Given how illuminating comedies about impossible situations can be, it’s a great pity so few deal with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. When they do crop up, like “Tel Aviv on Fire,” reactions tend ...

Don’t call it a wave just yet, but Israel has emerged as a mini-hotbed for wry comedies of late. “Tel Aviv on Fire” picks up where “One Week and a Day” left off, with writer-director Sameh Zoabi ...

I’m sure you are all aware of the protest taking place at the Toronto Film Festival condemning the organizers’ choice of Tel Aviv for an inaugural City-to-City Spotlight. Many of the participants have ...

Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite, Sameh Zoabi's 'Tel Aviv on Fire' and Niclas Bendixen's 'Ditte & Louise' are the three candidates for best European comedy at this year's European Film Awards. By ...

The appeal of foreign films is that they take audiences to all corners of the world and intimate places within those faraway spaces. And the Israeli film Fill the Void is, more than many such films, ...

Angélica Vale is causing quite the buzz at this year’s Israeli Film Festival, taking place in Los Angeles. The Mexican actress stars in the new film, “Salsa Tel Aviv,” which has been the talk of the ...

Toronto fest director addresses Tel Aviv tiff Toronto International Film Festival director Piers Handling has weighed in on the growing artist protest over next week's Tel Aviv and Israeli cultural ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A film about Arab-Israeli women who left their villages to live in Tel Aviv has angered some traditionalists in Israel's Arab community, who say its depiction of homosexuality ...

As Doug Frank, president of music operations for Warner Bros. Pictures, stood up to address a small audience in Tel Aviv’s Cinematheque late last month at the 12th annual Master Class in Film and ...

Given how illuminating comedies about impossible situations can be, it’s a great pity so few deal with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. When they do crop up, like “Tel Aviv on Fire,” reactions tend ...

A genial comedy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at its best when sending up soap opera excesses. Given how illuminating comedies about impossible situations can be, it’s a great pity so few deal ...