Jerusalem Film Festival

Jerusalem Film Festival announces international lineup featuring award winners, cult classics

The international lineup, which includes feature films, documentaries, animated films, and experimental works, will be screened in the Jerusalem Cinematheque and at Lev Smadar.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
The Samurai and the Prisoner, the latest film by Japanese master Kiyoshi Kurosawa, will be shown in the festival.
STELLAN SKARSGARD (left) and Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value.

‘Sentimental Value’ is a beautiful drama of redemption in a show-biz family - review

Unquestionably the best-acted movie this year, 'Sentimental Value' is a character-driven, complex story about the drama of an extremely dysfunctional show-business family.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Ronit Yudkevitch in Ruthy Pribar's What is to Come.

Jerusalem Film Festival announces Israeli lineup

This year, the festival's Israeli program includes a wide-ranging lineup of feature films, documentaries, shorts, experimental films, and restored classics.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Image from Moshe Rosenthal's Tell Me Everything.

Jerusalem Film Festival to open with Moshe Rosenthal’s 'Tell Me Everything'

"Tell Me Everything" had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, marking the first time in a decade that a full-length Israeli feature film was included in that festival.

|ByHANNAH BROWN

Shake your cares away with the new comedy 'Shake Your Cares Away', opening in Israel on Thursday

Shake Your Cares Away was executive produced by Alejandro González Iñárritu, the Oscar-winning director of Birdman and The Revenant.

APRIL 24, 2023ByHANNAH BROWN
‘SHAKE YOUR Cares Away’

40 films to celebrate the Jerusalem Film Festival’s 40th anniversary

The full program for the 40-film celebration has not yet been announced.

APRIL 8, 2023ByHANNAH BROWN
'Lady Macbeth'

Director Pini Tavger on the life behind Israeli film 'More Than I Deserve' - interview

The movie won the Best Screenplay Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival and was nominated for six Ophir Awards.

FEBRUARY 11, 2023ByHANNAH BROWN
A SCENE FROM ‘More Than I Deserve.’

'More than I Deserve' tells a very Israeli story - review

"More Than I Deserve" tells an intersecting story of two communities in Israel, new immigrants from the former Soviet Union and the ultra-Orthodox

FEBRUARY 8, 2023ByHANNAH BROWN
SCENES FROM ‘More Than I Deserve.’

Famous Nazi-fighting duo speak about a documentary about their lives

The Klarsfelds, have been making headlines for decades and now have a documentary about their lives being shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.

DECEMBER 17, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN
BEATE AND Serge Klarsfeld.

Grapevine: Heroic haredim

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

DECEMBER 16, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
The protagonists of ‘Kippat Barzel,’ playing infantrymen in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, pose at their base.

‘Armageddon Time’ to open Jerusalem Jewish film festival

The 24th Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque will be held over Hanukkah on December 17-22.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN
JAMES GRAY’S ‘Armageddon Time.’

'Triangle of Sadness': Ruben Ostlund's wild ride - film review

It’s a wild ride that takes aim at some pretty easy targets, but makes a few good points and, more importantly, is funny much of the time

OCTOBER 3, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN
‘TRIANGLE OF Sadness’

Thought-provoking ‘Savoy’ examines Tel Aviv hotel siege in 1975

Savoy raises interesting questions about ethnicity, class and stereotypes, and will make you think about what has and hasn’t changed in the past few decades.

AUGUST 10, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN
A scene from 'Savoy.'

'A Hero' tells the story of one man's bad choices - review

A Hero looks at what happens when one mistake leads you into a sinkhole that keeps getting deeper.

JULY 26, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN
AMIR JADIDI in 'A Hero'