Jerusalem Cinematheque

Jerusalem highlights: February 20-26

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

FEBRUARY 20, 2026|ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Red Tent’ exhibition of works by Michal Tamir (see Saturday).

A SCREEN GRAB of Claude Lanzmann driving, from the documentary, ‘All I Had Was Nothingness’.

Lanzmann’s 'Shoah' returns to Jerusalem in special Cinematheque tribute

Lanzmann’s genius was to understand that the details were the story, that in the deepest sense, it was impossible to memorialize the Holocaust without knowing exactly what happened.

JANUARY 18, 2026|ByHANNAH BROWN

DIANE KEATON as Annie Paradis in the iconic ‘First Wives Club.’

Jerusalem Cinematheque pays tribute to Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton, one of the most distinctive and endearing American actresses of all time, will be honored in showings of her most beloved films at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.

JANUARY 11, 2026|ByHANNAH BROWN

Scene from the film, Proud Jewish Boy, by Isri Halpern.

Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival features story of Polish Jewish teenager who triggered Kristallnacht

In Proud Jewish Boy, documentarian Isri Halpern sets out to find the truth about the 17-year-old Jewish refugee who assassinated a German diplomat in Paris in 1938.

DECEMBER 15, 2025|ByHANNAH BROWN

'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."

JULY 23, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN

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.

JULY 4, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN

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.

JUNE 30, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN

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

All the world's a screen in Shakespeare film fest

The festival, programmed in collaboration with the English department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU), begins on June 9 and continues throughout the month.

JUNE 8, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN

LEONARDO DICAPRIO and Claire Danes in 'Romeo + Juliet'

Jerusalem Highlights June 7-13

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JUNE 7, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Jerusalem Highlights April 12-18

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APRIL 12, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Jeremie Ravon and Irit Haruvi in ‘From Three Comes Four’

Jerusalem highlights April 5-11

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APRIL 5, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Jerusalem and TLV cinematheques celebrate International Women’s Month

The Jerusalem Cinematheque calls its festival LiaFEST, in honor of Lia van Leer, the founder of that cinematheque, the Haifa Cinematheque and the film festivals in Jerusalem and Haifa.

MARCH 6, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN