Film-Forward

Israeli

Karaoke

A gregarious new neighbor upends the lives of two retired empty nesters.

Cinema Sabaya

This year’s Israeli Oscar submission is directed in an effortlessly authentic faux-documentary style, so much so that it often feels like the real thing.

Let It Be Morning

A droll comedy/drama of an Arab village in Israel stuck in limbo.

Golden Voices

What does it take to make a new start in a new land, one that lets you earn a living and maintain your self-respect? Such a reinvention is never easy, especially when it takes place in middle age.

Synonyms

At the center of Nadav Lapid’s hilarious, disjointed, and unpredictable dramedy lies the age-old theme of identity and what defines it.

Working Woman

This Israeli drama about sexual harassment is particularly compelling because of how believable it makes the main protagonist’s willingness to endure it.

Foxtrot

The domestic front intersects with a military checkpoint in the theater of the absurd via Israel.

West of the Jordan River

All director Amos Gitai is saying is, give peace a chance.

In the Land of Pomegranates

Israeli and Palestinian youth explore the possibility of finding common ground among the chaos.