Dark Night (also known as Layla Affel) is an Israeli short film directed by Leonid Prudovsky.
The title refers to the song that in the dark night ride one of the Israeli soldiers is whistling. It is a tune of Russian war song Тёмная ночь (lit. Dark Night).
In the dark night two young Israeli soldiers are on their ride control. When their car runs on explosive and Palestinian fighters are seeking for them. The soldiers hide into a house of a Palestinian couple and take house owner as hostages.
The film stars: Eran Amichai, Johnny Arbid, Hanan Savyon, Pini Tavger, and Helena Yaralova.
Free Zone is a 2005 film directed by Amos Gitai. Shot in Israel and Jordan, the Israeli-Belgian-French-Spanish production stars Israeli Jewish actress Hanna Laslo, Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, and Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman. It is the second film of Gitai's "Border" or "Frontier" trilogy.
The 62nd annual Venice International Film Festival opened on 31 August 2005 with Tsui Hark's Seven Swords and closed on 10 September 2005 with a screening of Peter Ho-sun Chan's musical Perhaps Love. The lineups were announced by the festival director Marco Müller on 28 July 2005 in Rome. The digital films competed in all categories for the first time of the festival history.
Chronicle of a Disappearance is a 1996 drama film by Palestinian director and actor Elia Suleiman. Suleiman stars in the film along with his family members, his relatives, and other non-actors. Dhat Productions produced the film. The film features no real storyline or character arc. Suleiman plays himself returning to Israel and the West Bank after a long absence which is followed by a series of barely connected vignettes and sketches, which are intended to convey the feelings of restlessness and uncertainty from Palestinian statelessness. The film's tone varies through these scenes such as "Nazareth Personal Diary", which has a light and domestic tone, and "Jerusalem Political Diary", which has a more ideological tone.
Occupation 101: Voice of the Silenced Majority is a 2006 documentary film on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict directed by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish, and narrated by Alison Weir, founder of If Americans Knew. The film focuses on the effects of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and discusses events from the rise of Zionism to the Second Intifada and Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, presenting its perspective through dozens of interviews, questioning the nature of Israeli–American relations—in particular, the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and the ethics of US monetary involvement. Occupation 101 includes interviews with mostly American and Israeli scholars, religious leaders, humanitarian workers, and NGO representatives—more than half of whom are Jewish—who are critical of the injustices and human rights abuses stemming from Israeli policy in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
Ziv Koren is an Israeli photojournalist, a representative of "Polaris Images" photo agency. Koren is most noted for documenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, IDF operations, and the IDF special forces units "Shayetet 13", "Duvdevan", "YAMAM", and "Sayeret Matkal".
Jan Cvitkovič is a Slovenian film director, screenwriter and actor.
Mohammad Bakri is a Palestinian actor and film director.
Emily Jacir is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker.
Nitzan Gilady is an Israeli film director who has written, produced and directed the documentary films In Satmar Custody (2003) and Jerusalem Is Proud to Present (2008) and The Last Enemy and "It runs in the Family" (2010).
Dan Wolman is an Israeli filmmaker and lecturer in film studies.
Tomer Heymann is an Israeli filmmaker. He is best known for his work on the documentary films Paper Dolls, Mr.Gaga and Who's Gonna Love Me Now?.
Cohen on the Bridge is an animated short documentary about Operation Entebbe by director Andrew Wainrib.
Dark Is the Night is a famous Soviet song associated with the Great Patriotic War. It was originally performed by Mark Bernes in the 1943 war film Two Soldiers.
Leon Prudovsky is an Israeli film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
Guy Davidi is an Israeli documentary filmmaker. His movie 5 Broken Cameras was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Davidi also won the Best Directing Award along with Palestinian co-director Emad Burnat in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and the 2013 international Emmy Award as well as numerous awards worldwide.
Jewish Motifs International Film Festival is a major Jewish-themed film festival held annually in Warsaw, Poland. The festival has been held every year since 2004.
Ilan Moskovitch, is an Israeli filmmaker, producer, director, casting director and acting instructor.
Kamel El Basha or Kamel el-Basha is a Palestinian actor, theatre director, teacher, and translator.
Maya Kenig is an Israeli film director, writer and actress. As a director, she is known for In the Shade of the Palm Tree (2018), The Bentwich Syndrome (2015), Off-White Lies (2011) and Top of the World (2005). Her films were awarded in many festivals worldwide. As an editor, she is known for On the Spectrum(TV series, 2018), Uri and Ella, Up the Wrong Tree and Connected.
How to Swim is a 2018 Israeli short drama film written and directed by Noa Gusakov.