IsraeliFilms

01/05/2014

Today, we have lost the legendary Israeli filmmaker and actor, Assi Dayan. The cultural icon made 16 films, among them 1976's Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer, 1992’s Life According to Agfa and 2011's Dr. Pomerantz and acted in many films such as 1967's He Walked Through the Fields, 2000's Time of Favor and 2004's Campfire.

We invite you to remember Assi through the link below for clips and trailers.

http://israelifilms.co.il/site/detail/detail/searchMessage.asp?depart_id=40420&detail_id=&iPageNum=1&seaWord=assi+dayan

RIP.

03/02/2014

We have lost one of the truly great actors of our time.
RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman.

29/01/2014

This years Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival programme has been released!! We're gonna be there and will make sure to keep you updated along the way...

Berlin International Film Festival - official website

06/01/2014

"The Wonders" was officially selected in the Palm Springs International Film Festival's prestigious category - Modern Masters. Very exciting!

This is the official site of the Palm Springs International Film Festival

01/01/2014

The Jerusalem Post have put Avi Nesher's "The Wonders" in their top ten films of 2013, declaring it a film with "brilliant mix of genre". Have a read!

It was a bad year for Hollywood, but a great year for movies.

20/09/2013

Room 514, directed by Sharon Bar-Ziv, considered one of the Tribeca's finds this year on its way to UK (UK Jewish Film Festival) and very soon to be theatrically released in Paris - October, 09.
Long live to the film!
http://www.sddistribution.fr/accueil.php

Distribution cinématographique - cinéma, production, exploitation.

20/09/2013

Eagles UK Premiere - November, 9, 16 - UK Jewish Film Festival UK Jewish Film Festival
http://ukjewishfilm.org/film/eagles/

The blackest comedy of the year: a deadpan, Tarantino-esque o**y of violence that consumes two proud old men desperate to get some respect back from an indifferent society.

19/09/2013

http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/montreal-film-review-white-panther-1200614365/

Danni Reisfeld's film about a young man's attempts to rise above his crime-ridden ghetto life is rough, formulaic but effective.

13/09/2013

Fifty-eight years ago Meir Moses formed part of an elite group of Israeli soldiers who were captured in Syria during a covert military operation. After weeks of interrogations, one of his unit members hung himself in his cell. When his body was returned to Israel, perforated notes fell out of his clothes. One of them read: "I did not betray, I killed myself." General Dayan quoted this note it at the funeral, turning the young soldier who chose death over disclosing military secrets, into an ultimate hero. This proved disastrous for Meir Moses and his friends, still held in Syrian captivity. Upon returning in a prisoner-exchange deal, they found themselves in the midst of a new ordeal. The hero who returned in a coffin cast a dark shadow over the POWs who returned alive. Meir Moses was charged in a military court for Cowardice and Treason. In this personal quest, Meir yearns for redemption but his story reverberates loudly in a society that still struggles with the same dilemmas today.

http://www.israelidocs.co.il/Betrayed.html A Film by Roni Aboulafia (Israel, 2012, 50 Minutes, Color, Hebrew, English subtitles) Meir Moses is on a quest to...

12/09/2013

At 80 years of age, Colonel David Rokni is organizing the national ceremony for Israel's Independence Day. As he had done each year for the last 30 years, he goes through the arduous series of formation and foot drills for the traditional military parade as only he can do it.
A week before the ceremony, disaster strikes unexpectedly. For the first time, Rokni has to cope with an unfamiliar situation during a ceremony that will transform his life.

Winner of the Audience Award at Docaviv 2013, The Ceremony is on its way to Boston -

To be screened at the Boston Jewish Film Festival - November, 07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC4CKgAsy6g&feature=c4-overview&list=UUXNnwdA912MLvSHf0R1dQsw

11/09/2013

"White Panther" is the story of Alex (Yevgeny Orlov), a young Russian immigrant, whose family falls apart after his father dies while serving in the Israeli army. In retaliation Alex joins a skinhead gang led by his older brother.
An unexpected meeting with David (Ze'ev Revach), a Moroccan Jew, gives Alex a chance to pursue his longtime dream of becoming a boxer like his father.
Alex finds himself torn between his two father figures – the violent older brother and the new Jewish trainer – until he finds out the truth about those he so admires.

October 28, 19:00 at the Jewish Arts and Film Festival, in Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford JCC, Jewish Arts and Film Festival of Fairfield County

11/09/2013

Go In the Shadow!

“Intriguingly brings a film-noir sensibility to a time of great political tension, in much the same way Warner Bros. created socially conscious Hollywood entertainments in the 1930s and 1940s” Variety