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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Toronto International Film Festival

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walking outside his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem on September 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 10, 2024, 2:15 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 10: Day 340 – Haredi father of murdered hostage takes PM to task
Editor David Horovitz discusses Hezbollah’s attack on Nahariya, Elhanan Danino’s words to Netanyahu, Yariv Levin’s latest judicial attempts and Toronto premiere of ‘The Bibi Files’
By ToI Staff
Taraneh Alidoosti poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Leila's Brothers' at the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 26, 2022. (Daniel Cole/AP)
December 18, 2022, 4:25 pm
Celebrities, rights groups urge Iran to free top actor who backed protests
Taraneh Alidoosti arrested after posting on social media in support of demonstrations; pop singer Amir Maghare also detained
By Stuart Williams
Film director Daniel Roher takes a break from editing his new documentary, 'Once Were Brothers,' at the post-production studio in Toronto, Ontario, August 29, 2019. The film will open the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 5. (Etye Sarner)
September 3, 2019, 4:03 am
26-year-old Jewish-Canadian director to launch Toronto Film Festival
On September 5, Daniel Roher’s latest documentary about a maverick musician, ‘Once Were Brothers,’ will make him one of the youngest filmmakers to open the prestigious event
By Robert Sarner
Mina, the protagonist of 'Fig Tree,' about the emotional drama facing a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl (Courtesy Daniel Miller)
September 17, 2018, 6:24 am
Israeli-Ethiopian director wins Toronto film prize for ‘Fig Tree’
Alamork Marsha snags prestigious Audentia Prize for best female director with film exploring Jewish girl’s last days in rural Ethiopia
By Jessica Steinberg
'Fig Tree,' the award-winning film by Alamork Marsha tells the story of a young Jewish teen and her Christian boyfriend in war-torn Addis Ababa (Courtesy Daniel Miller)
August 24, 2018, 8:27 am
Operation Solomon drama ‘Fig Tree’ heads to Toronto film fest
The debut movie by Israeli filmmaker Alamork Marsha draws on her childhood experiences growing up in Ethiopia
By Jessica Steinberg
Rachel McAdams attends the premier of 'Disobedience' at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2017, in Toronto, Canada. (Brian de Rivera Simon/Getty Images/AFP)
September 16, 2017, 4:54 pm
Actress fails to go undercover as Orthodox Jew for ‘Disobedience’
Rachel McAdams says she was quickly recognized in Jewish area of LA while trying to prepare for role in new film
By ToI Staff
The ladies of the congregation - Tikvah (Orna Banai) , Yaffa (Yafit Asulin) , Ettie (Evelin Hagoel), Ora (Sharona Elimelech), and Margalit (Einat Sarouf) discover the women’s balcony in their synagogue has been removed in 'The Women's Balcony.' (Menemsha Films)
May 26, 2017, 2:07 am
Following Israeli success, ‘The Women’s Balcony’ aims high with NY premiere
Sleeper hit depicts middle-aged women standing up to religious extremism in storied Jerusalem neighborhood
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Actor Richard Gere introducing fans to filmmaker Joseph Cedar, who wrote and directed Gere's latest film, at the Toronto International Film Festival this past September. (Courtesy YouTube screen grab)
September 14, 2016, 3:20 pm
Cedar wins standing ‘O’ with Olmert-based flick
Jerusalem-born director premieres film starring Richard Gere, based on scandal-ridden Israeli prime minister currently serving time for graft
By Jessica Steinberg and Sue Surkes
'Septembers of Shiraz' is about the struggle of a Persian-Jewish family in post-1979 Iran. Salma Hayek, center, plays the mother of Parviz, right, (Jamie Ward) and Shirin (Ariana Molkara). (Screenshot: YouTube)
June 18, 2016, 12:29 pm
Iran, the Holocaust, ‘Septembers of Shiraz’ — and me
Film starring Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek was panned at the Toronto International Film Festival, but tells a story of persecution that hits home
By Curt Schleier
'Rabin, the Last Day,' Amos Gitai's latest movie examining the final moments of Yitzhak Rabin's life, also includes a look at the Shamgar Commission that investigated his assassination (Photo credit: Alon Ron)
September 16, 2015, 2:25 pm
From Gitai’s J’accuse to Schreiber’s hero, ‘chosen’ films in Toronto
At the 40th annual international film festival, a fiery denunciation of Israel’s PM as ‘art,’ a disappointing Jake Gyllenhaal, and an off-beat Israeli documentary
By Jordan Hoffman
Natalie Portman in her directorial debut, 'A Tale of Love and Darkness.' (Cannes Film Festival)
September 10, 2015, 1:01 pm
Natalie Portman’s life goes on display as curtains raise in Toronto
At film fest opening night soirée, American-Israeli actress walks down memory lane, from her work as a child actor up through her directorial debut, the adaptation of Amos Oz’s ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’
By Jordan Hoffman
Doron (left) and Yoav Paz at a Jerusalem Festival premiere screening of their new English-language horror flick, 'JeruZalem.' (courtesy)
August 28, 2015, 3:21 pm
It’s the Talmud — with zombies! — in new Israeli horror film
Cinema royalty, the Paz brothers say their English-language ‘JeruZalem’ is the culmination of a childhood of ‘killing off’ friends
By Lauri Donahue
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are shocked to discover that they're no longer kids in Noah Baumbach's Toronto International Film Festival debut 'While We're Young.' (courtesy)
September 12, 2014, 7:37 pm
In Toronto, Jews’ movie debuts earn good reviews
With only a few shandas, the 39th International Film Festival did well by members of the tribe
By Jordan Hoffman
Ben Affleck in "Argo" (Courtesy Warner Bros.)
September 14, 2013, 12:26 am
Ex-Canada PM says real Iran hostage story is better than ‘Argo’
New documentary ‘Our Man in Tehran’ offers ‘a very true’ look at the rescue of six US citizens during the 1979 crisis
By AP
Jesse Eisenberg in 'The Double,' a whimsical and highly stylized adaptation of the Dostoyevsky novella. (photo credit: courtesy Film 4)
September 13, 2013, 3:59 pm
‘Slavery’s Schindler’s list’ is remarkable highlight of Toronto film fest
’12 Years A Slave’ is most talked-about feature, Gyllenhaal shows talent, Eisenberg doubles up, ‘When Jews Were Funny’ fails to tickle
By Jordan Hoffman
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