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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Guy Nattiv

Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh speaking at the opening event of the 41st Jerusalem Film Festival on July 18, 2024. (courtesy, Sivan Parag)
July 21, 2024, 9:53 pm
At Jerusalem Film Festival, Jennifer Jason Leigh calls to bring hostages home
Actress honored at annual film event, speaks Hebrew to make emotional plea for captives’ return
By Jessica Steinberg
June Squibb, left and Fred Hechinger star in 'Thelma,' opening the 41st Jerusalem Film Festival on July 18, 2024 (Credit David Bolen)
July 7, 2024, 8:44 pm
Jerusalem Film Festival to open with comic ‘Thelma’
The annual summer film event announces international offerings, including Josh Margolin’s feel-good flick about his wily grandmother
By Jessica Steinberg
'Golda' director Guy Nattiv at the Cinema for Peace ceremony in Berlin on February 19, 2024. (Courtesy)
February 20, 2024, 6:55 pm
Director Guy Nattiv calls for new Israeli and Palestinian leadership
Oscar-winner and ‘Golda’ lead actress Helen Mirren accept special award at Berlin’s Cinema for Peace Foundation
By Jessica Steinberg
Guy Nattiv (left) and Zar Amir Ebrahimi, co-directors for 'Tatami,' who won awards at the Tokyo International Film Festival on November 1, 2023 (Courtesy)
November 1, 2023, 2:29 pm
Israeli-Iranian film ‘Tatami’ wins at Tokyo International Film Festival
Israeli director Guy Nattiv says Tokyo festival awards bring ‘some light’ amid the darkness of the war
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'Tatami,' the first Iranian-Israeli co-production, from 'Golda' director Guy Nattiv and Iranian-born director Zar Amir Ebrahimi, shortlisted for the European Film Award (Courtesy PR)
October 3, 2023, 2:20 pm
Israeli-Iranian ‘Tatami,’ thriller ‘Vanishing Soldier’ make European Oscars shortlist
Judo drama directed by Guy Nattiv and Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi up for European Film Awards, alongside Dani Rosenberg movie about AWOL soldier in kidnapping scare
By Jessica Steinberg
Director Guy Nattiv, second from right, with the actors in 'Tatami,' filmed in Georgia in 2022, his latest film about an Iranian athlete forced to make an impossible decision (Courtesy Guy Nattiv)
September 19, 2023, 3:44 am
After tackling Golda, director Guy Nattiv goes to the mat for Iran’s exiled athletes
The Israeli filmmaker discusses his new film, ‘Tatami,’ which grapples with anti-Israel pressure on Iranian judokas, and blames jeers for his Meir biopic on the political climate
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'Tatami,' the first Iranian-Israeli co-production, from 'Golda' director Guy Nattiv and Iranian-born director Zar Amir Ebrahimi, shortlisted for the European Film Award (Courtesy PR)
September 4, 2023, 4:45 am
Unprecedented movie filmed covertly by Israeli, Iranian filmmakers makes Venice debut
Co-directed by Iranian actress Zar Amir and Israeli-born ‘Golda’ filmmaker Guy Nattiv, ‘Tatami’ tells story of Iranian judo star who rejects regime’s orders to avoid facing Israeli
By AFP and ToI Staff
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in a scene from. the film 'Golda.' (Bleecker Street via AP)
August 26, 2023, 12:09 pm
‘Golda’ biopic aims to counter notion that PM was chiefly to blame for Yom Kippur War
‘She was the scapegoat,’ argues director Guy Nattiv about the former prime minister, whose leadership during 1973 conflict is focus of freshly released drama starring Helen Mirren
By Shira Li Bartov
Director Guy Nattiv poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Golda' during the International Film Festival 'Berlinale', in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 20, 2023. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
August 25, 2023, 12:44 pm
Director of ‘Golda’: Criticism against Israel’s first female PM was misogynism
In interview, director Guy Nattiv explains how he sought to soften, deepen the memory of Golda Meir and why Helen Mirren is great for the part of Meir
By Jocelyn Noveck
From 'Tatami,' the first Iranian-Israeli co-production, from 'Golda' director Guy Nattiv and Iranian-born director Zar Amir Ebrahimi, shortlisted for the European Film Award (Courtesy PR)
July 26, 2023, 11:02 am
First Israeli-Iranian film to premiere at Venice festival
‘Tatami’ tells the story of an Iranian ultimatum at a world judo championship
By Jessica Steinberg
Helen Mirren arrives for the screening of 'Golda' in Jerusalem's Film Festival, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)
July 14, 2023, 3:21 am
Self-labeled ‘shiksa from London’ Helen Mirren accepts Jerusalem Film Festival honor
At Israeli premiere of ‘Golda,’ actress says she never imagined receiving an award in the ‘beautiful, historic, magical, difficult, complex and wonderful city of Jerusalem’
By Amy Spiro
Actress Helen Mirren and co-star Lior Ashkenazi attend a press conference for the upcoming film 'Golda,' about prime minister Golda Meir, in Jerusalem, July 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 13, 2023, 2:50 pm
In Jerusalem, Helen Mirren says Golda Meir ‘one of the greatest’ roles she’s played
Ahead of ‘Golda’ premiere at Jerusalem Film Festival, UK actress says she is ‘moved and excited’ to see mass pro-democracy rallies in Israel, recalls her time on a kibbutz in 1967
By Amy Spiro
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv's film 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
June 16, 2023, 10:46 pm
Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir biopic gets US release date
Movie by Oscar-winning Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv will begin playing in theaters on August 24
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv's film 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
February 23, 2023, 10:49 am
Golda Meir biopic skirts politics as current government faces growing scrutiny
Star Helen Mirren says legendary former PM ‘would have been utterly horrified’ at legal overhaul, calls it ‘the rise of dictatorship’
By Gabe Friedman
Israeli director Guy Nattiv and English actor Helen Mirren (R) attend a photocall for the film "Golda," at the Berlin International Film Festival, February 20, 2023 in Berlin. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)
February 21, 2023, 4:56 pm
‘Golda’ director defends casting Helen Mirren: ‘She’s got the Jewish chops’
At Berlin film festival premiere, Guy Nattiv says he was ‘surprised’ by uproar over decision to pick non-Jewish actress for star role
By Deborah Cole
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