Israeli cinema

‘Checkout’: New comedy hit, expanded from one of Israel's most popular series

A new comedy feature film titled 'Checkout' has already sold a quarter of a million tickets in just a few days, telling the stories of staff and customers at a fictional supermarket chain in Israel.

New Israeli comedy hit, 'Checkout.'
Nadav Lapid

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid withdraws from French festival after boycott pressure

THE TEL AVIV International Student Film Festival will also be featuring ‘Prophet’ by Yoav Kagan.

TA International Student Film Festival: Forty years of cutting-edge cinema

AVI NESHER (left) directs Shalom Michaelshvili and Magi Azarzar in Our Loves.

FOX Entertainment Studios, Access Entertainment sign on to Avi Nesher’s 'Our Lives'


Movie Review: ‘Beyond the Mountains’ and off the rails

The ambitious film collapses under its own ideological weight.

Beyond The Mountains And Hills film

Metro Grapevine: Micro, mini to maxi

Castro Logo

The power and the gory

‘Tikkun’ is both revolting and revealing.

‘Tikkun’

A year to remember for Israeli movies

The most striking new trend is the diversity of filmmakers and the variety of stories told in their films.

Still from the movie 'Sand Storm'

It’s time for the Jewish Film Festival

Eighteen is a lucky number for the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim - ‘Return’

Grand finale for the Smadar?

The only single-screen theater left in the capital, the distinctive building houses a cafe and a unique lobby, with tables clustered around twisted tree trunks.

Outside the German Colony’s Smadar theater

Jewish identity on film

The 40 films in this international gathering include features and documentaries, premieres, special events and encounters with filmmakers.

‘Holy Zoo.’

Movies: Avi Nesher’s ‘Past Life’ is a triumph

The fact-based drama of two sisters as they search for the truth about their family’s past is moving, original, quirky and suspenseful.

Avi Nesher’s ‘Past Life’

Taking a good look at ourselves

At next week’s Anthropological Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, get a glimpse of the other and understand yourself.

A documentary shot on the tiny island of São Vicente in the Atlantic Ocean, ‘Tchindas’ has won multiple industry awards

Movies: 'Our Father'

A violent, heavy drama.

‘Our Father’