Director Sameh Zoabi says 'Tel Aviv on Fire' is reaping accolades because it avoids heavy-handed politics and finds the comedy in regular people living through a bizarre situation

Guitarist Gary Lucas has toured the world with Jeff Buckley, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsburg, and Bob Weir. But for the past 30 years he's also dreamed up scores for supernatural stories

Jewish director wrote three films, never produced, in the 1950s -- the 'least understood period' of his career -- focusing on marital woes

200 screenings and other movie-related events kick off July 25 throughout the capital

The latest release from one of the Holy Land's most beloved filmmakers is already collecting accolades -- partly, he tells ToI, because he chose Israel's film scene over Hollywood

Filmed in Belgium and Israel, movie about a ’fractured family’ of American Jews, starring Jewish actors, panned as ’unwieldy’ and overly sentimental

In 'Back to the Fatherland,' descendants of a Holocaust survivor and an avowed Nazi team up to examine the trend of young people returning to countries that perpetrated the Shoah

In NY through July 3, six newly translated and restored movies give up-close look at Jewish life and culture in prewar Europe and America -- and even the schlock is worth watching

A documentary tells the story of larger-than-life celebrity talent 'matchmaker' and muse Barbara Rubin, who spurned the '60s underground movement, then died young and in seclusion

Daniella Pick, who has a small role in her Oscar-winning husband's latest film, shares the spotlight in France as movie earns praise