MovieMaker’s series “Foreign Contenders” features interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for the Academy Award for Best…
With his first feature Lebanon and his latest Foxtrot, Israeli auteur Samuel Maoz—a former tank gunner turned Golden Lion-winner—crafts sensorial cinema…
Themes that inspire Middle Eastern film also emerge in the making of it. To understand the filming of religious sites…
The Wedding Plan, the second feature by 50-year-old ultra-Orthodox Israeli writer/director Rama Burshtein, is a rom-com with the simplicity of…
In Search of Israeli Cuisine is a portrait of the Israeli people told through food. Depending on how you count,…
Patriarchal societies—by definition—hinder the development of women’s abilities in roles outside of homemaking and providing care. In the most extreme…