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


Israeli ‘Tzeva Adom’ film named semifinalist at NBC festival

Winner of short film competition to be announced in October

SHANI ATIAS and Ron Weisberg star in 'Tzeva Adom'

Sony buys film script from Israeli

The director is being sought for a romantic comedy written by Savion Einstein.

Sony Pictures Studio is seen in Culver City, California, 2018.

A scandal in Ivansk

David Blumenfeld’s documentary reveals Polish ambivalence over Holocaust complicity

MICROCOSM OF a much larger story: Director David Blumenfeld (right) spoke with academics and local Ivansk residents (top)

Avi Nesher will not register new film with Israel Academy

Some in the Israeli film industry have speculated that the gatekeepers of the Academy are simply jealous of Nesher's success.

(FROM LEFT) Director Avi Nesher on the set of ‘The Other Story’ with actress Joy Rieger and singer Natan Goshen

‘Foxtrot’ director: Oscar snub was painful

Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev celebrated the film missing out on a nomination.

Samuel Maoz, director of 'Foxtrot'

Global crime with a local flavor

Israeli actress Yuval Scharf is one of the stars of the new BBC show McMafia, which has received some criticism for its portrayal of organized crime in the Jewish state

Actress Yuval Scharf in a scene from McMafia (2018)

The sweet story behind ‘The Cakemaker’

The presence of a German in a Jerusalem restaurant kitchen brings out all kinds of conflicts, notably on the religious front.

‘CAKEMAKER’ DIRECTOR Ofir Raul Graizer (left) with actress Sandra Sade.

Jerusalem Jewish film fest to take place in December

The festival will open with Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, an adaptation of Andre Aciman’s novel about a love affair between two young Jewish men in Italy in the 1980s.

ARNIE HAMMER and Timothee Chalamet star in Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Call Me By Your Name.’

Brian Cox on playing Churchill

The Scottish actor tells the Haifa Film Festival about the great statesman, Brexit and the art of the job.

BRIAN COX and Miranda Richardson in a scene from ‘Churchill

Controversial film Foxtrot wins 'Israeli Oscars'

Foxtrot is now Israel’s official candidate for consideration for a Best Foreign Language Oscar nomination.

A SCENE from Samuel Maoz’s critically acclaimed ‘Foxtrot.’