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'


A race to the altar

‘Through the Wall’ and into your heart.

‘Through the Wall’

City Notes: Honey festival a sweet way to mark holiday season

A news roundup from around the nation.

Rosh Hashana Honey festival

Movies: A kinder, gentler time in ‘Women’s Balcony’

A very human and funny story of how repression can come with a seductive face – the men don’t go along with the rabbi out of cruelty but because he inspires them.

‘Women’s Balcony’

Not just another Cinderella

Ido Haar’s ‘Presenting Princess Shaw’ is not a sentimental story about the transition from anonymity to stardom, but a film about a tenacious woman who fights to make her voice heard.

Aspiring singer Samantha Montgomery has broken through with the help of an Israeli musician and filmmaker

Lights, camera, Haifa!

From gala screenings of classic movies to short films and documentaries, the 32nd annual Haifa Film Festival has something to offer every fan of cinema.

KRISTEN STEWART stars in Olivier Assayas’ ‘Personal Shopper.’

Avi Nesher évoque son dernier film, HaHataim, inspiré d'une histoire vraie

Une interview du François Truffaut israélien

Les deux actrices principales lors du tournage à Jérusalem

Movie Review: 'Sand Storm'

‘Sand Storm’ is an affecting Beduin drama.

‘Sand Storm’

Past and present with director Avi Nesher

In a first interview about his film ‘Past Life,’ director Avi Nesher reveals how he initially rejected the story and why he finally took it on.

Avi Nesher

Grapevine: Good Tuesday

Tuesday is a favorite day for weddings and for other social events, as evidenced below.

YAAKOV (KUBA) WASILEWICZ

Lights, camera, Jerusalem

‘The Jerusalem Post’ spends the day on the set of Avi Nesher’s upcoming movie, ‘Past Life’.

ACTRESSES JOY RIEGER (far left) and Nelly Tagar with director Avi Nesher on the set of ‘Past Life’ in Berlin.