Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is Familial in New Film ‘Abe’
Gerri Miller
April 15, 2020
We interviewed the director of the new film about 12-year-old with a Jewish mother, Muslim father, and a passion for cooking.
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Two Israeli films take Berlin festival prizes
Jewish Journal
February 21, 2012
Two Israeli films that deal with the conflict with the Palestinians in much different ways were recognized at the 62nd annual Berlin International Film Festival.
Israeli astronaut’s story highlights Jewish film fest
Tom Tugend
April 26, 2011
The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival returns to town for the sixth year May 5-12 with a diverse menu of 26 feature movies, documentaries and shorts. “Our films are not just SELECTED, they are chosen,” festival director Hilary Helstein said. Her picks cover such themes as tradition and identity, conflict and issues, history and legacy, and inspiration.
Can a Palestinian story prompt dialogue for Middle East peace?
Danielle Berrin
March 23, 2011
Julian Schnabel must have known that screening a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the United Nations General Assembly would be scene-stealing. To set the town talking, the event would unite all the trappings — provocative subject matter, prestigious venue, Hollywood glamour.
Prolific Israeli producer-director tries Hollywood
Tom Tugend
July 17, 2008
Israeli producer-director Uri Paster has four movie and theater projects planned this year
Jewish life in the City of Lights
Danielle Berrin
May 1, 2008
Current statistics suggests that, even though France is depicted as less than empathetic to the Jewish community, the Jewish population there has actually grown.
Debra Winger explores Jewish/Arab day schools
Orit Arfa
April 25, 2008
Students at the Hand in Hand Max Rayne Bilingual School in Jerusalem didn\’t know they were meeting a celebrity. They weren\’t born when the films \”Officer and a Gentleman\” and \”Terms of Endearment\” garnered Debra Winger her Oscar nominations.
Israeli filmmakers garner praise in Berlin
Jewish Journal
February 23, 2007
Israeli filmmakers also did themselves proud at the Berlin festival, which ranks with Cannes and Venice as the most important events of their kind in Europe.
Crooners celebrate Canuckia’s Cohen and a first for our very own Greenberg
Keren Engelberg
February 23, 2007
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Israelis Do the Riviera
Naomi Pfefferman
May 25, 2006
Amid the celebrities and paparazzi crowding the Cannes Film Festival last week, Katriel Schory roamed the bustling boulevard Croisette like a proud parent. \”Israeli cinema has never had such a presence here,\” Schory, director of the Israel Film Fund, said via the cell phone that seems attached to his ear.
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