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


Films tie for top prize at Jerusalem Film Festival

The two films that shared the top award were Hadas Ben Aroya’s All Eyes Off Me and Tom Shoval’s Shake Your Cares Away.

 Photo of woman in white is from Shake Your Cares Away

Israeli-US film history is front and center in ‘The Ambassador’

It stars Robert Mitchum as Peter Hacker, the US ambassador to Israel, as he sets up meetings with members of the PLO to try to get direct negotiations going between the Palestinians and the Israelis.

 Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn and Donald Pleasence in The Ambassador by Quentin Tarantino

Tarantino gets standing ovation at Jerusalem film fest Cannon Group tribute

Tarantino recalled how much he and his friends loved the Cannon movies and dreamed of meeting Golan and Globus and making movies for them.

 Quentin Tarantino with Navot Papushado, director of Big Bad Wolves at the Jerusalem Film Festival (Courtesy)

The Jerusalem Film Festival highlights diverse stories of Jewish life

Women of Valor looks at the struggle of Esty Shushan and other women from the ultra-Orthodox community fighting the leaders of the haredi parties to allow women to run for and hold political office.

 A still from the film ‘Women of Valor.' by Anna Somershaf that was presented in the Jerusalem Film Festival, August 2021. The Jerusalem Film Festival also receives annual funding from the Jerusalem Foundation.

Moviegoers, politicians to celebrate opening of Jerusalem Film Festival

The 38th Jerusalem Film Festival will open with a festive ceremony at the Sultan’s Pool amphitheater in Jerusalem on Tuesday night.

 Courtesy photo from the film, Where is Anne Frank

Grapevine: Historic mill bites dust

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

THE JERUSALEM Film Festival returns.

The Jerusalem Film Festival will light up the capital with sparkling cinema

The 38th Jerusalem Film Festival will showcase the best Israeli and international films at the Sultan's Pool.

Uri Zohar's ‘Big Eyes.’

Tarantino to honor Cannon Group at Jerusalem Film Festival

The Jerusalem Film Festival, at which Tarantino will be honored, will be held at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and other places around the city from August 24-September 4.

Courtesy photo of Quentin Tarantino and Daniella Pick

Jerusalem Film Festival to open with Ari Folman’s Where Is Anne Frank

Where Is Anne Frank recently had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival out of competition and received mainly rave reviews.

Where is Anne Frank?

‘Big Eyes’ to highlight Jerusalem Film Festival’s Israel programming

Zohar stars in it as Beni Furman, a womanizing basketball coach, and Arik Einstein as his friend, a basketball player.

A SCENE FROM the film ‘More than I Deserve.’