The festival will open with a screening of Guy Nattiv’s Golda which stars Helen Mirren as Israel’s only female prime minister, at the Sultan’s Pool Amphitheater on July 13.
The directors feel that making the movie that grapples with issues of love and death has changed them.
CoPro is a non-profit organization that fosters the creation of Israeli films by appealing to investors from global television networks, film funds, distributors and producers.
Director Idan Haguel discusses the focus and intention of his film as well as his inspirations for it.
While Boy from Heaven has been shown around the world, it’s not likely to be screened in Egypt any time soon.
Is this film's title a little too on-the-nose?
“I think we all go through the things Ariel goes through: feeling uncertain but passionate about our future," actress and singer Halle Bailey said.
A high-profile movie project depicting Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War could star “Jane the Virgin” actress Yael Grobglas.
Tom Shoval discusses adapting 62-year-old scripts and observing and learning from master directors.
"The feelings, the emotions, the complicated messiness of that age is just exactly the same, so it wasn’t a stretch for them to become these characters."