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Out in the Dark

Directed by Michael Mayer Produced by Lihu Roter & Mayer Written by Mayer & Yael Shafrir Released by Breaking Glass Pictures Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles Israel/Palestine/USA. 96 min. Not rated With Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni, Alon Pdut, Jameel Khouri & Loai Noufi Out in the Dark takes an intensely intimate look beyond the […]

Zaytoun

Directed by Eran Riklis Produced by Gareth Unwin & Fred Ritzenberg Written by Nader Rizq Released by Strand Releasing English, Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles UK/Israel. 110 min. Not rated With Stephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Taglioni, Loai Noufi, Tarik Copti, Ashraf Barhom, Mira Awad, Ashraf Farah, Joni Arbid, & Ali Suliman Israel’s […]

Fill the Void

Written & Directed by Rama Burshtein Produced by Assaf Amir Released by Sony Pictures Classics Hebrew with English subtitles Israel. 90 min. Rated PG With Hadas Yaron, Hila Feldman, Irit Sheleg, Renana Raz, Razia Israeli & Yiftach Klein Fill the Void feels like a folk tale set in a rural village. These folk dress and […]

The Gatekeepers

Written & Directed by Dror Moreh Produced by Estelle Fialon, Moreh & Philippa Kowarsky Written by Moreh Released by Sony Pictures Classics Hebrew with English subtitles Israel/France/Germany Belgium. 97 min. Rated PG-13 The Gatekeepers thoughtfully examines the difficulties of protecting a democracy from internal enemies. While Americans are more familiar from movies and TV with […]

The Law in These Parts

Written & Directed by Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Produced by Liran Atzmor Released by Cinema Guild Israel. 101 min. Not Rated In Hebrew with English subtitles Punctuated with pungent visual and narrative footnotes, The Law in These Parts comes close to being the Pentagon Papers of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz incisively […]

The Other Son

Directed by Lorraine Lévy Produced by Virginie Lacombe & Raphael Berdugo Written by Nathalie Saugeon, Lévy & Noam Fitoussi Released by Cohen Media Group France. 105 min. Rated PG-13 English, French, Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles With Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk, Mehdi Dehbi, Areen Omari, Khalifa Natour, Mahmood Shalabi & Bruno Podalydès […]

The Matchmaker

Written & Directed by Avi Nesher, inspired by Amir Gutfreund’s novel When Heroes Fly Produced by Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, David Silber, Avraham Pirchi, David Silber, Chilik Michaeli, Nesher, Tami Leon & Natan Caspi Released by Menemsha Films Israel. 112 min. Not Rated Hebrew with English subtitles With Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror Keren, Dov […]

Footnote

Written & Directed by Joseph Cedar Produced by David Mandil, Moshe Edery & Leon Edery Released by Sony Pictures Classics Israel. 105 min. Rated PG Hebrew with English subtitles With Shlomo Bar Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Alisa Rosen, Alma Zak, Daniel Markovich, Micah Lewesohn, Yuval Scharf & Nevo Kimchi Academic politics is said to be the […]