Film festival

Cinema of the South Festival in Sderot to celebrate 25 years

The festival's closing ceremony will launch Negba, a new incubator for young southern filmmakers.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Guy Amir (left) and Hanan Savyon in season two of the Netflix series, Bros, which will premiere at the Cinema of the South Festival.
IN ‘THE WRONG GIRLS,’ best friends become entangled with an experimental substance that gives them telepathic powers.

LGBT film festival celebrates 21st anniversary with award winners, dramas, and classics - preview

Special events this year will include a 35-mm. screening of "Bound" and a screening of the beloved cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

|ByHANNAH BROWN
FOR THE first time, the festival will feature two outdoor screens.

Arava International Film Festival expands to two outdoor screens for 15th edition in November

The Arava International Film Festival returns November 4 to 14 with nine Israeli premieres, Hollywood classics, and two outdoor screens beneath the Negev desert sky.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
‘Mikveh’ provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of surprising everyday issues faced by religious women.

Jerusalem Women's Film Festival explores trauma, healing, and hope - preview

Notwithstanding the heavy subject matter of many of the films, Jerusalem Women’s Film Festival attendees are expected to come away from the festival in a buoyant, hopeful frame of mind.

|ByBARRY DAVIS

Can boycotts break Israel? Inside 20 years of BDS - from the editor

Two decades after the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement emerged, its calls to isolate Israel have surged back into global headlines and into everyday life.

NOVEMBER 6, 2025ByRUTH MARKS EGLASH
Champion Israeli judoka Peter Paltchik pushes back against efforts to ban Israeli athletes (illustrative).

The Cinema South Festival returns to its Sderot home

After a year of displacement, the festival will return to Sderot and the western Negev from November 6 to 13 for its 24th edition – its first in full format since October 7.

NOVEMBER 6, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
‘ETTY’, THE series created by Hagai Levi will open the festival.

Jerusalem International Women’s Film Festival announces its lineup

The festival will be held October 27-31.

OCTOBER 23, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
EVGENIA DODINA in ‘Mama,’ by Or Sinai, one of the films in the Jerusalem International Women’s Film Festival.

Samaria Film Festival goes global

The festival begins on November 5, with screenings at 20 locations.

OCTOBER 23, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A SCENE from ‘Malachi.’

Arava International Film Festival unveils 2025 program

The diverse program for the November festival includes 30 films.

OCTOBER 19, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
BRIGITTE BARDOT in Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Contempt.’

Jewish International Film Festival in Sweden postponed as theaters cite security concerns

The festival was supposed to run from November 29 to December 2, and was intended to celebrate 250 years of Jewish life in Sweden.

OCTOBER 18, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jewish International Film Festival

Haifa film fest announces international program

The 41st Haifa International Film Festival will be held October 5-14.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
ETHAN HAWKE stars in ‘Blue Moon’, Richard Linklater’s drama about composer Lorenz Hart.

Oct. 7 film ‘The Road Between Us’ wins People’s Choice award in Toronto

TIFF organizers first invited Avrich’s film for the festival, and then disinvited it, only to then reinstate the film after an outcry from the Canadian Jewish community.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
(L-R): Barry Avrich, Gali Mir-Tibon, Noam Tibon, and Mark Selby attend the premiere of ‘The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue’ during the Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall last week.

October 7 filmmaker receives three-minute standing ovation at Toronto film fest

Pro-Palestinian protesters outside the screening of "The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue" passed without incident.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
Canadian director Barry Avrich speaks to journalists on the red carpet at a screening of his documentary "The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue" about the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 10, 2025.

High security at Toronto film festival as Israeli film screens

Security was stringent on Wednesday in anticipation of the screening of the October 7-related documentary 'The Road Between Us.'

SEPTEMBER 11, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Cameron Bailey speaks on behalf of Toronto International Film Festival, 2025 Inductees, Arts and Entertainment during the 2025 Canada's Walk Of Fame Induction Gala held at Metro Toronto Convention Centre on June 14, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario.