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.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
‘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

The Jerusalem Film Festival attracted 70,000 people this year after Film Workers for Palestine launched a pledge naming it as an Israeli institution that it would refuse to work with.

|BySIDNEY BLASCO
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

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS (right) stars with Dana Namerode in "Gangland."

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

Director Vincent Grashaw found the screenplay for ‘Gangland’ online, then worked with Native American advisers and actors to bring its fictional reservation to life.

|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'