Posted on September 4, 2018
The Wooden Gun takes place in Tel Aviv in the early 1950s. In a clear-eyed fashion that would have been impossible in a film made by “outsiders”, the plot Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
Set during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the conflict that led to the creation of the state of Israel, this landmark Israeli film is among the first features from that Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
In this satirical cult-classic, a Reserves unit in the Israel-controlled Sinai is less than five miles from the Egyptian front lines. However, the Israelis are hardly concerned with the Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
Miki is a yuppie advertising copywriter from Tel Aviv called up to do reserve army duty in Lebanon during the war’s closing days. Miki has strong premonitions of his Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
While traveling to visit their grandfather in Tuscany, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted two hundred years. During Napoleon’s Italian invasion, Elisabetta Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
The life story of Egyptian-born Henriette Ezer, the director’s mother, which is a parable of the complex relationship between East Jewry and Israel. The film includes excerpts from the Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
Moshe (Shuli Rand) and Malli (Michal Bat-Sheva Rand), an Orthodox Jewish couple in Jerusalem, are childless and without means to celebrate the weeklong holiday of Succoth. After much prayer, Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
Shlomo Bar-Aba plays Eldad Illan, a teacher who says goodbye to his wife (Ofra Viengarten) in Jerusalem, goes to Lod Airport for a flight to New York and then Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
Two close-knit brothers, Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) and Matteo (Alessio Boni), are buffeted by the social and political upheavals that rock their native Italy during the 1960s and ’70s Read More
Posted on September 4, 2018
The Bride is Paula Ortiz’s adaptation of Fedrico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, among the 20th century’s most famous and revered Spanish plays. Nominated for 12 Goya Awards (Spain’s Academy Read More
