The Venice Film Festival began last week, and the Toronto International Film Festival opened yesterday - only two full-length movies and one short film from Israel will be shown at them this year.
The lessons in the movie not only highlight the roots of the Jewish people to the land, but it also reminds the audience that similar to modern history, the story of King David, at its core, is a ...
Netalie Braun’s anti-war drama Oxygen, about a mother who takes extreme action to prevent her 21-year-old son from returning to the front in Lebanon, scooped the Best Israeli Feature Film award at the ...
A drama about a Palestinian boy who sneaks into Israel won the top prize at Israel’s version of the Oscars. The country’s culture minister called the ceremony “shameful.” By Derrick Bryson Taylor ...
Historical epic 'Palestine 36,' about Mandate-era revolt, and 'Voice of Hind Rajab,' about Gazan girl killed during war, up ...
Miki Zohar blasted the Ophir Awards for naming "The Sea" as Irael's best film of the year, claiming it "spits on the heroic IDF soldiers." An Israeli official slammed the Ophir Awards for naming The ...
A lost boy walks slowly through Tel Aviv’s central bus station. Two soldiers pass him, and he turns away to avoid being noticed. Yet there’s nothing noticeable about him—brown hair, blue eyes, a chin ...
It's been a tumultuous week for Israel's film industry. The country's equivalent to the Oscars, the Ophir Awards, was condemned by culture minister Miki Zohar after "The Sea" - about a Palestinian boy ...