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Eytan Fox’s 'Yossi,' 10 years later

Eytan Fox’s immensely enjoyable new film Yossi could just as easily have been called “How Yossi Got His Groove Back.” It’s a sequel to his acclaimed 2002 film Yossi..

posted May 17, 2012 in News | Permalink

Cannes 2012: John Cleese Joins Israeli Comedy 'Hunting Elephants'

Cleese will play a disgraced, eccentric British lord who gets mixed up with a group of Israeli misfits who hatch a plan to rob a bank to get the money they need to save their family home. The which..

posted May 16, 2012 in News | Permalink

Israeli cinematographer brings poetry to the big screen

In "The Band's Visit," members of an Egyptian band wearing blue uniforms line up against the backdrop of a sprawling desert. In "The Policeman," a brawny man with a focused,determined gaze, as..

posted May 16, 2012 in News | Permalink

Israeli Filmmaker Aiming ‘Big’ On Herzl Project

Imagine a biopic about Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Talk about a dream team. But the match-up is a wild dream that the Israeli..

posted May 15, 2012 in News | Permalink

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Burning Mooky (2008)

Mooky Bo'era

Directed by: Lina Chaplin, Slava Chaplin

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During Mooky's adolescence, which is shadowed by his mother Tinka's seductive nature, he contends with unrequited love for one young woman and a sado-masochistic relationship with another. Mooky to..

Sumna's Letter (2011)

Ha-Mikhtav shel Sumna

Directed by: Timna Goldstein Chatab, Hadar Kleinman

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Hannah Star was adopted as an infant from Romania to Israel and was sent to a boarding school at age 13. As she approaches her 18 birthday, she decides to go on a journey in search of her and..

Operation Grandma (1999)

Mivtza Savta

Directed by: Dror Shaul

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Mivtza Savta (Operation Grandma) is a satirical comedy about the Israeli military and about kibbutz life. The story revolves around three brothers: Alon (34), a no-nonsense army officer; Benny a a..

Eytan Fox’s 'Yossi,' 10 years later

Cannes 2012: John Cleese Joins Israeli Comedy 'Hunting Elephants'

Israeli cinematographer brings poetry to the big screen

Israeli Filmmaker Aiming ‘Big’ On Herzl Project

Burning Mooky (2008)

Sumna's Letter (2011)

Operation Grandma (1999)

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