The Sundance Film Festival 2015 announced its main selections last week, and the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival wrapped up its 2014 festival. The 15th Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival had the theme of...
Tag - Israeli Film
Bethlehem: A Movie Review
Bethlehem: 2013, 99 minutes long, in Hebrew and Arabic. I resisted seeing this movie at first. I mistakenly believed that it was a polemic against how Israel’s security forces operate with...
The Jewish Film Fest That Is Manhattan
This morning, I awoke in Manhattan to my own personal Jewish film festival. The screens are filled, this week, with films of Jewish and Israeli interest. How so? Well, we have documentaries on the...
Holding our Attention Span in Pusan
Lebanon came to Korea this past week Lebanon, the Israeli film which won the Golden Lion at Venice opened in Israel this month, and was one of the 355 films screened at the Pusan International Film...
What if you wrote a smug boycott letter with plenty of omissions? A response to John Greyson
Greyson complains about propaganda but has no problem engaging others in propaganda he considers appropriate.
Sundance 2009 opens with a Jewish Film
What do get a film festival on its 25th anniversary? Paper? China? Silver? Mostly, I think, you skip the gift, be eco-friendly, dress warmly, and just show up to the best of the indie film festivals...
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story – The New Film by Dan Katzir
I met Dan Katzir (as in Ephraim Katzir, the fourth President of Israel) shortly after I made Aliyah in 2005. I was just a bushy-tailed, bright-eyed American girl fresh off the boat and on an...