Film israel

Israeli Cinema Day returns with NIS 10 tickets across country

Among the films scheduled to be shown are Checkout, American Henna, Underwater Speculations, ‘Cuz You’re Ugly, and more!

Checkout, a feature film at Israeli Cinema Day.
Avi Nesher on the set of Image of Victory with Amir Khoury

Director Avi Nesher discusses upcoming film, ‘Sons and Soldiers’

Joseph Mazzello (second from left) and Jon Voight (second from right) in ‘Monument.’

Israeli architects honor Lebanese soldiers in new feature film ‘Monument’ - review

Tom Nesher wins the Ophir Award for Best Director for ‘Come Closer’ in 2024.

How Israeli women dominate the film industry in ways Hollywood still can't


'Boy from Heaven' tells a fascinating story of corruption in Cairo

While Boy from Heaven has been shown around the world, it’s not likely to be screened in Egypt any time soon.

 ‘BOY FROM HEAVEN’: a portrait of corruption.

‘You Hurt My Feelings’ tells of insecure New Yorkers

Is this film's title a little too on-the-nose?

 ‘YOU HURT my feelings’ starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus opens on May 25.

‘The Little Mermaid’ left Halle Bailey breathless

“I think we all go through the things Ariel goes through: feeling uncertain but passionate about our future," actress and singer Halle Bailey said.

 HALLE BAILEY attends the premiere of the film ‘The Little Mermaid’ in Los Angeles, last week.

Upcoming dramatic film 'Jerusalem 67' will chronicle Israel's Six-Day War victory

A high-profile movie project depicting Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War could star “Jane the Virgin” actress Yael Grobglas.

YAEL GROBGLAS stars in the Israeli horror film ‘JeruZalem.’

Tom Shoval on making ‘Shake Your Cares Away’: ‘Cinema catches up to reality’

Tom Shoval discusses adapting 62-year-old scripts and observing and learning from master directors.

 THE CAST of ‘Shake Your Cares Away.’

How Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ finally made it to the big screen

"The feelings, the emotions, the complicated messiness of that age is just exactly the same, so it wasn’t a stretch for them to become these characters."

 FROM LEFT, Kathy Bates, Judy Blume, Kelly Fremon Craig, Abby Ryder Fortson and Rachel McAdams.

Shake your cares away with the new comedy 'Shake Your Cares Away', opening in Israel on Thursday

Shake Your Cares Away was executive produced by Alejandro González Iñárritu, the Oscar-winning director of Birdman and The Revenant.

 ‘SHAKE YOUR Cares Away’

Jerusalem Cinematheque's Film Archive releases 75 Israeli films online

The program consists of 75 Israeli films that viewers around the world can access and watch for a whole month for the price of NIS 15 per film.

 ‘SALLAH SHABATI’ with Chaim Topol (left) and Arik Einstein

Acclaimed Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka brings Holocaust film to big screen

Acclaimed Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka was describing the movie adaptation of his graphic novel My Father’s Secrets in a recent interview.

 MICHEL KICHKA and scenes from the movie adaptation of his graphic novel, ‘My Father’s Secrets.'

Why the new Spinoza documentary is especially relevant today

“I didn’t realize how relevant his work is to the reality of today, the struggle between religious conservatism and forces of free thought and liberalism..."

 Artist Itamar Mendes Flohr