Jerusalem Film Festival

‘Tell Me Everything’ leads 2026 Ophir Awards race with record 16 nominations

The Ophir Awards ceremony will take place on September 9 at Cinema City Glilot, hosted by Shani Cohen and Adam Gabay, and will be broadcast live on Mako.

‘TELL ME EVERYTHING’S 16 Ophir nominations are the highest total received by any movie in the history of the awards. The film tells the coming-of-age story of a boy who discovers his father is gay at the height of the AIDS epidemic and who reconnects with him later in life.
Co-stars Ido Tako (left) and Ihab Salami with a poster of their film, Where To?, directed by Assaf Machnes, at its premiere at the Jerusalem Film Festival.

Jerusalem Film Festival draws 70,000 despite boycott campaign targeting Israeli cinema

Israeli "Wonder Woman" star Gal Gadot (3rd-R) and Jerusalem film festival director Roni Mahadav-Levin (2nd-R) attend the opening ceremony of the event in Jerusalem on June 17, 2025.

Grapevine: Vexing logistics

LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS (right) stars with Dana Namerode in "Gangland."

'Gangland' director Vincent Grashaw brings Native American story to Jerusalem Film Festival


The Jerusalem Film Festival announces its winners

Lila Avilés won the Best Director Award for the film, Totem.

 EMOS AYENO, winner of the Anat Pirchi Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film.

'Political genius' Olive Stone graces Israel with brilliance - opinion

Stone has made remarks deemed antisemitic and anti-Israel. He has voiced support of Russia and Vladimir Putin, and he has supported homophobic conspiracy theories.

 FILMMAKER OLIVER STONE (R) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, 2017.

Grapevine July 19, 2023: Au revoir, Monsieur Ambassadeur

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 OUTGOING FRENCH AMBASSADOR Eric Danon and his wife, Marie.

Jerusalem highlights July 14-20

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 CHECK OUT the ‘Archive’ dance performance on Wednesday.

Helen Mirren: 'I want to play great women, and Golda Meir was one of the greatest'

The famed actress arrives for the Israeli premiere of the biopic.

 Dame Helen Mirren at a press conference in Jerusalem ahead of the premiere of the film "Golda."

What should you watch at the Jerusalem Film Festival?

What are the best films to see and what are the ways to see the films you want?

 A SCENE from ‘Past Lives.’

Grapevine: Jerusalem on parade

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 CITY ENTRANCE

Jerusalem Film Festival stands by decision to honor Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone has criticized Israeli influence on American politics, downplayed the Holocaust, defended Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and complained about Jewish political influence.

 OLIVER STONE (top left) with a delegation of international figures, meet with then-Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat in Ramallah in 2002

2023 Jerusalem Film Fest announces international movie lineup

The 2023 Jerusalem Film Festival will feature movies that have won top prizes at such festivals as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Toronto.

 ‘HOW TO Have Sex.’

Jerusalem Film Festival to open with Golda, starring Helen Mirren

Golda tells the story of former prime minister Golda Meir, focusing on how she handled the Yom Kippur War, a topic that was the source of great controversy and which led her to resign.

 HELEN MIRREN as Golda Meir.