Cinema of Israel
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The cinema of Israel (Hebrew: קולנוע ישראלי Kolnoa Yisraeli, Lit. Israeli Cinema) has been a notable cinema industry for some time. Israel has been nominated for more Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film (6) than any other country in the Middle East. The majority of the films are produced in the Hebrew language, with many others in English, other European languages, and Arabic.

In Israel, movies like Mivtza Savta, Alex Holeh Ahavah, Charlie Ve'hetzi, Givat Halfon Eina Ona, Eskimo Limon, and Hagiga B'Snuker achieved cult-status.

Directors

• Boaz Davidson
• Eytan Fox
• Amos Gitai
• Ephraim Kishon
• Avi Mograbi
• David Perlov
• Raphael Nadjari

Notable films

Main article: List of Israeli films

Blaumilch Canal 1969

• Alex Holeh Ahavah
• Alila
• Avanim
• Beaufort
• Blaumilch Canal
• Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
• Broken Wings
• Buzz
• Charlie Ve'hetzi
• Eskimo Limon
• Givat Halfon Eina Ona
• Hagiga B'Snuker
• The House on Chelouche Street
• James' Journey to Jerusalem
• Jellyfish
• Kadosh
• Kedma
• Kippur
• Late Marriage
• Late Summer Blues
• Matzor
• Metallic Blues
• Metzitzim
• Mivtza Savta
• Nina's Tragedies
• Or (My Treasure)
• Paper Dolls
• Sallah Shabati
• Tehilim
• The Band's Visit
• Time of Favor
• Walk on Water
• Yana's Friends
• Yossi & Jagger
• Ushpizin

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
• Ray Privett, Amos Gitai: Exile and Atonement, New York: Cinema Purgatorio, 2008.
• 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)

External links

• Israel Film Festival
• Israeli cinematographers win prestigious awards at the 60th Cannes Film Festival. 28 May 2007
• Israeli Film, Home of the Early Israeli & Hebrew Film
• Israeli Film Fund