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Encyclopedia > Cinema of Israel

Israel has had a notable cinema industry for some time. The majority of the films are produced in the Hebrew language. Hebrew redirects here. ...


Directors

Amos Gitai (born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli film director. ... Ephraim Kishon Ephraim Kishon (August 23, 1924–January 29, 2005) was an Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. ... Avi Mograbi in his film Avenge But One of My Two Eyes (2005) Avi Mograbi (born 1956) is an Israeli documentary filmmaker. ...

Films

Image File history File links Blaumilch. ... Image File history File links Blaumilch. ... Bomba Tzur (Blaumilch) in a German movie poster for Blaumilch Canal Blaumilch Canal (international release title: The Big Dig): a 1969 Israeli comedy directed by Ephraim Kishon, which depicts the madness of bureaucracy through a municipality’s reaction to the actions of a lunatic. ... // Events Cannes Film Festival opens, but closes in support of a French general strike without awarding any prizes. ... Alex Holeh Ahavah (Hebrew: אלכס חולה אהבה) is a Israeli cult film of the director Boaz Davidson which was created in 1986. ... Alila is a 2003 Israeli film directed by Amos Gitai and starring Yaël Abecassis, Uri Klauzner, and Hana Laszlo. ... Avriri Logo in 3 languages This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Big Tuna (2003) is the first Israeli mockumentary film and a cult movie. ... Bomba Tzur (Blaumilch) in a German movie poster for Blaumilch Canal Blaumilch Canal (international release title: The Big Dig): a 1969 Israeli comedy directed by Ephraim Kishon, which depicts the madness of bureaucracy through a municipality’s reaction to the actions of a lunatic. ... Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi film poster Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (Hebrew title: Ha-Kochavim Shel Shlomi) is a 2003 film written and directed by Shemi Zarhin. ... Broken Wings (in Hebrew Knafayim Shvurot) is a 2002 Israeli film directed by Nir Bergman and starring Orly Silbersatz Banai, Maya Maron, and Nitai Gaviratz. ... Buzz (Hebrew: באזז) is a 1998 Israeli film directed by Eli Cohen. ... Charlie Vehetzi (aka - Charlie and a Half; Hebrew צארלי וחצי) is a 1974 Israeli DramaComedy cult movie. ... Close to Home (Karov la bayit) is a 2005 Israeli movie. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Eskimo Limon (Hebrew: אסקימו לימון) is a 1978 Israeli cult film directed by Boaz Davidson which led to a series of sequels. ... Givat Halfon Eina Ona (Hebrew: גבעת חלפון אינה עונה) is a classic comedy film produced in 1976 in Israel. ... Zeev Revach as Haham Hannukah Hagiga BSnuker (Hebrew: חגיגה בסנוקר) is a 1975 Israeli cult movie which considered by many to be the funniest movie ever made in Israel. ... The House on Chelouche Street is a 1973 film by veteran Israeli director Moshe Mizrahi, filmed in Hebrew and Ladino (a Jewish oriented dialect of Spanish). ... James Journey to Jerusalem is a 2003 Israeli film directed by Raanan Alexandrowicz. ... Kadosh is a 1999 Israeli fim directed by Amos Gitai and starring Yaël Abecassis and Yoram Hattab. ... Kedma is a 2002 Israeli film directed by Amos Gitai and starring Andrei Kashkar and Helena Yaralova. ... Keep Not Silent is a documentary by Israeli director Ilil Alexander, about three lesbians in Jerusalem. ... The Kempler video is a film made by Roni Kempler while standing initially nearby the convicted murderer Yigal Amir and later on the roof of the Gan Hair-mall overlooking the scene at the northeast side of the City Hall of Tel Aviv-Yafo before and during the assassination... Kippur is a 2000 Israeli film directed by Amos Gitai and starring Liron Levo, Tomer Russo, and Uri Klauzner. ... Late Marriage (in Hebrew, Hatuna Meuheret) is a 2001 Israeli film. ... Late Summer Blues is a 1987 Israeli film directed by Renen Schorr. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Metallic Blues (in Hebrew, a transliteration of the English,מטאליק בלוז) is a 2004 film coproduction (Israel/Germany/Canada) directed by Israeli director Danny Verete. ... Metzitzim (Hebrew: מציצים. Peeping) is an Israeli comedy 1972 film, that has become a cult film. ... Mivtza Savta (Hebrew: מבצע סבתא, Operation Grandma) is an Israeli cult film directed by Dror Shaul and released in 1999. ... Nina’s Tragedies (in Hebrew האסונות של נינה) is a 2003 Israeli comedy/drama directed by Savi Gavison and starring Ayelet July Zurer, Yoram Hattab, Alon Abutbul and Shmil Ben Ari. ... A 2004 movie from Israel that won 10 awards and 7 nominations, including five awards at the Cannes Film Festival. ... Paper Dolls (Bubot Niyar) is a 2006 documentary by Israeli director Tomer Heymann. ... Sallah Shabbati (Heb. ... Time of Favor (in Hebrew, Ha-hesder) is a 2000 Israeli film directed by Joseph Cedar and starring Aki Avni. ... Knut Berger, Caroline Peters and Lior Ashkenazi in Walk on Water Walk on Water (original Hebrew title: ללכת על המים; English transliteration: Lalechet al hamaim) is an Israeli film released in 2004. ... Yana´s Friends (Ha-chaverim shel Yana), directed by Arik Kaplun, is an Israeli movie awarded with Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1999. ... Based on a true story, Yossi & Jagger (Hebrew: יוסי וגאגר) is a 2002 Israeli movie directed by Eytan Fox about soldiers at the Israel–Lebanon border who try to find some peace and solace from the daily routine of war in their freewheeling sexual relationships. ...

Bibliography

  • Israel Studies 4.1, Spring 1999 - Special Section: Films in Israeli Society
  • Kamal Abdel-Malek, The Rhetoric of Violence: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Contemporary Palestinian Literature and Film, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
  • Amy Kronish, World cinema: Israel, Trowbridge, Wiltshire : Flicks Books [etc.], 1996
  • Amy Kronish and Costel Safirman, Israeli film : a reference guide, Westport, Conn. [etc.] : Praeger, 2003
  • Raz Yosef, Beyond flesh : queer masculinities and nationalism in Israeli cinema, New Brunswick, NJ [etc.] : Rutgers Univ. Press, 2004
  • Ella Shohat, Israeli cinema : East West and the politics of representation, Austin : Univ. of Texas Pr., 1989 ( an updated new edition will be published by I B Tauris & Co Ltd in 2007)
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Actors • Archives • Animation • Awards • Characters • Cinematography • Cinematographers • Directors • Distributors • Editing • Film theatres • History • Festivals • Industry • Movements • Organizations • Pioneers • Production • Production companies • Sound production • Soundtracks • Special effects • Studios • Techniques • Technology  • Theory • Types of film • Download high resolution version (4000x2949, 1546 KB)Physical World Map 2004-04-01 CIA World Factbook; Robinson Projection; standard parallels 38°N and 38°S File links The following pages link to this file: Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/World World map Categories: CIA World Factbook images ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Here is a structured list of movie lists: // By year By letter List of films: numbers List of films: A-D List of films: E-I List of films: J-R List of films: S-Z By genre List of comedy films List of United States comedy films List of... This page indexes the individual year in film pages. ... This category lists individual films by their genre. ... List of Albanian films List of Arabic language films List of Catalan language films List of Chinese language films List of English language films Esperanto language films List of French language films List of German language films List of Greek movies List of Hindi language films List of Japanese language... The following are lists of actors: Overall: List of male movie actors (A-K) List of male movie actors (L-Z) List of female movie actors Theater actors: List of male theater actors List of female theater actors Television actors: List of male television actors List of female television actors... This is a list of groups, organizations and festivals that recognize achievements in cinema, usually by awarding various prizes. ... This category lists cinematographers. ... This is a list of motion picture and television directors. ... Film editing, also called montage, is the connecting of one or more shots to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an entire movie. ... Subcategories There are 11 subcategories to this category shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages). ... The history of film or cinema has brought this mass media from its early stages as an obscure novelty to one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment in the modern world. ... . ... Subcategories There are 3 subcategories to this category shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages). ... This category contains articles about albums of music from or inspired by a particular motion picture. ... A film studio is an environment - interior or exterior - which is designed specifically for the production of motion pictures. ... Special effects (FX): 3-D film for movie history Stereoscopy for 3D technical details 3-D computer graphics Computer-generated imagery Digital compositing Optical effects Bluescreen/chroma key Stop trick Stop motion Editing: Timecode A Roll B Roll Cross cutting Cutaway Cut in Cut out Dissolve Establishing shot Hairy Arm...

Africa

Burkina Faso  •  Nigeria  •  South Africa The term African cinema usually refers to the film production in countries south of the Sahara since they gained formal independence, which for many countries happened in the 1960s. ... The film industry in Burkina Faso is considered the best in West Africa, if not in Africa, with advanced production and distribution facilities. ... Cry, the Beloved Country (1995) Drum (2004) Fiela se Kind (1988) Forgiveness (2004) Inside Out (2000) Jump the Gun (1997) Mr Bones (2001) Paljas (1998) Promised Land (2002) Sarafina (1992) Story of an African Farm (2004) Yesterday (2004) In My Country (2005) This is an incomplete list. ...

Asia

East Asia :  China  •  Hong Kong  •  Japan  •  Korea  •  Taiwan  |  Southeast Asia :  Cambodia  •  Indonesia  •  Malaysia  •  Myanmar  •  Philippines  •  Singapore  •  Thailand  •  Vietnam  |  South Asia :  Bangladesh / Bengali  •  India (below)  •  Nepal  •  Pakistan  •  Sri Lanka Asian cinema refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Asia. ... East Asian cinema (sometimes called Far Eastern cinema, Eastern cinema, Asian cinema or Oriental cinema) is a term used to refer to the film industry and films produced in, and/or by natives of, East Asia. ... The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan. ... Korean cinema encompasses the motion picture industries of North Korea and South Korea. ... Southeast Asian cinema refers to the film industry and films produced in, and/or by natives of, Southeast Asia. ... South Asian cinema refers to the cinema of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. ... Bengali cinema, or the Bengali film industry, is one of the earliest film industries in India. ... Sri Lankan cinema is highly acclaimed abroad - its films have won dozens of awards at international festivals. ...

India :  Assam  /  Bengali  /  Bollywood  /  Karnataka  /  Kollywood (Tamil)  /  Malayalam  /  Tollywood (Telugu) Assamese cinema was born in 1935 when Jyoti Prasad Agarwala released his movie Joymoti. ... Bengali cinema, or the Bengali film industry, is one of the earliest film industries in India. ... Bollywood (DevanāgarÄ«: बॉलीवुड, Nastaliq: بالیوڈ) is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India. ... The Cinema of Karnataka encompasses movies made in the Indian state of Karnataka. ... Kollywood (Tamil : கோலிவூட்) is a name often applied to Tamil Cinema, based in Chennai (formerly Madras) in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India. ... Tamil may refer to: Tamil language, one of the Dravidian languages primarily spoken in South Asia Tamil script, primarily used to write the Tamil language Tamil people The word Tamil is also used as an adjective to qualify something of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language. ... Malayalam cinema, or movies in Malayalam language, forms a significant component of the Cinema of India, both as a form of art and as mass medium. ... This article is about the Telugu film industry. ... Telugu may refer to: Telugu language Telugu literature Telugu people Telugu script Telugu films Look up Telugu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Middle East

Egypt  •  Iran  • Israel  •  Turkey Middle eastern cinema refers collectively to the film output and film industries of the middle east. ...

Europe

Albania  •  Austria  •  Belgium  •  Bulgaria  •  Croatia  •  Czech Republic  •  Denmark  •  Estonia  •  Faroe Islands  •  Finland  •  France  •  Germany  •  Greece  •  Hungary  •  Iceland  •  Ireland  •  Italy  •  Luxembourg  •  Montenegro  •   Netherlands  •  Norway  •  Poland  •  Portugal  •  Romania  •  Russia  •  Serbia  •  Soviet Union  •  Spain  •  Sweden  •  Switzerland  •  Ukraine  •  U.K.  •  Yugoslavia European cinema is the cinema of Europe. ... Norwegian Anneke von der Lippe as the Faroese Barbara in the 1997 Danish motion picture The Faroe Islands do not have a long history of cinema. ... Montenegro has been the site of many domestic films. ... Serbia (both as an independent country and as part a part of former Yugoslavia) has been home to many internationally acclaimed films and directors. ... Soviet Cinema should not be used as a synonym for Russian Cinema. Although Russian language films predominated, several of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union contributed films reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history, although sometimes censored by the Central Government. ... Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971). ... The historical country of Yugoslavia had a notable cinema industry of its own. ...

Americas

North America :  Canada  (Quebec)  •  U.S.A.  |  Latin America :  Argentina  •  Brazil  •  Colombia  •  Cuba  •  Mexico  •  Paraguay  •  Peru  •  Puerto Rico For information on the cinema of the Americas, see: North American cinema Cinema of Canada Cinema of Quebec Cinema of the United States Latin American cinema Cinema of Argentina Cinema of Brazil Cinema of Colombia Cinema of Cuba Cinema of Mexico Cinema of Paraguay Cinema of Peru Cinema of Puerto... North American cinema refers collectively to the film output and film industries of North America. ... The history of cinema in Québec started on June 27, 1896 when the French Louis Minier inaugurated the first movie projection in North America in a Montreal theatre room. ... Much like American popular music, American cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. ... Latin American cinema refers collectively to the film output and film industries of Latin America. ... The history of film in Puerto Rico begins with a silent documentary from 1918, After Twenty Years: Porto Rico. ...

Australasia

Australia  •  New Zealand Australasian cinema refers collectively to the film output and film industries of Australasia. ... Strictly speaking, New Zealand cinema refers to films made by New Zealand-based production companies in New Zealand. ...



 

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