Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar is threatening to pull funding from the Ophir Awards, Israel’s version of the Oscars, after a film critiquing Israel won the top prize. The Sea, helmed by Israeli ...

An Israeli government official has slammed and threatened to defund the Ophir Awards — the region's equivalent to the Oscars — for naming a film about a Palestinian as the best movie of 2025 and, on ...

Soul of a Nation dismantles anti-Israel propaganda by telling the truth about Israel as it is – flawed, complex, democratic, diverse, and deeply human.

Movies that portray the complex reality of life here – from war, to art, to social history – will be the focus of this year’s ...

Israeli film director Shai Carmeli-Pollak has a striking image pinned to the wall of his office in Kfar Sava. The picture, designed by his late friend and artist Dudu Geva, depicts a cartoon duck ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Sometimes I felt like the protagonist of a Jewish joke,” says Nadav Lapid. “The Jews call you an antisemite. And the antisemites ...

The establishment of Israel has been accompanied by a national cinema devoted to negating and erasing the Palestinian Other ...

As we approach the end of a year in which the Israel-Palestine conflict and the war in Gaza have found their way into many film industry debates - from the Film Workers for Palestine petition signed ...

Mega film studio Paramount has denounced a pledge this week by more than 4,000 actors and filmmakers, including some Hollywood A-listers, to boycott the Israeli film industry — accusing it of being ...

No Other Land, a film about Palestinians fighting to protect their homes from demolition by Israel’s military, has won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The collaboration between Israeli and ...

The festival, which returns to the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan in November, will feature the North American premiere of Israel's official Oscar submission, "The Sea." The festival will begin with ...