Jerusalem Cinematheque

Election Day picks, programs, and discounts

Make the most of your Election Day off on October 27 by catching a movie or heading outdoors.

Kochav Hayarden National Park will offer bird migration tours, kite-making and flying workshops, and family activities.
Smadar Initiative is featuring ‘Inglorious Bastards.’ (see Saturday).

Jerusalem highlights: October 2 – October 8

Avi Kaiser and Sergio Antonino (see Tuesday).

Jerusalem highlights: September 11-17

Do not disturb until Chelyabinsk

Jerusalem highlights: August 7-13


Jerusalem highlights: September 27-October 3

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 ‘The Traitor Returned, but the Nightmare Continues’

Jerusalem highlights: September 13-19

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 '16 Tons, 12 Km. Per Hour' offers a wild ride at the Living Gallery.

Jerusalem Highlights: September 6-12

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 'After the Party'

Jerusalem Highlights: August 30-September 5

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 Wadi Kelt

A tribute to Sidney Lumet will take place in Jerusalem this September

American Jewish director Sidney Lumet will be the subject of a tribute in Jerusalem, on what would have been his 100th birthday.

 ‘DOG DAY AFTERNOON’ and ‘Network’ are just two of Sidney Lumet’s masterpieces.

Jerusalem Highlights: August 23-29

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 Landscape photography (illustrative)

Jerusalem Cinematheque celebrates Robin Williams' legacy with special tribute series - opinion

The Jerusalem Cinematheque honors Robin Williams’ legacy with a month-long film series starting August 1. Catch classics like Aladdin and Good Will Hunting on the big screen.

 ROBIN WILLIAMS in ‘Good Morning, Vietnam.’

'Don’t lower the curtain on Israeli cinema': Israeli film stars protest gov't reforms

“If funding isn’t allocated to films, in a year or two, there will be no Israeli films being released."

 People in a movie theatre wait for the screening of the film 'The Boy' created by Yahav Winner, who was killed following the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, on November 11, 2023.

Jerusalem Film Festival to host Jennifer Jason Leigh as guest of honor

The festival, which will include hundreds of new movies from around the world and from Israel, will run at the Jerusalem Cinematheque until July 27. 

 JENNIFER JASON LEIGH

The future is now: Jerusalem Cinematheque presents Cinematic Dystopia series

The series of films looks at very different futuristic movie dystopias, and it can be fun to see what they got wrong and scary to look at what they were right about.

 Set photograph from Metropolis, a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang.