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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
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
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..
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
Three films with animation are mentioned in the Docaviv catalogue, of which I saw two. “Treasure Hunt” (41 min, 2012) is Nadan Pines‘s graduate film at Bezalel Academy of Arts he..
posted May 14, 2012 in News | Permalink
While attending DocAviv this past week in Tel Aviv, I saw films about women in conflict situations – one about the Central African Republic and how rape was used there as a tool in wartime; to..
Ten years after Mohammad Bakri released his documentary style film Jenin, Jenin on the battles that were fought in the refugee camps in Operation Defensive Shield, the attorney is a 6..
posted May 13, 2012 in News | Permalink
Actress/educator-turned-filmmaker Abeer Zeibak Haddad is hitting the road with her documentary “Duma” — “dolls” in Arabic — the first film by an Arabic speaker..
posted May 12, 2012 in News | Permalink
Eran Kolirin became a force to be reckoned with in the Israeli film industry when his first feature film, The Band's Visit, was released in 2007. The story of an Egyptian police band that gets lost..
posted May 10, 2012 in News | Permalink
It seems the change that the HOT cable TV company announced at the start of last month − the replacement of its Channel 8 documentary producer Noga Communications with Slutzky Channels be..
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