Israeli movies
Rewind history to the Gulf War with these Israeli classics
TV Time: The Israel Film Archive has a wealth of clips going back over a century, including home movies, footage of weddings, nature scenes, inventions, fashion shows, folk dances, and movies, etc.
How Israeli women dominate the film industry in ways Hollywood still can't
‘Under siege’: Creators describe rising antisemitism in Hollywood
Tovah Feldshuh on portraying Golda Meir, rising antisemitism, and renewed relevance - interview
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.
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.
Rise of the Oscar contenders
The ‘Post’ looks at four of the front-runners for next year’s Academy Awards.
Movies: 'Our Father'
A violent, heavy drama.
A race to the altar
‘Through the Wall’ and into your heart.
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.
Grapevine: Wowing audiences
News briefs from around Israel
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.
Miri Regev’s ill-timed tirade
Regev has never pretended to be especially interested in the arts. She has boasted that she has never read Chekhov, apparently to make a point about how European culture should not dominate the arts.
Ophirs handed out awards, too
Rama Burshtein, an ultra-Orthodox woman, won the Best Screenplay Award for Through the Wall, a comedy about marriage in the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) world.