Haifa International Film Festival

‘A Burning Man’ wins Best Israeli Feature Prize at the Haifa International Film Festival

The awards were announced in a ceremony on Sunday night.

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SHAI AVIVI in ‘A Burning Man,’ by Eyal Halfon, which won the award for Best Israeli Feature at the Haifa International Film Festival.
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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.

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ETHAN HAWKE stars in ‘Blue Moon’, Richard Linklater’s drama about composer Lorenz Hart.

Haifa film fest announces international program

The 41st Haifa International Film Festival will be held October 5-14.

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Actor Wallace Shawn participates in a demonstration to support Gaza outside the White House on October 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. Members of the Jewish Voice for Peace and the IfNotNow movement staged a demonstration to call for a cease of fire in the Middle East.

Olivia Coleman, Ilana Glazer, Wallace Shawn, among stars pledging to boycott Israeli film industry

Hollywood A-listers pledged to not screen films or work with Israeli film institutions…that are "implicated in genocide and apartheid" against Palestinians.

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Haifa Film Festival to show the absolute best from around the world

The films will be shown at the Haifa Cinematheque and many other theaters around the city, and there will be a virtual reality exhibit and many outdoor events.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018ByHANNAH BROWN
An aerial shot of Haifa during Israel's annual Independence Day airshow, April 19, 2018

Avi Nesher’s ‘The Other Story’ will open the Haifa Film Festival

This will be the first time that in more than a decade that an Israeli movie has opened the Haifa festival.

AUGUST 21, 2018ByHANNAH BROWN
Avi Nesher's 'The Other Story'

French actress stars in the Holocaust drama 'Memory of Pain'

French acctress, Melanie Thierry stars as Marguerite Duras in 'Memoir of Pain.'

OCTOBER 21, 2017ByHANNAH BROWN
MELANIE THIERRY portrays French literary icon Marguerite Duras in ‘Memoir of Pain.’

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OCTOBER 16, 2017ByMICHAL GALANTI
IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and wife Ronit at their daughter's wedding

Sammy Davis Jr. documentary turns into crowd favorite at the Haifa Film Festival

Part of the unusual reality of his life is that he converted to Judaism following a car crash in which he lost his eye and found comfort studying the religion with a rabbi he met.

OCTOBER 10, 2017ByHANNAH BROWN
A SCENE from the new PBS documentary ‘Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me.’

Thirty-third time’s the charm: The best of the Haifa Film Festival

The festival will open with the premiere of the new Blade Runner film, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017ByHANNAH BROWN
Director of the movie Denis Villeneuve (2ndL) and cast members Ryan Gosling (L), Ana de Armas (2ndR) and Harrison Ford (R) attend a photocall for the film "Blade Runner 2049" in Paris, France, September 20, 2017.