Israeli film

The fourth Rahat Film Festival brought 4,000 visitors for screenings, filmmaker encounters, city tours, and a celebration of Bedouin culture and Middle Eastern cinema.

Lapid is aware that his satirical film will be a bitter pill for many Diaspora Jews to swallow, but he has never shied away from his own convictions.

Butcher’s Stain has already won a Silver Medal in the Narrative category at the 2025 Student Academy Awards, an important achievement for a filmmaker at the beginning of his career.

The Berlinale is one of the largest and most prestigious festivals in the world and will take place from February 12-22 this year.

A bold new Jewish-Arab comedy, “Bella,” uses humor to explore shared pain.

Filmmakers who withdrew from the culture ministry’s film awards will participate after a compromise was reached amid threats to reform the Cinema Law.

Bakri’s triumphs as an actor in films, television, and on stage were eclipsed in later years by a struggle over his 2002 documentary, Jenin, Jenin, about Operation Defensive Shield.

Butcher’s Stain is about Samir (Omar Sameer Mahamid), an Arab Israeli working in a supermarket in Tel Aviv, who is accused of tearing down hostage posters in the break room.

In Proud Jewish Boy, documentarian Isri Halpern sets out to find the truth about the 17-year-old Jewish refugee who assassinated a German diplomat in Paris in 1938.

Despite 5,000 film-industry professionals calling for a boycott of the Israeli film industry, the works of Moshe Rosenthal and SIPUR will compete in the world-renowned festival.