Broken Wings (film)

The Israeli film, Intimate Grammar, won the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prize Film Award at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival on Sunday. The film,…

INTIMATE GRAMMER (ISR) Directed by Nir Bergman. Written by Bergman, based on the novel by David Grossman. 110 minutes. Hebrew title: Ha’dikduk…

There is actually some real competition at this year’s Ophir Awards, the awards of the Israel Academy of Film and Television, aka the Israeli Oscars,…

Nir Bergman’s Intimate Grammar won the Haggiag Award for Best Full-Length Feature Film at the 27th Jerusalem Film Festival, which ended Saturday…

Jerusalem Film Festival, 2004: At the sold-out screening of Ushpizin, the story of a haredi man with a criminal past, the film’s star and…

The 27th Jerusalem Film Festival, which runs through July 17, got underway last night with a prescreening in the Sultan’s Pool Amphitheatre of La…

If you struck out, you weren’t just a bum, you were a Jewish bum,” recalls Hank Greenberg, one of the greatest Jewish baseball players in history, in…

It's all in the eyebrows. When I used to tell peopleI wrote about Israeli movies, their eyebrows would furrow downward,into an unmistakable…

Israel has had many success stories in various industries, but few have been as dramatic as that of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in…

The 24th Haifa International Film Festival, which runs during the Succot holiday from October 14-21 at the Haifa Cinematheque, features a…

LOST ISLANDSRating: Three out of four starsDirected and written by Reshef Levy and Regev Levy. 103 minutes. Hebrew title: Ee'im Avudim. In…

The level of Israeli TV and film, which makes it palatable for the American market, would be nowhere without the Israel Film Fund, the Cinema Law and…

Cover story of Issue 22, February 18, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. When the envelope is opened on…

Francis Ford Coppola's first film in ten years, Youth Without Youth, premiered at the Rome Film Festival last week, and expectations for the most…

When the French director Luc Besson arrived 15 minutes late to a Tel Aviv press conference Friday morning, he looked almost exactly like viewers of…

More than once in the past few years, Russian-born actor Vladimir Fridman has seemed to be everywhere in Israeli theater and film. Audiences know his…

Many of those who have fond memories of the original Pink Panther series starring the brilliant Peter Sellers as the linguistically challenged…