The two incarnations of Mohammad Bakri: The actor gave Israelis hope; the director they couldn't handle

by mgall74 | Dec 31, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] In the mid-1980s, Mohammad Bakri was the hope. The Arab actor with the blue eyes and determined look starred with Arnon Zadok in “Beyond the Walls,” proving that Arab-Jewish solidarity was possible. That this place might actually have a positive...

Israeli cinema figures who withdrew from government-sponsored awards re-submit candidacy

by mgall74 | Dec 28, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] After Culture Minister Miki Zohar threatened to repeal the law that provides state funding for film projects, several boycott candidates agreed to take part in his alternative awards ceremony following a veteran filmmaker’s promise that funding for...

Does a Jewish film festival have to be a Holocaust film festival?

by mgall74 | Dec 8, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] Also coming up: The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel marks the death of rocker Corinne Allal, whose music became the soundtrack for secular, queer Israel, and the Rubin Museum reopens after war damage with an exhibition of paintings by Menashe Kadishman...

In first, an Israeli documentary tackles combat PTSD – from the perspective of women soldiers

by mgall74 | Dec 8, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] For the first time since Israel’s War of Independence, on October 7 and the two-year-long war that followed, women combat soldiers joined their male counterparts on the battlefield on a large scale. They served in tank crews, in search and rescue, in the...

The first Israeli filmmaker to see an Arab as a human worthy of being a protagonist

by mgall74 | Dec 7, 2025 | Israeli News

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