Cinema

Aki-no Japanese Film Festival features cinematic

For the past decade, Aki-no has been one of the capital’s most eagerly anticipated cultural events; this year, it will present works from celebrated auteurs as well as rising talents.

LOVE ON TRIAL will be the opening film of the festival.
Yael Grobglass plays a Jerusalemite mother who risks her life to save soldiers in the Six Day War in Jerusalem '67.

'Jerusalem ’67' tells the human stories of the Six Day War

A PALESTINIAN boy dreams of visiting the seashore in ‘The Sea.’

The best of 2025 in Israeli and international cinema

TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET plays the narcissistic hero in ‘Marty Supreme’ who is never allowed to forget that he is a poor, Jewish outsider.

Marty Supreme turns table tennis obsession into frantic cinema


‘Cat’s Luck,’ part of a wave of new Israeli comedies, officially hits theaters - review

These movies are not meant for sophisticated audiences, and few English speakers ever see them. When Israeli movies go to international film festivals, the comedies almost always stay home.

 SCENES FROM ‘Cat’s Luck.’

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.

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

Israeli Cinema Day celebrates creativity amid Israel-Hamas war

Fittingly, one of the movies will be the documentary #Nova, about the October 7 massacre at the music festival in Re’im.

 A SCENE from ‘Air War.’

A Haifa detective, an old noir flick, and a predictable mother – TV TIME

The movie’s opening features one of the funniest scenes ever filmed involving a cat.

 MAGGIE EZERZER in ‘The 11th Body.’

London cinema vandalized ahead of Supernova massacre documentary screening

The Community Security Trust said that it was "appalled by the disgraceful graffiti on the Phoenix Cinema today."

 Memorial statue defaced by anti-Israel activists in New York. (Illustrative) Uploaded on 8/5/2024

6 white looks straight from the Cannes Film Festival

The styling choices on the red carpet of the 2024 Cannes Festival continue to impress. Here are six stunning white looks that caught our attention.


Unlimited wine at movie nights: Weekend drinking recommendations

Osnat Gueta's recipe for a perfect weekend: two movie tickets, a bottle of French vodka, and white wine from southern Italy.


Illiterate technophobes or violent mafias: Alternative narratives of haredim - opinion

Netanyahu's response to Oct. 7 was impulsive, not that of a measured, rational leader, the author argues.

 HAREDI JEWS walk in the streets of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, in Jerusalem, earlier this month.

A guide to Holocaust Remembrance Day programs at the movies and on TV

Most of the programs at the Jerusalem Cinematheque are free of charge.

 'SON OF SAUL'

'June Zero': An obscure story about Eichmann in Israel after the trial

People forget that Eichmann spent about two years in Israel, as investigators interrogated him before the trial, during his trial, and in the period of appeals that followed the trial.

 A SCENE from  Jake Paltrow’s  ‘June Zero.’