoli and thanked Samorzik for his years of service

 ORR SIGOLI

Movie discounts for soldiers and a new Israeli Cinema Day coming up

Israel is doing all it can to support soldiers and keep them entertained during wartime.

 THE 72ND BERLIN International Film Festival, also known as the Berlinale.