All articles by Edna Fainaru
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News‘Incitement’ wins top prize at Ophir awards, becomes Israel’s Oscar submission
Six years in the making, the title had been rejected by all Israeli film funds because of its subject matter.
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News‘Love Trilogy: Chained’ takes top prizes at Jerusalem Film Festival
Other winners included Ladj Ly’s Les Miserables for best international feature.
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News'Foxtrot' wins top prizes at Israeli Academy awards amid controversy
Award criticised by minister of culture, Miri Regev.
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NewsRonit Elkabetz, Israeli actress and filmmaker, dies aged 51
The star and director of Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem has passed away following a prolonged battle with cancer.
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NewsIsrael to open contentious second Cannes stand
Culture Ministry funds new stand with aim to increase Israeli presence at the festival.
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NewsElad Keidan's 'Afterthought' wins at Haifa Film Festival
Other winners include Venice title Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me and documentary Rabin In His Own Words.
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NewsHaifa: Mohsen Makhmalbaf talks arrest, torture and film
Back in Israel for the fourth time to serve as the president of the Haifa Film Festival jury, Mohsen Makhmalbaf is fully conscious of the simmering anger he provokes among the authorities of his native Iran.
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NewsOscars: Israel submits 'Baba Joon'
Yuval Delshad’s debut centres on a a family of Iranian immigrants.
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NewsJerusalem fest threatened by government over 'Beyond The Fear' screening
Minister for Culture and Sport Miri Regev threatened to cut off subsidies if the documentary was not pulled.
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NewsLia van Leer, Israeli film pioneer, dies aged 90
Lia van Leer, the legendary first lady of Israeli cinema, has passed away in Jerusalem aged 90.
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NewsIsrael enters Gett to Oscars
The film about a woman facing a rabbinical court to obtain a divorce from a husband won the top award at the Israeli Ophirs.
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NewsIsrael demands money back from ‘Palestine’ film
Suha Arraf’s Villa Touma, selected for Venice Critics’ Week, received $400,000 from the Israel Film Fund but has been classified as Palestinian by the director.
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NewsGett, Princess win top prize in Jersualem
Other festival prize winners include Self Made, Red Leaves and The Decent One.
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FeaturesInside The Cinema Project
The Cinema Project, which is part of the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, is having a banner year.
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FeaturesFeeding the industry
After a thrilling year at Cannes for Israeli films, Katriel Schory, head of Israel Film Fund, talks to Edna Fainaru about the new, invigorated mood among the country’s film-makers
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FeaturesPride of place
Jerusalem Film Fund is an additional source of funding for local and international projects - as long as film-makers shoot Jerusalem for Jerusalem. Edna Fainaru reports.
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FeaturesLia Van Leer
Lia van Leer, the very life and soul of the Israeli film industry, talks to Edna Fainaru about forging her own path, building the national film archive and launching Jerusalem Film Festival
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FeaturesEfrat Corem, Ben Zaken
Sapir College graduate Efrat Corem explores the very personal universe of her hometown of Ashkelon.