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Haifa Film Festival

The opening of a new exhibit at Haifa's Tikotin Museum on December 31, 2024 (Courtesy Keren Avni)
January 9, 2025, 1:33 pm
With Hezbollah rockets halted, Haifa’s cultural scene experiences post-ceasefire boom
Long-delayed Haifa Film Festival finally marks 40th year, as Tikotin Museum celebrates iconic Japanese wave print and Haifa City Museum waxes nostalgic about Israel’s homegrown car
By Jessica Steinberg
Joy Rieger as Miri Ben-Ari in the film "Image of Victory." (Screengrab. YouTube)
June 2, 2022, 6:28 am
‘Image of Victory’ to be first Israeli-made film to stream on Netflix Israel
The film takes place against the background of Battle of Nitzanim during 1948 Independence War; film’s producer Ehud Bleiberg’s father fought in bloody battle
By Michael Horovitz
From Photomenta exhibit opening September 21, 2021, at Eretz Israel Museum (Courtesy Nadir Bucan)
September 17, 2021, 7:32 am
Leave your Sukkot booths to view films, exhibits and shows
The week of Sukkot offers a cornucopia of events, with museums, festivals, sites and troupes prepared to entertain
By Jessica Steinberg
US President Donald Trump, center, with from left, Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on September 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
September 15, 2021, 1:58 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 15 – How are the Abraham Accords holding up a year on?
Jacob Magid assesses the future of normalization agreements between Israel and Arab countries, and Jessica Steinberg fills us in on the hottest cultural events coming up in Israel
By ToI Staff
From 'Susita,' the documentary shown at the 36th Haifa Film Festival, October 3-10, 2020. (courtesy, Haifa Film Festival)
October 5, 2020, 5:37 am
This year’s Haifa Film Fest is all online, with 95 films to choose from
Feature films from international festivals, Israeli documentaries and even horror films available for home viewing
By Jessica Steinberg
Yiscah Smith (Courtesy of 2team video productions)
October 16, 2019, 3:57 pm
How Hasidic rabbis helped an Orthodox father of six become true to herself
New documentary premiering October 17 in Haifa depicts how former Chabad adherent Yiscah Smith comes to terms with gender dysphoria and becomes the woman she always was
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Finding out all the secret spaces and alleyways of Jaffa, during a week of tours around the city (Courtesy of City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa)
October 13, 2019, 10:42 am
Festivals countrywide: Alluring alternatives to sitting in the sukkah
The eight days of Sukkot provide multiple opportunities for towns to throw parties, with events including film and music festivals, art, dance and comedy
By Jessica Steinberg
Polish composer Zbigniew Preisner (Screenshot: YouTube)
September 25, 2018, 7:27 pm
Haifa Film Festival to honor Polish composer with lifetime achievement award
Zbigniew Preisner objection prompts Polish ambassador to cancel planned speech during September 29 event
By Katarzyna Markusz
Actors Joy Rieger (right) and Nathan Goshen in Avi Nesher's latest, 'The Other Story,' opening the 34th Haifa Film Festival on September 22, 2018 (Courtesy Iris Nesher)
September 21, 2018, 4:57 pm
Latest Avi Nesher movie to open 34th Haifa Film Festival
Some 250 films and documentaries, both Israeli and international, to be screened at 10-day event beginning September 22
By Jessica Steinberg
Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev attends a Culture, Sports and Education Committee meeting at the Knesset, July 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 18, 2018, 6:25 am
Regev demands defunding of Haifa film festival for screening ‘subversive’ movies
Reportedly taking offense over movie that depicts Arab-Jewish love affair, culture minister asks Treasury to act against government-backed bodies ‘which harm Israel, its values’
By ToI Staff
Léonie Souchaud, playing Fanny Ben-Ami, leads other children in the new movie 'Fanny's Journey.' (Courtesy)
November 29, 2016, 9:26 pm
‘It could happen again,’ says hero of Holocaust escape film for kids
As French director Lola Doillon filmed her WWII movie for children, she was shocked by the parallelism of survivor Fanny Ben-Ami’s story and that of today’s refugees
By Anne Joseph
Israeli actor Moshe Ivgy (2L) seen with fellow actors at the end of a theater show in Tel Aviv, February 7, 2016. Photo by Flash90
October 25, 2016, 11:35 pm
Actor accused of sex crimes wins award, sparking outcry
MK Shelly Yachimovich condemns ‘disgraceful’ move to honor Moshe Ivgy; Haifa International Film Festival says it won’t withdraw prize
By ToI Staff
Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar (screen capture: YouTube)
October 18, 2016, 11:21 am
Palestinian rapper’s Haifa performance stirs discord
Police issue restraining orders against right-wing activists after culture minister seeks to have Tamer Nafar’s concert canceled
By ToI Staff
As depicted in 'Raise the Roof,' Jason Loik and Rick Brown steady the top of the bimah of the reconstructed Gwoździec synagogue roof, now the centerpiece of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, which opened its doors to the public in October, 2014. (Trillium Studios production)
September 30, 2015, 6:14 am
The intrepid couple who restored a gem of a Polish synagogue
‘Raise the Roof’ documentary shows how Rick and Laura Brown led an international team to recreate the magnificent Gwozdziec shul
By Penny Schwartz
Yitzhak and Leah Rabin in the film 'Rabin: In His Own Words.' (screen capture/Channel 2)
September 25, 2015, 3:18 am
In 1976 interview, Rabin likens settler ideologues to ‘cancer,’ warns of ‘apartheid’
Never before heard comments show a prime minister frustrated with ‘one of the most acute dangers’ facing Israel
By ToI Staff
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