‘Dolphin Boy’ gets picked up by Disney
Documentary, which tells story of mute Israeli Arab teen’s rehabilitation via communication with dolphins, is the animation giant’s first acquisition in Israel
View ArticleIsraeli doc explores a web addiction
A sample of Sundance-screened ‘Web Junkie,’ from Israeli directors Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia, can be viewed thanks to The New York Times
View ArticleTV’s ‘Salinger’ has more on war, teen relationship
Documentary run on PBS this week explores the author’s predilection for teenage girls. Revelatory or exploitive?
View ArticleThe beauty who faced the beast
A Hollywood documentary tells the story of Israel’s former Miss World Linor Abargil, who was raped six weeks before she won the pageant. The Times of Israel speaks to its director
View ArticleInterwar Hungary revealed in boxes of 16 mm films
Lynn Schneider’s film portrays her grandparents’ decade in Budapest, an unknown chapter of family history discovered in old home movies
View ArticleHow to make an exciting film about an improbable collision
In new documentary ‘Particle Fever,’ the international scientific community prepares for its greatest moment in living history
View ArticleFish and feminism since 1914 at NY’s Russ and Daughters
Tasting salmon with the director of a new documentary that explores the landmark Jewish smoked fish joint
View ArticleGap year in Israel: Rite of passage or turn to the right?
Seeing her friends sucked into a ‘black hole,’ a once religious woman documents the effect an Israel year has on three rebellious NY teens
View ArticleYouTube series turns the man on the street into a pundit
Canadian immigrant Corey Gil-Shuster criss-crosses the Holy Land to answer the world’s burning questions in his ‘Ask an Israeli/Palestinian Project’
View ArticleSo, nu? Are Jews still funny?
Alan Zweig’s documentary ‘When Jews Were Funny’ is one part history lesson, two parts conversation on assimilation
View Article‘Brave Miss World’ snags Emmy nod
Documentary by director Cecilia Peck tells stirring story of Israeli Linor Abargil, a former beauty queen and rape victim
View ArticleNew book explores 50 children rescued from Nazis by US Jews
A conversation with the filmmaker/author digs into WWII-era immigration policy, perceptions of FDR and current European anti-Semitism
View ArticleDocumentary reveals Jewish mother’s ‘Little White Lie’
Lacey Schwartz’s film about reconciling her hidden black paternity to the Ashkenazi Jewish home she was raised in strikes universal themes
View ArticleThe yekke who collected Japanese art and brought it to Haifa
A documentary about Felix Tikotin, who ended up banned from the museum that housed his collection, is being screened Sunday at a film festival in the northern city
View ArticleHitler was a meth addict, records show
According to US dossier, Nazi leader was given cocaine drops, testosterone injections, and dozens of other drugs
View ArticleDavid Broza and his collaborations
‘East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem,’ a documentary, covers the singer’s eight-day musical journey with Palestinian and Israeli artists
View ArticleNew film suggests a bright future for Polish Jews
A talk with the director of ‘The Return,’ which opens Saturday in New York, on how he presents a positive look at a growing, hip Jewish community in an unexpected place
View ArticleSecular Jewish filmmaker challenges rabbis to ‘Kabbalah Me’
Director Steven Bram’s journey to Jewish mystical enlightenment was born amid a post-9/11 mid-life existential crisis
View Article‘Decent’ Himmler documentary in running for Oscar
Belgian-born Israeli Vanessa Lapa uses secretly held collection of Nazi leader’s correspondence and photos to make challenging film
View ArticleLove and persistence amid the Kassams
Laura Bialis’s new documentary, ‘Rock in the Red Zone,’ tells an ‘inspiring, crazy, defiant’ tale from the battered border town of Sderot
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