Hannah Brown

Director/screenwriter Sharon Angelhart said that with her movie, she was trying to make a film that “was what I would have wanted to see when I was growing up in Jerusalem."

TV Time: Israeli dramedy 'On Standby' is the standout, while 'Into the Blue,' 'The Devil Wears Prada 2,' 'A Letter to David,' and an Earth, Wind & Fire documentary round out this week's picks.

The story of the close, fraught relationship between the sisters and Avigail’s search for a better life brings to mind the phrase “falling through the cracks.”

They specialize in movies that keep audiences entertained from start to finish, but are also genuinely moving, as well as very funny.

Yavin was one of the founders of Israeli television and the longtime presenter of the public broadcaster’s flagship Mabat evening news program.

The cast is good, but in the end, it’s all a bit cliché, despite the intriguing setting.

The movie shows Gadot playing Maya, a lawyer in London, who tells her son, Noah, “I’ve got a big day in court today,” and goes for a run after she drops him off at school.

First, it’s an adaptation of an acclaimed Israeli novel, Meir Shalev’s The Loves of Judith, and adaptations of contemporary literary novels are rare these days.

Director Vincent Grashaw found the screenplay for ‘Gangland’ online, then worked with Native American advisers and actors to bring its fictional reservation to life.

Through heartbreaking documentaries and dramas, Israeli movies explore the war and the future.