Ophir Awards

Israel’s film industry is thriving - so why can’t it crack the Oscars?

Israel has earned 10 Oscar nominations but never won. Are the Ophir Awards helping choose its strongest contenders?

OCTOBER 13, 2026|ByHANNAH BROWN

The cast and crew of ‘Tell Me Everything,’ after it received the Ophir Award for Best Picture.

FOR THE first time, the festival will feature two outdoor screens.

Arava International Film Festival expands to two outdoor screens for 15th edition in November

The Arava International Film Festival returns November 4 to 14 with nine Israeli premieres, Hollywood classics, and two outdoor screens beneath the Negev desert sky.

OCTOBER 12, 2026|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.

Which film will be Israel's submission to the Oscars? Inside the Ophir Awards' red carpet

The Jerusalem Post attended Israel's own Oscars ceremony and interviewed some of the country's biggest stars.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST PODCASTS

Picture of Tell Me Everything/ courtesy of United King Films

'Tell Me Everything' wins Best Picture at Ophir Awards, earns Israel’s Oscar submission

Tell Me Everything won Best Picture and 9 other awards at the Ophir Awards and will go on to be considered for the Best International Feature Academy Award.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2026|ByHANNAH BROWN

Cinema Sabaya wins 2022 Ophir Award, to represent Israel at Oscars

Cinema Sabaya will now become Israel’s official selection for consideration for a nomination for the Best International Feature Oscar.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Oz Zehavi (center) hosts the 2022 Ophir Awards ceremony, September 18, 2022

Varied group of nominees for this year's Ophir Awards

The Ophirs will be awarded in a ceremony on September 18.

AUGUST 10, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN

Eran Kolirin talks about the human story at the heart of ‘Let It Be Morning’

Let It Be Morning, which was produced by Dori Media in collaboration with Films du Poisson, is based on an acclaimed novel by Sayed Kashua.

APRIL 9, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN

ERAN KOLIRIN, the director of ‘Let It Be Morning.’

Israeli documentary chronicles real relationship between Auschwitz prisoner, SS officer

Both of those movies are fictional (or heavily fictionalized) interpretations of such a love affair, using made-up stories to pose questions about power dynamics and internalized guilt.

DECEMBER 4, 2021ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA

The permanent exhibition at the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim, Poland features expensive chandeliers that local Jews might have hid under the floorboards.

I don’t blame Eran Kolirin for controversies around his movies - opinion

Kolirin doesn’t seem to me like an ally of anti-Zionism, but the actors from Let It Be Morning – his latest film – made a fuss at the Ophir awards ceremony.

NOVEMBER 6, 2021ByMARK L. LEVINSON

ERAN KOLIRIN holds his Golden Swan award after winning a special prize for ‘The Band’s Visit’ at the Copenhagen Film Festival in 2007.

Image of Victory, Let There Be Morning lead Ophir Awards nominations

Avi Nesher’s Image of Victory and Eran Kolirin’s Let There Be Morning each took 15 nominations at Israel's Ophir Awards, the prizes of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.

AUGUST 17, 2021ByHANNAH BROWN