Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "israeli-filmmaking"

1. In the Director's Chair Sits a Woman (2020)

58 min | Documentary

7.3

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Twenty six Israeli women directors of narrative features are sharing their personal experiences of sitting in the director's chair. From Ellida Geyra - Israel's first female fiction ... See full summary »

Director: Smadar Zamir | Stars: Esti Almo, Tova Ascher, Michal Aviad, Hanna Azoulay Hasfari

Votes: 7

2. HAGIGA: The Story of Israeli Cinema (2015)

54 min | Documentary

6.0

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Documentary series about the history of Israeli cinema, featuring hundreds of interviews and a wealth of rare archival footage.

Stars: Itay Tiran, Menahem Golan, Nira Gal, Topol

Votes: 9

3. Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema (2001)

73 min | Documentary, History

6.7

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Mamadrama combines film clips, cultural commentary, interviews with Hollywood and Israeli filmmakers and footage from Schwarz's earlier films in an exploration of the image of the Jewish ... See full summary »

Director: Monique Schwarz | Stars: Patricia Erens, Monique Schwarz

Votes: 15

4. The Fading Valley (2013)

54 min | Documentary, Drama

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The film describes the lives of the farmers in the Jordan Valley and their thirst for water, combining the beautiful views of the Jordan Valley with the human tragedy of its dwellers, the vanishing residents of the Jordan Valley.

Director: Irit Gal

5. Woman (I) (2019)

60 min | Documentary

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Composed entirely out of pre-existing footage, Woman constructs a single narrative out of hundreds of film-fragments from the history of Israeli Women's cinema.

Director: Israela Shaer-Meoded | Star: Reymonde Amsallem

6. Lia (2011)

Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary, Biography

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A cinematic portrait of Lia van Leer. Having developed her passion for cinema early on in the 1950s, she and her husband Wim began several film clubs and in 1960 founded the Israel Film ... See full summary »

Director: Tali Goldenberg | Star: Lia van Leer

7. Black White Film - History of the Bourekas Film in Israel (2011)

60 min | Documentary

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A critical review of the history of the Israeli "Burekas" films.

Stars: Topol, Menahem Golan, Anat Atzmon, Reuven Bar-Yotam

8. Kishon His Name Precedes Him (2017)

60 min | Documentary, Biography

7.6

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'I was brought up and destroyed in a hell called Nazism. I was educated and raised by the Holocaust.'(Ephraim Kishon)

Stars: Yaron London, Shmuel Vilozni, Ephraim Kishon

Votes: 8

9. Hope I'm in the Frame (2017)

57 min | Documentary, Biography

6.5

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A portrait of Michal Bat-Adam the first and only woman director in Israel to regularly create films since the 70s. The film intimately documents her and her husband director Moshe Mizrahi sharing the struggle to make films despite aging.

Director: Netalie Braun | Stars: Michal Bat-Adam, Moshé Mizrahi

Votes: 12

10. Perlove's Room (1999)

35 min | Documentary, Short

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Portrait of the filmmaker David Perlov through a long and in depth journey in a small room between pieces of a master artist's memory.

Director: Liran Atzmor | Star: David Perlov

11. The Documentarists (2016)

55 min | Documentary

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Five decades of documentary work in the Israeli public broadcasting Channel 1.

Stars: Dan Geva, Itai Landsberg, Uri Barbash, Modi Bar-On

12. A History of Israeli Cinema (2009)

Not Rated | 208 min | Documentary

8.0

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The first 1933 - 1978 starts with the Zionist movement and ends with the first re-visitation of that history. The second 1978 - 2005 starts at the beginning of the political wave until the ... See full summary »

Director: Raphaël Nadjari | Stars: Naftali Alter, Mohammad Bakri, Haim Bouzaglo, Joseph Cedar

Votes: 44

13. The Same Snowy Ground (2020)

43 min | Documentary, Short, Drama

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A journey through a place of an eternal past; where the grandson of a Jewish partisan sets out to experience the dramatic events and places that shaped his grandfather's war time.

Director: Matan Tal

14. Rafi Bukai, My Father (2012)

63 min | Documentary

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Guy Bukaee was two years and four months old when his father Rafi died in December 2003. When he turned 10 he decided to get to know his father before his memories fade and disappear. Rafi ... See full summary »

Director: Mika Adler | Stars: Rafi Bukai, Samuel Calderon, Gidi Dar, Ilan Dar

15. Looking for Moshe Guez (2011)

75 min | Documentary

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A personal documentary that focuses on the filmmaker's search for the Israeli director Moshe Guez and his rarely seen feature film, The Angel was a Devil.

Director: Avida Livny | Stars: Miri Ben-David, Karin Dadon, Shalom Damari, Zehava Damari