Documentary
Documentary on Jews in Iran repeats regime narratives while silencing reality - opinion
Iran’s Jews do not need Blumenthal to speak for them. They need the world to understand why they can’t speak for themselves.
Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival features 40+ films exploring Jewish life
Columbia University denies campus access to activist Mahmoud Khalil over safety concerns
Woes, challenges, and triumph: A look at the 2025 Anthropological Film Festival
The Cinema South Festival returns to its Sderot home
After a year of displacement, the festival will return to Sderot and the western Negev from November 6 to 13 for its 24th edition – its first in full format since October 7.
Amsterdam film fest to exclude Israeli state-funded submission
IDFA is rejecting Israeli state-funded films and organizations like DocAviv, citing ties to a government that violates human rights. Israeli professionals call the move a blow to artistic freedom.
TV Time: from stories of October 7 to Baz Luhrmann classics
The new Kan 11 documentary series follows the experiences of several families who lost close relatives in the massacre and who have no easy path forward. The first episode starts just after October
David Attenborough makes history at 99, winning Daytime Emmy award for orangutan doc.
Now 99 years old, Attenborough beat the previous winner Dick Van Dyke who set his own record at 98 in 2024.
Holocaust survivor and member of group plot to kill six million Germans dead at 105
Yehuda 'Idek' Friedman, a Krakow-born Holocaust survivor and member of Nakam, has died at 105. He recounted the group's revenge plots in later interviews.
‘A Burning Man’ wins Best Israeli Feature Prize at the Haifa International Film Festival
The awards were announced in a ceremony on Sunday night.
Delving into Cold War with 'The Last Spy' documentary on German Jew who rose to the top of CIA
The film had its Israeli premiere at the 41st Haifa International Film Festival, which runs until October 14.
On Paramount+, Apple TV, HBO and more, Oct. 7 emerges as cinematic subgenre
As the shockwaves of Oct. 7 spread around the world, another crop of films has examined how the attacks reverberated across the Jewish Diaspora and within movements for and against Israel’s war.
'The Road Between Us': How an ex-IDF general saved his son on October 7, 2023
The Road Between Us opens in theaters throughout the US on October 3 and will be shown twice at the Haifa International Film Festival, which runs from October 5-14.
Laughs and tears: A look at the 41st Haifa International Film Festival
The festival will take a pause late in the evening of October 7, and the official ceremony marking the massacre will be broadcast in the Rapaport Auditorium, for free.
Gary Shteyngart reflects on his botched bris in a new short film
Told with humor, sensitivity, and pain, the 20-minute film — shot almost entirely in black and white — is directed by Dana Ben-Ari.
