Nirit Anderman

With his crime drama 'Iceman' winning critical acclaim, Ariel Vroman is set to become one of a handful of Israelis who fulfilled their dream of breaking into the American film industry.

Ari Folman's eagerly-awaited follow-up to 'Waltz with Bashir' premieres at Cannes on Thursday. This time the Israeli director mixes animation and flesh-and-blood actors in a sci-fi venture.

Danish film 'Searching for Bill' wins top prize at the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival.

Shoif still looks back on her wild days, when her private life featured in gossip columns. Today, though, she is happy being married and a mother, and appearing on both stage and screen.

The Lebanese Interior Ministry revoked the permit for the film following a letter of protest from the Israel Boycott Office of the Arab League.

In a visit to Israel, Margarethe von Trotta discusses her film on the German Jewish thinker and Arendt's landmark coverage of the Eichmann trial.

The 15th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival gets an upgrade this June with an Ophir Prize going to the top entry.

When illustrator and Holocaust survivor Miriam Katin learned her son was moving to Berlin, she almost collapsed. Then she wrote a comic book about the ordeal and saw things differently.

Yariv Horowitz, director of anti-occupation movie 'Rock the Casbah', was attacked ahead of screening at Aubagne International Film Festival.

Israeli director puts his career shooting Hollywood blockbuster trailers on hold; makes first feature, which depicts the love story of two men, Israeli and Palestinian.

After working on two Shakespeare movie adaptations for Laurence Olivier, Keller immigrated to Israel and became a leading film educator.

In response, four professional organizations for Israeli filmmakers − representing producers, directors, screenwriters and documentarians − send Livnat a letter of protest.

Yariv Horowitz, whose first feature film nabbed the prestigious International Confederation of Art Cinemas award at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, says making a movie about Israeli soldiers during the first intifada wasn't just cathartic for him. It was cathartic for the entire nation.

American director Michael Moore tweets that Emad Burnat sought his help after immigration authorities detained the Palestinian at the airport; Burnat was on his way to the Academy Awards ceremony, where his film is an Oscar nominee.

The Oscar-nominated film has been declared the most valuable documentary at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Filmmaker Anat Zuria's newest effort, 'The Lesson,' examines the story of an Egyptian-born Muslim woman whose life story is so dramatic that it's hard to believe reality concocted such a plot.

Geffen Rafaeli is realizing a dream that breaks new artistic ground, basing her illustrations on motifs from photos posted on the popular photography social network.

Toib is known for his in-depth investigations into security matters, including films on the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor, the Second Lebanon War, and the Yom Kippur War.

Honi Hama'agel pays homage to the movies and neighborhood movie houses of his youth in a new installation in the lobby of the Habima national theater in Tel Aviv.

The fund is Israel’s first municipal film foundation. It seeks to improve Jerusalem’s image through movies and television shows that take place in the city, and to aid the city’s film industry.

In his film, which on Saturday night won the U.S. National Society of Film Critics' award for best documentary, director Dror Moreh manages to extract frank admissions and fascinating analysis from the former Shin Bet chiefs.

The film festival is planned for June in Tel Aviv.

The movies are part of 'Another Look: Restored European Film Project,' undertaken by 10 foreign embassies in Israel, together with the European Union.

Award-winning filmmakers Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon cast the country's leading comic actors to play in their latest sardonic drama, 'A Good Death,' about a man who invents a mercy-killing device.

Long locked into playing gangster types, Uri Gavriel has still carved out an impressive career in both local and foreign movies, including a role in Neil Jordan's new film.