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.

MARY, THE plain yet intellectually savvy Bennet sister, is the main character in ‘The Other Bennet Sister.’
Tom Nesher wins the Ophir Award for Best Director for ‘Come Closer’ in 2024.

How Israeli women dominate the film industry in ways Hollywood still can't

‘Mad Men’ creator Matthew Weiner at Jerusalem Sessions on Monday.

‘Under siege’: Creators describe rising antisemitism in Hollywood

Tovah Feldshuh: My job as an actor is always to be in my character’s corner.

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.

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

Rise of the Oscar contenders

The ‘Post’ looks at four of the front-runners for next year’s Academy Awards.

Oscar statues are painted outside the entrance to the Dolby Theatre

Movies: 'Our Father'

A violent, heavy drama.

‘Our Father’

A race to the altar

‘Through the Wall’ and into your heart.

‘Through the Wall’

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’

Grapevine: Wowing audiences

News briefs from around Israel

KNESSET SPEAKER Yuli Edelstein addresses the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

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

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.

Minister Miri Regev

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.

ELITE ZEXER’S ‘Sand Storm’ took home six Ophir Awards on Thursday night